That song features one of the greatest lines in the entire new wave genre: She has a birthmark that looks just like a staple…
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.
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:
Mikes version:
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.
By an amazing coincidence, there’s one right here !
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.
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.
Remember it? I can’t even identify what language that is!
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
Rather French, I would say.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Would’ve been so cool if the “other woman” in the video had been Agnetha in a dark wig. 
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.
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.
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
(It’s likely known today only to those who grew up in the Los Angeles area in the 1960s.)
I’ve posted this here before. Un-googleable things. - #5 by Lucas_Jackson
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.
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 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.
I searched and I can’t find lyrics, but it’s not by Antsy McClain and the Trailer Park Troubadors?