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Tune out factor

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radioman148

What songs do you immediately tune out as soon as you hear them?

Here are two of my very much "hated" tunes:

1--Higher & Higher--Rita Coolidge (Love the Jackie Wilso version, but not hers)

2--Delta Dawn--Helen Reddy
 
You must have gotten the idea for this thread from my reply in the other thread! ;D No matter, I'll repeat my answer here, and add one:

"I Will Always Love You" by Whitney Houston. I will always change the station as soon as I hear the "if I" at the intro to that one!

"Life is a Highway," no matter who sings it! Y-107 here in Nashville beat it (the Tom Cochran version of it) to a pulp back in '92, to the point that I'm still sick of it, so the Rascal Flatts version is nothing more than salt on an open wound, adding insult to injury! I've also seen "Life is a Highway" used in car commercials, but I won't buy any car whose manufacturer uses "Life is a Highway" in their commercials! Enough already, let it die!
 
radioman148 said:
What songs do you immediately tune out as soon as you hear them?

Here are two of my very much "hated" tunes:

1--Higher & Higher--Rita Coolidge

2--Delta Dawn--Helen Reddy
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Amazingly, for me, the tune-out factor is not that high on either of these, although I would say that "Delta Dawn," no matter whose version you are referring to, has a relatively high "cheese" factor! (Neither one really gets much airplay, anymore.)

What has always irritated me is when stations will play the Rita Coolidge version of "Higher and Higher," let her sing the a cappella verse to open the song, and then talk over the (remaining) intro! Are you stations so hard up for time that you have got to do that? :mad:
 
landtuna said:
Motown.
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I hear you ...My tune-out are those 400 overplayed songs which include half the Motown catalogue. Great subject Radioman maybe someone will wake up and smell the cappuccino, I'll give you two from the 400, alot of folks aren't going to like my picks....

Satisfaction
It's My Party
 
hornet61 said:
landtuna said:
Motown.
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I hear you ...My tune-out are those 400 overplayed songs which include half the Motown catalogue. Great subject Radioman maybe someone will wake up and smell the cappuccino, I'll give you two from the 400, alot of folks aren't going to like my picks....

Satisfaction
It's My Party
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Alot of people will disagree with me on these, but:

American Pie--Don McLean
Dock of the Bay--Otis Redding
 
radioman148 said:
What songs do you immediately tune out as soon as you hear them?

Here are two of my very much "hated" tunes:

1--Higher & Higher--Rita Coolidge (Love the Jackie Wilso version, but not hers)

2--Delta Dawn--Helen Reddy
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Louie Louie
Crimson & Clover
Fingertips
 
radioman148 said:
hornet61 said:
landtuna said:
Motown.
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I hear you ...My tune-out are those 400 overplayed songs which include half the Motown catalogue. Great subject Radioman maybe someone will wake up and smell the cappuccino, I'll give you two from the 400, alot of folks aren't going to like my picks....
Satisfaction
It's My Party
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Alot of people will disagree with me on these, but:
American Pie--Don McLean
Dock of the Bay--Otis Redding
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The (former) oldies station here in Nashville had a habit of wrapping up their Dick Bartley program early. (Maybe they didn't sell all their ad-time?) Anyway, they would routinely fill the 10-15 minute shortfall with "American Pie" and "Papa Was a Rolling Stone" every single week!! ::) :mad: Talk about predictability! ::)
 
hornet61 said:
landtuna said:
Motown.
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I hear you ...My tune-out are those 400 overplayed songs which include half the Motown catalogue. Great subject Radioman maybe someone will wake up and smell the cappuccino, I'll give you two from the 400, alot of folks aren't going to like my picks....
Satisfaction
It's My Party
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Jagger didn't want to still be playing it when he was 50 (he was!), and I don't want to still be hearing it when I'm 50! (I probably will be!)
 
landtuna said:
Motown.
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Berry Gordy wanted all Motown hits to sound alike! So that was probably a factor in "Nothing But Heartaches" by the Supremes NOT becoming their sixth consecutive #1 hit (it stalled at #11), because it sounded like everything else they had ever done up to that point. It was not an inherently bad song; it's just that it was yet another soundalike from Diana Ross singing from the H-D-H songbook! ::)
 
>>Jagger didn't want to still be playing it when he was 50 (he was!), and I don't want to still be hearing it when I'm 50! (I probably will be!)>>

I am.
 
Harpor Valley PTA

Ode To Billie Joe

(I dislike these songs so much I had to hold my nose with one hand while typing with the other.)
 
Heard It Thru The Grapevine ... Give Me "Forever", "Your Precious" Love w/ Tammi Terrell
Aquarius............"Wedding Bell Blues", 'Working On A Groovy Thing", And "One Less Bell To Answer"
Sherry
Wipeout... Give Me "Surfer Joe"
All the Beatle #1's (And I Love The Beatles!!!!)
Walk Like a Man

Ditto to Honey..give me "Littles Things","Blue Autumn", "With Pen In Hand", "Autumn Of My Life"and "It's Too Late"

My wife sez I need therapy...
 
hornet61 said:
Heard It Thru The Grapevine ... Give Me "Forever", "Your Precious" Love w/ Tammi Terrell
Aquarius............"Wedding Bell Blues", 'Working On A Groovy Thing", And "One Less Bell To Answer"
Sherry
Wipeout... Give Me "Surfer Joe"
All the Beatle #1's (And I Love The Beatles!!!!)
Walk Like a Man

Ditto to Honey..give me "Littles Things","Blue Autumn", "With Pen In Hand", "Autumn Of My Life"and "It's Too Late"

My wife sez I need therapy...
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It's amazing--I've never met anyone who admits to liking "Honey" but it was number one for a month.
 
Up Up and Away – the Fifth Dimension
Bang Bang – Nancy Sinatra
These Boots Are Made For Walking - Nancy Sinatra
Some Velvet Morning – Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood

Edit by GLB:

Anything and everything by Nancy Sinatra

And:

What was that song by the “younger than his grandchild if he had one” honey of Hugh Hefner – you know – the one he spent half a fortune on promoting her, and she went FLOP, circa 1980s? (OK, very poor syntax, no corrections please. I’ve had a very long day and I’m not up for criticism right now.)

Does anyone remember the song and the honey’s name?
 
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