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Post by mkarns on Mar 16, 2011 10:53:31 GMT -5
I can't believe nobody has mentioned "Feelings" by Morris Alpert! I'm old enough to remember the Gong Show episode where every "contestant" tried their best to sing it. ;D And how can you forget the Carol Burnett version on her variety show? LOL I think that was Carol in the role of Eunice, from the "Mama's Family" series of sketches that in the 1980s became its own show. In all honesty, while "Feelings" has a cheesy reputation today, it probably wasn't taken that way when it first charted in 1975. But over the next few years it apparently became a lounge crooner staple that was easy to parody, and remains so today.
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Post by franky on Mar 16, 2011 11:27:06 GMT -5
Although I have a guilty pleasure for it, "Muskrat Love" always seems to be on the most cheesy list by many people. This song is considered infamous to the Captain & Tennille, even more than "Love Will Keep Us Together" which was their highest charted hit. Was it considered cheesy back in 76? Or was it like "Feelings" where it took some time? Great topic, you guys.
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Post by pizzzzza on Mar 16, 2011 13:19:42 GMT -5
Although I have a guilty pleasure for it, "Muskrat Love" always seems to be on the most cheesy list by many people. This song is considered infamous to the Captain & Tennille, even more than "Love Will Keep Us Together" which was their highest charted hit. Was it considered cheesy back in 76? Or was it like "Feelings" where it took some time? Great topic, you guys. I remember when Muskrat Love was out by both America and Captain and Tennille - NONE of my friends liked either version - and I can vouch that they thought the songs were cheesy at the time they were out.
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Post by pizzzzza on Mar 17, 2011 12:31:15 GMT -5
I can't believe (unless I missed it) that no one mentioned "Rubber Duckie" by Ernie from 1970!
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Post by matt on Mar 17, 2011 13:30:46 GMT -5
I can't believe (unless I missed it) that no one mentioned "Rubber Duckie" by Ernie from 1970! For that matter, how about Jim Henson's/Kermit the Frog's "Rainbow Connection" from 1979 and Rick Dees' "Disco Duck"? Can we really even mention this topic without "Disco Duck" being a part of the conversation? "Rainbow Connection" was a good kids tune, but it didn't really seem like it belonged in the top 40, especially during '79.
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Post by mkarns on Mar 17, 2011 13:42:47 GMT -5
"Rubber Duckie" seems out of place in the top 40, surely, but it's testimony to how omnipresent "Sesame Street" quickly became and remains 41 years later. I don't mind it, but that's maybe because I grew up with 70s/early 80s SS. (Now, if Elmo had ever made the top 40... ) "Disco Duck" is the type of song, like so many novelties, that's cute or funny to hear a few times but soon gets annoying. Fortunately, Rick realized that he does better playing the hits than trying to make them.
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Post by johnnywest on Jun 19, 2018 15:55:55 GMT -5
My vote goes to "Pac Man Fever."
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Post by mga707 on Jun 19, 2018 16:07:26 GMT -5
My vote goes to "Pac Man Fever." You win the 'Exhuming the Dead' award--seven years, three months since the last post in the thread. I think that's a new record.
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Post by 80sat40fan on Jun 19, 2018 17:06:39 GMT -5
You win the 'Exhuming the Dead' award--seven years, three months since the last post in the thread. I think that's a new record. It may be an old thread but to those of us who joined after 2011, it's new to us ! After listening to 18 years of Casey Kasem-hosted AT40 shows, I am repulsed by only one AT40 song... and it's not even a song... "Sister Mary Elephant (Shudd Up)" by Cheech & Chong Todd Flanders from The Simpsons sums up my thoughts about this "song" perfectly:
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Post by mrjukebox on Jun 19, 2018 17:25:32 GMT -5
"Run Joey Run" by David Geddes would get my vote.
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Post by chrislc on Jun 19, 2018 18:51:31 GMT -5
Sweet And Innocent is awful, like fingers on a chalkboard. It's almost hard to believe they released it. His other solo hits back then were almost as bad. Just a horrible excuse for a singer before his voice changed. And yes, going back to the first post in the thread - At This Moment. Enduring the last minute of that song, day after day, for weeks - I don't want to experience anything like that again. Those people in the crowd must have been so drunk, to be whooping it up for that. Or maybe they were just expressing their thankfulness that it was almost over. But we all have different tastes, thank God. And it's totally cool with me that some people like At This Moment. But Sweet And Innocent? Yikes. On the other hand I love 1900 Yesterday - always have. Also After The Lovin'. I really like all of Engelbert's stuff. I'm just an old cornball. I've been listening to a LOT of Ray Conniff recently. Some people turn into their fathers or mothers. I have turned into their older friends.
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Post by mga707 on Jun 19, 2018 23:20:11 GMT -5
(O)K, I'll join the 'Back From the Dead' thread. And no, I'm not looking back to see if this one was already posted 7+ years ago. "The Night the Lights Went Out In Georgia". Awful, awful song. Plot holes in the narrative big enough to drive a truck through. "...so he fired a shot just to flag (the sheriff) down..." Really? Like he's not smart enough to think that will make him the prime suspect? Oy...Sonny Bono, you were dead on right to reject this steaming pile of manure! Cliched as it might be, "Half-Breed" is way better than this turkey.
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Post by johnnywest on Jun 20, 2018 11:56:49 GMT -5
Todd Flanders from The Simpsons sums up my thoughts about this "song" perfectly: There’s also an episode where Ralph Wiggum is singing “My Ding-A-Ling” and another where Homer is doing “Convoy.”
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Post by mga707 on Jun 20, 2018 13:11:33 GMT -5
There’s also an episode where Ralph Wiggum is singing “My Ding-A-Ling” and another where Homer is doing “Convoy.” Just for the record, I did not post that 'Simpsons' clip.
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Post by slf on Jun 20, 2018 18:11:42 GMT -5
(O)K, I'll join the 'Back From the Dead' thread. And no, I'm not looking back to see if this one was already posted 7+ years ago. "The Night the Lights Went Out In Georgia". Awful, awful song. Plot holes in the narrative big enough to drive a truck through. "...so he fired a shot just to flag (the sheriff) down..." Really? Like he's not smart enough to think that will make him the prime suspect? Oy...Sonny Bono, you were dead on right to reject this steaming pile of manure! Cliched as it might be, "Half-Breed" is way better than this turkey. Although I personally like the Vicki Lawrence song, I agree that the story is quite preposterous. The most ridiculous part is where Andy brazenly admits to her brother that "I've been a-with her myself". Why would anybody be so stupid as to boldly tell his best friend he's been sneaking around with his wife, unless he has a death wish. (In that case, his wish came true ) As for my choices for awesomely bad songs on AT40, there are two that I elaborated on in detail during my time of doing regular chart critiques: "I've Done Everything For You" by Rick Springfield (pathetic, whiny lyrics set to a jarring, jerky arrangement), and "I Gotcha" by Joe Tex (basically a sexual assault set to a jarring, jerky arrangement). I'd like to add a third awesomely bad song, "Tonight's The Night" by Rod Stewart. Back in the fall of 1976, this church-going, God-fearing 12-yr-old boy instantly recognized the sleazy and immoral nature of this song, especially since the girl in question didn't seem like a willing participant in this one night stand. And while, yes, I do like or love many songs that seem to glorify sex outside of marriage, many such songs are so brazen and in-your-face about their message that I can't warm up to them. "Tonight's The Night" is probably the ultimate example of such a song.
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