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- From: camdna@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (Darren Natale)
- Newsgroups: alt.fan.dave_barry
- Subject: Re: Bad Songs
- Message-ID: <C1IoMI.DLA@acsu.buffalo.edu>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 14:39:00 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.
- >
- >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.
- >--
- >Brad Templeton, ClariNet Communications Corp. -- Sunnyvale, CA 408/296-0366
-
- 'S funny--I heard that very same thing about "I never promised you a rose
- garden". It is composed almost entirely of cliches, yet was a big hit. I don't
- think "MacArthur Park" was a hit its first time out. It didn't become one
- until ... Agh. I can't think about it, it's too painful!
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