# Songs no one remembers but you **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** music\ **Created:** [June 14, 2026, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-no-one-remembers-but-you/1030902 "2026-06-14T23:15:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2026, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-no-one-remembers-but-you/1030902/1 "2026-06-14T23:15:13Z")
There are bound to be a few; songs you remember, but no one else you talk to have heard of or remember. For instance, as a kid, I distinctly remember my parents owning the 45 of [“Like a Sunday In Salem” by Gene Cotton](https://youtu.be/ANTYbInzdoA?is=uRZLzk3IzW6E-ulo). My brother and I must have played it so much that we wore the vinyl out. Likewise, [“A Fine, Fine Day” by Tony Carey](https://youtu.be/ZJFh3_jifoA?is=HZNbl3BKh85jRxxo). For a while, this was my older brother’s favorite song. Yet he doesn’t remember either of them. Not even playing them for him sparked a memory. Finally, there’s [“Girls” by Dwight Twilley](https://youtu.be/-n7ykctLEW4?is=JE8yVTw5vrb3imCJ). I love this song. Always have. But no one seems to remember it, despite it seemingly having been in heavy rotation on MTV. You must have a few of your own. Spill them here. See if anyone else remembers them besides you. ---
**Author:** ![SuntanLotion](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suntanlotion/32/16165_2.png) [@SuntanLotion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuntanLotion)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2026, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-no-one-remembers-but-you/1030902/2 "2026-06-14T23:29:10Z")
Everybody knows Mathilda. From my childhood, a fast paced song. We’re All Boat People, from a college station. Maybe its well known, not sure. ---
**Author:** ![SuntanLotion](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suntanlotion/32/16165_2.png) [@SuntanLotion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuntanLotion)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2026, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-no-one-remembers-but-you/1030902/3 "2026-06-14T23:33:01Z")
[![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Rp9Dbc1xOzo/hqdefault.jpg "LOVELAND") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rp9Dbc1xOzo) ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2026, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-no-one-remembers-but-you/1030902/4 "2026-06-14T23:45:56Z")
A beautiful sad song, from the best totally forgotten folk-rock album. “All I Need” from Batdorf & Rodney. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/nuojEMjyQB4/maxresdefault.jpg "All I Need") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nuojEMjyQB4) ---
**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:** [June 14, 2026, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-no-one-remembers-but-you/1030902/5 "2026-06-14T23:45:58Z")
“Got to got to got to got to got to got to take me by the hand…” I still own my “Loveland” 45. mmm ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2026, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-no-one-remembers-but-you/1030902/6 "2026-06-14T23:50:21Z")
[![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/9bXkt_d7GkM/hqdefault.jpg "Celi Bee & The Buzzy Bunch - Superman (1977)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bXkt_d7GkM) ---
**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:** [June 14, 2026, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-no-one-remembers-but-you/1030902/7 "2026-06-14T23:56:11Z")
> [@SuntanLotion](#): > > Everybody knows Mathilda. “She take me money an’ run Venez-wela”? I remember it from German class. It was in the _Schlag-Parade_ of 1969. ---
**Author:** ![SuntanLotion](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suntanlotion/32/16165_2.png) [@SuntanLotion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuntanLotion)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2026, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-no-one-remembers-but-you/1030902/8 "2026-06-14T23:59:24Z")
[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/RIgDwt9iP5Y/maxresdefault.jpg "Kinky Friedman. Dear Abby.") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIgDwt9iP5Y) ---
**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:** [June 14, 2026, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-no-one-remembers-but-you/1030902/9 "2026-06-14T23:59:43Z")
[![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/x3035ZghcqI/hqdefault.jpg "The Pipkins Gimme Dat Ding") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3035ZghcqI2) ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2026, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-no-one-remembers-but-you/1030902/10 "2026-06-15T00:00:23Z")
[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/IVUnZsS0Xf8/maxresdefault.jpg "20260516 jc4771 BOF EvergreenDeinfluence P 16x9 60s 55 p322v1e1") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVUnZsS0Xf8) Whatsa Matta You Joe Dolce ---
**Author:** ![SuntanLotion](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suntanlotion/32/16165_2.png) [@SuntanLotion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuntanLotion)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2026, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-no-one-remembers-but-you/1030902/11 "2026-06-15T00:03:23Z")
I was going to mention this. Did you live in my neighborhood? ---
**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:** [June 15, 2026, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-no-one-remembers-but-you/1030902/12 "2026-06-15T00:04:52Z")
[Singin’ in the Kitchen](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjN4_A5UqQA) by Bobby Bare and Family. Heard on the radio all the time when I was seven years old. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2026, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-no-one-remembers-but-you/1030902/13 "2026-06-15T00:09:12Z")
> [@Dung\_Beetle](#): > > Whatsa Matta You > Joe Dolce a.k.a. Shaddap You Face. I bought that 45 in 1981. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2026, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-no-one-remembers-but-you/1030902/14 "2026-06-15T00:19:58Z")
How about: ![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/AVf7m_YZ2zY/maxresdefault.jpg)https://www.youtube.com/embed/AVf7m_YZ2zY?feature=oembed&wmode=opaque&list=RDAVf7m_YZ2zY ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2026, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-no-one-remembers-but-you/1030902/15 "2026-06-15T00:29:50Z")
I never knew the real lyrics until years later, but I remember this song from when I was 11 years old. [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/cx0C3FUkbww/hqdefault.jpg "1964 HITS ARCHIVE: My True Carrie, Love - Nat King Cole") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cx0C3FUkbww) ---
**Author:** ![Stephe96](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Stephe96](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stephe96)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2026, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-no-one-remembers-but-you/1030902/16 "2026-06-15T00:39:09Z")
When the Blake Edwards movie “10” first came out, there was a novelty-type song that came out to cash in on the whole ‘rating people by their looks’ craze. It was a country-ish (I think) song about a guy in a bar who says a woman there is a 10, but then she starts rating the guy on everything from his shoes to his car outside, and thoroughly humiliates the guy. I think I heard this song once and have no idea what it was called or how to find it. ---
**Author:** ![peccavi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peccavi/32/388_2.png) [@peccavi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peccavi)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2026, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-no-one-remembers-but-you/1030902/17 "2026-06-15T00:39:53Z")
[Barbara Keith](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Keith) disliked her eponymous 1972 album so much, she returned the advance money and left the music business. The album sold badly and did not reappear online for about 40 years. I first heard the song _A Stone’s Throw Away_ playing in a record store shortly after the album’s release, but didn’t have the six bucks needed to buy the album. A few weeks later when I decided to buy the album, it was no longer in the stores. I looked for it over the years, but it pretty much disappeared until it finally showed up online in the 2000’s. So I’m confident few remember this one. Beware, earworm territory ahead! [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/EV5SMQ8y9uE/maxresdefault.jpg "A Stone's Throw Away") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EV5SMQ8y9uE) ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2026, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-no-one-remembers-but-you/1030902/18 "2026-06-15T01:04:07Z")
“That’s right, that’s right…I’m sadder than blue/cuz I can’t do the boogaloo” Love that song to this day ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2026, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-no-one-remembers-but-you/1030902/19 "2026-06-15T01:08:39Z")
A no-hit wonder group called The Smiths tried to break out with 1968’s “Now I Taste the Tears.” Basically country music “my woman left me” lyrics attached to a sad minor key melody, it builds to a surprising (for 1968) finish. Shortly after that, their label dropped the band, two of the members reformed as “Smith,” they added a strong female lead singer and became a one-hit wonder. NITTT was eventually covered in the 1980s, but I remember this version. ![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/oAsrErOFrV4/maxresdefault.jpg)https://www.youtube.com/embed/oAsrErOFrV4?feature=oembed&wmode=opaque&list=RDoAsrErOFrV4 ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2026, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-no-one-remembers-but-you/1030902/20 "2026-06-15T01:14:42Z")
From der Wiki: > When Hammond and Hazlewood wrote and composed “ **Gimme Dat Ding** ,” it was one selection from their musical sequence “Oliver in the Overworld,” which formed part of the British children’s show _Little Big Time,_ hosted by [Freddie and the Dreamers](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freddie_and_the_Dreamers "Freddie and the Dreamers"); this narrated a surreal story of a little boy seeking the parts to mend his grandfather clock. The lyrics relate to this story, the song being sung by a metronome who has been expelled by the Clockwork King. The “ding” has been stolen from the metronome by the “Undercog”. The original version, as performed by [Freddie Garrity](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freddie_Garrity "Freddie Garrity"), was released on the album _Oliver in the Overworld_ in 1970. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-no-one-remembers-but-you/1030902.md?page=2)