Awful songs that somehow made it.

guitars4you

Some mighty fine crap from an era before the 60's

Tea for two - Doris Day
How much is that doggie in the window - don't know who sang it 
Tip toe thru' the tulips - don't know who sang it
A your adorable - Perry Como
Catch a fallen star - again Perry Como
Your a pink tooth brush - Max Bygraves
and you'd have to put up a good fight to stop George Formby and 'Leaning on a lamp post' to not join this list (yet weirdly I like some G Formby songs

plus a bit later - Cinderella Rockerfella - again don't know who sang it

koneguitarist

guitars4you said:

Some mighty fine crap from an era before the 60's

Tea for two - Doris Day
How much is that doggie in the window - don't know who sang it 
Tip toe thru' the tulips - don't know who sang it
A your adorable - Perry Como
Catch a fallen star - again Perry Como
Your a pink tooth brush - Max Bygraves
and you'd have to put up a good fight to stop George Formby and 'Leaning on a lamp post' to not join this list (yet weirdly I like some G Formby songs

plus a bit later - Cinderella Rockerfella - again don't know who sang it

Tip toe and Cinderella Rockefeller already downing first show. 

koneguitarist

Listening to the 5th show selections .... Dick a dum dum 

viz

fob said:

Livin' On A Prayer

I was going to put that on the best songs ever list!

koneguitarist

viz said:

fob said:

Livin' On A Prayer

I was going to put that on the best songs ever list!

Hardly compares to I’m the urban spaceman though!

koneguitarist

Show 2 of awful songs on at 11am, just ask Alexa play Abbey104 or go to www.abbey104.com 

EricTheWeary

koneguitarist said:

Show 2 of awful songs on at 11am, just ask Alexa play Abbey104 or go to www.abbey104.com 

Got it on. MrsTheWeary thinks I’ve lost my marbles, worse than the all rap weekend of 2016. 

Although some bloody catchy choons. 

koneguitarist

There was some great facts I found out that I didn’t know during research. 

Bygone_Tones

born slippy - underworld, nice synth intro that lasts a few seconds, then 10 minutes of literally just drumming and someone talking over the top of it.

spaceman - babylon zoo. interesting intro, then quickly descends into the most dull song ever.

I know why they were successful (trainspotting and jeans ad) but they are just rubbish.

EricTheWeary

Bygone_Tones said:

spaceman - babylon zoo. interesting intro, then quickly descends into the most dull song ever.

Number one when Eric Jr was born. Although, yes, the interesting bit is the intro. They were from Wolverhampton so they have to get a let off card from me. 
If you ever do a show 'hits from the West Midlands' let me know! 

Jeans ads were a big thing, I was trying to work out the other day why The Joker was number in 1990 when it had been released in 1973 and apparently jeans ad again. 

koneguitarist

Best Jeans ad was for Brutus Jeans which I think was made into a song called Jeans On by David Dundas. 

scrumhalf

koneguitarist said:

Best Jeans ad was for Brutus Jeans which I think was made into a song called Jeans On by David Dundas. 

Have to disagree. The Lee Cooper ad done by Gary Numan was great. Not so great was the con of the soundtrack when John duCann did it on TOTP and everyone went "Bollocks, where's Gary Numan?".

Neill

Don't forget the famous "laundromat" advert from the 1980's where the guy takes his Levis off to Marvin Gaye's "Heard it through the Grapevine"

ICBM

Neill said:

Don't forget the famous "laundromat" advert from the 1980's where the guy takes his Levis off to Marvin Gaye's "Heard it through the Grapevine"

That whole series of Levi's ads for both 501s and Chinos were fantastic. You can get a compilation album with all of them apart from (I think) the last two, which were Babylon Zoo and Stiltskin... it seemed to run out of steam after that for some reason.

boogieman

No 1 when I was 14 was Those Were The Days by Mary Hopkin. How uncool. A few weeks before it was Jumping Jack Flash, a couple of weeks after it was Joe Cocker’s cover of a Little Help From My Friends. It still amazes me how the charts in that era were such a mishmash of very decent hard rock tunes and complete pap that your granny would love to listen to. 

Neill

boogieman said:

No 1 when I was 14 was Those Were The Days by Mary Hopkin. How uncool. A few weeks before it was Jumping Jack Flash, a couple of weeks after it was Joe Cocker’s cover of a Little Help From My Friends. It still amazes me how the charts in that era were such a mishmash of very decent hard rock tunes and complete pap that your granny would love to listen to. 

That's why I thought it was really weird when John Peel started presenting TOTP - I assumed he had been bribed, or threatened with the sack or something, but apparently he really wanted to do it, in spite of all the dross that was around at the time.  Whatever, it did his credibility no harm whatsoever.

Contrast that with Peel's "nemesis" around that time, whimpering Bob Harris who really was/is a music snob.  I remember when the New Wave came along he just couldn't conceal his disgust.  For a popular music broadcaster he has very exclusive views, can't stand him.

midiman1962

JCA2550 said:

Gonna write a Classic 

Best do it in an attic ?

boogieman

Neill said:

boogieman said:

No 1 when I was 14 was Those Were The Days by Mary Hopkin. How uncool. A few weeks before it was Jumping Jack Flash, a couple of weeks after it was Joe Cocker’s cover of a Little Help From My Friends. It still amazes me how the charts in that era were such a mishmash of very decent hard rock tunes and complete pap that your granny would love to listen to. 

That's why I thought it was really weird when John Peel started presenting TOTP - I assumed he had been bribed, or threatened with the sack or something, but apparently he really wanted to do it, in spite of all the dross that was around at the time.  Whatever, it did his credibility no harm whatsoever.

Contrast that with Peel's "nemesis" around that time, whimpering Bob Harris who really was/is a music snob.  I remember when the New Wave came along he just couldn't conceal his disgust.  For a popular music broadcaster he has very exclusive views, can't stand him.

I don’t dislike Bob but he’s always trended towards the MOR end of music. You could see the glee in his eyes whenever Jackson Browne or Judy Tzuke played on OGWT, as against the obvious disdain of his infamous “mock rock” comment after the New York Dolls had played. John Peel had the broader musical taste and was always a must-listen for me in my teens. I learnt so much from listening to his program. 

hollywoodrox

Neill said:

guitars4you said:

^^^^^^^^^^^^^  - I bet many would love a party band playing a host of these 'good time Butlin's style' cabaret songs and as such acts exists for this market - I bet a band would earn more money playing such songs, plus get more work, than another 'talented pentatonic blues band' - Or indeed the All right now/boys are back in town/ Sweet home Alabama band

When I was in a covers band I was quickly disabused of any notions of credibility, it's show business and I didn't care what I played so long as the audience enjoyed it.  For instance, one of our go to songs was actually "Wig Wam Bam" originally by the Sweet.  It's actually quite fun to play, but as some will know, there are women of a certain age who learned the little dance that folk did to the song BITD.  A bit like the Time Warp (and I've seen many a hardened rocker dancing to that).

I remember a story told to me about this semi pro band who were booked to play at a wedding reception.  They spent an hour just playing their own material until an exasperated father of the bride came up and pleaded with them "Lads, don't you know any tunes...."

As a hardened rocker wig wam bam and other sweet stuff is quite acceptable 

hollywoodrox

A lot of the records here are quite good. What about all the crappy soap opera covers
 
eastenders - anyone can fall in love  Every looser wins etc terrible