# 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:** 5
**Author:** ![ricepad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b38774/32.png) [@ricepad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ricepad)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2026, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-no-one-remembers-but-you/1030902/81 "2026-06-15T16:24:20Z")
> [@Maserschmidt](#): > > think I heard this song once on the radio - Soft Core, by Maurice and the Cliches - but it stuck in my head. Apparently a top 100 hit though, and I happened to listen to it a few days ago. That song features one of the greatest lines in the entire new wave genre: _She has a birthmark that looks just like a staple…_ ---
**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, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-no-one-remembers-but-you/1030902/82 "2026-06-15T16:25:24Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > This was my favorite song in the world when I was 6 years old: I remember Sam Cooke’s version from 1961. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/n4Rw4A7BDQA/maxresdefault.jpg "Cupid") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4Rw4A7BDQA) ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2026, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-no-one-remembers-but-you/1030902/83 "2026-06-15T16:27:14Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > I remember Sam Cooke’s version from 1961. This isn’t really obscure, but one of Sam Cooke’s most famous songs, though I just learned that it was a cover. ---
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2026, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-no-one-remembers-but-you/1030902/84 "2026-06-15T16:46:09Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > Transfusion - Nervous Norvis Loved that! As weird as ‘Prisencolinensinainciusol" was, Mike Reid (English comedian) did a cover of it where he tried to insert real words for the gibberisj. - Freezin’ Cold in 89 Twoso. Original: > **[Adriano Celentano - Prisencolinensinainciusol (1973)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvEW3e0BLn8%2F)** > > https://www.facebook.com/Nostalgies607080https://twitter.com/Nosta607080 Mikes version: > **[Mike Reid - Freezin' Cold in 89 Twoso (Prisencolinensinainciusol cover version)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wr0QIXaoSY%2F)** > > Mike Reid's triffic cover version of the Adriano Celentano gibberwacky song.The B-side on the 7" was called, 'Knocked 'em In The Old Kent Road'.Copyright 197... It was the B-side on the 7" was called, 'Knocked ‘em In The Old Kent Road’. a radio station used to play it in the late 70’s. ---
**Author:** ![pjd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pjd/32/3009_2.png) [@pjd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pjd)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2026, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-no-one-remembers-but-you/1030902/85 "2026-06-15T16:48:32Z")
By an amazing coincidence, there’s one right [here !](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-goon-show-non-sequitur-thread/1030912) ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2026, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-no-one-remembers-but-you/1030902/86 "2026-06-15T17:12:21Z")
One morning in the mid-1970s, my brother and I are at the breakfast table when Mom turns on the radio to the country station (ick). A few minutes go by and this starts playing: 🎵 “If you leave me tonight, I’ll cry…🎶 Spoons drop, we stare at each other, eyes huge; _It’s **The Tune in Dan’s Cafe**! Run for your lives!_ The **Night Gallery** episode, _The Tune in Dan’s Cafe_, featured this song — actually, only about eight bars of it was all that was needed. Written for the show, very effective. The next day, Serling and company were inundated with phone calls as to where that song could be purchased. Many, many calls. The song people hastened back into the studio, wrote a few more verses, recorded it, and a monster hit was born. It still sounds creepy. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/ZQWm_FrQTho/maxresdefault.jpg "If You Leave Me Tonight I'll Cry , Jerry Wallace , 1972") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQWm_FrQTho) ---
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2026, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-no-one-remembers-but-you/1030902/87 "2026-06-15T17:56:42Z")
I used to listen to the album _Seatrain_ by **Seatrain** a lot when I was a little kid. I particularly liked _Song of Job_, but the album has several good tracks. Whenever I mention the band, nobody seems to remember them. Incidentally, _Seatrain_ was the first album produced by George Martin after the Beatles broke up. [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/_POZnG4NEfU/hqdefault.jpg "Seatrain - Song Of Job") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_POZnG4NEfU) ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2026, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-no-one-remembers-but-you/1030902/88 "2026-06-15T18:09:18Z")
Remember it? I can’t even identify what language that is! ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2026, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-no-one-remembers-but-you/1030902/89 "2026-06-15T18:12:14Z")
That was part of the problem identifying it. The Mo-Dettes were a punk band from the UK but the singer was Swiss with a very strong accent (whether French or German, I can’t tell). I was sure the band I was looking for was from the Continent. BTW: The song is in English: > Don’t be stupid, don’t be limp > No girl likes to love a wimp > Dance and make fun, nicely done > Come and be my number one ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2026, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-no-one-remembers-but-you/1030902/90 "2026-06-15T18:15:04Z")
> [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](#): > > The Mo-Dettes were a punk band from the UK but the singer was Swiss with a very strong accent (whether French or German, I can’t tell). Rather French, I would say. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2026, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-no-one-remembers-but-you/1030902/91 "2026-06-15T18:17:41Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > I remember Sam Cooke’s version from 1961. That’s the first half of the song. The second half (“I’ve Loved You For a Long Time”) was original to the Spinners - and that’s the part I loved the most as a little kid. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2026, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-no-one-remembers-but-you/1030902/92 "2026-06-15T19:47:12Z")
Honeycomb, by Jimmie Rodgers was popular in the late 50s. My niece loved that song and would ask my brother to play it over and over and over. . . The B side was Bimbombey. Don’t ask me how I remember that. ---
**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, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-no-one-remembers-but-you/1030902/93 "2026-06-15T19:48:16Z")
Seatrain is a great choice. Nobody remembers them, but they had solid roots in Andy Kulburg, the bassist/flutist from the Blues Project, the forgotten great band that he and Al Kooper formed, where Kulberg’s “Flute Thing” is an all-time classic. (Released as an album cut and a live version and I go back and forth on which I think is better.) Kulberg’s “13 Choices” is the one I remember from the _Seatrain_ album, their second, produced by George Martin, not to be mixed up with their first album, _Sea Train_. Are both of them eponymous? Discuss. ---
**Author:** ![ShadowFacts](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shadowfacts/32/2934_2.png) [@ShadowFacts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShadowFacts)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2026, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-no-one-remembers-but-you/1030902/94 "2026-06-15T20:06:12Z")
I don’t know where I found it, but it’s in my music library and I play it regularly. It’s a great tune! I had no idea until you posted it that this Frida was from Abba. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2026, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-no-one-remembers-but-you/1030902/95 "2026-06-15T20:42:01Z")
Would’ve been so cool if the “other woman” in the video had been Agnetha in a dark wig. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Jaycat.again](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jaycat.again/32/11525_2.png) [@Jaycat.again](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jaycat.again)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2026, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-no-one-remembers-but-you/1030902/96 "2026-06-15T20:45:52Z")
When I was a young hippie-type guy in the Washington D.C. area I went to a hippie-type club one night and heard a local band do a song called “This One’s For You Carla.” Fifty years later, I still have the earworm. But I have no clue who the band was, or if it was ever recorded. The band was kinda like a Mother of Invention wannabe outfit. From time to time I have tried to track it down on the internet, with no luck. So this thread offers the opportunity to throw it out there again. ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2026, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-no-one-remembers-but-you/1030902/97 "2026-06-15T20:56:46Z")
> [@Lucas\_Jackson](#): > > As weird as ‘Prisencolinensinainciusol" was _Love_ that one. I wouldn’t have thought of it for this thread as over the years, I’ve talked to a lot of other people who love it, too. > [@Roderick\_Femm](#): > > This thread reminds me of Stump the Band on Johnny Carson’s Tonight Show (how many people remember that, even?). Jimmy Fallon apparently does, as every so often on his version of _The Tonight Show_ they do “Stump the Roots” (his house band). Given that he films in NYC I might have a chance with > [@](#): > > _Put another candle on my birthday cake,_ > _We’re gonna bake a birthday cake,_ > _Put another candle on my birthday cake,_ > _I’m another year old today!_ (It’s likely known today only to those who grew up in the Los Angeles area in the 1960s.) [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/ty-3E4SvZPM/maxresdefault.jpg "Put Another Candle On My Birthday Cake - Sheriff John (longer version)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ty-3E4SvZPM1) ---
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2026, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-no-one-remembers-but-you/1030902/98 "2026-06-15T22:27:48Z")
I’ve posted this here before. [Un-googleable things. - #5 by Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/un-googleable-things/838356/5) I never found it. I found a Reddit thread and others back in 2019 that were looking for it too but it has literally just vanished. The point of the song was she was leaving him because he never listened to her. He was telling us, the listener, about her leaving and what she was saying as she walked out the door, but because he really _didn’t_ listen to her he just paraphased it, ““Blah blah blah something something something, I don’t even care anymore…” Upbeat, humorous country song. When it came on, I used to drive down the street singing at the top of my lungs. The single greatest mystery of my life. ---
**Author:** ![markn\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@markn\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/markn_1)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2026, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-no-one-remembers-but-you/1030902/99 "2026-06-15T22:38:49Z")
When I was in college in the early 1970s, a friend had an album called _The Ship_ by a band called _The Ship_. It was a concept album about a sea voyage or something, and I liked it a lot. Some years later I went to several record stores to try to find a copy, but no one had ever heard of the album or the band. This thread reminded me of it, so I looked on YouTube and lo and behold, the [whole album](https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kb9PiXwZAXFaBR8Bbr_-6namcNogNOFKY&si=Cd0ZuQaxJTXdmHtj) is up there. Listening to it now, I’m not sure why I was so enamored with it. _The Order_ is probably the best song. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/mNosaebKu_s/maxresdefault.jpg "The Order") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNosaebKu_s) ---
**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, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-no-one-remembers-but-you/1030902/100 "2026-06-15T22:39:55Z")
I searched and I can’t find lyrics, but it’s not by Antsy McClain and the Trailer Park Troubadors? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-no-one-remembers-but-you/1030902.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-no-one-remembers-but-you/1030902.md?page=6)