The lyrics, about a man who is blindsided by love after having casual sexual relationships with “about a million girls,” were penned by Bishop. But a '70s music icon rejected the song when it was proposed for a musical about his famous Mormon family—and it was due to the suggestive lyrics.
The Osmonds Musical told the story of brothers Jay, Alan, Wayne, Merrill, and Donny and their rise to superstardom in the ‘70s. “It will be part ‘Bohemian Rhapsody,’ part ‘Jersey Boys,’” Jay Osmond teased to the Deseret News in 2019. “Without the swearing, of course."
Elvin Bishop didn’t actually sing ‘Fooled Around and Fell in Love’
Bishop once said that “Fooled Around and Fell in Love” practically wrote itself.
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"My voice is very plain. It's better suited for blues,” Bishop explained. “It's been good for me, because it's made my songwriting strong, because to really get over with a voice like mine, which is not a thrill in itself - the quality of the voice - you have to have a strong story and really good words to capture people's imagination.”
In an interview with Alabama Life & Culture, Bishop added of Thomas, “He got in there and just killed it.”
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