Tuesday, February 16, 2016

The Top Worst Songs

I suffer from an incurable affliction. It often occurs in vintage junk shops that play "Sixties on Six" on Sirius XM. But it can happen anywhere, anytime, especially in the shower. Imagine the following paraphrasing of the famous movie line, "I see dead people." When I hear horrendous top forty hits, the barest snippet of such songs holds my brain hostage, sans "delete" button, and SHRIEK! "I hear bad music." Everyone has this once in a while, right? It's not just me that goes berserk when her ears are assaulted by records that never should have been recorded, let alone still played four or five decades later?  

The following are my picks for The Top Worst Songs, chosen from hits I heard growing up in the Sixties and Seventies, from transistor to cassette and eight-track. Feel free to leave comments on tunes you hated from that era. In no particular order:

"Yummy, Yummy, Yummy, I've Got Love in My Tummy" Ohio Express
"Sugar, Oh, Honey, Honey" The Archies
"Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Old Oak Tree" Tony Orlando and Dawn
"You're Having My Baby" Paul Anka
"Bad, Bad, Leroy Brown" Jim Croce
"I Write the Songs" Barry Manilow
"It Must Be Him" Vicki Carr
"Muskrat Love" Captain & Tennille
"Honey" Bobby Goldsboro
"The Harper Valley PTA" Jeannie C. Riley

This is but a sampling of the trash I was subjected to in my youth...until I could race to the volume knob and shut the music off.