# 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:** 3
**Author:** ![BDS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3e96dc/32.png) [@BDS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BDS)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2003, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-time-cheesiest-songs/196781/41 "2003-08-22T17:52:39Z")
From Broadway: “We’ve had a Real Nice Clambake” by Rogers and Hammerstein, from Carousel contains the inimitable lines: “The vittles we et were good, you bet! The company was the same.” Of course the same authors produced “I am sixteen, going on seventeen” in Sound of Music. ---
**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 22, 2003, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-time-cheesiest-songs/196781/42 "2003-08-22T17:54:33Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by PoorYorick \* > **Anything by David Gates and Bread.** Ah, bread and cheese! ---
**Author:** ![Threadkiller](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/aca169/32.png) [@Threadkiller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Threadkiller)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2003, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-time-cheesiest-songs/196781/43 "2003-08-22T18:14:51Z")
The name of the song escapes me as does the “artist”. It was sometime late 70’s early 80’s. The storyline of the song had some ditzy female getting phone installed all over in her house by the telephone guy she was trying to hit on. It contained the momorable line: “Hey baby baby I’m the telephone line” ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2003, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-time-cheesiest-songs/196781/44 "2003-08-22T18:22:48Z")
Mac Arthur Park Undercover Angel–Alan O’Day ---
**Author:** ![Delly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/85f322/32.png) [@Delly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Delly)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2003, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-time-cheesiest-songs/196781/45 "2003-08-22T18:30:59Z")
Any of those holiday songs, Macarena, Las kethcup, Cheeky Girls and so on etc. ---
**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 22, 2003, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-time-cheesiest-songs/196781/46 "2003-08-22T18:35:34Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Threadkiller \* > \*\*The name of the song escapes me as does the “artist”. It was sometime late 70’s early 80’s. The storyline of the song had some ditzy female getting phone installed all over in her house by the telephone guy she was trying to hit on. It contained the momorable line: > > “Hey baby baby I’m the telephone line” \*\* “Telephone Man” by Meri Wilson. Lyrics here. ---
**Author:** ![boobah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/46a35a/32.png) [@boobah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/boobah)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2003, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-time-cheesiest-songs/196781/47 "2003-08-22T18:36:08Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Threadkiller \* > \*\*The name of the song escapes me as does the “artist”. It was sometime late 70’s early 80’s. The storyline of the song had some ditzy female getting phone installed all over in her house by the telephone guy she was trying to hit on. It contained the momorable line: > > “Hey baby baby I’m the telephone line” \*\* That’s [Telephone Man](http://www.legendrecords.com/Meri%20Wilson%20-%20Telephone%20man.mp3) by Meri Wilson, from 1977. A Dr. Demento favorite! ---
**Author:** ![boobah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/46a35a/32.png) [@boobah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/boobah)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2003, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-time-cheesiest-songs/196781/48 "2003-08-22T18:38:14Z")
ah shoot. simulpost ---
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2003, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-time-cheesiest-songs/196781/49 "2003-08-22T18:45:11Z")
I win… _“Delta Dawn what’s that flower you have on? Could it be a faded rose from days gone byyyyyy?..”_ Please don’t stone me. ---
**Author:** ![Mehitabel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8797f3/32.png) [@Mehitabel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mehitabel)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2003, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-time-cheesiest-songs/196781/50 "2003-08-22T19:24:16Z")
“It caayn’t be wrong When it feeeeels so right! 'Cause you…you light up ma-aaa-aaaah Liiiiiiife!” I can’t have been the first person to think of “You Light Up My Life”. I just can’t. My whole view of the board is shifting. Oh yeah, we sang a gelded version of “Looks Like We Made It” at my 8th-grade graduation. Quel frommage. ---
**Author:** ![Iteki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/eada6e/32.png) [@Iteki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Iteki)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2003, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-time-cheesiest-songs/196781/51 "2003-08-22T20:20:22Z")
How could I have forgotten to mention “Somone left a cake out in the rain” ? ---
**Author:** ![blowero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/41988e/32.png) [@blowero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blowero)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2003, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-time-cheesiest-songs/196781/52 "2003-08-22T20:56:08Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by CarnalK \* > Aack! I cannot let Timbuk3 being in the same post as the Village People go by uncommented. If you listen to any of their other music you would know “Gotta wear shades” was meant to be tongue in cheek. And the Village People _aren’t_ tongue-in-cheek?😕 My nominations: _Three Times a Lady_ - Lionel Richie _I Believe I Can Fly_ _Pretty Woman_ - Roy Orbison _Babe_ - Styx ---
**Author:** ![Purd\_Werfect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e47c2d/32.png) [@Purd\_Werfect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Purd_Werfect)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2003, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-time-cheesiest-songs/196781/53 "2003-08-22T22:42:06Z")
Gonna Kiss You All Over by Exile was both cheesy and slimy. But the smarmiest and cheesiest song of all time is Midnight At The Oasis. ---
**Author:** ![bleach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bleach/32/3106_2.png) [@bleach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bleach)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2003, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-time-cheesiest-songs/196781/54 "2003-08-22T22:57:30Z")
The lyrics for Milli Vanilli’s “Girl You Know It’s True” are incredibly cheesy. E.g., > [@](#): > > To make you all mine, all mine is my desire. > 'Cause you contain a quality that I admire. and > [@](#): > > These feelings I get I often wonder why, > so I thought I might discuss this, girl, just you and I. ---
**Author:** ![Pashnish\_Ewing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8797f3/32.png) [@Pashnish\_Ewing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pashnish_Ewing)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2003, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-time-cheesiest-songs/196781/55 "2003-08-22T23:00:20Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by blowero \* > **And the Village People _aren’t_ tongue-in-cheek?😕** Ewwwwww :eek: My vote goes to **Corey Hart** and “Sunglasses at Night.” ---
**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 22, 2003, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-time-cheesiest-songs/196781/56 "2003-08-22T23:02:02Z")
Well **blowero** I guess it’s just that Village People were _all_ tongue in cheek. A little defensive that one of my fav bands is only remembered for that one goofy song. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![kevja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/aeb1de/32.png) [@kevja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kevja)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2003, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-time-cheesiest-songs/196781/57 "2003-08-22T23:47:59Z")
“Feelings” “Shannon” (the dead dog song) “Lady” (all of them Kenny Rogers, Styx, etc.) ---
**Author:** ![Anniee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c77e96/32.png) [@Anniee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anniee)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2003, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-time-cheesiest-songs/196781/58 "2003-08-22T23:57:12Z")
Stand by Your Man. But I still love it. In fact there are a lot of songs in this thread that are quite good. I can’t believe someone has a problem with I Surrender by Rainbow. ---
**Author:** ![graceland](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ec9cab/32.png) [@graceland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/graceland)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2003, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-time-cheesiest-songs/196781/59 "2003-08-23T01:45:07Z")
“Windy” Association “Popcorn” Hot Butter (cheesy and slimy, too) ---
**Author:** ![Stage\_Manager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stage_manager/32/7267_2.png) [@Stage\_Manager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stage_Manager)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2003, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-time-cheesiest-songs/196781/60 "2003-08-23T02:09:55Z")
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