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Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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The list is the 40 Most Awful US and UK Chart Hits of All Time… if you want a cite, the book’s called “The Mammoth Book of Tasteless Lists” by Karl Shaw.

It has Tell Laura I Love Her at #12, Mandy at #13, Macarthur Park at #19, Teen Angel at #29, and Kung Fu Fighting at #40.

In regards to all the songs that have been posted (thanks, happyheathen for the update!), I know almost none of them personally, but I’m sure I can play! (and I can hardly be accused of dating myself, since I’m only 25!)

Let’s get together, yeah yeah yeah
Why don’t you and I combine?
Let’s get together, what do you say?
We can have a swinging time
We’d be a crazy team
Why don’t we make a scene?
Together, oh oh oh oh
Let’s get together, yeah yeah yeah
Think of all that we could share
Let’s get together, everyday
Every way and everywhere
And though we haven’t got a lot
We could be sharing all we’ve got
Together
Oh! I really think you’re swell
Uh huh! We really ring the bell
Oo wee! And if you stick with me
Nothing could be greater, say ‘hey alligator’
Let’s get together, yeah yeah yeah
Two is twice as nice as one
Let’s get together, right away
We’ll be having twice the fun
And you can always count on me
A gruesome twosome we will be
Let’s get together, yeah yeah yeah!

[sub]“Let’s Get Together” by Hayley Mills; #22 on list[/sub]

[sub]for the 1961 movie The Parent Trap[/sub]

[sub]personally, I think Hayley should have gotten herself a better lyric songwriter[/sub]

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If your list does not include ‘You Light Up My Life’, you may wish to find another source.

I do, however, look forward to seeing what your list thinks tops ‘Tell Laura I Love Her’…

:cool:

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Come on everybody, there’s a song that we’re singing
Come on get HAPPY!

for all you Partridge fans out there…

:eek:

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And! I! Think! it’s! Gonna! Be! a! Long! Long! Time!
Till! Touchdown! Brings! Me! Round! to! find!
I’m! Not! The! Man! They! Think! I! am! At! All!
Oh! No! No! No!
I’m! A! Rocket! Man!

“Rocket Man” as sung by William Shatner with Bernie Taupin.

Top that.

b.

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So YOU’RE the one!

126

An ode to masturbation. The phrase TMI was invented for this song.

I Touch Myself by The Divinyls

I love myself
I want you to love me
When I’m feeling down
I want you above me
I search myself
I want you to find me
I forget myself
I want you to remind me
I don´t want anybody else
When I think about you I touch myself
I don’t want anybody else
Oh no, oh no, oh no
You´re the one who makes me happy honey
You´re the sun who makes me shine
When you´re around I´m always laughing
I want to make you mine
I close my eyes
And see you before me
Think I would die
If you were to ignore me
A fool could see
Just how much I adore you
I get down on my knees
I’d do anything for you
I don’t want anybody else
When I think about you I touch myself
I don’t want anybody else
Oh no, oh no, oh no

Unsubtle, tacky and kinda gross, but with a catchy tune. It was obviously destined to be a minor hit

Fenris

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I see your puny ‘I Touch Myself’ and raise you:

“Sodomy” (Hair, 1968, RCA)

Sodomy, fellatio, cunnilingus, pederasty,
Father, why do these words sound so nasty?
Masturbation can be fun.
Join the holy orgy kama sutra, everyone.

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HAIR

Gimme head with hair
Long beautiful hair
Shining, gleaming,
Streaming, flaxen, waxen

Give me down to there hair
Shoulder length or longer hair
Here baby, there mama
Everywhere daddy daddy

Hair, hair, hair, hair, hair, hair, hair
Grow it, show it
Long as I can grow it
My hair

I can let it fly in the breeze
And get caught in the trees
Give a home for the fleas in my hair
A home for fleas
A hive for the buzzing bees
A nest for birds
There ain’t no words
For the beauty, the splendor, the wonder
Of my…

Hair, hair, hair, hair, hair, hair, hair
Grow it, show it
Long as I can grow it
My hair

I want it long, straight and curly, fuzzy
Snaggy, shaggy, ratty, matty
Oily, greasy, fleecy
Shining, steaming, gleaming
Flaxen, waxen
Knotted, polka-dotted
Twisted, beaded, braided
Powdered, flowered, and confettied
Mangled, tangled, spangled
And spaghetti!

Oh say can you see
My eyes if you can
Then my hair’s too short

Down to here
Down to there
Down to there
Down to where
It stops by itself
Don’t never have to cut
'Cause it stops by itself

Oh, gimme head with hair
Long beautiful hair
Shining, gleaming,
Streaming, flaxen, waxen

And won’t you give me down to there hair
Shoulder length or longer hair
Here baby, there mama
Everywhere daddy daddy

Hair, hair, hair, hair, hair, hair, hair
Grow it, show it
Long as I can grow it
My hair

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Last Kiss
(J. Frank Wilson and the Cavaliers)

We were out on a date in my daddy’s car
We haven’t driven very far
there in the road,straight ahead
The car was stalled; the engine was dead
I couldn’t stop,so I swerved to the right
I’ll never forget the sound that night
The screamin’ tires
The bustin’ glass
The painful scream that I heard last

Oh where oh where can my baby be
The lord took her away from me
She’s gone to heaven so I’ve got to be good
So I can see my baby when I leave this world

When I woke up
The rain was pouring down
There were people standing all around
Something warm falling through my eyes
But somehow I found,my baby that night
I lifted her head
She looked at me and said
Hold me darlin’ for a little while
I held her close
I kissed her our last kiss
I found the love that I knew I had missed
Now she’s gone even though I hold her tight
I lost my love, my life that night

Where, oh, where can my baby be?
The lord took her away from me
She’s gone to heaven, so I’ve got to be good
So I can see my baby when I leave this world.

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strangecurrencies made a funny in his post. nobody validated him by telling him what a clever fella he was. Now you
all must pay …

“You are a child of the universe…no less than the moon and the stars, you have a right to be here…”

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Well, the list regrettably does not include “You Light Up My Life”… but this is what the book says about the list:

So, [Bhappyheathen]**, “You Light Up My Life” could have made the list if it was a Top 50 or Top 60 list. I’m assuming there wasn’t enough space in the book or something.

Since you asked for it, this is what tops “Tell Laura I Love Her”:

(or should I just give you the whole list? maybe so… )

[list=1]
[li]Long Haired Lover From Liverpool, by Little Jimmy Osmond (1972)[/li][li]Dominique, by The Singing Nun (1963)[/li][li]Teddy Bear, by Red Sovine (1981)[/li][li]Deck of Cards, by Wink Martindale (1959)[/li][li]Disco Duck (Part 1), by Rick Dees and his Cast of Idiots (1976)[/li][li]The Streak, by Ray Stevens (1974)[/li][li]Tie A Yellow Ribbon Round The Old Oak Tree, by Dawn (featuring Tony Orlando) (1973)[/li][li]Convoy, by C.W. McCall (1976)[/li][li]*[Sugar, Sugar/i], by The Archies (1969)[/li][li]My Ding-A-Ling, by Chuck Berry (1972)[/li][li]Coward of the County, by Kenny Rogers (1980)[/li][li]Tell Laura I Love Her, by Ray Peterson (1960)[/li][li]Mandy, by Barry Manilow (1975)[/li][li]Je T’Aime… Moi Non Plus, by Jane Birkin and Serge Gainsbourg (1969)[/li][li]I Think I Love You, by the Partridge Family (1970)[/li][li]Honey, by Bobby Goldsboro (1968)[/li][li]Annie’s Song, by John Denver (1974)[/li][li]Release Me, by Engelbert Humperdinck (1967)[/li][li]Macarthur Park, by Richard Harris (1968)[/li][li]Do The Clam, by Elvis Presley (1965)[/li][li]Mull of Kintyre, by Paul McCartney & Wings (1977)[/li][li]Let’s Get Together, by Hayley Mills (1961)[/li][li]Living Next Door To Alice, by Smokie (1976)[/li][li]Stand By Your Man, by Tammy Wynette (1975)[/li][li]Puppy Love, by Donny Osmond (1972)[/li][li]Float On, by The Floaters (1977)[/li][li]Save Your Kisses For Me, by the Brotherhood of Man (1976)[/li][li]Wand’rin’ Star, by Lee Marvin (1970)[/li][li]Teen Angel, by Mark Dinning (1960)[/li][li]Yummy, Yummy, Yummy, by Ohio Express (1968)[/li][li]Rivers of Babylon/ Brown Girl In The Ring, by Boney M. (1976)[/li][li]No Charge, by J.J. Barrie (1976)[/li][li]My Way, by Elvis Presley (1977)[/li][li]In The Navy, by the Village People (1979)[/li][li]Gimme Dat Ding, by The Pipkins (1970)[/li][li]The Laughing Gnome, by David Bowie (1973)[/li][li]We Are The World, by USA For Africa (1985)[/li][li]If, by Telly Savalas (1975)[/li][li]Ringo, by Lorne Greene (1964)[/li][li]Kung-Fu Fighting, by Carl Douglas (1974)[/li][/list=1]

Not to give anyone else ideas or anything… :smiley:

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I should really preview before submitting anything, but on this computer, it’s likely to have the connection time out on me! Mods, could you please fix my coding? Thanks! :slight_smile:

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You need a better list (memories of truly horrid songs will come soon enough) :wink:

As for the REST of you:

If you do not remember it, ignore the list just posted (using it would not only be unethical, but would also make you seem devoid of original thought)

:smiley:

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See the tree, how big it’s grown
but friend, it hasn’t been too long, it wasn’t big
I laughed at her and she’d go mad
The first day that she planted it, was just a twig…

And honey, I miss yooooooooo

Kind of like an evil flashback.

135

"You are a fluke of the universe, you have no right to be here…And whether you can hear it or not, the universe is laughing behind your back…

"Go placidly amid the noise and haste, and take what comfort there may be in owning a piece thereof…

OK, not bad, merely hilarious

:smiley:

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I see we are

Runnin’ on empty

Maybe someone SHOULD post “Dominique”…

:rolleyes:

Standing on a corner on Winslow, Arizona
Such a fine sight to see
It’s a girl, my lord
In a flat-bed Ford
Slowin’ down to take a look at me…

Come on Baaaaby
Don’t say maaaaybe
Gotta know if your sweet love
Is going to Saaaave me…

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Ladies and Gentlemen of the SDMB:

You didn’t have to love me
But you did, but you did, but you did.
And I thank you!

And I thought the worst thing that was going to happen to me was dealing with a rather foolish young co-worker. :slight_smile:

You are sick, evil, and twisted – precisely my kind of people! I also actually like some of these songs. BTW, since no one else seems to have quoted Meatloaf/Jim Steinman yet (although thanks for the Alan Parsons, Rico:

I would do anything for love
I would do an-ything for lo-ove
I would do anything for love
But I won’t do that!
Also (wait, let me get the CD), off of Midnight at the Lost and Found:
Where the rubber meets the road
Welcome to protection mode.
Yes means no means yes means no.
Where the rubber meets the road!

And

I’d lie for you and that’s the truth.
Do anything you asked me to.
I’d even sell my soul for you
I’d do it all for you
If you’d just believe in me.
I’m going to be laughing about this thread all day at work!
CJ
We could be standin’ at the top of the world
Instead of sinkin’ further down in the mud.
You and me, just about midnight
You and me, just about midnight
Someone’s got to draw first blood!
Ooh, I got to draw first blood.

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I’m on the top of the world
looking down on creation
and the only explanation i can find
is the love that I’ve found ever since you’ve been around
your love’s put me at the top of the world…

Long ago, and oh, so far away
I fell in love with you
before the second show
your guitar- - it sounds so sweet and clear
but you’re not really here
its just the radiooooo

Dont you remember you told me you love me babbaaay
you said youd be coming back this way again babaaay
baby baby baby baby oh baybaaaay
I looove you
I really do…
Why do birds suddenly appear everytime you are near?
Just like me, they long to be
close to you
why do stars falldown form the sky everytime- you walk by
just like me- they long to be
close to you
We’ve only just begun to liiiive
white lace and promises
a kiss for luck and we’re on our way…

A little Carpenters fix for the crew :smiley:

139

And the award for the GROSSEST lyric ever goes to the Eagles:

“I’ve been running down the road, trying to loosen my load…” Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!

:stuck_out_tongue:

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Hey lady, you lady cursing at your life
You’re a discontented mother and a regimented wife
I’ve no doubt you dream about the things you’ll never do

But I wish some one had a talked to me like I want to talk to you…

Ooh I’ve been to Georgia and California and, anywhere I could run
Took the hand of a preacher man and we made love in the sun But I ran out of places and friendly faces
Because I had to be free
I’ve been to paradise
But I’ve never been to me…

Please lady, please, lady
Don’t just walk away
Cause I have this need to tell you why I’m all alone today
I can see so much of me
Still living in your eyes
Won’t you share a part of a weary heart
That has lived million lies.

Oh I’ve been to Nice and the isle of Greece
While I’ve sipped champagne on a yacht
I’ve moved like Harlow in Monte Carlo
And showed 'em what I’ve got
I’ve been undressed by kings, and I’ve seen some things that a woman ain’t supposed to see…
I’ve been to paradise,
But I’ve never been to me….

Hey, you know what paradise is? It’s a lie
A fantasy we create about people and places as we’d like them to be
But you know what truth is?
It’s that little baby you’re holding
It’s that man you fought with this morning
The same one you’re going to make love with tonight
That’s truth, that’s love.

Sometimes I’ve been to crying for unborn children that might have made me complete
But I…I took the sweet life
I never knew
I’d be bitter from the sweet
I’ve spent my life exploring the subtle whoring
That costs too much to be free… hey lady…

I’ve been to paradise…
But I’ve never been to me…

I’ve been to paradise
Never been to me

And if you feel you must …
http://www.ladyjayes.com/neverbeentome.html