Vote for the worst #1 pop single of the 1960s

[NightTrain]

Poll question: Vote for the worst #1 pop single of the 1960s

[onebigbadwulf]

1. hmmm....

i think this thread needs an "over 50" disclaimer. :think:

[truthseeker1]

33. 60s are for everyone

honey, I'm 35 and I love the Sixties!

[terrya]

2. Honey - without a doubt.

A syrupy, treacly, horrible song. The worst.

Terry

[absyntheNsugar]

3. "Yummy yummy yummy

I've got love in my tummy"

That one is horrible

[NightTrain]

5. Pretty horrid, but mercifully was not a #1 hit.

IIRC, "Yummy, Yummy, Yummy" peaked at #4 on the Billboard Hot 100. Still too big a hit, though.

[Rowdyboy]

4. "Honey", hands down...The flip side was nearly as bad

"Watching Scotty Grow"

[terrya]

7. Bobby Goldsboro really went in for those icky songs, didn't he?

Yes..."Watching Scotty Grow" is pretty bad.

Terry

[NightTrain]

11. He was the worst kind of schlockmeister!

One horrible ballad after another. :puke:

[Rowdyboy]

23. The mere memory of

"Just me and God, watching Scottie grow" makes me want to throw up!

But he was sorta cute :evilgrin:

[terrya]

29. Well, I'll give you that.

Bobby Goldsboro was kind of cute.

:-)

Terry

[Semi_subversive]

27. But he got in trouble

for Broomstick Cowboy because they said it was an anti-war song.

[ScreamingMeemie]

49. Quit messing with my Bobby!!! sniffle

That still chokes me up...and I don't care what you say. :P

[NightTrain]

50. Which Bobby? I listed two of 'em.

So, is it Vinton or Goldsboro who chokes you up?

[ScreamingMeemie]

51. Goldsboro...since I was a wee one...sniffle. It was my mom's Sunday

morning housecleaning music...SOB!

[GOPisEvil]

6. "In the year 2525" has got to be one of the worst songs EVER!

It just goes on and on and on and on...shut the hell up already!

[Richardo]

10. GMTA, my brothah...

:thumbsup:

[reprehensor]

13. ...if mankind is still alive...

[starroute]

39. 2525 wouldn't have been so bad as a novelty number

The first couple of times I heard it, I thought, "Well, that was kind of clever."

It was just when it became a hit and got played over, and over, and over, and over, and over that it became totally obnoxious.

"Honey," on the other hand, was offensive from the very first hearing.

[Norbert]

44. NightTrain wasn't taking chances. Year 2525 was on the list...

because I gave him hell about it on a thread last year when he omitted it. NightTrain is not forgiven because hell I was only razzing him in the first place. I rarely miss one of his threads because being a bit of an audiophile myself I am always interested in what he has to say.

And Yes, I voted for In the Year 2525. What a pathetic song.

[Richardo]

8. Dear Elad: Please adjust polling software so I can vote 768 times...

...for "In the Year 2525"

I've hated that song since the VERY first time I heard it and each time since. Luckily that's not often.

[GOPisEvil]

9. GMTA!

Oh, coming to TXlib and KCDem's soiree manana?

[Richardo]

14. *kicking ground* No. I got this in-law thing happening...

Afraid my absence would be - how you say - "conspicuous".

They're nice people and all, but of all Saturdays... :eyes:

[GOPisEvil]

16. Dammit all to hell!

Crap - I was thinking of heading down a little early to increase my goof-off time. :D

[Pale Blue Dot]

12. THIS GUY'S IN LOVE WITH YOU???!!!!????

I demand that you remove that one from your list this instant. That song is a classic! Who cares if Herbie can't sing?

I like "Blue Velvet", too.

[NightTrain]

19. Hell yeah!

<<I demand that you remove that one from your list this instant.>>

Yo, demand this!

<<That song is a classic!>>

It's a classic of horrid, treacly pop, I'll grant you that.

<<Who cares if Herbie can't sing?>>

I do, and it's my poll! (And I'll cry if I want to.)

<<I like "Blue Velvet", too.>>

So do I. By the Clovers, the Moonglows, and the Paragons. But I hate it by Bobby Vinton. In fact, I hate every Bobby Vinton record that I've ever heard, up to and including his 1974 Polish joke, "My Melody of Love."

Just out of curiosity, which tune did you end up voting for?

[Pale Blue Dot]

28. "Green Berets"

I hate that song. By the way, do you have the Joel Whitburn books, and do you page through them for fun like I often do?

[NashVegas]

15. Gotta Say Dowell

If only because it's the only one on the list I've never freaking even heard of.

[Dogmudgeon]

54. Oh, it was bad

When I was a kid, I thought he was singing about a German mouse called "Micey Tim".

The voice, the lyrics, the poor use of a foreign language (I think it was in Plattdeutsch, not even school German) ... it was out around the time Ue Amuite Arukou ("Sukiyaki") was. I guess that was Warner Brothers' idea of irony.

Muss I Denn really sucked.

--bkl

[ProfessorGAC]

17. Every One Of Those Deserves The Title

I call it tie! They're all horrible songs.
The Professor

[Red State Rebel]

18. Build Me Up Buttercup - No contest!!

[NightTrain]

20. "Buttercup" never made it to #1.

Thank god for small favors, huh?

[Richardo]

21. Until too recently I thought it was "Build Me *A* Buttercup"

...which goes to show you how much I pay attention to lyrics -- what the hell sense does THAT make?

[NightTrain]

22. Makes as much sense as what I thought the Go-Go's were singing...

"Olives for seals."

Turns out, they were actually singing, "Our Lips Are Sealed." Who knew?

[truthseeker1]

34. I like Build Me Up - one of my favorite 60s songs

[Mobius]

24. Seeing "Teen Angel" song by middle aged lounge singers is disturbing

:scared:

[tridim]

25. Ballad Of The Green Berets

SUCKS! I had no idea it was a #1.

[truthseeker1]

37. NINE weeks at #1

and 4 weeks at #3

HOW?

[starroute]

40. It was bought by a lot of people who never bought records

It's like when a movie is popular and that sends the soundtrack album to the top of the charts. It really doesn't have anything to do with what the normal record-buying public is interested in.

[Bertha Venation]

26. Parody of the Herman's Hermits song:

"Never go to lunch with Jeffrey Dahmer...."

[Old and In the Way]

30. There Coming to Take Me Away, HaHa

not sure if it was #1, but a #1 bizarrely bad tune in my book

[salinen]

43. "Well you just wait

they'll find you yet
and when they do
they'll put you in
the A.S.P.C.A. you
mangy mutt!"

And........

[Doc_Technical]

31. Kill for peace.

"Talking green beret new super yellow hydrolic bananna teeny-boper blues."

[BlackVelvetElvis]

32. What was that Chuck Barris song?

Palisades Park? Got what crotch rot.
(on edit) Wait, I just remembered, NUMBER ONES!!!
I sure hope it wasn't one.

[Norbert]

52. Ray Charles denied Palisades Park the #1 spot

with his version of I can't Stop Loving You.

[truthseeker1]

35. Blue Velvet is not that bad

that was the theme to my mom's junior prom. I still have the 45.

[Blue_Tires]

36. new lyrics for the green berets

courtesy of Michael Pacholek, http://www.amiright.com/parody/60s/barrysadler1.shtml


Slighting soldiers with a lie.
Fearing they will see him cry.
His turn came, he did not try.
'Tis the tale of the Yellow Guy.

Yellow streak goes down his back.
Unilateral attack.
On the Lincoln he did fly.
But he's still a Yellow Guy.

Trained to live off Daddy's hand.
Trained that wombat, should be canned.
We should say, "Hey, George, bye-bye!
Because you're a Yellow Guy."

Yellow streak goes down his back.
Unilateral attack.
On the Lincoln he did fly.
But he's still a Yellow Guy.

Back at home, a young wife waits.
Her soldier boy has met his fate.
He has died for those obsessed
leaving her this last request:

"Tell our son, vote Democrat.
Republicans, enough of that.
He'll be a man with head held high.
No more shame of the Yellow Guy."

[Dogmudgeon]

53. Excellent parody!

Somebody oughta cut that thing.

SSGT Barry Sadler is long dead. I don't think it will be a problem.

--bkl

[NewHampster]

38. Boots isn't on the list so I can't vote

These boots are made for walkin..

god the Sinatra kids were all bad.

[NightTrain]

42. Sorry about that!

While "Boots" is not a personal favorite of mine, I don't hate the record, either. As such, it didn't make the poll. :shrug:

[geniph]

41. Having grown up in a Catholic family

who thought the Singing Nun was just lovely, I have to state, unequivocally, that I FRIGGING HATE THAT FRIGGING DOMINIQUE DOMINIQUE DOMINIQUE EARWORM!!!

*WHEW* felt good to get that off my chest.

I want to see the top ten from the 70s. Bet those were worse.

[NightTrain]

45. Kick for the night shift

n/t

[sistersofmercy]

46. Hey, I like the Singing Nuns!

x(

[NightTrain]

47. What do you mean, "Singing Nuns?"

Thankfully, there was only one of her! :evilgrin:

What I truly resent about "Dominique" is that it was one of the two horrid pop records that kept the Kingsmen's "Louie, Louie" out of the #1 spot. (The other was Bobby Vinton's execrable "There! I've Said It Again.")

[Faygo Kid]

48. There was only one - "Dominique"

A French one, Sister Soeur Surrare (butchered that unmercifully, but sounds like. . .) Now, thanks to you, I will have that damned song in my head the rest of the night.