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).
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?