[Mechler]

"Sundown" - Gordon Lightfoot
youtube

"Wanna be a Baller" - Lil Troy
gangstatube

Pink Floyd is the best, but not obscure. One of my favorites is "Fearless"
short clip

"...and you'll never walk alone, alone"

[Mechler]

Almost forgot -

"Fresh Air" - Quicksilver Messanger Service
Amazon clip

The live version is the best, but I can't find a clip at the moment...

[nwildmand]

ah but fearless is obscure by pink floyd standards. doubt many people her could could hear the tune in their head besides the pf nuts like me.
damn good tune.if im not mistakin, they never played it live like most stuff on obscured by clouds.

[katkinkate]

I can't remember who performed most of these but:

"Baked Beans Song" (about baked beans)

"The Newcastle Song" (about a carload of lairs cruising the streets of Newcastle for chicks)

"Rack off Normie" (a girl's answer to The Newcastle Song)

"I Wanna be Straight" (I'm sick and tired of taking drugs and staying up late)

That song about the 'hole in my shoe that was letting in water' (by the Young Ones)

"Love is in the Air" John Paul Young

"Loving You" Minnie Ripperton

"Farewell Aunty Jack" - by Aunty Jack and sidekick

"Water" (All day I face the barren waste, without a taste of water. Cool water.....)

I apologise to the Americans. Most of these were from a time when the Australian music scene actually had some Australian and UK input before the cultural takeover from US.

[Aaron]

Poisoning Pigeons in the Park

hehe... bet you guys won't know that one without mighty Google...



Also Camp Granada & New Math

What a talent.

[Carlhole]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('katkinkate', 'I') can't remember who performed most of these but:

"Baked Beans Song" (about baked beans)

"The Newcastle Song" (about a carload of lairs cruising the streets of Newcastle for chicks)

"Rack off Normie" (a girl's answer to The Newcastle Song)

"Farewell Aunty Jack" - by Aunty Jack and sidekick

[Carlhole]

You know, a typical intelligent planet such as Earth, in it's more or less ten billion year lifetime is entitled to produce at least one amazing spectacle such as provided by twin, albino rock stars.

Johnny and Edgar Winter very nearly captured that prize failing only the "twin" part of that requirement but they look so much alike that that earn it almost by default. They sure seemed like Earth's Big Deal to me when I first heard "Frankenstein" from their album "They Only Come Out At Night". Their unbelievable strangeness seemed camouflaged only by their fame.

Still, Johnny and Edgar Winter didn't seem to go much further after that. They still play concerts but not together and they don't have that same weird out-of-this-world persona they had when that album hit.

[Aaron]

Went to an Edgar Winters show some years ago...

After a 2 hour delay, Edgar walked out on stage & up to the Mic...

Then he fell flat on the stage... dead drunk.

Show canceled.

What an asshat.

[Carlhole]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Aaron', 'W')ent to an Edgar Winters show some years ago...

After a 2 hour delay, Edgar walked out on stage & up to the Mic...

Then he fell flat on the stage... dead drunk.

Show canceled.

What an asshat.

[Aaron]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Aaron', 'P')oisoning Pigeons in the Park

hehe... bet you guys won't know that one without mighty Google...



Also Camp Granada & New Math

What a talent.

[PenultimateManStanding]

Camp Granada, heh heh, yep, a one-hit wonder, but I woudln't call it incredible:

Camp Granada (Allan Sherman)

Hello Mudda, Hello Fadda
Here I am at Camp Granada
Camp is very entertaining
And they say we'll have some fun if it stops raining

I went hiking with Joe Spivey
He developed poison ivy
You remember Leonard Skinner
He got ptomaine poisoning last night after dinner

All the counselors, hate the waiters
And the lake has alligators
And the head coach, wants no sissys
So he reads to us from something called Ullyses

Now I don't want, this should scare ya
But my bunkmate has malaria
You remember, Jeffrey Hardy
They are 'bout to organize a searching party

[Aaron]

Nope... he was all the rage at the time... many hits.

A very clever wordsmith.

1. "Poisoning Pigeons in the Park" – 2:38
2. "Bright College Days" – 3:03
3. "A Christmas Carol" – 2:54
4. "The Elements" (Music by Sullivan) – 2:16
5. "Oedipus Rex" – 3:41
6. "In Old Mexico" – 6:26
7. "Clementine" – 4:40
8. "It Makes a Fellow Proud to Be a Soldier" – 4:50
9. "She's My Girl" – 2:53
10. "The Masochism Tango" – 3:30
11. "We Will All Go Together When We Go" – 5:32

[Aaron]

Poisoning Pigeons in the Park

Spring is here, a-suh-puh-ring is here.
Life is skittles and life is beer.
I think the loveliest time of the year is the spring.
I do, don't you? 'Course you do.
But there's one thing that makes spring complete for me,
And makes every Sunday a treat for me.

All the world seems in tune
On a spring afternoon,
When we're poisoning pigeons in the park.
Every Sunday you'll see
My sweetheart and me,
As we poison the pigeons in the park.

When they see us coming, the birdies all try an' hide,
But they still go for peanuts when coated with cyanide.
The sun's shining bright,
Everything seems all right,
When we're poisoning pigeons in the park.

We've gained notoriety,
And caused much anxiety
In the Audubon Society
With our games.
They call it impiety
And lack of propriety,
And quite a variety
Of unpleasant names.
But it's not against any religion
To want to dispose of a pigeon.

So if Sunday you're free,
Why don't you come with me,
And we'll poison the pigeons in the park.
And maybe we'll do
In a squirrel* or two,
While we're poisoning pigeons in the park.

We'll murder them all amid laughter and merriment,
Except for the few we take home to experiment.
My pulse will be quickenin'
With each drop of strych'nine
We feed to a pigeon.
(It just takes a smidgin!)
To poison a pigeon in the park.

[Aaron]

We will all go together when we go.
All suffused with an incandescent glow.
No one will have the endurance
To collect on his insurance,
Lloyd's of London will be loaded when they go.

Oh we will all fry together when we fry.
We'll be French fried potatoes by and by.
There will be no more misery
When the world is our rotisserie,
Yes, we will all fry together when we fry.

[PenultimateManStanding]

If he/they had many hits, then why are you posting them in this thread? (besides the fact that you are the site administrator and can post whatever you want to whenever you want to? Welcome to PO.dot come where we discuss blah blah) heh heh, really!

[Aaron]

because it's obscure & very funny stuff... & because I can of course.

[Carlhole]

Well, here's one you can listen to online...

It was sort of before my time, thank god, so I don't remember it. But it's classified as a one-hit wonder on www.onehitwondercentral.com.

It's not even a song! How could it be a one hit wonder? What self-respecting youth demanded to hear this crap? Does anyone remember this?

1967 - Victor Lundberg "An Open Letter To My Teenage Son"

[WildRose]

I just checked out the One Hit Wonder site. I remember almost all of those songs - a trip back to my adolescence.

Johnny & Edgar Winter - I sang in a band a long time ago, did backup vocals for a couple of their songs. Fun!

[Carlhole]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('WildRose', 'I') just checked out the One Hit Wonder site. I remember almost all of those songs - a trip back to my adolescence.

Johnny & Edgar Winter - I sang in a band a long time ago, did backup vocals for a couple of their songs. Fun!

[katkinkate]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Carlhole', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('katkinkate', 'I') can't remember who performed most of these but:

"Baked Beans Song" (about baked beans)

"The Newcastle Song" (about a carload of lairs cruising the streets of Newcastle for chicks)

"Rack off Normie" (a girl's answer to The Newcastle Song)

"Farewell Aunty Jack" - by Aunty Jack and sidekick