14 Terrible #1 Songs from the 1970s
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- Опубликовано: 7 фев 2025
- Ah, the 1970s-the era of bell-bottoms, disco fever, and some of the greatest music ever made. But let’s be real... even in rock ‘n’ roll’s golden age, some truly awful songs still managed to top the charts. And trust me, there’s more than one way to be a terrible number-one hit!
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Convoy, The Streak, Seasons in the Sun? On this list? Sorry, we can't be friends anymore.
It’s easy for a young pup to judge songs they did not grow up with. Still better music then what is played now.
No, we can't.
There's another one! "Why Can't We Be Friends?" by War! Good call!
@gaipontiff2
I agree this guy must be a Gen X'er or a Millennial.... No Baby Boomer would put down those songs... Even Debby Boone's song... everyone Knew she came from a religious upbringing... Pat Boone.. was NEVER unkind.. or ever Swore..
but I guess these things go under the radar of newer generations..
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Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Old Oak Tree started the tradition of ribbons in general, and hope for soldiers to return from the wars of the 1990s and this century by displaying yellow ribbons. The song was incredibly influential on our culture.
This nonsense song kind of brought about the idea of not really caring, acting, solving BUT... Look I have a ribbon!!! South Park commented on this best with "A Scause for Applause", the 13th episode of the 16th season.
Some trace it to 'She Wore a Yellow Ribbon,' 1941 film (western/war).
@@melangellatc1718 a nonsense song? No it was a story song as was many songs of the 1970s. Plus, Tony Orlando and Dawn came out with great songs like Candida, knock three times people loved those songs. Oh so retrospectively they’re bad? No retrospectively people are idiots.
I remember it happening before then, during the Iran hostage crisis.
@jackmessick2869 I agree, this was very significant culturally. It was applied to many situations, veterans coming home from war, if a person went missing, etc... sometimes you'd see yellow ribbons tied to every tree on an entire street and wonder whose homecoming they were awaiting.
Yet somehow, every “terrible number one song from the 1970s“ is better than every hit song from this decade. 😂
I do SO agree!!!
It all depends on your genre. The bands I listen to, the drummer's drumstick has more energy than the songs mentioned in this video.
So true
Actually, no.
When I think about it, Geez, you're 100% correct.
Ray Stevens is a comedian, his COMEDY songs were not meant to be taken seriously. He has MANY others just like it lol
Ray Stevens is awesome..The first hit I remember from him was the streak. It was a decent song but later he came out with some GREAT songs
Gitarzan still one of my favorites of his.
He was also an amazing guitarist, like Glen Campbell
These really should be labeled as songs narrator doesn't like not worse songs 🙄
@@rko1095 My favorite too, but me and the chimpanzee agree that the writing credits were stolen from the monkey, after a night of getting drunky. (Let's hear it for the monkey!)
I like these songs. They are not terrible. You had to grow up in the ‘70s to appreciate them.
@dgeorg02
agreed... I disliked a lot of songs much worse than ANY of those... pretty much most of the BEE GEE"S output during the disco era was TRASH... IMO...
I so agree!
@dgeorg02 I agree. I like these songs. I was born in 1970.
Worst song ever... "Where The Hell My Phone"... By Lizzo and about 97% of modern music
@@williamhill1031
Billie Eilish is about the most I can halfway tolerate nowadays..
and That is only because she plays piano...
70s were the best years of my life
The 70's were the best decade .
You can't judge the 1970's by 2025 standards. Obviously people loved the songs back then, and that is all that matters.
We can laugh at the leisure suits too.
You dont need to judge them by any standards-theyre just awful.
Growing up in the 70s these sings were part of our adolescence and I’m proud to say I still listen to them.
I have a 45 record collection (main focus is the 70's) and I have every single one of them (except Disco Duck) on a 45!
I like how people that weren't even a gleam i their father's eye in the 70s want to knock the music from then but will tell you how good the music is now. I'm not saying that I like all of these songs, but they do resonate in one way or another because I was in high school in the 70s and this was the music being played on the radio. It wasn't your era, so give it a rest.
THANK YOU!!
Preach!! I was in elementary school and sang all of these over and over. They were fun and catchy even if corny or maudlin.
As weird as these songs were lyrically, musically they were brilliant compared to the dissonant noise of today's "music" which isn't really "music" at all...just computerized noise patterns layered under mete talking. Weirdness would actually elevate this postmodern trash.
I was born in 1972, and remember most of these songs. At least they could carry a tune.
@@Excalibur-Razzmatazz i completely agree. What's good is just good regardless of when it was new.
For those who don't want to endure his half hour video, here his list:
14: "You Light up My Life" by Debbie Boone (1977) 0:50
13: "My Ding-a-Ling" by Chuck Berry (1972) 2:30
12: "Feelings" by Morris Albert (1975) 4:34
11: "Seasons in the Sun" by Terry Jacks (1974) 6:46
10: "Afternoon Delight" by Starland Vocal Band (1976) 8:26
9: "Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Old Oak Tree" by Tony Orlando & Dawn (1973) 10:08
8: "Billy Don't be a Hero" by Bo Donaldson & The Haywoods (1974) 12:55
7: "Muskrat Love" by Captain & Tennille (1976) 15:12
6: "Disco Duck" by Rick Dees (1976) 17:37 (NATURALLY!)
5: "The Night Chicago Died" by Paper Lace (1974) 20:10 (Really?)
4: "Escape (The Pina Colada Song)" by Rupert Jones (1979) 22:17
3: "I Just want to be Your Everything" by Andy Gibb (1977) 24:14
2: "Convoy" by C. W. McCall (1975) 26:00
1: "The Streak" by Ray Stevens (1974) 27:46
You're welcome.
THANK YOU!!!
Thanks for the list and edit your post to point out you will hear none of these over the douche bag narration.
Love them all !!!
To go back to the decade of fun and the best music of all time ❤
I was looking for this list! Thanks 👍
Thank you so much. The only one I sort of liked was the Streak. It got overplayed but it was pretty funny
I loved the 70 songs
You sir, live a miserable life because I love every single one of these songs and they are all on my Spotify list !
Cosign.
Your logic escapes me.
I love some of these songs too, yet can still admit they are low-quality.
Sad part is, I was was surfing on youtube and after having fun watching Ray Stevens vid for the streak, I find this vid in the suggestions.
Every single one of those songs hold great memories growing up.
Man, I loved them all, still do. Junior high, high school, and a few years after. I listened to them and my good Ole radio.
I don't know what you're smoking man but most of these songs are great ...
Rupert Holmes' "Escape (The Pina Colada Song)" was the last #1 hit of the 70s and the first #1 hit of the 80s.
1st No.1 song of the 80's was 'Please Don't Go' by KC & The Sunshine Band.
'Escape' returned to the No. 1 spot for 1 more week the following week.
@@jpcanes And both of those songs were amazing in their time, and are far better than any 'music' churned out today.
@arinerm1331 My Sharona by the Knack was light years better andSultans of swing by Dire Straits. We're far far far better!!!!.
@@mikeweizer3149Good Girls Don't waste better than Sultans of swing
@@williamhill1031 Death before Disco!!!!.
All these songs were the 70’s! They were all good and better than the crap made today!
Screaming at clouds again?
I agree, except for Disco Duck... yuck!
I smell an old man who can’t get it up anymore. Yeah, that’s you, kenny!!
@ wow! A youtube warrior! Big man behind that keyboard!
@@sludge8506Watch who you call old sonny !!!, I GREW up with some of the greatest Classic Rock of all time from 1964-65to the early 90s so Zeppelin, Floyd, the Stones, Doors, Van Halen, CCR, Lynard Skynard, ZZtop Deep Purple, ACDC,I would much rather Listen to the Moody Blues then the BeeGees, Fleetwood Mac, The Who, Kinks, Animals,Yardbirds U2, Police,Aerosmith, Boston,Queen, Dire Straits, Jethro Tull (Shame their NOT in the Rock hall yet).Metalica,, Guns and Roses, Motley Crueand one more to grow on the Zombies!!!!!.
Tony Orlando and Dawn NEVER made a bad track, and just the fact that they used the song to welcome back the Iran Prisoners in 1981, gives the song additional heft.. And the sappiness was the in-joke of "Tie A Yellow Ribbon", the #1 record of 1973.
Tie a Yellow Ribbon is from a POW soldier returning home after the American Civil War. Now a historic site, Andersonville prison in Macon County, Georgia was once a Confederate prison camp to house Union POWs. The soldier wrote a letter from there to his girl asking if she'd tie the ribbon on the tree if she still wanted him once he was released - like in the song. The narrator didn't make that very clear!
So he was returning home from Andersonville... in a BUS?
@leapguy1235 during the Civil War? I don't thinks so. You decide. I just said where the story came from. Have you ever heard of artistic license? Probably not. You can Google it the same way I did. It's entirely up to you. Is the current song about a soldier returning from deployment or an excon? After the Vietnam war, there were yellow ribbons on lots and lots of trees all over the place. 🤷♀️
@@taffykins2745 He sings SEVERAL times bout the BUS and the DRIVER: in the start of the second verse ("Bus driver, please look for me..."), EACH iteration of the chorus ("I'll stay on the bus..."), and the final words of the song ("Now the whole damn bus is cheering...")...
But, hey - to each his own...
@leapguy1235 you did not read what I wrote or you just dont understand it. Whatever, dude. You can fight with yourself.
Do you remember how this song became popular again during Iran Hostage Crisis?
Afternoon delight was an awesome song.
I don't think I'd describe that song as " awesome." I grew up in the 70's, and even back then people were like, " it's okay."
@@homeaccount5943 I was 13, and we were sick of it fairly quickly.
I agree, great guitar intro and those girls could sing.
This song, along with Frampton Comes Alive is my summer of ‘76.
@@lawrenceteft7209 Let's be frank here. The Billboard charts were based 40% on sales and 60% on AIRPLAY., which means we were basically victims of WHAT THE RADIO PROGRAMMERS WANTED US TO HEAR. The reason these songs even reached the charts were because of the payola at the time - labels knew these songs were stinkeroo, yet paid the programmers to give them air time, REPEATEDLY. Some of these, frankly, were good; most of them were PUTRID!!
The 70’s was a great time for music. How stupid can your comments be?
Much better than the 80's!
I'm not sure if we've found a new low, I'm opened minded.
If this jackass was alive then he would think differently about these songs. I remember ALL of these songs.
Well you may not like these songs, but we loved them. And that’s all that matters.
You have no idea how many 50-60 yr. olds that you have insulted. You suck for not understanding the time!
IDK, i'm 63 and laughed most of the way thru. I loved all these songs, they are good, catchy, and made us all smile, but for anyone under 40/50 they simply wont get it, just as i dont get why my parents listened to 40's stuff lol
Forget the 50-60 year olds! I’m 84 and really enjoyed these great tunes!
@@teallen69I think it's ai
I'm 62 never liked Light up my Life, but alot people liked it though.
@@davidchildress6432 "as' - artificial stupidity
I really hated "You Light Up my Life" - and I still do.
She looks like she is wearing PJs and a bathrobe... 🛌💤
It was very overplayed.
If I never heard it again, that would be perfect😊
Too bad for you. Roberta Flack got pissed off that she didn’t record it,but she would have screwed it up like so many who ruin our National Anthem.
I asked the song and discovered it doesn't like you much either.
I just want to be your everything by Andy Gibb is a really great song. What the hell is wrong with you ?
Kudos to you mate. I was a long haired, bandanna wearing, heavy rock teenage and I loved this song
@Ben-nh9xw I've always been a big fan of the Gibb brothers. All of them. Very talented family.
I'd like to know how that made the list but You're Having My Baby didn't
He is dead to me. I loved Andy Gibb before I knew who The Bee Gees were.
@homeaccount5943
He's probably a millennial .. what'd ya expect?..
Pac-Man Fever was the Disco Duck of the 80s.
If any of these songs were bad they would have never made number one. What it is is the owner of the video has no taste for good music.
He's a child.
Seriously, after what we got to listen to in the 60's this stuff is pretty cheesy. The really sobering part is there was nothing better to knock these songs out of #1 on the play lists. Let that sink in for a minute.
Oh cmon, the guy is poking fun…we need more comedy in this world and less snowflakes
@@rdfab3 But the guy that made this is a snowflake and wrong. Nothing wrong with pointing that out. It's not being a snowflake to call out an idiot, just the opposite in fact.
No matter how weak the field, some song has to be #1...not like a competition where the jury can refuse to give out first prize if no one is deemed worthy.
Speaking of "Escape". The girls all loved the song. My fiancée loved it so much that Pina Colada became her favorite drink for years. Lots of women switched their drinks as well. The song definitely had an impact.
Compared to today's cRAP most of those should be consider masterpieces !
Feel better, champ?
@@sludge8506 Better than someone that doesn't know what good music is. Go back to your Taylor Swift albums. And don't bother asking, I feel great.
When I was a kid and You Light Up My Life was on the radio constantly it used to drive me crazy!
After one heard it for the 547th time that day, one was so over it.
@@l.yvonnemurray6521 Literally, you couldn't change radio stations to avoid it. If you tried then the song was just starting or just ending on the station you went to. And it was played for most of the year it came out, something like 30 or 40 weeks. It is the most overplayed song in history. I think Jessica Simpson covered it. Whoever DID cover it, Debbie Boone was asked about the cover. She said that the artist did a good job with the music and melodies. That said it was 30 years since it had been on the radio and it was still too soon.
Yellow ribbons became part of the American fabric. That song created it. Don't dis it.
This is a fabulous tune to blot out any annoying ear-worm stuck in your head.
Ray Stevens is known for singing "Novelty Songs!"😀
Don’t look, Ethel.
Ray had a beautiful song that was a hit and *wasn’t* a novelty song, too!
Partially, yes. He also had a number of serious and/or message singles, including Party People, Everything Is Beautiful, American Communicate With Me, Unwind and Mister Businessman.
"Don't look, Ethel!"
Too late! Lol
@@kenjohnson2650 She'd already been mooned.
I was 12yo in 1975 and remember the song Convoy coming out. I believe the reason it hit so big is because CB radios (along with metal detectors) were becoming popular hobbies/toys for the average family man in the early 70's. I remember my dad bringing these home at the time and lord only knows how he could afford them while supporting 5 kids, a mortgage, and car payments.
“Overplayed into oblivion” is RIGHT!! I NEVER want to EVER hear “You Light Up My Life” again.
The song is now like fingernails on a chalkboard!
Fifty years from now this channel will be #1 on the list of shit RUclips channels of the 2020's.
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If I'd been drinking something when I read your comment, it would've come out my nose, I laughed so hard! Well put!
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Fifty years from now,these songs will still resonate. The trash polluting the airwaves today will be long forgotten.
I love most of these songs, they bring back memories of growing up in the '70s. Granted I never really liked Disco Duck or Feelings, but I thought my Ding-a-Ling was hilarious, mainly because it came out when I was a small child
Oh, c'mon, who doesn't like an adorable duck? I grew up in Los Angeles, and Rick Dees was the morning drive-time DJ at KIIS-FM.
Growing up in the 70s and 80s... so blessed to have grown up during the best music of All Times 🎶 🎵 ✨️ ❤️
I thought yellow ribbon was about getting out of jail.
It was
@@Video81501 When I was a 12, I was bored and read a WWII vintage Reader's Digest. In "Life in these United States" someone wrote about returning from WWII and told the exact story of "Tie a Yellow Ribbon". When he arrived home there were a hundred ribbons tied in the Old Oak Tree.
It was about someone coming home and wondering if his girl was still going to be there. Where he was coming from was irrelevant,
You obviously have no clue. I do a 70’s set on Tiktok and Twitch and every one of these songs always gets requested and are loved.
I am in that range and I think he’s right on. These were shitty songs.
That’s your opinion and you’re entitled to it. I totally disagree with it though as do tons of others.
Debby Boone sang a lovely, emotional, hopeful song and it deserved the number one spot.
Actually, FEELINGS, SEASONS IN THE SUN, BILLY..., and THE NIGHT CHICAGO DIED are actually classic and THE STREAK is one of the greatest novelty records of all time, so I can only half agree with this video.
Agreed
And the other people that liked the other 1/2 of the songs puts it at 100%
@ ????
@ Other people probably liked the other half. Therefore all were liked, 100%. These were novelty songs each was meant to appeal to someone at sometime.
Afternoon delight was a great song, and we didn’t even know what it was about. As a child, personally, I thought it was about some dessert dish at a restaurant.
That's hilarious! I thought it was about the Fourth of July
Nah, we knew.
@@charley9050 I thought is was about the 4th of July as well since it was playing after a fireworks dispalyed when I was a kid.
It was inspired by a dessert on a menu.
Nope! It was about having sex in the afternoon.
You light up my life does not belong on this list. The fact that people loved it so it got played a lot is not actually a mark against it, it’s a tick in the Plus column. And whatever was revealed later, is irrelevant.
I agree. That tune was not a novelty song nor was it a cheap sex cringe worthy tune like Afternoon delight. My test is whether the tune shows up on oldies stations playlists of today. You light up my life might show up on today's playlists but the others in this video probably would not (unless of course they were specifically playing novelty songs of the 70s)
Exactly! I loved that Debby Boone song and still do.
Same for I Just Want To Be Your Everything. That's a classic imo
Oh yes it does.
I always hated this song! So repetitive and over the top. I absolutely think it belongs on this list. Probably more than any other song listed.
I graduated High school in 1978, and I agree all of these songs stank. The fact "Disco Duck" made it to number 1 makes me question humanity.
I still listen to all of these songs as part of my playlist today.
The Pina Colada song is a goofy, but fun song. Is it a bit creepy? Yes, it's that, too.
My son is 15 and I hear him singinger it with his friends. They actually know the whole song. I'm so proud.
Homer Simpson: "I'm thinking about getting a tattoo."
Marge: "You already got a tattoo, it's on your arm."
*Homer rolls up his sleeve and looks at his arm.
Homer: "Starland Vocal Band? They suck!"
I lived these songs. They were all great then, and still are. How dare you call them Terrible. 😬
Nick's a child. He never grew up with greatness.
'My name is Michael, I've got a nickel, I've got a nickel shiny and new . . . '
They brought very good memories the music back then is better than today
I have to give you a thumbs down for this one, too bad the dislikes are hidden on RUclips now.
There's an add-on that will show them
Most hated: Muscrat Love. UGH !!! 🤢
Have to agree that's the only one I really don't like
Lol. Feelings. When Danny Devito plays it over n over in Taxi when Zena leaves him. 😅
You lost me at You Light Up My Life. That is a beautiful song by a great singer.
Sucks. She have a BIG mouth.
@@guineapiglady2841 Your comment indicates you have a bug mouth and a small mind.
@ No, I don't. You are too brainwashed.
@ Apologies for being too brutal. 🙏🙏
My parents used to get mad when we played My Dingaling…lol! That just made us laugh more! 🎉😂
Tiptoe Through the Tulips performed by artist Tiny Tim is the most cringe-inducing and hard-on-the-ears ditty to come out of the 1970s, IMO. And, I am heartbroken for the "hate" leveled at Andy Gibb. He was my first crush, angelically handsome, and it was so tragic that he died only five days after his 30th birthday.
Tiptoe was from 1968
@@Spo-Dee-O-Dee -- Ok. I looked it up and saw that you are right. Oops! What do I know; I was an elementary school kid in the 1970s and saw Tiny Tim on some variety show. On our family's b&w tv. LOL!
Aww, come on! You light up my life? Also Kurt Cobain liked 'Seasons in the Sun'
What a ridiculous video. All of these songs were very good for the 1970s. I lived through this time period. The only song in this list I didn't hear of was "My dingaling" which I heard in college in the mid-1980s on a Dr. Demento CD. Many of them were so popular because they WEREN'T the same music as Led Zeppelin or the Stones. As the great movie from 1981 said, "Lighten up Francis."
I was about eight years old maybe 10 when seasons of the sun came out. I still love this song today. It’s one of my favorites.
Evidently this narrator has terrible taste in music, its better than today's crap wich is just box music nowadays.
It's not a competition. Half of these songs are dreck, 90 percent of today's music is dreck.
@@tomfields3682 I don't know what dreck is, is it the opposite of being fetch.
Ths Starland Vocal Band played back up for John Denver. They also co-wrote several of Denver's most popular songs. Afternoon Delight was written while Bill Danoff was in Washington DC, where the band frequently played. Their target audience wasn't 12 year olds. Anybody who came of age in the late 60s early 70s knew what it was about.
OK, now it's time for all couples skate... (Play Feelings).. ugh
Loved it
Thank you! You made me laugh out loud!
You're more annoying than these songs!!! 😂😂😂
These are NOT all "terrible" or "horrible" songs. Okay, maybe "Disco Duck".
It’s not mentioned here but Paper lace, who did The Night Chicago Died, were the original band who did Billy Don’t Be A Hero. They wrote it and it was their version that got to number one in the UK.
.....while Bo & The Heywoods' follow-up to "Billy...." - "Who Do You Think You Are?" was originally recorded & released by Jigsaw - a LOT of these songs though, echo the FANTASTIC Grass Roots (while it was [The] MARMALADE who first scored a sizable U.K. hit with "Lovin' Things".....)
Were these classics? No. Enjoyable? And that's the point. Yes.
Agree, born in 61. Maybe drop Debbie Boone and call it 15 terrible by adding , dead skunk in the middle of the road and I don't like spiders and snakes.
Another BS woke point of view being illustrated by the creator of this clip.
Seasons in the Sun was a serious song. Sadly Idiot Boy can't see it . About a year later, after the song was put out, my mother died. And while she was dying, she and the women that were by her bedside, talked about the old days. Up to the point where she couldn't talk anymore. She died of cancer. This song has never been anything to sneeze at to me.
People like this guy that grew up in a bash everything era hardly have an opinion to be valued. Bet he thought Mozart was trash. Songs mean things to people lost on this guy
Song was a major part of dealing with loss for myself and others that I know of too. 😢
@@jerrycallo A song can mean something to someone and still be a stinking pile of poo, musically speaking. My first kiss was to "Lady" by Styx; great memory, lousy song.
I honestly thought that "The Night Chicago Died" was about the St. Valentines massacre.
Me too
I too always thought this song was about the Valentine's Day Massacre. Checking the Internet, the VDM happened on February 14, 1929 in Chicago when members members of George "Bugs" Moran were gunned down by unknown assailants. The shooters are generally thought to have been members of Al Capone's gang although this has never been proven. Admittedly this all just info I quickly read on-line, but I STILL think The Night Chicago Died was intended to be about the notorious Valentine's Day Massacre of 1929.
The song was written by British dudes who only knew that Al Capone was a Chicago mobster, so they invented an all-out war between his gang and the police. It's wrong from the very first lines, "Daddy was a cop/on the East Side of Chicago", because there's no East Side, just Lake Michigan. Todd in the Shadows did a hilarious "One Hit Wonderland" video on this tune.
@@Bobbnoxious pointed out "It's wrong from the very first lines, "Daddy was a cop/on the East Side of Chicago", because there's no East Side, just Lake Michigan."
OK, although I grew up in the United States, I have only lived around Seattle and Philadelphia and know very little of Chicago geography. But I still think those British dudes INTENDED the song to be about Al Capone and the Valentine's Day Massacre. So they got some of the details wrong. Give 'em a break. They were just some blokes having a bit of fun. 😉
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Nostalgia Nick is wrong. Sounds like he's 14. He probably thinks today's "music" is far better. Most of these are awesome. We are so done with Woke stupidity.
The fact that today's music sucks does not preclude music from other eras sucking too.
fun fact paper lace sang the original version of Billy don't be a hero..
Tie a Yellow Ribbon was an inspiration to a lot of military wives welcoming home their husbands right up into the 90s. I saw them around bases I was at.
Part of the popularity of "Tie a Yellow Ribbon" was that guys coming home from Viet Nam weren't sure of what they'd find. Not so much about getting out of prison... but captive in another way.
How is Randy Newman‘s Short People from 1977 not on this list? 😂 can you imagine the backlash of that came out today. Good Lord 🤦♀️
It was satire.
Singing it would probably get you arrested in California nowadays.
It would become the music track only after they censored the lyrics.
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@shyman99 😂😂 😢
You Light Up My Life got so much airplay I wanted to barf every time I heard it. Sorry, Debbie. Not your fault.
And, how!!! 🤮
Uh Nick, you sound like you are apparently too young to understand such great music.
I would rate the "My Ding A Ling" song as being the second most terrible song on the list.
It was made fun of in the 70s too. But it was also popular because it was quirky. Personally I think it was a cult classic.
What the...?!? 🥺I love the "DoyouRemember?" channel, but this one hurts, you know? I grew up in the 70s and some of these songs meant the world to me. I learnt my first english words, when my Dad translated some of them for me. Some of those bitter sweet, "kitsch" lyrics let that little boys fantasy go wild! Sure, I recognize their campiness today and wouldn't call them "lyrical masterpieces", But, I respect them and their creators - and what they did for me. To hear you bash them like this, calling them "terrible" and "horrible" just feels, well, terrible. Campy? Sure! Out of their time now? Agreed. It WAS - as you mentioned - a different time, so please, don't judge them against todays "standards", ok.
BTW: If there was a way to go back to those times I'd be already gone - even if Disco Duck was still playing on the radio. ☮
I thought Debbie Boone was great. Your opinion is just that your opinion!
I thought Tie A little Yellow was about a soldier coming back home
It is. I thought the same as you, so I looked it up just now. As it turns out it's about a POW soldier returning home after the American Civil War. Now a historic site, Andersonville prison in Macon County, Georgia was once a Confederate prison camp to house Union POWs. The soldier wrote a letter from there to his girl asking if she'd tie the ribbon on the tree if she still wanted him once he was released - like in the song. The narrator didn't make that very clear!
I also read that at the end of the Vietnam War, there were yellow ribbons tied on lots and lots of trees welcoming soldiers home. Heartwarming, don't you think so? 😊
@taffykins2745 yes it is. Unfortunately my my uncle was kia in Vietnam
@@RKStud1350 I'm sorry for your loss 😢
@taffykins2745 thank you my dad named me after him and dad passed away 2 weeks ago
It was about a man returning from prison.
I actually really like America's version of "Muskat Love," but I heard Captain & Tennille's version first.
I could give a list of 14 songs that are worse than these songs..
Every song since 2000
Did they hit #1 in the 70s?
I liked every song on the list. I suppose, you had to be there?
I remember being 7 and my mom bought me Diso Duck. I played it all day every day till my mom told me it could only be played a certain amount of times before it would wear out and dissolve. I started playing it a lot less to save it but it disappeared one day so I guess my mom was right.
Oh gosh... I laughed so hard... great story!!!
"Billy, Don't Be a Hero" was originally by a British group 'Paper Lace', I didn't realise that America had its own version too.
Convoy was the theme song from a movie?
Yes. You'll never guess the name of the movie...
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If I recall, the movie was based on the song... but, I could be wrong.
The song came out, then the film.
C Dubya McCall. An advertising man from Omaha capitalizing on the CB radio phenomenon of the time wrote and performed this song.
Ray Stevens made a LOT of funny songs and still does. His take on various subjects is often right on the money and always fun, makes him a treasure.
I don't agree that these were 'horrible'. They're FAR better than the autotune enhanced pap that is served up today by 'singers' who are less than underwhelming in terms of actual talent, most often riding the latest edition of Madonna's tried and true method of scoring a hit; make a video that makes you look like a hooker and hope the sound engineer has the autotune cranked right up.
I’m sorry to disagree but there are a lot of these songs that I consider to be great songs and the people who bought the records probably would agree
Worst song lists like this are very much a matter of taste but just as number ones are determined by the amount of people who bought them so should the worst songs
This guy doesn't know how to analyze songs. Half the Beatles songs were crap also. The songs that are truly bad are the ones that record companies has to promote because of some contract. So we got the songs shoved down our throats. The songs produced in the last 20 years are basically recombined from other previous songs with nothing original. This is because the music people found out that people will like a song more if it sounds similar to a previous song. So now we get nothing original, over 20 years of elevator music. Even my daughters born 1998, 2000 think the old music is better and has more talent and originality.
Disco Duck has got to be one of the worst songs ever. I hated it as a teenager and I still hate it today. Yuck!
Me too, hated that song.
Definitely awful.
That and my Ding-a-ling are the only two that I consider terrible.
I asked the song and discovered it doesn't like you either. I guess it's a wash.
I will agree that 12 out of the 14 you listed were horrible, but Andy Gibb will remain in my heart forever. If you like the Bee Gees, it should go without saying that you also like Andy. Of course, that's just my opinion.
I've always liked "Tie a Yellow Ribbon" as well. But I could see others not quite appreciating it for what it was.
You call them terrible songs but that your opinion.
Yeah, everyone's entitled to be wrong.
I'm trying to figure out how da fuq did you choose this list most of these songs are awesome born in 72 and still love 99 percent of these
All these songs became so iconic "because" they were so over the top. That's the way things were back then but "Afternoon Delight" had another not so family friendly definition. It was also about having some marijuana AKA having an Afternoon Delight.
Way off on this one, it was just about banging in the daylight. Had nothing to do with MJ.
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Craving love and hope is a good thing. Today people seem to crave hate and oppressive mentality. It’s truly sad. I miss the truth of the quirkiness from the 70s.
“Torn Between Two Lovers” - Mary MacGregor, “Looks Like We Made It” - Barry Manilow and “Do Ya Think I’m Sexy?” - Rod Stewart drew much ire from many listeners.
Wasn't there a tv movie for torn BTW 2 lovers?
Looks like we made it? Don't think so 😂
All 3 were lame.