# Hit songs that totally disappeared **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 11, 2016, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hit-songs-that-totally-disappeared/742825 "2016-01-11T17:08:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 8
**Author:** ![Nars\_Glinley](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nars_glinley/32/8177_2.png) [@Nars\_Glinley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nars_Glinley)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2016, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hit-songs-that-totally-disappeared/742825/141 "2016-06-18T18:21:24Z")
[quote=“It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery, post:140, topic:742825”] > [@nearwildheaven](#): > > Do kids still sing “Jeremiah Was A Bullfrog”, “Black and White”, and “Joy To The World”?[n/QUOTE] > > You do know “Jeremiah Was A Bullfrog” is not a song but a line from “Joy To The World”, right? Or, as they would announce at their concerts, “It’s time for that bullfrog song!” ---
**Author:** ![drad\_dog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@drad\_dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drad_dog)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2016, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hit-songs-that-totally-disappeared/742825/142 "2016-06-18T21:55:55Z")
> [@nearwildheaven](#): > > Do kids still sing “Jeremiah Was A Bullfrog”, “Black and White”, and “Joy To The World”? > > I’ve heard “Shambhala” on the radio within the past few months. Yknow maybe that was not a good example. Those songs might be kids songs now. I could see hearing “one” as well. The big loss from then is that the top 40 was integrated racially and it made for a much better selection musically. Those black records don’t play on classic rock formats now but they were maybe the best part of the playlist in the day. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2016, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hit-songs-that-totally-disappeared/742825/143 "2016-06-18T23:08:06Z")
[quote=“It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery, post:140, topic:742825”] > [@nearwildheaven](#): > > Do kids still sing “Jeremiah Was A Bullfrog”, “Black and White”, and “Joy To The World”?[n/QUOTE] > > You do know “Jeremiah Was A Bullfrog” is not a song but a line from “Joy To The World”, right? :smack: :smack: :smack: :smack: :smack: Shows how long it’s been since I heard it! :o ---
**Author:** ![Sahirrnee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sahirrnee/32/13937_2.png) [@Sahirrnee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sahirrnee)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2016, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hit-songs-that-totally-disappeared/742825/144 "2016-06-19T04:31:13Z")
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bx51eegLTY8](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bx51eegLTY8) ---
**Author:** ![Arizona\_Mike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7cd45c/32.png) [@Arizona\_Mike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arizona_Mike)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2016, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hit-songs-that-totally-disappeared/742825/145 "2016-06-19T05:32:33Z")
> [@salinqmind](#): > > Telstar (or is it Telestar) by the Tornadoes. The last time I heard this was at the end of a ‘Mad Men’ episode. > > Sukiyaki by…the Japanese guy. Utterly charming, late 50’s? > > Both memorable, different - gone! It sounds like an upbeat, happy go lucky song, but in translation the lyrics are pretty depressing and are about the rootless anomie of living in postwar Japan. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2016, 6:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hit-songs-that-totally-disappeared/742825/146 "2016-06-19T06:06:10Z")
> [@Arizona\_Mike](#): > > It sounds like an upbeat, happy go lucky song, but in translation the lyrics are pretty depressing and are about the rootless anomie of living in postwar Japan. I thought it was about him losing his girlfriend. :dubious: 😕 ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2016, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hit-songs-that-totally-disappeared/742825/147 "2016-06-19T06:12:22Z")
> [@notfrommensa](#): > > I haven’t heard [Feelings](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyBcHUe4WeQ) for 30 years until I watched a rerun of the Bionic Woman and Jamie sang (lip-synched?) [this song](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JId1gUlUq_w) in a beauty pageant episode. Carol Burnett’s rendition was the best ever! :o [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/bvRtHuMm1BQ/maxresdefault.jpg "Feelings") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvRtHuMm1BQ) ---
**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:** [June 19, 2016, 8:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hit-songs-that-totally-disappeared/742825/148 "2016-06-19T08:01:50Z")
[QUOTE=notfrommensa] I haven’t heard Feelings for 30 years until I watched a rerun of the Bionic Woman and Jamie sang (lip-synched?) this song in a beauty pageant episode. > [@terentii](#): > > Carol Burnett’s rendition was the best ever! :o [/QUOTE] Considering that this was one of the most overplayed and covered songs of the 70s, I can’t think of a more appropriate fate. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2016, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hit-songs-that-totally-disappeared/742825/149 "2016-06-19T12:35:32Z")
> [@NDP](#): > > Considering that this was one of the most overplayed and covered songs of the 70s, I can’t think of a more appropriate fate. OTOH, I would mind seeing a hot Jamie Summers perform it at a beauty pageant… :o ---
**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:** [June 19, 2016, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hit-songs-that-totally-disappeared/742825/150 "2016-06-19T12:55:51Z")
> [@Spoons](#): > > A few more I recall, but haven’t heard in years would include “Love’s Theme,” by the Love Unlimited Orchestra; “TSOP” by MFSB, and “Feels So Good,” by Chuck Mangione. All instrumentals, like “Joy” and “Popcorn.” Wonder why instrumentals get forgotten so easily? Any time I’ve heard “Grazing in the Grass” in recent decades, it’s been the original instrumental version by Hugh Masekela. But the version I remember getting played in the '60s was the vocal version by the [Friends of Distinction](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UhResTVZ6s). ---
**Author:** ![Dale\_Sams](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/779978/32.png) [@Dale\_Sams](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dale_Sams)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2016, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hit-songs-that-totally-disappeared/742825/151 "2016-06-19T14:40:42Z")
> [@drad\_dog](#): > > Why do we never hear Mouth and Macneal doing “How do you do” anymore? Why Why Why. This is the eternal question. > > . I love that song! But [WHAT in God’s name am I looking at??](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QXyqk9flwk) I mean, yes…70’s and all…but wow. ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2016, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hit-songs-that-totally-disappeared/742825/152 "2016-06-19T15:46:24Z")
> [@Arizona\_Mike](#): > > It sounds like an upbeat, happy go lucky song, but in translation the lyrics are pretty depressing and are about the rootless anomie of living in postwar Japan. Well, I was about 12 and I certainly didn’t know that. I just thought it sounded pretty, and in exotic Japanese, too! ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2016, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hit-songs-that-totally-disappeared/742825/153 "2016-06-19T16:43:51Z")
> [@salinqmind](#): > > Well, I was about 12 and I certainly didn’t know that. I just thought it sounded pretty, and in exotic Japanese, too! With lyrics and translation: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/C35DrtPlUbc/maxresdefault.jpg "Sukiyaki (Ue o Muite Arukou) - Kyu Sakamoto (English Translation and Lyrics)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C35DrtPlUbc) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hit-songs-that-totally-disappeared/742825.md?page=7)