Top 10 Cheesiest One-Hit Wonders of the 1960s
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- Who says cheesy has to be bad? Join doyouremember.com/ as we count down our picks for the top 10 cheesiest one-hit wonders of the 1970s.
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Sugar Sugar - The Archies
Na Na, Hey Hey, Kiss Him Goodbye
Monster Mash - Bobby Pickett
Just One Look - Doris Troy
Nobody But Me - The Human Beinz
Wipe Out The Surfaris
In-a-gadda-da-vidda - Iron Butterfly
Do You Love Me - The Contours
Spirit in the Sky - Norman Greenbaum
Hey! Baby - Bruce Channel
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Do any of you remember when on the back of a cereal box was an actual record of "Sugar Sugar" by the Archies?
Yes 😊
There were 1 or 2 cereal brands that did that .. I liked to cut them out square shape and play em!
I think it was Sugar Smacks and Sugar Pops. Felt like l struck gold getting free records.
I think I was the last generation that had cool stuff like this - born in Australia in '73
Yea I got bang Chang along on cereal box
These are timeless hits that are still being played today and most people have heard them at one time or another. Nothing cheesy about that.
Hooah! Who is this kid to call our fun music "Cheesy?"
Quite right! Much better than the crap that passes for music today.
Nothing Cheesy about these!!!
C'mon, some of these are cheesy. Sugar sugar and kiss her goodbye leap to mind. But at least six of these were not cheesy at all.
Seven by my count.
@@ronhancock4607 he should have looked up cheesy in the dictionary
Maybe it's just me...but these are all amazing songs and much better than anything released theses days
Roger I'm with you. 1960s songs must be played everywhere. By the way, I'm a 30 year old Korean woman who will do anything, maybe who have to do something to be the Georgy Girl by The Seekers. 😂 Sugar-free and alcohol-free drinks are everywhere thesedays. We need some good old root beers and real fruit juices on the Billboard charts.
Nah. The 60s were absolutely great time for great music, but there is also great music today. You just have to look outside the charts.
I was just listening to them and you are totally right! These songs were game changers and AWESOME... still are!!! Problem is the generations after ours just could never recognize great music so sad we have nothing since those years that is great.
Nostalgia is a hell of a drug I listen to music older than my great grandpa and I make it a mission to find atleast 2 bands I like every year
Agreed
I have told the family that I want "Spirit in the Sky" played at my funeral. Love the song!
IKR?! I love "Spirit in the Sky" Love it!🎵💓🎵
I want the song,-"A closer walk with Thy", it's music 🎶 to my ears 👂's !!! 😉👍🙂
I've requested Highway to hell so I can give all those televangelists a hard time.
Spirit in the Sky has great lyrics and music! Still love it today.
Great song.
I'm 65. Grew up w/these "cheesy" songs! Bought many of them on 45. Cheesy? NO. Iconic? YES.
I'm 63, an totally agree!
Same here. 65 years old too.
Amen. 66 here. Great era to have grown up in.
I am 67. Remember and liked them all!
@@calhensley820 Who doesn't like cheese? (Aside from the lactose intolerant bunch!)
These songs are the soundtrack of my youth. I sing Suger,Suger everyday when I put suger in my coffee. Terrific.
Sugar.
@@histubeness they called that bubble gum music
These Cheesiest hits are way better than the crap they got on the radio today.
I remember them all and they still make me happy! One can't sing along with much of today's music, but certainly can with these gems and others of the time. How fun!!
These songs are NOT cheesy. They are brilliant!
You're a virgin, my condolences.
@@affliction1979 You're funny. Wrong, but funny.
I think the word "cheesy" was actually supposed to be click-bait.
Right classic music
He's using the word "cheesy" as a term of endearment. 😸👍
Old songs are just little houses where our hearts once lived.
Wesley Cook: My ❤ still lives there.
Wesley Cook.....I love that saying!!! 🤩❤❤
That's soooo Tom Waits!
That is so awesome....❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
I need this on a t-shirt. 🥰
I ABSOLUTELY LOVE ALL of these songs because I grew up LISTENING to ALL OF THEM. And still do today!🤗
Better a one-hit wonder than a no-hit wonder. All of these are fantastics tunes.
I'll take any of these rather than the crap of today.
I Agree
Yesss !
Amen
Yes sir so would I.
Same!!! and I'm a 70's teen. :)
You had to live during the era of the 60's and 70's to appreciate this music. The world was going through changing with Vietnam, Woodstock, psychedelic drugs, acid, weed, worring about who would be killed in Nam who was being held a POW or MIA. Watergate, the 1st man on the moon. This music help us get through these times. True rock and roll lives on. ☮️ peace baby ✌️
Yes sir!!!
Oh yeah, peace out baby.
Do you Love Me is cheesy?
Got that right. Not ALL the music,but it was an aural decade not since matched.
Watergate was in the mid `70's.
As a music major who played in a rock band to help pay for tuition, I not only remember listening to these songs, but being on stage performing them. It also led to me meeting my wife of 48 years.
"My Meeting". Possessive case before the gerund.
I guess that was inspired by the "Monster Mash" song ! 🤔 (?) I can relate to that, as I'm still involved to, but she is now my X and hopefully we'll live happily ever after, but maybe not !!! 😉👍🙂
See, GD
At 74 I say these are great songs. Love that they are still available.
Im 66 and I grew up on these hits,thank you for your sensational video.
"Wipe out" is a MUST for every garage band ever.
If you couldn't play the drum part, you sucked. I was a "roadie" for a couple bands that friends had...both had that in their line-up. Only one (can't recall the band name) could play it exactly.
The Floor Tom 🤣
Surfer Joe on the B side. oh man!
One of the first “fast” songs I learned in guitar class in the ‘70s. Was SO proud of that!🎸😂
As a kid you couldn't walk the neigh-
borhoods without hearing a garage
band wailing 'wipe out' or 'love potion
number 9.' Crazy good times.
I don't know what 'cheesy' is supposed to mean, or what authority the narrator has to label these jewels as disparaging, but obviously the dude wasn't there; I was. "Cheesy", -
I don't think so dude.
See the movie first.
My favourite one hit wonder is Peter Sarstedt's 'Where do you go to my lovely'. The lyrics are so profound and they always bring tears to my eyes.
I couldn't imagine these songs never being recorded!! They're all amazing!
Mum played these songs when I was a kid, I never thought they were Cheesy at all, still don't.
Some absolute classics.
Iron Butterfly wasn't cheesy either! Great massive sound, the lead had a magnificently deep voice that went very well with it. Together with the (short lived) Blue Cheer they were definitely the first Heavies, but the Butterfly sound was absolutely unique and actually quite melodic. Top band!
What I miss in the cheesy department is "They're coming to take me away Hihi Haha", a very clever production (1966) by one hit wonder Napoleon XIV. In many countries it reached the Top 3.
These are NOT cheesy‼️. Not to me. I grew up with these songs‼️. “IN-A-GODDA-DA-VIDA” was an awesome toon‼️
Yes! I have the entire album on CD! "Most Anything that You Want, Girl!" Love that song!
No, this crap is cheesy.
A lot of maybe funky songs is the word? Ina Godda Davida written from a drunk guy after a gallon of wine trying to pronounce "In The Garden of Eden?" I guess we add some features to songs.
I agree , I loved these songs as well. I have Spirit In The Sky in my house cleaning list gets your work done faster lol.
Tune.
My Dad's first "album" which was "Sugar Sugar" which was on the back of a cereal box (I think Honey Smacks). This record could be played on his turntable. Everytime, he hears it he tells this story and has since I was a kid. Even my teens know the story and song.
But it just goes to show you what the song "Sugar Sugar" is worth, "All that and a Box of Cereal to, Sounds 🎶 like a win, win, but maybe Not !!! 🤔 (?) I like "pour some sugar on me" a whole lot better, as the lyrics are alot tastier !!! 😉👍🙂
How are these cheesy? They're not. They are fabulous parts of my past. Love em!
I'm with you on most of them bud.
Agree, could you imagine calling "do you love me" cheese? The original was good, when Dave Clark five did it on Ed Sullivan it was almost as big a deal as the Beatles
These groups may be one hit wonders, but bottom line is they had a hit. Which is alot more then millions of other groups can claim.
Right on one hit is better than no hit!
Absolutely. It's like the athlete who makes it to the highest league for a cup of coffee and then is sent down. He can tell his kids and grandkids he made it.
At least they can say they made a record! Good or bad. Better then none! Lol 😂 🕰🎙🎤🎧🎚🎼🎵🎶🎼🎼🎵🎶🎸🎷🎺🎻🥁🎟💿📀💽💾💻🖥📼🎥📷📸📽
Very good point!
Norman Greenbaum was asked a few years ago if he was embarrassed by being a one hit wonder.
He said not at all, he was very happy and grateful that he had a popular hit.
“Do You Love Me” is a classic.
Yes it is and the right group recorded it.
@@sdgakatbk - One of the many songs co-written by Berry Gordy the founder of Motown Records.
DC5 version is heavier.
@@GeraldM_inNC - Dave Clark 5 version had more of a rock flavor.
My earliest memory of this song is seeing a guy dancing to it to show how tough the socks were
IN- A-GADDA-DA-VIDA (17:05 version) is far from 'cheesy'. The drums - through the entire song - are still mind-blowing to this day.🤯 (I close my eyes & it's 1968 all over again.) ps: This album is still in my crawl-space😵💫🤤
It was also a "rescue" song for DJ's who absolutely had to take a trip away from the turntable whilst live on the air. :)
I agree,in my humble opinion,this song/tune is a classic,the long version naturally,the drum solo is amazing and just hearing this so takes me back,I was born in 52 so it's in the middle of my teenage years and I owned that album for ages.In those days,the 60s and 70s,again in my H.O the music was so good and I sure miss it.
@@RockChild56, *Flowers and Beads*... are something [still].
There is not a better song for a road trip, long version of course. And I have a hard time calling Iron Butterfly a one-hit wonder band when they had several great albums.
I still have my album also, but I also have it on my computer play list and my 5 year old grearniece loves the song along with all my music from the late 1955 to 1979.
I'm 61 and remember and love all these songs!!! Classics, not cheesy!!! Best era of music!!!
My neighbors love hearing “Spirit In The Sky” every time it comes on my radio.
I hope.
LOUDER PLEASE, I cannot hear it from my Sailboat in the Philippines
I have it as my ring tone. Certainly snaps people's heads around when my phone goes off in public.
Going to be played at my memorial service
My kids are all in their 20s and love 'Spirit in the Sky'.
Hooah! Who is this kid to call our fun music "Cheesy?"
Woah, there's nothing cheesy about "Spirit In the Sky". That heavily distorted bass line and that beat is what makes it so cool.
Iron Butterfly is great, nothin "cheesy" about them.
Greenbaum was also inspired by Link Wray's Rumble and Rawhide. He said so himself. Wray was doing distortion and things with a guitar that inspired the Kinks and others and this was in the 50s.
I was really surpised to see it on the list. I think it is an exceptional hit. I also like version by Kentucky Headhunters which rocks. Iron Butterfly is a classic group.
ua-cam.com/video/3W1Jm2jF8MI/v-deo.html this a good cover
😁😍
Yes Sugar Sugar is my favorite One-Hit Wonder from the 1960s as I got to thinking of it because of how I first heard it on a Sunday Night Special in 1969 and ever since then I really enjoyed it.
Sugar Sugar by The Archies is one of my favorite songs of all time: the very definition of catchy!
bubble gum music....but catchey
They lipped synced it.
That song was a Top 40 hit for two acts: The Archies, and Wilson Pickett.
Thanks for the trip down memory lane! The 60's was my decade: high school, college, and marriage! All these years later, I still enjoy listening to those songs with the love of my life still at my side!
Hooah! Who is this kid to call our fun music "Cheesy?"
We young 80 year olds loved being there in the 60's, didn't we?
You forgot about the Electricians #1 hit "Let Me Check Out Your Shorts"
Weed?
If you lived through these times as I did, these are classic hits! I looked forward to all of them back then and even today!
Jingle Jangle" is a song written by Jeff Barry and Andy Kim and performed by The Archies. It was produced by Jeff Barry. The single reached number 10 on the Billboard Hot 100 and number 27 on the U.S. Easy Listening chart in 1969.
Every guy I knew tried to play wipe out with his hands and failed miserably. Great composition. I chose to do modern dance in college as a substitute for PE. How great it was dancing to In A Godda Da Vida. I was Adam. Yeah the 60's were fabulous even though I worried about getting drafted to fight in Viet Nam. Glad to say that I made Woodstock which was a kind of one hit wonder.
My mom got up on a table during my grad dinner in 84. She neither drank nor puffed.
Some thing funny to mention,I've played the drums for close to 50 yrs and every now and again someone will ask me "can you play Wipe out" and when I say yes,it's like WOW you must be really good,but really "Wipe out" is so simple and easy to play,it's mostly a straight single stroke roll with accents thrown in for the chorus and then a basic rock pattern for the verse.
I can't say a single bad thing about a single one of these. Each is a special memory in its own time.
In 1967 my 5th grade teacher left school during Christmas break to deliver her 1st child. Her replacement’s husband was in a one hit wonder band who’s song went #1 on the charts in January 1968. She played the 45 every day during class. “Judy in Disguise” by John Fred and The Playboys
Great song still have the 45.
.............with glasses.....
Make that #11.
Still love Judy, especially the piano.
I loved the song had the 45 when I mention the title some less informed persons think I'm talking about the beatles song Lucy in the sky with diamonds and say I've got the title wrong
I will always remember "Sugar Sugar" by the Archie's as being the very first 45 rpm record I bought back in the 1960's. I really love that song.
"Love (Can Make You Happy)" It reached #2 on the Billboard Hot 100, where "Get Back" by The Beatles kept it from the #1 spot,
ranked #42 on Billboard magazine's Top Hot 100 songs of 1969 and
You Were on My Mind done by folk band We Five which was released in 1965 also Kyu Sakamoto with his song Sukiyaki ("Ue o Muite Arukō") (Japanese: 上を向いて歩こう, "I Look Up as I Walk"), alternatively titled, reached number one in the United States Billboard Hot 100 in June 1963, making Sakamoto the first Asian recording artist to have a number one song on the chart. He was also the first Japanese artist to have a number one single on the Australian singles chart.
"Here's looking 👀at you kid !!! 🤔🙄 😉👍🙂
Does anybody remember the song -"Flying Purple People Eater" 🎶 👁🎺 🛸 purple people eater, check it out, I follow that song with this one ,- Mr. Spaceman , by The Byrds !!! Please 🙄🙏 Mr Spaceman 🤖 , there's No intelligent life here on earth !!! 🌎
Every one of these one-hit wonders had one more hit than I ever had. Thank you for the memories.
Should be titled, "Top Ten of the Most Loved One Hit Wonders of the 60's"
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Totally agree! What a great stroll down memory lane.
i was just mousing over the thumb nail, and i thought, this guy is going to get hammered.
Truth my friend
I totally agree 💖😁
Best one hit wonder of the 60's: "Angel of the morning" by Merrilee Rush. I still love that song.
"Angel..." reached #1 in Canada in July 1968. She also had a top 30 with "That Kind Of Woman" in September 1968.
That was beautiful.And america was about love and dating.
But sometimes beyond the perfect 1950s. Where everyone got married, and they really did.
We had 43 children on my 7 house block, by 1970.walking away was rare.
@@keithallen5795 America was about…segregation.
@@sludge8506 with the murdering gangs.And freelancing.Thats why.
Not sure if it is a one hit wonder. Juice Newton covered it. Should have been a hit somewhere. It is a Chip Taylor composition. One of his best.(Of many)
"Telstar" is a 1962 instrumental record performed by The Tornados.
“Do you love me” is awesome!!! I love ALL these songs!
Absolutely love that son.
Must admit that their choice in No.10 spot made me wonder what criteria they were using to define 'cheesiest'.....maybe one-hit-wonders but cheesey??
Another song that wasn't cheesy but should be remembered is "I Fought The Law" by Bobby Fuller. I believe Bobby Fuller died shortly after recording this song so he didn't have the opportunity to have another hit. RIP, Bobby Fuller.
Back in 86 we got called into the IRS because they thought we tried to cheat them out of some money concerning our listing of our work truck. After presenting the IRS with documents where and when we bought the truck and showed the the 60 months of service we were using for a deduction because you are allowed only a 5 year deduction on a work truck we were declared clean and good to go so that's when I began singing the song and changed the words from " I found the law" to I fought the IRS and I won... Oh I even have the letter from the IRS apologizing for their errors and how the interviewer talked and treated us during the interview..
The history as I had read it, was Bobby Fuller was murdered as someone stuffed a soaked gasoline rag into his mouth, thus causing him to die a horrible, painful death of asphyxiation. They never found out who did this to him, and the murderers are still at large, never been caught. Also, yes, the song I Fought The Law, And The Law Won was a super great song.
@Papaw Dan- "I Fought The Law" was composed by Sonny Curtis who was an unofficial member of Buddy Holly's band The Crickets. Curtis played lead guitar and wrote a few songs for Buddy. He wrote the song in 1960 shortly after Buddy's death and recorded it with the Crickets.
@Papaw Dan- The Bobby Fuller Four originally recorded the song in 1963 but it never made the charts. The re-release in 1966 peaked at #9 on the Billboard Top 100. Their follow up record composed by Buddy Holly and Bob Montgomery "Love's Made A Fool Of You" peaked at #26 on the Billboard Top 100 also in 1966.
The song is infamous for having been recorded with different vocals on the LP version, on which instead of saying "I miss my girl and much fun" he sang "I miss my girl and a good f@#k". It's plain as day. Most oldies stations play the LP version because they almost always play a stereo version, even if it's vastly different from the single (e.g., "Catch the wind" and "Solitary man") -- as long as it isn't any longer.
There was a new hit every week back then and we loved them all
I think they only one you missed was: Incense and Peppermints by the Strawberry Alarm Clock. :) --- It was released as the A-side of a single in May 1967 by Uni Records and reached the #1 position on the Billboard Hot 100, where it stayed for one week before beginning its fall down the charts
That one made just #20 in Canada, but their song "Tomorrow" also reached #20, and their song "Barefoot In Baltimore" hit #45.
Oh, there are lots more.
Ed King was the guitarist of Strawberry Alarm Clock, he went on to play for Lynyrd Skynyrd, and came up with the opening riff for Sweet Home Alabama and played it. So as far as Ed goes, not a 1 hit wonder. The song reached #8. It was a niche audience for the time, but it's certainly is not ever going away.
@@rokhamrr Thanks much for that info!! :)
The great thing about these one hit wonders is that they are iconic. They have endured unlike much of today’s music.
True
"iconic"
Bravo! They weren't forgotten.
Just keep this in mind. Music is not worse now, music has diversified, and honestly nowadays no one gives a flat chicken wing about the charts. Like what you like but I would encourage you to seek out more interesting, niche, weird, unique music before making massive generalizations like, "today's music sucks, listen to The Beatles instead." And honestly The Beatles are fine, I really like a lot of Bob Dylan's stuff, but don't say that they're "the greatest musicians ever," or, "the only good lyricists out there," or that "the 1960s was the best time to live," or that, "music stopped being good around 1972."
Band recommendations:
Interesting:
The Black Keys
Rival Sons
Triggerfinger
Alabama Shakes
Greta Van Fleet
Dirty Honey
Grace Potter & The Nocturnals
Tyler Bryant & The Shakedown
Dorothy
KALEO
Niche:
Seratones
Bully
From Ashes To New
Nation Of Language
Fontaines D.C.
Santa Cruz
TYNAN
Duke Deuce
As It Is
Beebs & Her Moneymakers
Weird:
Amon Amarth
Sabaton
The Hü
Alestorm
Wind Rose
BABYMETAL
Drottnar
Professor Elemental
Steam Powered Giraffe
Death Grips
Unique:
Melotika
Dropkick Murphys
Lo Moon
Apocalyptica
The Linda Lindas
Blackfoot Gypsies
Of Monsters And Men
Tuk Smith & The Restless Hearts
RobinAugust Fritsch
Genesis Owusu
@@brendandurham3817 how about rap sucks and it's degrading, demeaning, vulgar and violent
"Monster Mash" may have been the only big hit for Bobby Pickett but it made the TOP 10 twice! It reached # 1 in 1963 and #10 in 1973.
I remember it from 1963, and it still makes me smile.
And every piece of the song is perfect! So well done.
I liked "Monster Hash" too.
@@ThePlataf Did you know that Boris Karloff actually sung Monster Mash on a Dick Van Dyke Halloween Show with Bobby Boris Picket not too many years before this great actor passed away ? I can't find it on U Tube though I remember it. Boris Karloff was also considered to be the first Dr. Who, but died before a screen test was ever done. Thus, Peter Cushing did the first season.
Hooah! Who is this kid to call our fun music "Cheesy?"
Two of the members from Iron Butterfly lived in Pompano Beach, FL and would show up at the Fisherman’s Wharf on occasion. The band there indulged them to play their famous song while they were taking a break. Thirty years later they were still as good as they were in the ‘60s. It gives me a chuckle to remember one fellow who had no idea who they were complimented them by saying: “You guys sound just like the original!” To his embarrassment he was formally introduced to the players. This happened in the late ‘90s, and I moved away in ‘04.
That would be too cool.
The band was seen as a joke, sort of bombast kitsch, I never understood why. They had a sound what a few years later became the the hard rock metal movement. The deep Iron Butterfly sound was due to massive organ work, and ead singer Dough Ingle, who had a powerful baritone.
But Iron Butterfly was certainly not cheesy, and it wasn't bubblegum either. The only bubblegum I liked were the Lemon Pipers (with characteristic lead vocalist Ivan Browne), and their last hit 'Jelly Jungle' was the ultimate bubblegum record, delightful!
Some one hit wonders are just so darn good that they transcend time. Example? "Precious and Few" by "Sonny Geraci And Climax". It is undeniably one hell of a great love song still receiving significant airplay today. Hell, if I had to choose between it and the whole catalogs of some multi-hit groups, I'd easily choose "Preckous and Few". A dynamite tune with great lyrics.
These are great songs. Icons everyone. In-a-god-da-da-vida still kicks ass!
NOT cheesy.
So does Stepinwolf's song, Born To Be Wild. Now THATS a super GREAT song there.
One man's cheesy is another man's classic-example Innagottadavida..
Iron butterfly's classic
Is certainly not cheesy
Being honest
The orginal 17 min version
Is a little much
The drum solo is way to long
And not very good
I prefer the shorter radio version
Yeah, but everything they else they did besides that really sucked.
How can you call theses the cheesiest??!! Classics that I’ve listened to a lot over 40 years!
Definitely, Spirit in the Sky was a classic indeed. In fact I wanted it for my funeral, except, I’m Jewish lol
Just because they were one hit wonders doesn't mean they weren't great, they certainly weren't cheesey.
they are not! He needed to make to make a 60's era version but it would have been more honest just to make a video saying he was unable to put one together due to lack of cheese.
@@jcc2917 😂😂😂
Only a few cheese songs and some good ones
I was the Marketing Director at the casino I work at (also a drummer btw). We hired Little Richard, with The Safaris opening the show.
I got to go on stage and play Wipe Out with them on stage during the concert.
One of the very COOLEST moments of my life!!!
When I was 13 back in 1973 Me and my party buddies got a hold of 'Iron Butterfly Live' and we could not get enough of Ina Gada Divida' which took up one whole flip side of a record. Vert intreging album.
WTF I still listen to all of these tunes. They are classics! I want Spirit in the Sky played at my funeral
Hooah! Who is this kid to call our fun music "Cheesy?"
@@ronhancock4607 Well said 74 and still love these "hits . Cheers from Australia 😀
It's a great song alright, but I don't want to show UP at MY funeral.
Definitely the best decade for number one songs.
Hey I totally dig those 1 hit wonders. But my totally fav is Sugar Sugar. At 63 I still to this day have it on my play list on my phone. At 10 years old I even had the cereal box it came on. Keep playing those hits man . Peace
Hahaha! Sweet! 😁👍
"In-a-gadda-da-vida" (long version) also appeared as the background music during the climax of the movie "Manhunter" - a Thomas Harris novel that introduced Hannibal Lecter in books. The movie was based on the novel "Red Dragon" for which "Silence of the Lambs" was a sequel.
Iron Butterfly was awesome in concert, Hampton Va. Drove from Richmond. The other side of the album was also great!
How about"Snoopy vs
the Red Baron" by the Royal Guardsmen?
"The Lion Sleeps Tonight' by the Tokens
The Aussie guy who recorded "Tie Me Kangaroo Down Sport"
Two more: "Incense and Peppermints" by The Strawberry Alarm Clock
"Wild Thing" by The Troggs
The Aussie guy who recorded ' the me kangaroo down sport' was the now disgraced Rolf Harris
@@marionward5958 Thanks for the info, but what did he do to get disgraced?
@@marionward5958 stuff happened way back probably when Trump was grabbing little cats ... much like Bill Cosby ....
You hit the nail on the head
"The Lion Sleeps Tonight" was played so much on radio that even after all these years, it still almost makes me vomit when I hear it!!!
I was born in '63 but I remember hearing these songs growing up. I'm not embarrassed to say I loved all of them. Give me more baby! Get 'er done!😂🤣🤣
Spirit in the Sky was played at my husband's funeral, everyone loved it
There is nothing "cheesy" about any of these songs.
I beg do differ regarding the Archies. And my offer of an example is My Boy Lollipop by Millie.
All of them are cheesy
I agree nothing cheesy about this music. Better a one hit number than to never have a hit at all
I hate Monster Mash. But some of these songs are legit.
@@anne_n_nimity ignorant
Yes, they may be one hit wonders but they are all good and memorable songs.
True 🤗
SPIRIT IN THE SKY ----- amazing song --- will continue to be amazing for ever and ever.
Forever & ever...💓🎵💓
There's nothing cheesey about Wipe Out ..it's one of the best instrumental songs ever and has the best drum solo
My high school marching band actually played that song (the trumpets took the lead).
If you weren't there in the 60's , you really missed a special part of history. The only thing missing from this list is "The Purple People Eater". And I still cry when I hear "Macarthur Park" .........
yup, it's been a beautiful ride, hasn't it W.C. ? :-)
I feel the same about the 70's. 🙂
I think purple people eater was 1957
@@apropos4701 I read it as JP T is just expressing an emotional association, not describing a factual item.
Yes-the Purple People Eater! If you backed an atheletic team with purple as a team color, I'm sure the opponents laughed themselves silly with derogatory lyrics. I remember when this song was popular visiting my two male cousins whom I saw about once a year. We would sing it and when we got to "still looks strange to me" we pointed to one of the other two. Hadn't thought about that in a long time. Good memory.
Music is a memory peg that transports you back in time. The older you get the more special those cheesy songs get.
Hooah! Who is this kid to call our fun music "Cheesy?"
They're not cheesy!!!!
@@ronhancock4607 me the 58 yr old that spent his whole life listening to music and learning it on the guitar and trying to sing it. You must be a spam bot.
@@janetking2035 disco duck will be up there with Dylan. But the older I get disco duck brings back wonderous memories.
seeing as I was growing up in the 60sI remember pretty much all of the songs but I really liked The Archie's .
"Winchester Cathedral" by the New Vaudeville Band. Great song but definitely a one-hit Wonder.
And definitely cheezy.
I remember that song. Well, "Jeremiah was a Bullfrog" was cheesy but it's catchy and even "Hair" made it into John Carpenter's trilogy "Body Bags" w/Stacy Keach (and the beautiful Sheena Easton) who plays a middle aged man losing his hair. It's SO GOOD!
The whole Iron Butterfly album is really worth a listen.
I always expected Flowers and Beads to become a Top 10 hit.
Totally
The Contours weren't truly a one hit wonder because they had several R&B hits on the charts. And there's nothing cheesy about Do You Love Me!
The Dave Clark 5 did the best with that song , Mike Smith vocals , Lenny Davidson guitar , Rick Huxley on bass , and Dave Clark on Drums , and we can’t forget Dennis Peyton on Sax , Rip , Rick, Dennis and Mike , I’m sure your blowin it up somewhere ,
@@robertsr.249 It was Brian Poole & The Tremeloes who had the hit with Do You Love Me.
@@kenchristie9214 - The Tremeloes version was #1 in 1963 in the U.K. but it never made the U.S. Charts.
First I Look at the Purse
@@okcray7130 - "First I Look At The Purse" only made it to #54 on the charts
so it doesn't really qualify as a hit.
This music doesn’t sound cheesy at all. I am glad that you are giving the music another life.
DID YOU SEE HOW YOUNG THE SURFARIS WERE!??? Adorable!!🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰
This is not from my generation but these songs are not cheesy. They are iconic
These songs are not cheesy-they are the sounds of a young generation-creative, cynical, romantic, drunk and high. Fueled by capitalism, these songs flashed hot like the sun, and then blew away almost forgotten, except for those that were living their lives at that very time.
Very poetic
Waxing philosophical !!!! Nice!!!!
@@DYR Old songs are just little houses where our hearts once lived.
These cheesy songs take me back to my early childhood. They are awesome!!
Doris Troy, The Contours and The Human Beinz knocked out some great Northern Soul classics...Still very big with many of us with good musical taste in England in 2022..
My favorite never gets mentioned-“In The Year 2525” by Zager and Evans.
Yep!
Good one
Which year suits the world best now, selecting children in a test tube or bodies so weak they can barely chew. They were pretty accurate.
The top grossing one hit wonder ever
I agree, love that song!
In 1971 or 72, when the British Army of the Rhine basketball championship was held in England, the Canadian team started singing 'Na Na Hey Hey Goodbye". Very quickly the entire gym full of spectators were joining in. Apparently the gym floor was just shaking from the sound. It really is a perfect challenge anthem!
2:20)The first time that I heard "Spirit In The Sky" was in a Kansas topless bar. I still remember the BLONDE dancer from 1970.
I'm 63. And I like some of these songs. There is Some great music on this list.
I was born in December15th 1966. The things that I love about the 60's it was crazy, groovy, and psychedelic. The Munsters, the Addams family, Woodstock 69, the Ed Sullivan Show, Vietnam War, riots, anti Vietnam War demonstration, hippies. Gidget, the flying nun, Batman, star trek, Rowan and Martin Laugh In Sock It To Me, the Twilight Zone, the Flintstones cartoons, the Jetsons cartoons, Hogan's heroes, Gomer Pyle USMC, Red Skelton show, and Gilligans Island.
Hooah! Who is this kid to call our fun music "Cheesy?"
Hey buddy I was born a year before you and I totally agree with everything you said
Never though laugh in was all that funny. All it showed was Goldie hawn dancin around in a bikini, some old man getting beat up by an old woman and some German guy goin around saying very interesting. I never at all liked laugh in, wasn't at all funny to me.
Just goes to show: one person's "cheese" is another's gold. Hard to imagine anyone thinking a few of these "cheesie". Norman Greenbaum's hit is still played today, and Bruce Channel's "Hey! Baby" was pretty catchy. Iron Butterfly- ok, a bit over the top- esp. the lyrics - but it was an essential part of the soundtrack for a lot of stoned parties in the day.
Hooah! Who is this kid to call our fun music "Cheesy?"
@@ronhancock4607 He's a clown.
@Guido I always thought that "Inna-Gadda-da-Vida" was a piece of wearisome junk. But I suppose if you were maybe 12 when it came out, it might have seemed "heavy." It was heavy alright, downright clunky.
Greenbaum's "Canned Ham" reached number 26 in Canada.
Ron Dante of the Archies, still performs. Earlier, he had a bunch of other hits with other groups that charted big. “Tracy” with Cufflinks pops to mind, there were several others that were all kind of lighter. He still sings and tours, this summer as part of the Turtles” band, and virtually MCing the Happy Together tour. He sounds great, and looks amazing good!
Love this! I still have my In A Gadda Da Vida Iron Butterfly album! I used to drive my parents crazy with it. Those were the dqys!
The Archies had four hits: Band-Shang-A-Lang in 1968, Sugar Sugar and Jingle Jangle in 1969 and Who's Your Baby in 1970.
Wow always thought Shang a Lang was Bay City Rollers
@@geraldfriend256 Yes it was but it's a different song , this is Bang-Shang- A-Lang
The Archies, AKA: The Cheese Factory.
Also a minor hit with Feelin So Good (Skooby Do)
How can they be"hits" if >I've< never heard of them?
I first "sang" the Monster Mash in front of my 6th grade class in New Jersey on Halloween dressed as a mad scientist. I still know the song by heart and did it last Halloween in Pasadena.
I just loaned my 20 year old grandson my copy of that album lol.
@@mangot589 He'll probably think his grandpa is nuts! 🤣
@@Ekkie101 Lol
My first poem, at age 9, had the words "monster mash" in it.
I sing it every year on Halloween with a neighborhood band!
So, what's so, "Cheezy" about these hits? They're INFINITELY better
than today's---What ever ya' call it, stuff!
Damn in denial that the popular music is has and always be cheesy pop
Ray Gsbrelcik ~ I agree with every word you said 100%!
lol my 5 year old dances to "Sugar Sugar" it's one of my favorite songs, I was born in 1966 I watched the Archie's when I was a kid love that song
Strawberry Alarm Clock's "Incense Peppermints" was such a great hit in 1967. Same applies to "I Had Too Much to Dream Last Night" by The Electric Prunes. Both songs really sent me into orbit.
Ed King from Skynyrd played on that song.
Those were popular during my high school days
...and don't forget Pushin' Too Hard by the Seeds!
@@jeromeblue3854 LOL...I at first thought you were referring to the British group the Who until I looked up Saxon to realize he was the lead singer of the Seeds and he formed the break away group you refer to.
...and don't forget the mid sixties hits by the Strangeloves, I Love Candy and one of my faves, the hard-driving song Night Time...but neither one was cheesy IMO.
I had a 45 record of ,"Sugar Sugar " that came cut out of the back of the cereal cardboard box. It was cardboard base but plastic groves for the record needle to play in. Sounded great to 12 year old me. Also used to be played at the skating rink a lot.
Love this song spirit in the sky.
Love this one too,shamans.
Love godda davita too
I had that same cereal box record! There was a time when a lot of 45s were obtained from a cereal box!
🤣 your old. Wait I had them too. Crap I'm old. But we grew up in the greatest time!
A couple of songs I thought were "cheesey" were Alley Oop by the Hollywood Argyles and Please Mr. Custer by Larry Verne, both hitting #1 in 1960. Please Mr. Custer actually kept the great Sam Cooke's Chain Gang OUT of the #1 slot. Where's the justice?
Spirit in the Sky has always been one of my favorite songs. Of course, it was an oldie when I first heard it!!!
Yes, I love the song!🎵💓🎵
I was born in 1973 and remember these songs like it was yesterday
I think the labelling of some of these acts as "cheesy" says a lot about the taste of this video's presenter.
They’re great songs
@@DYR so why are you calling them cheesy?
@@DYR what is your definition of "cheesy?"
@@DreamRust Probably click-bait.
@@DreamRust I'm a little surprised there is no response to your question. I think I understand perfectly what this author means. I'm guessing by your definition, Tiny Tim's "Tip-Toe Through The Tulips" would be cheesy, but in the entertainment industry, "cheesy" can include incredible successes and fond content. It's about its level of difficulty, repetition, just another run of the era product, and mostly appealing to the young of the era. Strongly, it's the things that get irritating when stuck in the brain, because lots of cheesy material comes with a great hook in its repetition. "Nobody But Me" is that way. It's fun, but not very technical or intellectually inspiring. "Sugar, Sugar", highlighted by the Simpsons for example, notice they had Homer doing the "doot-do-doot-doot, doot-do". That's a cheesy hook. Simple. Repetitious. Non-technical. Memorable. Fun. All us entertainers of the '80s/90s, high level or low, knew that cheesy wasn't always bad. Just a label of things that didn't challenge anyone very much. Per that era, check out "I Love Rock 'n Roll" from Joan Jett. I bought the record. I liked the song. But as a musician, cheesy. If you've never played guitar, you can learn this song within 10 minutes of instruction. It's just practice and polish after that. It's quintessential late '70s/released early '80s..... "cheese". "Anyone" could do it.
Ah yes, I remember them well. 😍 They make me smile.
I grew up on these and am only 46... I LOVE these songs. You need a head check.