Um…check what out?
Maybe we could go for the worst songs ever written then, huh? It’d have to be something from the 70s, the absolute bottom of rock music (it just dawned on me that must be where the phrase “rock bottom” came from!).
Susan
More likely ballast stones but whatever…
Yeah, the 70s were ripe with rotten apples. How about Sugar, Sugar by the Archies???
Click on the word this in my last sentence, the hyperlink might not be visible on your monitor 
Slan,
D.
Well, we were both thinking you meant another thread here at Chiffy, I guess. The link to the magazine works, tho. BTW, that cover of McCartney and Keith Richards really is frightening.
“Where have all the flowers gone?..etc.”
For worst songs I’d nominate “Tie a Yellow Ribbon 'Round the Old Oak Tree” (Tony Orlando & Dawn) or “You Light Up My Life” (who did sing that?). “Sugar, Sugar” would have to be in the top ten at least for the 70s. Egads, what a dismal musical decade!
Susan
“Oh, Sweet Pea, c’mon and dance with me, cmon,cmon,cmon and dance with meeee.”
Mighta still been in the 60s, that one. We called it “bubblegum” music. Tommy Roe, Tommy James and the Shondells, etc…(Crimson and clover).
There’s a fairly recent song called “Closing Time” that is on my new list.
the chorus is “I know who I want to take me home, (then, because the songwriter ran out of steam, he repeats)I know who I want to take me home,I know who I want to take me home, (then the coup de grace) Take me Home!!!”
I seem to remember “Sugar, Sugar” being in the '60’s, or am I getting senile?
Songs that changed the world?
“Yankee Doodle”
“Rule, Britannia”
“Dixie”
“John Brown’s Body”
“The Battle Hymn of the Republic”
“Strange Fruit”
These’d be my guess. I’m sure there are others in other places and in other languages, but I went with what I was aware of.
A much better list, Waldco, just not Boomer-era…like I said, you have a swath of population moving through time, currently in control of much of corporate and artistic America so bear with us, we will retire sooner or later…
You’re right, Teri - but just barely. 1969.
"Sugar, ah honey honey
You are my candy girl
And you’ve got me wanting you
Honey, ah sugar sugar
You are my candy girl
And you’ve got me wanting you
I just can’t believe the loveliness of loving you
(I just can’t believe it’s true)
I just can’t believe the wonder of this feeling too
(I just can’t believe it’s true)
Chorus
When I kissed you girl I knew how sweet a kiss could be
(I know how sweet a kiss could be)
Like a summer sunshine pour your sweetness over me
(Pour your sweetness over me)
Oh, sugar
Pour a little sugar on it, honey
Pour a little sugar on it, Baby
I’m gonna make your life so sweet
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Pour a little sugar on it, oh yeah
Pour a little sugar on it, honey
Pour a little sugar on it, Baby
I’m gonna make your life so sweet
Hey, hey, hey
Pour a little sugar on me, honey
Sugar, ah honey honey
You are my candy girl
And you’ve got me wanting you
Oh . . .
Honey, ah sugar sugar
You are my candy girl . . ."
shudder
Susan
I was 
It was the “Oh, I was so much older then..” thread.
I’m getting confused myself now 
Slan,
D.
Exactly, and for the boyfriend I associate with it
Woe is me… it’ll only get worse when we Gen-Xers are the ones… it’ll probably be some song by Tiffany, or maybe that David Hasselhoff song the Germans listened to.
Wasn’t that Pat Boone’s daughter? Debbie, maybe? Another one I put in that category is “Sunshine on the Water” or something like that–John Denver. And then there’s “Mandy” by Barry Manilow. hehe.
But seriously, I’ve often thought about doing some research to see just what effect songs have really had on “changing the world.” Hard to imagine the 60s without “We Shall Overcome.”
Carol
And it (“Sugar, Sugar”) was the #1 song in the USA for that year. 
Oddly enough, I think “Sugar, Sugar” pushed The Stones’ “Honkey Tonk Woman” into 2nd place.
You folks in the UK aren’t spared by these frightful statistics, either. “Sugar, Sugar” was #1 on the charts there for several weeks also.
Stranger things . . .
Will O’Ban
Edited to clarify “it”.
Actually,
(emphasis mine)
So, Dylan beat out pretty much all of pop culture.
I think each category had it’s Top 100.
I just did a search for songs of the 70s and I think I need to find an Alka Seltzer it brought back such bad memories:
Walk on the Wild Side
I Will Survive - Donna Summer
American Pie - a song I absolutely loathe
Have You Ever Seen the Rain - CCR - my personal least favorite band
Riders on the Storm - The Doors and their rain/thunder background
(The 60s had some clunkers too: consider “The Rain, The Park, and Other Things” by the Cowsills)
Amen, sister. And let me guess, did you have a dweeb in high school or college that KNEW ALL THE WORDS and just had to sing it at parties and such? We did…Grooooooaaaaaannnn… I also knew a guy who did perfect Neil Young impersonation too…it took a lot of wacky tabacky to swallow that.
Don’t forget Macarthur Park for lugubrious nonsense.
How about anything by the Partridge Family?
I can’t believe the Brits made Sugar, Sugar a hit…wow…
All this talk of dodgy songs reminded me of a thread posted up by Wombat a while ago.
http://chiffboard.mati.ca/viewtopic.php?t=26758&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0
I dug it out 
Slan,
D.
Oh no, I have to confess I really like “Walk on the Wild Side”.
Do a search for “one hit wonders” and the 70’s. It’s clear why they only had one hit:
Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep
D.O.A
Feelings
Dead Skunk
Then you get to the mid-70’s and disco… not worth discussing 