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I'm listening to MacArthur Park by Richard Harris and this must be one of the weirdest songs I've heard. I love it, and Donna Summer did a great version a decade later. Harris sounds like he's trying his best to keep up with the great melody but is failing but making the song sound great at the same time. The lyrics make no sense...

 

Do you have any bizarre or weird songs you love?

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'Apples and Oranges' - I believe the original is a Syd-era Pink Floyd tune, but the one I'm most familiar with is the cover by Richard 'Family Feud / The Running Man' Dawson. Now, that's a bloody strange record!
The Streak by Ray Stevens, No.1 from 1974. I remember when it was played on the top 40 and my parents thought it was very rude!!
doop !!! :lol:

 

i think its a great bit of nonsense! :lol:

 

I like that too, downloaded it recently. Catchy tune.

 

Well this song is not retro but is sung by a band......Lordi....Devil is a loser he's my b**ch, many people do not like it...but I just love it :wub:

I made a CD of Weird Songs a few Years ago. (Copied it off the Internet,

I mean - not recorded it myself!).

 

There is LOADS of weird stuff!

 

The 'Hits' of USA Granny Mrs Elva Miller have to be heard to be believed!

 

She actually thought she could Sing! She even made the USA Charts, in the Mid 1960's!

She died in 1997. Her 'Greatest Hits' Album, sold 250,000 in just 3 Weeks, in the USA in

1966 - she was 57 at the time.

 

Her version of Petula Clark's 'Downtown':. (She forgets the words a few times)

 

 

And, her cover of Nancy Sinatra's 'These Boots Are Made For Walkin'

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ipaXgwfBnM...feature=related

 

And her Cover of 'A Lovers Concerto' - a UK & USA Hit for Girl Group The Toys in the 1960's.

Check out, how she likes to sing 'Do! Do! Do!' when the Female Backing Singers do their

part on their own - I am sure Mrs. Miller was INSANE!

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Odf0KpluvgM...feature=related

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try this... frenches entry in the song contest 1991.... amina

 

please bare with terry wogan for the first minute or so, the thack does get going!

 

Crispin Hellion Glover is an actor probably best known for appearing in Back to the Future, the Charlie's Angels films and River's Edge.

In 1990 he released an album that is absolutely bizarre. I first heard Clowny Clown Clown on a Restless Records sampler album and I have loved this ever since!

 

Crispin Hellion Glover - Clowny Clown Clown

 

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'some velvet morning'.... see the lee and nancy thread

 

 

plus

 

 

gilbert becaud 'a little love and understanding' a right wierd one from '75... *goes to see if youtube has it*

Not weird, just bloody funny ... I still love this song 37 years on ... and I'm not ashamed to admit it. The words are just brilliant!

 

 

Norma

 

Norma

 

^ This is not weird IMHO.

 

It is just one of the best 100 or so pop records ever made. :wub:

:thumbup: Napoleon - They're Coming To Take Me Away Aha :lol: I really shouldn't like this but i do :)

 

It was one of those singles that had a radio ban on it for taking the mickey out of mental illness

And guess what the B-Side was. It was the same as the A-side but backwards.

 

The follow-up was called I'm In Love With My Little Red Tricycle.

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Not weird, just bloody funny ... I still love this song 37 years on ... and I'm not ashamed to admit it. The words are just brilliant!

 

 

Norma

 

So long as I don't think about the charts and how it stopped T-Rex's Jeepster from #1 then I agree with you, it is definitely the right side of a good novelty record......

 

 

....... as is :D:

 

David Bowie - The Laughing Gnome (1967)

'Apples and Oranges' - I believe the original is a Syd-era Pink Floyd tune, but the one I'm most familiar with is the cover by Richard 'Family Feud / The Running Man' Dawson. Now, that's a bloody strange record!

 

Quite correct - it was the 3rd out of 4 singles from the Syd Barrett era after Arnold Layne and See Emily Play - the last single was Point Me At The Sky.

Pink Floyd never released anymore singles in the UK until Another Brick In The Wall in 1979

 

So long as I don't think about the charts and how it stopped T-Rex's Jeepster from #1 then I agree with you, it is definitely the right side of a good novelty record......

....... as is :D:

 

David Bowie - The Laughing Gnome (1967)

 

i got the laughing gnome on its re-release in '73

 

tbh its awful!

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