Yes, I just re-listened to make sure. It’s nothing like that. Thanks for trying.
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:
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.
Most people know the late Greg Kihn for Jeopardy and The Breakup Song, but how many “remember” this one?
Actually it’s “13 Questions”, and it’s a banger. I still own the 45.
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Neil Young, “War Song,” 1972, written for McGovern’s campaign
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.
Speaking of endless holes*, let me introduce my memory.
*it’s in the lyrics. Give a listen.
Anyone remember Honeybus, Story?
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.
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)
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.
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:
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Don Data & The Res-Tones - "Silicon Valley Guy Silicon Valley Guy
(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’. -
The Escape Club - “Shake For The Sheik”
Shake For The Sheik
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” -
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
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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.
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.
Here we go…
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.
I’ll your “Gimmee Dat Ding” and raise you “Chirpy chirpy cheep cheep”
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.
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