Ditto that. If the cancel culture poster boy knew anything about music he should have known was a popular song Tiptoe Thru the Tulips was first sung by guitarist Nick Lucas in 1929 in the musical Gold Diggers of Broadway and was number one on the charts for ten weeks. It also was in Sinkin' in the Bathtub, the first Looney Tunes cartoon short, in 1930.
We didn't hate songs, we listened and if people didn't care for them we didn't bash them back then. We played the songs we liked and went on with our lives,
Cherish is a song which I still...cherish and I sang it to a girl, mostly when she could not hear me, of course, my singing voice sucks. The sentiment is golden, and I resent it being on this list.
I loved a lot of these songs. Many are classics that are still great today. C'mon Nick, this list is #1 in my Top 10 Most Hated "Do You Remember" Lists.
Nick is just like today's judgmental generation. Snobbish as hell and out of touch with reality. That is why this country is going to hell in a handbasket. Go find out if you are male or female or maybe something that doesn't even exist. No sense of humor either. Some were meant to be humorous. Today's music totally sucks.
You're young, very, very young. Very different times. Honey, it shouldn't be on this list. You 100 percent extremely wrong about what that song is about, just so you understand, it's not about abuse, not even close. It's about the death of a spouse or a loved one. It's sung with a broken heart, looking back on a happier life. I can hear my dad's voice singing that song. He lost the center of his universe, my mom. She was only 39. Much of that song is almost biographical . When the lyrics say, "And Honey, I miss you, and I'm being good, I'd love to be with you, if only I could." Yep, lump in throat time, getting off my high horse. Going to go get drunk and listen to "McArthur's Park" on repeat, with my special Douglas McArthur's sunglasses and his special pipe full of beautiful special happiness.
I loved “Young Girl”, “McArthur Park”, “Honey” and “Cherish”. Because I was a teenager in the 60’s, it was my time if rock n roll! Still listen to 60’s Gold on Sirius Radio. Love it!
@@jerryfarmer5737 And what’s wrong with cherish? It even was covered by David Cassidy. They usually don’t cover songs that aren’t good. It is your individual ears. You probably just like Jimi Hendrix, cream and all those hard rock songs and you don’t consider the soft rock or pop songs because you’re not on cool right you’re a real cool guy. I really don’t care what you have to say
@@stevenrowson4339 What do you expect from a millennial cancel culture that we are surrounded by. Think of it this way if Norman Lear invented Archie bunker and George Jefferson today it would shame the millennials
Putting "Cherish" & "Honey" on this list is wrong. "They're coming to take me away", being a novelty song, seems more appropriate in these crazy ass times than ever before.
OK clearly the people choosing the songs did not live through them at the time. Each was actually very popular for various reasons. I remember every one of them. Yes, som were merely catchy and fun and meant as such. others really did catch the feelings of the love angst of young people, such as Cherish. Tiny Tim became quite an item. easy to look back without having experiencing them and trivialize them. But it’s different laying on the floor in front of a black and white. scratchy TV. Or riding around listening to the radio.
Tiny Tim's popularity was born out of irony because it was largely owed to his appearances on Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In. One had to see him that night on the show, singing that song and standing next to Dick Martin, who was looking around rather uncomfortably as if he would rather have been anywhere else on Earth at that moment, all the while shooting "WTF?" glances at Tim. Had it not been for Laugh-In, that record would likely have died a very rapid death and would never have been heard from again.
I hate these things. Music is so subjective. I hate when people attack songs that are actually happy or positive or even interesting songs. I have such a love of music that I don’t really consider songs that I hate
They're coming to take me away is one of my favorite songs to sing. I do replace words that's in the moment I'm at, like work, & so on, but keeping the chores of the song taking me away to the funny farm. 🤣👍
How old is this guy that made this list? Some of these songs I really like. Cherish is sung beautifully. A few I agree with, but I find Tiny Tim very addictive in a positive way. I learnt how to play Tip Toe Throught the Tulips on my ukulele. I much prefer these songs over Disco, Rap, Hip Hop or New Wave. The 60's were the greatest decade for music.
"Cherish" is an alright song, I'll give you that, but young girl is way too predatory even for R Kelly. Yes, rock and roll stars regularly had sex with 15 year old's but this was way out of line even by rock and roll standards. The girl is called baby, not as a term of affection, but referring to her youth. She is called young girl because he can't remember her name, just like Bill Clinton said that woman before remembering Miss Lewinsky. I was told by a woman that decades after she had been unsuccessfully seduced to allow her brother-in-law at the time to penetrate her, he apologized explaining that, since she was big for her age, he thought she was twelve and did not realize she was only nine. If it was not statutory, it was A OK. This is what I hear in the song Young Girl, the seduction of a nine year old. If you listen to the lyrics, the burden remains on the young girl. Better run girl. One girl, that was old enough to know better, claimed that one of her boyfriends had been 50 when she was 15, and he tried to avoid her, but she pursed him several months till he started going out with her. She is not alone as a too young girl who pursues an older guy. Daddy issues. Predatory men never think they have responsibility or autonomy. Their slogan is if she's big enough to pee she's big enough for me. I actually heard a guy in college say that. If the young girl did not run, and most of the girls hanging around backstage did not run, they would be used and forgotten, no matter how young. Gary Puckett should be glad he didn't wind up in prison. If the song is any indication of his behavior, he deserved it.
@@tomlawhon6515 we had a saying when I was younger. I like them 8 to 80 blind crippled or ceazy. If they can't walk I'll carry them. Of course I was about 10 or 11 at the time. LOL🤣🤣🤣😇
I've heard Young Girl was actually about Puckett's realizing a groupie offering herself up to him was barely starting puberty. As for cherish don't forget David Casssidy re-did it a few years later. Hard to call a 2 time hit cringeworthy
“They’re Coming To Take Me Away”: It was not the loss of the singer’s girlfriend that drove him mad, but the loss of his dog. While writing it, the songwriter recognized the creepiness of blaming it all on the departure of a girlfriend, and changed the ending to have his beloved pet dog running away be the cause of the singer’s madness.
No way! I don’t remember the ending, but interesting to hear. I had a compilation record of song like Caveman and this one. Dr.Drmento radio show played this stiff in the late-70s. Might have just been in Chicago.
@@genghis_connie It’s at the very end of the third verse: the singer threatens the one who has driven him mad with being taken away “to the ASPCA, you mangy mutt!”
I always loved Young Girl. I have it on my phone playlist. I know that it sounds like a weirdo. But I just like a few of their songs. I like Glen Campbell’s version of McArthur Park but I still listen trying to understand it’s meaning.
I don't understand Nick's take on this song. Teen girls get crushes on older guys all the time and in this song he is telling her to run away. That is exactly what should happen.
It doesn't mean anything! Richard Harris, Don Mc Lean, and Freddie Mercury have admitted that McArthur Park, Bohemian Rhapsody, and American Pie was just nonsense poetry, set to music, that happened to sell!
But didn't you hear the creator of this channel? He took all the fun out of it.. what I refer to as the good ole days! Gone but not forgotten. This channel, from this day forward...forgotten, lol
You don’t sound old enough to remember the 60s and re young girl he’s turning her down cause she’s too young perhaps you’re reading stuff into something that is not there. I still listen to young girl and love it Honey another favourite. Slipped and Almost hurt herself haven’t you ever laughed if an acquaintance slipped and nearly fell
Pat Boone had a song for Speedy Gonzalez? I never knew this😂😂They made a Spanish version in Mexico. I don’t think they thought it was racist. My parents were born in Mexico and they never said anything about it. My parents were in their 20’s in the 1960’s
!DAMN DUDE!, U SOUND ABSOLUTELY AMAZED! STUNNED! MESMERIZED, & HYPNOTIZED BEYOND ANY REACTION A MENTALLY STABLE WOULD EXPERIENCE!! GOOOD HEAVENZ, JEEVE'Z! ROBBIE ME BOI...ME THINX YOU'VE GONE QUITE 'BAT'Z! SO...U TRULY BELIEVE, *(in ur delusional, twisted fantasy*world) THAT GARY 'FUCKETT' & THE SEWER RAT'Z' WERE EXCEPTIONALLY TALENTED 'SUPER-STAR' QUALITY MUSICIANS; EH ROBBIE???! SAAAADD ROBBIE...REEEEEEALL SAD ROBBIE! MEDIOCRITY HAS DRIVEN U STARK RAVING INSANE, ME LADDIE! SOOO SAD & SORRY....MY PRAYERZ R WITH U ON THAT PARTICULAR ISSUE...U PROBABLY GET GOOSE-BUMPS & SWOON OUT OVER THE DULL, BORING WHYTE BREAD, DILUTED GARBAGE POSING AS MU-SICK. WHY NOT RENT AN ELEVATOR MONTHLY SO U CAN HEAR THAT NAUSEOUS, FRAUDULENT/FABRICATED TRASH ALL DAY; EVERY DAY....G.D.ED, PERPETUALLY PIPED IN 'PAIN IN THE ARSE'=MUSE-SICK*SICK*SICK!
Gary Puckett and the Union Gap along with the Association were nice Groups. Richard Harris and MacArthur Park was a classic . The music and the songs length were catching ! Comparing these 3 to the other crap was tough lol
Union Gap. 6 straight Gold Records. Gary Puckett still performing at Neighborhood summer fest. I met him two times at my Town Summer fest. Young Girl along with Clare by Gilbert O'sullivan had words that couldn't be released today
Young Girl rocks. Gary Puckett is underrated. I performed Cherish with a boys choir. People loved it. The harmonies are tight. Young people Criticizing the song Honey, is absurd, when songs like Wet Ass Pussy go to #1 now.
All of these songs, hm? That includes Revolution #9, hm? Such a catchy little song, hm? You are either a very confident liar, my friend, or your name is either Munster or Addams. No other option.
I knew all these songs, some more fondly than others. McArthur Park was apparently written as a bet to see if Richard Harris could write a song from a random set of words. There were so many cover versions that he must have done something right.
Cartoon Network got woke and made an announcement ( 10 years ago ?) that they where going to pull the Speedy cartoons due to being offensive. The Latino community let them know that they love the character. Just like today…it’s mostly uptight white liberals are the only ones pretending to offended for virtue signaling purposes
I was a little kid and Yummy Yummy, was something kids like me liked to dance to, but never bothered to understand the lyrics. As an eighteen year old art student, I liked Revolution Number Nine, because it's an Avant Garde piece, based on Dada principals, but definitely not everyone's cup of tea. Better songs called Cherish, Madonna's song and Cool And The Gang's song, one about cherishing love from others and one about cherishing moments with your lover. Don't care I like McArthur Park, because it's so weird, a lot of kids did, but I suspect adults didn't, although to be fair it was a hit again when covered by Donna Summer.
The late Tiny Tim follow up was a remake of the late Jerry Lee Lewis "Great Balls Of Fire" in 1969. The Ohio Express "Sausalito (Is The Place To Go)" in the Summer of 1969 is their best song minus lead singer Joey Levine (replaced by Graham Gouldman, later of 10cc) which reminds me of KISS "Firehouse" at the beginning of the song (from their 1974 debut)!! The Beatles "You Know My Name (Look Up The Number)" Mono 1970 flip 45 single of "Let It Be" was also weird!! At the 2:03 mark, that was the picture of The 1910 Fruitgum Co. NOT Ohio Express!!
I once heard Tiny sing "There are Fairies in the Bottom of my Garden," with the original intro. It was on The Wil Shriner Show on "redhead day." I can't find it on line. It's worth hearing.
Nostalgia Nick: I think that you need to get off of the drugs that you are obviously on, lighten up, and realize that, good or bad, these songs, with the exception of Speedy Gonzalez, were what we listened to, and mostly enjoyed, in the sixties Don't forget, some of THE BEST MUSIC came out of this decade 😮!
Both Gary Puckett and Sting did Lolita-esque songs. Nabakov's book was a hit back in the day, and the songs just followed that trend. But yes, it would be frowned upon today.
He lost me when it became clear he thought his reviews were more important than playing the music and letting us react down here in the comments. He talks about getting sick of "Yummy, Yummy, Yummy," which I remember as a dumb bubble gum rock song, after listening to 30 seconds of it, but do we ever hear 30 seconds of it? If you were born in 1990, you wouldn't have the slightest idea what he was talking about. Maybe the presentation gets better, but as it very well might not, I'm outta here.
@@elultimo102 Speedy was a cover too-----David Dante had it out on RCA in 1961-- pat was in the Philippines on tour when he heard and thought it would good to cover-- the only time where Pat Boone's cover was better than the original
Music appeal tends to be subjective. What one person likes is not necessarily loved by another. In the case of this video, the youthfulness of the narrator's voice, whether actual or generated, sounds way too young to have been around to have experienced first-hand and in real time.
One of the funniest covers of Yummy Yummy Yummy was done by Julie London on her very last album! Just not her typical kind of song at all! I teased a couple of my nieces that were picking me up from the Oakland CA MacArthur BART station just to see if they would get it by a deadpan comment about how there had been a problem there because someone had "left a cake out in the rain! They actually got the joke! Haha!
Ii don't remember a lot of these songs due to my age (born in 1961) but Honey is one of my favourite songs. Although it wasn't until recently that I found out that it was, indeed, written about depression and suicide
Not according to the content creator...We can't have fun anymore, we can't laugh at, or about anything anymore, even in good taste... We can't laugh at ourselves, each other, while honouring and celebrating our differences all at the same time...and all the while enjoying and loving one another! Nope, can't happen...NO MORE HUMOUR!!! Then tell me why the world is more messed up than ever before?! I'll say this...Seems like the majority of people these days have a bunch of sticks stuck up their *ss*s!!!
I grew up in San Antonio where there was a large Mexican (the preferred and accepted term back then) population and I can assure you that Speedy Gonzales and Slowpoke Rodriguez were beloved characters among them, among all. No one was “offended”. What was there to be offended by? Speedy Gonzales was quick and witty, always ahead of the game, so to speak.
I totally disagree with about 95% of this list. I was around to actually listen to the songs, at the time they were released. You have to put them in context with the time they came out. It was a much more innocent age. These were just fun, silly songs, and some of them were personal favorites of mine.
You might be surprised at the number of men and women alike who are about my age (am presently 75) still like and still listen to Gary Puckett---"GP" as his fans call him. Puckett's voice was and still is (as of a year or two ago) one of the best vocalists I've ever heard. Gary Puckett still performs. Andy McKane, Molokai, Hawaii.
"Yummy Yummy Yummy" was my favorite song when I was 7. Later on in middle school, we used to sing "Dummy Dummy Dummy you've got life in your tummy" (courtesy of Mad Magazine).
Young Girl was written in response to the European Groupies that dressed and acted like adults when they hung around the bands; but were in truth, children in disguise. Or, so I have heard. This Song was very big in Europe.
You're critiquing these songs in 2023. Back in the 60s, they made sense to the generation of Boomers who were children when their mothers played WWII hits on their record players and who learned folk and patriotic songs in elementary school. We had classmates who died of cancer before they could drive. We had a POTUS, a civil rights leader, and a POTUS's brother assassinated on camera and played nonstop for days while a non-declared war was beginning to pull our brothers, cousins, and young uncles to their deaths in rice paddies. It was a time of experimentation in music that continues today. By the way, "Tiny Tim" wasn't taken seriously. Johnny Carson took a liking to him. His wife, "MissVicky", allegedly ended up on welfare. Before laughing at him, though, consider this: his ukulele playing may well have inspired or fathered Britain's Ukulele Orchestra. They are quite talented.
@@janach1305 Back then, POTUS and other acronyms weren't the norms of truncated speech made popular by Twitter, TH-cam, etc. And I'll use them if I so choose. What you do is your business. I don't care one way or another!!
@@onemercilessming1342 You can use it as much as you want, and I can dislike it as much as I want. I have just as much freedom as you do in this matter. 🥸
Good list..Me and my sister and our friends loved The Beatles when we were kids in the 60s. When they broke up it ruined our lives for many years, Anyway.We got The Beatles White Album with Revolution #9 on it in 1968 when it first came out. We were like 12 years old.. We loved the song (If you could call it a song). It was futuristik and way ahead of it's time. We used to recite all the parts as it was playing. We had it memorized.. It was best thru stereo headphones, or full blast on the stereo. When we were about 15/16 in the early 70s, and were finally old enough to try psychedelics, we listened to it and we got our minds blown.. It was unbelievable.. Like a Thermo Nulcear Explosion. I still listen to it to this day. We always turned younger people on to it over the decades..They love it. frankny66yroldwhitekid rockfan... PS Teenybopper Beatle fans at the time didn't get it..They just didn't understand. I wonder if they ever will?
Cherish (Association), and Honey (Boby Goldsboro) - Macarthur Park introduced to the 198 0's by Donna Summer - three of my cherished memories of youth.
I've never heard of that Beatles thing and Speedy Gonzolas. But the rest of them wasn't so bad. And Tip Toe Through the Tulips was just funny. I listen or watch Tiny Tim sing it I laugh so hard I cry. Just my opinion. Have a great weekend everyone
Yummy, Yummy, Yummy by Ohio Express Young Girl by Gary Puckett & The Union Gap Cherish by The Association Speedy Gonzalez by Pat Boone Honey by Bobby Goldsboro They're Coming To Take Me Away Ha-Haaa by Napoleon XIV They're all on my all-time favourites list. Ironically when I used to DJ online back in 2016, They're Coming To Take Me Away was one of the most requested songs when I was on the air. LOL BTW, he's singing about a dog that ran away, not a lover that left him.
Donna Summers and Waylon Jennings each had a great recording of MacArthur Park. I once forgot to put my truck in park on lovers lane. And, rolled down a bank into the woods. A sign of things to come for my love life.😢
As an avid cake baker and decorator I resent your hatred of MacArthur park LOL I truly can almost (well it is silly i guess but cmon) relate to the deep sadness of that cake being destroyed and compare it to love dying. Haha Lighten up it's a cool song imo and I love Donna Summers rendition of it.
I was a teenager in the 60's. I love all of these songs. You are so totally wrong on this post. We were just all young and carefree. Great music. We didn't see ridiculous vulgarity in our music.
McArthur Park was so bad that it was covered later by Frank Sinatra, Glen Campbell, Donna Summer, and many others. Summer had a #1 hit with it. It was written by Jimmy Web who is very well known by people who actually know something about music vs just posting monetized TH-cam videos. The song is based on a very personal life experience of Webb's peppered with surrealism. Very imaginative and creative, actually, for those who enjoy this aspect of the art.
I always wondered about the lyrics to “Young Girl” too, as well as “Honey” when I got older. Yeah, why DID he laugh at her? “Macarthur Park” is just a fun song to make fun of, and at least the instrumental part was good. To this day my spouse and I will use the “ooh nooooo!” As a sort of sarcastic over reaction when some thing gets misplaced. I definitely agree with what you said about the “Yummy yummy yummy” song though I confess I always kind of liked “Cherish.” I always associated “Coming to take me Away” with the Dr Dimento show, which I thought was entertaining. And thanks for your entertaining video as well!
I love the song "they are coming to take me away" as it is a great song about his dog running away and how he has lost it over losing this mangy mutt , NOTHING to do with a lover
The Beatles' "Revolution #9"!! I disliked that thing from the first; and then I got sick... (some sort of flu. High fever... the whole smear!) Guess which song(?) kept going through my mind... You guessed it "Revolution #9"! I've absolutely abhorred that merciless, grind of cacophonous chaos ever since. My first instinct, when I saw the title come up, was to turn the video off. I'm glad you didn't play more of it than you did. I do enjoy your videos though.
If these songs were so hated, why did most of them sell millions of copies and were high in the charts? Sounds like one person's opinion. By the way, if you don't like "They're coming to take me away, ha-ha" played normally, listen to the flip side where it is played backwards. No one can resist that one.
Hey, I just happen to be a Baby Boomer who grew up in the 1960s & 70s, and I definitely remember each and everyone of these songs from this list, In fact, I have always loved these Songs. They have always been some of my favorite Songs, from that Era of Music. I have always thought they were cute, funny, witty and originals Songs and I don't hate any of them.
I actually like 'Cherish' and Donna Summer's version of 'MacArthur Park' is 100x better then Richard Harris version. And finally Tiny Tim's 'Tip Toe Through the Tulips' makes me want to bang my head on a brick wall.
The highlight of "Speedy Gonzales," today as way back then, is hearing Mel Blanc's spoken remarks in his Speedy voice. Had it not been for Mel's participation in that recording, it would have been a flop.
DO YOU LIKE ANY OF THESE SONGS? 🤔
Yep - all of 'em! 😄
Yes
Pretty much hated them all.
NO.
Yes, my teenage years.
Even the worst of the 60s is better than the best crap today!
Spot on
Yup.I'll take Tiny Tim over Ed Sheeran any time.
Flushing the toilet sounds better than rapcrap
Ditto that. If the cancel culture poster boy knew anything about music he should have known was a popular song Tiptoe Thru the Tulips was first sung by guitarist Nick Lucas in 1929 in the musical Gold Diggers of Broadway and was number one on the charts for ten weeks. It also was in Sinkin' in the Bathtub, the first Looney Tunes cartoon short, in 1930.
I'd rather go to the pound and listen to dogs bark.
I'D RATHER LISTEN TO THE MUSIC OF THE 60S THAN THE SHIT WE HAVE NOW....
Very true today's music is pure shit.
yeah...late 60's, 70's 80's and a bit of the 90's is when music was best. Hopefully one day rap dies and people start making actual music again.
@@RandysRides I second that. We don't need a rap interlude in the middle of every song made now.
Today's music is not music! Thanks to autotune!
Yep.
"Tiptoe through the tulips" and "They're coming to take me away" are both popular staples on the Dr Demento show ‼️😂🤣
And Napolean XIV just passed away a few weeks ago.
I loved the Dr. Demento show. 😂
@@colleenkeefer2545 I've loved ❤️ it for decades, but I can't seem to be able to find it anywhere anymore. 😔
Not my favorite but they sure were funny.
@@jameshorton7496 This is the first time that I have heard about it, but we can still remember him via the internet.
We didn't hate songs, we listened and if people didn't care for them we didn't bash them back then. We played the songs we liked and went on with our lives,
Cherish is a song which I still...cherish and I sang it to a girl, mostly when she could not hear me, of course, my singing voice sucks. The sentiment is golden, and I resent it being on this list.
Me, too.
This guy has never been in love.
Loved this song.
I can identify. I sang it to my girlfriend (now wife) at an Association concert, singing along with the band. But she married me anyway!
Loved Cherish…
I loved a lot of these songs. Many are classics that are still great today. C'mon Nick, this list is #1 in my Top 10 Most Hated "Do You Remember" Lists.
I agree, this list just seems to looking for fault where none exists. Nick, shame on you.
Music is subjective, but this list is snobbish.
I loved these songs and still do. None of these songs are hated by me.
@@ricahaurymn exactly , stupid snide remarks
Nick is just like today's judgmental generation. Snobbish as hell and out of touch with reality. That is why this country is going to hell in a handbasket. Go find out if you are male or female or maybe something that doesn't even exist. No sense of humor either. Some were meant to be humorous. Today's music totally sucks.
You're young, very, very young. Very different times. Honey, it shouldn't be on this list. You 100 percent extremely wrong about what that song is about, just so you understand, it's not about abuse, not even close. It's about the death of a spouse or a loved one. It's sung with a broken heart, looking back on a happier life. I can hear my dad's voice singing that song. He lost the center of his universe, my mom. She was only 39. Much of that song is almost biographical . When the lyrics say, "And Honey, I miss you, and I'm being good, I'd love to be with you, if only I could." Yep, lump in throat time, getting off my high horse. Going to go get drunk and listen to "McArthur's Park" on repeat, with my special Douglas McArthur's sunglasses and his special pipe full of beautiful special happiness.
And it's a terrible, horrible song. Can it whine anymore??
I loved “Young Girl”, “McArthur Park”, “Honey” and “Cherish”. Because I was a teenager in the 60’s, it was my time if rock n roll! Still listen to 60’s Gold on Sirius Radio. Love it!
Can't believe you had Cherish on your list .
@@jerryfarmer5737 And what’s wrong with cherish? It even was covered by David Cassidy. They usually don’t cover songs that aren’t good. It is your individual ears. You probably just like Jimi Hendrix, cream and all those hard rock songs and you don’t consider the soft rock or pop songs because you’re not on cool right you’re a real cool guy. I really don’t care what you have to say
@@jerryfarmer5737
Nostalgic Nick is a typical millennial....
He's an idiot to have classics as Macarthur's Park, Cherish and Honey as hated songs.
I think that you had to be there to appreciate these songs, although Pat Boone, for me never. Sorry Boone fans. Tiny Tim was so out he was in.
@@stevenrowson4339
What do you expect from a millennial cancel culture that we are surrounded by.
Think of it this way if Norman Lear invented Archie bunker and George Jefferson today it would shame the millennials
Putting "Cherish" & "Honey" on this list is wrong. "They're coming to take me away", being a novelty song, seems more appropriate in these crazy ass times than ever before.
Man are you dead wrong about this one! I STILL love almost all of them!
Agreed. Looks like this guy doesn’t have anything else to do.
@@marlahart2060 I agree with you both!
OK clearly the people choosing the songs did not live through them at the time. Each was actually very popular for various reasons. I remember every one of them. Yes, som were merely catchy and fun and meant as such. others really did catch the feelings of the love angst of young people, such as Cherish. Tiny Tim became quite an item. easy to look back without having experiencing them and trivialize them. But it’s different laying on the floor in front of a black and white. scratchy TV. Or riding around listening to the radio.
Tiny Tim's popularity was born out of irony because it was largely owed to his appearances on Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In. One had to see him that night on the show, singing that song and standing next to Dick Martin, who was looking around rather uncomfortably as if he would rather have been anywhere else on Earth at that moment, all the while shooting "WTF?" glances at Tim. Had it not been for Laugh-In, that record would likely have died a very rapid death and would never have been heard from again.
"Honey" is not a creepy song. It's just a sad song.
And I love it. One of 68s top songs.
It sux
Maybe she didn't die but joined a motorcycle gang
I hate these things. Music is so subjective. I hate when people attack songs that are actually happy or positive or even interesting songs. I have such a love of music that I don’t really consider songs that I hate
Totally agree. Not only have my tastes changed (music I once liked not so much now and vice versa) but tolerate most music that isn't my type
I love watching Dick Martin poke fun at Tiny Tim’s singing on Laugh In.
They're coming to take me away is one of my favorite songs to sing. I do replace words that's in the moment I'm at, like work, & so on, but keeping the chores of the song taking me away to the funny farm. 🤣👍
Omg I loved this on Dr demento
I used to sing it to myself when a machine I had to operate at that time broke down.
@@johncasper8031 🤣👍
I remember Cherish by The Association in 66’ A great song with a great melody
I liked several of these songs. Cherish is excellent. So there.
How old is this guy that made this list? Some of these songs I really like. Cherish is sung beautifully. A few I agree with, but I find Tiny Tim very addictive in a positive way. I learnt how to play Tip Toe Throught the Tulips on my ukulele. I much prefer these songs over Disco, Rap, Hip Hop or New Wave. The 60's were the greatest decade for music.
The narrator sounds like he hasn't reached puberty...
This instantly tops my list of hated TH-cam channels.
I like Cherish and couple of others on your list. If you had lost a spouse like I have you would find Honey comforting
Nothing wrong with Cherish and Young Girl
I agree.
Professor of Rock did a good interview with Gary Puckett, and they discussed how this song is mis-characterized as something it's not.
"Cherish" is an alright song, I'll give you that, but young girl is way too predatory even for R Kelly. Yes, rock and roll stars regularly had sex with 15 year old's but this was way out of line even by rock and roll standards. The girl is called baby, not as a term of affection, but referring to her youth. She is called young girl because he can't remember her name, just like Bill Clinton said that woman before remembering Miss Lewinsky. I was told by a woman that decades after she had been unsuccessfully seduced to allow her brother-in-law at the time to penetrate her, he apologized explaining that, since she was big for her age, he thought she was twelve and did not realize she was only nine. If it was not statutory, it was A OK. This is what I hear in the song Young Girl, the seduction of a nine year old.
If you listen to the lyrics, the burden remains on the young girl. Better run girl. One girl, that was old enough to know better, claimed that one of her boyfriends had been 50 when she was 15, and he tried to avoid her, but she pursed him several months till he started going out with her. She is not alone as a too young girl who pursues an older guy. Daddy issues.
Predatory men never think they have responsibility or autonomy. Their slogan is if she's big enough to pee she's big enough for me. I actually heard a guy in college say that. If the young girl did not run, and most of the girls hanging around backstage did not run, they would be used and forgotten, no matter how young. Gary Puckett should be glad he didn't wind up in prison. If the song is any indication of his behavior, he deserved it.
@@tomlawhon6515 we had a saying when I was younger. I like them 8 to 80 blind crippled or ceazy. If they can't walk I'll carry them. Of course I was about 10 or 11 at the time. LOL🤣🤣🤣😇
I've heard Young Girl was actually about Puckett's realizing a groupie offering herself up to him was barely starting puberty. As for cherish don't forget David Casssidy re-did it a few years later. Hard to call a 2 time hit cringeworthy
Speedy was never racist. Grow up
I agree!
“They’re Coming To Take Me Away”: It was not the loss of the singer’s girlfriend that drove him mad, but the loss of his dog.
While writing it, the songwriter recognized the creepiness of blaming it all on the departure of a girlfriend, and changed the ending to have his beloved pet dog running away be the cause of the singer’s madness.
No way! I don’t remember the ending, but interesting to hear.
I had a compilation record of song like Caveman and this one.
Dr.Drmento radio show played this stiff in the late-70s.
Might have just been in Chicago.
@@genghis_connie It’s at the very end of the third verse: the singer threatens the one who has driven him mad with being taken away “to the ASPCA, you mangy mutt!”
@@janach1305 Oh, yeah! That’s funny bc the words spark my memory, but I was too young to know what the ASPCA was. Lol
Thanks!
I used to think that the narrator was ranting over the loss of his girlfriend. I never realized that he was going crazy at his dog running away!
Or it could possibly be that he's just calling his ex-girlfriend a mangy mutt because he's mad at her.
I always loved Young Girl. I have it on my phone playlist. I know that it sounds like a weirdo. But I just like a few of their songs. I like Glen Campbell’s version of McArthur Park but I still listen trying to understand it’s meaning.
I don't understand Nick's take on this song. Teen girls get crushes on older guys all the time and in this song he is telling her to run away. That is exactly what should happen.
It doesn't mean anything! Richard Harris, Don Mc Lean, and Freddie Mercury have admitted that McArthur Park, Bohemian Rhapsody, and American Pie was just nonsense poetry, set to music, that happened to sell!
He's telling the girl to go away she's too young!
LMAO All those songs take you back to good times. 🥴
But didn't you hear the creator of this channel? He took all the fun out of it.. what I refer to as the good ole days! Gone but not forgotten. This channel, from this day forward...forgotten, lol
I found this channel recently, and realized I had subscribed some time ago. I couldn't remember why I unsubscribed. Now I do.
Me too!
You don’t sound old enough to remember the 60s and re young girl he’s turning her down cause she’s too young perhaps you’re reading stuff into something that is not there. I still listen to young girl and love it Honey another favourite. Slipped and Almost hurt herself haven’t you ever laughed if an acquaintance slipped and nearly fell
Pat Boone had a song for Speedy Gonzalez? I never knew this😂😂They made a Spanish version in Mexico. I don’t think they thought it was racist. My parents were born in Mexico and they never said anything about it. My parents were in their 20’s in the 1960’s
Exactamente! ¿Por qué los blancos que están "despertados" buscan odio e intolerancia en todas partes? 😢
Woke.
It is pretty cringe in retrospect.
@@stephenhess9680Woke has nothing to do with it. Why do you people always blert ot the term woke?
Should probably ask a Mexican if Speedy Gonzalez (the character) is racist. He is like a national treasure in the country.
Yep, they like him because he's quick, resourceful and rather clever. Slowpoke Rodriguez, is not quite as loved....😉, but weirdly, not outright hated!
Absolutely correct.
@@mexicanspec Who, me, Smokey or both of us?
@@robertwilloughby8050 Both
@@mexicanspec Thank you.
Young Girl was an amazing song. It speaks the truth, especially today.
Creepy Joe and his granddaughter., that doesn't want him to get to close.
Maybe the original was less creepy guy was 30 and woman 25.
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Gary Puckett and the Union Gap along with the Association were nice Groups. Richard Harris and MacArthur Park was a classic . The music and the songs length were catching ! Comparing these 3 to the other crap was tough lol
Union Gap. 6 straight Gold Records. Gary Puckett still performing at Neighborhood summer fest. I met him two times at my Town Summer fest. Young Girl along with Clare by Gilbert O'sullivan had words that couldn't be released today
Macarthur's park love Robert Goulet version
We dated older man and most married older men back 60,70,and 80s love Gary Puckett and loved the way he looked
Young Girl rocks. Gary Puckett is underrated. I performed Cherish with a boys choir. People loved it. The harmonies are tight. Young people Criticizing the song Honey, is absurd, when songs like Wet Ass Pussy go to #1 now.
Many older men have had a young (er) girl desire them, taking those girls up on the sentiment is an entirely different act.
All of these songs were favorites of mine, none of them were hated by me or my family.
All of these songs, hm? That includes Revolution #9, hm? Such a catchy little song, hm? You are either a very confident liar, my friend, or your name is either Munster or Addams. No other option.
@@finneogan or I actually enjoy the wierd stuff, like my other family members.
I knew all these songs, some more fondly than others. McArthur Park was apparently written as a bet to see if Richard Harris could write a song from a random set of words. There were so many cover versions that he must have done something right.
richard harris did not write mcarthur park or any other song. the whole album was written by jimmy webb. webb wrote a lot of hits back then.
Even in the '60s, McArthur Park was and is still seen as the worst song ever written. I was never crazy about American Pie either.
I remember Puff the Magic Dragon and never looked back! 🐉 ❤
I have heard that "Speedy Gonzales" is popular in Mexico.
Yet this idiot calls it "racist"
Speedy Gonzalez is a hero to the Mexican people.
Cartoon Network got woke and made an announcement ( 10 years ago ?) that they where going to pull the Speedy cartoons due to being offensive. The Latino community let them know that they love the character. Just like today…it’s mostly uptight white liberals are the only ones pretending to offended for virtue signaling purposes
I was a little kid and Yummy Yummy, was something kids like me liked to dance to, but never bothered to understand the lyrics.
As an eighteen year old art student, I liked Revolution Number Nine, because it's an Avant Garde piece, based on Dada principals, but definitely not everyone's cup of tea.
Better songs called Cherish, Madonna's song and Cool And The Gang's song, one about cherishing love from others and one about cherishing moments with your lover.
Don't care I like McArthur Park, because it's so weird, a lot of kids did, but I suspect adults didn't, although to be fair it was a hit again when covered by Donna Summer.
The late Tiny Tim follow up was a remake of the late Jerry Lee Lewis "Great Balls Of Fire" in 1969. The Ohio Express "Sausalito (Is The Place To Go)" in the Summer of 1969 is their best song minus lead singer Joey Levine (replaced by Graham Gouldman, later of 10cc) which reminds me of KISS "Firehouse" at the beginning of the song (from their 1974 debut)!! The Beatles "You Know My Name (Look Up The Number)" Mono 1970 flip 45 single of "Let It Be" was also weird!! At the 2:03 mark, that was the picture of The 1910 Fruitgum Co. NOT Ohio Express!!
When Tiny Tim didn't sing in falsetto, he had a warm charming baritone voice. And he did use his natural voice in some recordings.
I once heard Tiny sing "There are Fairies in the Bottom of my Garden," with the original intro. It was on The Wil Shriner Show on "redhead day." I can't find it on line. It's worth hearing.
Nostalgia Nick: I think that you need to get off of the drugs that you are obviously on, lighten up, and realize that, good or bad, these songs, with the exception of Speedy Gonzalez, were what we listened to, and mostly enjoyed, in the sixties Don't forget, some of THE BEST MUSIC came out of this decade 😮!
Cherish was so incredibly popular for a prom theme I can't see a team in this list
Cherish is a favorite song of mine. You’re all wet on that one.
I personally love Tip Toe Thru the Tulips. Tiny Tim and his ukulele were such a unique part of the 60s.
Tiny Tim's voice had an incredible range - he was a genius.
He appeared on Rowan and Martin Laugh In Sock It To Me back then
Tiny Tim was a seriously misunderstood man who suffered terribly in life as a result. May he RIP.
Yep. Before my time but saw it on YT a number of times. Like a car accident, once it starts can't stop watching.
Jodie--You might be interested in the UK's Ukelele Orchestra. They're on TH-cam. They are serious musicians.
Both Gary Puckett and Sting did Lolita-esque songs. Nabakov's book was a hit back in the day, and the songs just followed that trend. But yes, it would be frowned upon today.
"Dead Man's Curve" Back then, I didn't pay attention to words. Was it fun and could you dance to it, was all that mattered. lol
You lost me when you went woke over Pat Boone 😂
I know right! lol
Speedy was OK, but Pat's covers of Little Richard were awful.
He lost me when it became clear he thought his reviews were more important than playing the music and letting us react down here in the comments. He talks about getting sick of "Yummy, Yummy, Yummy," which I remember as a dumb bubble gum rock song, after listening to 30 seconds of it, but do we ever hear 30 seconds of it? If you were born in 1990, you wouldn't have the slightest idea what he was talking about. Maybe the presentation gets better, but as it very well might not, I'm outta here.
yeah I'm done with his wokeness too, keep it in politics nick,not in music.
@@elultimo102 Speedy was a cover too-----David Dante had it out on RCA in 1961-- pat was in the Philippines on tour when he heard and thought it would good to cover-- the only time where Pat Boone's cover was better than the original
I guess you had to be alive at the time to appreciate these songs. I was and I did.
I love most of these songs. I didn't find them offensive in the 60s.
Music appeal tends to be subjective. What one person likes is not necessarily loved by another. In the case of this video, the youthfulness of the narrator's voice, whether actual or generated, sounds way too young to have been around to have experienced first-hand and in real time.
young girl was a classic but yes it would not get played today. honey i did like that song but the rest id give a miss great vid
One of the funniest covers of Yummy Yummy Yummy was done by Julie London on her very last album! Just not her typical kind of song at all! I teased a couple of my nieces that were picking me up from the Oakland CA MacArthur BART station just to see if they would get it by a deadpan comment about how there had been a problem there because someone had "left a cake out in the rain! They actually got the joke! Haha!
alot of these songs were classic hits! I say it again hits!
Ii don't remember a lot of these songs due to my age (born in 1961) but Honey is one of my favourite songs. Although it wasn't until recently that I found out that it was, indeed, written about depression and suicide
Speedy Gonzales was Hilarious. We need more songs like that today. Not that Rap Crap!
Boomer
But, but, the racism, oh the racism. I can't bear another minute of the racism!
Not according to the content creator...We can't have fun anymore, we can't laugh at, or about anything anymore, even in good taste... We can't laugh at ourselves, each other, while honouring and celebrating our differences all at the same time...and all the while enjoying and loving one another! Nope, can't happen...NO MORE HUMOUR!!! Then tell me why the world is more messed up than ever before?! I'll say this...Seems like the majority of people these days have a bunch of sticks stuck up their *ss*s!!!
When I was a kid a neighbour of mine had Speedy Gonzalez and I thought it was an awesome song ... we played the crap outta that record.
I grew up in San Antonio where there was a large Mexican (the preferred and accepted term back then) population and I can assure you that Speedy Gonzales and Slowpoke Rodriguez were beloved characters among them, among all. No one was “offended”. What was there to be offended by? Speedy Gonzales was quick and witty, always ahead of the game, so to speak.
I totally disagree with about 95% of this list. I was around to actually listen to the songs, at the time they were released. You have to put them in context with the time they came out. It was a much more innocent age. These were just fun, silly songs, and some of them were personal favorites of mine.
Don't agree with this kid is saying, loved these songs. Class of 1973
You might be surprised at the number of men and women alike who are about my age (am presently 75) still like and still listen to Gary Puckett---"GP" as his fans call him. Puckett's voice was and still is (as of a year or two ago) one of the best vocalists I've ever heard. Gary Puckett still performs. Andy McKane, Molokai, Hawaii.
They're coming to take me away is my theme song!
I really like 60s songs 🎵 so much better than some of today's bs songs of s3x and darkness
"Yummy Yummy Yummy" was my favorite song when I was 7. Later on in middle school, we used to sing "Dummy Dummy Dummy you've got life in your tummy" (courtesy of Mad Magazine).
That would make a good "pro-life" song.
When I saw Tiny Tim my first thought was Jerry Seinfeld looks like him.
I remember most of these songs pretty well.
Young Girl was written in response to the European Groupies that dressed and acted like adults when they hung around the bands; but were in truth, children in disguise. Or, so I have heard. This Song was very big in Europe.
You're critiquing these songs in 2023. Back in the 60s, they made sense to the generation of Boomers who were children when their mothers played WWII hits on their record players and who learned folk and patriotic songs in elementary school. We had classmates who died of cancer before they could drive. We had a POTUS, a civil rights leader, and a POTUS's brother assassinated on camera and played nonstop for days while a non-declared war was beginning to pull our brothers, cousins, and young uncles to their deaths in rice paddies. It was a time of experimentation in music that continues today. By the way, "Tiny Tim" wasn't taken seriously. Johnny Carson took a liking to him. His wife, "MissVicky", allegedly ended up on welfare. Before laughing at him, though, consider this: his ukulele playing may well have inspired or fathered Britain's Ukulele Orchestra. They are quite talented.
And back then we did not call the President of the United States by that ugly acronym POTUS.
@@janach1305 Back then, POTUS and other acronyms weren't the norms of truncated speech made popular by Twitter, TH-cam, etc. And I'll use them if I so choose. What you do is your business. I don't care one way or another!!
@@janach1305 POTUS, FLOTUS, V-POTUS, SCOTUS...
@@onemercilessming1342 You can use it as much as you want, and I can dislike it as much as I want. I have just as much freedom as you do in this matter. 🥸
@@onemercilessming1342 Yep, they’re all ugly. 🥸
Good list..Me and my sister and our friends loved The Beatles when we were kids in the 60s. When they broke up it ruined our lives for many years, Anyway.We got The Beatles White Album with Revolution #9 on it in 1968 when it first came out. We were like 12 years old.. We loved the song (If you could call it a song). It was futuristik and way ahead of it's time. We used to recite all the parts as it was playing. We had it memorized.. It was best thru stereo headphones, or full blast on the stereo. When we were about 15/16 in the early 70s, and were finally old enough to try psychedelics, we listened to it and we got our minds blown.. It was unbelievable.. Like a Thermo Nulcear Explosion. I still listen to it to this day. We always turned younger people on to it over the decades..They love it. frankny66yroldwhitekid rockfan... PS Teenybopper Beatle fans at the time didn't get it..They just didn't understand. I wonder if they ever will?
I like to sing “Tiptoe thru the Tulips” whenever I come across a ukulele and fake tulips at my work ~ (I work at a thrift store)😂😂😁
I'm starting to think nostalgic nick needs a nostalgic smack on the head because I was rocking out to all of these songs
I was there in the 1960s. For the most part you are full of mud. These songs still make me feel good because I had a great childhood.
I was born in the early 60s and grew up listening to these songs had older siblings who played them on the record player😊
I'm like yummy yummy yummy just because you hate it doesn't mean everybody hated it
The record Honey was extremely popular and tastefully done of a sad situation.. Never knew it was on this hated list
I love almost all of these songs.
Cherish (Association), and Honey (Boby Goldsboro) - Macarthur Park introduced to the 198
0's by Donna Summer - three of my cherished memories of youth.
I've never heard of that Beatles thing and Speedy Gonzolas. But the rest of them wasn't so bad. And Tip Toe Through the Tulips was just funny. I listen or watch Tiny Tim sing it I laugh so hard I cry. Just my opinion. Have a great weekend everyone
I really liked cherish and young girl.
honey was crying every day because she found out she was going to die. jeez
Yummy, Yummy, Yummy by Ohio Express
Young Girl by Gary Puckett & The Union Gap
Cherish by The Association
Speedy Gonzalez by Pat Boone
Honey by Bobby Goldsboro
They're Coming To Take Me Away Ha-Haaa by Napoleon XIV
They're all on my all-time favourites list. Ironically when I used to DJ online back in 2016, They're Coming To Take Me Away was one of the most requested songs when I was on the air. LOL BTW, he's singing about a dog that ran away, not a lover that left him.
Everytime Tip Toe Through the Tulips came on the radio I couldn't change the channel fast enough.
Honey is one of the most beautiful and poignant songs of all time particularly if you have buried a wife. I have buried two.
Most were good songs
For the most part... there is absolutely nothing wrong with these songs.
Donna Summers and Waylon Jennings each had a great recording of MacArthur Park. I once forgot to put my truck in park on lovers lane. And, rolled down a bank into the woods. A sign of things to come for my love life.😢
As an avid cake baker and decorator I resent your hatred of MacArthur park LOL I truly can almost (well it is silly i guess but cmon) relate to the deep sadness of that cake being destroyed and compare it to love dying. Haha Lighten up it's a cool song imo and I love Donna Summers rendition of it.
No, now the songs they prefer are about sexual assault, murder and drugs. 😡
I was a teenager in the 60's. I love all of these songs. You are so totally wrong on this post. We were just all young and carefree. Great music. We didn't see ridiculous vulgarity in our music.
McArthur Park was so bad that it was covered later by Frank Sinatra, Glen Campbell, Donna Summer, and many others. Summer had a #1 hit with it. It was written by Jimmy Web who is very well known by people who actually know something about music vs just posting monetized TH-cam videos. The song is based on a very personal life experience of Webb's peppered with surrealism. Very imaginative and creative, actually, for those who enjoy this aspect of the art.
I always wondered about the lyrics to “Young Girl” too, as well as “Honey” when I got older. Yeah, why DID he laugh at her? “Macarthur Park” is just a fun song to make fun of, and at least the instrumental part was good. To this day my spouse and I will use the “ooh nooooo!” As a sort of sarcastic over reaction when some thing gets misplaced. I definitely agree with what you said about the “Yummy yummy yummy” song though I confess I always kind of liked “Cherish.” I always associated “Coming to take me Away” with the Dr Dimento show, which I thought was entertaining. And thanks for your entertaining video as well!
You never giggled at someone making a goof?
I love the song "they are coming to take me away" as it is a great song about his dog running away and how he has lost it over losing this mangy mutt , NOTHING to do with a lover
Some Great songs! Honey was touching. I CHERISHED cherish, and I only see 8 songs, so who stinks??
The Beatles' "Revolution #9"!! I disliked that thing from the first; and then I got sick... (some sort of flu. High fever... the whole smear!) Guess which song(?) kept going through my mind... You guessed it "Revolution #9"! I've absolutely abhorred that merciless, grind of cacophonous chaos ever since.
My first instinct, when I saw the title come up, was to turn the video off.
I'm glad you didn't play more of it than you did.
I do enjoy your videos though.
the Jimi Hendrix tune was Hey *JOE* not jude (that was the Beatles)
Cherish is a great song, Honey is really good,
If these songs were so hated, why did most of them sell millions of copies and were high in the charts? Sounds like one person's opinion. By the way, if you don't like "They're coming to take me away, ha-ha" played normally, listen to the flip side where it is played backwards. No one can resist that one.
I loved “They’re coming to take me away “! And, you are right the B side was better.
The Randell's The Martian Hop should have gotten a nod! 🤔
I loved all but "Tiptoe thru the Tulips".
OOOHHH! YA!!! I LOVED ALL OF THESE SONGS I GREW UP IN THE 60-80S AND NOWW!!! THE SONGS STINK...THESE DAYS.. THANKS!!!
Hey, I just happen to be a Baby Boomer who grew up in the 1960s & 70s, and I definitely remember each and everyone of these songs from this list, In fact, I have always loved these Songs. They have always been some of my favorite Songs, from that Era of Music. I have always thought they were cute, funny, witty and originals Songs and I don't hate any of them.
Loved Cherish when David Cassidy did it.
I actually like 'Cherish' and Donna Summer's version of 'MacArthur Park' is 100x better then Richard Harris version. And finally Tiny Tim's 'Tip Toe Through the Tulips' makes me want to bang my head on a brick wall.
The highlight of "Speedy Gonzales," today as way back then, is hearing Mel Blanc's spoken remarks in his Speedy voice. Had it not been for Mel's participation in that recording, it would have been a flop.