# 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:** 19
**Page:** 9
### Author:  [@Zyada](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zyada)
#### Post date: [January 19, 2025, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rediscovering-obscure-old-songs-from-your-youth/737234/162 "2025-01-19T23:53:43Z")
The streakers were already a news item when this came out. IIRC, it was actually the second time the streaking fad happened
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### Author:  [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)
#### Post date: [January 20, 2025, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rediscovering-obscure-old-songs-from-your-youth/737234/163 "2025-01-20T02:20:32Z")
Talk about cashing in on a cultural fad, here’s a forgotten song by an advertising executive who turned a commercial jingle into [a modest country music hit,](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fz86Gjg8Ln0) then scored big with this now forgotten song that was turned into a now forgotten movie with the now-forgotten Ali McGraw and the bet-you-forgot-his-acting career Kris Kristofferson.
[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87r0CPQbFds)
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### Author:  [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)
#### Post date: [January 20, 2025, 7:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rediscovering-obscure-old-songs-from-your-youth/737234/164 "2025-01-20T07:05:05Z")
> [@nearwildheaven](#):
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> Kristen Hersh is still performing
So is Tanya Donelly (both solo and with Belly)
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### Author:  [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2025, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rediscovering-obscure-old-songs-from-your-youth/737234/165 "2025-01-23T18:52:31Z")
> [@Kent\_Clark](#):
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> was turned into a now forgotten movie with the now-forgotten Ali McGraw and the bet-you-forgot-his-acting career Kris Kristofferson.
_Convoy_ was the first movie I walked out on because it was sucked. I was 12 or 14, right in the prime age for this sort of stupid fun (and I still consider _Smokey and the Bandit_ an enjoyable romp), and for me to walk out of a film at that age meant it had to be _terrible_.
Also, Ali McGraw is famous for giving us Ali McGraw Disease, a mysterious fatal malady which only strikes women, a disease whose only observable symptom is that the victim gets more beautiful the closer they are to death. So she’s got that going for her, which is nice.
Anyway, here’s _Traces_, which qualifies for this thread if you’ve forgotten it:
[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hkMwXNJ_cM)
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### Author:  [@74westy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/74westy)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2025, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rediscovering-obscure-old-songs-from-your-youth/737234/166 "2025-01-23T21:37:25Z")
Prior to this, Classics IV did “[Spooky](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qpo9KZYJ4sA)” which is an amazing groove you probably know and then “[Stormy](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18Sua_QTDs0)” which was exactly the same groove with a different tune. Great band if somewhat repetitive.
There’s a little bit of that groove in your link but really only traces of it.
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### Author:  [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2025, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rediscovering-obscure-old-songs-from-your-youth/737234/167 "2025-01-24T12:33:11Z")
> [@hogarth](#):
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> When I was a kid (40ish years ago), there was a Sunday morning request program […]
The weirdest song that regularly got requested? The German-language cover version of “Baby Sittin’ Boogie”. I don’t know who kept requesting it, but I must have heard it dozens of times.
[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5wFMv9zO4k)
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### Author:  [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2025, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rediscovering-obscure-old-songs-from-your-youth/737234/168 "2025-01-24T21:49:00Z")
I thought those were Association songs.
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### Author:  [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2025, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rediscovering-obscure-old-songs-from-your-youth/737234/169 "2025-01-24T22:11:24Z")
Turn in your **The Archies** Membership Club Card and do not darken our jukebox again.
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### Author:  [@SuntanLotion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuntanLotion)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2025, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rediscovering-obscure-old-songs-from-your-youth/737234/170 "2025-01-25T04:12:23Z")
[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6_korny3bc)
I remember this from grade school.
Duke Baxter-Everybody Knows Matilda
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### Author:  [@Coriolanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coriolanus)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2025, 10:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rediscovering-obscure-old-songs-from-your-youth/737234/171 "2025-01-25T10:06:54Z")
Another thumbs up for [Starbuck’s ‘Moonlight feels right’ (extended mix)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zMxsvfAqCA)
The sly laughter was actually a recording mistake they liked and Bo Wagner’s iconic marimba solo (along with vibes) was done in one take and made that instrument pretty popular at least for a while.
And one moon song to another:
[Dancin’ in the Moonlight - King Harvest](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5JqPxmYhlo)
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### Author:  [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)
#### Post date: [March 13, 2025, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rediscovering-obscure-old-songs-from-your-youth/737234/172 "2025-03-13T23:34:12Z")
The Rapper - Jaggerz
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### Author:  [@Tokushizu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tokushizu)
#### Post date: [March 14, 2025, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rediscovering-obscure-old-songs-from-your-youth/737234/173 "2025-03-14T00:36:15Z")
I was a strange kid. Why do I say that? Because, even though I’m Jewish, 10 year old me became so enamored with this song that I walked down to Woolworth’s and bought a 45 of this. And I still love it to this day!
[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUg8B1VA0Bs)
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### Author:  [@Tokushizu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tokushizu)
#### Post date: [March 14, 2025, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rediscovering-obscure-old-songs-from-your-youth/737234/174 "2025-03-14T00:44:36Z")
And here’s another 45 I bought from the same Woolworth’s, the same year. I didn’t understand a word of Spanish at the time so the lyrics were meaningless to me, but I loved the song anyway. I hadn’t listened to it in many years, but I just did and still love it❣️
[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EtPSn3qdEI)
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### Author:  [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)
#### Post date: [March 14, 2025, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rediscovering-obscure-old-songs-from-your-youth/737234/175 "2025-03-14T16:27:48Z")
Not from my “youth,” but still something obscure to me. (This is sort of like Al Bundy’s “Hmm Hmm Him” in that I could remember some of the melody, but no clue about the lyrics. Then, I happened to switch on some movie, the title of which eludes me, and “Holy Cow!” there’s the song in the closing credits. After that, I started hearing it more often. Anyway the song was Kate Bush’s “Running up That Hill.”
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### Author:  [@MarkF2004](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MarkF2004)
#### Post date: [March 14, 2025, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rediscovering-obscure-old-songs-from-your-youth/737234/176 "2025-03-14T20:14:49Z")
Some terrific songs in this thread, some new to me, so thank you.
Here’s some that I rediscovered: [Family](https://youtu.be/sgMXxfKBkWg?si=s1b191IMDtO0b3eg)
Finding this song was such a pleasure: [Pluto Shervington](https://youtu.be/6FYTL8ydERw?si=twJv98JRYqK95Zed)
More to come…
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### Author:  [@Mark\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mark_Finn)
#### Post date: [March 14, 2025, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rediscovering-obscure-old-songs-from-your-youth/737234/177 "2025-03-14T22:38:35Z")
Go WAY back in your youthful life - to the days of children’s 78 rpm records in the 1950s - on both vinyl and even cardboard. Lots of memories brought back to me after doing a little searching. (click on “Listen” at the upper right)
[The Great 78 Project – Community Preservation, Research, Discovery of 78rpm Records](https://great78.archive.org/)
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### Author:  [@outlierrn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/outlierrn)
#### Post date: [March 16, 2025, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rediscovering-obscure-old-songs-from-your-youth/737234/178 "2025-03-16T21:56:37Z")
We had a kid come into the ER with a broken arm last night, the doctor ordered an xray, but he was in a lot of pain, so I told the doc we need to medicate before we radiate. That rattled around in my head for a bit and led me here,
[Fade Away And Radiate](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cktAd_26zKk)
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### Author:  [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2025, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rediscovering-obscure-old-songs-from-your-youth/737234/179 "2025-03-28T18:55:08Z")
Part of this song was featured in the miniseries “Chimp Crazy”, which I recently watched (and they made the Joe Exotic menagerie - the human one - seem sane in comparison).
> **[DEVO / Gut Feeling](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cwx_Qq56YTA%2F)**
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> Are We Not Men? We Are DEVO!
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### Author:  [@WOOKINPANUBv.2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUBv.2)
#### Post date: [March 30, 2025, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rediscovering-obscure-old-songs-from-your-youth/737234/180 "2025-03-30T00:47:38Z")
My bro and I revisited [Bertha Butt Boogie](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yE3IBRx2-Y) today. The two other people in our group had never heard it so we played it loud.
“Bertha Butt had three sisters; Betty Butt, Bella Butt and Bathsheba Butt”.
It’s goofy but I dare you not to dance.
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