# Rediscovering obscure old songs from your youth
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rediscovering-obscure-old-songs-from-your-youth/737234
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Tags:** music
**Created:** [November 10, 2015, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rediscovering-obscure-old-songs-from-your-youth/737234 "2015-11-10T23:14:10Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 5
### Author:  [@X.L.Lent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/X.L.Lent)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2016, 10:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rediscovering-obscure-old-songs-from-your-youth/737234/81 "2016-01-28T10:10:46Z")
I remember this from watching old Warner Brothers cartoons as a kid. It wasn’t
until today that I learned this piece had a name. The part starting at 1:28 was
probably used most often.
[Raymond Scott’s “Powerhouse”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xthn6syCvf8)
- X. L. Lent
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### Author:  [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2016, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rediscovering-obscure-old-songs-from-your-youth/737234/82 "2016-01-28T14:07:38Z")
I heard Tom Rush’s Panama Limited once or twice on FM radio. It left me with a hauntingly good impression, but without the name or enough of the lyrics to Google it.
Some decades later I chanced upon it, clicking semi-randomly at YouTube. 🙂
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### Author:  [@Soylent\_Juicy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soylent_Juicy)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2016, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rediscovering-obscure-old-songs-from-your-youth/737234/83 "2016-01-28T15:14:27Z")
I was listening to Underground 80’s on TuneIn Radio this morning and heard a very familiar song. It was “Move to Move” by Kon Kan (1989). Haven’t heard that song since high school.
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### Author:  [@Richard\_John\_Marcej](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Richard_John_Marcej)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2016, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rediscovering-obscure-old-songs-from-your-youth/737234/84 "2016-01-28T22:16:36Z")
_ **"Troglodyte"** _ by the Jimmy Castor Bunch.
Hey, I was 10 years old.
When you’re 10 years old you LOVE songs with lyrics like these:
“She was a big woman.
BIG woman.
Her name was Bertha.
Bertha Butt.
She was one
of the Butt sisters.”
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### Author:  [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2016, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rediscovering-obscure-old-songs-from-your-youth/737234/85 "2016-06-18T18:02:42Z")
> [@nearwildheaven](#):
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> I’m listening to that now; can’t recall ever having heard it before. It also reminds me a lot of R.E.M.'s “It’s The End of the World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)”, which was not studio trickery.
>
> The death of Scott Weiland has led to a lot of discussion about Songs I Remember From My Youth, and as for the original post, in the meantime I Googled yet another Starcastle alumnus (drummer Stephen Tassler, in this case), and guess what kind of links I got THAT time? The whole first page was for a family practice physician in the Chicago suburbs, and yes, it’s him. :eek:
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> In case you’re wondering if they ever performed with Rush, the answer is yes. That must have been one of the more unusual backstage scenes in the history of rock & roll. :o They also did some shows with Boston, and I think there were some Boston/Rush/Starcastle triple bills, per their website.
Exhuming an old thread: Dr. Tassler got his medical degree at Rush University. 🆒 You can’t make this stuff up.
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### Author:  [@Chihuahua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chihuahua)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2016, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rediscovering-obscure-old-songs-from-your-youth/737234/86 "2016-06-18T18:09:36Z")
Zombie thread, but still:
I heart “Tweeter and the Monkey Man.”
One day I tried playing Travelling Wilburys for my co-workers, and they were like, “What the heck is this?”
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### Author:  [@koeeoaddi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koeeoaddi)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2016, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rediscovering-obscure-old-songs-from-your-youth/737234/87 "2016-06-18T18:21:26Z")
Just yesterday, [Mad, Mad Me](https://youtu.be/ElvbLrrlBW0), by Wendy Waldman.
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### Author:  [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2016, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rediscovering-obscure-old-songs-from-your-youth/737234/88 "2016-06-18T23:13:41Z")
> [@Chihuahua](#):
>
> One day I tried playing Travelling Wilburys for my co-workers, and they were like, “What the heck is this?”
Roy Orbison’s last project before his untimely and premature death, that’s what!
Also Jeff Lynne, Tom Petty, George Harrison, and Bob Dylan.
🆒🆒
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### Author:  [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)
#### Post date: [December 26, 2016, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rediscovering-obscure-old-songs-from-your-youth/737234/89 "2016-12-26T23:33:06Z")
George Michael’s untimely death made me think of this “Dr. Demento” favorite from the late 1980s.
I also found this song, which was a minor hit in the mid 1990s and is probably the only song with the phrase "consciousness begins to falter" in the lyrics.
Menswear was a British power pop band.
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### Author:  [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)
#### Post date: [December 27, 2016, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rediscovering-obscure-old-songs-from-your-youth/737234/90 "2016-12-27T00:38:47Z")
Recently stumbled on this lovely metal gem which I hadn’t heard in over 30 years (and not for lack of searching, either):
[Axehammer - Axehammer '84](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jssCFHmy5mw)
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### Author:  [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)
#### Post date: [December 27, 2016, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rediscovering-obscure-old-songs-from-your-youth/737234/91 "2016-12-27T01:33:50Z")
Ok, a shot in the dark but this has bugged me for decades:
Seems obscure to me because I am not able to identify the singer, only that it was a catchy tune from a video of the 60s-70s (before MTV) where the singer was all in an elegant and totally white suit and even white top hat(?) and the only lyrics I remember did go like:
"And here we go again!
Heo oh ho heo oh, ho heo heo oh.
Heo oh ho heo oh, ho heo heo oh.
Heo oh ho heo oh, ho heo heo oh."
Even back then when I was little (and only knew Spanish) I noticed that those were just nonsense words in the chorus, and it makes me think it was maybe coming from a children’s TV show from the USA were only the song was showed in my old country back then. The peculiar thing is that while the musicians were not shown in the screen, the music was with a full orchestra and included an electric guitar, not a small band.
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### Author:  [@dba\_Fred](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dba_Fred)
#### Post date: [December 27, 2016, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rediscovering-obscure-old-songs-from-your-youth/737234/92 "2016-12-27T13:27:56Z")
Cab Calloway, _Minnie the Moocher_, from the movie _The Blues Brothers_?
[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZ5gCGJorKk)
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### Author:  [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)
#### Post date: [December 27, 2016, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rediscovering-obscure-old-songs-from-your-youth/737234/93 "2016-12-27T17:28:30Z")
[I hated this when it was first popular](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1u_v68uPWw). I’ve changed my mind, since.
[This](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0OFF3q4Pxk) was controversial (read: fun) in junior high school. (short version)
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### Author:  [@Cold\_Dish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cold_Dish)
#### Post date: [December 28, 2016, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rediscovering-obscure-old-songs-from-your-youth/737234/94 "2016-12-28T16:48:33Z")
“How Do You Do?” by Mouth and MacNeal.
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### Author:  [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)
#### Post date: [December 29, 2016, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rediscovering-obscure-old-songs-from-your-youth/737234/95 "2016-12-29T03:46:03Z")
I’m trying real hard to NOT re-discover [this one](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5Wpn3dFrEs):
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### Author:  [@Lee\_Q](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lee_Q)
#### Post date: [December 31, 2016, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rediscovering-obscure-old-songs-from-your-youth/737234/96 "2016-12-31T00:46:30Z")
> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#):
>
> I’m trying real hard to NOT re-discover [this one](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5Wpn3dFrEs):
Maybe you’d rather re-discover Seasons in the Sun instead? 😃
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### Author:  [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)
#### Post date: [December 31, 2016, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rediscovering-obscure-old-songs-from-your-youth/737234/97 "2016-12-31T03:48:44Z")
> [@Lee\_Q](#):
>
> Maybe you’d rather re-discover Seasons in the Sun instead? 😃
Sadist! 😉
How about “[Chevy Van](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RiEIToOWr64)”? Huh? Re-discover THAT one, why don’tcha! :D:D:D
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### Author:  [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)
#### Post date: [December 31, 2016, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rediscovering-obscure-old-songs-from-your-youth/737234/98 "2016-12-31T04:52:53Z")
> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#):
>
> I’m trying real hard to NOT re-discover [this one](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5Wpn3dFrEs):
> [@Lee\_Q](#):
>
> Maybe you’d rather re-discover Seasons in the Sun instead? 😃
> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#):
>
> How about “[Chevy Van](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RiEIToOWr64)”? Huh? Re-discover THAT one, why don’tcha! :D:D:D
Hey you two, [get a room!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avhYvgvT5I8)
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### Author:  [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)
#### Post date: [January 3, 2017, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rediscovering-obscure-old-songs-from-your-youth/737234/99 "2017-01-03T05:43:39Z")
Hard to believe this song will be old enough to vote this year, as will the inhabitant of the baby bump featured towards the end of the video. 😛
....so I missed a million miles of fun......
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### Author:  [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)
#### Post date: [January 3, 2017, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rediscovering-obscure-old-songs-from-your-youth/737234/100 "2017-01-03T17:33:38Z")
I just discovered [this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZMc0-ZAUeY&spfreload=5) a few weeks ago, so now I’m off to re-discover The Cowsills. Ta-ta!
The title is actually, “The Rain, The Park and Other Things.”
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