JrzyTmata wrote: 
I'm pretty sure he wrote it and his is the only version of it I can remember which is probably a good thing.

 

 JrzyTmata wrote: 
As far as I remember, he wrote that tune (I'll check: I actually have the single somewhere).  He did do a cover tune as his follow-up, which I think may have been a Gilbert O'Sullivan tune, but I don't know if we want to get into his catalog of hits here.

*edit: I see you looked him up before I posted

ok. I had to look the guy up. he wrote the song.
Hurricane Smith

 Proclivities wrote: 

I wonder what Simon Cowell would say if he performed that on the X factor??

 Proclivities wrote: 
I remember the song, just not that guy. was it a standard song from the 40s or 50s or something?

 JrzyTmata wrote: 

It's scary how easy it is to want to sing along with that tune.  You and I are surely not the only ones who remember some of those lyrics.

 Proclivities wrote: 
holy crap! cheese was invented for that song. I forgot all about that one. but it did make me sing along.

This is another tune that's so bad, that I like it in a morbid way:


Aside from working as an engineer with The Beatles, Norman "Hurricane" Smith produced Pink Floyd's first four albums.

"My name is Michael, I have a nickel..."

muskrat susie
muskrat sam
do the jitterbug
down in muskrat land...

 sirdroseph wrote: 

Most of the songs listed, (with one or two which shall remain unmentioned) do have a sort of a special place for me too.  "Cheesy" doesn't necessarily always mean "bad".

 sirdroseph wrote: 
As I do with many of the Top 40 hits from '57 through '67 (at which point I left permanently for the FM band).

What is funny about this thread is that I love most of these songs! I have a special place in my heart for 70s AM Radio.

 JrzyTmata wrote: 
   ...skinned our hearts and skinned our knees...

Awful tune.

 sirdroseph wrote: 

 jagdriver wrote: 

That is a great song, nobody could do whatever Frankie did like Frankie!

 hippiechick wrote: