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Thread #11943   Message #91828
Posted By: Rick Fielding
02-Jul-99 - 07:28 PM
Thread Name: Worst Song by a Respectable Artist
Subject: RE: Worst Song by a Respectable Artist
I guess to make this count, I have to pick an artist I truly admire, so I'd have to say that some (not all) of the very political stuff that Ewan MacColl wrote and sang during the Vietnam war qualified. And many years back in his Famous song "Manchester Rambler", he outdid himself with "married a maid, a spot welder by trade". Not to mention rhyming "grouse", with "louse". This was NOT a man who would have married a factory girl. (though according to his autobiography he slept with a ton of them) Actresses, and the delectable (and politically important) Peggy Seeger were more his style.