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These are my least favorite musical acts from the 1950's & 1960's:


The 1910 Fruitgum Company
The Everly Brothers
Leslie Gore
Bobby Darin
Cher
The Righteous Brothers
The Singing Nun
"The Flying Nun" soundtrack (mostly Sally Field singing :P)
Perry Como
Tiny Tim ("Tip Toe Through The Tyulips")
Mamas and The Papas
Jefferson Airplane
Nancy Sinatra
Tommy James & The Shondells
Barbara Stiestand
Neil Diamond
Jim "Gomer Pyle" Nabors
The Archies


Well<icertainly don't agree that the everlys were one of the worst :PNyet!!But have you ever heard patty duke sing??? :Now that's bad!!Cheers!P



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Neil Diamond? The Everly Brothers? Jefferson Airplane?

Billy Bob....you need your taste checked!!
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I'm entitled to my opinion.

I just find Neil Diamond, The Everly Brothers, and Jefferson'd Airplane annoying.

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I'm entitled to my opinion.

I just find Neil Diamond, The Everly Brothers, and Jefferson'd Airplane annoying.



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Apologies...yes you ARE entitled to your opinion...

I'd be interested to find out who your FAVE artists were....

modified to add: I just saw your FAVE thread...

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I'm entitled to my opinion.

I just find Neil Diamond, The Everly Brothers, and Jefferson'd Airplane annoying.
May we ask why?They are 3 very diverse acts.Cheers! ???


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>:( >:( >:(

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Neil Diamond? The Everly Brothers? Jefferson Airplane?

Billy Bob....you need your taste checked!!
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::) ::) ::)I agree!Cheers!

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frank sinatra, bing crosby etc... i hate big band period.
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Agee. And I can't stand '60's surf music like the Beach Boys.  :P

No offense, but all their songs sound the same & are sappy.

And the only song I can tolerate is "Good Viberations"

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Black Denim Trousers
The Cheers




He wore black denim trousers and motorcycle boots
And a black leather jacket with an eagle on the back
He had a hopped-up 'cycle that took off like a gun
That fool was the terror of Highway 101

Well, he never washed his face and he never combed his hair
He had axle grease embedded underneath his fingernails
On the muscle of his arm was a red tattoo
A picture of a heart saying "Mother, I love you"

He had a pretty girlfriend by the name of Mary Lou
But he treated her just like he treated all the rest
And everybody pitied her 'cause everybody knew
He loved that doggone motorcycle best

He wore black denim trousers and motorcycle boots
And a black leather jacket with an eagle on the back
He had a hopped-up 'cycle that took off like a gun
That fool was the terror of Highway 101

---- Instrumental Interlude ----

Mary Lou, poor girl, she pleaded and she begged him not to leave
She said "I've got a feeling if you ride tonight I'll grieve"
But her tears were shed in vain and her every word was lost
In the rumble of his engine and the smoke from his exhaust

Then he took off like the Devil and there was fire in his eyes
He said "I'll go a thousand miles before the sun can rise"  
But he hit a screamin' diesel that was California-bound
And when they cleared the wreckage, all they found

Was his black denim trousers and motorcycle boots
And a black leather jacket with an eagle on the back
But they couldn't find the 'cycle that took off like a gun
And they never found the terror of Highway 101
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Here are a few I couldn't care less if I ever heard again:

Sheb Wooley: The Purple People Eater
Brian Hyland: Itsy Bitsy Teen Weeny Yellow Polka Dot Bikini
David Seville: Witch Doctor
Scott McKenzie:
San Francisco (Wear Some Flowers in Your Hair)
Peter and Gordon: A World Without Love*
Zager & Evans: In the Year 2525
Three Dog Night: Joy To The World (or anything else by TDN)+
Rosie & The Originals: Angel Baby
Jimmy Dean: Big Bad John
The Cheers: Black Denim Trousers**
Barry Sadler: Balled of the Green Beret
Nancy Sinatra: These Boots Were Made for Walkin'
Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons:
Anything with that infernal falsetto voice!
Barry Mann: Who Put the Bomp (in the bomp, bomp, bomp)
Johnny Cymbal: Mr. Bass Man

*Written by Paul McCartney, but it's still plug awful!
+Technically '70s, but a '60s era holdover. Written by Hoyt Axton.
**Group led by Bert Convy, an actor who was in dozens of movies and TV shows, also hosted the gameshows "Tattletales," and "Win Lose Or Draw," died last September, funeral attended by Burt Reynolds and other Hollywood cheeseballs.  Song was about an outlaw biker who gets killed on a mad all-night riding marathon, another doozie by Leiber and Stoller.  I just gotta post these lyrcs, 'coz they're so cheesy:

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???What do you mean Bert Convy died last september/he's been dead longer than that!!!!Cheers!

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Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons:
Anything with that infernal falsetto voice!

Johnny Cymbal: Mr. Bass Man

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Man, doo wop haters are a brutal bunch!  ;)  I heard "Mr. Bass Man" for the first time a couple months back and think it's great.  I think The Bachelor's "Marie" is great, too, so consider the source.  

I can do without the whiny navel gazers-- Neil Sedaka, Paul Anka and their ilk.  Bobby Goldsboro's "Honey" is one of the worst.  Mike Douglas's "The Men in My Little Girl's Life" was pretty wretched, too.  

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Here are a few I couldn't care less if I ever heard again:

The Cheers: Black Denim Trousers**

**Group led by Bert Convy, an actor who was in dozens of movies and TV shows, also hosted the gameshows "Tattletales," and "Win Lose Or Draw," died last September, funeral attended by Burt Reynolds and other Hollywood cheeseballs.  Song was about an outlaw biker who gets killed on a mad all-night riding marathon, another doozie by Leiber and Stoller.  I just gotta post these lyrcs, 'coz they're so cheesy:

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Bert Convy bit it 13 years ago, (July 1991) of a brain tumor.  Not "Last September".

I agree though... he did seem to always be in the company of Hollywood cheeseballs.

Their song was actually named "Black Denim Trousers and Motorcycle Boots" and hit #6 in 1955.

(above info from www.imdb.com )

;D

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Man, doo wop haters are a brutal bunch!  ;)  I heard "Mr. Bass Man" for the first time a couple months back and think it's great.  I think The Bachelor's "Marie" is great, too, so consider the source.  

I can do without the whiny navel gazers-- Neil Sedaka, Paul Anka and their ilk.  Bobby Goldsboro's "Honey" is one of the worst.  Mike Douglas's "The Men in My Little Girl's Life" was pretty wretched, too.  
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PLEASE don't get me wrong.  I LOVE doo-wop.  Big fan.  I just can't stand Frankie Valli's voice.  To be fair, many the songs on my list were novelty songs, ala "Mr. Bass Man," so they're supposed to be goofy.
And you're so right about Bobby Goldsboro and Mike Douglas!  Neil Sedaka always bugged me, but Paul Anka is so ghastly it's funny, like Barry Manilow.
I don't know why I thought Convy died only last year, especially now that I recall hearing about his death in '91.  Temporary disorientation, I guess.
There's one song I forgot to add to my list, from 1963, Marcia Blane's "Bobby's Girl."  Women should have burned every copy of that record they could get their hands on!  I know it was 1963, but it's still HORRENDOUS!

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Bobby's Girl
Marcie Blane

(You're not a kid anymore)
(You're not a kid anymore)

When people ask of me,
What would you like to be
Now that your not a kid anymore.
(You're not a kid anymore)

I know just what to say,
I answer right away,
Theres just one thing I've been wishing for...

I want to be Bobby's girl
I want to be Bobby's girl,
That's the most important thing to me...

And if I was Bobby's girl,
If I was Bobby's girl,
What a faithful thankful girl I'd be.

Each night I sit at home,
Hoping that he will phone,
But I know Bobby has someone else

Still in my heart I pray
There soon will come the day
That I will have him all to myself...

I want to be Bobby's girl
I want to be Bobby's girl,
That's the most important thing to me...

And if I was Bobby's girl,
If I was Bobby's girl,
What a faithful thankful girl I'd be.
What a faithful thankful girl I'd be.
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Maybe, "What would you like to be now that you're not a kid anymore?
I'd like to be a nuclear physicist,"
wouldn't have gone over so well, but the idea that the be all end all of life for a woman is sitting around hoping some guy calls her is just pitiful!

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PLEASE don't get me wrong.  I LOVE doo-wop.  Big fan.  I just can't stand Frankie Valli's voice.  To be fair, many the songs on my list were novelty songs, ala "Mr. Bass Man," so they're supposed to be goofy.
And you're so right about Bobby Goldsboro and Mike Douglas!  Neil Sedaka always bugged me, but Paul Anka is so ghastly it's funny, like Barry Manilow.
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Valli has to be one of those love 'em or hate 'em performers.  I was probably wrong to refer to the Four Seasons as a doo-wop group.  They, and the Bachelors, Jay and the Americans/Techniques and Beach Boys were closer to barbershop quartets.  If we can play favorites here, Jay had a couple of very good songs in the '60s: "Cara Mia" showed off his amazing vocal power, and he turned in a remarkable "Some Enchanted Evening" (one of the hardest standards to pull off credibly, in my opinion.)

Anka gives me the heebie-jeebies.  Starting somewhere before "Puppy Love" and ending somewhere after "Having My Baby" he has an uncanny ability to offend.  If Goldsboro was nothing more than a smarmy weed in a Nehru jacket and polyester shirt, Anka was the incarnation of something worse.  If Goldsboro was a cold sore, Anka was herpes.

I have a hard time calling anyone "worst."  I mean, we are talking about these people forty years on.  A lot of ears pricked up when their songs were played and a lot of people said "This is good."  Sedaka... hey, this guy's songs have been charting for four decades.  I recently read that Clay Aiken has hit #4 on the charts with one of his songs:
"LOS ANGELES (Billboard) - When Clay Aiken sang "Solitaire" on "American Idol" last year, songwriter Neil Sedaka told him the track would forever be known as a Clay Aiken song. "  

The torch has been passed.

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Anka gives me the heebie-jeebies.  Starting somewhere before "Puppy Love" and ending somewhere after "Having My Baby" he has an uncanny ability to offend.  If Goldsboro was nothing more than a smarmy weed in a Nehru jacket and polyester shirt, Anka was the incarnation of something worse.  If Goldsboro was a cold sore, Anka was herpes.
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Which is worse, "Watching Scotty Grow," or "(You're) Having My Baby"?  
The latter I say.  Try this Anka on for size:

"The need inside you
I see it showin'
Whoa, the seed inside ya
Baby, do you feel it growin'
Are you happy you know it..."

If I tried that one, I'd get a drink in my face, and thrown out head first by the bouncer!

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Which is worse, "Watching Scotty Grow," or "(You're) Having My Baby"?  
The latter I say.  Try this Anka on for size:

"The need inside you
I see it showin'
Whoa, the seed inside ya
Baby, do you feel it growin'
Are you happy you know it..."

If I tried that one, I'd get a drink in my face, and thrown out head first by the bouncer!


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If I remember right, Anka received a little heat from feminist groups when that one came out.  It'll make a good theme song when they get around to remaking Rosemary's Baby.

Anka MAY beat out Goldsboro in a contest of worst singles.  However, Goldsboro never wrote the theme song for Johnny Carson's Tonight show.  And, I think, if you consider it a an accumulation of dreck, Goldsboro wins hands down.  Anka got lost for a decade or so. Goldsboro, on the other hand, not only had a string of self-pitying hits (See the Funny Little Clown, Watching Scotty Grow, Honey), he hosted a weekly variety show for three years in the 70s. He was hard to avoid.
By the way, I googled BG and see that he's still alive and kicking.  He produces a childrens' show called The Swamp Critters of Lost Lagoon.  

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If I remember right, Anka received a little heat from feminist groups when that one came out.  It'll make a good theme song when they get around to remaking Rosemary's Baby.
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That would be most Apropos!  :D  Who would star in a remake of "Rosemary's Baby," and how would ultrasound and amniocentesis tests change the plot?

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Anka MAY beat out Goldsboro in a contest of worst singles.  However, Goldsboro never wrote the theme song for Johnny Carson's Tonight show.  And, I think, if you consider it a an accumulation of dreck, Goldsboro wins hands down.  Anka got lost for a decade or so. Goldsboro, on the other hand, not only had a string of self-pitying hits (See the Funny Little Clown, Watching Scotty Grow, HoneyEnd Quote

That's why The Dead Milkmen did a song called Watching Scotty Die!
;D