What old, corny songs do you like?

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  • PJ_SoulPJ_Soul Posts: 49,954
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  • i have zero postings in this thread and for sure wouldn't pick this song! HA
    I LOVE this song !!! so much fun !
  • InHiding80InHiding80 Posts: 7,623
    edited January 2017
    Damn I missed this thread. This one was written for a Michelob commercial so it's corny on principle alone.

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RY5W2Yfze7M
  • embraceembrace Posts: 849
    got a car...got some gas...oh let's get out of here-get out of here fast...
    I hope you get this message but your not home...I will be there in just a minute or so...
    I want to go but I want to go with you.

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  • embraceembrace Posts: 849
    edited January 2017
    and this one ear worms well
    https://youtu.be/WDtCa8ZgAk4
    got a car...got some gas...oh let's get out of here-get out of here fast...
    I hope you get this message but your not home...I will be there in just a minute or so...
    I want to go but I want to go with you.

    Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime. -MT

    I've had enough, said enough, felt enough. I'm fine, still in it.
  • OffSheGoes35OffSheGoes35 Posts: 3,514
    Let's keep the corniness alive! Why the hell has this thread been dormant for so long??? 

    https://youtu.be/NpW9vuinpwM
  • pjhawkspjhawks Posts: 12,529
    My mom always had a radio on in the kitchen when growing up. these 70 singer-songwriters were so weirdly awesome. a few of my favs below.  oh and i'm  a guy and i dig Grease and most of the songs in the movie.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgptvsHHYK4

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8rR7E6NfY4

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqZc7ZQURMs
  • OffSheGoes35OffSheGoes35 Posts: 3,514
    I Lurve Gordon Lightfoot. Good choice, man.

    https://youtu.be/ZFJ5Bj_put0
  • pjhawks said:
    My mom always had a radio on in the kitchen when growing up. these 70 singer-songwriters were so weirdly awesome. a few of my favs below.  oh and i'm  a guy and i dig Grease and most of the songs in the movie.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgptvsHHYK4

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8rR7E6NfY4

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqZc7ZQURMs

    Like the Al Stewart!

    Time Passages is also a great tune from that album.
    "My brain's a good brain!"
  • rgambsrgambs Posts: 13,576
    There were a few April Wine tunes that I wore out on the old turntable lol

    Siiiign of the Gypsy Quee-een...
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  • drakeheuer14drakeheuer14 Posts: 4,468
    edited July 2018
    fishin in the dark 

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  • OffSheGoes35OffSheGoes35 Posts: 3,514
    rgambs said:
    There were a few April Wine tunes that I wore out on the old turntable lol

    Siiiign of the Gypsy Quee-een...
    I don't  know anything about April Wine, except for this Trailer Park Boys clip... =)
    https://youtu.be/nTy1ePoE5hY
  • rgambs said:
    There were a few April Wine tunes that I wore out on the old turntable lol

    Siiiign of the Gypsy Quee-een...

    Okay RG...

    We've had our times on these forums, but if there was a ever a breakthrough moment that has clinched the deal for us... this is it.

    April Wine is one of my all time favourite bands. My buddies and I grew up listening to these guys with them in the mix alongside Zeppelin, the Stones, the Who, Van Halen, etc.

    I just bought 'Nature of the Beast' on vinyl about a month ago. It is one of the greatest rock records ever made. Before the cds and recorded tapes became a thing... I wore out TWO cassettes where the printing on either side of the cassette could not be read.

    You rock!
    "My brain's a good brain!"
  • tempo_n_groovetempo_n_groove Posts: 40,355
    edited July 2018
    I've always like this Marty Robbins tune
    https://youtu.be/lRh3xyNDav8

  • tempo_n_groovetempo_n_groove Posts: 40,355
    Also anything that Bing Crosby sings is pure gold.
    https://youtu.be/PaO4z9O4OmI
  • vitovito Posts: 2,029
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  • rgambsrgambs Posts: 13,576
    I've always like this Marty Robbins tune
    https://youtu.be/lRh3xyNDav8

    First song my dad learned to play on guitar back in the early 60's!
    Monkey Driven, Call this Living?
  • rgambsrgambs Posts: 13,576
    rgambs said:
    There were a few April Wine tunes that I wore out on the old turntable lol

    Siiiign of the Gypsy Quee-een...

    Okay RG...

    We've had our times on these forums, but if there was a ever a breakthrough moment that has clinched the deal for us... this is it.

    April Wine is one of my all time favourite bands. My buddies and I grew up listening to these guys with them in the mix alongside Zeppelin, the Stones, the Who, Van Halen, etc.

    I just bought 'Nature of the Beast' on vinyl about a month ago. It is one of the greatest rock records ever made. Before the cds and recorded tapes became a thing... I wore out TWO cassettes where the printing on either side of the cassette could not be read.

    You rock!
    I didn't know they were disrespected and ridiculed as a band until I was an adult.  Somebody requested April Wine on the local rock station and the DJ went off screaming about how they wouldnt play it because it was a "ROCK STATION FOR CRYIN OUT LOUD!!!"

    He then proceeded to play Love Hurts by Nazareth and it occured to me that notions of what is and isn't rock and roll are about as cliquey as a highschool cafeteria.
    Monkey Driven, Call this Living?
  • rgambsrgambs Posts: 13,576
    Nature of the Beast was my 3rd favorite record from my parents collection as a kid!  Just behind Elton John's Goodbye Yellow Brick Road and Dark Side of the Moon.
    Monkey Driven, Call this Living?
  • rgambs said:
    rgambs said:
    There were a few April Wine tunes that I wore out on the old turntable lol

    Siiiign of the Gypsy Quee-een...

    Okay RG...

    We've had our times on these forums, but if there was a ever a breakthrough moment that has clinched the deal for us... this is it.

    April Wine is one of my all time favourite bands. My buddies and I grew up listening to these guys with them in the mix alongside Zeppelin, the Stones, the Who, Van Halen, etc.

    I just bought 'Nature of the Beast' on vinyl about a month ago. It is one of the greatest rock records ever made. Before the cds and recorded tapes became a thing... I wore out TWO cassettes where the printing on either side of the cassette could not be read.

    You rock!
    I didn't know they were disrespected and ridiculed as a band until I was an adult.  Somebody requested April Wine on the local rock station and the DJ went off screaming about how they wouldnt play it because it was a "ROCK STATION FOR CRYIN OUT LOUD!!!"

    He then proceeded to play Love Hurts by Nazareth and it occured to me that notions of what is and isn't rock and roll are about as cliquey as a highschool cafeteria.
    Lol

    I don't mind Nazareth (they're okay... they got a few good songs), but April Wine is infinitely greater.

    It's not even close.
    "My brain's a good brain!"
  • tempo_n_groovetempo_n_groove Posts: 40,355
    rgambs said:
    I've always like this Marty Robbins tune
    https://youtu.be/lRh3xyNDav8

    First song my dad learned to play on guitar back in the early 60's!
    That is great!!!! Thx for sharing!!!

    Did you ever learn it?
  • tempo_n_groovetempo_n_groove Posts: 40,355
    As a kid I was captivated by Sha Na Na and the doo wop songs that they would do and my father would sing to me.  This is one of those songs that I loved as a very, very young child, I think I was 5... Rubber Ball
    https://youtu.be/VOHopOkeakc
  • edited July 2018
    I've always said "Love Beach" would be a killer tune for PJ to cover. It's from a very hated album by Emerson Lake & Palmer (the band recorded it to fulfill record company contract), but the song is short and the music is very Who-sounding (right up PJ's alley) and the range and tone of Greg Lake's voice on this tune is right in EV's wheelhouse. Matt will kill it on drums too. People always think I'm joking, but this could be an awesome cover IMO - maybe even a Xmas single?!
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cM1ab-i4h4
  • Damn I missed this thread. This one was written for a Michelob commercial so it's corny on principle alone. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RY5W2Yfze7M
    There is nothing corny about Steve Winwood! :)
  • rgambsrgambs Posts: 13,576
    rgambs said:
    rgambs said:
    There were a few April Wine tunes that I wore out on the old turntable lol

    Siiiign of the Gypsy Quee-een...

    Okay RG...

    We've had our times on these forums, but if there was a ever a breakthrough moment that has clinched the deal for us... this is it.

    April Wine is one of my all time favourite bands. My buddies and I grew up listening to these guys with them in the mix alongside Zeppelin, the Stones, the Who, Van Halen, etc.

    I just bought 'Nature of the Beast' on vinyl about a month ago. It is one of the greatest rock records ever made. Before the cds and recorded tapes became a thing... I wore out TWO cassettes where the printing on either side of the cassette could not be read.

    You rock!
    I didn't know they were disrespected and ridiculed as a band until I was an adult.  Somebody requested April Wine on the local rock station and the DJ went off screaming about how they wouldnt play it because it was a "ROCK STATION FOR CRYIN OUT LOUD!!!"

    He then proceeded to play Love Hurts by Nazareth and it occured to me that notions of what is and isn't rock and roll are about as cliquey as a highschool cafeteria.
    Lol

    I don't mind Nazareth (they're okay... they got a few good songs), but April Wine is infinitely greater.

    It's not even close.
    Especially if you're gonna play Love Hurts, which is the weepiest, corniest rock ballad ever.


    Monkey Driven, Call this Living?
  • rgambsrgambs Posts: 13,576
    rgambs said:
    I've always like this Marty Robbins tune
    https://youtu.be/lRh3xyNDav8

    First song my dad learned to play on guitar back in the early 60's!
    That is great!!!! Thx for sharing!!!

    Did you ever learn it?
    I did not lol
    I did learn Mr Bojangles by JJ Walker though, which is the first song I can remember him playing.
    Monkey Driven, Call this Living?
  • rgambsrgambs Posts: 13,576
    Damn I missed this thread. This one was written for a Michelob commercial so it's corny on principle alone. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RY5W2Yfze7M
    There is nothing corny about Steve Winwood! :)
    Good boat music.  All you need is some extra tangy endangered catfish and a wacky waving inflatable flailing arm tube man and you're guaranteed to have a Sunny day.
    Monkey Driven, Call this Living?
  • rgambs said:
    Damn I missed this thread. This one was written for a Michelob commercial so it's corny on principle alone. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RY5W2Yfze7M
    There is nothing corny about Steve Winwood! :)
    Good boat music.  All you need is some extra tangy endangered catfish and a wacky waving inflatable flailing arm tube man and you're guaranteed to have a Sunny day.
    Love it all: Spencer Davis Group, Traffic, Blind Faith, Steve Winwood solo...how do I get on this boat?! ;)
  • rgambs said:
    rgambs said:
    rgambs said:
    There were a few April Wine tunes that I wore out on the old turntable lol

    Siiiign of the Gypsy Quee-een...

    Okay RG...

    We've had our times on these forums, but if there was a ever a breakthrough moment that has clinched the deal for us... this is it.

    April Wine is one of my all time favourite bands. My buddies and I grew up listening to these guys with them in the mix alongside Zeppelin, the Stones, the Who, Van Halen, etc.

    I just bought 'Nature of the Beast' on vinyl about a month ago. It is one of the greatest rock records ever made. Before the cds and recorded tapes became a thing... I wore out TWO cassettes where the printing on either side of the cassette could not be read.

    You rock!
    I didn't know they were disrespected and ridiculed as a band until I was an adult.  Somebody requested April Wine on the local rock station and the DJ went off screaming about how they wouldnt play it because it was a "ROCK STATION FOR CRYIN OUT LOUD!!!"

    He then proceeded to play Love Hurts by Nazareth and it occured to me that notions of what is and isn't rock and roll are about as cliquey as a highschool cafeteria.
    Lol

    I don't mind Nazareth (they're okay... they got a few good songs), but April Wine is infinitely greater.

    It's not even close.
    Especially if you're gonna play Love Hurts, which is the weepiest, corniest rock ballad ever.


    Agreed.

    The selection was an exclamation mark on an idiot moment.
    "My brain's a good brain!"
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