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Post by at40nut on Jul 1, 2017 10:08:24 GMT -5
Here's a song that you would not want to blast out of your car stereo when you are passing by a bunch of good looking women-look no further than one of the LDD songs on this week's 6-30-84 show-" (Your) Having My Baby" by Paul Anka.
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Post by djjoe1960 on Jul 1, 2017 10:17:08 GMT -5
I am surprised no body mentioned 'My Ding-A-Ling' by Chuck Berry. I recall my mother not wanting me to listen to the song in the 1970's and it also is sort of 'embarrassing' that the song is Chuck Berry's only #1.
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Post by dukelightning on Jul 1, 2017 11:04:54 GMT -5
Pete puts it best. If I was in a crowd of people, these songs would be embarrassing...
My Ding-a-Ling Before the Next Teardrop Falls Wasted Days and Nights Run Joey Run Elvira Bobbie Sue Me So Horny Humpty Dance
Finally someone mentioned Paul Anka. I had alluded to that yesterday when the show first played. Took 'til now though!
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Post by JMW on Jul 1, 2017 11:33:54 GMT -5
I don't think I can be in the same room as anybody whenever a certain Frankie Goes to Hollywood song comes on the radio.
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Post by dth1971 on Jul 1, 2017 12:51:22 GMT -5
What about in 1971 James Brown's "King Heroin" which many thought it would spend only 1 week on AT40 but it spent a second week?
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Post by chrislc on Jul 1, 2017 12:54:23 GMT -5
Summer (The First Time) by Bobby Goldsboro. I didn't like it in 1973 and dislike even more now. Your post was one day too late. Oh well, maybe today will be a hot afternoon, at least.
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Post by mga707 on Jul 1, 2017 17:50:47 GMT -5
Summer (The First Time) by Bobby Goldsboro. I didn't like it in 1973 and dislike even more now. Your post was one day too late. Oh well, maybe today will be a hot afternoon, at least. Is 111 degrees hot enough for ya? And I LOVE that song, BTW, an all-time 'guilty pleasure'. 'Cougar' anthem!
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Post by SFGuy on Jul 2, 2017 5:25:03 GMT -5
I don't think I can be in the same room as anybody whenever a certain Frankie Goes to Hollywood song comes on the radio. Relax. It's only two tribes welcoming you to the pleasuredome.
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Post by dth1971 on Jul 2, 2017 12:12:27 GMT -5
How about "Eyes Without a Face" by Billy Idol from 1984? Is it embarrising when it's on the 1984 episodes of AT40: The 80's that it's edited by Premiere all the time?
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Post by matt on Jul 6, 2017 10:54:48 GMT -5
One other song that comes to mind is Kim Carnes' "Crazy In the Night". I feel like that was Kim's "jump the shark" moment...it felt a little too novelty-ish, and didn't really showcase Kim's true talents.
Another "jump the shark" song was Huey Lewis and the News' "Doing It All For My Baby"--a really sappy, weak song for a band that could rock out a bit when they wanted to. It was the 5th release off of the Fore! LP, and quite frankly they should've stopped with four (no pun intended). There were a couple other songs on that album that would have been much better choices IMHO...
And somebody mentioned Bobby Goldsboro...how about "Watching Scotty Grow"? The epitome of cheezy and sappy...
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Post by Hervard on Jul 6, 2017 11:59:55 GMT -5
Another "jump the shark" song was Huey Lewis and the News' "Doing It All For My Baby"--a really sappy, weak song for a band that could rock out a bit when they wanted to. It was the 5th release off of the Fore! LP, and quite frankly they should've stopped with four (no pun intended). There were a couple other songs on that album that would have been much better choices IMHO... Huey Lewis always released their slow "doo=wop" type hit songs appeared on every album of theirs (although DIAFMB was more of a AC/Pop sound - their "doo-wop" song on the FORE album was "Naturally", but I think they felt that, since it was a capella, it wouldn't do quite as good). Moreover, I'm actually surprised that they waited as long as they did to release that one. They were definitely going for diversity with the FORE album. Besides the slight "doo-wop" (or AC/Pop) sound of DIAFMB, we had the album rock feel of "I Know What I Like", there was "Hip To Be Square", which was a bouncy feel-good type of song. "Stuck With You" and "Jacob's Ladder" both had a mainstream pop sound, though both sounded very different from each other. I was always disappointed that they didn't put out "Forest For The Trees", but that one sounded so much like "Stuck With You", so that's probably why they decided to forego that one as a single.
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Post by dth1971 on Jul 6, 2017 16:51:31 GMT -5
How about Arrested Development's 2 songs from 1992: "Tennessee" and "People Everyday" - These were mostly shortened when on Shadoe Stevens AT40 ("People Everyday" on AT40 started with verse #2 rather than verse #1).
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Post by mga707 on Jul 6, 2017 20:31:15 GMT -5
How about Arrested Development's 2 songs from 1992: "Tennessee" and "People Everyday" - These were mostly shortened when on Shadoe Stevens AT40 ("People Everyday" on AT40 started with verse #2 rather than verse #1). Not familiar with the songs, how are they 'embarrassing'--lyrically or some other way?
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Post by bobbo428 on Jul 6, 2017 20:50:35 GMT -5
Another "jump the shark" song was Huey Lewis and the News' "Doing It All For My Baby"--a really sappy, weak song for a band that could rock out a bit when they wanted to. It was the 5th release off of the Fore! LP, and quite frankly they should've stopped with four (no pun intended). There were a couple other songs on that album that would have been much better choices IMHO... Huey Lewis always released their slow "doo=wop" type hit songs appeared on every album of theirs (although DIAFMB was more of a AC/Pop sound - their "doo-wop" song on the FORE album was "Naturally", but I think they felt that, since it was a capella, it wouldn't do quite as good). Moreover, I'm actually surprised that they waited as long as they did to release that one. They were definitely going for diversity with the FORE album. Besides the slight "doo-wop" (or AC/Pop) sound of DIAFMB, we had the album rock feel of "I Know What I Like", there was "Hip To Be Square", which was a bouncy feel-good type of song. "Stuck With You" and "Jacob's Ladder" both had a mainstream pop sound, though both sounded very different from each other. I was always disappointed that they didn't put out "Forest For The Trees", but that one sounded so much like "Stuck With You", so that's probably why they decided to forego that one as a single. I always thought that "Doing It All" had a May-June feel, while "I Know What I Like" sounded a bit autumnal--I wish "Baby" was the fourth single and "I Know" the fifth.
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Post by bobbo428 on Jul 6, 2017 21:26:27 GMT -5
Most embarrassing songs by year in IMO (summer emphasis in most cases)
1970 Julie Do You Love Me-Bobby Sherman (I despised this tune in 1970 and find it tolerable now) 1971 Sweet and Innocent-Donny Osmond (actually enjoyed this as a 10-year-old--not so much now) 1972 Clair-Gilbert O'Sullivan 1973 Sing-Carpenters 1974 Billy Don't Be a Hero-Heywoods or Bobby Vinton's "My Melody of Love" (I don't mind hearing these while alone) 1975 Before the Next Teardrop (It reminds me of a girl I liked in 7th grade) 1976 Let Her In (I actually enjoy this song but won't admit it to most of my family or friends) 1977 The Henhouse Five plus Too Version of "In the Mood" 1978 Only the Good Die Young (if I am with a group of fellow Catholics who are religious) 1979 Rainbow Connection (especially around diehard AOR types) 1980 She's Out of My Life (I enjoy it but it reminds me of a girl I liked in 12th grade) 1981 The One that You Love (a maudlin tune my girlfriend at the time loved) 1982 Body Language (pure swill) 1983 Rick Springfield's Human Touch (cheesy) 1984 The Longest Time--I used to enjoy this in the '780s, but adult contemporary overkill ruined it for me 1985 The Goonies "R" Good Enough (not a bad tune but a little cheesy) 1986 There'll Be Sad Songs (reminds me too much of a woman I liked at the time) 1987 Girls, Girls, Girls (I was 26 by the time this came out and was no fan of headbanger music) 1988 Naughty Girls (Need Love Too) 1989 I'm That Type of Guy-L.L. Cool J. or anything by Winger
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