Your Favourite Totally Naff Song

[gavc23]

Given that Rock Me Amadeus is on here, does that make Boney M's Rasputin a contender? Personally I think it is a stone cold gem of a tune, but others may disagree.

A few years ago we went to a wedding where the RSVP on the invite included a box to write in any requests for the DJ at the reception. We went with Rasputin and it went down a proper storm

[Stumpy Pepys]

I made a list the other day of songs I sometimes wish I didn't like so much.

• Don't Stop Movin'' – S Club 7
• Let's Get Ready to Rumble – PJ & Duncan
• The Power of Love – Huey Lewis and the News
• Forever and Ever – Demis Roussos
• Can't Smile Without You – Barry Manilow
• Love Will Keep Us Together – Captain & Tennille
• Boozy Nights – The Barron Knights
• Love Grows Where My Rosemary Goes – Edison Lighthouse
• I Think I Love You – Partridge Family
• Put a Little Love in Your Heart – Leonard Nimoy

[Sean of the Shed]

I made a list the other day of songs I sometimes wish I didn't like so much.

• Don't Stop Movin'' – S Club 7
• Let's Get Ready to Rumble – PJ & Duncan
• The Power of Love – Huey Lewis and the News
• Forever and Ever – Demis Roussos
• Can't Smile Without You – Barry Manilow
• Love Will Keep Us Together – Captain & Tennille
• Boozy Nights – The Barron Knights
• Love Grows Where My Rosemary Goes – Edison Lighthouse
• I Think I Love You – Partridge Family
• Put a Little Love in Your Heart – Leonard Nimoy

Edison Lighthouse standing tall (as a lighthouse should) in that list.

[Toby Gymshorts]

I posted that in the earworm thread just the other day.

[Nocturnal Submission]

I made a list the other day of songs I sometimes wish I didn't like so much.

• Don't Stop Movin'' – S Club 7
• Let's Get Ready to Rumble – PJ & Duncan
• The Power of Love – Huey Lewis and the News
• Forever and Ever – Demis Roussos
• Can't Smile Without You – Barry Manilow
• Love Will Keep Us Together – Captain & Tennille
• Boozy Nights – The Barron Knights
• Love Grows Where My Rosemary Goes – Edison Lighthouse
• I Think I Love You – Partridge Family
• Put a Little Love in Your Heart – Leonard Nimoy

Not that I've heard it since shortly after I bought it on a 45, but I Think I Love You is a terrific little song.

[Jimski]

I am rather partial to "Larger Than Life" by The Backstreet Boys.

[G-Man]

Not that I've heard it since shortly after I bought it on a 45, but I Think I Love You is a terrific little song.

There were several really good Partridge Family songs. "I Woke Up In Love This Morning" is another banger. I suspect they lacked street cred because the image was that these songs were played by the mom and her kids. I think for a while, The Monkees had a similar obstacle, but then they also had songs that were instant pop classics, and now The Monkees are unimpeachable. In both cases, the recordings were made by Wrecking Crew musicians.

[Nocturnal Submission]

There were several really good Partridge Family songs. "I Woke Up In Love This Morning" is another banger. I suspect they lacked street cred because the image was that these songs were played by the mom and her kids. I think for a while, The Monkees had a similar obstacle, but then they also had songs that were instant pop classics, and now The Monkees are unimpeachable. In both cases, the recordings were made by Wrecking Crew musicians.

Indeed.

Breaking Up Is Hard To Do is another cracker.

[Amor de Cosmos]

I'm more enamoured of Neil Sedaka's original, but that might be an age thing.

[Sits]

Following on from the Partridge Family, David Cassidy’s version of How Can I Be Sure? might not be up to Dusty Springfield’s level but it’s a great track. Good voice, the young Cassidy.

[3 Colours Red]

I'm more enamoured of Neil Sedaka's original, but that might be an age thing.

Laughter In The Rain is the Sedaka song I would most stand up for.

[Jah Womble]

^It was decent. I’d go with The Immigrant, however. Underrated Sedaka single.

Following on from the Partridge Family, David Cassidy’s version of How Can I Be Sure? might not be up to Dusty Springfield’s level but it’s a great track. Good voice, the young Cassidy.

Concur - it was a surprisingly good reading of the song.

I don’t think the antipathy toward the Partridge Family was down to its being ‘a mom and her kids’, so much that they were an act manufactured for television. They (or those behind them) didn’t have as many good tunes as The Monkees, but were nonetheless a pretty serviceable pop act.

[Stumpy Pepys]

Laughter In The Rain is the Sedaka song I would most stand up for.

Solitaire is good too.

[Amor de Cosmos]

It is. It was pretty damn difficult to get a song about masturbation on the charts in the early 70s. Hats of to Sedaka and Phil Cody who, probably, wrote the lyrics.

[Gangster Octopus]

The Who did it in the sixties.

[Amor de Cosmos]

True. Maybe a slightly different audience in the US though?

[Amor de Cosmos]

... Especially by The Carpenters.

[Sporting]

The best 70s wanking song is by Buzzcocks.

[pebblethefish]

The best 70s wanking song is by Buzzcocks.

10 or so years ago I was having an anaesthetic administered, and the nurse offered a selection of CDs to soothe me to sleep. The only one I liked was Buzzcocks' Singles Going Steady. So she put it on, and the first song was Orgasm Addict. After a quick look at the doctor and other nurses' faces, we quickly agreed to start with track 2.

[G-Man]

... Especially by The Carpenters.

The Carpenters who sang about being a groupie? I'd imagine a bit of DIY love would provide relief after that. Moral relief!

[Jah Womble]

Never thought of Solitaire as having that connotation, although, yeah, it does seem pretty obvious. I think Andy Williams's cover being the first version of it I recall probably steered me away from that particular ballpark...

The best 70s wanking song is by Buzzcocks.

Agreed. Teenage Kicks is up there too. (If indeed it 'is' about onanism - always felt that that was just a good bit of controversial publicity meself.)

[Stumpy Pepys]

Never thought of Solitaire as having that connotation, although, yeah, it does seem pretty obvious.

Me neither. I mean you could read it that way but, according to the Wiki page, the lyricist was singing about playing cards alone.

[Sits]

Yes I thought it was just about being lonely.

Anyway, The Gibson Brothers’ Cuba, anyone? Or perhaps Mariana?

[Nocturnal Submission]

Yes I thought it was just about being lonely.

Anyway, The Gibson Brothers’ Cuba, anyone? Or perhaps Mariana?

I'm pretty sure that Cuba isn't about knocking one out, Sits.

Oh, hang on...

[Jah Womble]

Me neither. I mean you could read it that way but, according to the Wiki page, the lyricist was singing about playing cards alone.

That much I’d twigged - some over here call the game ‘Patience’.