# Most dated song **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 20, 2013, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-dated-song/656181 "2013-04-20T01:42:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**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:** [February 15, 2014, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-dated-song/656181/61 "2014-02-15T03:40:05Z")
There was a ballad that came out not long after JFK was assassinated. I was only eight years old at the time, but I remember it contained the lines “November twenty-second, nineteen-hundred sixty-three … John F. Kennedy…” ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2014, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-dated-song/656181/62 "2014-02-15T03:43:28Z")
This obscure New Wave band had no idea in 1981 that they were going to record a classic Christmas tune. The year is referenced at about 1:10. (“Christmas Wrapping” by the Waitresses) [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SzjDOk_u9I) The biggest thing they had to a hit single was this song, which at the time was in heavy rotation on MTV. [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4X_pmHr7zW8) ---
**Author:** ![Nobody](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/94ad74/32.png) [@Nobody](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nobody)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2014, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-dated-song/656181/63 "2014-02-15T03:49:59Z")
> [@SirRay](#): > > I guess we can reuse them in around 70 years I was going to say something similar about **Escape Club** ’s “Wild Wild West” Dance to the beat that we love best Heading for the nineties Living in the wild wild west Edit: I almost never look at dates, so I didn’t realize this was a zombie thread. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2014, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-dated-song/656181/64 "2014-02-15T04:12:02Z")
> [@Nobody](#): > > Edit: I almost never look at dates, so I didn’t realize this was a zombie thread. It’s not. It’s from this decade. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Nobody](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/94ad74/32.png) [@Nobody](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nobody)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2014, 8:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-dated-song/656181/65 "2014-02-15T08:49:59Z")
Uhm… Hibernating thread then. ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2014, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-dated-song/656181/66 "2014-02-15T15:37:07Z")
“Mustang Sally” by Wilson Pickett. He bought her a brand new mustang in 1965. “The Twist” by Chubby Checker. No one is invited to do The Twist any more. ---
**Author:** ![Bellhorn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/898d66/32.png) [@Bellhorn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bellhorn)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2014, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-dated-song/656181/67 "2014-02-15T20:16:07Z")
**The Ballad of John & Yoko** 1970 [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIkdZX-4aVg](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIkdZX-4aVg) **Ballad of the Green Berets** by SSGT Barry Sadler[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5WJJVSE\_BE](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5WJJVSE_BE) ---
**Author:** ![Jamicat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c67d28/32.png) [@Jamicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jamicat)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2014, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-dated-song/656181/68 "2014-02-15T21:09:26Z")
2 thousand zero one four party over oops ouuta time Tonight were gonna party like its 2014 -.- ---
**Author:** ![AppallingGael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9bd4f/32.png) [@AppallingGael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AppallingGael)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2014, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-dated-song/656181/69 "2014-02-15T22:49:40Z")
Well, 2525 now seems like it’s right around the corner. ---
**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:** [February 15, 2014, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-dated-song/656181/70 "2014-02-15T23:01:58Z")
[Kookie, Kookie (Lend me your comb).](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpABRTn6kSA) “Kookie” was an early teen heartthrob on the tv show “77 Sunset Strip”. He was always combing his hair in the mirror of his car. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2014, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-dated-song/656181/71 "2014-02-16T00:01:26Z")
[_Cheaper Crude Or No More Food_](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdAIuhgzAZM) Heh. He warned that soon we’d be paying a buck and a half for a gallon of gas. ---
**Author:** ![Truman\_Burbank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecc23a/32.png) [@Truman\_Burbank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Truman_Burbank)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2014, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-dated-song/656181/72 "2014-02-16T00:08:08Z")
“Convoy” “Kung Fu Fighting” ---
**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:** [February 16, 2014, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-dated-song/656181/73 "2014-02-16T01:05:14Z")
_ **Two** _ JFK ballads: :eek: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIeAVsU3AT4 ---
**Author:** ![Chicken\_Fingers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Chicken\_Fingers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chicken_Fingers)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2014, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-dated-song/656181/74 "2014-02-16T05:12:57Z")
Boomtown Rats - She’s So Modern. “She’s so . . . twentieth century. She’s so . . . 1970s!” I think my favorite dated song is Prince’s 1999, though. ---
**Author:** ![Nobody](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/94ad74/32.png) [@Nobody](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nobody)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2014, 7:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-dated-song/656181/75 "2014-02-16T07:35:11Z")
38 Special – 20Th Century Fox ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2014, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-dated-song/656181/76 "2014-02-16T14:08:30Z")
> [@Nobody](#): > > 38 Special – 20Th Century Fox Assuming that’s a cover of the Doors song, it was appropriate at least in the late 60s and, what, the early 80s? ---
**Author:** ![Kenm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bc79bd/32.png) [@Kenm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kenm)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2014, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-dated-song/656181/77 "2014-02-16T14:29:42Z")
The Beatles’ [**Back in the USSR**](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHD5nd3QLTg), a fun twist on The Beach Boys. It stlll gives me a chuckle. Wikipedia [**has an article**](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back_in_the_USSR) on it. ---
**Author:** ![LC\_Strawhouse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e19adc/32.png) [@LC\_Strawhouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LC_Strawhouse)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2014, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-dated-song/656181/78 "2014-02-16T16:38:59Z")
How about that song where John Lennon and Yoko Ono use the N-word to make a point about women’s rights. Just embarrassing. That could only have sounded like a good idea for about a week in the early 70s. ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2014, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-dated-song/656181/79 "2014-02-16T16:46:28Z")
Summer of '69 - Bryan Adams is pretty dated, to some. ---
**Author:** ![Steken](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e274bd/32.png) [@Steken](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steken)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2014, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-dated-song/656181/80 "2014-02-16T17:24:10Z")
> [@salinqmind](#): > > Summer of '69 - Bryan Adams is pretty dated, to some. I hear the “69” in the title isn’t a reference to 1969. … _Ladies_. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-dated-song/656181.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-dated-song/656181.md?page=5)