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…”
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)
The biggest thing they had to a hit single was this song, which at the time was in heavy rotation on MTV.
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.
It’s not. It’s from this decade.
Uhm… Hibernating thread then.
“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.
The Ballad of John & Yoko 1970 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIkdZX-4aVg
Ballad of the Green Berets by SSGT Barry Sadlerhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5WJJVSE_BE
2 thousand zero one four
party over oops
ouuta time
Tonight were gonna party like
its 2014
-.-
Well, 2525 now seems like it’s right around the corner.
Kookie, Kookie (Lend me your comb).
“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.
Heh. He warned that soon we’d be paying a buck and a half for a gallon of gas.
“Convoy”
“Kung Fu Fighting”
Two JFK ballads: :eek:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIeAVsU3AT4Boomtown 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.
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?
The Beatles’ Back in the USSR, a fun twist on The Beach Boys. It stlll gives me a chuckle. Wikipedia has an article on it.
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.
Summer of '69 - Bryan Adams is pretty dated, to some.
I hear the “69” in the title isn’t a reference to 1969.
… Ladies.