And why was it an earworm for me yesterday? Why God, why?
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Puppy love Donny Osmond, I can still hear my sisters playing this song over and over and it has been 52 years.
My sister had "Paper Roses".
I remember sitting with my tape recorder, waiting for it to come on the radio so that I could have it to play.
OMG I used to do that too - I would even put the radio and the cassette mic under a piece of TupperWare to create .... ISOLATION ... for my HIGH FIDELITY RECORDINGS.
That’s quite smart of you.
And then listening to it over and over until even the DJ coming on at the end saying, "And that was Bobby Goldsboro..." - click - became part of the song in your head.
That would have been me playing puppy love 50 times a day, he was on my wall too
Then you probably had a Bobby Goldsboro album as well.
No I didn’t. I had singles by Shaun Cassidy, Leif Garret, Andy Gibb.
Hi there, age buddy. I did, too
Everything Osmond Brothers. For a laugh, YT the video Crazy Horses. My sister still has a Donny song for a ringtone.
Nah you have to listen to “Down by the Lazy River”
You can tell Wayne was a rocker, deep down. For another extreme, check out their perfomance of Yoyo on Flip Wilson
They’re SO good! Awesome dance moves. And Donny! He’s so pretty! That hair!
“I used to be a swinger, until you wrapped me round your finger—Just like a yo-yo”
He was. His father squashed that in him for “the family business. “. Mormons.
Almost every musical act that I hate has one song that I really like. For me, for the Osmonds it's Crazy Horses.
Crazy Horses rocks.
But at its heart, it’s just some vanilla Mormons with their G rated version of sex and drugs and rock n’ roll - church and milk and cass-a-role.
Still rocks.
I can't help thinking of Alice Cooper singing *Department of Youth.
"And who gave it to you"
"DONNY OSMOND"
"WHAT?!" ;)
Let the healing begin.
I still love that song. I am 62.
first involuntary shudder of the day. ghastly song.
It's a cover of a song by Paul Anka, and ... if you can believe this ... the Paul Anka one is even worse.
Read your comment, and started singing the song. I hadn’t heard it or thought of it in probably at least 30 years.
And there it was, coming out of my mouth, all the words, all the notes. Jeebus! Amazing that it’s been stored in my brain for 50+ years. Yet I can’t remember my sister-in-law’s birthday! (After knowing her for 45 years!) Krikey!
That was a good year* for bad songs (though I commend your choice) -- don't forget Long-haired Lover from Liverpool.
*Decade, really: Billy Don't Be a Hero, Run Joey Run, my personal favorite Afternoon Delight plus soooo many more.
Edit: Seasons in the Sun was not a 1972 release after all.
Agreed. Ghastly music! The Night Chicago Died. Having My Baby.
Having My Baby was the worst
The horror!
Seasons in the Sun is in the top 5 lousiest. Might be number one, but here comes Gypsies , Tramps and Theives, and Macarthur Park on the outside
Gypsies, Tramps, and Thieves is definitely a classic, and immediately brings to mind Cher's Dark Lady (shudder).
She had quite a run of trash back then. Looking at you, Half Breed
Hey, she was just keeping up with the times, giving the people what they wanted. ; ) But definitely!
I thought I was the only one who hated that dreck.
Oh I like Gypsies Tramps and Thieves!
I unashamedly love Cher. No guilt.
Love this list!
Was out driving with my SO this week and Afternoon Delight on Sirius 70s on 7 came on the radio. I reminisced being at a picnic back in the day when this song was played. The other kids and I were trying to guess if Afternoon Delight meant that they were going to eat ice cream before dinner.
Oh for ghastly songs of the decade, 1974 “Seasons in the Sun” gets my vote.
Seasons in the Sun was going to be my answer too, but turns out it was released in 1974. My husband’s response would be Please Come to Boston (shudder) but that also came out in 1974.
Oh I LOVE "Please Come to Boston!!!"
If we are going as far as 74 can we come to 75 and pick WILDFIRE please? That damn horse.
Don't dis on Billy Don't be a Hero or the night Chicago Died
https://youtu.be/mNYYt-TuW0o?si=ojptoKYfNC8XLwsM
Wasn't Afternoon Delight 1975-76?
I LOVE AFTERNOON DELIGHT
The many double-entendres are laugh out loud funny. Delightful.
Love "Afternoon Delight"! The combo of sweet wholesome music with lyrics about having a casual carnal romp elevates this song for me big-time. No wonder it's such a happy song! The others are disposable.
I worked at a Daycare center when Afternoon Delight was popular. There's nothing like a group of 4, 5 and 6 year olds off key, shout singing, SKYROCKETS IN FLIGHT! AFTERNOON DELIGHT! Brings back good memories of those little twerps.
Watching Scotty Grow. Doesn’t get much worse than that.
I may be a bit biased (and scarred) but there is no worse song on the face of the earth than this Bobby Goldsboro traveshamocery. That is all.
Um, “Honey” would like a word.
This is the saddest song of all time.
Well, next to anything by David Gates!
I respectfully submit that "Watching Scotty Grow" is worse because of what came out about Goldsboro later! And his then-wife too!
Damn I love this sub
I was on a 2nd(?) grade field trip when that song was popular. On the bus ride back to the school, a bunch of girls were loudly talking about Bobby Goldsboro.
At some point, a kid named Kevin stood up and shouted (in a thick Boston accent), "Bawbby Gollsburrow stinks like uh ripe faht!" The bus erputed in laughter.
Fifty+ years later, I still chuckle whenever that name pops up...
And no I finally know what song The Dead Milkmen were shitting on with Watching Scotty Die.
Mickey Mouse says it's 13 O'clock...
That's my boy.
What a handsome lad.
Unless your name is Scott or Scotty
Yes it does. Check out ‘Honey’, it’s a bit older than Scotty but absolutely hideous…
Daddy please don’t, it wasn’t his fault. He means so much to meeeeee!
One tin soldier and a few others on the list posted above.
I remember having "One Tin Soldier" stuck in my head during elementary school.
Love "One Tin Soldier". Both versions.
Popcorn - Hot Butter , how did that ever make it on the radio ?!?!
Some songs made it because DJs were being lazy. It's hard to remember, but Top 40 on AM used to be required to play a lot of news and many stations would use a service that came on exactly at the top of the hour. Instead of timing out their music, they would just use an instrumental like Hot Butter and fade it out when it was time to do the legal ID and go into the news. There were a bunch of instrumentals back then that almost turned into theme songs.
I used to play green onions by booker t and the mgs to join the Cincinnati reds on 1230 wiro in the early 80s. On a genuine 45rpm!
Y'all remember Telephone Man? That song was spicy but I didn't really know it at the time. I memorized every word at the age of 9 and proudly performed it to my parents. I still know all the words. :)
"You can have it with a buzz, you can have it with a ring and if you really want it you can have a ding-a-ling."
That's a banger!
YOU PEOPLE! It took me almost 50 years to, but I thought I had successfully disabled the synapses to those memories, but OH HELL, NO! NOW, they are all running through my head simultaneously in a horrid, cacophony of sappiness.
I don't know if it was released in '72 but Midnight at the Oasis is garbage.
Something about putting a camel to bed.
No! That is a classic! And I got to meet Maria Muldar she was a sweetheart.
Off by two years, 1974, but "(You're) Having My Baby" tops my list.
Chuck Berry ‘My Ding-a-ling.’ Everyone likes to champion it as that enduring classic from happier days.
Sorry, it’s just annoying.
Muskrat Susie, Muskrat Sam…
And the chirping of muskrats in the background
They were smoking some good stuff in the 70’s
That was horrible! How come I still know the words tho?
Oh me too
I regularly sing this to my kitties who don’t appreciate it nearly as much as they should