# Pop Songs Only You Remember **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 30, 2010, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pop-songs-only-you-remember/526975 "2010-01-30T00:41:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Hazle\_Weatherfield](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Hazle\_Weatherfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hazle_Weatherfield)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2010, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pop-songs-only-you-remember/526975/41 "2010-01-30T21:49:12Z")
“Tarzan Boy,” by Baltimora. ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2010, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pop-songs-only-you-remember/526975/42 "2010-01-30T21:57:25Z")
“Door to the Sun / Alla porte del sole” by Al Martino. A piece of pungently cheesy Europop which got heavy play on AM radio in 1974. ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2010, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pop-songs-only-you-remember/526975/43 "2010-01-30T22:59:15Z")
> [@Sir\_Prize](#): > > Manfred Mann’s Earth Band - Lies (All Through The 80’s) > > Maybe it will come back in 70 years. I remember this most excellent song, but had no idea it was Manfred Mann. Era-wise, I am suddenly reminded of [Hocus Pocus](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGaVUApDVuY) by Focus. People are familiar with this…yes, no? ---
**Author:** ![norinew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/eb9ed0/32.png) [@norinew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/norinew)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2010, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pop-songs-only-you-remember/526975/44 "2010-01-30T23:21:27Z")
> [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](#): > > Patches - Is that the same as the Clarence Carter song? (“Patches, I’m depending on you son, to pull the family through, my boy, it’s all up to you…”) No, I believe they’re talking about a _different_ Patches, about a boy in love with a girl from ‘the wrong side of the tracks’, where the chorus goes: Patches, Oh what can I do? I swear I’ll always love you But a girl from that place Can just bring me disgrace So my folks won’t let me love you Until the end, where he discovers his true love has committed suicide on account of him not showing up when he was supposed to. The final chorus is: Patches, Oh what can I do? I swear I’ll always love you It may not be right But I’ll join you tonight Patches, I’m coming to you Probably on par, glurge-wise, with the Patches you were thinking of, and I’m :o that I just did those refrains from memory rather than looking them up! 😛 BTW, one of the few songs I play for myself to enjoy on youtube is Curry’s _I Do the Rock_ (recorded live on German television), as well as _Charge It_ and _Paradise Garage_. Yeah, I was a _huge_ Curry/RHPS fan in the day, and in fact, owned _both_ of his albums. Something I’d like to add to the OP is Bette Midler’s _My One True Friend_. I love the Divine Miss M, of course, but to me, this is one of her most heart-felt, touching, wonderful songs. But shortly after becoming something of a hit for her, it crashed and burned. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![MwNNrules](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5f8ce5/32.png) [@MwNNrules](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MwNNrules)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2010, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pop-songs-only-you-remember/526975/45 "2010-01-30T23:55:59Z")
One of my friends asked me what my favorite song was, and I replied “Kid Charlemagne”, a forgotten classic by Steely Dan. It has a nice rhythm, catchy lyrics, and a damn fine session guitar solo by Larry Carlton (not as good as Elliot Randall’s solo on “Reelin in the Years” (Jimmy Page’s favorite guitar solo), also by Steely Dan, but still memorable). On the whole, I’m not sure that pop is the right way to describe Steely Dan, but it sounds better than jazz rock in a lot of ways. Besides, tossing a group into genres of music only limits it. Maybe it isn’t as much of a forgotten classic as I thought though: Larry Carlton’s solo placed eighty-eighth on Guitar World’s list of 100 greatest guitar solos: [The 15 Best Guitar Solos of All Time](http://guitar.about.com/library/bl100greatest.htm). “Reelin’ in the Years” placed fortieth on it (again, it’s solo is better, but I prefer “Kid Charlemagne”‘s themes of fall from grace and desperation to "Reelin’ in the Years"’ theme of nostalgia). At least the readers of Guitar World have some class. ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2010, 11:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pop-songs-only-you-remember/526975/46 "2010-01-31T11:28:38Z")
> [@](#): > > “Kid Charlemagne”, a forgotten classic by Steely Dan. Not forgotten by me. Love it. And regarding ‘I Do the Rock’: outstanding song, outstanding lyrics. _Solzhenitsyn feels exposed build a barbed-wired prison Nietzsche’s six feet under but his baby’s still got rhythm Einstein’s celebrating ten decades but I’m afraid philosophy is just too much responsibility for me_ ---
**Author:** ![Icerigger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icerigger/32/432_2.png) [@Icerigger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icerigger)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2010, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pop-songs-only-you-remember/526975/47 "2010-01-31T13:56:51Z")
**Lucky Stars** > [@](#): > > What are you crazy? How in the hell can you say what you just said? > I was talking to myself. Shut the door and come to bed. > By the way, I forgot to say, your endearing mother called today. > Did you see Lisa? > Yes I saw Lisa. > Is that why…You’re.. angry? > I wasn’t angry. > Maybe a little. > Not even maybe. > Must be the weather. > Now don’t be a baby. > We’ll how am I supposed to feel with all the things you don’t reveal and you can thank your lucky stars that we’re not as smart as we’d like to think we are. ---
**Author:** ![Crafter\_Man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crafter_man/32/458_2.png) [@Crafter\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crafter_Man)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2010, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pop-songs-only-you-remember/526975/48 "2010-01-31T14:09:55Z")
I remember the song _ **Singin’ in the Kitchen** _ by Bobby Bare being played all the time in the mid 70’s. No one seems to remember it, though. ---
**Author:** ![Two\_Many\_Cats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8dc957/32.png) [@Two\_Many\_Cats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_Many_Cats)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2010, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pop-songs-only-you-remember/526975/49 "2010-01-31T15:29:29Z")
> [@Crafter\_Man](#): > > I remember the song _ **Singin’ in the Kitchen** _ by Bobby Bare being played all the time in the mid 70’s. No one seems to remember it, though. Everyone’s memory is blotted out from all that bangin’ on the pots and pans. ---
**Author:** ![racer72](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/racer72/32/3075_2.png) [@racer72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racer72)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2010, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pop-songs-only-you-remember/526975/50 "2010-01-31T16:48:20Z")
I had my MP3 player plugged into a radio at work the other day. The song “The Great Airplane Strike” played and everyone tried guessing who did the song. I heard everything from The Beatles to The Foo Fighters. The little light bulb came on for many when I told them it was Paul Revere and the Raiders. Even though it was a top 20 song back in 60’s, 4 or 5 people said they had never heard the song before. ---
**Author:** ![Baggins111](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9fc29f/32.png) [@Baggins111](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baggins111)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2010, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pop-songs-only-you-remember/526975/51 "2010-01-31T19:43:15Z")
_ **Shades of 45** _ by Gary O. I was 14 when it came out and I LOVED that song. Don’t ask my why. NOBODY I know remembers that song. ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2010, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pop-songs-only-you-remember/526975/52 "2010-01-31T21:35:12Z")
> [@WordMan](#): > > > [@Krokodil](#): > > > > “I Do the Rock” by Tim Curry > > I always enjoyed that song. Holy crap, there’s three of us who remember. I read it, and instantly the lines > [@](#): > > Edith Sitwell giving readings > 14 Moscow Road, > Oswald giving champagne parties, > Sashie’s got a cold. ran thru my head. And I didn’t even _like_ that song. Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![cjepson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a9adbd/32.png) [@cjepson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cjepson)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2010, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pop-songs-only-you-remember/526975/53 "2010-02-01T16:40:49Z")
> [@Hometownboy](#): > > **I’m A Lonely Little Petunia (In an Onion Patch)** By Kitty Kalen OMG!!! I haven’t thought about that song in about 47 years! There were numerous songs that I think must have been hits locally but not nationally when I was growing up, such as “I’ll Hold Out My Hand” by Smith (otherwise known only for their cover of “Baby It’s You”). ---
**Author:** ![ministryman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f6c823/32.png) [@ministryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ministryman)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2010, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pop-songs-only-you-remember/526975/54 "2010-02-02T16:23:20Z")
> [@Markxxx](#): > > Here’s some songs I recall not many people do > > If The Love Fits - Leslie Pearl #28 (1982) > I Could Never Miss You (More Than I Do) - Lulu #19 (1981) > Doctor’s Orders - Carol Douglas #11 (1974) > Don’t Say You Don’t Remember - Beverly Bremmers #15 (1971) Gotcha on the Doctor’s Orders Song! ---
**Author:** ![ministryman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f6c823/32.png) [@ministryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ministryman)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2010, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pop-songs-only-you-remember/526975/55 "2010-02-02T16:24:59Z")
> [@kidneyfailure](#): > > “You’ve Got It All,” by the Jetts (Jets?). I’ve mentioned the refrain from that song many a time to many a person: > > “you’ve got it over him, you’ve got me over him” > > But I only get blank stares. C’mon, I’m not the only who remembers that am I? The Jets…they also had a song “Rocket (rockit) To You”. I actually used to own the 12" disc, but lost it in a painful story. ---
**Author:** ![ministryman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f6c823/32.png) [@ministryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ministryman)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2010, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pop-songs-only-you-remember/526975/56 "2010-02-02T16:27:14Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > Chevy Van" is a 1973 song written and sung by Sammy Johns. The song was a big hit in 1975, reaching #5 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart > > Celebrated a time when guys drove tricked out vans with wood paneling, lights and bed. Don’t come knockin if the vans a hopping. 😉 I kept my van for almost 20 years. > > still love this song! > [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RiEIToOWr64](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RiEIToOWr64) “Like a picture she was layin there moonlight dancing off her hair she [brain fart] and took me by the hand we made love in my Chevy Van, and that’s all right with me.” Thanks for the memory! ---
**Author:** ![clnilsen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ecccb3/32.png) [@clnilsen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/clnilsen)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2010, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pop-songs-only-you-remember/526975/57 "2010-02-02T16:46:05Z")
[This is Ponderous by 2Nu](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHuqJFwVP-M&feature=PlayList&p=D6C7F5957F57E7D0&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=8) Popular when I was in High school, if only because the pop station would only play it late at night (no idea why). I loved this song when it was out, but can’t seem to find ANYONE who remembers it. ---
**Author:** ![FalconFinder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/51bf81/32.png) [@FalconFinder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FalconFinder)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2010, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pop-songs-only-you-remember/526975/58 "2010-02-02T17:13:49Z")
> [@ministryman](#): > > “Like a picture she was layin there > moonlight dancing off her hair > she [brain fart] and took me by the hand > we made love in my Chevy Van, and that’s all right with me.” > > Thanks for the memory! “She woke up and took me by the hand” I remember several of the songs mentioned here. Billy Don’t Be a Hero was one of my favorites when I was little. Diamonds is on [YouTube](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHFGTcx8yjk) How many remember “Love or something like it” by Kenny Rogers? ---
**Author:** ![Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de053/32.png) [@Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackknifed_Juggernaut)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2010, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pop-songs-only-you-remember/526975/59 "2010-02-02T17:45:16Z")
Here’s a few for your playlists. I maintain a list of my favorite songs for my future career as a DJ. These are a few I picked off that list that you may have forgotten: B-52’s Deadbeat Club Adrian Belew Oh Daddy Belly Gepetto Jeff Buckley Last Goodbye Camouflage The Great Commandment Lloyd Cole She’s a Girl and I’m a Man Edwyn Collins A Girl Like You The Cure Catch Dead Eye Dick New Age Girl Disposable Heroes of Hiphopricy Television Dramarama Last Cigarette The Farm Groovy Train Fountains of Wayne Radiation Vibe Freedy Johnston Bad Reputation Harvey Danger Flagpole Sitta Information Society Peace & Love, Inc. Inspiral Carpets Two Worlds Collide Andreas Johnson Glorious The KLF Justified And Ancient Kirsty MacColl Walking Down Madison Oasis Lyla Pete Droge If You Don’t Love Me I’ll Kill Myself Public Image Limited Disappointed The Refreshments Banditos School of Fish 3 Strange Days The Shamen Ebeneezer Goode Single Gun Theory From a Million Miles Sisters of Mercy More Soul Asylum Black Gold Soul Coughing Super Bon Bon Space Female of the Species St. Etienne Only Love Can Break Your Heart Stone Sour Bother Stroke 9 Little Black Backpack Superdrag Sucked Out Matthew Sweet Evangeline The The Love Is Stronger Than Death Third Eye Blind Motorcycle Drive By Travis Sing Utah Saints Something Good The Waterboys The Whole of the Moon ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2010, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pop-songs-only-you-remember/526975/60 "2010-02-02T17:51:59Z")
> [@Markxxx](#): > > I recall a song called _Save the Bones for Henry Jones_ but this was done in the 40s by several different artists. I checked my CDs and the Pointer Sisters did it on their album _Steppin’_ 'Cause Henry don’t eat no meat? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pop-songs-only-you-remember/526975.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pop-songs-only-you-remember/526975.md?page=4)