I read the thing about "Seasons' being the biggest seller (in some way or another) a number of times, so I think it may be valid...but it might have referred to a "45" (anyone remember them?) But this is one bit of trivia that I'm NEVER going to look into.

Mbo, Folks have a funny way of judging whether a song is "great" or "totally awful". Usually it's based on the "sentimentality" quotient. During the 18 years I spent playing in bars, I got to know first hand which songs musicians generally loathed more than any others. If I were to list a few in order, they'd be:

Feelings

Honey

Tie A Yellow Ribbon...

You Light Up My Life

Windmills Of My Mind

Seasons in The Sun

Where Do You Go To My Lovely

Stairway To Heaven

Green Green Grass of Home

Sometimes When We Touch

Achy Breaky Heart

There are quite a few others, but those would certainly be in the top twenty. What they all have in common is that they were HUGELY popular, and nary a night would go by without bands or solo singers getting multiple requests for most of them. Strikes me as they are all well-written musically, but just became so overdone because of their popularity, that they passed from musicians' "Take it or leave it" lists, to the "Gawwwwd! I hate that," list.

Rick