<p>Curm:</p>
<p>This, too, shall pass!
Then she will be able to sing, with Peggy Lee: “Is that all there is?”
Is that all there is?
Is that all there is, my friends,
Then keep on dancing
Let’s bring out the booze </p>
<p>Oops, your D is underage, isn’t she? :)</p>
<p>“… they go up diddly up dup, they go down diddly own down”</p>
<p>I believe “Sister Goldenhair” made the honorable mentions in the Dave Barry book.</p>
<p>“Copacabana”
My D, a freshman, stayed out til 3 with her friends during orientation week as it was her birthday. Now on top of the usual parental worry, I have a song I can’t get out of my head.
No, Barry and Lola weren’t there. I asked.</p>
<p>The worst of memory lane: Tell Laura I Love Her</p>
<p>The worst to that pops up all the time: Tie a Yellow Ribbon</p>
<p>And the best of the worst in the karaoke category: Unchained Melody.
Those of you who have never been to an Asian Karaoke parlor cant even begin to imagine. (Time goes by so slowly . . . interminably in fact if the person emoting into the microphone is your honored host.)</p>
<p>This thread is painful ;)</p>
<p>Where Have All the Flowers Gone?</p>
<p>cruella,
How did you know? I’ve been singing that song the past 3-4 days. I can’t remember what got it into my head. I actually do not mind that one too much. At least I know the words. Usually the songs that get stuck in my head are ones I only know one verse of, or the chorus to, so they become repetitious very quickly.</p>
<p>I actually have not read too much of this thread, out of the fear that someone would mention one of my “problem” songs and get it stuck again…</p>
<p>Momrath, isn’t it interesting that songs that I really like, such as Unchained Melody, should be so awful as Karaoke. Possibly it’s because they are so difficult to sing well, and that’s why we admire the original performance.</p>
<p>What about the song that you know is not good, but you like anyway, so you only sing along to the radio when you’re alone in the car and no one else can hear you? My nominee: “96 Tears” by ? and the Mysterians</p>
<p>freebird - i love it, but i have heard it way too much</p>
<p>Oh Mandy…you came and you gave without taking…
(sob) and I sent you away! </p>
<p>and its evil twin</p>
<p>Brandy Your a Fine Girl<br>
What a Good Wife
You Would Be!</p>
<p>I am so oh oh sorry about ever remembering Brandy and Mandy and all that phony emotion pouring out of my AM radio in a volkswagen about the time commercial rock when bad
I am going to go to bed now and will try to only think about Sweet Baby James and the Berkshires.
what happened to singles of the top forty of the summer of 1966…dare you to look it up. Every song a jewel…except The Ballad of the Green Berets.</p>
<p>deep greens and blues are the colors I choose…</p>
<p>“My baby just wrote me a letter”- Boxtops? Who sang that song? Driving me crazy!</p>
<p>It was called “The Letter” and it was by the Boxtops. Don’t know who wrote it though. Great song.</p>
<p>Glad all over…Dave Clark Five</p>
<p>Cocker might have sung the definitive version of “The Letter”.</p>
<p>I cheated and googled (I feel so cheap). Wayne Carson (Thompson) wrote The Letter. He also wrote *You Were Always on My Mind<a href=“for%20Elvis%20and%20Willie”>/i</a>. And She’s Acting Single, I’m Drinking Doubles. Don’t laugh, it’s a good two steppin’ song.</p>
<p>I’m with you, curm, Joe Cocker’s “The Letter” is the one for me.</p>