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(53,475 posts)olddots
(10,237 posts)I had to play that song behind a guy who had a three note range so when I hear it I'm traumatized .You had to be there and you're lucky you weren't .
The Magistrate
(95,252 posts)Dash87
(3,220 posts)The Magistrate
(95,252 posts)I know of only three songs to rival it for the absolute nadir of music ever heard on a radio.
hedgehog
(36,286 posts)The Magistrate
(95,252 posts)'The Night Chicago Died' by Paper Lace
'Honey' by Bobby Goldsboro
'Tie a Yellow Ribbon 'Round the Old Oak Tree' by Tony Orlando
If you will forgive me, just to get the taste out of my mouth and get something else in my mind....
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The Magistrate
(95,252 posts)It is not kind.
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The Magistrate
(95,252 posts)Wife says she kind of liked it, too.
I do not. I did not. I will not. It was bad. Very bad.
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The Magistrate
(95,252 posts)Probably just as well....
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The Magistrate
(95,252 posts)But this fella deserves to be better known....
nomorenomore08
(13,324 posts)Here's a tune he co-wrote with Doc Pomus ("Save the Last Dance for Me" et. al.):
The Ramones, though, were maybe the greatest pure rock'n'roll band ever, for their first couple albums at least...
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Callmecrazy
(3,065 posts)hedgehog
(36,286 posts)that song was always on the radio. Think of all the newborns marked for life......
The Magistrate
(95,252 posts)I heard it much too often.
hedgehog
(36,286 posts)The Magistrate
(95,252 posts)Though there is nothing in the house today that would receive such a broadcast.
When I was a kid in Indianapolis, there was no rock station; you put a radio up on the sill of a window facing north and fiddled wityh the knob till you had WLS from Chicago....
Liberal Veteran
(22,239 posts)That's just lazy.
The Magistrate
(95,252 posts)But when you start out with 'there were plants and birds and rocks and things' for a description, you are clearly dealing with someone so slovenly he cannot even look out of his own eyes....
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(36,286 posts)Yavin4
(35,445 posts)Yeeech.
olddots
(10,237 posts)I Am I Said , Song Sung Blue and the most maudlin Color My World .......
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(82,333 posts)graham4anything
(11,464 posts)and it's one of the greatest lyrics of all time by Hall of Fame songwriter Jimmy Webb.
And in an oddity, the girl involved is Susan Ronstadt, Linda Ronstadt's cousin
and MacArthur Park (singular not with an S) was where they went to eat lunch often
The recipe is a true lost love
Never have it again means to never again find that true love
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In_The_Wind
(72,300 posts)hedgehog
(36,286 posts)In_The_Wind
(72,300 posts)No
Liberal Veteran
(22,239 posts)And sorry, I'll never have that recipe again.
HarveyDarkey
(9,077 posts)Pretty much everything he ever did, IMO
olddots
(10,237 posts)nothing more than feelings .....................
Wounded Bear
(58,698 posts)who would've thought that it might rain?
applegrove
(118,759 posts)song.