what's the worst song you ever heard?3

Subject: RE: what's the worst song you ever heard?3
From: GUEST,Dave
Date: 05 Apr 16 - 06:39 AM

I can distinctly recall, though its a long time ago, hearing Little Boxes for the first time on the radio on the school bus, driving through Hatfield. It seemed very apposite at the time (though at the time I probably would not have known what apposite mean't). Reading the lyrics again, I think it has stood the test of time.

Subject: RE: what's the worst song you ever heard?3
From: Paul Reade
Date: 05 Apr 16 - 08:58 AM

I think Engelbert Humperdinck's Lesbian Seagull takes some beating!!

Subject: RE: what's the worst song you ever heard?3
From: GUEST,Rodge
Date: 05 Apr 16 - 10:28 AM

Walking in the air
Jerusalem

Subject: RE: what's the worst song you ever heard?3
From: GUEST,DT
Date: 05 Apr 16 - 08:42 PM

[From: Paul Reade - I think Engelbert Humperdinck's Lesbian Seagull takes some beating!!]

We have a winner! :-)
Holy moley, how the average have fallen. Shame on you, Hump.

Subject: RE: what's the worst song you ever heard?3
From: LadyJean
Date: 05 Apr 16 - 08:44 PM

"Honey" came out the summer my grandmother died of cancer. I was 13, and got to experience a fair amount of the horror. I have, since then, avoided anything that made terminal illness sound romantic. The Smothers Brothers did a beautiful send up of "Honey" on their TV show.

Subject: RE: what's the worst song you ever heard?3
From: Little Hawk
Date: 05 Apr 16 - 11:26 PM

Thanks AGAIN to this classic thread for so many great laughs and hideous reminders of truly dreadful songs!

Subject: RE: what's the worst song you ever heard?3
From: GUEST,Dave Illingworth
Date: 06 Apr 16 - 03:31 AM

Bohemian Rhapsody

Subject: RE: what's the worst song you ever heard?3
From: GUEST,Rodge
Date: 06 Apr 16 - 03:45 AM

Any Neil Young whinefest

Subject: RE: what's the worst song you ever heard?3
From: BobL
Date: 06 Apr 16 - 03:52 AM

Agree with LadyJean - Honey. Treacle, more like.

Subject: RE: what's the worst song you ever heard?3
From: GUEST,Mike Rogers
Date: 06 Apr 16 - 06:08 AM

From the early 1950s, a ghastly song called Twenty Tiny Fingers, the chorus of which is
Twenty tiny fingers, twenty tiny toes,
Two angel faces, each with a turned up nose.
One looks like mommy, with a cute little curl on top,
And the other one's got a big bald spot, exactly like his pop.

The verses are too sickly to print.

I also support Bohemian Rhapsody, which for some inexplicable reason keeps getting voted Best Song Ever, and Jerusalem, now hi-jacked by England's cricketers as their pre-Test anthem.

Subject: RE: what's the worst song you ever heard?3
From: Vic Smith
Date: 06 Apr 16 - 07:55 AM

I want to make a strong case for the 1962 hit song West Of The Wall written by Wayne Shanklin and recorded by his wife Toni Fisher. It has every quality that you would expect from a truly awful song and performance:-

* It has deplorably trite lyrics with an appallingly simplified political message that bears no relation to or understanding of the actual facts of the situation at the time.
* It has a simple but irritating tune that stays with you despite it being drivel.
* The singer uses a sickly, sentimental voice that brings thoughts of strangulation; it would seem to have no relevance to the subject of the song
* The strummy accompaniment is puerile even by the low standards of the pop music of 1962.
* The middle eight sung by a male chorus is of a lower standard than the rest of the performance - just when you think that such a thing was not possible.

It is possible to listen to this on Youtube by clicking here but please do not do anything rash or hasty after listening. Please contact me by PM and I will reply with your local Suicide Prevention Lifelines.

Subject: RE: what's the worst song you ever heard?3
From: JHW
Date: 06 Apr 16 - 10:27 AM

I don't know. Brain has thankfully erased all but the memory of the occasion. Somewhere off to the right of the road to the Lake District (West of the M6) there was a Folk Club in an upstairs room.
For the only time in dozens of years of folk clubs I absolutely couldn't stand any more and WALKED OUT AND DOWN THE STAIRS IN THE MIDDLE OF THE SONG and have never been back

Subject: RE: what's the worst song you ever heard?3
From: The Sandman
Date: 06 Apr 16 - 02:13 PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Us8esS0I4Bk

Subject: RE: what's the worst song you ever heard?3
From: Vic Smith
Date: 06 Apr 16 - 02:41 PM

Well, it must be said that the link posted above by Dick Miles and sung (mumbled?) by his namesake is truly awful.

It must be a strong contender.

Subject: RE: what's the worst song you ever heard?3
From: Little Hawk
Date: 06 Apr 16 - 07:14 PM

I just listened to "West of the Wall", Vic. Wow. Pretty awful, alright. I only got part way through it, though. I bailed out shortly after the men's chorus part ended. And, yes...that part IS even worse than the rest of the song, and that is quite an accomplishment!

Subject: RE: what's the worst song you ever heard?3
From: LadyJean
Date: 06 Apr 16 - 09:33 PM

I once heard "Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini" sung in Chinese. It was an experience.

Subject: RE: what's the worst song you ever heard?3
From: Bugsy
Date: 06 Apr 16 - 10:06 PM

Tie a Bloody Yellow Shaggin Ribbon Round the Poxin Old Bastard Oak Tree.

Makes me want to vomit.

Cheers

Bugsy

Subject: RE: what's the worst song you ever heard?3
From: Little Hawk
Date: 07 Apr 16 - 12:17 AM

How do you feel about "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on my Head"?

Or "Copacabana"?

Subject: RE: what's the worst song you ever heard?3
From: GUEST
Date: 07 Apr 16 - 12:46 AM

I also support Bohemian Rhapsody, which for some inexplicable reason keeps getting voted Best Song Ever, and Jerusalem, now hi-jacked by England's cricketers as their pre-Test anthem.

BR is a funny one to me. At the time, I thought it brilliant but theses days I'm more inclined to think it goes a bit up it's own backside with pretentiousness. Changing tastes eh?

I've never understood the appeal of Jerusalem. I dislike it and cringe when it is used as a sporting anthem. This by contrast I think makes a good one Maybe one day England will find an anthem I like..

Vic, where on earth did you find that? I stopped before the "male choir". I'd heard enough.

Subject: RE: what's the worst song you ever heard?3
From: GUEST
Date: 07 Apr 16 - 02:56 AM

As far as bad songs go I think this takes some beating by Sonseed "Jesus Is My Friend"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-NOZU2iPA8

Subject: RE: what's the worst song you ever heard?3
From: Vic Smith
Date: 07 Apr 16 - 08:29 AM

Vic, where on earth did you find that?

It has been in a part of my brain since 1962. I hated it then and the hatred has not diminished in the intervening 54 years.

Subject: RE: what's the worst song you ever heard?3
From: keberoxu
Date: 20 May 16 - 03:28 PM

No one has submitted the tune immortalized (?) by Mabel Mercer. She had to sing it; she was in Paris singing at Bricktop's, and two English society gentlemen wrote it for her -- they had deep pockets, the customer is always right, and so on. But it became a standing joke, this song, between her and Cole Porter who was writing truly great songs for her....he got sick of hearing her asked to sing this other song just one more time.

written by Austin C Johnson and Clarence Moore

Thank you for the flowers, my favorite roses too
The moment that I saw them, I knew it came from you
Thank you for this evening, for those happy hours
That we spent together, thank you for the flowers

I shall remember this evening for you've been sweet to me
'Twas heaven on earth to have you here alone with me
Just one more chance to say thank you before we say goodnight
I thought that you'd remember, but
I didn't expect the roses, such roses

Roses of this evening are sure to fade away
But their memory will linger on
When the roses of yesterday are gone

Thank you for those kisses, for that last dance of ours
I'm really very grateful so thank you for the flowers

....and the tune is just as bad.

Subject: RE: what's the worst song you ever heard?3
From: Mark Ross
Date: 20 May 16 - 04:22 PM

I was booked to play on the press run of The Freedom Train around '73.
We were assaulted by the PA blaring the official song HERE COMES THE FREEDOM TRAIN, recorded in Nashville by Porter Waggoner and the Nashville Philharmonic. I can remember part of one verse;

"George Washington was the engineer John Adams shovelled coal
And Franklin punched the tickets and Tom Paine added soul.",

and it went downhill from there.

Mark Ross

Subject: RE: what's the worst song you ever heard?3
From: kendall
Date: 06 Jul 18 - 07:47 PM

The little drummer boy. Can you picture a new mother, sleep denied having to put up with some rug rat beating a drum?

Subject: RE: what's the worst song you ever heard?3
From: GUEST,Anonymous
Date: 07 Jul 18 - 12:42 AM

My Way ( the narcissists self aggrandizing hymn)
And I Gotra Be Me ( I wish you wouldn't)
are two strong contenders in my playbook.

(True story)
But the absolute worst song I ever heard was in my freshman dorm
when a loudmouth ill mannered brat - who always introduced herself as 'Marsha from Brooklyn' - blasted it out her open windows at full volume so half the quad could hear it. Day and night , 24/7 , Marsha's doting folks must have bought her the most expensive
stereo set on the planet so she could torture her fellow freshmen with the ridiculous
and jejune:

Judy in Disguise (with glasses)

This went on for hours, days, weeks, it seemed like months. We freshmen were
in a tower, and one day, a wise young lady yelled out from her upper floor above
MFB ' hey Marsha from Brooklyn you better shut that damn thing off!'
To which Marsha, sticking her head out the window, replied
'Oh yeah!!!'
At which point, the wise lady from upper floor emptied the mop bucket ( left or borrowed from the cleaning crew) filled with filthy dirty water all down upon
Miserable Marsha's 's head.

Lmao.

Didn't hear that dreaded cacophony again all year. Buy it was too late, to this day
when I tell this story ( which is why I so rarely retell it)
I can still hear that wretched thing thumping in my head - turn it off turn it off turn it OFF!!!!!

Subject: RE: what's the worst song you ever heard?3
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 08 Jul 18 - 06:50 PM

This one, for very personal reasons:

All together now, one, two, three
Keep your mind on your driving
Keep your hands on the wheel
Keep your snoopy eyes on the road ahead
We're having fun, sitting in the backseat
Kissing and a hugging with Fred

Seven little girls in my class, when I was eight years old, decided to enact this song as their party piece in front of the class. Guess who was forced into being Fred. All those smelly little gap-toothed girls a-hugging and a-kissing me. I was never allowed to live it down. It's a recurring nightmare and I'm 67.

Subject: RE: what's the worst song you ever heard?3
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 08 Jul 18 - 06:54 PM

Mind you, Send In The Clowns, preferably sung as haltingly, theatrically and tearfully as possible, is also a bloody good contender, as is Don't Cry For Me Argentina. Jeez.

Subject: RE: what's the worst song you ever heard?3
From: frogprince
Date: 08 Jul 18 - 09:28 PM

Also way, way down there on my list: "Teddy Bear", by Red Sovine.

Subject: RE: what's the worst song you ever heard?3
From: Little Hawk
Date: 08 Jul 18 - 09:52 PM

Steve Shaw!!! I also detested that stupid song about Fred and the girls in the backseat. What a dreadful piece of dreck it was! Thanks (I think....) for the memories. At least we can agree on that even if we can't on Bob Dylan. (grin)