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Posted: Sat Apr 30, 2005 7:46 am
by juke_box_hero
anyone come up with mony mony yet?
Posted: Sat Apr 30, 2005 9:12 am
by philco
"Ricky, Don't Be a Hero" or some name to that effect always made me want to turn off the radio when it came on. "Ricky, Go Get You A** Shot Off" would have been a more interesting theme.
And another song from that generation that was played to death........."Fighting soldiers from the sky. Fearless men who jump and die. Men who mean just what they say. The brave men of the green beret." Nothing against the Green Berets, but I wished the disc jockeys would have jumped and died after playing it so much.
Let's see......the song encourages me to tell the truth and then go learn how to jump to my death. Hmmmm........somehow the moral lessons taught in Mick Jagger's "Brown Sugar" end up seeming a lot more enticing at the end of the day.
Posted: Sat Apr 30, 2005 3:54 pm
by harley
I've just gone through a bunch of my CDs with music from the 70s, including almost all of the "Have A Nice Day" and "Didn't It Blow Your Mind" series. Having graduated in 77, I thought I had built up a pretty good tolerance to most of the really bad ones the first time around, but some of it was even worse than I remembered.
The one that took the cake for me was "Hooked On A Feeling" by Blue Swede. It starts off with the Ooga chaka, ooga chaka intro. "Feelings" was a real close second.
"Mony, Mony", on the other hand is a personal guilty pleasure of mine. That and "Draggin' The Line" with "hugging a tree when you get near it". I wonder if environmentalists were called "tree huggers" before that.
Posted: Sun May 01, 2005 4:48 am
by rictified
I always liked Tommy James too, I think people are tired of that one because of playing it three hundred thousand times. I think Hanky Panky was one of the best garage tunes of all time, I love the lead break in it.
Posted: Sun May 01, 2005 7:21 am
by juke_box_hero
Don'e get me wrong I just hate that song. Hanky Panky, Crimson and Clover, and I Think We are Alone Now are great songs of Tommy James and The Shondells.
Posted: Sun May 01, 2005 12:02 pm
by aceonbass
"Puttin' On the Ritz" by Taco. It came on VH1 Classics this morning and my wife MADE me turn it off backed up with several non specific threats.
Posted: Sun May 01, 2005 2:32 pm
by jwilli
Actually, it was "BILLY, Don't Be A Hero", but I understadn what you mean, lol.
Posted: Sun May 01, 2005 2:33 pm
by jwilli
or understand
Posted: Sun May 01, 2005 7:37 pm
by joeyangel
If it has not been said,
FEELINGS, by Albert Morris
and
YOU LIGHT UP MY LIFE, by Debbie Boone
Posted: Mon May 02, 2005 11:31 am
by wayang
Dude, I played drums in a trio in '76 that played "Feelings", among many other 'gems'...did a six-week tour of the midwest just for the money...I got $350 (1976 dollars!) a week plus expenses. It was apalling, but it's some of the best money I ever made playing...there's a lesson in there somewhere...
If you think playing "Feelings" is a bad scene, wait 'til you're halfway through the second set and some clown comes up out of the crowd and asks to hear it again...that's when you know yer really livin'...
Posted: Tue May 03, 2005 7:15 am
by jwr2
anything by abba ...
Posted: Tue May 03, 2005 7:23 am
by admin
"Put dee lime in dee coconut."
Posted: Tue May 03, 2005 9:52 am
by doctorwho
But Peter, that's the easiest song to learn to play - only one chord (C7)!
Posted: Tue May 03, 2005 10:17 am
by trick_knee
Jeff, are you trying to get someone started again
Posted: Tue May 03, 2005 11:28 am
by ozover50
'Kung Fu Fighting' by........ oh hell, who cares!!