Let me add to the list some modern day dreck.
“Lullabye” by Shawn Mullins
She grew up with the children of the stars
In the Hollywood hills and the boulevard [more talking dreck]
[sing]* I sing Everythings gonna be all right, rockabye,rockabye*
Or “Take on Me” by aha
Take on me, take on me, I’ll be gone take on me take me on etc.
Don’t you forget about me
Don’t, don’t, don’t, don’t
Don’t you forget about me
Will you stand above me
Look my way, never love me
Rain keeps falling
Rain keeps falling
Down, down, down
Will you recognize me
Call my name or walk on by
Rain keeps falling
Rain keeps falling
Down, down, down
naaaaa na na nanananaaaaa…nanananaaaaa…hey jude… (Just to piss Happy off) 
“Thank you (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)”
No Doubt has a song out now that is pure 100% dreck:
All the boys go Hey baby hey baby hey
All the girls go hey baby hey baby hey
[ad nauseum]
Just seventeen
Everything that you’ve seen
It’s all there in her eyes
So many years of her poor mama’s tears and
Her Daddy’s sweet lies
There’s nobody home
Mary-Anne’s alone
Almost fully grown
And worrying the why’s
Jimmy’s been down
He’s been out and around and
He knows where its at
Love to be good if he thought that he could
But it isn’t like that
He don’t make mistakes
What he makes he takes
Jimmy gets all the breaks
'Cause he knows how
Chorus:
Jimmy loves Mary-Anne
Jimmy wants to be a man
Jimmy loves Mary-Anne
She thinks it’s alright
done by “Looking Glass” - their only other hit besides Brandy (You’re A Fine Girl).
eary feminist (still dreck, but it gets the ol’ ‘heart-in-the-right-place’ award)
“You don’t own me, I’m not just one of your many toys
You don’t own me, don’t say I can’t go with other boys
And don’t tell me what to do
And don’t tell me what to say
And please, when I go out with you
Don’t put me on display, 'cause
You don’t own me, don’t try to change me in any way
You don’t own me, don’t tie me down 'cause I’d never stay
Oh, I don’t tell you what to say
I don’t tell you what to do
So just let me be myself
That’s all I ask of you
I’m young and I love to be young
I’m free and I love to be free
To life my life the way I want
To say and do whatever I please…”
Chantilly lace and a pretty face,
A ponytail a-hangin’ down,
A wigglin’ walk…
“Oh, goodbye cruel world, I’m off to join the circus
Gonna be a broken-hearted clown
Paint my face with a good-for-nothin’ smile
'cause a mean, fickle woman turned my whole world upside down”
Goodbye, Cruel World James Darren
I would climb any mountain, sail across the stormy sea
If that’s what it takes me baby, to show how much you mean to me
And I guess that it’s just the woman in you, that brings out the man in me
I know I can’t help myself, you’re all in the world to me
It feels like the first time, feels like the very first time
It feels like the first time, it feels like the very first time
I have waited a lifetime, spent my time so foolishly
But now that I found you, together we’ll make hist-ory
And I know that it must be the woman in you, that brings out the man in me
I know I can’t help myself, you’re all my eyes can see
And it feels like the first time, like it never did before
Feels like the first time, like we’ve opened up the door
Feels like the first time, like it never will again, never again
[sub]But you keep me hangin’ on…[/sub]
**Rico- **
dear, sweet, Rico
“Jimmy Loves Mary-Anne”
has been done.
sorry.
[sub]Desperado, why don’t you come to your senses…**
Hey, well I’m the friendly stranger In the black sedan
Oh won’t you hop inside my car?
I got pictures, got candy, I am a lovable man
I’d like to take you to the nearest star
I’m your vehicle baby
I’ll take you anywhere you wanna go
I’m your vehicle woman
By now I’m sure you know
That I love ya (love you)
Need ya (need you)
I want to, got to have you child
Great God in heaven, you know I love you
[sub]Got to get back to that Sugar Shack…[/sub]
Mr Happyheathen, I respectfully object to your song “you don’t own me”. I do not consider dreck a song that makes a social statement especially at a time when change happened.
You don’t say you need me
you don’t sing me love songs
your don’t bring me flowers anymore
This one might not be dreck, it might be more suited to creapy stalking songs.
Every move you make, every breathe you take, every claim you make, I’ll be watching you
deb2world
“You Don’t Bring Me Flowers” has been done
“Every Step…” isn’t dreck.
the following, however, is:
"This bus is awful cold; we’ve gone so many miles.
God please help me go to sleep and forget him for awhile.
I know it’s not his fault, I’ve known it all along.
I was the one that trusted him - that’s where I went wrong.
This old road I don’t know where it leads,
And I don’t care 'coz it’s not hard for me to see
That when it ends, there’ll be nothing there for me,
'Coz the only thing I care about - I’ve got to live without."
That’s Where I Went Wrong Poppy Family - their companion piece to Which Way You Going, Billy
vocals by Susan Jacks
::Algernon, head in hands, muttering…::
I spend an unholy amount of time reading this thread, and can only come up with a couple that haven’t already been mentioned.
*Well the South side of Chicago
Is the baddest part of town
And if you go down there
You better just beware
Of a man named Leroy Brown
Now Leroy more than trouble
You see he stand 'bout six foot four
All the downtown ladies call him Treetop Lover
All the men just call him Sir
And it’s bad, bad Leroy Brown
The baddest man in the whole damned town
Badder than old King Kong
And meaner than a junkyard dog*
and
*I got a song been on my mind
And the tune can be sung and the words all rhyme
Deedle-ee deet deet deet deet deet deet deet dee dee
Though it don’t say much and it won’t offend
If you sing it in school then they’re liable to send you home
Never knowing what you’re showin’
Think you’re growin’ your own tea
Good lord!
Drop your shrink and stop your drinkin’
Crunchy granola’s neat
Sing it out
Alright
Da da da da
Da da da da da
Dee dee dee dum*
And the worst part? I find I actually like most of the drek mentioned… oh the embarrassment of it all.
There are a couple of borderline novelty songs not yet mentioned, like Snoopy and the Red Baron and Love Potion #9, but, in the spirit of things, I decided not to mention them. ~grin~
I looked thru the list of songs and can’t believe no one has mentioned these yet.
don’t worry, be happy
do do do do do do do do do
don’t worry, be happy
Or we have Randy Newman’s
I love LA! We love it! Century Blvd., Santa Monica Blvd., We love it!
"It’s all over but the glitter and gleem,
In the good old rock and roll.
We can still hear a guitar sing,
And the singer singing his soul.
“What happened to the peppermint twist and the mini-skirt?..”
I have this on tape since ca 1970, can’t find it on Google, have no idea.
male vocalist, bland, maybe a one-shot?
was susan jacks related to the immortal one, terry jacks, by any chance?
heres a gooder
i wanna keeeeep on lovin you
cuz its the only thing i wanna doooo-OO
I dont wanna SLEEP
I just wanna KEEP ON
lovin you… (retch, kaff kaff, hurl)
i remember when you couldnt get away from that shit on the radio. 80 or 81.
Susan and Terry sibs? {shudder} quite possibly.
YOU do the research - I’m chicken…
and what was the title of that cute little tune?
and now…
“If you want to be happy for the rest of your life
Never make a pretty woman your wife.
So, from my personal point of view,
Get an ugly girl to marry you”
(Jamaican beat, no less)
“I’ve been cheated.
Been mistreated.
When will I-I-I-I be loved?”
[sub]It’s the little old lady from Pasadena…[/sub]
When I was young
I never needed anyone.
And making love was just for fun.
Those days are gone.
All by myself, don’t want to be
All by myself.
Happyheathen, I am in awe of your musical knowledge.