What do you think is the cheesiest 70's song?

[liberalhistorian]

OK, OK, I know, it's the seventies so there are about five hundred million songs to choose from! But I'm in my early fifties, so I grew up with 70's music in all of its rich variety, glory and hokey melodrama and I will always have a soft spot for it. Let's just say that whenever I visit my mother, I wear out the 70's station on her SiriusXM (and I've discovered that I'd been misunderstanding a lot of song titles!!).

But one of the fun things about 70's music as an adult is that you get to poke gentle fun at a lot of the songs you enjoyed when they came out and laugh at the fact that you actually took them seriously at one time. My two favorites are Paul Anka and Odia Coates' "Having my Baby" and David Geddes' "Run, Joey, Run" (Glee did a hilarious send-up of that several years ago) .In my defense, I was really young when these came out, so I declare under oath that I really didn't get their cheesiness at the time!

Okay, your turn!

[hlthe2b]

1. Darn you stole mine "Having My Baby" Uggh, that was SOOOOOO nauseating...

There are many, I'm sure, but that one always heads my list.

[leftyladyfrommo]

98. That was awful. nt

[CurtEastPoint]

3. Honey

Bobby Goldsboro:

See the tree, how big it's grown
But friend, it hasn't been too long it wasn't big
I laughed at her and she got mad
The first day that she planted it, was just a twig

[duffyduff]

6. "Honey" was from 1968.

So it was not a '70s song.

[CurtEastPoint]

9. well, so sorry for the egregious error. Please report the post immediately.

[NobodyHere]

10. Done

[duffyduff]

13. Song was a melodramatic piece of shit.

Not worth reporting.

[Chiquitita]

55. That song would win the century.

[Ken Burch]

124. I always preferred The When People Were Shorter And Lived Near The Water version of Honey:

Can't find it online at the moment, though.

[nolabear]

74. That demand song nearly killed me. Came out right after my mother died.

I was a kid but I hated nothing more than hearing that thing come on the car radio when my father was driving. We didn't talk much but it wasn't hard to tell it got to him.

[SQUEE]

116. Anyone else bothered by the singers attitude toward his partners melancholy and pain?

That's a dark song.

[frogmarch]

135. Yes.

Came runnin' in all excited
Slipped and almost hurt herself
And I laughed till I cried

I've always hated that song, not only for its cheesiness but for that line.

[yardwork]

140. Agreed! It's all through the lyrics.

[bluedigger]

4. Terry Jacks - Seasons In The Sun

[True Dough]

21. That was one of my mom's favorites

I heard it many times as a kid. Can still recite most of the lyrics. I think it's cheesy, but not over-the-top cheesy.

[liberalhistorian]

29. My parents' favorite, too.

I didn't really understand the lyrics at the time, I just liked the music. Which was a good thing, considering the relentless, never-ending radio play it got the summer it was a hit (at least, I think it was summer).

[FSogol]

76. The B side of that was one of the most awful songs ever written:

"Put the Bone In"

[liberalhistorian]

88. Holy shit!

That could be classified as a Class One-A "Enhanced Interrogation" device! I didn't think it was possible for a song so bad to exist. And I thought country music sucked, lol.

[progressoid]

93. Oh dear lord.

That was all kinds of awful.

[applegrove]

137. I loved that song.

[duffyduff]

5. "You Light Up My Life" by Pat Boone's daughter, Debby n/t

[liberalhistorian]

30. Oh, God, I almost forgot about that

one! I got so sick of that after about the third time I heard it. Everyone seemed to go nuts over Debbie Boone and she seemed to be everywhere, all the time. She even sang the song during some type of awards show surrounded by sign language interpreters who interpreted and danced while she sang. I think she was one of the greatest one-hit-wonders of the decade.

I remember someone calling into a national talk show at the time, asking why she wasn't being given her own variety show. The host just laughed and asked what she would do after singing the song and how many different ways could she sing it for an hour week after week? My parents and I were rolling on the floor with that response.

[Generic Brad]

7. I'm partial to "The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia"

When a sub-par sketch comedian schools us on matters of justice, we all best listen in earnest!

[astral]

57. Now, wait a minute!

I liked that Song! Now, going striCtly from memory, she was a singer first and a comedienne later, when someone pointed out to Carol Burnett how much she looked like her.

And if you don't appreciate the humor on the Carol Burnett Show, all I can say is there's no accounting for taste ; ) Vickie and Carol together were magical! Not to mention the fellas too ...

Sure, looking like Carol Burnett was her claim to fame, but it sure worked.

[Generic Brad]

65. I like it too

But it was still a cheesy song.

And if I sam not mistaken, this number was recorded while she was in her Carol Burnett Show run.

[liberalhistorian]

68. The movie they made of it

with Dennis Quaid, Kristy McNichol and Mark Hamill was even cheesier; I think it came out in '79 or '80. My stepsister and I loved it as young teenagers, but that's because it was a cheesy, dopey, hokey movie with an even hokier ending, just the kind teen girls love, lol. At least some of the music was good. I think we both wore out our respective albums, God knows where those albums are now.

[Kashkakat v.2.0]

119. Never could figure that song out - why did the lights go out? Big thunderstorm or something? nt

[missingthebigdog]

121. Try this explanation:

My favorite scene ever from Designing Women:

[shenmue]

8. Macarthur Park

[leftyladyfrommo]

99. I still love that song.

Made no sense but I still love it.

[Laffy Kat]

11. How 'bout, "I've Never Been to Me" by Charlene, 1977?

I thought it was putrid when I it first came out and I was twenty.

[True Dough]

20. I made fun of that tune decades later

Sometimes the reference was lost on people because it wasn't a huge hit.

[liberalhistorian]

32. That actually came out in '81 or '82.

I remember, 'cause I was a high school junior or senior and we loved making fun of the song whenever we heard it. We speculated that it was a hit only because people bought it so they could make fun of it whenever they wanted instead of waiting until it came on the radio. When I got older, that song actually annoyed the hell out of me, with its not-so-subtle diminishing of single women and making women think only marriage and children were really important and any other achievements weren't as worthy as that.

Maybe you're thinking of Mary McGrory (maybe last name is wrong?) and her "Torn Between Two Lovers" song that came out in 1977. Talk about cheesy with that one, it could have covered a restaurant full of nachos. I read an interview with her a few years ago where she said her marriage at the time actually broke up because everyone assumed it was about them and her husband finally got tired of it after awhile.

[Laffy Kat]

53. It was released twice.

Several citations say 1976:


http://www.totallyfuzzy.net/ourtube/charlene/ive-never-been-to-me-video_c5fb51ad8.html

[liberalhistorian]

69. Oh, okay, I had no idea

it'd been released before that, I don't remember hearing it in the 70's.

[BigDemVoter]

81. LOL I was JUST trying to remember the title, as I remembered how awful it was!

[Laffy Kat]

83. I actually heard it recently in a grocery store!

I guess it was one of their programmed background songs. Both me and another woman shopper recognized it at the same time and gave each other a "you've got to be kidding me" look.

[rug]

12. Why do birds suddenly appear, every time you are near?

[True Dough]

22. Someone is bound to get droppings all over them

Wouldn't ya think???

[liberalhistorian]

33. Like I said above,

ANYTHING by the Carpenters would fit the cheesy label. Although I loved them as a child, before I really knew better. And I remember when Karen Carpenter died, it was the spring of my senior year in high school. Such a tragedy.

[NBachers]

123. It's funny- I'd expect to despise The Carpenters, but I think Karen had one of the prettiest and

most confident voices in popular music.

Also, I still love the flowing and hypnotic "Yesterday Once More."

[astral]

59. You didn't loVe this song, and her voice?

I was 10. I had never heard of them (wait, wasn't this their first hit?) And when it came on the radio, if I could, I would lay down and close my eyes til it was over. Her voice was so beautiful. Near the end I heard she wanted to break away and sing solo but was discouraged from doing so, or for some reason wasn't free to do it yet. Her voice will always be one of my favorites, even if I wasn't crazy about most of their songs, Close to You was a winner.

[rug]

63. No. When it came out I was 21 and drinking. That's the difference.

[astral]

110. Ah, that explains it! But her voice is still legendary.

[applegrove]

138. I learnt how to play that on the piano and it took me a while as I don't read

music.

[rurallib]

14. "the Night Chicago Died" Paper Lace

but it is hard to beat Debby Boone which is all time cheesy.

[liberalhistorian]

35. If Debbie Boone had ever had any other

hits, I often wonder what they would have sounded like. Would they have been even cheesier that You Light up My Life (if that's even possible), or just hokey hokum?

[whistler162]

84. Heathen! Repent.... I liked that song

still have the 45.

[lastlib]

15. Danny's Dumb Song, Anne Murray.

(yeah, I know that wasn't really the title, but it might as well be, so live with it.) That song SUCKKKKKED!

Muskrat Love
Every Song Leo Sayer Ever Did
Me & Mrs. Jones (Had a cow that sounded like that once. I SHOT it.)

[liberalhistorian]

37. Anything by Anne Murray sucked, I never

understood her appeal. I've always like Leo Sayer, though, a lot of it was fun and fun to dance to, also.

I always liked Me and Mrs. Jones, too, especially the jazzy, mysterious tone. The writer said that he and his friend said the song idea germinated when he and a friend noticed that, in the café where they went for lunch everyday, the same couple met at the same time every day and always arrived and left separately and whispered most of the time. His curiosity about it led him to put it to music.

[Duppers]

54. You can't be serious!

[astral]

61. Wrong!! Anne Murray's voice is beautiful!

Snowbird was the best, though!

I agree with the rest, though.

[lastlib]

64. Her voice is beautiful, SHE is beautiful,,,,

but THAT SONG SUCCKKKKKED!

[gratuitous]

112. Long Tall Glasses is a classic

Take that back, right now.

[lastlib]

113. I never said a word about that one.

And I did say she had a great voice, and that she herself was a terrific lady. But "Danny's Song" SU-UCCKKKED!! And I won't take it back. I just LOATHE (passionately) that song. Always have, always will, not changing. Sorry, you'll just have to deal with it. Not gonna say anything bad about any of her other songs, just that one.

[gratuitous]

114. You said everything by Leo Sayer

Don't try to deny it!

[lastlib]

115. (Oh, thought you were referring to Anne Murray. My bad.)

I won't deny I said every Song Leo Sayer ever did was bad. It may not be true, but I ain't gonna listen to it to find out, becuz everything I ever heard him do stunk to high heaven, and it had to have rubbed off on all the ones I never heard. "Guilt by association." That's my story, an' I'm a-stickin' to it, pal.

[gratuitous]

117. We must now be enemies for life

Please remind me from time to time, as I tend to forget. Thanks, buddy. {Damn!}

[lastlib]

118. Perhaps, in another reality......(without Leo Sayer....)

to what might have been......

[kebob]

16. "Disco Duck"

{drops mic}

[liberalhistorian]

40. Oooh, you win!

Thread over, lol. I laugh now when I think of how much I liked that song back then.

[BlueSpot]

17. Muskrat Love

[liberalhistorian]

38. LOL. this was always such a silly song,

both this version and the one America did. I wonder what the writer was high on when he or she wrote it.

[CBHagman]

130. And don't forget that this song was played at the White House.

But wait; it gets better.

The Captain and Tennille played and sang it for Queen Elizabeth, I assume to prove once and for all we Yanks are known for our exquisitely good taste. Nothing like references to rodent copulation when Her Majesty comes across the pond for a visit.

Bonus fact: Henry Kissinger was there too.

[url]http://people.com/royals/toni-tennille-on-the-time-she-sang-muskrat-love-for-queen-elizabeth/[/url]

[PufPuf23]

78. Beat me to it. I was scanning the thread prior to posting. eom

[True Dough]

24. I was never fond of this one...

Definitely has a 70s vibe, I'd just rather not hear it!

[lillypaddle]

48. But can't you just see

people lined up doing the hustle?

[PufPuf23]

77. I was with a group in Ashland, OR for the Shakespeare Festival and other theatre circa 1976 or 1977

We went to see the movie Carwash with this song in the soundtrack as a break. lol

[progressoid]

95. My daughter played that at a car wash fund raising event when she was in high school a few year ago!

They thought it was kind of fun.

[teach1st]

26. Tie a Yellow Ribbon

[Iggo]

27. Wild Fire -- Michael Martin Murphy

Oof, that's cheesy!

[hatrack]

36. AAAAAAGGGHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Damn you, Iggo - DAMN YOU!!!!

[liberalhistorian]

41. Aw, now come on, that remains

one of my favorites! Lol.

[anneboleyn]

142. Sorry, but as a horse lover that has always been a favorite

Horse lovers everywhere love that song (now all the horses that were named "Wildfire" after this song came out may feel differently). It also is one of those 70s storytelling songs that we never see anymore since Max Martin and his pop machine took over pop music with Britney et al.

[Iggo]

145. Even so, that song is cheesy as all get out. (n/t)

[Hassin Bin Sober]

31. Afternoon Delight

https://m.

[liberalhistorian]

43. Another one-hit-wonder.

The decade seemed to be especially full of them.

[lillypaddle]

49. OWWWWWW!

My ears, my ears!

[PassingFair]

115. That one vies with "The Pina Colada Song"

IMO....

Two most craptastic songs of the 70's

[OrwellwasRight]

117. The Pina Colada Song is WAY cooler.

It's retro chic.

[lastlib]

147. Retro-SUCKY, more like!

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Written by the same guy (Rupert Holmes) who wrote the song "Timothy", about the trapped miners who ate their companion to survive--the record company got so many complaints about that song (by The Buoys) that they tried to sell the idea that they were actually eating a mule named Timothy, not another human being. Nobody bought it. The Buoys' careers were pretty much over before they got started because of that little uproar.

[applegrove]

42. Undercover angel.

[cwydro]

45. Mandy, Barry Manilow.

Lmao how I loved that song at the time.

[cleveramerican]

46. Baby don't get hooked on me

by Mac Davis
a really terrible message i completely missed back then

[pressbox69]

51. For me the worst is

The Night Chicago Died, Awful song.

[progressoid]

94. Yuck. I remember that playing incessantly on our little AM radio.

[Kashkakat v.2.0]

120. LOL never could figure that one out -why did Chicago die? Big fire or something? Mrs Oleary's

cow kicked over the lantern again ?

[BlueSpot]

122. I always liked that song

And I always assumed it was about the gangsters in the 20's - like Al Capone and his ilk. Could be totally wrong. Sure wouldn't be the first time.

Not the cow and the fire. It was a war against the police as best as I can remember the lyrics.

[lame54]

52. Little Willy Willy won't-won't go, you can't make Willy go - Willy won't go

[Iggo]

104. Tried tellin' everybody but...whoa no...

[anneboleyn]

143. I love Sweet. Glam rock never broke in the US so solid rock bands like Slade and Sweet

didn't get the attention they deserved. Sweet had some great tunes ("Fox on the Run" is still one of my favorites). Their lead singer died in the 90s after years of health problems.

[SticksnStones]

56. Melanie singing Brand New Key

"I gotta a brand new pair of roller skates you got a brand new key..."

Just try and NOT sing along!

[liberalhistorian]

67. Okay, I just remembered a song that's

even hokier than "having my baby" (yes, I know it seems like nothing could be worse, but this one is!). Except that I don't remember the name or the artist. I think it came out in '74 or '75. Anyway, it was a man singing about meeting the love of his life, getting married, having a baby and then her dying of a terminal illness (hey, at least Paul Anka and Odia Coates had a joyful ending to their song, lol). Each chorus had the guy singing that his wife said "Rocky, I've never ________ before (been in love, had a baby, had to die), don't know if I can do it. But if you're with me I know you can get me through it (or something like that). I've played around with possible titles on youtube and can't seem to find it. Does anyone have any idea of the song I'm talking about?

[Still Blue in PDX]

73. Rocky is the name of the song!

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[liberalhistorian]

90. Ahhh, that's it!

Thanks for my evening comic relief, lol.

[FSogol]

75. Rupert Holmes's "Escape (The Piña Colada Song)" inflicted on the world on 1979.

[Wolf Frankula]

85. Hot Stuff by the Rolling Stones

The Stones try disco. Somebody did a parody called "Butt Stuff". It was the lines "Butt Stuff, Butt Stuff. Struttin' in the buff. Butt Stuff" repeated over and over again.

Wolf

[blogslut]

86. Dropkick Me Jesus, Through the Goalposts of Life

[liberalhistorian]

91. Oh, man, I'd mercifully

forgotten all about that one! I'm sure millions of others wish they could completely forget about it, too!

[Liberal Veteran]

97. Undercover Angel

[Orrex]

107. No Charge (1974)

[liberalhistorian]

108. I don't think I'm familiar with that one,

who did it?

[Orrex]

109. Melba Montgomery did the version I'm thinking of

Here's the Wiki entry.

I can't view that vid from work, but the frame image looks right.

[msanthrope]

110. That is a war crime. nt

[Orrex]

111. Lest we be doomed to repeat it.

[BlueSpot]

123. Ghastly

But that's pretty much how I feel about country music anyway.

Why did she wear a granny gown when she taped this? Ugh.

[progressoid]

134. Oh how I wish I hadn't watched that.

[LeftishBrit]

127. Ooh, I agree: the ABSOLUTE worst!

[MissMillie]

111. Clint Holmes:Playground in my Mind

http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=playground+in+my+mind&view=detail&mid=EE114C7142F0C1F40F6BEE114C7142F0C1F40F6B&FORM=VIRE

[astral]

113. This song may have sucked, but 10cc ROCKED.

They were really a creative band.
now I'm trying to think of the name of That Song I Liked ...
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Feel the Benefit.

&index=9&list=PLxrOsrF4GYHXd7u-X-s6-RE0fj028zHdK

A 70's Masterpiece! Now I have to give a listen!

[astral]

114. my post was supposed to be after The Things we Do For Love.

Also, it looks like a bunch of posts in this thread were 'archived.' I was hoping to continue viewing them ; (

[BlueSpot]

116. Did you have to respect the song at first?

Because, seriously, I don't know anyone who did this song! Brought to you by the same decade that brought you Hai Karate aftershave and cologne.

[astral]

112. I am a hopeless product of the Seventies.

I don't think I would have liked this song but had a BF who was crazy about it. He even wrote down the words. Kids did silly things in those days like write words on paper with a pen! Or a pencil. Getting silly love notes slipped into your hand between classes or found in your locker, sometimes real, 'lets'-talk-it-out' love letters was a highlight bigtime of young teenage love.

But kids dont do that anymore cuz' they got Texting, and all those other pushbutton things that replaced the Pen and Paper.

You win something, you lose something, maybe even a part of your culture.

That's what that song reminded me of, who couldn't love it?
BTW, that fella on the left backup singer sure wazza KUtIE! Yum!

[7wo7rees]

118. Too many to choose from

I Love (Little Baby Ducks) - Tom T. Hall
Disco Duck - Rick Dees
Kung Fu Fighting - Carl Douglas
Feelings - Morris Alpert
Me and You and a Dog Named Boo - Lobo
Brand New Key - Melanie
Dream Weaver - Gary Wright
Shadow Dancing - Andy Gibb

[mikeargo]

119. Let me add...

Shannon - (song about a dead dog)
Save All your Kisses for Me - (sung to a little girl)
Living Next Door to Alice - (Who the f*** is Alice?)

[ailsagirl]

120. Anything by Tommy James & the Shondells

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Mony Mony comes to mind
Crimson and Clover
Crystal Blue Persuasion
Dizzy argh!!

But there's far worse, I know

And DUers have a good handle on those little ditties

[Kashkakat v.2.0]

121. Sometimes when we touch the honesty s too much, just wanna hold you till I DIE , till we

both break down and cryyyyyyy.

Looked up the lyrics just now and really, the lyrics are not too bad, youd think it could be a good song.... but the horrid over-wrought way the guy sings is like fingernails on a blackboard. CANNOT STAND IT.

And it just goes on and on. Like, just fuckin DIE already!!!!

[AmandaRuth]

125. Timothy

first song i thought of when i saw this, cause i mean really, god what did he do?

also, cheesy, but i actually love it, then and now, magnet and steel

[Wolf Frankula]

126. Timothy

Dog eat dog and people eat people.

Wolf

(who doesn't eat people)

[NBachers]

125. "The Things We Do For Love" by 10cc, preceded by the dreary "I'm Not in Love"

[LeftishBrit]

128. I support Orrex's nomination of 'No Charge'; but the runners up are 'Mother of Mine' and 'Hello This

is Joanie'.

[Texasgal]

129. I win!

Convoy by CW McCall

[japple]

131. The hokiest one I can remember is "Timothy" by the Buoys.

Came out in 1970.

[demon in basement]

132. oh, for those halcyon days of Nov. 5th

Yes, this is from 1968, but who really cares at this point?

[FrankfurtCat]

133. Either of these by Rex Smith (who I must admit, I had a huge crush on)

You Take My Breath Away

Sooner or Later-Simply Jessy

[jalan48]

136. "You're Having my Baby"-Paul Anka

[cemaphonic]

139. The biggest gulf between cheesy and awesome surely belongs to Elton John.

On the one hand, "Tiny Dancer," "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road," and "Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me."

On the other, "Crocodile Rock," "Don't Go Breaking My Heart," and Bennie and the Jets" are unlistenable junk.

Naturally he also manages quite a few that somehow fuse awesomeness and cheese, like "Candle in the Wind," and his cover of "Pinball Wizard."

[LeftInTX]

148. I used to live in a small town with really long trains

I would get in my car and "Don't Let Sun Go Down on Me" would be starting. I would get stuck at the train stop. Then I would get to my friend's house and that song would be ending. I would complain about the trains and that song. Nothing was longer than the Kimberly Clark train and that song.

[JudyM]

141. For assaulting feminist sensibilities, it's "The Rapper."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rapper

[anneboleyn]

144. "Convoy" by C.W. McCall

The infamous "rap" about trucks and truckers:

https://m.

[Bucky]

146. Hall & Oates's cover of Jingle Bell Rock

so deliberately cheesy they practically rounded the block and came back to fun again