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To: cuz_it_aint_their_money; speedy; spatzie; hookman
Not too sure if it ever made #1 (or even the top 100 for that matter) but the song with the LONGEST TITLE on record is:

"Several species of small, furry animals, gathered together in a cave, and grooving with a Pict" Mike Oldsfield, "Tubular Bells" Album

It doesn't have to have hit Number One, but should have at least charted, as per Jan and Dean'c October 1964 effort:

The Anaheim, Azusa & Cucamonga Sewing Circle, Book Review & Timing Association... Then there's B-sides of charted tunes...when Prince's When Doves Cry went to No. 1, he became the artist with the longest title for the flip side of a chart-topping song. The B-side of "Doves" was 17 Days (The Rain Will Come Down, Then U Will Have to Choose. If U Believe, Look 2 the Dawn and U Shall Never Lose). That replaced the previous record-holder, the flip side of Nino Tempo and April Stevens' Deep Purple, titled I've Been Carrying a Torch for You So Long That I Burned a Great Big Hole in My Heart.

144 posted on 04/20/2004 12:47:34 AM PDT by archy (The darkness will come. It will find you,and it will scare you like you've never been scared before.)
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To: archy
Sorry I came late to the party, archy. Without reading the entire thread, I'm guessing some perennial worst song nominees are in there, or if not they should be -- "I'd Really Love To See You Tonight" by England Dan and John Ford Coley always ranks high on my "get me out of here" scale. "Do That To Me One More Time" by Captain and Tennille -- always embarrassing. No list is complete without "Sometimes When We Touch" by Dan Hill. "You And Me Against The World" by Helen Reddy. Anything else by Helen Reddy. I think the scales are pretty well balanced between great music and awful music. But people enjoy writing more about awful music.
149 posted on 04/20/2004 4:32:44 AM PDT by speedy (Tagline for demonstration purposes only. Not for internal consumption.)
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