# All time cheesiest songs... **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 21, 2003, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-time-cheesiest-songs/196781 "2003-08-21T21:47:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![BabaBooey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/dfb087/32.png) [@BabaBooey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BabaBooey)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2003, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-time-cheesiest-songs/196781/1 "2003-08-21T21:47:43Z")
Making a list of cheesiest songs, obviously the 80’s being the biggest contributer (especially soundtacks). My best example would be “You’re the Best Around”, of Karate Kid fame. Any other suggestions? ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2003, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-time-cheesiest-songs/196781/2 "2003-08-21T22:25:51Z")
Billy, Don’t Be A Hero ---
**Author:** ![boobah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/46a35a/32.png) [@boobah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/boobah)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2003, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-time-cheesiest-songs/196781/3 "2003-08-21T22:33:34Z")
Copacabana Pina Colada Song ---
**Author:** ![Bruce\_Daddy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/85f322/32.png) [@Bruce\_Daddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bruce_Daddy)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2003, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-time-cheesiest-songs/196781/4 "2003-08-21T22:39:29Z")
_I wanna hold you 'till I die_ **Dan Hill** Sorry to end the game so soon. ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2003, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-time-cheesiest-songs/196781/5 "2003-08-21T22:48:15Z")
Murray Head: **Cheeses Christ Superstar** Spanky & our Gang: **Give Edam** Jefferson Airplane: **White Rarebit** 1910 Fruitgum Company: **Gouda Gouda Gumdrops** Rascals: **People Got to Be Brie** Carly Simon: **Nobody Does It Cheddar** ---
**Author:** ![Dryga\_Yes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/838e76/32.png) [@Dryga\_Yes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dryga_Yes)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2003, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-time-cheesiest-songs/196781/6 "2003-08-21T23:06:27Z")
Ninja Rap. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2003, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-time-cheesiest-songs/196781/7 "2003-08-21T23:10:57Z")
“Dizzy”, Tommy Roe “Honey”, Bobby Goldsboro “Yummy, Yummy, Yummy”, by somebody who should have been shot first Anything by Britney Spears Anything by Madonna ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2003, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-time-cheesiest-songs/196781/8 "2003-08-21T23:19:57Z")
While also being the decade of the Beatles, Dylan, Motown, etc., the 1960’s also had its share of cheesy pop songs: “Honey” “The Elusive Butterfly” “Love is Blue” “Sugar, Sugar” “Sugar Shack” “Ballad of the Green Berets” That’s all I can think of right now. ---
**Author:** ![CarnalK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnalk/32/486_2.png) [@CarnalK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CarnalK)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2003, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-time-cheesiest-songs/196781/9 "2003-08-21T23:27:06Z")
Got you beat **Bruce\_Daddy** -\> “Time in a bottle”-Jim Croce And noone said “Seasons in the Sun” yet? Or are you going for the “trying to be cool” cheesy? ---
**Author:** ![PoorYorick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecccb3/32.png) [@PoorYorick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PoorYorick)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2003, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-time-cheesiest-songs/196781/10 "2003-08-21T23:28:36Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Biffy the Elephant Shrew \* > \*\*Murray Head: **Cheeses Christ Superstar** > Spanky & our Gang: **Give Edam** > Jefferson Airplane: **White Rarebit** > 1910 Fruitgum Company: **Gouda Gouda Gumdrops** > Rascals: **People Got to Be Brie** > Carly Simon: **Nobody Does It Cheddar** \*\* Jeez! I was reading the third line before I thought, “Hey, wait a minute. It was called _White_ Rabbit ! . . . Hold it . . . hmmm . . . wait . . . it’s a play on _cheeses_.” It takes me a while, but I get there. By the way, **Biffy** , that was hilarious. ---
**Author:** ![penny\_dreadful](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/71c47a/32.png) [@penny\_dreadful](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/penny_dreadful)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2003, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-time-cheesiest-songs/196781/11 "2003-08-21T23:33:34Z")
Don’t forget “Oh What a Friend We Have in Cheeses”… ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2003, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-time-cheesiest-songs/196781/12 "2003-08-22T00:03:16Z")
**The Night Chicago Died** , by _Paper Lace_ ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2003, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-time-cheesiest-songs/196781/13 "2003-08-22T00:20:05Z")
Afternoon Delight ---
**Author:** ![threeorange](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@threeorange](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/threeorange)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2003, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-time-cheesiest-songs/196781/14 "2003-08-22T02:01:51Z")
Does anyone besides me have nightmares of being forced to listen to “Run, Joey, Run”? ---
**Author:** ![dnooman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/839c29/32.png) [@dnooman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dnooman)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2003, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-time-cheesiest-songs/196781/15 "2003-08-22T02:09:39Z")
Footloose. Good lord Kenny Loggins, what happened to the Danger Zone? ---
**Author:** ![Baggins111](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9fc29f/32.png) [@Baggins111](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baggins111)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2003, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-time-cheesiest-songs/196781/16 "2003-08-22T02:27:35Z")
Sweet Jeebus, I just had a flashback to growing up in the 70’s / 80’s. Skyrockets in flight - afternoon delight… Aaaa-a-aaa-fternoon de-lie-a-yight!!! Actaully, my vote goes for Rainbow Connection by the great ol’ “Hi Ho, I’m Kermit the Frog” in the Muppet Movie. Then I heard The Red Headed Stranger (Willie Nelson) sing it and I changed my my mind. Ok, I really liked it from the Kermit version, but it is kind of cheesy. ---
**Author:** ![Freiheit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e8c25b/32.png) [@Freiheit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freiheit)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2003, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-time-cheesiest-songs/196781/17 "2003-08-22T03:08:58Z")
“The Ultimately Cheezy as can be Song.” ---
**Author:** ![Annie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/858c86/32.png) [@Annie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2003, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-time-cheesiest-songs/196781/18 "2003-08-22T03:12:10Z")
One Tin Soilder ---
**Author:** ![Manduck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manduck/32/256_2.png) [@Manduck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Manduck)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2003, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-time-cheesiest-songs/196781/19 "2003-08-22T03:34:11Z")
Didn’t we just have this thread last month? My vote still goes to _The Night Chicago Died_. ---
**Author:** ![syncrolecyne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f08c70/32.png) [@syncrolecyne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/syncrolecyne)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2003, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-time-cheesiest-songs/196781/20 "2003-08-22T03:53:43Z")
18 posts and not one mention of Ray Stevens? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-time-cheesiest-songs/196781.md?page=2)