The 10 Worst Charting Hits from February 8, 1969

[@katemaloney4296]

$5 and a Baby Ruth in 1969 was a tank of gas and a meal.

[@matthewvulpe3302]

Wow. Even up to the end of the 1960s, they had TV ads for cigarettes! By the way, greatly appreciated the clip of Herb Alpert's "Rise". Great lite jazz tune!

[@AskDrannik]

Cigarette ads existed on radio and TV as late as 1971. It was on January 1st of that year that the last ones ever aired.

[@stanstanminson6608]

that #1 pick may have been the first time i legitimately felt the need to lose my lunch while listening to a song.

[@stanstanminson6608]

also that video is on some weirdcore sh!t

[@sophistichistory4645]

"Honey" is actually about clinical depression and suicide. Who knew it could be contagious through radio play?? "Dizzy" does, in fact, have a "hook". It's in the one bar pre-chorus that sets the song up for a key change from F to E.

[@Chelaxim]

Kinda crazy between the number one and You're Having My Baby, no women were involved in the songwriting process.

[@AskDrannik]

The entire "Soft Parade" album by The Doors (the album where Touch Me came from) was controversial even at the time. The next two albums went back to basics with a more bluesy sound as a result.

[@hazelleblanc8969]

I grew up in this era, and I didn't remember Indian Giver, but these are the actual lyrics to a song we learned in music class: We are the redmen tall and straight, in our feathers and warpaint. Pow wow, pow wow, we're the men of the old dead cow. We are the redmen, feathers in our head men, down among the dead men, pow wow. We can fight with sticks and stones, bows and arrows, dead men's bones... - yeah, it's stuck in my head until the day I die, along with the tunes of old cigarette commercials. Glad to hear you felt you had to explain what an Indian Giver was. Be careful what you expose your kids to because that early stuff sticks with you.

[@JaredtheRabbit]

Wow… This is the kind of song baby boomers are nostalgic for.

[@hazelleblanc8969]

@JaredtheRabbit not this baby boomer...although some people lump my birth year in with Gen X.

[@JaredtheRabbit]

@@hazelleblanc8969 Let me guess, 1964?

[@hazelleblanc8969]

@@JaredtheRabbit 62, actually

[@JaredtheRabbit]

@@hazelleblanc8969 Ahh, okay. I guessed 64 because Gen X began to be born the following year.

[@juhaniaho6698]

There's a WORSE version of Paul Anka's (You're) Having My Baby?!

[@sophistichistory4645]

George Carlin did a bit on how the name of a company or its product can greatly affect its success. "Whammo is the name of a toy company. Aren't you glad it isn't an airline?? Would you get on the big Whammo bird?? If Janitor in a Drum made a douche, no one would buy it."

[@DoubleACbg]

“It would be like Raid Feminine Hygiene Spray”

[@thegoat9514]

21:54 I hope you do 1964 in December because there is a song called “Leader of the Laundromat” (peaked at No. 19) on the charts at the same time as the original

[@dadoctah]

Best part of The Doors' "Touch Me" comes right at the end, when you can just barely hear them sing "stronger than dirt!". From an Ajax detergent commercial that was running on TV at the time. The one with the knight on horseback who points his lance at people and suddenly there's a flash of blinding light and all their clothes turn white.

[@gunclemark8440]

Never thought I'd hear a Moliere reference in one of your videos. But the last song is like "Thank Heaven For Little Girls" from Gigi in a similar way. Bobby Goldsboro is the worst mashup of grandmother/sentimental dad music. If "Bubble Gum Music" had been sung insincere, the way Peter Paul and Mary did "I Dig Rock'n'Roll Music" as a passive-aggressive way of claiming to love the music and really hating it, it might have worked as a satire. Another enjoyable list, and now on to the best...

[@KylieWilson]

My Boomer mother (who was a child of the 60s) loves that godawful Honey song, she used to play it a lot on one of those Hits Of The 60s compilations, and I’ve always hated that shite Anyway, The Lightning Seeds did a better cover of You Showed Me in the 90s

[@bobparker8294]

The bass player inthe Vogues video is playing a Rickenbacker. It pisses me off when people use Ricks to play crappy music. "If there were a law it would be against it!" (Homer Simpson)

[@robertryan3754]

GOOD GOD! I just found your channel. I like your style.

[@joemonkeyman4675]

That #1 is one of the most deserved and horrific #1's I've ever seen on one of these kinds of lists ever. Just...yikes. And that "Bubblegum Music" song is something else as well.

[@michaelrochester48]

Obviously the songs rank so high on the pop charts meant that the song was liked by a large number of people. In the pre-download days you had to physically go to the goddamn record store and buy the record. And you had to request a song on the radio to real live in DJs. It’s not like today were their charting everything from an album by Taylor Swift and the entire top 10 is your crappy music. This music actually resonated with people because they physically had to go and get the music they wanted

[@MrGnuifje]

You showed me found a pretty good home with Salt n Pepa in the 90s though!

[@alanwhite9466]

I must have missed that version somehow but I do remember the Lightning Seeds version already mentioned here. It was also sampled by De La Soul without permission leading to a lawsuit against them.

[@Fluteboy]

_You Showed Me_ was covered in 1997 by the Lightning Seeds, which brought it up to date, I guess.

[@Avrysatos]

And thanks for this one too!

[@thegoat9514]

What do you think is the worst number 1 that you have put on your worst lists so far?

[@birdgod5584]

The Vogues went from pretty good pop songs like "Five O'Clock World" to this crap in only three years? It doesn't even sound like the same band

[@fullmetalmasify]

I don't know why but every once in awhile, I just go and rewatch this video. I think a part of it is because I have a fascination for hearing about the not so great stuff from decades and these sort of videos do help fix that itch.

[@ryanparoline2281]

But Morrison did take the piss out on his bandmates by singing the slogan "Stronger Than Dirt" from Ajax cleaning product commercials at the time at the end of that track. A little piece of redemption.

[@fredparker1734]

Good Lord...you're KILLING me,here. This was brutally,painfully hilarious. 😅

[@sandraweilbrenner67]

I just subbed. Dude tommy roe was HUGE .

[@tomlemery8490]

O.C. Smith sang "Little Green Apples" which has been covered by many.

[@isabeld.paredes4923]

I haven't seen Janitor in a Drum in DECADES! That ad brought me memories of my childhood days in the early 1970's

[@sofaking8228]

I was six in 1969 and bubblegum was my thing. I never heard of 1910 Fruitgum Company until a few years ago. I've never heard of the other bubblegum songs on this list.

[@bigguys45s29]

“Condition Red” and, “Witchi Tai To” are actually two obscure favorites of mine. Even if the first song is pretty much a rip off of, “Leader of the Pack”.

[@500VulcanRider]

Guess this isn't the week In the Year 2525 was out, that is the worst song ever played on radio IMHO

[@jeanoboyle2439]

Had to wait a few months 😆

[@zebras54]

I briefly owned a Bobby Goldsboro cassette when I was still discovering 60s music but I didn't keep it. I usually like the Bee Gees but "I started a joke" is ridiculous. The other songs I thankfully never came across. The bubble gum song is atrocious.

[@RealBarefootIsLegal]

What is the price for if we want to suggest a week for you to review? I would love to see you do some commentary on The Buoy's "Timothy" song.

[@thegoat9514]

28:05 because namedropping one of the most annoying songs of the 1960s is enough to get you into the pop charts back then

[@bigguys45s29]

Even “Trout Mask Replica” by Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band had some better songs than this. And that was some crazy experimental avant garde rock jazz shit LOL.

[@karinwolf3645]

I never heard of "Woman Helping Man". I hate that song, too. Barf!! 🤑🤑🤑🤷🍿🍿

[@jeanoboyle2439]

Meant well ... but oh hell!

[@freeparking301]

The lyrics of “Honey” are pretty suspicious…he mentions he wasn’t home (rock solid alibi right there!) and “the angels came.” That’s code for the hitman he hired so he can run off with the secretary. Sounds like something OJ Simpson would sing on karaoke night!

[@annaolson4828]

As soon as The Vogue started in with their "under God's plan" crap I knew their song was vomitrocious.

[@bigguys45s29]

Speaking about the Goodees, there was another similarly named UK novelty trio called The Goodies who had a minor hit in 1975 with the song, “The Funky Gibbon” (No. 79 on the Hot 100)

[@Fluteboy]

I liked _Father Christmas Do Not Touch Me!_

[@barbarakirk3064]

@@Fluteboy That was the first single I ever got given for Christmas!

[@davidarchibald3755]

You had me interested until Touch Me. The Beatles wouldn’t be eternally recognized without a bit of reaching over and making palatable touching music for the world and not just die hards. Later

[@Betta66]

13:54 Is Eddie Vedder a time traveler?

[@normanbuchwald]

"Yummy" in a song title is like well "Cherish" in a song title. LOL.

[@Goonerette75]

A comedian we have in the uk called Vic Reeves did a cover version of Dizzy. It isn't much better. And You Showed Me was sampled or covered by numerous artists, but this original is dreary as fuck.

[@alanwhite9466]

I heard that version before I even heard the original. I remember the first time I saw it on Top Of The Pops and somebody was singing along to it because they obviously already knew the original.

[@davidbarton1928]

It's actually worse than you make it sound. At least for me anyway. The Vic Reeves cover of Dizzy was with the then Indie Rock Band du Jour - The Wonder Stuff in their 'Size Of A Cow' irritating folk rock phase. This version was #1 for two weeks in the UK and a big hit in Australia, Ireland and New Zealand. And it had even more wretched key changes than the original. Even now the song gives me flashbacks to bad 90s student discos and the smell of stale sweat and Newcastle Brown Ale.

[@alanwhite9466]

My favourite thing about The Turtles is that their two singers Mark Volman and Howard Kaylan went on to work with Frank Zappa in the new Mothers Of Invention under the names Flo And Eddie. I know that particular era divides audiences. I know a lot of people dislike it. However there is a version of Happy Together on their Live At Fillmore East album. One of my personal favourites is the comedy epic Billy The Mountain. There are several versions of that but the one I know and perhaps many of us are most familiar with is the one from their live performance at Pauley Pavillion UCLA. There are also versions of two songs from the previous Mothers Call Any Vegetable and Dog Breath from the albums Absolutely Free and Uncle Meat respectively.

[@robertjordinelli3041]

Touch me is a great song and I have loved it since I first heard it in 1981 when I got into the Doors.

[@Skycladatdusk78]

The Doors songs you mention that you like were written by Morrison. Songs like Touch Me and Tell All The People were by Kreiger and Jim did not think much of them.

[@artism9780]

21:54 That biker looks a lot like Charlie Sheen. 😂

[@patricklauer4452]

Another solid worst list Chris I pretty much agreed on all these picks. I like the doors but touch me sounds dull also I guessed that Bubble Gum Music song and I was right it’s so bad lmao Also that #1 is one of the grossest things I’ve ever heard yuck

[@doryna_sira]

So, years ago I helped my dad convert all of his classic rock and pop CD's to mp3 so he could listen on his computer. as well as gave him a thumb drive for his car. In addition to the great bands and albums (Beatles, Beach Boys, etc), he has TONS of miscellaneous stuff, including countless "BEST OF THE 60's and 70's!" compilations. A couple of weeks later, he said, "Hey, can you help me get rid of a song?" The song was "Indian Giver". His reasons were it sucked and also super racist. 1000's of songs, and he just couldn't stand that one.

[@Gary-tm1kx]

The best thing Tommy Roe did was guest starring on " Green Acres " as Tadpole Talbot .

[@warrior64]

I like the bad Doors song. Touch me

[@thevarietykid686]

Could you do another year from the 2010s for weekly best & worst list, that’s the decade I’m most familiar with (preferably something like 2012, 2013, or 2014).

[@femboy-gardevoir]

The Rock and Roll Dubble Bubble Trading Card Co. of Philadelphia-19141 3 & Knuckles featuring Dante from the Devil May Cry series

[@Avrysatos]

"This song is the 2014 reboot of music" OW. I've seen that mess of a movie. That's a little harsh to the song.

[@Crwydryn-x3r]

If you really want to know someone, carry out a meticulous inspection of their garbage. The folk-guitar cover of Purple Haze is a nugget of gold. Stare into the darkness, and the darkness stares back at you.

[@Betta66]

Scott Stapp has a son, so someone apparently did want to touch him

[@jonsrecordcollection7172]

I agree with your "hot takes" on "Touch Me" and "You Showed Me," because it was your arguments that convinced me. I couldn't stop laughing once you pointed the unsmiling Miss Teen USA pageant contestants in the background of the video. Another reason to dislike "You Showed Me" is that De La Soul sampled it on their first album, and the Turtles sued them for more than $1 million over it, and the Turtles didn't even write the song! It was an unrecorded early Byrds song, but somehow the Turtles made it just completely catatonic and snoozy. And that Turtles-De La Soul lawsuit was not good for hip hop. Because of lawsuits like that, hip hop moved away from the dense, textured, multilayered samples of the Beastie Boys, "Paul's Boutique" and De La Soul's "3 Feet High and Rising" to rap songs that would sample one old hit song & run it into the ground (e.g., MC Hammer's "U Can't Touch This").

[@josephwest124]

Obviously, YOU don't understand what the Turtles' suit was about. The sample had NOTHING to do with the *song* but rather the Turtles' PERFORMANCE. See, De La Soul took the TURTLES' actual recording of the song and incorporated it into their song WITHOUT PERMISSION. The sample was slowed down a bit but it was definitely from the Turtles' version of the song. The Turtles took the Gene Clark and Roger McGuinn song and slowed it down--the Clark/McGuinn version recorded by the Byrds had a moderately fast rock tempo--and De La Soul took, or "stole" depending on your viewpoint, the Turtles' version and slowed it down just a touch and overlaid other sampled material. Sampling laws now cover not only lyrics but also actual musical performances, both vocal and instrumental. If someone wants to use a piece but doesn't want to pay for the rights to the original performance, they can get someone else to do the piece--a process known as "interpolating," like Kelly Price singing "I'm coming out" à la Diana Ross at the start of the song "Mo Money Mo Problem" (Bernard Edwards and Nile Rodgers got a songwriting credit, since they wrote that part--as well as other musical bits through the song--but if the song had simply sampled Diana's vocal, she would've been entitled to a percentage of the song's royalties as well; Kelly's singing the part instead meant that Diddy could just pay her one time and, without an actual credit on the song, she wasn't entitled to any more).

[@frankly7761]

I Started A Joke still one of the all time asshole anthems. I guess you can say it's cancelled comedians, but I still see it as the guy who makes an offensive joke at his friends party, never gets invited ever again then realizes no one liked him even before, such was merely an excuse to drop the banhammer. I called #1 I mean how on earth could I not. As I said before as I have experience with this, Pregnant Missus is not, oh I'm so glad to be a woman. It's I have so much heartburn, It's so hot in here (It's 68 with A/C) it's being miserable at work, the theater and any 4th of July picnic and then it's long conversations about health insurance, getting the baby's room and crib ready and while we were always upbeat about the baby, never ever was it I feel happy to be a woman, but more I can't wait until this is over finally. But then such is harder to make into a commercial song. And of course Honey the song sung from a prick who was such a jackass he didn't even bother to notice obvious signs of depression that led to the angels coming. Indeed his tribute to his love is chock full of making fun of her, her wrecking his car, seeing her cry at some late late show and her being kinda dumb and kinda smart. In other words, where as I Started A Joke has self reflection, this guy is just going on about how he misses her, but really probably because he misses having her do his laundry. Seasons In The Sun while melodramatic as fuck and fairly notorious, at least feels earnest like he actually is going to miss all these people. In Honey it's as if he followed up the song with, now that that's over, who's up for Chinese food?

[@jeanoboyle2439]

The protagonist in Honey showed his immature ass so much. That's all.

[@chrisrepak4668]

I just started watching ur channel and really dont know u (u seem fun tho) but somehow guessed the Bubble Gum song

[@TheCHR83]

Support the channel on Patreon! For $5 per month, you can watch the next video before it goes on KZbin. www.patreon.com/thechr83 Also, please check your privilege before commenting. I didn't choose to grow up in the 80's, you know.

[@tomlemery8490]

Didn't the 1910 Fruitgum Company sing "Simple Simon."

[@WhatAboutThemApples]

Simon Says

[@gcooper146]

I honestly cringe anytime someone over the age of like 12 says the word "yummy"

[@robertwilloughby8050]

"Touch Me" is a good song - with appalling backing! I think that they were trying to be a bit softer for a pop hit - and they got it - but strings? Horns? No. And No again. But the main body of the song is pretty cool, and Jim is in good vocal form, so... I like it.

[@lisakobarandaspastickraut714]

Some of these I've never even heard of..

[@packerchu]

Hadn’t the “young person dies in horrible (yet usually preventable) accident” song become a hackneyed cliche’ by this point?

[@packerchu]

Did Goldsboro ever have a GOOD song?

[@packerchu]

Unsure if “housework” would had been a better title.

[@packerchu]

Is “Yummy” still OK for use in music for toddlers?

[@packerchu]

So the Archies couldn’t get permission to spell Scooby’s name correctly?

[@packerchu]

FU: They couldn’t sing embryo back then? Also fuck heteronormativity.

[@alanweber2725]

An even worse Doors song was "Hello, I Love You." Morrison wrote a lot of garbage.

[@JamesJimmaHarding]

Spot the "Velma" reference

[@davidbarton1928]

If you ever feel the need to subject yourself to a late 80's version of that Grateful Dead / Herb Alpert diss in that Double Bubble Trading Card Company record... Look up the Reynolds Girls and their magnum opus 'I'd Rather Jack' - a song that was a hit in Europe but - (un)luckily for you - wasn't in North America. It says things about Fleetwood Mac, Dire Straits, The Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd and Heavy Metal generally while sounding painfully and ridiculously 1989 with that then modish SAW production. You'll love to hate it, guaranteed. That these superannuated bands are worthy of robust criticism is by the by. The Reynolds Girls just weren't the right ones to do it, just like that 1969 bubblegum band before them.

[@TheGamecock366]

Touch me is not a bad song. At all.

[@sandraweilbrenner67]

You had to be of that generation to get these.

[@adamf1980]

Vic Reeves And The Wonderstuff did a cover of Dizzy that was much better than the original.

[@karinwolf3645]

Indian giver??? Barf!! Goodies?? Barf!! Never heard of these... Or Bubblegum Music?? Unbelievable!! Number One is truly barf worthy. 😳😱🤷😆😆😆😆🍿🍿

[@danielhayes7967]

"By The Time I Get To Phoenix" worst song EVER

[@danielhayes7967]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/iniTaqt7hcuIsLMsi=MRNpYY073MmgoKHV Perhaps if they released this instead of the version as a single. Would've been better.

[@ominousvoid82]

I guess I win a prize LOL

[@jsivco3sivco785]

To be PC today, "Indian Giver" should be changed to "Native American Giver!" 😁