I'm possessed! Two sorry songs of the mid-60s are driving me insane!

[DemoTex]

Winchester Cathedral and Mellow Yellow. They won't go away. And I'm a classical music kind-of-guy! What the hell did those songs mean, anyway? Oh bodie-oh-doh ...

[Dookus]

1. Umm...

one's about a church, and the other's about a guy who likes saffron

:)

[megatherium]

2. Mellow Yellow

I think that old Donovan song was about the rumor that you could get stoned by smoking dried banana peels. An uncle of mine tells me he played a prank way back when on his parents (my grandparents). He made sure they had heard that rumor, then left burned banana peel in an ashtray in his room for them to find.

[Dookus]

3. and...

why not replace 'em with "I got a brand new pair of rollerskates" and "The Night Chicago Died"

[baldguy]

12. Oh, gee. Thanks for planting THAT li'l bit o' heaven in my head!

I think that we should get together and
Try them on to see

[blackcat77]

4. If you think "Mellow Yellow" is bad...

...listen to "Atlantis."

[Faygo Kid]

5. Gawd, I loved them both! Traded "California Dreamin'" for "Mellow Yellow"

On the 45; a metaphor for my life, and the bad decisions I have made. Winchester Cathedral, You're bringin' me down. At least, we had. . . Hot Town, Summer in the City, Back of My Neck Gettin' Dirt and Gritty! Ah, those were the days, my friend, we thought they'd never end. (Yep, I know.)

[The Magistrate]

6. There Is No Cure For "Mellow Yellow", Sir

The other will run its course in due time, but that one will haunt you for a week a least....

Try meditating on "Needles and Pins" and "Red Rubber Ball"; these may bring some relief.

[DemoTex]

18. "Red Rubber Ball" will put me in the "red rubber room!"

Thanks, Sir, for adding to my insanity! Fortunately, perhaps, I don't remember "Needles and Pins." Hum a few bars, please.

[Lostmessage]

7. How about Joy to the World by Three Dog Night?

I can't get Deep Purples Hush out of my head either.

[Faygo Kid]

11. 1970s. Sorry, not from the '60s.

At least I think not. Wait, were are my car keys? Anyway, Google it and check back.

[Lostmessage]

13. How about Hush?

I'm sorry I grew up in a different era.

[polmaven]

8. Hope you've got good insurance!

'Cause ya know...If you don't pay your exorcist, you get repossessed!


Sorry...

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

9. That's odd... I have been thinking of Mellow Yellow this week too

you think that is on the alpha wave subchannel satelite feed this week?
:tinfoilhat:?

[DemoTex]

16. It's the "Agent Yellow" sprayed in Vietnam

It was in our chow. That's why it tasted like dog shit!

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

27. Ahhhh. so that is what dog shit tastes like? Damn, I thought all

food tasted like that. Never tried dog shit to compare. Man, you are one brave dude.

[Sagan]

10. I'm flying in Winchester Cathedral...

It's hard enough to drink the wine...
The air inside just hangs in illusion..

But, given time..
We'll be fine...

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

14. One that really annoys me is

"The Lion Sleeps Tonight." ARRRGGGGGGGGHHHHHHH!!!!

[RedEarth]

15. Oh no, why did I read this post!........now I'm singing them

Good grief......now I'm going to have to listen to the radio to get these songs out of my mind.

[DemoTex]

17. I H-A-T-E going crazy alone!

Welcome aboard!

[styersc]

19. Whenever this happens the cure is to hum the theme song to

Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus in your head.

It's like getting rid of hick-ups by eating a spoonful of sugar. It really works.

[Dennis Quaranta]

29. Entry of the Gladiators

Can be ordered as a ring sound for your cell-phone. That way you can annoy everyone around you.

http://www.logogo.com/ringtones/polyphonic-barnum_ft_bailey_band-entry_of_the_gladiators/

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

31. God, that IS annoying. I had forgotten

I think I have to go bang my head against some walls now.

[ngGale]

20. As long as you don't pronounce it "Mallow Yallow" like my ex-

husband. You may make it after all. I'm back to 'Imagine' by John Lennon--lol--lol-- Must be the time's again! And it's 'Agent Orange,' or was that a joke?! lol--lol--I'm confused now, I need to take 'A Midnight Train to Georgia.'

[NNadir]

21. Worse yet: MacArthur Park and American Pie.

Someone left the cake out in the rain.

I don't think that I can take it.


(I'm sure I can't take it.)

[Mz Pip]

26. MacArthur Park

Worst song ever...

I don't think that I can take it

Cause it took so long to bake it.

And I'll never have that recipe again.

Oh, nooooooooooooooo!

MzPip
:dem:

[DieboldMustDie]

22. Try "Bits and Pieces" for a while.

:puke:

[darkstar]

23. I say the remedy--quite rightly-- is some

Sunshine Superman

[regnaD kciN]

41. Electrical banana...

...going to be a sudden craze.
Electrical banana's
bound to be the very next phase.

(I have heard rumors that this particular verse is about, shall we say, a new brand of vibrator... :evilgrin: )

[Lydia Leftcoast]

24. Many years ago, Dave Berry wrote a hilarious column about

having "It's My Party and I'll Cry If I Want to" stuck in his head. I was attending a teachers' seminar in Hawaii at the time, and we passed it around, with the Japanese seminar instructors wondering what the hell we were in hysterics about.

[DemoTex]

28. Little Leslie Gore?

Damn you! I'll be crazy by the morning! What did Peggy March sing?

[Lydia Leftcoast]

30. Peggy March

"I love him, I love him, I love him
and where he goes I'll follow, I'll follow, I'll follow..."

The rest is now stuck in your head. :evilgrin:

By the way, Peggy March had an adult career in Europe and Japan. I saw her on Japanese TV, singing in Japanese, in the late 1970s.

[NightTrain]

25. Those two songs meant that lots of record-buyers had no fucking taste!

n/t

[PinkTiger]

34. read this

MELLOW YELLOW

I'm just mad about Saffron,
Saffron's mad about me
I'm a-just mad about Saffron,
She's just mad about me.
They call me mellow yellow Quite rightly
They call me mellow yellow Quite rightly
They call me mellow yellow.

I'm just mad about Fourteen,
A-Fourteen's mad about me
I'm a-just a-mad about a-Fourteen,
She's just mad about me.
They call me mellow yellow
They call me mellow yellow Quite rightly
They call me mellow yellow.

Born high forever to fly,
Wind-a velocity nil.
Born high forever to fly,
If you want your cup I will fill.
They call me mellow yellow Quite rightly
They call me mellow yellow Quite rightly
They call me mellow yellow.
He's so mellow, mellow fellow

Electrical banana
Is gonna be a sudden craze.
Electrical banana
Is bound to be the very next phase.
They call it mellow yellow Quite rightly
They call me mellow yellow Quite rightly
They call me mellow yellow.

You, ah, Saffron, yeah,
I'm just mad about her
I'm a-just a-mad about a-Saffron,
She's just mad about me.
They call me mellow yellow Quite rightly
They call me mellow yellow Quite rightly
They call me mellow yellow.

Oh so mellow, oh so mellow, oh so mellow.

[NightTrain]

35. I did. And those lyrics make absolutely no sense to me!

Then again, I've never taken psychedelic drugs. :shrug:

[NightTrain]

32. Speaking of bad '60s pop...

...here's a recent posting from the Usenet group, rec.music.rock-pop-r+b.1960s. And no, I didn't write it!


Here's my picks for the worst top ten pop chart hits of each year (Billboard - USA) for this decade.

1960 - In My Little Corner Of The World - Anita Bryant
1961 - Exodus - Ferrante & Teicher
1962 - Cindy's Birthday - Johnny Crawford
1963 - My Dad - Paul Peterson
1964 - My Heart Belongs To Only You - Bobby Vinton
1965 - Red Roses For A Blue Lady - Vic Dana
1966 - The Men In My Little Girls's Life - Mike Douglas
1967 - An Open Letter To My Teenage Son - Victor Lundberg
1968 - My Special Angel - Vogues
1969 - Love Them From Romeo And Juliet - Henry Mancini


Personally, I like Ferrante & Teicher's "Exodus." Beyond that, however, I really can't argue with any of that guy's picks!

Who says the 1960s were the Golden Age of Music? :puke:

[Lydia Leftcoast]

33. "The Men in My Little Girl's Life"---ewwwggghhhh

By the way, I think "My Special Angel" was so bad they had to record it twice. I remember my babysitter listening to it in the 1950s.

[alwynsw]

36. You put the lime in the coconut and drink it all up

...and call me in the mornin'...

Take that!

[alwynsw]

37. What's it (this thread) all about, Alfie?

[alwynsw]

38. Try "Indian Lake"

Cowsills

[alwynsw]

39. Walk right in, sit right down, Daddy let your mind roll on...

...everybody's talkin' 'bout a new way of walkin'...

OR: Everybody's talkin' at me. I can't hear a word they're saying, only the shadows of my mind...

Mrs. Brown you've got a lovely daughter...

[alwynsw]

40. Sugar...Oh Honey, honey, you are my candy girl

and I can't stop wnating you - Who could forget the Archies?

Wendy? Who's peeking from under the stairway...

OK, so I got on a roll.

Snoopy and the Red Baron

[Lydia Leftcoast]

42. Anybody else remember these three undying gems from 1968?

"Oscar Crunch has gone to join the zoo (zoo-zoo-zoo)
He couldn't make with the kangaroo (roo-roo-roo)..
He has tried to infiltrate, into the park through the gate
Oscar Crunch has gone to join the zoo
REFRAIN:
What a crazy madman we have here
(Yeah groovey, really moves me--awww)
He's not a madman he's sincere..."

"It's snowing in Cleveland
It's pouring in Maine
And the people of New Jersey
Don't even know her name" --the refrain of "The Countess"

"Cinnamon, let me in
Cinnamon, let me in...
One potato, two potato, three potato, four (Oooooh-uh-uh)
Come on Cinnamon I'm back for more"

[Lydia Leftcoast]

43. Hmmmph

I guess nobody does remember these songs. But I didn't hallucinate them or anything.

:shrug: