Which of my 45s from the early 70s should I be the most mortified about?

[Bossy Monkey]

Poll question: Which of my 45s from the early 70s should I be the most mortified about?

That's vinyl singles for you young whippersnappers. I suspect if I put on the really mortifying ones, they won't get any votes as the songs have been mercifully forgotten (ie Funky Nassau).

My other thought for a godawful songs thread would have also involved Powder Blue Mercedes Queen. It would have been about favorite songs that were out of character for the artists concerned, ie this one, Sid Vicious doing My Way, Bread's hysterical Mother Freedom, etc. Run with it if you can think of a way to phrase the subject line.

Actually, the one I'm most mortified about is generally regarded as an R&B classic: Mr Big Stuff by Jean Knight. I just didn't like it anymore shortly after buying it, and never changed my mind about it again.

I'm also less than 20 posts from 7,000, so feel free to blast me mercilessly on this thread to help get me over the hump.:)

The suspense is killing me; will anybody but Lobo get a vote?

[flamingyouth]

1. Wow, that's a toughie, but I think I have to go with Lobo

:D

On edit - Have you ever heard DOA's cover of "Where Evil Grows"? LOL

[Bossy Monkey]

5. All I know about DOA is that they're mentioned in "I Must Not Think Bad

Thoughts"; as such, the idea of them writing a royalty check to Terry Jacks is kind of, well, somewhere between ironical and alarming, I guess. Still, one of the great mood records of all time, at least for those of us who are forever 11.

[flamingyouth]

6. Joey Shithead's vocals on it are hilarious

They keep the sitarish-type guitar sound, which is hilarious. I heard the original a lot as a kid, because of my proximity to Canada and its fabulous radio stations. :D

[Bossy Monkey]

11. Turns out to be a rather inspiring story

even if they had to pay him for producing, too:
http://members.tripod.com/~thrust_2/doa.html
Another classic Canuck cover I quite enjoyed is your version of The Poppy Family's "Where Evil Grows".

JOEY: The old Terry Jacks song. For you kids: Terry Jacks was a great pop artist <"Season's In The Sun"> - geez I'm showing my age - in the late sixties and early seventies with his sister Susan. Terry was doing a lot of work trying to stop pollution from pulp mills just north of Vancouver. The amount of effluent they were dumping into the water was causing fish mutations and the cancer rate in the area was the highest in BC. It was criminal what they were doing to the people, to the environment. So Terry was spearheading a drive against it. We joined a two-night benefit concert that also featured BTO and Bryan Adams. We wound up recording "Where Evil Grows" with Terry producing.

[flamingyouth]

14. That's familiar to me now

Of course, DOA has always been very political; Joey ran for city council (I think) in his hometown of Burnaby, and they were big supporters of the Vancouver 5. I had forgotten that they had Terry produce it for them. I'm trying to find my CD with that on it, but can't put my hands on it right now (my basement is currently being remodeled).

[BlueJazz]

2. The Dog is positively a "Dog"

[camby]

3. Lobo took the day, but

what a list! I was really torn between Lobo, Hamilton Joe Frank & Reynolds & Brandy. I was too old for 45's in the early 70's THANK GOD!!! Let's face it, there were pretty slim pickins for a few years.

[stevedeshazer]

4. Don't pull out on me, baby

Your love, that is.

[Lady Effingbroke]

7. "Undercover Angel" - Alan O'Day

[peekaloo]

8. My sister had 'Billy Don't Be A Hero' and 'Heartbeat It's a Love Beat'

or something like that by the DiFranco Family(?). She played them endlessly........:puke:

I can't remember who did 'Billy'....I wanna say Bo Derek and the Haywood JaBlowmes......:dunce:

[Bossy Monkey]

15. Paper Lace and Bo Donaldson & the Heywoods hit with Billy simultaneously

for reasons that are still a mystery to all right-thinking people. Supposedly, Paper Lace's version didn't chart, but I certainly remember hearing it a lot. BD & the HWs hit #1.

I actually downloaded the mp3 of Heartbeat - It's A Love Beat on purpose a few years ago. Needless to say, I'm reasonably mortified about that, too. (I was looking for their cover of "Save the Last Dance for Me" (ducking, running away))

[Hello_Kitty]

42. Thank you for that

My night shift cohorts and I are currently peeing our pants laughing at "Haywood Jablowmes". Bless you.:thumbsup:

[riverwalker]

9. "The Last Farewell" Roger Whittaker

[Burma Jones]

16. My Mom had this on an LP and I would play it at 45 rpm

it sounded a lot better that way.

[donheld]

20. i still like that song

great voice :bounce:

[asthmaticeog]

10. It's Lobo in a walk, man.

Many of the others have gained comedic value over the years, but "Me and You and a Dog Named Boo" is a few notches beyond redemption.

[nini]

12. Sugar Sugar by the Archies!

beat that!

I have Mr. BigStuff too. Looking back.. I was sure a teeny bopper type :-)

[5thGenDemocrat]

50. Thank goodness someone else mentioned that

"Sugar Sugar" has my nomination for worst number one (yes, it was) single ever. I'd be damned if I was going to nominate it, though.
John
Killed many a radio over that song.

[nini]

51. oh c'mon... you know you used to dance to that bad boy!

:evilgrin:

[yardwork]

13. I'm very sorry that I was reminded of a lot of these....

I'm going back to work now. Thanks for curing my procrastination!

[tuvor]

17. Other. (2)

Lead Me On by Maxine Nightingale, and Undercover Angel by ??? which is sctually from my cousin's collection.

[frogbison]

18. I win!! Tony Orlando and Dawn

Tie a Yellow Ribbon 'round the Old Oak Tree

[Bossy Monkey]

19. Lead Me On's a fine song compared to most of the ones I listed

Undercover Angel, as mentioned above, is by Alan O'Day and is one of the true stinkburgers of all time.

[Kat45]

21. I'd say you should be mortified by all of them,

but I can't quite say that because there are a few that I don't know.

But if I assume they are as bad as the ones that I do know, then I can say you should be mortified by all of them.

But that's ok: I think I might have a copy of "Yummy Yummy Yummy (I've Got Love in My Tummy)" by the 1910 Fruitgum Company. But my memory is unclear, so I can still hope that I don't have it. :-)

[Tom Kitten]

22. Yeesh

Those all look pretty awful...I voted for Lobo, though...that song is indeed beyond redemption!

ps "Funky Nassau" is pretty bad too!

[rucky]

23. Afternoon Delight anyone?

[zoeybug]

24. Don't know the Dog named Boo song that everyone hates

but I used to be a cashier at a Drug Emporium where they would play the song 'Brandy' about once an hour.

Had the stupid song stuck in my head constantly.

[NightTrain]

25. Actually, "Don't Pull Your Love" is a terrific record.

It's a magnificent example of just how well put-together a disposable three-minute pop song can be. And it certainly is better than the group's 1975 chart-topper, "Falling In Love."

[Pithlet]

26. Mr. Big Stuff.

I sing that to my 11 month old.

You just brought back a memory I hadn't thought of in years. When I was 7 or 8 I got a record player for Christmas, and my aunt gave me all her old 45s. One of them was Steve Miller's "Come on and Dance". That must have been my favorite because I played it over and over until my mother threatened to break it over her knee.

[Bossy Monkey]

27. I think that one's called "Swing Town"

Not correcting you, but if you ever want to traipse down memory lane (and/or further horrify your mother), you'll have better luck with the right title :)

[Pithlet]

28. I wasn't sure

Thanks :) I think that must be a more obscure song of his, because it's not one you hear often.

[jdj]

29. Brandy, you're a fine girl

what a good wife you would be
but my life my love and my lady
is the sea...

I love this song!

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

30. Jerry Reed is pretty tacky.... remember what the flip side of

that one was?

Amos Moses..?

[Bossy Monkey]

31. A number called You've Been Cryin' Again from a different album

both produced by Chet Atkins. How the mighty fell:cry:

I was a religious listener to all my B-sides (don't ask about Early 1970 by Ringo or Apple Scruffs by George), but have no recollection of ever having played this.

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

33. Hmmmmm. so my memory sucks. Amos Moses must have

been an A side then.
shudder with the memory.

[Bossy Monkey]

36. It was a single the previous year, but that doesn't mean your memory's bad

You might have encountered one of those RCA Special Products two-sided single rereleases some time in the intervening 30-odd years.

Here's Jerry's hits, such as they are:
http://www.top40db.org/Artists/ID_1374.shtml

[jdj]

32. You have GOT to see "Survivors" with him, Robin Williams and

Walter Matthau!!

This is Williams best movie by far, and my favorite of all time...so many funny scenes, and Williams is spot on, a semi-deranged character after he is downsized (his boss has trained his parrot to fire all the employees eliminated after the "restructuring", when Williams' character Donald complains to his bosses' secretary, she points a gun at him and tells him "do you have any idea how long it took him to teach the bird to say that?" and calls him an "ungrateful turd" and Donald's life just goes downhill from there.) Reed plays a hit man forced to do petty crime by the economic downturn, I have seen this movie about 20 times and it just gets better, funny how it is not dated, is totally apropos with every republican president.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

37. Hey I know the guy..lay off

he's an ass kicking finger picker in Nashville these days

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

45. Oh, I agree he is a fine musician... I mean his 70's songs

You have to admit....

[mel1234]

34. :)

Shouldn't the fact that you still have them be enough.... LOL?...

[Bossy Monkey]

38. Wow, welcome to DU! I drew somebody's first post...

to abuse me about my record collection. Amazing! :D

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

35. Anyone who owns anything by Tony Orlando is a hoser

:evilgrin:

(at least it's not Candida)

[Bossy Monkey]

39. Well I WANTED Knock Three Times

Sad, sad, sad. The same story over and over again: by the time I got to K-Mart on my record-buying forays, the single I wanted was already gone. And I had to fight grizzly bears dragging myself through ten feet of snow! (No really, from missing "My Sweet Lord" and getting "What Is Life?" to missing "My Maria" and getting "River of Love," my childhood was one of extremely tiny but somehow still rankling disappointments. Also, a grizzly bear ate my sister.)

PS: I was 9 at the time, so I don't apologize for much.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

40. It's ok...when I was a kid I had a copy of the Serendipity Singers singing

Beans in Our Ears...it's probably still around here somewhere :freak:

[Norbert]

41. There's not so much to be mortified about

Some songs have faired far better with me not so much because of artistic content but the time and place and course of events where I remember them. Lobo's Dog Named Boo, the Poppy Family songs and Mr. Big Stuff all fall in that category. One girl I hung around with liked Summer Sand so it gets placed in the same category. This was perhaps the greatest time in my life with my friends and if for nothing else these songs were in a small way a part of it.

Of course musically most of these will not hold a candle to Badfinger, early Elton John, Todd Rundgren and individual ex-Beatles records.

[Swamp Rat]

43. Loretta Lynn - "Spiders And Snakes"

Spiders And Snakes

I remember when Loretta Lynn said you want to walk me home again
And I said mhm yes I do
And she said well I don't want to go right home
And I'm the kind that don't want to be alone if you would I would too
Ha ha and so we took a stroll and wound down by a swimmin' hole
And she said do what you wonna do I don't care
Mhm I got silly and I found me a frog in the water by a holler log
And I said Loretta this frog's for you
I don't like spiders and snakes and that ain't what it takes
To love me like I want you to
I don't like spiders and snakes and that ain't what it takes to love me
Like I wanna be loved by you

Well I think of that girl from time to time and I phone up when I got me dime
And I say hello baby ain't you cool
Ha ha she said do you remember when and you like to get together again
If you do hey I see I'm just cool
Ha ha well I am shy and so for awhile most of my lovin' was tough and smile
Till she said come on over here I don't care
Mhm mhm I would never say you might guess
Still lookin' for somethin' but a sneak out of dress
And she said... ha ha ha
Yeah I don't like spiders and snakes...

[RebelOne]

44. Hey, what's wrong with Lobo and Looking Glass?

I always loved the songs You and Me and A Dog Named Boo and Brandy. In fact, I have Lobo's tape with that song.

[Bossy Monkey]

48. Dunno; you'd have to ask the people who hate 'em

Regarding Lobo, I guess it's that it's too saccharine. Looking Glass, I'd guess it's the somewhat supercilious vocals. Beats me.

[gollygee]

46. I had Love Will Keep Us Together and Muskrat Love

actually, I probably still have them in the basement.

[noonwitch]

47. My sister had "Thunder Island" and my brother had "Chevy Van"

I had "Half Breed", so what can I say? One of my friends had "Shannon".

[Phillycat]

49. "But my life, my love, and my lady...IS THE SEA"

doo do do do do do, doo do do do do do