1st one to come to mind. A truly horrible earworm. 1970.

Damn. I'd forgotten all about that one.
I'll put it here so that any young whippersnappers reading this thread can suffer too.

that is mean!

So icky.

Every time I heard that, I begged him to join her.

to "And Love threw up" when it came on the radio.

Not really on topic for this thread, but her father Pat Boone did the worst ever cover of Tutti Frutti (originally Little Richard).
I wonder if he knew what the words meant.

No. Even I am not sadistic enough to post it here, but I know it exists on You Tube.

Or that was what "some" people said at the time. Now that I think about it, it could have been just a gimmick...claim it was a religious song and more people (who were religious) would buy it, hence selling more records. IDK, if this was a real "thing." Does anybody here know?

in the dorms during my tenure at Sweet Briar College.

(( WAVES OF NAUSEA ! ! ! ))

When she asked if I wanted an afternoon delight, it was great.

Give me a good morner.

on the menu of Clyde’s bar in Georgetown.

I hate that song.

High volume. He locked his door and went home for the weekend. I still hear that song.

"Beans in My Ears". It was so hideous, and every time I heard it, I couldn't get it out of my head.

But it was from 1952. Found it on a jukebox in college in 1967

They had a bet they could get a hit with any song, and this was the suggestion.
They won the bet.

So would "Let 'Em In".

But my choice for the absolute worst would be "We've Only Just Begun".


I'm not posting videos because I don't want to hear them, and I kind of doubt that anyone else wants to either.

I’m posting this cover of “let em in” that has haunted me since childhood.

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And I didn’t like them at the time but I have changed over the years. Her version of Superstar is great and she is quite the drummer.

She died of anorexia nervosa at age 32.

I met her about a year before she passed. Such a nice person and amazing in her talents.

But, somehow Hal Blaine or Jim Gordon played on nearly every song they recorded.
I get why they might tour with a drummer to get her to the front of the stage, but if she was really skilled as a drummer, why would she not play on any of their records?
The only conclusion i can draw is that her chops were marginal or lower.

Willis wrote Muskrat Love. It is on a pretty good album imo. Captain and tenille maybe not so good.

So many couples had that song at their wedding back then.

...in particular.

It's all good. Still love ya anyway!

Elsewhere in the thread, someone disliked one of my favorite nonsense songs, Jeremiah Was A Bullfrog. It’s often what I start singing to myself to drive out an ear worm.

And why is it that a song you like is never what gets stuck in your head?

And why is that a song you like is never what gets stuck in your head - ain't that the truth!

I'm still trying to get Chick-a-Boom out of my head! LOL!

Sugar sugar

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…of the year in 1969, the year I graduated from high school. The years before and after were Hey, Jude and Bridge Over Troubled Water.

What the hell was wrong with people’s musical taste in 1969?

Monty Python showed it in their parody of "Yummy, Yummy Yummy"

First there was "The Monkees", but that show died because the talent acted too much like they really were talent.

So Don Kirschner bought the animation rights to Archie, and combined the hijinks at Riverdale High with Monkees-like solving whacky mysteries. And the studio musicians were kept in the background and could be replaced at will. He also added Jughead's dog Hot Dog (who had never appeared in the comics).

Scooby-Doo was to be Hanna Barbera's ripoff of The Archies, but a lawsuit threat from Kirschner made them drop the traveling rock and roll band angle. But solving whacky mysteries was unprotected prior art.

In my estimation The Ballad of the Green Berets isn't bad as a piece of music despite the cringey lyrics.
There's a German version (not a translation) which is an anti-war song.

They were intimately involved with the Laurel Canyon scene. Peter Tork was Stephen Stills roommate and only when Stills wasn’t chosen for the Monkees that Tork went to a tryout and got the role. Nesmith was also a real musician like Tork.

Many of the parties in Laurel Canyon was at Dolenz’s house. Tork introduced Buffalo Springfield at Monterey pop festival.

Go watch Laurel Canyon on epix. That is the best documentary on the Laurel Canyon scene.

Their raised middle finger to their teenybopper fans

On epix is great. It is Joni Mitchell, Graham Nash, CS&N and everyone from the LA scene. Tork was a nudist.

(The Monkees were underrated, IMHO)

There is another one that is not that good. This is the one.

Thankfully only 20 seconds long

My head hurts just thinking about it.

Can't stand this song:

That song makes me want to

Ugh!

Sold more records than:

The Beatles
The Rolling Stones
Jimmi Hendrix
Simon and Garfunkel

...and so many more great songs.

One of the great shames of my generation.

Definitely shameful.

Caution: When you get to about the year 5555, you might start feel like it's coming up...

Jim Dandy to the Rescue.

Meri Wilson

It was awful and also very low effort.

Agree:
You Light Up My Life - What made it bad was it was overplayed too much on the radio.
Disco Duck - Dumb Ditty reserved mainly for the Doctor Demento Show
Sugar Sugar - A nothing song
[Your] Having My Baby - Pure pabulum
The Beat Goes On - Yes, the beat goes on because it gives me a headache
Telephone Man - Sexual innuendo in place of a good song
The Ballad of the Green Berets - A rightwing song promoting patriotism and support of the Vietnam War

Disagree:
Honey - The greatest tearjerker of all time.
Brandy (Your a Fine Girl) - The song stood out from the disco and rock songs sounds of the 70s
Muskrat Love - The Captain and Tennille version is easy to listen to.
We've Only Just Begun - How in the world can anyone not love Karen Carpenter's voice on this love song
Dancing Queen - I wasn't an ABBA or disco fan in the 70s but after seeing the movie The Martian I started liking ABBA

And Karen Carpenter did have a great voice.

Ah - ah - ah - ah - stayin' alive, stayin' alive

… and spent way too long searching for the right video to prove you simply hadn’t seen/heard the correct version.

Judy, Lucy, whatever. This whole era was a disaster as far as radio. It’s no wonder this is the earworm my mental gymnastics veered me into in self defense:

At least *this* is fun!

I never could stand that awful song. I rarely heard the whole thing because I turned the radio off or changed the station every time it came on.

How did he manage to lose the cake recipe? He could just buy a Duncan Hines cakemix and nobody would know the difference.

I hated the chorus (the cake melting in the rain thing was stupid) but I liked the verses. I didn't like Donna Summer's version at all. Richard Harris sang "After all the loves in my life, I'll be thinking of you and wondering why" which sounds like he's sadly lamenting his long lost love; Donna Summer sang "After all the loves in my life, I'll be thinking of you and I'll ask myself why" which is more like she's saying "what was I thinking being with you?"

Just thinking about it, turns my stomach into puking, puking, puking..

Was banned in South Africa and France.

Check out the drummer

No movement at all on the back row.

I think that was as "wild" as I've ever seen the Osmonds. The choreography was awful, but well-executed by the lead singer.

They were the two favorite songs of my first romantic girlfriend in 9th and 10th grade.

Her last name was Evans so she called me Zager.

Both songs and the nickname irritated the heck out of me.

I actually like a lot of those.

How can you not like Sugar Sugar?

Even the Riverdale version

is a song written by Janice Lee Gwin and Linda Martin and performed by Daddy Dewdrop. It was featured on his 1971 album

Songs like Dream The Impossible Dream, Come Together, My Way.... and we had 'Chick-a-boom' He figured it did not bode well for our collective futures.

If true, that is hilarious! Or was he joking? If he was, it's still funny.

He wasn't joking. It's usually the jester who speaks the hard truths. He did that often, but too few noticed. He was very wise & old for his age.

is hearing a song for the first time in half a century and remembering how it goes.

My Grandmother told me to learn as much as I could while I was young because what you learn as a child is stronger in your memory at 80 than what you learned at 79.

that I hadn't heard in over 30 years and I sang right along with it, every word. I really surprised myself. It was practically automatic; I didn't even have to think about it. When the song was over, I said to myself "where did that come from?"

It wasn't even a song I particularly liked. And now I can't even remember what song it was! LOL!

Edited to add:
But if it came on the radio today, I bet I could remember all the words.

After your Last Kiss video ends, the next music video is Mazzy Star's "Look On Down from The Bridge" which is, imo, a great song.

We had joy, we had fun
We had seasons in the sun
But the stars we could reach
Were just starfish on the beach

and no I don't care for a great number of these songs, but every time the wife and I hear one of these, it still reminds us of a time and place in our lives. We call them all, "The soundtrack of our lives."

Good and not so good.

Would you marry me anyway? Would you have mah bay bee?

I just never liked that song.

by the electric prunes... someone gave me the album for free... in 1968 or so...

IN-A-GADDA-DA-VIDA

BABY

SO BAD IT WAS GOOD

Iron Butt.

I was born in the middle 70s so never heard that.

🤣🤣🤣

hence "Knuke the Knack"

From 1979, so it is a 70s song

With one exception: Donna Summer's "I Feel Love." Gotta love her voice and the electronic skills of all those Teutonic technocrats.

So bad it’s maybe…. well, you decide.

And the song that they played every half hour on every radio station was Rubber Band Man I believe. Leo Sayers. I won't post a video of it here cuz no one deserves that earworm.

Tiptoe Through the Tulips but Tiny Time