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- From: bell@nssdca.gsfc.nasa.gov (E. V. Bell, II - NSSDC/HSTX/GSFC/NASA - (301)513-1663)
- Subject: Re: Worst Song and Lyrics Contest
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- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 15:03:00 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov17.042917.7820@netcom.com>, madhaus@netcom.com (Maddi Hausmann) writes...
- >In article <7600@tekig7.PEN.TEK.COM> briand@tekig5.PEN.TEK.COM writes:
- >>>Blasphemer! You're actually gonna nominate Minnie Riperton's "Loving You"
- >>>as one of the worst songs ever? I bet she's turning in her grave.
- >>
- >>I have to agree with the original poster. Had I remembered this one on my own,
- >>it would have scragged whatever else I was considering. In fact, it now has.
- >>This song was all time bad.
- >
- >It was *bad*. It had a soundtrack of little birdies tweeting in
- >the background.
- >
- >>Another baddie was the old "I've got a brand new roller skate and you've got
- >>a brand new key." It included such lyrics as "I don't go very fast but I go
- >>pretty far." Again, it was done in a sickly sweet cutesy style, though I forget
- >>by who. Similar style to the one originally mentioned. Same era. Bad. Dumb.
- >
- >That was bad, too, and the singer was "Melanie." Yeah, all the pop from
- >around 1972 was just AWFUL! Then there was "Seasons in the Sun," another
- >disgusto-cutesy that would make Our Hero hurl his emergency back-up dog
- >out the window.
- >
- >The name of the Melanie soung was, of course, "Brand New Key."
- >
- >--
- >Maddi Hausmann madhaus@netcom.com
- >Humorist, Satirist, Tech Writer. Take your pick.
- >
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-
- I really wanna thank everybody for bringing up this line of
- discussion.....now I'm gonna have these stupid tunes bouncing
- through my head for the rest of the day! Now all I need to
- have is for someone to mention the song "Honey" by (I think)
- Bobby Goldsboro......damn!
-
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