Fromage! Help me create a cheesy, cheesy iPod mix

Complete with a puppy, homelessness, a drunken parent, and child (and puppy!) sudden death, Dolly Parton’s Me and Little Andy.

More Abba, lately immortalized by Andy Bernard and Here Comes Treble: “Take a Chance on Me”.

Anyone else mention Paul Anka’s “Having My Baby”?

The beginning early techno opening might make it a little too cool, but Paper Lace’s “The Night Chicago Died” is pretty timeless.

When I was 13 I couldn’t get enough of Kansas’ “Dust in the Wind”. Hon. mention to “Point of No Return”.

Yes, I was another 70s kid. :smiley:

More tunes from the dim recesses of my brain here.

Lou Christie – “Lightning Strikes”

“Dancing in the Moonlight” by King Harvest.

“Summer Breeze” by Seals and Croft.

ANYTHING by The Association – “Cherish,” “Never My Love,” “Along Comes Mary”

Johnny Rivers! Pick an era, he’s there with the rockin’ pneumonia and the boogie woogie flu. But here’s about the cheesiest thing he ever did:

“Poor Side of Town.”

Marshall Tucker Band – “Heard It In a Love Song.”

Here’s another song by them but it’s NOT cheesy, it’s just great. “Can’t You See”

Neil Diamond! “Girl, You’ll Be a Woman Soon”

(Or anything else he ever sings, the drama!)

Dennis Yost and the Classics IV – “Traces” or “Spooky” or “Stormy”

Atlanta Rhythm Section - “Imaginary Lover.” I STILL like this in its cheesy goodness.

“So Into You” is also a good ARS tune.

Elvin Bishop! “Fooled Around and Fell In Love”

I heard Elvin the other night on “Prairie Home Companion” and he was still amazing.

Damn, all these are Southern bands so I guess you got to have some Skynyrd, y’all:

Stop me before I start doing the Shag.

There’s no way I can remember what songs have all been posted, so apologies if any of these have been mentioned by others.

Benny and the Jets - Elton John
Brandy - Looking Glass
Escape - Rupert Holmes
Horse with No Name - America
Cat’s in the Cradle/Taxi - Harry Chapin
Bad Bad Leroy Brown - Jim Croce
Let Your Love Flow - Bellamy Brothers
Space Cowboy - Steve Miller
Black Water - Doobie Brothers
Jackie Blue - Ozark Mountain Daredevils
Cinderella - Firefall
The Candy Man - Sammy Davis, Jr.
Baker Street - Gerry Rafferty
Brick House/Three Times a Lady - Commodores
Seasons in the Sun - Terry Jacks
Another One Bites the Dust - Queen
Takin’ Care of Business/You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet - BTO
Slow Ride - Foghat
Kiss You All Over - Exile
Brand New Key - Melanie
Car Wash - Rose Royce
My Sharona - The Knack
Your So Vain - Carly Simon
Fire and Rain - James Taylor
The Load Out/Stay - Jackson Browne
I Am Woman - Helen Reddy
Lowdown/Lido Shuffle - Boz Scaggs
Coconut - Harry Nilsson

I can’t come into these threads anymore. I have just spent too much money that I don’t have on iTunes. Trust me when I say that I had a ton of the songs mentioned. I apparently just had to run and buy the rest!!!

Lovin’ it! I would like to see the final list(s), too!

David Dundas. 1976. Now known as Lord David Dundas.

Now if you’ll excuse me I need to go find the steel wool to scrub my brain clean of all these memories…

Just found the cheesiest version of a song by that all-time poseur – but it’s so good and so well done that I can laugh and dig it all at the same time.

(From 1977, the 70s do seem to be the Era of the Big Cheese.)

I can stop this whenever I want.

Hey, what’s that song:

Feelings…
Nothing more than feelings…
Feeeeeeeeeeeelings! Whoa-whoa-whoa - feeeeeeeeeeeliiiiiings…

Who did that one?

Morris Albert. I thought I’d never forget his name. It’s not like I haven’t tried.

There was a time a working musician couldn’t play a gig without having to do some of “Feelings.” It was the “Achy-Breaky Heart” of the 70s.

It’s been 30 years since I played it for a beauty contest while the contestants walked down the runway for freakin’ ever – enough that we vamped through “Feelings” about a dozen times – there’s probably something about that in the Geneva Convention now. I have scars, people.

“Feelings” was nominated for a Grammy Award for Song of the Year in 1976, losing out to Judy Collins’, “Send in the Clowns”. God, there’s another one.

I’m starting to think that as 1939 was to classic movies 1976 was the zenith of Classic Cheese. (And the nadir of culture.)

Whoa-whoa-whoa-whoa.

From the film “Nashville”, there was that x-tra cheesy tune:

“One, I love you” ~ Richard Baskin, performed by Henry Gibson & Ronee Blakley

At first I thought it was an old Dolly & Porter tune…

I like the Krusty the Clown version of “Send in the Clowns.”

Of course now I have this stuck in my head.

Crap!

There was an installment of “The Gong Show”, back in the late 70s, in which every single performer did “Feelings”. I’m pretty certain that none of them were in on the joke until after they performed. The first one got a pretty good score, the second one got a passable score, and everyone else got gonged.

“Morning Train” by Sheena Easton

“Disco Duck” Rick Dees

“Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny Yellow Polka Dot Bikini”

Bleah. Now I have all those songs stuck in my head. At the same time.

Has anyone mentioned “Convoy”, by C.W. McCall, yet?

And, in that same truckers-and-CB-radios vein, back in those days, I listened to country radio. There was an incredibly cheesy song* called Teddy Bear, by a guy named Red Sovine, about a little crippled boy who would talk to truckers on his CB radio, and would tell them about how miserable his life was, and how he wanted to ride in a truck.

    • the term “song” is only loosely used here…Sovine basically just told a story, with some music playing in the background.

Year of the Cat - Al Stewart

Come on Eileen - Dexys Midnight Runners

Thanks. I’ve going “Mee-mee! Mee mee mee mee mee-mee…” all morning. Yues, a great way to start the day. :smack:

I am working on a playlist, but I’m volunteering with a sporting event and my non-work hours are now crammed with all sorts of preparation that includes some wilderness first aid training. I’ve been able to peek at the thread, but unfortunately not contribute much. I can say that “Feelings” will not be on the list, unless it’s the Beaker version. It is SO cheesy it borders on the edge of auditory-waterboarding of the soul, the “water” of the “wateboarding” being in fact lukewarm Velveeta.

Eats_Crayons, the entire playlist of the “love” channel on Sirius/XM will do the trick.

Eat_Crayons, here’s the Sirius XM “Love” list . Fromage extraordinnaire!

http://www.dogstarradio.com/search_playlist.php?artist=&title=&channel=3&month=&date=&shour=&sampm=&stz=&ehour=&eampm=

Paul McCartney & Wings - Let 'Em In
Joe South - Games People Play
Blue Swede - Hooked On A Feeling

The folks who do the research at XM to put together a playlist like this must have intestinal blockage from all that cheese!

I only looked at the first page so I don’t know if we have some good choices in this thread that they didn’t list, but it looks like they have some good ones I don’t remember seeing here.

Nice link Loisseau.