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.
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!
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 Harry Belafonte “live” album.
I remember most of the songs from the Schlag-Parade of 1969. However, they’re almost all in German. 
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.
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.
No one remembers this one and I don’t care. Very much.
I don’t care. Mayf Nutter
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:
I’m a big Goon Show fan, needle nardle noo, and I really like that song.
I love this song so much I asked for it to be repeated when I was working on the radio:
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.
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.
I certainly remember Dwight Twiley’s Girls. Another favorite Twilley song of mine is Looking For The Magic.
How about “Hold On” by Ian Gomm?
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.
“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.
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.
I have that on a CD I burned to play in my car. I listen to it often. 
Maybe we should do a thread with our favorite Goon Show gags.
Tesla also did a pretty decent cover of *Little Suzi *.
To my amazement, no one seems to know Witchi Tai To. 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,” a peyote song that Pepper had arranged according to his own jazz, rock, and 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 ensembles Djabe (from Hungary) and Oregon (from the United States), and Native American (Creek) poet-saxophonist Joy Harjo.
Bolding mine.