Brevity by Dan Thompson for February 20, 2012

Isn’t it just one day away?

Nah, I can still enjoy those.

Thought clouds over the Ohio Vally and to the East. A 50% chance of ping pong balls down in Mexico…..

doeat otes, an dmares e totes, and littlams e tivy, akiddl lete tivytoo, wooden shoe? does any one remember that one?

Marg! You hadda say it!

I love the rest of Disneyland….. but I spent 3 years in that ride one afternoon…. endlessly, endlessly winding past miles and miles of ghoulishly smiling, barely animated zombies….of course my 3 year-old niece adored it….

but that tune…. that tune….._oh, the humanity….. _

Let me out! Please, let me OUT…….

I’m sorry…It’s just that I….. Whew……

Anyway, yeah….. there are bad songs, that you won’t remember anyway, like the tuneless compositions your tone deaf 17 year old neighbor practices all day Saturday..

And then there are really bad, evil songs that are well written enough to become nasty earworms.

Everybody has different taste… Stairway to Heaven certainly…..

But “The Night the Loghts Went Out in Georgia” is just one example of relentlessly brain-damaging maudlin pathos,like “Ruby, Don’t Take your Love to Town”…..and my personal bugaboo, “Seasons in the Sun..”

I blame “Teen Angel” for starting the genre, but there may be older examples.

And Varnes — what about that HUGE scary arrow pointed right at Tennessee?

The only song I would take off the play list is Happy Birthday To You. Jack Benny was right, you only need to hear that song 39 times.

My pick for worst song is “Baby baby don’t get hooked on me”

Little Willie Won’t Go Home. They should use that on the Taliban.

What! You don’t remember 99 Bottles of Beer on the Wall? If you’ve EVER been stuck with a group of teens on a bus trip, NO OTHER SONG will ever compete for worst song ever..As far as good melodies go, imagine a candidate as a replacement for the melody of our national anthem. Our current melody is hard to sing, but melodies like Finlandia, America the Beautiful, The Entertainer (all of which I like) could become tiresome.

Remember “Swinging” from the early 80s. Pronounced more like Swangin’

I’m getting tired of listening to Cats In the Cradle on the oldies station here.

The worst example I remember is “Wake Up Little Susie”. It got so bad I rememberered it as "Good night<<< because that was what we all said

That was just very overdone, and the place I was sent for dancing seemed to have just 2 records that were the meter they wanted so I got sick of both. I agree that Small world fits too (and never been to either Disney). I have TV on all the time (especially now that TiVo saves all my favorite shows so I can decide which I want to see and when. Any very sentimental for cocktail time, ones that have fewer visuals when I’m multitasking, and ones that show yummy foods only at mealtimes etc.

@Baldeagle, I never drove a bus but with 3 boys about a year apart I remember that and also Greasy, grimy gopher guts, but don’t consider those “songs”, just ways to annoy (like dropping snakes or mice down my back etc ;-P

I saw “It’s a Small World” at the 1963 New York World’s Fair before Walt Disney purchased it, and a few other exhibits, and shipped them to Anaheim, CA to become a part of his small theme park. I still hate it!

Picto!! What are we going to sing on your birthday, then?

I may be old as well…. OK, just some of the hills but I never get tired of birthdays…. my own or other people’s.

Funny, everybody has different taste…. a few songs mentioned here are actually favorites of mine…. in their place, of course.

I do have to say @KM:OK, ….. an agonised “little sister”, who shot her bother’s wife but didn’t get a chance to confess..before he was hanged for it….sings about “a puddle of blood”, a “cheatin’ wife” and “a body that’ll never be found…”And that’s not pathos…??.Well…. um… I don’t know what to say.I’m glad, though, that we all like different things, so that all the various genres thrive….Except, of course, for “Small World.”

Macarther’s Park is one seriously bad song……

Susan, I have no idea what that arrow is for…..A “You are here” sign?

I also remember a recurring theme in some of Carol Burnette’s show where a bad singer did one of those songs and I’m not sure which, just that it was slightly obnoxious especially if singer was not great.

As to one I do love to hear, for my birthday (not ’till September) “All the Things you are” and “I get Ideas” (I had a crush on Tony Martin back when he looked his age).And I looked like Debby Reynolds ;-P