Post the worst songs...ever!

[mrmustard615]

This thread brought to mind the Sing along with Mitch show featuring Mitch Miller. I remember him as a friendly looking sort but in this clip he looks positively fiendish. I would not recommend watching the whole thing as the first 30 seconds is plenty. Mitch leads an all white, all male choir with lyrics posted on the screen for singing along.

This show was big in its day.

I was tempted to use this, er, demon myself (not this particular clip mind you). For those who are curious he was the A and R man at Columbia Records and was notorious for keeping rock and roll artists off the label. By the sixties it was clear he lost the war.


And now for my donation. You may have heard this one in Ferris Bueller.



When this was recorded in 1963, Wayne Newton was being marketed as some sort of kid Frank Sinatra. He matured into horrible MOR records (Daddy don’t you walk so fast is a horrid example) and then to Las Vegas mogul. He still doesn't seem to remind anyone of the Rat Pack.

[mrmustard615]

This is from one of the great legends of Rock and Roll, who apparently was in a strange mood



Let's just say Johnny B Goode it isn't

[Seedy M.]

Don't have a video. Pat Boone: Love Letters in the Sand or Goodnight Irene by whoever did that travesty.

[mrmustard615]

Don't have a video. Pat Boone: Love Letters in the Sand or Goodnight Irene by whoever did that travesty.

Goodnight Irene was by the Weavers I think (early Pete Seeger). I'm not a big Pat Boone fan either.

Now since we have crossed paths finally, I've been dying to ask. Who did you play with in the sixties/ seventies? I am a huge fan of sixties rock and psychedelia.

(never mind the temporary sig, it is a tribute to someone)

[No Cat No Cradle]

DID SOMEONE SAY PAT BOONE!?!?

[mrmustard615]

OMG, I forgot when he went "metal"

[belthagor]

[mrmustard615]

Belthagor. Was she one of those "Disney" girls?

Anyway my daily entry is a moldy oldie from 1971. I think they named a TV series after him.



The Brady Kids did a remake

[mrmustard615]

Now I have to admit this is my guilty pleasure but.....



This one of course is by Pat Boone's (you know that heavy metal star?) daughter. This song was played so much in 1977 that DJ's actually considered quitting.

[Seedy M.]

MM615 - little performing except as a walk-on. Writing and arranging with Pearl (Janis Joplin). Quicksilver Messenger Service. and others. Performed in late '73. early '74 with international group that soured me on the business. It was just getting sickeningly commercial and the art was going. I've done some walk-ons with such as Molly Hatchet in special shows etc.
I wish I'd done some of the writing using my real name, which a lot of us didn't do back then. Some of it would be bringing in huge royalties today while it didn't make a lot then. I'm in Panamá and can listen to a couple I wrote and co-wrote in the band's name. We'd get together and write stuff just for kicks. A glass of Chianti. a toke or two ....

Add: When PB went "metal" a bunch of us who were actually doing metal laughed so hard we vomited. Not just from what he did to metal. A lot because it was so grotesque. Him going metal caused a quotation to a whole general. "Grotie to the max."