# 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:** 2
**Author:** ![Jebbilene](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jebbilene/32/3414_2.png) [@Jebbilene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jebbilene)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2026, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-no-one-remembers-but-you/1030902/21 "2026-06-15T01:20:02Z")
There was a song that was all over the radio for a bit in the 90s that I really loved at the time. I think it was called ‘Why You Say Yes When You Mean No.’ At least, that was 80% of the lyrics. After it went away, I could never find it again and no one else ever remembered it. Just recently I came across it again. It’s actually called ‘Marbles’ by Black Grape. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/PRNJi5rlnCo/maxresdefault.jpg "Black Grape - Marbles (Why You Say Yes ... ?)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRNJi5rlnCo) ---
**Author:** ![XOldiesJock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/ec9cab/32.png) [@XOldiesJock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XOldiesJock)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2026, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-no-one-remembers-but-you/1030902/22 "2026-06-15T01:20:28Z")
> [@Exapno\_Mapcase](#): > > _A beautiful sad song, from the best totally forgotten folk-rock album. “All I Need” from Batdorf & Rodney._ When I was a very young radio DJ I was impressed by that song. I was allowed to go off playlist every once in a while and I played that song a lot, thinking I might help turn it into something. It did not, and B&R are long forgotten. Except by you and me. Thanks for the reminder! ---
**Author:** ![SCAdian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scadian/32/3292_2.png) [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2026, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-no-one-remembers-but-you/1030902/23 "2026-06-15T01:29:34Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > “She take me money an’ run Venez-wela”? So far this is the only song mentioned in this thread that I remember. Back in the early '60s we had a copy of [this](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belafonte_at_Carnegie_Hall) Harry Belafonte “live” album. ---
**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 15, 2026, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-no-one-remembers-but-you/1030902/24 "2026-06-15T01:32:19Z")
I remember most of the songs from the _Schlag-Parade_ of 1969. However, they’re almost all in German. ☹ ---
**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 15, 2026, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-no-one-remembers-but-you/1030902/25 "2026-06-15T01:38:00Z")
For some reason it popped into my head like an earworm, so I went to YouTube to play it. Then the rest of the songs from the album - which I used to own - and realized how good all of them were even though I’d forgotten their existence. Even though 60s music is overplayed, and this 1972 album is 60s music really, such a fantastic amount of great music came out in those amazing years that the alsorans that aren’t played are often worth refinding. ---
**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 15, 2026, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-no-one-remembers-but-you/1030902/26 "2026-06-15T01:48:05Z")
I haven’t heard this song in ages. I remember listening to it on the car radio when I was being driven home from a party late at night in 1973 or '74. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/OSAeuzfBVvo/maxresdefault.jpg "Please Come to Boston - Dave Loggins | The Midnight Special") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSAeuzfBVvo&t=21/) ---
**Author:** ![Reeses\_Monkey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/reeses_monkey/32/2885_2.png) [@Reeses\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reeses_Monkey)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2026, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-no-one-remembers-but-you/1030902/27 "2026-06-15T01:50:03Z")
No one remembers this one and I don’t care. Very much. I don’t care. [Mayf Nutter](https://youtu.be/hfuZJKMV8Ug?is=exoNAE-ZHECDJuFN) ---
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2026, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-no-one-remembers-but-you/1030902/28 "2026-06-15T01:58:16Z")
Allan Sherman had a spoof of that called “My Zelda” (She took the money and ran with the tailor). This thread reminds me of Stump the Band on Johnny Carson’s Tonight Show (how many people remember that, even?). My entry, if I had ever gotten on that segment, was going to be this lovely ditty, called Sideways Through the Sewers of the Strand. If you don’t recognize the singer, it’s Bluebottle, with special guest Eccles on one line, from The Goon Show: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/Nusg14e5M2U/maxresdefault.jpg "Bluebottle - Sideways Through the Sewers of the Strand") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nusg14e5M2U) ---
**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, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-no-one-remembers-but-you/1030902/29 "2026-06-15T02:07:09Z")
I’m a big Goon Show fan, needle nardle noo, and I really like that song. ---
**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 15, 2026, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-no-one-remembers-but-you/1030902/30 "2026-06-15T02:14:55Z")
I love this song so much I asked for it to be repeated when I was working on the radio: [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/3MG1CxnZRwc/hqdefault.jpg?sqp=-oaymwEmCOADEOgC8quKqQMa8AEB-AH-BIAC4AOKAgwIABABGGUgZShlMA8=&rs=AOn4CLC30tgyHYeKTHcqnasRruFgRsE5EQ "The Human League - Louise (Official Video Release HD)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MG1CxnZRwc) ---
**Author:** ![P-man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/p-man/32/3606_2.png) [@P-man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/P-man)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2026, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-no-one-remembers-but-you/1030902/31 "2026-06-15T02:34:48Z")
I remember “Like a Sunday in Salem” very well. Gene Cotton performed at my tiny sollege in n the mid eighties, and hung around after the concert to talk with us. ---
**Author:** ![Odesio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/odesio/32/20003_2.png) [@Odesio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odesio)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2026, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-no-one-remembers-but-you/1030902/32 "2026-06-15T02:50:00Z")
> [@Superdude](#): > > 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. Oh, wow. I cannot ever recall hearing that song even though it cracked the top 20 in 1984. I wonder why it dropped off the face of the Earth? It’s no worse than plenty of other songs from the mid 80s. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2026, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-no-one-remembers-but-you/1030902/33 "2026-06-15T02:59:08Z")
I certainly remember Dwight Twiley’s _Girls_. Another favorite Twilley song of mine is _Looking For The Magic_. How about “[Hold On](https://youtu.be/G-Xt5DAwlfg?si=EZ1E6BdJgVp5qpI3)” by Ian Gomm? ---
**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, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-no-one-remembers-but-you/1030902/34 "2026-06-15T03:01:09Z")
I suspect that at least a few of you remember this one, especially if you watched MTV in its very early days: “Little Suzi’s on the Up,” by British band Ph.D. It only made it to #91 on the US Billboard chart (apparently their only song which ever charted in the U.S., but it was the fifth video which MTV played on the day that the channel went on the air. That hook has stuck in my head for over 40 years. [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/JKgzYLBV_cc/hqdefault.jpg "Ph.D - Little Susie's On The Up") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKgzYLBV_cc) ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_McQwark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4da419/32.png) [@Steve\_McQwark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_McQwark)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2026, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-no-one-remembers-but-you/1030902/35 "2026-06-15T03:14:36Z")
> [@Stephe96](#): > > 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. “Numbers” written by Shel Silverstein and sung by Bobby Bare. It predates the movie by several years, but it was definitely making fun of men who rated women. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2026, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-no-one-remembers-but-you/1030902/36 "2026-06-15T03:21:45Z")
That song briefly shared the Top 40 with the song of the same title by Triumph. I’ve always loved both of those songs. A decade or so later, En Vogue and Wilson-Phillips accomplished the same thing - two songs, by different artists, with a Top 40 song called “Hold On.” I don’t like either of those quite as much. ---
**Author:** ![Newtosite](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/newtosite/32/8623_2.png) [@Newtosite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Newtosite)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2026, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-no-one-remembers-but-you/1030902/37 "2026-06-15T03:23:00Z")
I have that on a CD I burned to play in my car. I listen to it often. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2026, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-no-one-remembers-but-you/1030902/38 "2026-06-15T03:24:19Z")
Maybe we should do a thread with our favorite Goon Show gags. ---
**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, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-no-one-remembers-but-you/1030902/39 "2026-06-15T03:40:54Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > I suspect that at least a few of you remember this one, especially if you watched MTV in its very early days: “Little Suzi’s on the Up,” by British band Ph.D. > > It only made it to #91 on the US Billboard chart (apparently their only song which ever charted in the U.S., but it was the fifth video which MTV played on the day that the channel went on the air. That hook has stuck in my head for over 40 years. > > [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKgzYLBV\_cc](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKgzYLBV_cc) Tesla also did a [pretty decent cover](https://youtu.be/WAj_WlH3J6Q?is=U6XQva-W_e6kEKYe) of \*Little Suzi \*. ---
**Author:** ![CairoCarol](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cairocarol/32/3825_2.png) [@CairoCarol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CairoCarol)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2026, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-no-one-remembers-but-you/1030902/40 "2026-06-15T03:44:01Z")
To my amazement, no one seems to know [Witchi Tai To](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkVjd1fJMME). I was under the apparently mistaken impression that it was really popular sometime around my teenage years, but it took me a while to track it down when I thought of it years later, and no one I know recognized the song. ETA: So probably that’s just because people I know weren’t paying attention. I just Googled a bit more and found: > The album _Everything Is Everything_ was released in 1969 and featured “[Witchi Tai To](https://www.britannica.com/topic/Witchi-Tai-To),” a peyote song that Pepper had arranged according to his own jazz, rock, and [folk music](https://www.britannica.com/art/folk-music) sensibilities. **Everything Is Everything’s recording of “Witchi Tai To” ultimately reached number 69 on _Billboard_’s Hot 100 chart in 1969** , and the song remained popular into the 21st century among an international group of artists, including American folksingers Brewer & Shipley, Norwegian saxophonist Jan Garbarek, jazz-oriented [world music](https://www.britannica.com/art/global-music) ensembles Djabe (from Hungary) and Oregon (from the United States), and Native American (Creek) poet-saxophonist Joy Harjo. Bolding mine. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-no-one-remembers-but-you/1030902.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-no-one-remembers-but-you/1030902.md?page=3)