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Thread #93569   Message #1803269
Posted By: Scrump
07-Aug-06 - 04:53 AM
Thread Name: Melodramatic Songs: Past, Present, & ..
Subject: RE: Melodramatic Songs: Past, Present, & ..
Brings back memories, not all good ;-)

How about Dead Man's Curve by Jan & Dean? Don't think anyone's mentioned that.

There was a great compilation LP issued in the UK in the 1970s, called the World's Worst Records, associated with a radio show hosted by the late and fondly remembered DJ Kenny Everett, where he invited people to nominate the worst records, and the LP was supposed to be the ones voted worst. Some of them were about death and destruction, others were just terrible performances. The LP was issued on a horrible coloured vinyl, meant to represent vomit (IIRC). Anyway, there were some classic bad tracks on it, but I admit I actually liked some of them :)

I just found this site that has playlists for the KE shows (hope it works): blue clicky (if not the url is http://www.chronoglide.com/wwwshome.html)

One weird one I never quite understood was Laurie by Dickie (or Dickey?) Lee, seemingly about a guy lending his sweater to a girl who turned out to have died a year before (a ghost maybe? I never did understand the lyrics, although I liked the tune).

Others on the LP included Transfusion by Nervous Norvus, Drunken Driver by Ferlin Husky (about a guy who ran over his own kids while drunk), and a couple of tracks by Jess Conrad.