Speaking of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, where did their version of “she’d having my baby” top out?
Haven’t read the whole thread, and I realize this is an old thread resurrected, but I can’t believe “Double Shot Of My Baby’s Love” gets played on the radio nowadays, let alone 40-plus years ago.
And the Who’s “Who Are You” has ALWAYS been played, at least around here, with F-bomb intact. I had just started high school when that came out, and we’d all gather around the radio when it played so we could hear That Word on the air. 
Bram Tchaikovsky’s “Girl Of My Dreams” is probably the only song about an inflatable sex doll to make the Top 40; it was a minor hit in the summer of 1979. I heard it over the PA while walking at the mall a couple years ago.
Nobody was murdered during the recording of “Love Rollercoaster” either.
That song was a smash hit in every country but the States.
I’m pretty sure Pearl Jam’s remake of “Last Kiss” became a hit under similar circumstances.
“Walk The Dinosaur” by Was (Not Was) was pretty weird. It hit #7 in the US a few years after reaching the Top 10 in the UK.
**Originally Posted by overeasy4 **
I swear I read somewhere someone claimed they were really chanting Who got sucked off instead of ooga chaka. Rumor?
Wilson Bryan Key claimed this in one of his subliminal messages books.
“Run Joey Run” where the dad shoots his daughter at the end of it is plenty weird.
“Dear Mr. Jesus” was also one fucked up tune. It broke the Hot 100, don’t know if it broke the top 40 though.
Lots of Americans my age (late 40s) have heard of it. They just don’t realize the Pat Benatar version was a cover.
None of you remember DOA by Bloodrock? The song used to give me the creeps and I would to flee the room when this came on the radio.
Far and away the weirdest thing I’ve ever heard on Top 40 radio.
(Ah, I see it did get mentioned earlier. And that fittingly enough, this thread is a zombie.)
Dominique, 1963. And sung by nuns. So that’s pretty weird.
Pat Benatar did a cover of “Wuthering Heights?” I don’t remember that one at all.
Ha, you’re right ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness. Pat introduced Kate’s song to a lot of people.
Yes she did, on her album Crimes of Passion, and I like it a lot.
Where would you put an umlaut on THAT title? It only has front vowels!
Green Jellÿ, pronounced “Green Jello”, which was the band’s name before the inevitable lawsuit.
In the mid 1980s, a group of professional wrestlers who may or may not have been able to sing too recorded an album of classic Top 40 covers. “Land of 1000 Dances” was a minor hit.
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How can this thread have stretched over several years and four pages without someone mentioning The Super Bowl Shuffle by various Chicago Bears?
Or, King Tut by Steve Martin?
[hijack]The alternate lyrics for the Ooga Chaka chant remind me of the words I always hear in the soundtrack to Fellowship of the Ring when the goblins are chanting in Moria. It sounds like they are singing “ah ah… who got salami? who got salami?”
AFAICT, nobody’s mentioned Sgt. Barry Sadler’s “The Ballad of the Green Berets.” (lyrics and YouTube).
Don’t think I ever heard it but the sequel, which barely cracked the top 40, is weirder.
Victor Lundberg’s “Open Letter to My Teenage Son” (lyrics)