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For me the worst was Clive Dunn and Grandad. It hurts just to type the damn thing!
ReplyDeleteWhere can one begin to answer such a momentous request!?! (rhetorical question!)
ReplyDeleteMy two *favorites* (courtesy of your fine blog, Darryl) are:
1) W.L. Horning: Rockin-And-Rollin
2) The Rave-Ons: Happy Inside Of Me
Honorable Mentions:
Joah Valley: Help
Paul McCartney: Temporary Secretary ;)
Anything by the Everly Brothers
ReplyDeleteI have always claimed that the worst record of all time is "Fish and Chips In Spain" by Grahame Lister, an Australian artist based in Britain doing a country-flavoured ditty on the pleasures of beach holidaying.
ReplyDelete"Si si Senorita, Monty Pyfon is me Bruvva-in-law..."
I uploaded it here years ago: http://left-and-to-the-back.blogspot.com/2008/04/second-hand-store-dip-part-4-grahame.html (I've got a bit better at blogging since...)
Ray Odom 45, Torino SW72-6184, "I Can't Help It If I'm Still In Love with You"/"Breaking Heart". Labels says 1972 Wooten Recording Company, PO Box 29004, Memphis, Tenn. I can't get anything on this label, but Ray Odom can't carry a note nor get the timing.
ReplyDeleteWindbag
I discovered your site today and spent the last three hours learning a lot about bad music.
ReplyDeleteThe German version of Lorne Greene's "Ringo" would be a good candidate for your anniversary posting:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLO0sjJhhNM
The story is nearly the same except the end: The singer KILLS Ringo - and that destroys the whole song. But of course this is turning a good song into a very bad cover version only if you understand German.
Greetings from Berlin!
Giorgio Chinaglia, '(I'm) Football Crazy'.
ReplyDeleteThe Welsh-Italian World Cup 'star' (he sat on the Italy subs bench at least once during the 1974 tournament) launches into a beautiful ditty about how he's the best footballer of them all, and how he looks forward to the occasions when the manager allows him to have sex.
Yes, it really does contain the line 'trainer says some love tonight, allll right'.
It is just immense on so many levels. Brilliant backing singers as well. In fact, I could fill your entire comments box talking about this record.
Hey Windy, I'm thinking your Ray Odom could well be this man here: http://freepages.school-alumni.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~jrterry/1943/rayodom.html
ReplyDeleteThere's a younger, more tuneful Ray Odom still doing the CW rounds (you'll find him on YouTube), and I'm guessing he's this Ray's son - the article refers to a Ray Junior in the last paragraph.
Coincidence? I think not!
P.S - he also released a 45 on Rodeo Records, A Cowboy's Prayer (again, assuming this is the same guy). He's definitely going to be featured here soon!
ReplyDeleteI think some of the most horrible records I've heard to date have been:
ReplyDeleteE.T., I Love You by The Starlight Children's Chorus, L. Ron Hubbard's Road to Freedom, Gary S. Paxton's The Big "A" = The Big "M" - a cheerful anti-abortion song that manages to make Lil' Markie's Diary of an Unborn Child seem tasteful by comparison and, while not an officially released record, per se, I think Cal Miller's Git 'R Done has to be one of the worst songs I've ever heard. It panders to a braindead crowd, built on a stupid rural American catch-phrase and clocks in at nearly four minutes. Absolutely the worst!
a special request, San Lucas Band - The Music of Guatemala
ReplyDeleteAnything by Paul McCartney, Phil Collins, or Sting.
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