Cheesy Songs You Shouldn't Like......

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DiO'Bolic

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I always liked this one, but there were certain tunes which expressed the good-natured idealism of those hippie days. I liked them not so much for their musical qualities but because I was appropriately idealistic then.
For my 11th birthday I had an aunt buy me two records because my mother told her I had gotten into music. She got me this record and Tiny Tim's stupid tulip one. I was listening to the Beatles, the Stones, the Doors and even the Monkees. :(

And while we're at it...
 
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Grandpa

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I loved that one and really enoyed the Cowsills. In fact, I think I liked all the Hair songs that made it to Top 40 - "Good Morning, Starshine," "Aquarius," and the Cowsills' ditty.


Hearing this song just about always makes me want to cry; I find it so poignant! It makes me sad but I still love it.
Who Is Harry Nilsson (And Why Is Everybody Talkin' About Him)? was an excellent documentary. The Beatles loved him.

Harry Nilsson was a frickin' genius.


Okay, dude, past the first Kumbaya song, you flat lost me. If I was in the passenger seat of a car going 75 mph down a narrow mountain road and "Me and You and a Dog Named Boo" came on, I'd bail out.

But now I'm about to lose you. My family can't believe that I really like this song. Hey, the heart wants what the heart wants.

 

DiO'Bolic

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Okay, dude, past the first Kumbaya song, you flat lost me. If I was in the passenger seat of a car going 75 mph down a narrow mountain road and "Me and You and a Dog Named Boo" came on, I'd bail out.
What can I say? I admit I'm damaged.
But now I'm about to lose you. My family can't believe that I really like this song. Hey, the heart wants what the heart wants.

Seems I'm not the only one who's damaged. :)
 

DiO'Bolic

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Nov 14, 2013
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Poconos, PA
I loved that one and really enoyed the Cowsills. In fact, I think I liked all the Hair songs that made it to Top 40 - "Good Morning, Starshine," "Aquarius," and the Cowsills' ditty.
I grew up watching Saturday afternoon matinee horror B-movies at the town theater for $.25. It was always inevitable that this song was played before each movie. I’ll forever relate the song to cheesy black and white, and low quality color horror movies.

 

Grandpa

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I grew up watching Saturday afternoon matinee horror B-movies at the town theater for $.25. It was always inevitable that this song was played before each movie. I’ll forever relate the song to cheesy black and white, and low quality color horror movies.


I liked that song, although I sometimes had it in mind that the girl in the song was a bit mentally deficient.

I ran into a girl just like that one time. In college, buzzing through the park on my little motorcycle, a girl comes running out, barefoot, from a traveling commune VW microbus, flower print minidress, the whole thing, waving at me to give her a bike ride. I did. Good memory.

Meanwhile, on song/movie connections. In my youth, I heard Jackie DeShannon sing "Put A Little Love in Your Heart" about a zillion times, and now it's forever sullied by Bill Murray leading it in Scrooged (although I did like the movie).