"Two Tickets to Paradise
" is a song by American rock singer, Eddie Money, from his album Eddie Money
in 1977. It was released as a single and reached number 22 on the Billboard Hot 100. Money wrote the song about his girlfriend at the time. His girlfriend's mother wanted her to marry a doctor or a lawyer, not a musician. Money wrote the song as plea to take her away.
"Two Tickets to Paradise" has been used in the video game, Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
, on the fictional radio station K-DST, and on an episode of the TV show Unhitched
. The song also appears in the episode "Homer Loves Flanders" of The Simpsons
, in which Homer sings and plays the air guitar to the rock song. Michael Scott of The Office
sings a short, parodied version of the song in the episode "A Benihana Christmas". It was also featured in an episode of The King of Queens
where Doug Heffernan and Deacon Palmer attempt to spend $5000 in one day, and they hire Eddie to play in Doug's living room. The song can be heard as a background number in the film, Sideways
. In one of the beginning scenes of "Balls of Fury", Randy's co-performing counterpart can be seen (and heard) singing a karaoke version of the song.
The 45 RPM record single version of the song is considerably different from the now more familiar LP version that appears on the Eddie Money
album, a vast number of Money compilation albums and MP3 digital downloads as Money had re-recorded his entire lead vocal for the 45 RPM edition. The LP version is broken up in three verses, two choruses, with a harmony section of "Whoa Whoa" right before the third verse, while the re-recorded 45 RPM version is now three verses, three choruses, (with the third verse sang over the Whoa harmony segment), also added were guitar riffs during the "we're waiting forlorn" parts; also lyrics were changed to the chorus slightly, as instead of saying "I've got two tickets to paradise, I've got two tickets to paradise" right after saying "pack your bags, we leave tonight" is now "Baby, it'll be so nice, for I've got two tickets to paradise". The 45 RPM version runs at 3:07 minutes. Most U.S. radio stations, inclusively, air the wider available LP version, where radio stations that specifically only format the hit-single versions of oldies, will digitize themselves the 45 RPM record for airplay; KOLA in Redlands, California, nearby Los Angeles, has done the latter.
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Two Tickets to Paradise
" is a song by American rock singer,
Eddie Money, from his album
Eddie Money
in 1977. It was released as a single and reached number 22 on the
Billboard Hot 100. Money wrote the song about his girlfriend at the time. His girlfriend's mother wanted her to marry a doctor or a lawyer, not a musician. Money wrote the song as plea to take her away.
"Two Tickets to Paradise" has been used in the video game,
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
, on the fictional radio station
K-DST, and on an episode of the TV show
Unhitched
. The song also appears in the episode "
Homer Loves Flanders" of
The Simpsons
, in which
Homer sings and plays the
air guitar to the rock song.
Michael Scott of
The Office
sings a short, parodied version of the song in the episode "
A Benihana Christmas". It was also featured in an episode of
The King of Queens
where
Doug Heffernan and
Deacon Palmer attempt to spend $5000 in one day, and they hire Eddie to play in Doug's living room. The song can be heard as a background number in the film,
Sideways
. In one of the beginning scenes of "
Balls of Fury", Randy's co-performing counterpart can be seen (and heard) singing a karaoke version of the song.
The
45 RPM record single version of the song is considerably different from the now more familiar LP version that appears on the
Eddie Money
album, a vast number of Money compilation albums and MP3 digital downloads as Money had re-recorded his entire lead vocal for the 45 RPM edition. The LP version is broken up in three verses, two choruses, with a harmony section of "Whoa Whoa" right before the third verse, while the re-recorded 45 RPM version is now three verses, three choruses, (with the third verse sang over the Whoa harmony segment), also added were guitar riffs during the "we're waiting forlorn" parts; also lyrics were changed to the chorus slightly, as instead of saying "I've got two tickets to paradise, I've got two tickets to paradise" right after saying "pack your bags, we leave tonight" is now "Baby, it'll be so nice, for I've got two tickets to paradise". The 45 RPM version runs at 3:07 minutes. Most U.S. radio stations, inclusively, air the wider available LP version, where radio stations that specifically only format the hit-single versions of oldies, will digitize themselves the 45 RPM record for airplay;
KOLA in
Redlands, California, nearby Los Angeles, has done the latter.