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- From: flournoy@Xenon.Stanford.EDU (Raymond Suke Flournoy)
- Newsgroups: alt.fan.dave_barry
- Subject: Re: Bad Songs
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.182255.10038@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 18:22:55 GMT
- References: <1k0oelINNro0@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> <1k1ku1INNq5@fido.asd.sgi.com> <1993Jan26.071043.17781@clarinet.com>
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- In article <1993Jan26.071043.17781@clarinet.com> brad@clarinet.com (Brad Templeton) writes:
- >But you don't understand. According to what I have heard, McArthur Park
- >was the result of an attempt to see how insipidly stupid a song could be
- >made into a hit if it had famous people behind it and a good tune.
-
- Is this really true? The lyrics are dumb enough that I think I
- could believe it, but if it was a joke, I don't think anyone let
- Richard Harris in on it. Didn't he take the song, and his resultant
- 'singing career' rather seriously? And Donna Summer certainly didn't
- seem to have her tongue anywhere near cheek when she re-recorded it.
-
- >They were successful, but such should be disqualified for a worst song of
- >all time contest, which should pick as a winner a song that was stupid
- >but which the artists involved actually meant seriously.
-
- Well, maybe the fact that so many people *have* taken it seriously
- allows it to qualify. I mean, two people have already posted saying
- that they played the song in band, for goodness sakes!
-
-
- --Raymond Flournoy
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