What is the worst rock song?

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Choosing all-time worst rock songs is a pain in the ear

Ken Stroebel

The Arizona Republic Norwich (Conn.) Bulletin

Jan. 29, 2001 02:15:00

According to a VH-1 survey, "Yesterday," "Like a Rolling Stone," "When Doves Cry" and "What's Going On?" are among the best rock songs ever recorded.

OK, fine, but what about "Naughty, Naughty" by John Parr? What about "Disco Duck" by Rick Dees? Whither "Tie a Yellow Ribbon" by Tony Orlando, "Don't Give Up on Us, Baby" by David ("Hutch") Soul, and "Me and You and a Dog Named Boo" by Lobo?

Well, you're more likely to find those tunes on another list - any one of several unofficial online compilations of the all-time worst tunes of the rock 'n' roll era.

Selecting the best songs is a relatively easy task; there aren't that many really good ones to choose from. Picking the worst from the thousands of "Honeys," "Mandys," "Mmmbops" and "Butterfly Kisses" that have assaulted the airwaves in the past four to five decades is a much tougher task.

"I was music director for many years at many stations and I can tell you that your pile of bad stuff was always three times as big as your good stuff," says disc jockey Danny O'Brien of "Cool 101 FM" in Waterford, Conn.

For O'Brien, the all-time stinker single is "Seasons in the Sun" by Terry Jacks, a 1974 smash in which a dying man sings sappy goodbyes to his "trusted friend," his "papa," and "Michelle, (his) little one," reminding each of them, "We had joy, we had fun, we had seasons in the sun."

"Inane drivel. I want to vomit every time I hear it," O'Brien says. "I hated the song when it came out and I hate it even more as I get older. I seriously question the sanity of anyone who bought that record."

'Bad' can be good

Actually, a whole lot of people (including this writer's mom) were insane enough to buy that record, which spent weeks at the top of the Billboard pop chart. In fact, the majority of songs on most all-time worst lists were huge, huge hits, and many were recorded by "respected" artists.

Dan Curland, owner of Mystic Disc in Mystic, Conn., ranks Chicago's monotonous monster hit "Color My World" among his most irritating tunes.

"If I hear that stupid piano lick one more time I think I'll scream," Curland says. "It's got to be the most atrocious song ever. And 'Spinning Wheel' by Blood, Sweat and Tears. That's another horrible one that drives me into a total rage whenever I hear it. Horrible song."

Naturally, opinions vary widely as to what constitutes a "bad" song.

Some would argue that many of the tunes up for Grammy Awards this year are pretty bad, and they'd be right. (Let us not forget the Grammys never gave Bob Dylan an award before 1998, selected Lionel Richie for an honor over Prince and Bruce Springsteen, and deemed Milli ("We Can't Even Sing") Vanilli the "Best New Artists" of 1989.)

For O'Brien, inane lyrics and unoriginal music distinguish most of the tunes he truly loathes.

"Anything from the Frankie Avalon days was bad, that 'Beach Blanket Bingo' crap," he says. "Say what you want about the Beatles, at least they rescued us from Frankie Avalon. And Frankie Valli for that matter."

Humorist Dave Barry singles out the falsetto-voiced Valli for scorn in his "The Book of Bad Songs," particularly the hit "Walk Like a Man" ("sing like a man, Frankie!").

Enough already

While some might argue over the musical merits of Valli, Chicago and Blood, Sweat and Tears, there are certain artists whose work seems to elicit almost universal disdain across a broad spectrum of society.

"Anything by Michael Bolton (is bad), and I mean anything," says Curland. "Did he somehow feel that Percy Sledge's 'When a Man Loves a Woman' needed to be done again because it wasn't done right the first time?"

Bolton is just one in a long line of highly successful but widely despised pop stars notorious for "bad" songs.

Others include Barry Manilow, Mac Davis, Yoko Ono, John Denver, Neil Diamond and - perhaps most notoriously - Bobby Goldsboro. His hits include the weepy death ballad "Honey" (which, in one verse, rhymes "what the heck" with "hugged my neck"), and the even more maudlin "Watching Scotty Grow."

Both Goldsboro tunes frequently show up on all-time worst lists. Others that do include "You Light Up My Life" by Debbie Boone (one of the best-selling singles of all time), "Muskrat Love" by Captain & Tennille, "You're Having My Baby" by Paul Anka, "I Write the Songs" by Manilow, and "Feelings" ("woh-woh-woh feeeelings!") by Morris Albert.

And, of course, who could forget the contributions of Helen Reddy, Bruce Willis, Vanilla Ice, Tiffany, Taco or Charlene, whose nauseating '70's paean to the women's movement, "I've Never Been to Me," was so sappy and sophomoric it made Reddy's "I Am Woman" sound like "A Day in the Life."

(Obviously the Charlene song is a particular pain in the ears to this writer. So are the cliche riddled "Here I Go Again On My Own" by Whitesnake, the out-of-tune Tiffany remake of "I Think We're Alone Now," and "Dr. Feelgood" (or anything else) by the utterly musically hopeless Motley Crue.)

Numerous pollsters and pop critics that the supreme king of cruddy singles is the truly bizarre "MacArthur Park" by British over-actor Richard Harris.

Following are 50 notoriously bad po songs:

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- "MacArthur Park" by Richard Harris

- "Seasons in the Sun" by Terry Jacks

- "Honey" by Bobby Goldsboro

- "I Write the Songs" by Barry Manilow

- "You're Having My Baby" by Paul Anka

- "I am Woman" by Helen Reddy

- "You Light up My Life" by Debbie Boone

- "Tie a Yellow Ribbon ('Round the Old Oak Tree) by Tony Orlando and Dawn

- "Feelings" by Morris Albert

- "Muskrat Love" by Captain & Tennille

- "Candy Man" by Sammy Davis, Jr.

- "Me and You and a Dog Named Boo" by Lobo

- "Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go" by Wham

- "Ghostbusters" by Ray Parker, Jr.

- "I've Never Been to Me" by Charlene

- "Disco Duck" by Rick Dees

- "Butterfly Kisses" by Bob Carlisle

- "Billy, Don't Be a Hero" by Bo Donaldson and the Heywoods

- "Mickey" by Tony Basil

- "Rock Me, Amadeus" by Falco

- "Watching Scotty Grow" by Bobby Goldsboro

- "Mr. Roboto" by Styx

- "Indiana Wants Me" by Dean Taylor

- "Barbie Girl" by Aqua

- "Playground in My Mind" by Clint Holmes

- "I'm Too Sexy" by Right Fred Said

- "All By Myself" by Eric Carman

- "Morning Train" by Shena Easton

- "Physical" by Olivia Newton John

- "Curly Shuffle" by Jump in the Saddle

- "Get out of My Dreams, Get into My Car" by Billy Ocean

- "Sussudio" by Phil Collins

- "Baby, Don't Get Hooked on Me" by Mac Davis

- "Don't Cry Out Loud," by Melissa Manchester

- "Alone Again, Naturally" by Gilbert O'Sullivan

- "Afternoon Delight" by Starland Vocal Band

- "Achy Breaky Heart" by Billy Ray Cyrus

- "Respect Yourself" by Bruce Willis

- "I'd Do Anything for Love" by Meat Loaf

- "Sunshine, Lollipops and Rainbows" by Leslie Gore

- "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds" by William Shatner

- "Party All the Time" by Eddie Murphy

- "Never Gonna Give You Up" by Rick Astley

- "In the Year 2525" by Zager and Stevens

- "Heartlight" by Neil Diamond

- "Sweet Pea" by Tommy Roe

- "Little Willie" by Sweet

- "Mmmbop" by Hanson

- "Wannabe" by the Spice Girls

- "Love in an Elevator" by Aerosmith



-- Lars (larsguy@yahoo.com), January 29, 2001

Answers

I saw Aerosmith for the first time, and hopefully the last, during the halftime show last evening. The damn Giants performed better than that bunch.

-- Peter Errington (petere@ricochet.net), January 29, 2001.

Domo arigato Mr Roboto, domo....domo...

I will take issue with "I'm Too Sexy" by Right Said Fred, I kinda thought it was catchy. But yeah, Afternoon Delight always made me want to puke violently.

-- Uncle Deedah (unkeed@yahoo.com), January 29, 2001.


Heavens! No mention of that monster #1 Billboard hit and chartbusting bullet, Sugar, Sugar by the Archies?

Or that other huge, runaway hit Bang! Bang! (He Shot Me Down) by mega-superstar, Cher? (Who also graced us with the unforgettable ballad, Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves.)

Or a personal favorite of mine, that sticky-sweet chunk of Diana Ross's ego: Love Child?

Then again, who can recall the horribly insipid novelty song Snoopy and the Red Baron, by a group so forgettable I have forgotten their name? It was so wretched, it didn't even have a beat. Yet, it went gold after a few weeks... and then sank like a stone, never to be heard again - thank god!

There are few things more enraging than a song you utterly despise that you can't get out of your head. Which reminds me. Barry Manilow once stooped so low as to write a song entitled, I Can't Get It out of My Head. For that alone, he deserves to be shot. Repeatedly. With soft bullets. In the gut.

Just my two cents.

-- Miserable SOB (misery@misery.com), January 29, 2001.


There are some people who don't like "99 Tears". I believe that such people are wrong, and are probably pollies.

-- Peter Errington (petere@ricochet.net), January 29, 2001.

Does rap count? If so, I'll nominate all of it as a single song, since no two of them can be told apart.

-- Flint (flintc@mindspring.com), January 29, 2001.


You'd have to define rock song first; frankly, I wouldn't put most of the songs listed above in the rock category.

You have to separate Top 40 (e.g., Afternoon Delight, Cher, Oblivious Neutron Bomb, one-hit wonders, etc.) from rock (e.g., Aerosmith -- who, BTW Peter, were one of the best pure rock bands when I first saw them in 1977; last night, they were just another top 40 mess).

The worst things about that list is that (a) we all know most of the words; and, (b) if you're my age, you probably at least had most of the 45s at some point in time.

Where's that gun.....

-- What's wrong with "In the Year 2525"?... (PatriciaS@lasvegas.com), January 29, 2001.


Regarding excellence, how about: "Old Time Rock and Roll" (Bob Seegar) and "Kodachrome" (Simon & Garfunkle).

-- Peter Errington (petere@ricochet.net), January 29, 2001.

Peter:

"Kodachrome" was after Garfunkel left, it's on the excellent "There Goes Rhymin' Simon" album.

As an alltime best, I'd have to nominate Zappa's "Montana"

-- Flint (flintc@mindspring.com), January 29, 2001.


Well, then, you have to ask yourself if "Yesterday" is a "rock song"? Or, are the Beatles a rock group? Compare "Helter Skelter" with "Blackbird" and you'll have a hard time answering that.

More than that, you got to ask what defines any "rock song" as different from any "Top 40" song? At that point, you'll have a migraine headache coming on, because you'll never get the definition right no matter how you try.

-- Miserable SOB (misery@misery.com), January 29, 2001.


AEROSMITH KICKS ASS!!

Me and You and a dog named Boo is a damn good song too.

-- (rap.hiphop@music.sucks), January 30, 2001.



Hall and Oates -

"Your Kiss is on my List"
"Private Eye"
"I can't go for that (no can do)"

...argh!! fidgets if I don't switch the dial!

And how about "Owner of a Lonely Heart" by Yes.

Oh, there are more. One song I hate so much, I flip the dial before the first bar is over. That works very well - see, now I've forgotten what the song is, just that I do NOT want to hear it. :-)

But "in the year 2525" - yeah Pat. I like it.

"Sugar, Sugar" ALWAYS seemed to be playing whenever my car radiator was threatening to boil over. Make it over the pass before "Sugar, Sugar" was over, and I'd usually be OK.

-- Debbie (dbspence@usa.net), January 30, 2001.


Jingle Bell Rock

-- Scarecrow (Somewhere@over.rainbow), January 30, 2001.

True, MSOB; too many blurred lines. But I still wouldn't put the Spice Girls, Hanson, Neil Diamond, Barry Manilow, Debbie Boone, etc. in the rock category. IMO, it goes by the band's reputation -- and then you just ignore a song like the one Aerosmith did for that movie (Armageddon?). It was an OK tune until you heard it forty times in a day (is that where they get Top 40 from?).

I do think there's something to be said, if only *nostalgia*, for all those 1970's one-hit wonders.....

-- I also like "Alone Again, Naturally"..... (PatriciaS@lasvegas.com), January 30, 2001.


Glad to see two of the ones I hated during the 70's "You're having my baby" and "I am woman hear me roar" made the list. And yeah, anything by Cher should go on the list.

Debbie, I thought I was the only one who didn't like those guys. Could you believe they also had a "best hits" album? When I was attending Temple, they also went, writting their tunes in Mitten Hall. If only I had known what they were up to.

-- Maria (anon@ymous.com), January 30, 2001.


Maria,

I was reading your comments and came to the part about attending Temple. First thing that popped into my head was, "I didn't know Maria was Jewish!"

Then I realized you referred to Temple University. LOL!

-- Rich (howe9@shentel.net), January 30, 2001.



How can you leave out "Loving You" by Minnie Ripperton and the blood-curdling "I Remember" by Bloodrock?

-- Unreel (cometo@tention.net), January 30, 2001.

I was recently flipping channels and stumbled apon John Travolta, circa about 1977-78 (Welcome Back Kotter time, but pre-Saturday Night Fever) lip-syncing some terrible, sickening, frightening thing called "let her in to my life".

I think it was on American Bandstand. He accidentally started to drop the mic and stopped lip-syncing a little too early at the end of the song and had to jerk the mic back up to his mouth after missing a couple words.

That's my nomination for worst pop/rock song ever, but I think the image of Travolta's performance needs to go with it to bring the full horror of it home.

And I agree about rap, in toto, being the worst current "song".

-- Bemused (and_amazed@you.people), January 30, 2001.


Does anyone here remember "Patches"? As in... "Patches, I'm depending on you son, to pull the family through. My son, it's aaaallll left up to you."

Or all those dead-teenager songs from the early 60s, like "Last Kiss"? EVERYBODY CROON ALONG:

... When I woke up the rain was pouring down. There were people standing all around. Something warm 'a runnin' in my eyes, but I found my baby somehow that night. I held her close. I kissed her our last kiss. I found the love that I knew I would miss. Now she's gone, even though I hold her tight. I lost my love, my life, that night.

Where, oh where, can my baby be? The Lord took her away from me. She's gone to heaven so I got to be good, so I can see my baby when I leave this'a world.

-- Mr. Poopyhead (poopyhead@eighth.grade), January 30, 2001.


I 'bout busted a gut when I'd heard Jack Webb (the old Dragnet's Sgt. Friday), way back, did a romantic, Barry White "rap" -style album!

("No way!" "Way!" "No way!" "Way!"...)

Really -- y'all gotta see this to believe it! And the album cover pic is absolutely priceless!! The lyrics aren't on this site, but maybe somebody can find them. I'd LOVE to see 'em.

Jack Webb's "You're My Girl"

-- eve (eve_rebekah@yahoo.com), January 30, 2001.


Ah, but for the truly bizarre, one need only click here.

-- how low can you go? (PatriciaS@lasvegas.com), January 30, 2001.


Bongo, bongo, I don't want to leave the Congo, no no no no no no

Bingle, bangle, bungle, I don't want to leave the jungle, I refuse to go.

-- Lars (larsguy@yahoo.com), January 30, 2001.


The Witch Doctor Song

I told the witch doctor I was in love with you.

I told the witch doctor, you didn't love me true.

I told the witch doctor, he told me what to do.

He said: oo ee oo ah ah ting tang walla walla bing bang, oo ee oo ah ah ting tang walla walla bing bang.

I told the witch doctor you didn't love me good.

I told the witch doctor you didn't love me nice.

I told the witch doctor, he gave me this advice.

He said: oo ee oo ah ah ting tang walla walla bing bang, oo ee oo ah ah ting tang walla walla bing bang.

Henry the Eighth

I'm Hen-er-ee the Eighth, I am.

Hen-er-ee the Eighth, I am, I am.

I got married to the widow next door.

She's been married seven times before.

And every one was a Hen-er-ee.

She wouldn't have a Willy or a Sam.

I'm her eighth old man, I'm Hen-er-ee.

Hen-er-ee the Eighth, I am.

(Second verse, same as the first.)

-- Little Nipper (canis@minor.com), January 30, 2001.


(But for pure "camp", does anything beat The Chipmunk's version of The Witch Doctor?)

-- "ALVIN!!!!!!!!!!!" (PatriciaS@lasvegas.com), January 30, 2001.


pop, not rock, but definitely baaaaad---

Connie Francis--"Where the Boys Are"

extra credit---where was that?

-- Lars (larsguy@yahoo.com), January 30, 2001.


Three Words:

Bay City Rollers

-- Rich (howe9@shentel.net), January 30, 2001.


This is too funny! I'm going to be humming these songs all day long.

Rich, sorry should have finished that. Maria, yeah a nice Jewish name. No I'm Italian, first generation, both parents born in Italy, names are on Elis Island :)

oo ee oo ah ah ting tang walla walla bing bang

-- Maria (anon@ymous.com), January 30, 2001.


Where the boy were was Ft Lauderdale, easy one.

-- Uncle Deedah (unkeed@yahoo.com), January 30, 2001.

Oh, and let us not forget "The Night Chicago Died" and "Signs" (Signs, signs, everywhere are signs....)

-- Unreel (cometo@tention.net), January 30, 2001.

Ciao! Maria meet Patricia, Patricia meet Maria.

-- Lorenzo (lorenzoguy@yahoo.com), January 30, 2001.

Peter, you want to honor Old Time Rock and Roll for excellence? I wouldn't say it is a bad song, but it has to be the all-time over exposed song (at least on our local classic rock station).


-- Dr. Pibb (dr.pibb@zdnetonebox.com), January 30, 2001.

More execrable blasts from my past (and maybe from yours):

"...Do not worry. I will not harm you. I seek the bright elusive butterfly of love..."

"... as my love and I sing our early morning singing song: glitty glop glooby, nitty abba newby, la lee la la low, doobie alla walla, nitty abba sabba ..."

"... The world's a nicer place in my beautiful balloon. It wears a nicer face in my beautiful balloon... "

"... I'd like to build the world a home and furnish it with love. Grow apple trees and honey bees and snow white turtle doves... "

"... Take a letter, Maria. Address it to my wife. Give a copy to my lawyer. Gotta start a new life... "

"... oh, Ru-uby, don't take your love to town... "

-- Miserable SOB (misery@misery.com), January 30, 2001.


Green Tambourine

For something so bad it's good - I'd turn to a song by The Ramones, The Cramps, James White & The Blacks, or 'Frankenstein' by Edgar Winter.

-- flora (***@__._), January 30, 2001.


All this talk of music makes for an achey breaky heart...

-- Billy Joe Cyrus (at ackey bre@ky.heart), January 30, 2001.

And now... ALL the words to:

In a gadda da vida, by the Iron Butterfly

In a gadda da vida, baby
In a gadda da vida, honey
Don't you know that I'm lovin' you

Oh, won't you come with me
And take my hand
Oh, won't you come with me
And walk this land
Please take my hand

In a gadda da vida, honey
Don't you know that I'm lovin' you
In a gadda da vida, baby
Don't you know that I'll always be true

Oh, won't you come with me
And take my hand
Oh, won't you come with me
And walk this land
Please take my hand

In a gadda da vida, honey
Don't you know that I'm lovin' you
In a gadda da vida, baby
Don't you know that I'll always be true

Oh, won't you come with me
And take my hand
Oh, won't you come with me
And walk this land
Please take my hand

In a gadda da vida, baby
In a gadda da vida, honey
Don't you know that I'm lovin' you

Oh, won't you come with me
And take my hand
Oh, won't you come with me
And walk this land
Please take my hand



-- Nothing but the best (iron@butterfly.hits), January 30, 2001.

I guess that I'm the only one who dislikes "Stairway to Heaven." My brother had a garage band, and like many home bands of that era, they decided to learn that tune and "Smoke on the Water," which is harder to ruin but can still sound pretty bad when done by no talent teens. I have bad memories of the headaches I had trying to do my math homework while my brother and his buds were practicing, which return whenever I hear either song today.

-- kb (kb8um8@yahoo.com), January 30, 2001.

"Don't Worry, Be Happy".......Bobby McFerrin

-- (larsguy@yahoo.comLars), January 30, 2001.

Then there is Lars Mars at Recording Dwarf Studios.

Lars

Best Wishes,,,,,

Z

-- Z1X4Y7 (Z1X4Y7@aol.com), January 30, 2001.


Z--

Several weeks ago someone posted something about Lars being the satanic presence in the 7th circle of Hell. And now this! I'm going to change my name to Gomer.

-- Lars (larsguy@yahoo.com), January 31, 2001.


Hey Gomer-

Welcome back to Mayberry, the safe little hometown, where you can be yourself and be safe and loved for who you are!

-- Aunt Bee (Aunt__Bee@hotmail.com), January 31, 2001.


Worst rock song: "D.O.A." by Bloodrock

Worst pop song: "Run Joey Run" by David Geddes

Worst rock group: Vanilla Fudge (bombastic late '60s group)

-- The (hall@of.shame), January 31, 2001.


Aunt Bee--

Can Opie come out to play?

-- Gomer (Gomerguy@yahoo.com), January 31, 2001.


If somebody is going to nominate 'Stairway to Heaven,' the most radio requested song of all time, then I'm gonna dare to nominate the second most: Free Bird.

-- scarecrow (somewhere@over.rainbow), January 31, 2001.

(Some sort of acid trip?)

Spill The Wine

Eric Burdon & The War

Spill the wine and take that pearl, Spill the wine and take that pearl

Spill the wine and take that pearl, Spill the wine and take that pearl

I was once out strolling one very hot summer's day

When I thought I'd lay myself down to rest

in a big field of tall grass

I lay there in the sun and felt it caressing my face

And I fell asleep and dreamed

I dreamed I was in a Hollywood movie

And that I was the star of the movie

This really blew my mind, the fact that me,

an overfed, long-haired leaping gnome

should be the star of a Hollywood movie

But there I was, I was taken to a place, the hall of the mountain kings

I stood high upon a mountain top, naked to the world

In front of every kind of girl, there was

black ones, round ones, big ones, crazy ones...

Out of the middle came a lady

She whispered in my ear something crazy

She said:

Spill the wine and take that pearl, Spill the wine and take that pearl

Spill the wine and take that pearl, Spill the wine and take that pearl

(spoken:)

I thought to myself what could that mean

Am I going crazy or is this just a dream

Now, wait a minute

I know I'm lying in a field of grass somewhere

so it's all in my head

and then.. I heard her say one more time:

(sung:)

Spill the wine and take that pearl, Spill the wine and take that pearl

Spill the wine and take that pearl, Spill the wine and take that pearl

(spoken:)

I could feel hot flames of fire roaring at my back

As she disappeared, but soon she returned

In her hand was a bottle of wine, in the other, a glass

She poured some of the wine from the bottle into the glass

And raised it to her lips

And just before she drank it, she said:

(sung:)

Spill the wine and take that pearl, Spill the wine and take that pearl

Spill the wine and take that pearl, Spill the wine and take that pearl

-- Peg (pegmcleod@mediaone.net), January 31, 2001.


"Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds" by William Shatner

Huh?????

I vote for these two:

"Achy Breaky Heart" by Billy Ray Cyrus

and

"Muskrat Love" by Captain & Tennille

Oh, and does anybody know if "Dr. Demento" is still around? He could always find the worst songs.

-- Buddy (buddydc@go.com), January 31, 2001.


Except, Buddy, those songs that Dr. Demento would air were so bad they were good.

"Pencil-Necked Geeks"; "Fish Heads"; and his was the only show that would air "They're Coming to Take Me Away" (it was banned on virtually every radio station).

-- to the happy home where life is beautiful all the time..... (PatriciaS@lasvegas.com), January 31, 2001.


And....I;ll be happy to see those men in the funny white coats and...

there coming to take me away he he hoo hoo to the funny farm.......

And let us not forget "THE STREAK"....

oh my.

-- sumer (shh@aol.con), January 31, 2001.


sumer,

for my birthday one year, my brother bought one of those K-Tell collections for me. It was called "goofy Greats," or something like that and contained that song you mentioned. I went looking for tape this morning, but I don't see it in my collection.

I also heard "Rocking Robin" this morning on my walk over to get a paper. That reminded me how much I hated the Jackson Five. One of the best things to happen to music was for Michael Jackson's (and Donny Osmond's!) voices to change.

-- kb (kb8um8@yahoo.com), January 31, 2001.


Hello mudda...

Hello fadda...

Here I am at.. Camp Granada...

Oh, the memories..LOL!

-- Peg (pegmcleod@mediaone.net), January 31, 2001.


Hahaha!

I found Dr. Demento over at amazon.com!

Dr. Demento



-- Buddy (buddydc@go.com), January 31, 2001.


LOL!

Songs on Dr. Demento's 30th Anniv. CD

Disk: 1

1. Daffy Duck's Rhapsody - Mel Blanc 2. Yoda - "Weird Al" Yankovic 3. Elements, The - Tom Lehrer 4. Deteriorata - National Lampoon 5. Charlie Brown - The Coasters 6. Dungeons And Dragons - The Dead Alewives 7. Eskimo - Corky & The Juice Pigs 8. Ballad Of Bilbo Baggins, The - Leonard Nimoy 9. Kill The Wabbit - Ozzy Fudd 10. Stress - Jim's Big Ego 11. On The Shoulders Of Freaks - Henry Phillips 12. Bras On 45 (Family Version) - Ivor Biggun & The D. Kups 13. Polka Dot Undies - Bowser & Blue 14. Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini - Brian Hyland 15. Thing, The - Phil Harris 16. Or A Day At The Beach With Pedro & Man, (How I Spent My Summer Vacation) Part 1 - Cheech & Chong 17. Biggest Ball Of Twine In Minnesota, The - "Weird Al" Yankovic 18. My Ding-A-Ling - Chuck Berry (single version) 19. It's A Gas - Alfred E. Neuman 20. I Want My Baby Back - Jimmy Cross 21. Last Will And Temperment - The Frantics

Disc: 2 1. I'm The Urban Spaceman - Bonzo Dog Band 2. Bulbous Bouffant - The Vestibules 3. Another One Rides The Bus - "Weird Al" Yankovic 4. Hamster Love - Big Daddy 5. Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport - Rolf Harris 6. Tennesse Bird Walk - Jack Blanchard/Misty Morgan 7. Dead Skunk - Loudon Wainwright III 8. You Were Speeding - The Frantics 9. I Hate When That Happens - Billy Crystal 10. Lumberjack Song - Monty Python 11. Carrot Juice Is Murder - The Arrogant Worms 12. Little Blue Man, The - Betty Johnson 13. I'd Rather Have A Bottle In Front Of Me (Than A Frontal Labotomy) - Randy Hanzlick, M.D. (Dr. Rock) 14. Comin' Back For More - C.W. McCall 15. Smoke Two Joints - The Toyes 16. Ice Box Man - George Carlin 17. Telephone Man - Meri Wilson 18. Rock And Roll Doctor - Travesty, Ltd. 19. Everything Reminds Me Of My Therapist - Nancy Tucker 20. Downtown - Mrs. Miller 21. Let's All Get Demented - Ivor Biggun

-- Buddy (buddydc@go.com), January 31, 2001.


Cool Beans! Thanks Buddy. I didn't know this was a song:

I'd Rather Have A Bottle In Front Of Me (Than A Frontal Labotomy) - Randy Hanzlick, M.D. Has anyone heard it?

-- kb (kb8um8@yahoo.com), January 31, 2001.


kb:

"for my birthday one year, my brother bought one of those K-Tell collections for me. It was called "goofy Greats," or something like that and contained that song you mentioned...."

Yes! I had Goofy Greats. In fact, it was the first album I ever owned. It was my introduction to Rock & Roll (Yummy, yummy, yummy, Green Tamborine, Rockin' Robin, Mule Skinner Blues, all the greats.)

I don't have it anymore either, but I do still have my orig copy of "Moster Mash" (KTEL rules.)

-- Bemused (and_amazed@you.people), January 31, 2001.


"Moster Mash" (KTEL rules.)

hee hee tell me you do mean moNster mash, um, right?

-- SUMER (shh@ao.con), January 31, 2001.


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