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from the website pop culture madness

Here Are the Top WORST*
Pop Songs of All Time:

1. MacArthur Park - Richard Harris or Donna Summer
2. I've Never Been To Me - Charlene
3. Lovin' You - Minnie Riperton
4. Seasons In The Sun - Terry Jacks
5. Afternoon Delight - Starland Vocal Band
6. Muskrat Love - Captain and Tenille
7. I Write The Songs - Barry Manilow
8. Sometimes When We Touch - Dan Hill
9. I Am... I Said - Neil Diamond
10. Ebony and Ivory - Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder
11. Having My Baby - Paul Anka
12. Feelings - Maurice Albert
13. Honey - Bobby Goldsboro
14. Oh Babe, What Would You Say? - Hurricane Smith
15. Disco Duck - Rick Dees
16. A Horse With No Name - America
17. Achy Breaky Heart - Billy Ray Cyrus
18. Morning Train (9 to 5) - Sheena Easton
19. You Light Up My Life - Debbie Boone
20. Boogie Oogie Oogie - A Taste of Honey
21. Shannon - Henry Gross
22. In the Year 2525 (Exordium and Terminus) - Zager and Evans
23. Do That To Me One More Time - Captain and Tenille
24. I Can't Dance - Genesis
25. The Candy Man - Sammy Davis jr
26. Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald - Gordon Lightfoot
27. Ma Belle Amie - The Tee Set
28. Brand New Key - Melanie
29. Wildfire - Michael Murphy
30. Playground In My Mind - Clint Holmes
31. Ode To Billie Joe - Bobbi Gentry
32. Alone Again (Naturally) - Gilbert O'Sullivan
33. Escape (The Pina Colada Song) - Rupert Holmes
34. Midnight At The Oasis - Maria Muldaur
35. I Am Woman - Helen Reddy
36. The Only Thing That Looks Good On Me Is You - Bryan Adams
37. I Will Always Love You - Whitney Houston
38. The Warrior - Scandal
39. Lady In Red - Chris DeBurgh
40. The Logical Song - Supertramp



*as voted by our visitors

Pretty good list, dj. I used to think that Billy Ray was saying "hanky panky heart."

Well, listeners. I will leave you with this thought.

Oops, I forgot.

goodnight all.

To the citizens of the United States of America, In the light of your
failure to elect a competent President of the USA and thus to govern
yourselves, we hereby give notice of the revocation of your
independence, effective today. Her Sovereign Majesty Queen Elizabeth II
will resume monarchical duties over all states, commonwealths and other
territories. Except Utah, which she does not fancy.
Your new prime minister (The Right Honourable Tony Blair, MP for the
97.85% of you who have until now been unaware that there is a world
outside your borders) will appoint a minister for America without the
need for further elections.
Congress and the Senate will be disbanded. A questionnaire will be
circulated next year to determine whether any of you noticed. To aid in
the transition to a British Crown Dependency, the following rules are
introduced with immediate effect:
1. You should look up "revocation" in the Oxford English Dictionary.
Then look up "aluminium". Check the pronunciation guide. You will be
amazed at just how wrongly you have been pronouncing it. The letter 'U'
will be reinstated in words such as 'favour' and 'neighbour', skipping
the letter 'U' is nothing more than laziness on your part. Likewise, you
will learn to spell 'doughnut' without skipping half the letters. You
will end your love affair with the letter 'Z' (pronounced 'zed' not
'zee') and the suffix "ize" will be replaced by the suffix "ise". You
will learn that the suffix 'burgh is pronounced 'burra' e.g. Edinburgh.
You are welcome to respell Pittsburgh as 'Pittsberg' if you can't cope
with correct pronunciation. Generally, you should raise your vocabulary
to acceptable levels. Look up "vocabulary". Using the same twenty seven
words interspersed with filler noises such as "like" and "you know" is
an unacceptable and inefficient form of communication. Look up
"interspersed". There will be no more 'bleeps' in the Jerry Springer
show. If you're not old enough to cope with bad language then you
shouldn't have chat shows. When you learn to develop your vocabulary
then you won't have to use bad language as often.
2. There is no such thing as "US English". We will let Microsoft know on your behalf. The Microsoft spell-checker will be adjusted to take
account of the reinstated letter 'u' and the elimination of "-ize".
3. You should learn to distinguish the English and Australian accents.
It really isn't that hard. English accents are not limited to cockney,
upper-class twit or Mancunian (Daphne in Frasier). You will also have to
learn how to understand regional accents - Scottish dramas such as
"Taggart" will no longer be broadcast with subtitles. While we're
talking about regions, you must learn that there is no such place as
Devonshire in England. The name of the county is "Devon". If you persist
in calling it Devonshire, all American States will become "shires" e.g.
Texasshire, Floridashire, Louisianashire.
4. Hollywood will be required occasionally to cast English actors as the good guys. Hollywood will be required to cast English actors to play
English characters. British sit-coms such as "Men Behaving Badly" or
"Red Dwarf" will not be re-cast and watered down for a wishy-washy
American audience who can't cope with the humour of occasional political
incorrectness.
5. You should relearn your original national anthem, "God Save The
Queen", but only after fully carrying out task 1. We would not want you
to get confused and give up half way through.
6. You should stop playing American "football". There is only one kind
of football. What you refer to as American "football" is not a very good
game.
The 2.15% of you who are aware that there is a world outside your
borders may have noticed that no one else plays "American" football. You
will no longer be allowed to play it, and should instead play proper
football. Initially, it would be best if you played with the girls. It
is a difficult game. Those of you brave enough will, in time, be allowed
to play rugby (which is similar to American "football", but does not
involve stopping for a rest every twenty seconds or wearing full kevlar
body armour like nancies). We are hoping to get together at least a US
Rugby sevens side by 2005. You should stop playing baseball. It is not
reasonable to host an event called the 'World Series' for a game which
is not played outside of America. Since only 2.15% of you are aware that
there is a world beyond your borders, your error is understandable.
Instead of baseball, you will be allowed to play a girls' game called
"rounders" which is baseball without fancy team strip, oversized gloves,
collector cards or hotdogs.
7. You will no longer be allowed to own or carry guns. You will no
longer be allowed to own or carry anything more dangerous in public than
a vegetable peeler. Because we don't believe you are sensible enough to
handle potentially dangerous items, you will require a permit if you
wish to carry a vegetable peeler in public.
8. July 4th is no longer a public holiday. November 2nd will be a new
national holiday, but only in England. It will be called "Indecisive
Day".
9. All American cars are hereby banned. They are crap and it is for your own good. When we show you German cars, you will understand what we mean. All road intersections will be replaced with roundabouts. You will start driving on the left with immediate effect. At the same time, you will go metric with immediate effect and without the benefit of
conversion tables. Roundabouts and metrication will help you understand
the British sense of humour.
10. You will learn to make real chips. Those things you call French
fries are not real chips. Fries aren't even French, they are Belgian
though 97.85% of you (including the guy who discovered fries while in
Europe) are not aware of a country called Belgium. Those things you
insist on calling potato chips are properly called "crisps". Real chips
are thick cut and fried in animal fat. The traditional accompaniment to
chips is beer which should be served warm and flat. Waitresses will be
trained to be more aggressive with customers.
11. As a sign of penance 5 grams of sea salt per cup will be added to
all tea made within the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, this quantity to
be doubled for tea made within the city of Boston itself.
12. The cold tasteless stuff you insist on calling beer is not actually
beer at all, it is lager. From November 1st only proper British Bitter
will be referred to as "beer", and European brews of known and accepted
provenance will be referred to as "Lager". The substances formerly known
as "American Beer" will henceforth be referred to as "Near-Frozen Knat's
Urine", with the exception of the product of the American Budweiser
company whose product will be referred to as "Weak Near-Frozen Knat's
Urine". This will allow true Budweiser (as manufactured for the last
1000 years in Pilsen, Czech Republic) to be sold without risk of
confusion.
13. From November 10th the UK will harmonise petrol (or "Gasoline" as you will be permitted to keep calling it until April 1st 2005) prices
with the former USA. The UK will harmonise its prices to those of the
former USA and the Former USA will, in return, adopt UK petrol
prices(roughly $6/US gallon--get used to it).
14. You will learn to resolve personal issues without using guns,
lawyers or therapists. The fact that you need so many lawyers and
therapists shows that you're not adult enough to be independent. Guns
should only be handled by adults. If you're not adult enough to sort
things out without suing someone or speaking to a therapist then you're
not grown up enough to handle a gun.
15. Please tell us who killed JFK. It's been driving us crazy.
16. Tax collectors from Her Majesty's Government will be with you
shortly to ensure the acquisition of all revenues due (backdated to
1776).
17. Last but not the least, and for heaven's sake... it's Nuclear as in
"clear" NOT Nucular.
Thank you for your co-operation and have a great day.

John Cleese

actually, djjd, there are a number of those songs that I like very much.

Now, that's funny, Edgarblythe from Texasshire. Thank you for posting it.

And, pleasant dreams from Pittsberg.

Well I'm glad that John Cleese piece was posted by one of you, and not by me. I don't think I would have survived. Very funny, btw.

Being compared to the irascible glaswegian (from Glasgow) TV policeman "Taggart" was incidentally how I got my name- the guys at work called me Taggart or Tag for short. I don't see the likeness, myself.

Lady Liberty's chlothes

Not much background to give Letty. Tests taken in 1985 revealed that copper from a mine in a place called Visnes, outside my hometown here in Norway, had been used in making the statue's coating. Copper from these mines were of the highest quality, and I think they shipped it elsewhere for processing due to complaints about pollution from local farmers.

Good Morning, WA2K radio. It's a lovely day here today in Florida, and I hope all our listeners are feelin' fine and enjoying their day.

edgar, when I first started reading your message, I thought you were preaching a sermon, but then I realized that it was only Saturday. Very funny piece by Cleese, incidentally.

McTag, I wondered where you came by that sobriquet.

Cyracuz, I especially like the way you concisely explained about your country's involvement in Lady Liberty. To me that gift from France and the inscription on its base, now make all Americans realize that the U.S. is indeed a country of many people, as I hope we here on our radio station will continue to be.

I suppose our Panz will be doing his thing tonight with Joe Turner. We're all looking forward to his report on the concert.

Here's some interesting trivia for today from a couple of guys who really have a lot to do.

Tom & Joe's Tough Trivia


Monday, March 7th, 2005 - 55% of women don't like this on a guy...? Answer: Stubble

Tuesday, March 8th, 2005 - 37 000 people each year go to the emergency room with injuries related to...? Answer: Clothing!

Wednesday, March 9th, 2005 - 85% of men do not use this...? Answer: Slit in their underwear

Thursday, March 10th, 2005 - 77% of North Americans use these...? Answer: Coupons.

Surveys really add to our knowledge about people all over.

I have a video tape of Tommy Makem and the Clancy boys singing this Dylan song. Although it isn't Irish, it is an awe inspiring performance.

Oh the time will come up
When the winds will stop
And the breeze will cease to be breathin'.
Like the stillness in the wind
'Fore the hurricane begins,
The hour when the ship comes in.

Oh the seas will split
And the ship will hit
And the sands on the shoreline will be shaking.
Then the tide will sound
And the wind will pound
And the morning will be breaking.

Oh the fishes will laugh
As they swim out of the path
And the seagulls they'll be smiling.
And the rocks on the sand
Will proudly stand,
The hour that the ship comes in.

And the words that are used
For to get the ship confused
Will not be understood as they're spoken.
For the chains of the sea
Will have busted in the night
And will be buried at the bottom of the ocean.

A song will lift
As the mainsail shifts
And the boat drifts on to the shoreline.
And the sun will respect
Every face on the deck,
The hour that the ship comes in.

Then the sands will roll
Out a carpet of gold
For your weary toes to be a-touchin'.
And the ship's wise men
Will remind you once again
That the whole wide world is watchin'.

Oh the foes will rise
With the sleep still in their eyes
And they'll jerk from their beds and think they're dreamin'.
But they'll pinch themselves and squeal
And know that it's for real,
The hour when the ship comes in.

Then they'll raise their hands,
Sayin' we'll meet all your demands,
But we'll shout from the bow your days are numbered.
And like Pharaoh's tribe,
They'll be drownded in the tide,
And like Goliath, they'll be conquered.



Copyright © 1963; renewed 1991 Special Rider Music

Good song, edgar. Would you believe that even the Irish like Dylan?

Folks, I read a depressing piece about Charley "Bird" Parker today on Yahoo news. Some of the facts behind his life are really sad. Probably one of his most familiar songs played on that alto sax is "Round Midnight".

Interesting that British jazz critic Larsen compared him to Picasso observing that both bought ugliness into modern art.

Drugs and alcohol were the bete noir for many fine Jazz musicians. I have often wondered why.

Question of the day:

Does anyone here know of a member of our audience who might have had a child who took the SAT this morning? I'm trying to find out for our RJB what the essay question was.

I've found that biographies of musical persons is often not a good persuit. What was that film about Farnkie Lyman - Why Do Fools Fall in Love? I spent days regretting that I watched that depressing tale.

Good Day All.

Some March 12 Birthday Celebrities:

1890 Vaslav Nijinsky, ballet dancer (Russia; died 1950)
1922 Jack Kerouac, poet/novelist (Lowell, MA; died 1969)
1923 Wally Schirra, astronaut (Hackensack, NJ)
1928 Edward Albee, playwright (Washington, DC)
1932 Andrew Young, politician/civil rights leader (New Orleans, LA)
1940 Al Jarreau, singer/songwriter (Milwaukee, WI)
1941 Barbara Feldon, actress (Pittsburgh, PA)
1946 Liza Minnelli, singer/actress (Los Angeles, CA)
1948 James Taylor, singer/songwriter (Boston, MA)
1956 Dale Murphy, baseball player (Portland, OR)
1960 Courtney B. Vance, actor (Detroit, MI)
1962 Darryl Strawberry, baseball player (Los Angeles, CA)




No use permitting
some prophet of doom
To wipe every smile away.
Come hear the music play.
Life is a Cabaret, old chum,
Come to the Cabaret!

Raggedy, fantastic. A moving picture right here on WA2K.

Back later, listeners. I have stuff to do.

Watching for Bob's latest song.

Wondering about Francis.

Missing me, lady Letty?

Indeed I did, Francis. I was a wee bit concerned that you took all those French posts seriously. Obviously, not, however, and that's a good thing.

I do suppose that the cabaret delighted you, however.

A funny song about Mrs. Murphy:



WHO THREW THE OVERALLS IN MRS. MURPHY'S CHOWDER?

Mrs. Murphy gave a party just about a week a-go,
Everything was plentiful the Murphy's they're not slow,
They treated us like gentlemen we tried to act the same,
And only for what happened well it was an awful shame.

Chorus
Who threw the overalls in Mrs. Murphy's chowder?
Nobody spoke so we shouted all the louder,
It's an Irish trick that's true,
But we'll lick the "mick" that threw
The overalls in Mrs. Murphy's chowder.

When she dished the chowder out she fainted on the spot.
She found a pair of overalls at the bottom of the pot.
Tim Nolan, he got rippin' mad. His eyes were bulging out.
He stood upon the piano and loudly he did shout.

Chorus

They took the pants from out the soup and laid them on the floor.
Each man swore upon his life he ne'er seen them before.
They were plastered up with morter and were worn out at the knee.
Only for what happened then it was too plain to see.

Chorus

When Mrs. Murphy she came to, she began to cry and pout.
She had them in the wash that day and forgot to take them out.
Tim Nolan he excused himself for what he said that night
So we put music to the words and sang with all our might.

Hope they weren't Gus' overalls.

H Letty:

Am I late? Anyway last night was karaoke night at our local pub. Lot of young people celebrating an anniversary. One couple looking a little out of place like they didn't quite belong. Shortly after they arrived I sang Neil Diamond's Song Sung Blue. It was well received with the girl giving the loudest applause in the place. I went over to thank them and especially her for the accolade. Then they were called up separately to sing. Chris was a really big guy and did Mack the Knife. He was very confident and had a pleasing voice. Julie was next and gave a very animated performance. Now I understood why they were hanging back. Some karaoke sites you may run into a little clique. I went over to them to congratulate them on their performances. Turns out they had met 12 years before at that very bar. It had a different name then and was owned by someone else. They had been singing for eight years. Beats my two years.
Bill the owner seeing me talking to them came over and welcomed them. They were now visibly more relaxed and we spent a nice evening chatting.

So here's my du jour


Neil Diamond - Song Sung Blue Lyrics

Song sung blue
Everybody knows one
Song sung blue
Every garden grows one
Me and you are subject to the blues now and then
But when you take the blues and make a song
You sing them out again
Sing them out again

Song sung blue
Weeping like a willow
Song sung blue
Sleeping on my pillow

Funny thing, but you can sing it with a cry in your voice
And before you know, start to feeling good
You simply got no choice

Song sung blue
Everybody knows one
Song sung blue
Every garden grows one

Yes, Bob. Everybody knows one. It sounds as though you are the PR man at Bill's place. Delightful anecdote about Chris and Julie. You know that I can picture that place and your performance in my head?

How about you, listeners?

I like New York in June, how about you?
I like a Gershwin tune, how about you?

I like a fire side, when a storm is due.
I like potato chips, moonlight and motor trips,
How about you, folks.

I'm mad about good books,
Can't get my fill,
And though G.B.'s outlook
Doesn't give me a thrill,

Holding hands in the picture show,
When all the lights are low,
May not be new, but..............

I like it, how about you.