Happy Saint Valentine’s Day, everyone!
A couple of Valentine-themed song-poems for you today: if
you’d like to hear more can I suggest you check out this week’s World’sWorst Records Radio Show – a two-hour special featuring 60 minutes of
vomit-inducing Valentine’s songs.
First up is a corker from the Halmark stable, credited to
Bob Storm but actually featuring him duetting with Halmark’s ‘other’ (i.e. not Mary
Kimmell) female singer, Dodie Frost. You can kind of forgive the ridiculous
lyrics to Valentine’s Song as their composer, Kiro Obetkovski, clearly
did not have English as his first language. With a co-composer credit nabbed by
Halmark head honcho Ted Rosen – a bit of a liberty if you ask me, as he’s simply
used one of the company’s clapped out song beds again – it’s an absolute hoot.
Born in 1943 in Macedonia, and currently (I believe) a
resident of Indiana, Kiro Obetkovski, fancied himself a bit of a poet and, as O
Kiro, self-published a slim volume – Alexandar’s [sic] Best Poems
- in 1977. If the dreadful lyrics to Valentine’s Song are anything to go
by, then that book must be essential reading.
Next is Norm Burns and the Five Stars and My Lovely Lovely Valentine, another
effort from Lew Tobin’s Sterling label.
Like Rosen, Tobin had a penchant for taking credit for the music on many of his
song-poem releases; unlike Rosen, Lew at least attempted to compose something
original most of the time. The lyrics to My Lovely Lovely Valentine
are by Ruth Ekey, who also wrote the words to a couple of other songs
copyrighted in 1973, Walkin’ Down a Country Road and I Sing to Keep
From Crying. This particular disc appears to have been issued in 1972.
Enjoy!
Download Bob HERE
Download Norm HERE
Thanks to Bob Purse
for the image!
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