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HolyMoly ![]() Special Collaborator ![]() ![]() Retired Admin Joined: April 01 2009 Location: Atlanta Status: Offline Points: 26133 |
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Wow. I was just thinking of that song today and it occurred to me that "Twilight Zone" by Golden Earring has the same melody for the chorus.
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mathman0806 ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: June 06 2014 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 6085 |
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Just about any novelty act/song, such as this one...
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Well usually it has to do with someone sucking someone's private parts and then moving on to more adventurous exploitations. Often lots of money is involved. Drug runs. You get the gist.
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^ That ‘Excerpt from ......’ is the worst track on that Tomorrow album
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Squonk19 ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: April 03 2015 Location: Darlington, UK Status: Offline Points: 4732 |
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Excerpt from 'A Teenage Opera' - Keith West. It reached No.2 in the UK singles charts in 1967.
'Grocer Jack' (as my Mum called it) had a touch of psychedelia to it. Keith was part of Tomorrow as well. I didn't mind it, even if it was a bit twee at times, but I am honesty still surprised it reached such a lofty position in the charts as it is a bit of a one-off curio. ...now that only leaves another several thousand hits from the last 50 years to shake my head at in disbelief at their commercial success - starting with 'Telephone Man', 'I've Never Been to Me' ![]() |
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Argo2112 ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: June 20 2017 Location: New Jersey Status: Offline Points: 4457 |
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Just about every disco piece of crap but out by KC & the Sunshine Band!
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Snicolette ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: November 02 2018 Location: OR Status: Offline Points: 5980 |
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Oh, that was terribly saccharine also...Pun intended!
![]() I am a lady, so I will not say what we used to change the lyrics in Yummy Yummy Yummy to.
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The.Crimson.King ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: March 29 2013 Location: WA Status: Offline Points: 4591 |
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I believe it can get much worse ![]() The Archies - Sugar Sugar - 1969 (#1 US for 4 weeks, #1 UK for 8 weeks)
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Snicolette ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: November 02 2018 Location: OR Status: Offline Points: 5980 |
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Could it get much worse? And I apologize for bringing this here in advance. The Ohio Express - Yummy Yummy Yummy - 1968 #4 US Singles and #5 UK Singles charts
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^ Same here except it was the Monkees a few years earlier with "I'm a Believer". Not one of Neil's best. On the other hand in '73 A Passion Play was #1 as well. Rolling Stone said it was "a pop potpourri of Paradise Lost and Winnie The Pooh", and called it "expensive, tedious nonsense". ![]() |
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HolyMoly ![]() Special Collaborator ![]() ![]() Retired Admin Joined: April 01 2009 Location: Atlanta Status: Offline Points: 26133 |
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In the Year 2525, by Zager & Evans. It was the #1 hit on the day I was born, July ‘69. What the hell is that about.
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Songs you still can't believe became hits... Preferably those written in the 60s/70s also for longevity purposes.
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