# 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:** 6
**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, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-no-one-remembers-but-you/1030902/101 "2026-06-15T23:00:47Z")
Yes, I just re-listened to make sure. It’s nothing like that. Thanks for trying. ---
**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, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-no-one-remembers-but-you/1030902/102 "2026-06-15T23:18:08Z")
When I was but a child, my folks had an album of “teaching” songs. One of them was “The International Date Line.” I can still remember the chorus. There were a bunch of other songs, having to do with time and the seasons, but I can’t recall them. And… I found it: > **[It's About Time - A Clock Has Hands - Peter Pan Orchestra and Chorus](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziSmQDREFzw%2F)** > > Help support this channel by becoming a patron on Patreon for only $1 dollar a month: https://www.patreon.com/boyjohnPlaylist for the whole album http://www.... ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2026, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-no-one-remembers-but-you/1030902/103 "2026-06-16T01:23:29Z")
Sometime in the 1960s there was a TV special on about Jackie Kennedy. I can’t remember anymore whether it was before or after she became a widow, but maybe after? It was a puff piece about how wonderful she was, and the accompanying music was very pretty and very sentimental. I still remember it. I’ve always wanted to hear it again just to see if my memory has held up. I’ve never been able to find the show. It was probably an hour long at most, and it was on one of the regular VHF stations. It was definitely _not_ the tour of the White House. ---
**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 16, 2026, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-no-one-remembers-but-you/1030902/104 "2026-06-16T01:30:11Z")
Most people know the late Greg Kihn for _Jeopardy_ and _The Breakup Song_, but how many “remember” this one? [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/GoDd0rSpyZ4/maxresdefault.jpg "Remember") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GoDd0rSpyZ4) ---
**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 16, 2026, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-no-one-remembers-but-you/1030902/105 "2026-06-16T01:47:30Z")
> [@Exapno\_Mapcase](#): > > Seatrain is a great choice…Kulberg’s “13 Choices” is the one I remember from the _Seatrain_ album… Actually it’s “13 _Questions_”, and it’s a banger. I still own the 45. mmm [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/War3BgTQ68Q/hqdefault.jpg "13 Questions - Seatrain") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=War3BgTQ68Q) ---
**Author:** ![Kropotkin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kropotkin/32/18045_2.png) [@Kropotkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kropotkin)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2026, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-no-one-remembers-but-you/1030902/106 "2026-06-16T01:50:49Z")
Neil Young, “War Song,” 1972, written for McGovern’s campaign ---
**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 16, 2026, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-no-one-remembers-but-you/1030902/107 "2026-06-16T14:20:56Z")
Clearly, .their third album should have been titled _Seat Rain_. Giving the second album a listen now. Not sure if it’s nostalgia or whatever but it’s really good. ---
**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 16, 2026, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-no-one-remembers-but-you/1030902/108 "2026-06-16T16:07:05Z")
> [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](#): > > > [@Exapno\_Mapcase](#): > > > > Seatrain is a great choice…Kulberg’s “13 Choices” is the **one I remember** from the _Seatrain_ album… > > Actually it’s “13 _Questions_”, and it’s a banger. I still own the 45. Speaking of endless holes\*, let me introduce my memory. \*it’s in the lyrics. Give a listen. ---
**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 16, 2026, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-no-one-remembers-but-you/1030902/109 "2026-06-16T16:14:19Z")
Anyone remember Honeybus, Story? > **[Honeybus - Story (1969)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ky1-I6pMcVA%2F)** > > Honeybus cut three singles in 1967 and 68, written and fronted by Pete Dello who promptly quit after I Can't Let Maggie Go hit and embarked on a fascinating ... ---
**Author:** ![IvyOfPoison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivyofpoison/32/20489_2.png) [@IvyOfPoison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvyOfPoison)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2026, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-no-one-remembers-but-you/1030902/110 "2026-06-16T17:50:33Z")
Oh my goodness, I remember “Can’t Stop”. It was practically one of the songs on my personal soundtrack to my vacation in the summer of 1990 because the radio station I mostly listened to played it constantly. It brings back such good memories. My contribution to this list is “Goin’ Down” by Greg Guidry, which hit the Top 20 in the spring of 1982. It was a one-hit wonder and I don’t remember him hitting the charts again. He died in 2003…found in a burned-out car. He deserved better. ---
**Author:** ![Schubert](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c0e974/32.png) [@Schubert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Schubert)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2026, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-no-one-remembers-but-you/1030902/111 "2026-06-16T22:47:37Z")
Summer 1977. Spending some quality time with my grandparents in deep southwest Georgia (Cairo to be precise). A radio station from Tallahassee, Albany, Dothan -I can remember which - played this song to exhaustion - but I never heard it anywhere else or again. “Down At The Pool” by Johnny Carver. Loved it then and love it now! (Sorry. Don’t feel like screwing with the lunacy that is the YouTube link issue on a Dolphin browser) ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2026, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-no-one-remembers-but-you/1030902/112 "2026-06-16T22:54:13Z")
This thread really lives up to the promise. Because other than a few songs (Please Come to Boston, seriously?) I haven’t even heard _of_ most of these songs, let alone heard, or remembered, them! My only nomination is “West End Sunglasses”, which is a 1984 Pet Shop Boys mashup of West End Girls and I Wear My Sunglasses at Night. I’d heard it on KROQ and I was beginning to think the station made it and it was not available for public consumption. It took me like two decades to find who it was and where I could get a copy. ---
**Author:** ![SirRay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cc9497/32.png) [@SirRay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SirRay)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2026, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-no-one-remembers-but-you/1030902/113 "2026-06-16T23:03:47Z")
Couple of songs from the days of glorious Long Island alternate radio (WLIR/WDRE of the 1980s and 1990s - 92.3 is now News Radio - yay 😡 Anyway, 3 songs: 1. Don Data & The Res-Tones - "Silicon Valley Guy [Silicon Valley Guy](https://youtu.be/tExq3G5IBgk?si=-ESEJsYO6k-1h1Wc) (Yes, I know the concept is a mash up of “Valley Girl” meets “Computer Nerd” trends of the early 1980s, but it still rattles abound my brain every so often (sadly, the arrogant protagonist of the song is named Ray…thanks ‘Don Data’. 2. The Escape Club - “Shake For The Sheik” [Shake For The Sheik](https://youtu.be/I0Q8hih486s?si=8HRmU6fkrq5S3h2J) Probably not as obscure as Valley Guy (and Escape club also had a sorta hit with Wild, Wild West), I had forgotten about these guys until I recently saw an older movie with the detectives pursing criminals thru a..er.. “factory in Japan” 3. A third one I fished out of the long-term memory cells of my hippocampus was, well to avoid problems with UK age verification, the song is about a Lower East Side NY gentleman who has issues with his removable “Gentleman’s sausage” as Jeremey would say on the old Top Gear series. The music video is on YouTube, the band name is kinda like royal missile or something 🙃. ---
**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 16, 2026, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-no-one-remembers-but-you/1030902/114 "2026-06-16T23:06:38Z")
I believe the third song you mentioned is _Detachable Penis_ by King Missile. Great song. And I’m glad this thread could coax you out of rereading to post here again, my friend. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2026, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-no-one-remembers-but-you/1030902/115 "2026-06-16T23:11:35Z")
I read recently that the royalties from “Detachable Penis” put the singer through law school. A local station from my college days (early 1990s) sometimes played novelty songs, especially in the early mornings, and there was a song that had the repeating line “I wanna be a prostitute, but my husband won’t let me.” I’ve never heard it anywhere else, and Internet searches have been futile. ---
**Author:** ![Schubert](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c0e974/32.png) [@Schubert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Schubert)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2026, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-no-one-remembers-but-you/1030902/116 "2026-06-16T23:15:30Z")
Here we go… [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/OK1g0EDoua8/maxresdefault.jpg "Down At The Pool , Johnny Carver , 1977") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OK1g0EDoua8) ---
**Author:** ![SirRay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cc9497/32.png) [@SirRay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SirRay)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2026, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-no-one-remembers-but-you/1030902/117 "2026-06-16T23:16:26Z")
🤫 I didn’t want the Age Verification nudniks hunting this board down - so far they’ve caused Chaos in the UK and Australia, don’t need any more trouble around here. Otherwise, the class of mid-Doctor Demento rules. ---
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2026, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-no-one-remembers-but-you/1030902/118 "2026-06-16T23:20:27Z")
I’ll your “Gimmee Dat Ding” and raise you “Chirpy chirpy cheep cheep” [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/HSNSTerj2Kc/hqdefault.jpg "Middle of the Road - Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep - Totp 1971") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSNSTerj2Kc) ---
**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 16, 2026, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-no-one-remembers-but-you/1030902/119 "2026-06-16T23:42:33Z")
[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/uZjjeUCosAk/maxresdefault.jpg "Groovy Grubworm , Harlow Wilcox & The Oakies , 1969") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZjjeUCosAk) ---
**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 17, 2026, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-no-one-remembers-but-you/1030902/120 "2026-06-17T01:07:15Z")
I actually considered posting Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep. Every time I cross paths with that song I get a solid 7-day earworm. It’s relentless. mmm [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-no-one-remembers-but-you/1030902.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-no-one-remembers-but-you/1030902.md?page=7)