# Long-Forgotten (by you) Songs **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 8, 2010, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/long-forgotten-by-you-songs/524194 "2010-01-08T19:40:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2011, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/long-forgotten-by-you-songs/524194/41 "2011-07-15T17:23:47Z")
> [@Slithy\_Tove](#): > > Thanks to Youtube I can remember all the weird swing-era records my dad used to annoy us kids with > > [Cement Mixer](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSOn5gQFDpE) > > [Open the Door Richard](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMeJHf05q-s) > > Cringe-worthy “Ha-ha, those negroes are such rascals” [Darktown Poker Club](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uan5Toi3SU) by Phil Harris My name is Richard, I grew up in the 50s and 60s, and I’d like to piss on the grave of the guy who wrote “Open the door, Richard”. ---
**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:** [July 15, 2011, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/long-forgotten-by-you-songs/524194/42 "2011-07-15T17:32:31Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > **FIRE**! The Crazy World of Arthur Brown was one of those LPs that very few other people even heard of, let alone bought. Well, the LP charted in the Top 10, so _someone_ must have been buying it. > [@koeeoaddi](#): > > [Ma Belle Amie](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyOg9G-0lR4), by Tee Set? I always dug the very weird B-side of this, “Angels Coming in the Holy Night.” (Was going to link to it on Youtube, but the version on there is overlaid with annoying extraneous noise from the irrelevant video portion.) > [@CWN](#): > > [\*\* Don’t in the Subway\*\*](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRtjDSuyvMA&feature=related) Just…don’t. > [@Peanuthead](#): > > I was recently reminded of Melanie’s “Lady Down, Lay Down (Candles in the Rain”. Oh, cool! I had this song playing on Youtube as I read this post. (It was linked after “Master Jack.”) ---
**Author:** ![DirkGntly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d9b06d/32.png) [@DirkGntly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DirkGntly)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2011, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/long-forgotten-by-you-songs/524194/43 "2011-07-15T18:28:18Z")
“Shaving Cream” …stick your head in a barrel of shhhhh…aving cream, feel nice and clean. Shhhhh…ave every day and you’ll always feel clean. ---
**Author:** ![Saltire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saltire/32/553_2.png) [@Saltire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saltire)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2011, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/long-forgotten-by-you-songs/524194/44 "2011-07-15T20:08:02Z")
Had one just now. I went to the Bite of Seattle for lunch, and a cover band called “The Spirographs” were on stage playing tunes from the 60s and 70s. The song I hadn’t thought about in forever: _[Yummy, Yummy, Yummy](http://www.lyricsfreak.com/o/ohio+express/yummy+yummy+yummy_20353081.html)_. Another one that popped into my head a few weeks ago: _[Like a Sunday in Salem](http://www.lyricsfreak.com/g/gene+cotton/like+a+sunday+in+salem+the+amos+andy+song_20792011.html)_ by Gene Cotton. Weird tune that was on the radio a lot for a few months in '78, but has almost totally disappeared from our culture, as far as I can tell. ---
**Author:** ![Nom\_de\_Plume](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/85f322/32.png) [@Nom\_de\_Plume](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nom_de_Plume)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2011, 7:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/long-forgotten-by-you-songs/524194/45 "2011-07-16T07:32:29Z")
I don’t remember who sang it, but I remember a song that goes. ‘Hey, baby, I’m your telephone man. You just tell me where you want it, and I’ll put it where I can.’ I think I was too young at the time to get the double entendres. ---
**Author:** ![Nom\_de\_Plume](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/85f322/32.png) [@Nom\_de\_Plume](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nom_de_Plume)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2011, 7:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/long-forgotten-by-you-songs/524194/46 "2011-07-16T07:42:38Z")
> [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](#): > > My unidentified song: > > It’s a ballad, and the first words are something like “If there’s somewhere else you’d like to go, I wish you’d go there now. . . .” > > It was released sometime between '81 and '84. > > Thanks. That was 'I don’t want to want you anymore ’ by Prism ---
**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:** [July 16, 2011, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/long-forgotten-by-you-songs/524194/47 "2011-07-16T16:22:25Z")
> [@Nom\_de\_Plume](#): > > I don’t remember who sang it, but I remember a song that goes. ‘Hey, baby, I’m your telephone man. You just tell me where you want it, and I’ll put it where I can.’ [“Telephone Man”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UexxG4RntfU) by Meri Wilson. It was a big Dr. Demento airplay item. ---
**Author:** ![No\_umlaut\_for\_U](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ea5d25/32.png) [@No\_umlaut\_for\_U](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/No_umlaut_for_U)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2011, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/long-forgotten-by-you-songs/524194/48 "2011-07-17T03:43:40Z")
Spirit in the Sky by Norman Greenbaum (had to Google for the artist). Cherokee Nation by Paul Revere and the Raiders (spent a week in Girl Scout camp singing Parakeet Nation, Parakeet Tribe…). And Mason William’s Classical Gas brings back a boatload of memories. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2011, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/long-forgotten-by-you-songs/524194/49 "2011-07-19T14:22:53Z")
Today’s blast from the past: [Jack and Jill](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUpqRrKh2CE), by Ray Parker, Jr. This is Super Seventies Cheatin’ Cheez, bonus points for the nursery rhyme imagery. It just about makes my skin crawl off! ---
**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:** [July 19, 2011, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/long-forgotten-by-you-songs/524194/50 "2011-07-19T14:41:26Z")
> [@Dung\_Beetle](#): > > Today’s blast from the past: [Jack and Jill](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUpqRrKh2CE), by Ray Parker, Jr. This is Super Seventies Cheatin’ Cheez, bonus points for the nursery rhyme imagery. It just about makes my skin crawl off! If it’s skin crawling you want, you just reminded me of this long-forgotten ditty of the same title by [Tommy Roe](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIq6rqUcIvw). 🆒 Musicological note: check out how the key change is handled–it starts modulating up in traditional pop-dramatic fashion at 1:27, but then they just say the hell with it and throw in a funky drum break, leaving Tommy to come back in cold on the new key. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2011, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/long-forgotten-by-you-songs/524194/51 "2011-07-19T15:00:33Z")
> [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](#): > > If it’s skin crawling you want, Well…yeah. 😃 I’ll check it out when I get home. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2011, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/long-forgotten-by-you-songs/524194/52 "2011-07-19T15:31:34Z")
A while back for absolutely no reason at all [this song by Mouth & McNeal popped into my head.](http://youtu.be/2skBGdyoMkk) How can I remember a song I didn’t know I knew? ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2011, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/long-forgotten-by-you-songs/524194/53 "2011-07-19T16:42:44Z")
> [@Biggirl](#): > > A while back for absolutely no reason at all [this song by Mouth & McNeal popped into my head.](http://youtu.be/2skBGdyoMkk) How can I remember a song I didn’t know I knew? Thank you, **Biggirl**. Thank you so much. It’s been many years since I last heard it, but that’s become my earworm today. 😉 Here’s one I’d forgotten about: [Too Late to Turn Back Now](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WacP5sX4sJw), from Cornelius Brothers and Sister Rose. ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2011, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/long-forgotten-by-you-songs/524194/54 "2011-07-19T17:16:39Z")
Good news: found an oldies station that plays REAL oldies. Bad news: all the commercials are for pills, funeral planning needs, and motorized scooters! Hey! I don’t need a walker or Ben Gay YET!!! ---
**Author:** ![mcgato](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ac8455/32.png) [@mcgato](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mcgato)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2011, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/long-forgotten-by-you-songs/524194/55 "2011-07-19T23:53:10Z")
> [@In\_Winnipeg](#): > > This one, which is also a candidate for “What the Hell Was That Song About?” > [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sb-SVPJM4L4](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sb-SVPJM4L4) OMG, “Some Velvet Morning”!!! Story time: Around 1982, and my college radio station plays a bizarre song by [Roland Howard and Lydia Lunch](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wJ2t0kyRTA&feature=related) that blew my mind in a WTF way. A couple of weeks later, I called the station and requested it. The DJ said that they didn’t have that at the time, but they could play the original. Original??? Somebody else did that song before 1982??? So I told them to play it. I thought the original was 10 times weirder than the No Wave remake. That is pretty amazing. Just goes to show that the drugs in the late 60s were really powerful. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2011, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/long-forgotten-by-you-songs/524194/56 "2011-07-20T01:30:00Z")
So powerful that they could make Nancy Sinatra into a best-selling singer!!! ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2011, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/long-forgotten-by-you-songs/524194/57 "2011-07-20T13:37:02Z")
Ooooh, good ones \*\*Spoons \*\*and **Biggirl**! I thought of a few as I lay half asleep after reading this thread last night but this morning the only one I could remember is [Rock the Boat](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfBwsG8ubFw&feature=player_embedded) by the Hughes Corporation. I did, however remember listening to all of these on my [toot a loop radio](http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=toot+a+loop+radio&qpvt=toot+a+loop+radio&FORM=Z7FD). ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2011, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/long-forgotten-by-you-songs/524194/58 "2011-07-20T15:50:20Z")
I heard a choice one yesterday, Cherry Hill Park by Billy Joe Royal. And may I say, now, that listening to the lyrics, I have been grossed out. It sounds like a porn fantasy, some loose girl just having fun turning tricks with all the guys after dark. That loose girl just having fun is doing so, acting out pathology, after severe childhood sexual abuse. ---
**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:** [July 20, 2011, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/long-forgotten-by-you-songs/524194/59 "2011-07-20T16:14:57Z")
> [@salinqmind](#): > > I heard a choice one yesterday, Cherry Hill Park by Billy Joe Royal. And may I say, now, that listening to the lyrics, I have been grossed out. It sounds like a porn fantasy, some loose girl just having fun turning tricks with all the guys after dark. How funny–I totally associate that song with Tommy Roe’s “Jack and Jill,” which I linked to a few posts above. And yeah, I remember back in 9th grade I thought “Cherry Hill Park” was _filthy_. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2011, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/long-forgotten-by-you-songs/524194/60 "2011-07-20T17:15:38Z")
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