OK, DUers what was the worst song of the 70s.

[TheMightyFavog]

For me it's tie between Michael Martin Murphy's Wildfire (How the fuck does anything get lost in a killing forst?), and Rick Dees' Disco Duck (IIRC, The UN considers forcing someone tol isten to this song a crime against humanity.)

What say you?

[coloradodem2005]

1. I would have to agree with you.

Especially on the Disco Duck song. I heard it once and was about ready to kill myself.

[tigereye]

2. that's a lot of territory

I have to ponder this. My husband says Freebird. Wildfire would certainly be up there. Torn Between Two Lovers, or Having My Baby. ( or was that 80's)

[Barad Simith]

7. no, it was 70s

Having My Baby! I forgot about that one. I want to change my answer.

[CO Liberal]

13. Another Vote For "Havin' My Baby"

It sucks big-time.

[alittlelark]

24. "Havin my Baby" - horrid, haven't thought about it for years

now I'll try to forget it again.

[BiggJawn]

73. And another vote for "baby"....But "Afternoon Delight" is pretty bad, too.

A song about knockin' off a piece after lunch....
Oh, how CUTE!
"Hey let's do a a little diddy worthy of a studio cat jam and see if the stupid Radio Station Censors catch on..."

[Faygo Kid]

3. "Lovin' You," Minnie Riperton

Set the tone for the screaming belters on today's "American Idol" who have no clue whatsoever how to sing a song. Special props also to the curdling "The Night Chicago Died" by Paper Lace.

[KeepItReal]

65. Blame those no-talent Idol-wannabes, not Minnie...

That song is great, IMHO.

Plus Minnie puts out a great product...

http://www.saturday-night-live.com/snl/castbios/rudolph.html

[Greylady]

4. I hate that Bullfrog song from Three Dog Night

was it Joy To The World? Just thinking about it makes me queasy.

[mlawson]

45. Yeah, that was the first really bad song of the 1970s.

I thought it juvenile, inane, silly, annoying, and just plain stupid. But that was before I ever heard the Eagles... FAR worse!

[woofless]

77. Wasn't so bad when the author did it. Hoyt Axton

[NightTrain]

78. You're completely writing off 1970?

The year the Poppy Family warbled, "Which Way You Going, Billy?" Sorry, but Three Dog Night has nothing on that piece of shit!

[opiate69]

5. Afternoon Delight.

Ugh...

[Whitacre D_WI]

36. "Skyrockets in flight!"

Terrible.


But the worst ever is down below.

[Barad Simith]

6. Someone's knockin' at the door, somebody ringin' the bell

"Let 'Em In" by Paul McCartney and Wings.

If someone was using that song to get me to talk, I'd turn in my whole family before they had a chance to play it a second time.

[Bertha Venation]

8. Car Wash eom

[DS1]

15. Don't let arwalden hear you say that...

:scared:

I nominate Come Sail Away, by Styx, because if I hear hear the start of that song, it's like I have to finish it all or I just can't think...

[TheMightyFavog]

29. That may have been done during the 80s.

End of Line.

[Duncan Grant]

9. "Top of the World" - The Carpenters

Guaranteed to produce an aneurysm! Listen to it at your own risk. ;)

[stanwyck]

41. Listen to Shonen Knife's

version on an album of Carpenters covers. I love it.

[Intelsucks]

10. Muskrat Love

:puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke:

[shance]

27. LOL!!!

Too funny***

[mouse7]

58. A close second to "You Light Up My Life"

Might have been first overall, but didn't have that "played once every fourth song for three years on every radio station in America" effect that "You Light Up My Life" did.

[starroute]

82. I second that!

Though I've also got a pretty strong gripe against "I Am Woman Hear Me Roar" or however that thing went. (That was 70's, wasn't it? I can't even remember who did it.)


On edit: And there was also Chuck Berry doing "My Ding-a-Ling." Maybe not the absolute worst, but hands down for most-embarrassing-by-someone-who-should-have-known-better.

[bubblesby2002]

11. Sugar sugar

not sure if it was in the 60's or 70's

[CO Liberal]

12. "Sugar Sugar" Was the #1 Song of 1969

Which makes you wonder where our heads were that year......

[asthmaticeog]

14. Just about anything...

...by the band Sweet is a contender for worst song of the '70s, IMO.

[Duncan Grant]

16. "...you get too much, you get too high, not enough and you're gonna die...

Poetry. Words to live by. :evilgrin:

[oxymoron]

17. Gimme Dat Ding

The Pipkens

Gimme Dat, Gimme Dat
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme Dat
Gimme Dat Ding, Gimme Dat
Gimme, Gimme Dat, Gimme Dat Ding
Gimme Dat, Gimme, Gimme Dat,
Gimme, Gimme, Gimme, Dat Ding


Unfuckingbelievable.

[lpbk2713]

18. The Piña Colada Song

Drove me effen crazy every time I heard it. I'm pist now just thinking about it.

[Barad Simith]

21. AAAAUUUUGGGGHHHH!!!! (nt, just the scream)

[BiggJawn]

74. "If you like penis alotta, getting high on cocaine...."

"..If you think this is music, then you haven't much brain..."

We used to sit around drinking home-brew, doing what we called "decomposing" new lyrics to inane pop songs....

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

19. "Good Morning, Starshine"

Glibby Gloop Gloopy indeed. :wtf:

[opiate69]

20. Almost forgot....

"You Light Up My Life", Debbie Boone... although, there certainly doesn't seem to be any shortage of crappy songs from the 70s.

[shance]

22. Seasons in the Sun

eww....

[NightTrain]

23. No doubt in my mind

Debby Boone's "You Light Up My Life," with Terry Jacks' "Seasons in the Sun" running a very close second.

Runners-up include (but certainly aren't limited to):

Morris Albert's "Feelings"
Minnie Riperton's "Lovin' You"
Eric Burdon & War's "Spill The Wine"
Bo Donaldson & The Heywoods' "Billy, Don't Be A Hero"
Donna Summer's "Love To Love You, Baby"
Melanie's "Brand New Key"
Paul Anka & Odia Coates' "You're Having My Baby"
Mary NcGregor's "Torn Between Two Lovers"
The Bay City Rollers' "Saturday Night"
Johnnie Taylor's "Disco Lady"
Maureen MacGovern's "The Morning After"
Vicki Lawrence's "The Night The Lights Went Out In Georgia"
Disco Texx & The Sex-O-Lettes' "Get Dancin'"
Joe Tex's "Ain't Gonna Bump No More (With No Big Fat Woman)"
Alan O'Day's "Undercover Angel"
Queen's "We Are The Champions"
Leo Sayer's "When I Need You"

and pretty much anything by Helen Reddy, Olivia Newton-John, Barry Manilow, Shaun Cassidy, ABBA (except "Dancing Queen"), the Eagles, Bobby Sherman, or the various incarnations of the Osmonds. :puke:

[Whitacre D_WI]

35. Ah, yes, Vicki Lawrence...

...I have that album (it was only a quarter).

"Georgia" is a terrible song, yes, but hers is the definitive (ugh) rendition. Far worse are two covers, one of which was a wonderful song prior to Ms. Lawrence ruining it; the other was a bad song, but a camp classic nonetheless:

"Killing Me Softly with His Song"

and

"Gypsies, Tramps, and Thieves"

At least Cher could sing the damn thing on key. Vicki's flat through the whole song!

[stanwyck]

40. Plus, Vicki is a real RWN

I've seen her on talk shows. Terrible song.

[Lostmessage]

44. I 2nd that

Damn shitty song.

[starroute]

83. Hey, I actually liked some of those

I've got a certain fondness for Spill the Wine, Brand New Key, The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia (if I'm remembering right and that was the one about small-town hypocricy), and We Are the Champions.

None of them was great, but none of them was in run-screaming-in-the-opposite-direction territory either.

[K8-EEE]

25. Pina Colada Song

yikes...

[fudge stripe cookays]

51. Sorry, 1980.

[NightTrain]

67. Actually, it went to #1 in December 1979

So it belongs here. And how!

[TheMightyFavog]

26. Ughhhh The Osmonds....

What the fuck were we thinking back then?

[fudge stripe cookays]

52. "Paper Roses"

Ugh...my parents bought me the album!

[Edge]

28. Every one of them.

[shance]

30. What about....Someone left the cake out in the rain, and I

dont think that i can make it, cause it took so long to bake it and Ill never have that recipe AGAAAAAAAIN***

(brought to you by the makers of EZ bake ovens)

that one has got to win the prize.

[TheMightyFavog]

31. That may have been late 60s.

I'm not sure.

[starroute]

84. I'm pretty sure it was 60's

And besides, that one has to get a few points back for being the object of Weird Al's parody, "Jurassic Park." (Anything that Weird Al paradies gains instant immortality.)

[GinaMaria]

32. Run Joey Run

[MrSlayer]

33. Cherokee People, all Disco or anything by Leo Sayer.

The 70's had a ton of bad music.

[terrya]

34. "Disco Lucy"

Yes, someone did a disco version of the "I Love Lucy" theme. And yes, it was horrible. And yes, I knew disco was over when I heard that.

Sorry, disco fans.

Terry

[NightTrain]

68. The Wilton Place Street Band, 1977

"Dance dance, Disco Lucy!" :puke:

[Whitacre D_WI]

37. Time for this thread to end. I have the TRULY worst song of the '70s.

Chuck Mangione, "Feels So Good."

[TheMightyFavog]

49. That guy's for real?

I always thought that he was made up for King of the Hill



<Gribble>Hank, Chuck Mangione is working in connection with the UN and the CIA to take over the world!</Gribble>

[gator_in_Ontario]

38. I love a rainy night

I love a rainy night I love a rainy night I love a rainy night
over and over and over.... aaaaaack!!!
or was that one from the 80's?

[NightTrain]

39. 1981. Still pretty lame, though.

As was everything Eddie Rabbitt did!

[Scurrilous]

42. You Light Up My Life (Debbie Boone)

...no song sucked more.

[mouse7]

57. That's definiely my choice.

No song was ever more overplayed. Not even that Titanic song or "I Will Always Love You."

There wes no place you could be spared hearing the damn song.

[NoPasaran]

43. Elton John's (well, that pretty much sums it up)

Elton John's "Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds"

[mlawson]

46. "Already Gone" by the Eagles.

Words fail me; absolutely the worst song ever. Plus anything else they recorded, plus "Sister Goldenhair", plus "Amy".

:puke:

[mouse7]

61. Didn't have anything of the dreadful effect of "You Light Up My Life"

The Eagles were kinda refreshing compared to most of the drek you were forced to listen to in a small Southern city with nothing but Top 40 and AC stations.

[jus_the_facts]

47. Short People Got No Reason(To Live)

......I was tormented and given a complex by this tune! :evilfrown:

[Blue Gardener]

48. Tie a Yellow Ribbon 'Round the Old Oak Tree

Or anything else by Tony Orlando and Dawn, or Captain and Tenille. Makes me want to gag.

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

50. I second that one... if it had never been done, what a great world

we would live in now.

[joeybee12]

53. I've Never Been to Me--that was from the 70's, wasn't it???

Charlene did a follow-up duet with Stevie Wonder which is even worse, but I can't recall the name of that one.

[NightTrain]

54. Originally released in '77, but didn't become a big hit until '82.

One of the more painful memories of my high-school years.... :puke:

[Lydia Leftcoast]

55. There really were a lot of stinkers in that decade, weren't there!

Seasons in the Sun
Havin' My Baby
The Candy Man
Timothy
Gimme Dat Ding
Feelings
Knock Three Times on the Ceiling if You Want Me

This is too traumatic. I can't go on.

[mouse7]

64. yeah... pretty dreadful when it's coalated like this, huh?

No wonder I was so into Heavy Metal. I forget why I liked it so much... until I see a list like this to remind me.

[opiate69]

56. "Convoy"

By CJ McCall, I think...

[BiggJawn]

76. Didja know that what became Manheim Steamroller did the music...

...for C.W. McCall?
Chip Davis was involved with that "Convoy" thing....

[opiate69]

80. wow... ya learn somethin' new every day..

Thanks.. "A day without learning is a day wasted"

[BiggJawn]

87. The whole story is here...

http://www.techren.net/mccall/legend.shtml

"From those commercials came the first of the C.W. McCall songs, named after the restaurant: "Old Home Fill-er Up An' Keep On A- Truckin' Café". While Bill provided the lyrics to the song and the voice of C.W. McCall, his collaborator Chip Davis wrote the music. Soon C.W.'s first album -- Wolf Creek Pass -- was released, whose title song was a misadventure of a truck with brake failure.

C.W. McCall's popularity reached its peak in January 1976, when "Convoy" -- from his second album, Black Bear Road -- reached the number one position on both the pop and country charts of Billboard.

Like most musical acts, C.W. McCall toured the country, with Bill singing the words of C.W. and the "Fort Calhoun Nuclear Power Plant Boys" playing the music. In reality, the "Boys" were Chip Davis and an eclectic mix of musicians, who spent their non-C.W. McCall time recording albums of Chip's music. Chip was a pioneer of "New Age" music, and his albums, recorded under the group name of "Mannheim Steamroller", were also successful. But the fact that Chip Davis was the music behind C.W. McCall was not a well-known fact."

They didn't mention that Chip was also the force behind the "Fresh Aire" albums

[CanuckAmok]

59. Laila

That damned, repetitive, shirrl riff, and the pretentious piano bit at the end.

Yuck.

[devilgrrl]

60. Billy Don't be a Hero...

Bad Blood by Neil Sedaka and Elton John :puke:

[CanuckAmok]

63. Ooh, Good one! How about "Don't Go Breakin' My Heart"?

Also "Philadelphia Freedom", only because of it's insincerity.

[hyphenate]

62. My Sharona

I abhor that song.

[Jack Rabbit]

66. In the Navy

If one is looking for the worst of the seventies, the Village People is a good place to start.

[banana republican]

69. YUMMY YUMMY I GOT LOVE IN MY TUMMY

UPPS SORRY THAT WAS THE '60's

[carols]

70. Honey by Bobby Goldsboro

Although Havin' my Baby is a close second. In retrospect, I think they might be the same song...

[NightTrain]

71. 1968

N/T

[carols]

72. LOL - those years are a bit blurry

n/t

[NightTrain]

75. Delta Dawn, what's that flower you've got on?

I don't know how to love him....

I am woman, hear me roar.

Leave me alone, just leave me alone, just leave me!

Angie Baby, you're a special lady.

[woofless]

79. "Shake Your Booty"

Cannot believe it went this far without someone mentioning this atrocity. Reminds me of the time my friend Danny shook his booty right into the jukebox and sent the needle sideways across that piece of shit.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

81. Bobby Sherman's "Julie"...

"Julie Julie Julie do you love me...Julie Julie Julie do you care..."

:puke:

[stromboli]

85. pewter zeppelin

I'm trying to remember when Zeppelin went Disco... oh, the betrayal! almost as bad as what happened to Metallica.

[stromboli]

86. pewter zeppelin

I'm trying to remember when Zeppelin went Disco... oh, the betrayal! almost as bad as what happened to Metallica.