WORST NUMBER 1 HIT of the EARLY 1970s? (Part 1)

[NightTrain]

Yep! Here we go again. Prepare for seriously painful memories, gang!

[boilerbabe]

1. We used to sing "I am Woman" in chorus

We were in a school that was getting pretty progressive in it's teaching, we used to be able to put on our own plays and everything, well I guess you will never see those days again..not only that, but a bunch of us gals got up in front of our 4th or 5th grade class and sang "I think I'm pregnant" oops instead of "I think I love you" (the Partridge ?Family song)...shit ye not, this was during the most revolutionary time for experimental teaching ever!!! Like we really knew what we were talking about!! like 1971?

[joeybee12]

2. Whenever there's an Osmond, or a collection of Osmondi, you gotta vote

for him/her/them.

How high did Paper Roses, Marie's only hit, ever go?

[boilerbabe]

3. I think she went all the way on that hit...but did you read the tabloids?

I think she had some trouble with her husband, whom I think was just along for the ride...and then they had some sort of reunion...I don't know, I have had dorks in my life, but I'm not a millionaire, so it's not the same!!

[joeybee12]

8. Yeah, she had some nasty divorce at some point...

...if he was a Mormomn, I guess he decided she was one wife too many! Wonder how many/few he has now???

[Missy Vixen]

11. I'm embarrassed to know this stuff

>I think she had some trouble with her husband, whom I think was just along for the ride...and then they had some sort of reunion...I don't know, I have had dorks in my life, but I'm not a millionaire, so it's not the same!!<

Here's the dirty dirt.

Marie got married to some guy named Steve, in the Salt Lake City Temple. It didn't work. They were married long enough to have a boy, whom I believe was named after his father. Steve Sr. was excommunicated from the Mormon Church before the ink was even dry on the divorce decree.

Marie then marries some guy named Brian who is supposedly a "music producer". They have (and adopt,) a bunch more kids. Marie and Brian split up. They reconcile. I think they split up and reconciled again. In the meantime, Marie has a fairly serious case of post-partum depression. This, of course, did not stop them from adopting another child. Marie now has a successful doll design and manufacturing business.

Marie has either had a truly heinous facelift within the past year or so, or she's morphing into Annette Funicello.

It's amazing what one learns from reading the National Enquirer :eyes:.

Julie

[NightTrain]

4. Marie's "Paper Roses" went to #5 in 1973.

Coincidentally, the 1960 original by the putrid Anita Bryant also peaked at #5. :shrug:

[joeybee12]

6. You know, they actually look like each other!

Separted at birth?? Maybe Marie is older than she claims!

[Burma Jones]

5. I so hated Tony Orlando and Dawn - and I was just a little kid

God, have all of these performers, ok not Cher and Melanie, ended up in Branson???

BTW, the group Rasputina does a great cover of "Brand New Key"

[Maddy McCall]

7. (You're) Having My Baby--Paul Anka

I hated that song as a young teenager and I loathe it now. It came out the year after Roe V. Wade...the lyrics celebrate the woman choosing to have her baby instead of "sweeping it away."

[southpaw]

22. Oh My God! Is that Ernest T. Bass?

Your avatar (along with your sig) makes me think you may be a Mayberry fan...

I'm from Mt. Pilot myself.

[priller]

9. I hate to admit this, but...

"I Think I Love You" was the very first album I ever bought.

At least the first single was a Smokey Robinson song, so I did have *some* taste.

[NightTrain]

10. Most (if not all) youngsters make questionable record purchases.

Hell, at 15, I bought the Stars On 45's "Medley!" :eyes:

[Kat45]

16. You're right, but I also got some great stuff along with the dreck

Yeah, I bought all the Monkees albums, and I think I had singles like "Yummy Yummy Yummy," but at the age of 13, I also got the first Hendrix album, Cream's "Disraeli Gears," and the first two Doors albums. (I asked for them all for Christmas and my birthday.) So although I listened to the hits of the day, I was already developing good taste in music. :-)

[BlackVelvetElvis]

21. I still love that song

don't hate me ;)

[PartyPooper]

12. I was a very poor college student during this time.

But, I do vividly recall the music you posted in this poll. Most of the time, I only listened to this music on my car radio whilst driving in my VW bug-either to work or to class.

Thanks for the memories!

:-)

[dolo amber]

13. That's it...

This seals it...you are definitely some kind of sadist.

"Baby baby don't get hooked on me" will now be the song that is playing as I pass from this mortal coil...bastard. :cry:

;):P

[Milspec]

14. Oh so many missing "hits"

But I'll only comment on 1

My Mom (born in 1910, no shit) loved "BRAND NEW KEY" she even went to her concert (with out me), she even took a toke at the concert, G*d bless her soul

[Armand]

15. "My Dingaling" owns!

If anything sucks...it's the Partridge family!

[NightTrain]

17. Kick for the graveyard shift

n/t

[fortyfeetunder]

18. Any of the Osmond songs

I always set my belly on puke if I had to endure listening to one.

:puke:

[Skip Intro]

19. Even "Crazy Horses" - ?

I was no Osmond fan either, but that song had a riff, well, to a kid in the musical climate of the time...

yeah, that's the ticket

[Skip Intro]

20. Oh, what about "You Light Up My Life"

you give me hope
to carry on
you light up my day
and - somebody please kill me

[regularguy]

23. I like Cher, but

there's something about that sort of vibrato in her "voice" that I can't stand. Gypsies, tramps and thieves is the best (worst!) example. Yech!

[dwckabal]

24. What's messed up is that

My Ding-A-Ling was Chuck Berry's only #1 hit.

:wow: :shrug: