Conference mr1pst::music

1.  Macarthur's Park "..someone left the cake out
    in the rain"
2.  "Your having my baby....what a wonderful to say
    how much you love me"
3.  Muskrat Love and Shop Around - by Captain and Tennile
4.  Hurting Each Other - by the Carpenters
5.  I think I love you - Partridge Family
6.  I got you babe
7.  I feel love - Donna Summer
8.  You Light Up My Life
9.  "My baby takes the MORNING TRAIN...he works
    from 9 to 5 and then...he takes another home again
    to find me waitin for him..."
10. "Lets get Physical....I wanna get ANIMAL"

	Everything but the cheese....maybe Lisa has an on-line copy of what
	she played during the radio cheese festival.

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    Just thought I'd warn you that the "Lisa and Sue take over Friday
    night" vibes are coalescing once again, this time the fest is called:
    
    "Cheese of the Ages: 30 Years of Cheese"
    
    or some such thing.  That's right, 6 hours of the cheesiest slices we
    can find.  Bad 60's crud, maybe an art rock tune thrown in, Terry
    Jacks, mid-70's synth funk, cartoon show themes, the inevitable disco
    tune, hair bands.......
    
    Friday May 25th, mark your calendar......of course feel free to voice
    your suggestions or come hang out with us....
    
    Lisa

>2.  "Daddy, please don't it wasn't his fault.. he means
>    so much to me..."
    
    Run, Joey, Run
    
>9.  "My baby takes the MORNING TRAIN...he works
>    from 9 to 5 and then...he takes another home again
>    to find me waitin for him..."
    
    Morning Train (9 to 5)
    
    This is one category I'm staying out of...I LIKE cheese!
    
    K.C.

last week in radio_radion some beau was calling for no
dumm lyrics.  now here we go with no cheesy lyrics.
what's left?  (see title for hint)

    Should we call Barry Scott over at BOS, and enter his playlist as a
    reply to this topic???
    
    -Jesse

    
    
    1. The night Chicago died (Paperlace??)
    2. I Gotcha (Joe Tex)
    3. The rapper  (The Jaggerz)
    4. The Streak
    5. Convoy
    
    Ill keep thinking...(I have all of these form my growin up days)
    
    Bob
    

    Convoy?, man, there's a song I hadn't heard in a long time.
    Actually, the guy who wrote that became Mayor of Ouray, CO
    for a few years. (I grew up there)His name was
     CW Mcall (aka Bill Fries)
    
    Boy, he wrote some pretty silly songs.
    
     2
    d

    Alone Again (Naturally)
    Sylvia's Mother
    How Do You Do ? 
    Delta Dawn
    That theme song from that tv show about the blond superhero ("Believe
    it or not I'm walking on air")
    Popcorn 
    Candy Man
    Afternoon Delight
    Final Countdown by Europe (I'm not kidding)
    
    dan
    

    
    More from my moldy collection of head cheese 45's
    
    Rock the Boat
    Brand New Key  (I gotta brand new pair of roller skates, you gotta 
                    brand new key......yuuuckk!)
    You light up my life
    Cherokee Reservation
    Love will keep us together
    Indiana wants me
    Dont pull your love out (funk and wagnall)
    Rose Garden
    Brandi
    Hold your head up
    Sunshine
    The lion sleeps tonite
    Kung-Fu Fighting
    

    re .9  
    
    Good list, but I'll have to debate the inclusion of "Hold Your Head
    Up"; a pretty decent song by Argent.
    
    dan
    

	Sometimes these make great covers or at min. better ones...
	Titanics (Boston/TAANG!) doing "Brandi" is priceless.

    Dan--Yeah thats true...Hold your head up is a pretty good tune, but
    it still falls into that lost 45's type of music. I still have most
    of the 45's I mentioned in my replies....
    
    Bob

	I missed that one, yea, as a little kid I liked that song and now
	as a big one I still do...

    Re: theme from tv show w/blonde super hero
    
    "The Greatest American Hero"
    
    K.C. (who loves most of the songs mentioned and don't think of them as
    "cheese")  :^(

    Giddy-up Go (C&W Trucker song)
    almost anything by Vince Gill
    You Got To Stand For Something (Or You'll Fall For Anything)

    In The Navy - Village People
    The Ballad Of The Green Beret - Sgt Barry Sadler
    
    \Gary

    
    	Friday Night...Bell and James
    	Boogie Oggie Oggie...Sister Sledge
    	Boogie Shoes....K.C.& Sunshine Band
    	The Logical Song...Supertramp
    
    Ton's of them..
    
    B.A

    more...
    
    	Cocacabana(sp)  Barry Manilow
    	Without You...Neilson
    	Bad Blood...Neil Sadaka(sp)
    	Anything by the Osmonds!
    
    B.A.

    
    Sweet city woman - Stampeders
    
    Jim C.
    

    I can't believe no one's mentioned "Muskrat Love" by Captain and
    Tenille.
    
    And, who can forget those thrilling times when Marie was a little bit
    rock 'n' roll and Donnie was a little bit country.  :^)  Is there
    anything cheesier than a medley of cheese?
    
    Jamie

   Bummer to see Nilsson's Without You and Stampeder's Sweet City Woman.

  -pat (who likes both and has seen Heart do a killer version of Without You)

    
    
    Chick-a-Boom
    
    

    
    Remember "Timothy" by the Buoys?
    
    Just a cute little diddy about two boys eating their friend when they
    got trapped in a mine collapse.
    
    Significant lines:  "My stomach was as full as it could be,
                         and no one ever got around...to finding...
                         Timothy"
    
    
    AHHHHHHGGGGHH!
    
    Brian

    
    Here's one:  Da Do Run Run...Da Do Run Run (can't think who sang this
    but I think he was an actor)

    re:  .23
    
    The "friend" that the miners ate in "Timothy" (The Buoys) was a mule.
    
    You some kinda animal rights activist or what?     :7)   :7)
    
    (The Buoys were a hometown band in my wife's hometown.  15 minutes of
     fame.)
    \Gary

re: .-1

Shawn Cassidy (ack!)

I dunno, lots of the songs listed so far, don't
seem like "cheese" to me at all. 



-T

Re: .26

oooops. .26 was a reply to .24

-T

    How about a pair from Tim Curry:
    
    I Do the Rock
    Paradise Garage
    
    -Jesse

    
    Lollypop!

Little Willy  - Sweet

D.O.A. - Blood Rock?  (should be under gory songs?!)

    The Stones		"Angie"
    The Beatles		"Oh-Bla-Dee, Oh-Bla-Da"
    Genesis		 anything since "Wind and Wuthering"
    
    :^)
    
    Mark.

    
    
    Saturday Nite   (The Bay City Rollers)
    Tra-la-la song  (The Bananna Splits)
    
    

    Re: .20
    
    It was MARIE that was a little bit Country, and DONNIE that was a
    little bit Rock'n'Roll.
    
    K.C.

    re .33

    Right, but on a couple of special occasions they switched roles.  In
    effect, they took a cheesy medley act and sunk it to a new low.
    
    I can't believe I'm publicly admitting that I watched the show.  :^)
    
    Jamie

    
    Did not America issue Muskrat Love originally?
    
    DFW

    
    
    
    It was a graveyard smash "The Monster Mash"
    
    

    Any thing by Ray Stevens..
    
                Crazy_wadda_wad_ball_Al

    Geeezze, Even More Cheese:
    
    1. All By Myself (Eric Carmen)
    2. Dream Weaver (Can't remember who did it)
    3. "Dancing Queen Young and Sweet Only Seventeen" (ABBA)
    4. "Louie, Louie, Louie, Lou-eye" (?)
    5. "Knock Three Times On The Ceiling If You Love Me" (Tony Orlando)
    6. "I write the Songs" (Barry Manilow)
    7. "Tie A Yellow Ribbon" (Not the 90's version, but Tony Orlando)
    8. Joy To The World "Jerimiah was a bull frog, was a good friend
       of mine" (3 Dog Night)
    9. Flash Dance
    10.Gimme 3 Steps (Lynard Skinner {sp?})--I confess that I've
       been in a couple of cheese bands in starving times, and they
       always droned this song when playing some of the cheesier
       clubs when living in Ohio.  That was in the early 80's, and
       what's sad is you can probably find working wedding bands
       (yes, with just buckets of oozing cheese flowing from their
       amps, drums and P.A.'s) playing this and many of what they
       call "Standards" to suffering wedding parties, understanding
       now why this band only cost $200 for the night.
    
       Other songs for these Cheese Bucket Bands are: Misty, Never On
       Sunday, Johnny Be Good, Wipe Out, The Hokey Pokey (Stand up
       and make a fool of yourself), The Chicken Dance (Stand up again
       and make a fool of yourself), My Girl, Just My Imagination and 
       more.  
      
       I remember sitting behind my drums and with my heart down in
       my feet and pounding these songs out, weekend after weekend
       wondering when somebody would get wise and blow up our 
       equipment van.

    
    2. Dream Weaver - Gary Wright
    

    
    re: .38
    
    Hey, I like Eric Carmen!

    "Silly Love Songs" by Paul McCartney

    "One Toke Over the Line" - forgot, some 2 guys
    "2525" - Zager and Evans

     ---
    
     I once saw a record review book that spent some time defining shlock,
     and they decided that there was good shlock and bad shlock.

     For me, good shlock covers stuff like "Sweet City Woman," "96 Tears,"
     "Cherokee Reservation," "Little Willy" - I love those songs, but I 
     realize they're pretty hokey.  I think one of the things I hate most
     about today's Top 40/AOR is that it's rarely cool or acceptable to
     today's audiences to *get* that hokey or corny anymore.  The songs 
     run from serious to soulful to socially conscious to loud to being
     about love, but everybody seems too "mature" for the shlock.  I mean, 
     as funny and unimportant as things like "Afternoon Delight" were, I miss 
     the fact that bands were writing good shlock like that... you know, for
     variety.
    
    - Sean_connisseur_of_cheesy_songs

    RE .42
    
    Funny; I have a few of the "Have a Nice Day; Super hits of the 70's"
    cassettes and I also find myself identifying "ggod schlock" and "bad
    schlock" when I listen to them.  For instance, "The Night Chicago
    Died" really ain't that bad, whereas "Sylvia's Mother" and "How do 
    You Do?" are worse than I ever imagined.  Eye of the beholder, I
    guess.
    
    Yup, I too miss the good ole days of hokey tunes.
    
    dan
     

    
>>        <<< Note 238.41 by DREGS::BLICKSTEIN "Mariah Carey's Fiance" >>>
>>                         -< And the joke was Paul... >-

>>    "Silly Love Songs" by Paul McCartney
    
    	i'd like to agree with you on this Dave, but judging by the money
    he got, i'm afraid the joke was on us:-6

    Hey, that is a kazoo isn't it? Ah, you just ruined it for me, or
    enhanced it ;').  I'll have to get the CD so that I can discover
    the more subtle nuances of Paper Lace's musical stylings.
    
    dan
    

    There's Got to be a Morning After -- dunno by who, but it was the theme
    song from Posiedon Adventure.  I still can't hear that song without
    suffering psychological damage.   :)
    
    
    
    Shannon (or whatever) -- about the dead dog.  
    
    
    And, speaking of animals:
    
    
    Wildfire  -- about the pony and its mistress who perish in a cold
    winter night.  Or something.
    
    
    
    kim

    The Morning After - Maureen McGovern, who also did "Can You Read My
    Mind" (theme from Superman) and the theme from the TV show "Angie" (all
    of which I have, and love).
    
    K.C.

    "One Toke Over the Line" is by Brewer and Shipley.
    
    Mark.

    
    ???
    
    Didn't "Can You Read My Mind?" only have voice-overs, which according
    to the credits were done by Margot Kidder?
    
    And does it really matter? :-)
    
    DFW

    Re: .49
    
    In the movie, it WAS just a voice-over (not sung, but recited) by
    Margot Kidder...but the SONG was released that year by Maureen
    McGovern.
    
    I should know...I have it!  :^)
    
    K.C.

    
    Never doubted you...  You possessed irrefutable information I lacked. 
    Never knew there was anything but what went out on the soundtrack.
    
    Thanks,
    DFW

    re .16, in my opinion The Ballad of the Green Beret is *the* worst song
    ever recorded.
    
    re .31, however, Angie, by The Rolling Stones, is one of my all-time
    favorite songs!  It is *not* cheesy.  It is beautiful!
    
    Some others, I don't think were mentioned yet:
    
    Billie & Sue by ?  "Billie & Sue, met the first day of school, and ever
    since then lived by the golden rule, etc."  
    
    Ruby, Don't Take Your Love To Town - Kenny Rogers
    
    Will You Marry Me, Bill? - by a female singer (?)
    
    One Less Egg To Fry - a female group (?)
    
    To All The Girls I've Loved Before - Willie Nelson
    
    It Must Be Him, Or I Shall Die - Vicki Carr  (I really *hate* this
    song)
    
    D.I.V.O.R.C.E. - Tammy Wynnette
    
    Stand By Your Man - Tammy Wynnette  
    
    
    Lorna
    

    
   >Will You Marry Me, Bill? - by a female singer (?)
   > 
   >One Less Egg To Fry - a female group (?)
    
    
    	Both by The Fifth Dimension ... Marilyn McCoo on lead vocals.
    	[The title of the second is "One Less Bell to Answer".]
    
    							GTI

    
    
    and "Will You Marry Me, Bill?" is actually "Wedding Bell Blues."
    
    The Fifth Dimension had a string of sugar-pop hits in the late sixties,
    including "Would You Like to Ride in My Beautiful Balloon" and their
    own rendition of "Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In."  One of their other
    hits (I think) was "Stoned Soul Picnic."  
    
    In any case, "Bill" was actually one of the other singers in the Fifth 
    Dimension and he *did* marry Marilyn McCoo.
    
    The two had another top 40 single in late 1976-early 1977 titled
    "You Don't Have to be a Star (To Be In My Show)."
    
     Brian

Macho, Macho Man...I've got to be a Macho Man


Who could forget this classic by the Village People.


TW

    Re: .54
    
    Its funny how you got "Wedding Bell Blues" correct, but muffed up on
    "Up Up And Away" (Would you like to ride...)
    
    K.C.

    >It's funny how you got "Wedding Bell Blues" correct, but muffed up
     on "Up, Up, and Away"
    
    Yeah....sheepish...I kinda knew there was a different title and
    couldn't remember it.
    
    Wedding Bell Blues was easy enough to remember....my sister used
    to put a 45 of it on, and let it *over* and *over* and *over*
    until someone one would run in and seize the thing from the
    record player.
    
    She was only 9 at the time....
    
    Brian
    

    How does D.I.V.O.R.C.E. go?  Is it something like,
    
    D.I.V.O.R.C.E.
    Find out what it means to me.
    D.I.V.O.R.C.E., V.O., R.C.E.
    Sock it to me, sock it to me, sock it to me, sock it to me, 
    Sock it to me, sock it to me, sock it to me, sock it to me ...
    
    ;^)
    
    Steve

    Heartbeat (is a lovebeat).......DeFranco Family
    
    Fox on the Run.........Sweet
    
    Island Girl............Elton John
    
    On the Radio...........Donna Summer
    
    Mr. Jaws...............Rick Dees (I think)
    
    Disco Duck.............Rick Dees (I think)
    
    Street Corner Serenade.....Wet Willie

    If you want plain cheese, sorta like Velveeta, you might consider
    Tiny Tim's "Tiptoe Through The Tulips".
    
    However, the cheesiest, and in my opinion also the worst, song I've ever
    heard:
    
    Seasons in the Sun (Terry Jacks)
    
    Brian
    (who is thankful he has not heard this song in at least 15 years)

    *sigh* if I'm not careful, I'll develop a reputation, but here I go
    again...
    
    Mr. Jaws - Dickie Goodman, NOT Rick Dees.
    
    OK, OK...some songs that SOME would consider "cheese" (I have 'em all!)
    
    General Hospit-ale
    Bad Blood (Elton John, Neil Sedaka)
    Tell Laura I Love Her
    Please Mr. Please
    Cats In The Cradle (I saw this in a "Worst Singles" list - STILL can't
    	believe it!)
    Rapper's Delight (the ONLY rap song I will profess to own)
    Bertha Butt Boogie
    Angie Baby (Helen Reddy)
    Break My Stride
    Doctor's Orders
    
    But...I like 'em all!
    
    K.C.

    Up, Up and Away - Fifth Dimension
    Alone Again, Naturally - Gilbert O'Sullivan
    O Claire - Gilbert O'Sullivan
    ABC - Jackson Five
    One Bad Apple - The Osmonds
    Sugar Sugar - The Archies 
    Anything by Shirley Ellis (The Name Game, Nitty Gritty, etc.)
    
    I can't believe they actually called this stuff rock 'n
    roll......please........
    
    Ken
    

    Nobody has mentioned Pink Floyd producer Norman "Hurricane" Smith's
    big hit "Babe, What Can I Say".
    
    						Brian

The next thing you know, someone will mention Mungo Jerry or "Ride, Captain Ride"
by the Blues Image.

Which are only two of the greatest songs of the 20th century, right up there with
Hurricane Smith.

    
    I once saw The Beagles do "Ride Captain Ride" on their TV show.
    Say, you don't supposed it was lip-synched, do ya?  ;^)

    re: a couple back
    
    Which Mungo Jerry was that?  'In the Summertime' or another?
    
    -Jesse

la-ta-ta-ta-ta-la-ti-tada-ti-ta

    Mungo Jerry did a cover of "Some Kinds of Love"?
    
    Ray

    I always liked In The Summertime by Mungo Jerry.  I think it's a fine
    tune.
    
    Another horrible one:  
    
    You Were Always On My Mind - Willie Nelson
    
    Lorna
    

    Whenever I hear that song by Willie Nelson the image of cow being
    branded always comes to mind.
    
    Mark.

    Almost anything by Gary Puckett and the Union Gap. My own particular
    favorite -- after nails on a chalkboard -- is "Young Girl."
    
    jcf
    

    Not that "young girl" is that distinguishable from "Woman" (have you
    got cheating on your mind?).
    
    -Jesse

    What about "I've never been to me" by (?) Sylvia?
    
    Oh sorry, that should be under _gacky_ songs, not _cheezy_ songs...
    
    **Deb

    RE: .74  ("I've Never Been to Me")
    
    You can blame Maureen McGovern for a lot of things, but you can't blame
    her for that one.
    
    I seem to recall it was some one-hit, no-talent, one-name-only
    schlockmeister.  (Charlene, perhaps?)
    
    This was from the summer I was stuck in an office all summer that
    played top-40 radio.  Gawd, what a wretched summer.  After endless 
    exposure to that song, "Key Largo", the later hits of Christopher Cross, 
    and the rest of it, I eventually started twitching uncontrollably
    whenever I encountered a radio.  Yeccch.
    
    BTW, I will dispute the earlier inclusion of Harry Nilsson's version of
    "Without You" among the ranks of the rank.
    
    - Dave

    What about
    
   "50 ways to leave your lover"   Paul Simon
    
    "Shadow Dancing" and "Devil's Daughter"  Andy Gibb
    
    "I'm Henry the 8th I am"
    
    Katrina

    ...did anyone else listen to the Top 40 countdown on "Lost 45s" last
    night?  I even wore my Walkman during the Blazers/Bulls so I wouldn't
    miss any of le grand fromage...
    
    It was _flying_!
    
    **Deb

    RE: "I've Never Been To Me"
    
    Yes, it was Charlene.  (Not Sinclair!)  :^)
    
    K.C.

    
    Waterloo
    
    

    re -1
    
    I have the single of _Waterloo_, sung in Swedish no less.
    
    It sounds a lot less cheezy that way.
    
    **Deb

    
    Re: .77
    
    What countdown? Is "Lost 45's" on again? Reply .6 mentioned Barry
    Scott at WBOS; is that where his show is now? 
    
    Tim G.

    Yup.  Barry Scott's lost 45's is on BOS 92.9 somewhere in the 5-9 time
    slot.
    
    -Jesse

    
    What about "Fernando"?  Geez, was that Abba or Captain and Tenile?

    Fernando - ABBA
    
    K.C.

    ..i'm sure it's been mentioned but the song that makes me want to 
    hurl for days ever time i hear it..."you're having my baby"....p.
    anka... ..............ARRRHHHHHGGGHHHHHHHH!!!!....................../k
    

    Oh yeah, that reminds me of a good story about that Paul Anka song:
    
    Back in college during the days of the so-called "sexual revolution" I
    had a next door neighbor in the dorm who was that guy who seems to exist
    on every college campus - the guy who slept with virtually every woman on
    the planet. He would sometimes have three or four "visitors" per evening.
    Some of his visitors tended to be, shall we say, sexually demonstrative.
    Thus, we usually had a pretty good idea when that "magic moment" had
    arrived.
    
    So, we'd sit there with my roommate's record collection, who was a part
    time DJ and had just about everything, and select *just the right
    moment* for a rousing, and very loud, spin of Paul Anka's "Having My
    Baby". Nothing like a little thought-provoking music to wile away the
    time...
    
    Brian

    ,..-1..hahahahaha.....cruel, so cruel.......i like that!..../k

    Slip Slidin' Away
    Smoke Of A Distant Fire
    Thunder Island
    Freebird "Another Moldy Club Song by Lynard Skynard"
    
    These four can really give me the "CHEESE HEAVES"...
    

    Isn't it interesting how one person's cheese is another person's art?
    
    However, here are some beyond question:
    
    Take a Letter, Maria
    
    Hats Off to Larry
    
    Okie from Muscogie
    
    AND THE SINGLE WORST SONG OF ALL TIME,
    
    Bright, Elusive Butterfly of Life
    
    
    
    Mike

RE:         <<< Note 238.89 by WONDER::FEIN "I'm an EXCELLENT driver." >>>
                          -< No accountin' for taste >-

  >    AND THE SINGLE WORST SONG OF ALL TIME,
    
  >  Bright, Elusive Butterfly of Life
    
    
    
   Nope..its "I Will Follow Him" by Little Peggy March, just thinking about it
 starts it running through my brain and I'm about to  jump outta my chair and
 run screaming down the hallway :-/




Jim

    How about "Sunshine, Lollypops, and Rainbows" by Leslie Gore...
    
    kpb

    
    What about "Love me,love my dog."!!
    
    Who sang that anyway?
    
    

	I should be so lucky... lucky, lucky,lucky,lucky 
							- Kylie.

	Shudduppa your face
				- ??????.

Dai.

     	Re .92

    	"Love Me, Love My Dog" was Peter Shelley.

    	Re .93

    	"Shaddap You Face" was Joe Dolce Music Theatre.

    	After three and half years of marriage, my wife admitted to me only
    	last night that she has a copy of "Shaddap You Face". Oh the
        embarrassment!

    	Ian.

    "Japanese Boy" by a Scottish lady, Aneka(?); does that bring
     back bad memories? 
    
     barry.

    Bad Memories?
    
    ...we're talking nightmare city!!  ...yup!-She was called Aneka...real
    name Mary Sandeman ,a well known,and respected, Scottish Gaelic Singer!
    (...and  she was the Aunt of a friend of mine,which caused him major 
    embarrassment when she appearred  on T.O.T.P !) ...Perhaps it's time
    for a Re-release we were just talking about this song yesterday ;-) !
    
    Sandie..../

    It occurred to me that every Broadway show tune ever written is pure
    cheese.....
    which is why they call them "show tunes" and not something else.
    
    Being labeled a "show tune" grants immunity from prosecution under
    cheese laws.	:7)
    \Gary

	1. Rain Drops Keep Falling On My Head (?)
	2. What's Up Pussy Cat? (?)
	3. Coastin' (Nancy Sinatra)
	4. These Boots Are Made For Walkin' (Nancy Sinatra?)

		These boots are made for walkin'
		and that's just what they'll do
		'cause one of these days these boots
		are gonna walk all over you...

	5. Summer In The City (Lovin' Spoonful)

		Hot time, summer in the city,
		back of my necks gettin' dirty and gritty...

	6. Mellow Yellow (Donovan)

	Actually, I must admit to liking the last two.  I
	guess everybody has a little cheese running in 
	their veins.
                   

RE:          <<< Note 238.98 by EPS::CARL "Hummina, Hummina Hummina!" >>>
                        -< Pass the cheese, please... >-



	1. Rain Drops Keep Falling On My Head (?)  BJ Thomas
	2. What's Up Pussy Cat? (?)  Tom Jones
	3. Coastin' (Nancy Sinatra)
	4. These Boots Are Made For Walkin' (Nancy Sinatra?)  Yep

		These boots are made for walkin'
		and that's just what they'll do
		'cause one of these days these boots
		are gonna walk all over you...

	5. Summer In The City (Lovin' Spoonful)

		Hot time, summer in the city,
		back of my necks gettin' dirty and gritty...

	6. Mellow Yellow (Donovan)

	Actually, I must admit to liking the last two.  I
	guess everybody has a little cheese running in 
	their veins.
                   

    re:  .98 and/or .99
    
    Summer In The City, Mellow Yellow
    
    Maybe the reason you like these two is because they're not
    actually cheese?
    \Gary

    Here's one for the record:
    
    "Put the bone in"     by  Terry Jacks
    
    it's the B side to the "Seasons in the sun" 45.
    
    		ever hear it???
    
    
    
    john.

    But I thought "Mellow Yellow" referred to Velveeta?
    
    On the radio this morning, I heard a novelty version (yeah, I know) of
    "Mellow Yellow" as performed by "Senator McKinley" and "Senator Bobby"
    Kennedy, but I have no idea who Senator McKinley was, and Bobby Kennedy
    is dead, so some of the humor may have been lost.
    
    Ray

Ray, just think how many enemies you've missed by being so young.

Sen. Everett McKinley Dirksen, a/k/a The Wizard of Ooze, was a horrid old 
tart who pandered patriotism and pushed the marigold as the national flower,
while being leader of the Republicans in the Senate.

    Mellow Yellow referred to the act of smoking dried banana peels.
    
    Mark.

    Ban the banana!  We can't have schoolchildren having access to
    dangerous hallucinogenic drugs in every supermarket.
    
    Fortunately we don't have to worry about banning saffron.  Illicit
    drugs are much cheaper.
    
    - Dave

    Tom, speaking of patriotism, let's start an AMERICANA_RAMA conference.
    Topic 1:  "Jefferson vs. Carter"; Reply 1: "Jefferson was taller."
    
    On the cheese side of the sandwich, Donovan can't get much gooier than
    name-any-Springsteen-song.
    
    Ray

    Ok.  Rosalita.
    
    Peter

    
    	Here are my entries in the "cheese" list. The first is "I Don't
    like spiders and snakes" by Jimmy something. The second causes me
    to contemplate "yellin' at the lawn", "It's raining men" by the
    "Weather Girls"? Must be the two worst "songs" of all-time.
    
    fred deady
    
    

    "It's Raining Men" is a masterpiece.
    
    Ray

    Say what you want about Jim Stafford, but the man (it turns out) has
    phenomenal guitar chops.
    
    I once was flipping the channels and saw a guy playing "Flight of the
    Bumblebee" on a white acoustic guitar at the speed of light.
    
    I couldn't see who it was because he had his head down, pickin' like
    a madman.
    
    When the tune was over, he looked up, and it was Jim Stafford.

>    When the tune was over, he looked up, and it was Jim Stafford.

    I don't remember where I saw or heard him play (Smothers Bros maybe),
    but I do remember Jim Stafford being a pretty good picker. I was kinda
    bumbed out when he came out with that Spiders and Snakes novelty tune as
    a single.

    He actually had his own (summer replacement?) variety series a couple 
    of years after "Spiders and Snakes" was a hit.
    
    - Dave

I saw Jim Stafford in Vegas with the Smothers Brothers and Joan Rivers (on
DEC expense account).  He played and sang a bit, but he did not do "Spiders and
Snakes" despite repeated requests from the RSX section of the audience.

    how bout...
    
    Chapel of Love - Dixie Cups
    
    Jojo the dogface boy - Annette
    
    I sold my heart to the junkman - no idea
    
    I love (little baby ducks) - Tom T. Hall
    
    Hang on Sloopy - McCoys
    
    I *like* Kung Fu Fighting, god knows why.
    

    
    >I sold my heart to the junkman - no idea
    
    Patti Labelle and the Bluebells
    
    

    No sh*t!?
    no wonder I liked that song, cheesy as it was. She must have been a pup
    when she did that one, I know I was. :)

    
    Nobody else hates Mohammed Ali - the Black Superman?
    Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
    aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
    The song, that is.
    
    Funny that most of the songs listed in here were big hits!
    
    MH

    
    Several/all of the Micheal Jackson, especially:
    
    Bad
    Smooth Criminal
    We are the World (many artist's gooped in cheese)
    Billy Jean's Not My Girl
    
    I liked Thriller though.
    

    Everything ever written by Neil Young