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- From: dbj@cs.washington.edu (Dave Johnson)
- Subject: Re: Worst Song and Lyrics Contest
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.174357.8012@beaver.cs.washington.edu>
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- Organization: Computer Science & Engineering, U. of Washington, Seattle
- References: <1992Nov18.000737.9515@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> <Bxx5GJ.1KL@acsu.buffalo.edu> <1992Nov18.194651.13462@den.mmc.com>
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 92 17:43:57 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov18.194651.13462@den.mmc.com> doehr@magellan.den.mmc.com (Brett B. Doehr) writes:
- >In article <Bxx5GJ.1KL@acsu.buffalo.edu>, camdna@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (Darren Natale) writes:
- >|> I fifth the nomination of Minnie Riperton's "Loving You" as worst song
- >|> of all time. I suggest the following as runner's up:
- >|>
- >|> MacArthur Park, by someone waaay back (late 60's maybe?), and popularized
- >|> by <cough> <gagh> Donna Summer. Who the heck would put a cake in
- >|> the rain, anyway?
- >|> My nominee for the most idiotic lyrics.
- >
- >Wasn't this popularized by Anne Murray? And what _were_ the actual words
- >to the aforementioned cake-in-the-rain?
-
- I won't list the entire set of lyrics, because they would
- probably cause some kind of Internet seizure (and I don't
- remember them all and I'm not about to try to remember any
- more than I do now). The thing about this "song" was that
- it was sung in a melodramatic, portentous, and agonizing
- voice, with orchestra swelling in the background, all leading
- up to:
-
- Someone left the cake out in the rain
- I don't think that I can take it
- 'Cause it took so long to bake it
- And I'll never have that recipe, agaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaiiiiiin,
- Oh, no!
-
- Excuse me, I have to hurl now.
- --
- Dave Johnson
-
- "You're not too smart, are you? I like that in a man."
- --Kathleen Turner in Body Heat
-