Sure, like whenever Dave Barry does a column on the worst songs of all time.
Personally, I can’t remember the last time I’ve heard any Debbie Gibson on the radio. I remember the album “Electric Youth” being some hot shit back in the day, along with the single “Lost in Your Eyes.” Or even “Foolish Beat” from her debut album. It’s possible I just don’t listen to enough nostalgia 80s radio, but I thought I did. Wikipedia tells me she’s had reasonable success as an actress and on Broadway since, but she completely fell off my radar. While we’re at it, what about her contemporary Tiffany?
I was just thinking about this trio, and realized how well they fit this thread - not only with the above song, but all of these Top Ten hits:
1970 “Candida” No. 3 US (Gold); CB No. 1; No. 9 UK; No. 8 AC
1970 “Knock Three Times” b/w “Home” No. 1 US (Gold); CB No. 1; No. 1 UK; No. 2 AC
1973 “Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree” No. 1 US (Gold); CB No. 1; No. 1 UK; No. 1 AC
1973 “Say, Has Anybody Seen My Sweet Gypsy Rose” No. 3 US (Gold); CB No. 4; No. 12 UK ; No. 1 AC
1974** “Steppin’ Out (I’m Gonna Boogie Tonight)” **No. 7 US; CB No. 14; No. 4 AC
Those first 3 were played ALL THE TIME in the early to mid 1970s. I’m surprised “Candida” didn’t hit Number 1, given how popular it was at the time. I have no memory of “Steppin’ Out”, but I’m sure a lot of Top 10 hits would be in the same boat.
I got that on CD.
She was in Playboy several years ago. I saw her on some Food Network reality show recently.
Maybe it’s just my faulty memory, but weren’t these two basically the same damn song?
Huh, apparently she was, though “several years” takes us back to 2002. Researching that, I also just learned that her last name is Darwish. In 2011, she apparently starred alongside Debbie Gibson in the movie Mega Python vs. Gatoroid. How did I miss all this?
Yep! They were the proto-AC/DC.
(This is the only time in the history of mankind where Tony Orlando & Dawn and AC/DC have been referenced in the same post.)
I had it on a 45.
Music Box Dancer
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I think this might qualify, but before you hit the stop button, check out the lead guitarist virtuoso performance
[/QUOTE]Wow! Brit chicks doing go-go dancing! in 1964! LOVE this :eek: 
I am from the era when the Tokens did it in the USA … “The Lion Sleeps Tonight.”
Thanks for posting!
Thought I posted this back in January, but apparently not:
Everyone remembers “Don’t Stop Believin’” from Journey’s Escape, which has appeared in endless movies & TV shows and is the most downloaded song recorded in the 20th Century. The song reached #9 in 1981, but hardly anyone remembers the two higher-charting hits from that same album: “Who’s Crying Now” (#4) and “Open Arms” (#2 for six weeks, kept from the top spot by J. Geils Band’s “Centerfold”).
Also, J. Geils Band’s “Centerfold”.
I just heard “Centerfold” the other day on one of our local radio stations.
I’ve heard “Who’s Crying Now” more often than “Open Arms”. That’s fine by me. “Open Arms” still makes me want to scratch out my eyeballs :eek:
Seen it. It makes the Sharknado films look Oscar-caliber. I cheered when
Tiffany gets eaten by a giant alligator. I swear the guy in the helicopter left her dangling on purpose.
Anyway, I just got one thing to say to you guys: Shaddap You Face.
The Morning After – the theme song of The Poseidon Adventure, was inescapable in 1973 and never heard from since. According to Wicki, the Maureen McGovern version was never even covered until 2010 when the movie score was released as an album.
Remember Robert John from 1972? If you don’t well that’s the point (;0)
I think that was the first record I ever bought (I still have the single around somewhere I’ll bet).
Abracadabra by the Steve Miller Band
There was a song that got incessant play on the radio in the late 1970s, around the same era as “You Light Up My Life” with the refrain “Knock Three Times on the Ceiling If You Want Me…” Kind of an annoying song actually, but one that seemed to be ubiquitous and then disappear.
Other very popular songs that have faded over time:
“Time In a Bottle” (ironically enough)
“The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald”
“Country Roads” (and just about anything else by John Denver)
“Let the Love Flow”
“Here You Come Again” (I think by Dolly Parton)
“Don’t It Make My Brown Eyes Blues”
“Don’t Fear the Reaper”
“Bette Davis Eyes”
“The Future’s So Bright I Gotta Wear Shades”
“In a Big Country” (by a band called ‘Big Country’)
“Don’t You Forget About Me”
“Sara” (the other, actually listenable, big hit by Starship, nee Jefferson)
I always thought “Flash”