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Clive55
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Posted: Mon Apr 07, 2008 9:10 pm Post subject: Lily The Pink-Worst Song Ever? |
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Was Lilly the Pink the worst song ever?
Scaffold have alott to answer for |
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iwarburton
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Posted: Mon Apr 07, 2008 9:23 pm Post subject: |
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This has the potential to open the floodgates!
Lily actually resembles a classical piece, Rossini's Tancredi Overture. It was a Christmas hit so I don't suppose partygoers were too worried about any poetic shortcomings in the words.
Some of the ditties from the 50s were pretty awful--how about the Railroad Runs Through the Middle of the House, recorded by Alma Cogan, amongst others? Or How Much Is That Doggie in the Window? Poppa Picolina (spelling?) by Diana Decker wasn't exactly haute couture, either.
More suggestions?
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tarahrah bomdiay
Joined: 17 Dec 2007 Posts: 260
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Posted: Mon Apr 07, 2008 9:29 pm Post subject: |
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Surely itsy bitsy teeney weeney yellow polka dot bikini is the worst song ever Though I must admit Lilly the pink is pretty bad |
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Lord Evan Elpuss
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Posted: Mon Apr 07, 2008 10:40 pm Post subject: |
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tarahrah bomdiay wrote: | Surely itsy bitsy teeney weeney yellow polka dot bikini is the worst song ever Though I must admit Lilly the pink is pretty bad |
Which is worse, Timmy Mallett's cover or the original (Can't remember who did it)? _________________ Lord Evan Elpuss, Your ideal job is a Lumberjack. |
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Clive55
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Posted: Mon Apr 07, 2008 11:18 pm Post subject: |
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Yeah, itsy bitsy is pretty bad
But the doggy song is cute
But that we'll driiinnnnk a drink a drink
To lilly the pink the pink
dtrives me crazy! |
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Clive55
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Posted: Mon Apr 07, 2008 11:20 pm Post subject: |
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Some people may cite "Shutuppa your face" by Joe dolce as a contender, but i have an irational fondness for that one
"As my mama used to say
Whatsa Matter you-HEY!
Hava no respect.."
Must have been HUGE in Italy! |
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Niblet
Joined: 23 Feb 2008 Posts: 119
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Posted: Tue Apr 08, 2008 12:00 am Post subject: |
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It must be obvious that "You're Beautiful" is the worse song in the world- especially when strangl^h^h^h^sung by James Blunt!!!!! _________________ ~~~ Niblet ~~~
The corn has escaped from the cob! |
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iwarburton
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Posted: Tue Apr 08, 2008 12:01 pm Post subject: |
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Surely itsy bitsy teeney weeney yellow polka dot bikini is the worst song ever
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I see where you're coming from but this is a bit worrying, as I found myself singing along with it when it was on SOTS last Saturday. Clearly I need to get out more!
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Behind Geddon's Wall
Joined: 11 Dec 2006 Posts: 1553 Location: Kingston Upon Hull/ The Cloud Factory
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Posted: Tue Apr 08, 2008 12:10 pm Post subject: |
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iwarburton wrote: | Surely itsy bitsy teeney weeney yellow polka dot bikini is the worst song ever
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I see where you're coming from but this is a bit worrying, as I found myself singing along with it when it was on SOTS last Saturday. Clearly I need to get out more!
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ESPECIALLY the Timmy Mallett cover. _________________ Geddon
You simply mustn't blame yourself -- the days were perfect
And so were exactly what I was born to spoil
For I am the Rider to the World's End
Bound across the cinder causeway
From the furnace to the quarry
Through the fields of oil |
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tarahrah bomdiay
Joined: 17 Dec 2007 Posts: 260
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Posted: Tue Apr 08, 2008 12:18 pm Post subject: |
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Yes, I was reffering to the Timmy Mallet version, I'm coming out in a cold sweat just thinking about it
Lady in Red by Chris De Burgh is pretty dreadful too. |
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SantaFefan
Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 11258 Location: top of the cliffs in Norfolk
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Posted: Tue Apr 08, 2008 8:31 pm Post subject: |
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I must really be a saddo because I like all the tracks mentioned.. apart from "Shutuppa your face" and of course James Blunt
It would take me a long time to think of the worst single for me but possibly "Grandad" would be getting there. That and "9 million bicycles in Beijjing" actually made me turn the radio off. _________________ Johnnie Walker read out my message on Pirate Radio! 13/8/07
I have heard how radio should be. |
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Shaky Fan
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Posted: Tue Apr 08, 2008 8:36 pm Post subject: |
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A couple of years back on RTE they did a show called Celebrity You're A Star (a kind of X Factor with local celebs). One of the contestants was former footballer John Aldridge who by his own admission is a pretty bad singer. John entered assuming he'd be first to be voted out. Things backfired somewhat though and he won the thing! He performed Lily The Pink in the final and it was released as a single which made the Top 5 in the Irish charts. Worth posting a link if anyone can find it on YouTube... |
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Clive55
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Posted: Tue Apr 08, 2008 11:50 pm Post subject: |
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Uno, duo, tre, quatro
When I was a boy, just about the eighth-a grade, Mama used to say don't stay out-a late with the bad-a boys, always shoot-a pool, Giuseppe going to flunk-a school.
Boy, it make-a me sick, all the t'ing I gotta do I can't-a get-a no kicks, always got to follow rules.
Boy, it make-a me sick, just to make-a lousy bucks.
Got to feel-a like a fool and-a mama used to say all-a time.
What's-a matter you? Hey! Gotta no respect.
What-a you t'ink you do? Why you look-a so sad?
It's-a not so bad, it's-a nice-a place.
Ah, shaddap-a you face!
That's-a my mama, I can remember.
Big accordion solo.
Ah! Play dat again, Really nice, really nice!
Soon-a come-a day, gonna be a big-a star.
Den I make-a TV shows and-a movies.
Get-a myself a new car, but still I be myself I don't want-a to change a t'ing, still a-dance and a-sing.
I t'ink about-a mama, she used to say:
What's-a matter you? Hey! Gotta no respect.
What-a you t'ink you do? Why you look-a so sad? It's-a not so bad, it's-a nice-a place.
Ah, shaddap-a you face
Mama, she said it all-a da time.
What's-a matter you? Hey! Gotta no respect.
What-a you t'ink you do? Why you look-a so sad?
It's-a not so bad, it's-a nice-a place.
Ah, shaddap-a you face
That's-a my mama!
Hello, everybody!
'At's out-a dere in-a radio and-a TV land.
Did you know I had a big-a hit-a song in-a Italy with-a disc Shaddap-a you face?
I sing-a dis-a song, all-a my fans applaud.
Dey clap-a da hands, dat-a make me feel-a so good
You ought to learn-a dis-a song, it's-a real-a simple.
See, I sing: "what's-a matter you?"
You sing: "Hey!"
Den I sing-a da rest and den at de end, we can all-a sing: "Ah, Shaddap-a you face!"
O.k., let's-a try it, really big!
Uno, duo, tre, quatro
What's-a matter you? Hey! Gotta no respect. Hey!
What-a you t'ink you do? Hey!
Why you look-a so sad? Hey!
It's-a not so bad. Hey! It's-a nice-a place.
Ah, shaddap-a you face!
OK one more-a time for mama!
What's-a matter you? Hey! Gotta no respect. Hey! What-a you t'ink you do? Hey!
Why you look-a so sad? Hey!
It's-a not so bad. Hey! It's-a nice-a place.
Ah, shaddap-a you face!
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Behind Geddon's Wall
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Posted: Wed Apr 09, 2008 12:13 pm Post subject: |
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Personally, In prefer the Jose Murhinho version. _________________ Geddon
You simply mustn't blame yourself -- the days were perfect
And so were exactly what I was born to spoil
For I am the Rider to the World's End
Bound across the cinder causeway
From the furnace to the quarry
Through the fields of oil |
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MadeinSurrey
Joined: 11 Dec 2006 Posts: 3130 Location: The Beautiful South
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Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2008 8:23 am Post subject: |
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My nomination for "worst song ever"?
Seasons in the sun - Terry Jacks. So so depressing, an awful dirge that just has to be switched off. _________________ MiS |
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Ian Robinson Site Admin
Joined: 11 Dec 2006 Posts: 3609 Location: Chorley, Lancashire
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Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2008 9:51 am Post subject: |
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MadeinSurrey wrote: | My nomination for "worst song ever"?
Seasons in the sun - Terry Jacks. So so depressing, an awful dirge that just has to be switched off. |
Yes, and such a suitable subject for a Christmas Number 1! |
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RockitRon
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Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2008 10:20 am Post subject: |
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I have two nominations, both from the American school of mawkish sentimentality
Honey, by Bobby Goldsboro, and
The Deal, by Pat Campbell
Both make you extremely glad for the existence of trash like Shaddap You Face. _________________ Ron |
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MadeinSurrey
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Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2008 10:30 am Post subject: |
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Actually, ANYTHING by B Goldsboro! Dreadful syrup! _________________ MiS |
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SantaFefan
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Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2008 1:15 pm Post subject: |
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Well, I errrr.... never mind. _________________ Johnnie Walker read out my message on Pirate Radio! 13/8/07
I have heard how radio should be. |
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Clive55
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Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2008 7:06 pm Post subject: |
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"Honey" by bobby was a minor classic. A brilliant version by Tammy Wynnette- in which the dead woman became the narator. i must have another listen to that. Brings a whole new dimension to the song. It is being sung froom beyond the grave as she floats overhead looking down |
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iknewdavidjacobsmum
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Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2008 8:59 pm Post subject: |
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That thing from St. Winifreds School Choir.
Makes me want to reach for the Medicinal Compound. |
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MrsRussellB
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St Winifred's School Choir "Grandma"
Keith Harris and Oriville "I wish I could fly" |
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MrsRussellB
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Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2008 9:20 pm Post subject: |
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There was also an awful song called "Deck of Cards" I believe |
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RockitRon
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Posted: Fri Apr 11, 2008 8:17 am Post subject: |
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Clive55 wrote: | "Honey" by bobby was a minor classic. A brilliant version by Tammy Wynnette- in which the dead woman became the narator. i must have another listen to that. Brings a whole new dimension to the song. It is being sung froom beyond the grave as she floats overhead looking down |
Yes, it is a minor classic, and for anyone who has lost someone suddenly and tragically I can appreciate that it might mean a lot - http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=3037
However it was sung and produced in such a syrupy way that it used to make me want to reach for the bucket - that line about the small cloud passing overhead and crying on the flowerbed...
Haven't heard Tammy's version - it hasn't been included on the newly released Best of... although I notice it is on a previous one that sits in Amazon's bargain basement. _________________ Ron |
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iwarburton
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Posted: Fri Apr 11, 2008 8:32 am Post subject: |
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There was also an awful song called "Deck of Cards" I believe
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Deck of Cards by Wink Martindale was really a monologue with musical accompaniment rather than a song.
It was a small hit in late 1959 and was all but forgotten when someone had it played on Family Favourites in 1963, causing a new wave of interest and a Top 10 hit for Mr Martindale.
I think it was the I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again team who did a brilliant parody of it some years later.
Ian. |
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Briant
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Posted: Fri Apr 11, 2008 11:34 am Post subject: Deck of cards... |
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There was an earlier version of this song by Tex Ritter called 'Red Deck of Cards', that was an anti-Communist tirade being in favour of the American way of doing things. I've got it on tape somewhere. I must try to dig it out just for science!
Speaking of Tammy Wynette, she recorded a great version of 'Gentle on my mind' with different lyrics, from the female perspective of course. |
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pickle
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Posted: Fri Apr 11, 2008 2:38 pm Post subject: Lily The Pink - Worst Song Ever? |
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My vote goes to the hideous Mika song Grace Kelly. That and his Teletubbies knock-off may have contributed to me leaving a job at a shop in Morley.
Leona Lewis's Sport Relief song is coming up in the Worst Song stakes too. Why didn't they just release Peter Gabriel's 'I Go Swimming' in honour of David Walliams's Channel swim?
The Tammy Wynette cover of Honey from the dead woman's point of view sounds like it should have been a candidate for Tori Amos's Strange Little Girls album that put the tin lid on the Atlantic contract. They were covers of songs by male writers, twisted to give a female perspective. _________________ We made a land where crap is king and the good don't last for long.
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essexlady
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Posted: Fri Apr 11, 2008 4:50 pm Post subject: |
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Wasn't "Seaspns in the Sun" written by Jacques Brel, who's usually a brilliant lyricist? Maybe something got lost in translation? |
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Clive55
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Posted: Fri Apr 11, 2008 6:38 pm Post subject: |
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RockitRon wrote: | Clive55 wrote: | "Honey" by bobby was a minor classic. A brilliant version by Tammy Wynnette- in which the dead woman became the narator. i must have another listen to that. Brings a whole new dimension to the song. It is being sung froom beyond the grave as she floats overhead looking down |
Yes, it is a minor classic, and for anyone who has lost someone suddenly and tragically I can appreciate that it might mean a lot - http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=3037
However it was sung and produced in such a syrupy way that it used to make me want to reach for the bucket - that line about the small cloud passing overhead and crying on the flowerbed...
Haven't heard Tammy's version - it hasn't been included on the newly released Best of... although I notice it is on a previous one that sits in Amazon's bargain basement. |
Yes, the Tammy version was much better.
That bit about te small cloud passing overhead on her version is truly weird- the cloud is her |
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Clive55
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Posted: Fri Apr 11, 2008 6:42 pm Post subject: |
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http://www.mp3lyrics.org/Md5Y
See the tree how big it's grown but that it hasn't
been too long it wasn't big You laughed at me and
I got mad the first day that I planted it was just
a twig Then the first snow came and I ran out to
brush the snow away so it wouldn't die Came
runnin' in all excited slipped and almost hurt
myself and you laughed till you cried Yes you were
always young at heart kinda dumb and kinda smart
and I loved you so You surprised me with a puppy
kept me up all Christmas Eve two years ago And you
could sure embarrass me when you came home from
working late Cause you would know That I'd been
all alone and cryin' over some sad and lonely late
late show And honey I miss you too and I know
you're being good And I'd love to be with you if
[ Find more Lyrics at www.mp3lyrics.org/Md5Y ]
only I could I wrecked the car and I was sad and
so afraid that you'd be mad but what the heck All
afternoon you stormed around but I knew how to
cool you down I hugged your neck You came home
unexpectedly and caught me crying needlessly in
the middle of the day And it was in the early
spring when flowers bloom and robins sing I went
away And honey I miss you too and I know you're
being good And I'd love to be with you if only I
could One day you were not at home while I was
there and all alone the angels came Guess you
thought it strange of me to live the way I did
that day it was a shame But now your laughter just
began and even though you miss me hon you must go
on And when the snow fly passes overhead and cries
down on my flower bed You know you're not alone
See the tree how big it's grown but that it hasn't
been too long it wasn't big You laughed at me and
I got mad the first day that I planted it was just
a twig
See this song in a different language |
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RockitRon
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Posted: Mon Apr 14, 2008 8:09 am Post subject: |
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essexlady wrote: | Wasn't "Seaspns in the Sun" written by Jacques Brel, who's usually a brilliant lyricist? Maybe something got lost in translation? |
Well, it was translated by Rod McKuen!
Backtracking a bit, Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny etc was a hit first time around for Brian Hyland. Both original and Timmy Mallet's revival were pretty crass, but like most "novelty" songs, a stroke of genius, because they struck something in the public's conscience that made them go out a buy them by the bucket load. My son was two at the time (of the remake) and he and his cohorts adored it, jigging about with screams of laughter; his pleasure (just about) made up for the mental torture experienced by everyone else in hearing it being played over and over... _________________ Ron |
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childprufe
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Someone on the BBC POV message board has had a tirade about Rod Stewart's version of "Tom Traubert's Blues." He seems to think that this is the worst record ever..................
It was written by Tom Waits for heaven's sake.....
Where do these numpties come from.
And my nomination. - still Bicycles in Beijing..........aarrgghhhh _________________ Standing on Ray Moore's shoulders |
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pickle
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Posted: Sun Apr 20, 2008 3:02 pm Post subject: Lily The Pink - Worst Song Ever? |
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Re:Seasons In The Sun. The translation used by Terry Jacks was by Rod McKuen, which drops another verse (restored in another English version) about how the dying man was unfaithful to Michelle!
The story of the song was told on a BBC-4 documentary about Jacques Brel. Mark Radcliffe waas on saying how the Sensational Alex Harvey Band's cover of 'Next' led him to find out about Brel. _________________ We made a land where crap is king and the good don't last for long.
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gazmando
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If anyone could make a comilation of all these tracks, I'd gladly buy it. |
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RockitRon
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Best place to go is Amazon - type in Cheese! _________________ Ron |
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Number Six
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My name is actually Tony and it would be fair to say that I'm not exactly Arnie's body double. Most of my life I weighed 10 stone. I was 18 in 1968 with all the attendant adolescent hangups and every time the bit about "Brother Tony was notably bony etc" my two brothers, then aged around eight and six, would roll around on the floor laughing hysterically.
You may understand why I hate "Lily the Pink" with a feiry passion!
Can I also put in a vote for "Those were the Days" by Mary Hopkin. _________________ I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. |
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iwarburton
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Does anyone remember a programme on Luxembourg circa 1962/3 called Smash Hits, where people would request that a pet hate record be played and then smashed? This was then done, with lots of sound effects to simulate smashing (as I assume that you couldn't actually smash 7 inch 45s!).
It was presented by Bob Monkhouse and Denis Goodwin, so the script was as zany as you might expect.
A friend of mine called James, whose life became a temporary misery durirng the currency of a song called James Hold the Ladder Steady, wrote in to the show and asked for the record to be dropped from the highest ladder that they could find! I don't recall whether his request was granted.
The Brother Tony Was Notably Bony verse could well have qualified Lily the Pink for this treatment if the show had still been going in 1968.
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Triumph Herald
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C-Moon, by Paul McCartney.
The Frog Chorus, Mulligan's Tyre, Ebony and Ivory .... is there a pattern emerging here?! |
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RockitRon
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Not one of Macca's greatest admirers then, TH?
You're right, they are very twee, very catchy, very tuneful (well, maybe not Ebony and Ivory). But be careful, or I shall nominate Lennon's Imagine, which has all the charm and appeal of O Danny Boy sung by a tone-deaf drunk or, even worse, Cold Turkey _________________ Ron |
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Number Six
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At last. I thought I was the only person who thought Imagine is a load of pretentious drivel. Imagine there's no possessions. Yeah right! That is a white Steinway you're playing, isn't it John? _________________ I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. |
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