I must second McG-of-H's nomination of "My Ding-A-Ling." As a number that is truly and embarrassingly awful, and at the same time completely atypical of an otherwise authentic artist, it exemplifies what I understand to be the criteria for this award.

Those who piped in with "any song by so-and-so" or "anybody's rendition of such-and-such a song" seem to me to have missed the point completely.

Not that their posts have not been interesting and entertaining. I, for one, enjoyed being reminded of how much I've always been irritated by John Baez's versions of just about anything contemporary. "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down" is indeed the worst of a bad lot.

Sorry (well, really, glad) never to have heard the Natalie McMaster number described a few minutes ago by Willie-O. I'm not one to use the overworked expression "puh-leeze" very often, but this travesty sounds like a proper context for that nice elongated "PUUUUUUUULLLLLLLLLLLEEEEEEEEAAAAAASSSSSSEEEEEEEE!!!!! "