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Songs so bad they're on a list all their own
Houston Chronicle ^
| April 20, 2004, 4:05PM
| CLIFFORD PUGH
Posted on 04/20/2004 3:43:17 PM PDT by Houmatt
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To: solitas
Re: Ray Stevens...
Do you also have the one about the day the squirrel went berserk in the First South Baptist Church? That one is hilarious.
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posted on
04/21/2004 4:37:27 PM PDT
by
mean lunch lady
( " I'd love to kiss you but I just washed my hair" (Bette Davis))
To: CIBvet
Thanks for filling me in on who wrote the original version of "Muskrat Love" and not jumping all over me for not knowing about the travesty that was later recorded... The Captain and what's her name; I really hate their version; never heard the original, but I'll keep my eyes open for the orginal lp; never know what you might find at a garage sale!
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posted on
04/21/2004 4:43:21 PM PDT
by
gatorgriz
("The world is full of bastards - the number ever increasing the further one gets from Missoula, MT")
To: Dilbert56
The dogs barking "Jungle Bells" should be on there.What about the one with the chickens clucking "In The Mood"?
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posted on
04/21/2004 6:09:48 PM PDT
by
dirtbiker
(Solution for Terrorism: Nuke 'em 'till they glow, then shoot 'em in the dark!)
To: mean lunch lady
Ray Stevens had a bunch of nutty songs: "Ahab the Arab", "Guitarzan", "Freddy Feelgood and His Funky Little 5 Piece Band", "Mississippi Squirrel Revival", "Junk Food Junkie", "The Haircut Song" ("I'm a Logger"), just to name a few.....
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posted on
04/21/2004 6:15:36 PM PDT
by
dirtbiker
(Solution for Terrorism: Nuke 'em 'till they glow, then shoot 'em in the dark!)
To: fidelis
Then again, there's my personal Blues favorite, "Nobody Loves Me But My Mama, and She Could Be Jivin' Too."Wasn't that one by Blind Melon Chittling on a Cheech and Chong album?
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posted on
04/21/2004 6:18:58 PM PDT
by
dirtbiker
(Solution for Terrorism: Nuke 'em 'till they glow, then shoot 'em in the dark!)
To: mean lunch lady
Jeremiah Peabody's Polyunsaturated, Quick-dissolving, Fast-acting, Pleasant-tasting Green and Purple Pills"? Another Ray Stevens classic............
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posted on
04/21/2004 6:28:01 PM PDT
by
dirtbiker
(Solution for Terrorism: Nuke 'em 'till they glow, then shoot 'em in the dark!)
To: dirtbiker
Re: Ray Stevens songs-
You forgot "The Streak"
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posted on
04/21/2004 6:41:22 PM PDT
by
mean lunch lady
( The gene pool could use a little more chlorine)
To: Houmatt
Christos Voskrese!Revolution 9
That's a song?
Actually, the one time in my life that I called a radio station (an oldies at that), I requested this "song" as a joke. The DJ couldn't stop laughing. He just had to put the phone call on the air.
I think Blender was looking for the worst songs that were actually hits.
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posted on
04/21/2004 7:52:34 PM PDT
by
TotusTuus
(Voistinu Voskrese!)
To: dirtbiker
I *love* Guitarzan!
"Shut up, baby, I'm tryin' ta sing!"
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posted on
04/21/2004 10:27:08 PM PDT
by
bootless
(Never Forget - And Never Again)
To: GSWarrior
Creepier still:
"Ode to Billie Joe"
What the heck was thrown offa that bridge, anyway?!?
To: mean lunch lady
Mississippi Squirrel Revival. yep. but I prefer his older stuff - especially
'Turn Your Radio On' (1971?) (his variation of Albert Brumley's 1938 Gospel song - AB also wrote 'I'll Fly Away').
GRRREAT stuff!
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posted on
04/22/2004 4:19:34 AM PDT
by
solitas
(sometimes I lay awake at night looking up at the stars wondering where the heck did the ceiling go?)
To: dirtbiker
hey! - don' diss Ray Stevens! (ref posts 143,159,161,164,et.al)
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posted on
04/22/2004 4:23:13 AM PDT
by
solitas
(sometimes I lay awake at night looking up at the stars wondering where the heck did the ceiling go?)
To: solitas
hey! - don' diss Ray Stevens! (ref posts 143,159,161,164,et.al)
No, no, I was talking about songs that I like! I would never diss Ray Stevens. He wrote some of the most unusual songs ever done. I think that's a good thing. And the Mississippi Squirrel Revival was thought - provoking as well as being outrageously funny.
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posted on
04/22/2004 4:38:43 AM PDT
by
mean lunch lady
( The gene pool could use a little more chlorine)
To: solitas
No dis here! I love that guy!!!
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posted on
04/23/2004 4:28:05 PM PDT
by
dirtbiker
(Solution for Terrorism: Nuke 'em 'till they glow, then shoot 'em in the dark!)
To: Houmatt
"Who Let the Dogs Out"
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posted on
04/23/2004 8:31:47 PM PDT
by
texasflower
(in the event of the rapture.......the Bush White House will be unmanned)
To: Houmatt
Thanks!!! I was hoping somebody had posted this. While I obviously disagree with "Courtesy of the Red, White, and Blue", it's great to see that they nailed four liberal anthems: "We Built This City", "Ebony and Ivory", "Shiny Happy People", and "Sounds of Silence" which should definitely have made the top 10!
To: Houmatt
Looking through the list once more, one real glaring omission: they need a really overwrought Springsteen number, the kind where he sounds like he's on the toilet constipated, like "The River."
To: dirtbiker
Actually, it's a real song! I've heard a version by BB King.
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posted on
04/28/2004 8:48:13 PM PDT
by
fidelis
(fidelis)
To: bootless
When you say "Run Joey Run", you're probably referring to "Quick Joey Small (Run Joey Run)" by Kasenetz-Katz Singing Orchestral Circus.
Quick Joey Small went-a over the wall
with a ball and a chain behind him
Quick Joey Small went-a over the wall
Set the dogs right out to find him
Het Het
1969, if I'm not mistaken.
Not only do I have it on a 45, but I own two copies of a LP titled "Bubblegum Music is the Naked Truth," which features Quick Joey Small along with songs by the Ohio Express ("Chewy, Chewy", "Yummy, Yummy, Yummy", "Down at Lulu's") the 1910 Fruitgum Company ("Simon Says," "Goody, Goody Gumdrops"), and the Lemon Pipers ("Green Tamborine"), among others.
The problem with this list is trying to limit it to 50.
From just the period 1966-1969 or so, we haven't even mentioned "Here Comes the Judge" by Pigmeat Markum, "She's a Heartbreaker" by Gene Pitney ("The way you sock-it-to-me girl, you're outta sight"), Master Jack by Three Jacks and a Jill, "Indian Lake" by the Cowsills.
And don't get me started on the early 1960s ("Goodbye Cruel World (I'm Off to Join the Circus)" by Jimmy Darin, etc., **shiver**).
Now, as far as the greatest songs NEVER to make it into the Billboard Top Ten, one would be "Look of Love" by Leslie Gore -- not the same song as "The Look of Love," written by Burt Bacharach. Why? Simply because it ranks just behind "Be Young, Be Foolish, Be Happy" by the Tams as the best song ever for Shagging (not in the Austin Powers sense, but the Southern fraternity house dance similar to the Jitterbug).
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posted on
07/14/2004 8:28:30 AM PDT
by
Scoutmaster
(You knew the job was dangerous when you took it, Fred)
To: Scoutmaster
Ack! No sooner did I hit the post button than I realized you were probably talking about "Run Joey Run" by David Geddes, approximately 1975.
Interesting that there can be two so truly bad songs containing the phrase "Run Joey Run" in the title.
Can anyone else thing of a three-word or longer phrase that appears in two or more of the worst songs ever? Eh?
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posted on
07/14/2004 8:31:42 AM PDT
by
Scoutmaster
(You knew the job was dangerous when you took it, Fred)
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