Jimmy Carter Says Yes! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h874BPSnbWc
The early '70s is rife with interminably ‘cute’ songs. Here’s two from 1973.
1973 Playground In My Mind - Clint Holmes “My name is Michael, I’ve got a nickel…”
1973 Daisy A Day - Jud Strunk
and let’s not forget Stay Awhile by The Bells (1971) “How he makes me quiver…”
Does the “Banana Boat Song” count as cheese?
DAAAAAY-O!
Oh, man, you just reminded me of a few that I’d rather forget:
Brand New Key - Melanie (“I’ve got a brand new pair of rollerskates, you’ve got a brand new key…”)
Jeans On (no idea who sang it, but the chorus is “I pull my blue jeans on / I pull my old blue jeans on”)
Pilot of the Airwaves - Charlie Dore
Toto - Africa
Meat Loaf - I Would Do Anything For Love (But I Won’t Do That)
Heart - These Dreams
Bryan Adams - Anything I Do (I Do it For You)
Avril Lavign - Keep Holding On
“You look Wonderful Tonight” ~ Eric Clapton and perhaps one of the most often covered cheeseball tunes of the 70’s to present
“Something” ~ The Beatles (same m.o.)
" Four Strong Winds" ~ Ian Tyson. I remember my older sister playing this song incessantly, and evidently Neil Young annoyed his fair share of folks by replaying it on a diner jukebox as many as ten times in a row. I must say his cover from his televised tour is one of the best, with a dozen acoustic guitars all strumming in unison alongside him.
“HUngry Like the Wolf” ~ Duran Duran. Your mix will not be complete without the inclusion of the “Parmigiano-Reggiano” AKA the king of cheeses
Aerosmith - “Don’t Want to Miss a Thing”
Survivor - “Eye of the Tiger” or “High on You” or “The Search Is Over” or pretty much any of their songs.
Spice Girls - “Wannabe” (or any of their songs)
Journey - “Separate Ways (Worlds Apart)”
Toto - “Rosanna” and “Won’t Hold You Back” and “Hold the Line”
Oh, man! I’ve had to take 4 lactase pills to get this far!
Lee Greenwood probably put his kids through college on that song that says, “Where at least I know I’m free.” Yeah, at least there’s that.
While we’re on patriotism, the line from Men At Work’s Land Down Under is “Where women glow (perspire) and men chunder (vomit.)”
Rocky Top is so cheesy that the Mountain Stage radio show won’t let anybody sing it.
Kenny Rogers is in the nobility of fromage, with Coward Of The County.
"Promise me, son, that you’ll bite your woman’s buns,
Wear a two-day stubble when you can.
Folks won’t think you’re queer, if you have another beer,
Damn right you got to drink to be a man.
Then there’s cheesy and charming, like Winchester Cathedral. I don’t remember who did the through-Rudy-Vallee’s-megaphone version. That was charming. When Frank Sinatra sang it, he went beyond cheesy into weird.
The Beatles did some in that vein, such as Your Mother Should Know and Honey Pie.
Let’s not forget Cream’s A Mother’s Lament.
“A muvver was washing her baby one night,
The youngest of ten, and a delicate mite,
The muvver turned 'round for the soap off the rack,
She was only a moment, but when she turned back,
'Er baby was gone, and in anguish she cried,
“Oh, where has my baby gone?” The angels replied…”
Lee Greenwood: God Bless the U.S.A.
Fishin’ in the dark - Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
Billy Ray Cyrus - Achy Breaky Heart
Bicycle Race - Queen
This is the second time I’ve seen this song mentioned on the SDMB today – it’s also in the CREEPY thread. Something about that song makes a thread hit the front page.
Anyway, I don’t think this one is mentioned:
The Warrior by Scandal
“Shooting at the walls of heartache, bang bang.” – so cheesy. Whenever I hear that song, I imagine her singing with a Rocky Balboa accent – I am duh warriuh.
But really, it’s the video with the “air keyboard” that really puts this over the top into grated cheddar territory.
Yeah.
Have you seen the “literal video” version? It’s pretty amusing.
Since you asked for “fromage,” you need some French cheese. How about…
“Dominique (a nique a nique, il s’en allait tres simplement…)” by the Singing Nun?
Or, if you’re in the mood for queso, there:
“Eres Tu” by Mocedades
Cheesey? You bet- but I bet people start singing along, whether they want to or not!
Wendy Carlos - I Want to Marry a Lighthouse Keeper
ELO - Mr. Blue Sky
Queen - Don’t Stop Me Now
Billy Ocean - Caribbean Queen (No More Love on the Run)
Gloria Estefan and the Miami Sound Machine - Conga
Good Charlotte - Girls & Boys
Hall & Oates - Private Eyes
Hanson - MMMBop
Kenny Loggins - I’m allright
Manfred Mann’s Earth Band - Blinded by the Light
The Monkees - Last Train to Clarksville
Motörhead - Ace of Spades
Run DMC - Walk This Way
Rush - Tom Sawyer
Tiffany - I Think We’re Alone Now
Tony Basil - Hey Mickey
Van Halen - Jump
Thomas Dolby - She Blinded Me With Science
Obviously I’m not admitting to any of these.
The Jacksons with Mick Jagger - “State of Shock”
Most of my picks are already in this thread but I didn’t see Big Country’s “In a Big Country.”
The entire Footloose soundtrack and I’m not sure where you draw the line from Cheesy to perforating your own eardrums but what about that “Oh Ricky you’re so fine” song?
I don’t see a lot of country mentioned here. Someone mentioned Achy Breaky Heart but how about
Shelly West - Jose Cuervo
Tracy Byrd - Watermelon Crawl
That song that goes “on my front porch in my swing justa swingin” *
Pretty much anything by John Denver
Lyle Lovett - That’s no lady that’s my wife
*ETA: Found it. John Anderson
Back to the hair bands
Ratt - Round and round
Cinderella - Gypsy Road
OK. gotta go dust off my cassettes now.
Eats_Crayons - please post your final cheesy concoction
How about adding some spirituality to the mix…
“The Lord’s Prayer” by Sister Janet Mead