Top 10 Cheesiest One-Hit Wonders of the 1960s

[@kinmunwong5130]

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.

[@patrickryan1515]

Yes, and I'd say a very stylized song. Was out around the time of "The Days of Pearly Spenser", (I believe) another one hit wonder.

[@jameseverett9037]

The best 1 hit wonder of all time is We Five: "You were on my mind" - one of the best original arrangements ever done by anyone.

[@joejohnson1213]

Do any of you remember when on the back of a cereal box was an actual record of "Sugar Sugar" by the Archies?

[@DYR]

Yes 😊

[@rosaamarillo2110]

There were 1 or 2 cereal brands that did that .. I liked to cut them out square shape and play em!

[@guesswho6014]

I think it was Sugar Smacks and Sugar Pops. Felt like l struck gold getting free records.

[@MsZoedog66]

I think I was the last generation that had cool stuff like this - born in Australia in '73

[@stephenhradil5585]

Yea I got bang Chang along on cereal box

[@janetpitts7302]

I'm 61 and remember and love all these songs!!! Classics, not cheesy!!! Best era of music!!!

[@taffykins2745]

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!!

[@mopar_dude9227]

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.

[@ronhancock4607]

Hooah! Who is this kid to call our fun music "Cheesy?"

[@sharontonks3192]

Quite right! Much better than the crap that passes for music today.

[@christopherroth1702]

Nothing Cheesy about these!!!

[@miguelEguzman]

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.

[@MobilDJ50]

@@ronhancock4607 he should have looked up cheesy in the dictionary

[@curtchase3730]

I'm 65. Grew up w/these "cheesy" songs! Bought many of them on 45. Cheesy? NO. Iconic? YES.

[@calhensley820]

I'm 63, an totally agree!

[@Daniel_Antonio_Arellano782]

Same here. 65 years old too.

[@Hambone571]

Amen. 66 here. Great era to have grown up in.

[@61rampy65]

I am 67. Remember and liked them all!

[@tenhirankei]

@@calhensley820 Who doesn't like cheese? (Aside from the lactose intolerant bunch!)

[@bugwar5545]

These songs are NOT cheesy. They are brilliant!

[@affliction1979]

You're a virgin, my condolences.

[@bugwar5545]

​@@affliction1979 You're funny. Wrong, but funny.

[@michaelglickman1300]

I think the word "cheesy" was actually supposed to be click-bait.

[@skyluna3458]

Right classic music

[@schnertblatt]

He's using the word "cheesy" as a term of endearment. 😸👍

[@jerryclasby9628]

At 74 I say these are great songs. Love that they are still available.

[@mommyquackquack1825]

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 ✌️

[@paigesmith6898]

Yes sir!!!

[@carolley9705]

Oh yeah, peace out baby.

[@whenindoubt1000]

Do you Love Me is cheesy?

[@andrewhilton520]

Got that right. Not ALL the music,but it was an aural decade not since matched.

[@RedVynil]

Watergate was in the mid `70's.

[@jakesmomforever]

These songs are the soundtrack of my youth. I sing Suger,Suger everyday when I put suger in my coffee. Terrific.

[@histubeness]

Sugar.

[@777poco]

@@histubeness they called that bubble gum music

[@Pmtd1234]

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!

[@ronhancock4607]

Hooah! Who is this kid to call our fun music "Cheesy?"

[@rboston33]

We young 80 year olds loved being there in the 60's, didn't we?

[@deershelton1813]

You forgot about the Electricians #1 hit "Let Me Check Out Your Shorts"

[@Trumpsterfire101]

Weed?

[@rogergay9575]

Maybe it's just me...but these are all amazing songs and much better than anything released theses days

[@sooahlee170]

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.

[@philippbohland2420]

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.

[@Rainwatercolor]

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.

[@sg5184]

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

[@ameliaflowers9836]

Agreed

[@rafaelsolorzano700]

Im 66 and I grew up on these hits,thank you for your sensational video.

[@Joe-y4u]

I'm 62 and I'm STILL growing up on them.

[@wesleycook7687]

Old songs are just little houses where our hearts once lived.

[@cathykirkland5237]

Wesley Cook: My ❤ still lives there.

[@8solange]

Wesley Cook.....I love that saying!!! 🤩❤❤

[@mrkrinkle72]

That's soooo Tom Waits!

[@chynnadoll3277]

That is so awesome....❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@just_passing_through]

I need this on a t-shirt. 🥰

[@brianhickey5949]

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!

[@desertwind306]

I have told the family that I want "Spirit in the Sky" played at my funeral. Love the song!

[@isabellind1292]

IKR?! I love "Spirit in the Sky" Love it!🎵💓🎵

[@georgedaw6955]

I want the song,-"A closer walk with Thy", it's music 🎶 to my ears 👂's !!! 😉👍🙂

[@patbrennan6572]

I've requested Highway to hell so I can give all those televangelists a hard time.

[@marthagrinnan6155]

Spirit in the Sky has great lyrics and music! Still love it today.

[@jimmymelendez1836]

Great song.

[@daveperala4723]

"Wipe out" is a MUST for every garage band ever.

[@johntiggleman4686]

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.

[@DYR]

The Floor Tom 🤣

[@mikespencer3518]

Surfer Joe on the B side. oh man!

[@kjones4956]

One of the first “fast” songs I learned in guitar class in the ‘70s. Was SO proud of that!🎸😂

[@gregedgerton3390]

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.

[@karolm4045]

I ABSOLUTELY LOVE ALL of these songs because I grew up LISTENING to ALL OF THEM. And still do today!🤗

[@bignicebear2428]

Every one of these one-hit wonders had one more hit than I ever had. Thank you for the memories.

[@kellymarie6031]

I couldn't imagine these songs never being recorded!! They're all amazing!

[@mrs.dr.spencerreid3992]

These are NOT cheesy‼️. Not to me. I grew up with these songs‼️. “IN-A-GODDA-DA-VIDA” was an awesome toon‼️

[@Titan52berg]

Yes! I have the entire album on CD! "Most Anything that You Want, Girl!" Love that song!

[@stevenmiller7747]

No, this crap is cheesy.

[@dapdne4916]

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.

[@berthabegley9950]

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.

[@unclebobunclebob]

Tune.

[@22foozer]

I'll take any of these rather than the crap of today.

[@betsybaldwin4342]

I Agree

[@lynnkanerva4519]

Yesss !

[@johnmjennings2144]

Amen

[@eutimiochavez415]

Yes sir so would I.

[@Fuzzinutt]

Same!!! and I'm a 70's teen. :)

[@austintayshus735]

Mum played these songs when I was a kid, I never thought they were Cheesy at all, still don't. Some absolute classics.

[@willemvandeursen3105]

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.

[@NealB123]

Better a one-hit wonder than a no-hit wonder. All of these are fantastics tunes.

[@chynnadoll3277]

“Do you love me” is awesome!!! I love ALL these songs!

[@Enkephalen]

Absolutely love that son.

[@markknopflerisnot]

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??

[@franciscodanconia45]

My neighbors love hearing “Spirit In The Sky” every time it comes on my radio. I hope.

[@glennlewman1377]

LOUDER PLEASE, I cannot hear it from my Sailboat in the Philippines

[@TheOriginalRick]

I have it as my ring tone. Certainly snaps people's heads around when my phone goes off in public.

[@roserollins9471]

Going to be played at my memorial service

[@dikz9040]

My kids are all in their 20s and love 'Spirit in the Sky'.

[@ronhancock4607]

Hooah! Who is this kid to call our fun music "Cheesy?"

[@br360guy2]

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

[@kiwihib]

Great song still have the 45.

[@rosaamarillo2110]

.............with glasses.....

[@crankychris2]

Make that #11.

[@brianwilson6403]

Still love Judy, especially the piano.

[@markbarker6739]

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

[@jasontaverner391]

The fact that The Archie's were One-Hit-Wonders takes a backseat to the fact that a Cartoon Band had the Number One song of 1969.

[@chuckg2016]

I can't say a single bad thing about a single one of these. Each is a special memory in its own time.

[@patriot9067]

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.

[@garypamatat3167]

Right on one hit is better than no hit!

[@sdgakatbk]

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.

[@bettyschneider5268]

At least they can say they made a record! Good or bad. Better then none! Lol 😂 🕰🎙🎤🎧🎚🎼🎵🎶🎼🎼🎵🎶🎸🎷🎺🎻🥁🎟💿📀💽💾💻🖥📼🎥📷📸📽

[@uralbob1]

Very good point!

[@freedom_fighter4317]

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.

[@williebraxton1988]

The great thing about these one hit wonders is that they are iconic. They have endured unlike much of today’s music.

[@DYR]

True

[@jamesmcinnis208]

"iconic"

[@lancerevell5979]

Bravo! They weren't forgotten.

[@brendandurham3817]

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

[@joeclayton2121]

@@brendandurham3817 how about rap sucks and it's degrading, demeaning, vulgar and violent

[@Willy12927]

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.

[@kevinmadden1645]

"My Meeting". Possessive case before the gerund.

[@georgedaw6955]

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 !!! 😉👍🙂

[@georgedaw6955]

See, GD

[@sallygomez8799]

These are great songs. Icons everyone. In-a-god-da-da-vida still kicks ass!

[@Darjeelingla]

NOT cheesy.

[@danbasta3677]

So does Stepinwolf's song, Born To Be Wild. Now THATS a super GREAT song there.

[@PC4USE1]

One man's cheesy is another man's classic-example Innagottadavida..

[@samueldoss9608]

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

[@jessicajujubean5004]

Yeah, but everything they else they did besides that really sucked.

[@papawdan3770]

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.

[@thesoutherngentleman1600]

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..

[@danbasta3677]

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.

[@jerrybrownell3633]

@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.

[@jerrybrownell3633]

@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.

[@GeraldM_inNC]

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.

[@sandranorman5469]

“Do You Love Me” is a classic.

[@sdgakatbk]

Yes it is and the right group recorded it.

[@jerrybrownell3633]

@@sdgakatbk - One of the many songs co-written by Berry Gordy the founder of Motown Records.

[@GeraldM_inNC]

DC5 version is heavier.

[@jerrybrownell3633]

@@GeraldM_inNC - Dave Clark 5 version had more of a rock flavor.

[@rynehall9990]

My earliest memory of this song is seeing a guy dancing to it to show how tough the socks were

[@herstorynhistory5818]

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.

[@georgedaw6955]

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 !!! 😉👍🙂

[@walte153]

"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.

[@ThePlataf]

I remember it from 1963, and it still makes me smile.

[@stevesloan7132]

And every piece of the song is perfect! So well done.

[@randallkoch6183]

I liked "Monster Hash" too.

[@wesleycook7687]

@@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.

[@ronhancock4607]

Hooah! Who is this kid to call our fun music "Cheesy?"

[@JOBRAIL1]

WTF I still listen to all of these tunes. They are classics! I want Spirit in the Sky played at my funeral

[@ronhancock4607]

Hooah! Who is this kid to call our fun music "Cheesy?"

[@gaileveres920]

@@ronhancock4607 Well said 74 and still love these "hits . Cheers from Australia 😀

[@shuttittuppitt9355]

It's a great song alright, but I don't want to show UP at MY funeral.

[@joeramirez709]

Definitely the best decade for number one songs.

[@kmo3811]

How are these cheesy? They're not. They are fabulous parts of my past. Love em!

[@78tag]

I'm with you on most of them bud.

[@freddell7358]

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

[@rickjensen2833]

Music is a memory peg that transports you back in time. The older you get the more special those cheesy songs get.

[@ronhancock4607]

Hooah! Who is this kid to call our fun music "Cheesy?"

[@janetking2035]

They're not cheesy!!!!

[@rickjensen2833]

@@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.

[@rickjensen2833]

@@janetking2035 disco duck will be up there with Dylan. But the older I get disco duck brings back wonderous memories.

[@lindastruckus776]

So grateful that I’m still here listening to them🤟🏼

[@jeffreymliss]

Should be titled, "Top Ten of the Most Loved One Hit Wonders of the 60's"

[@DYR]

💕💕

[@chachadodds5860]

Totally agree! What a great stroll down memory lane.

[@thomaschristopher8593]

i was just mousing over the thumb nail, and i thought, this guy is going to get hammered.

[@scottbell3193]

Truth my friend

[@margeryfranko1850]

I totally agree 💖😁

[@larrym55]

Iron Butterfly was awesome in concert, Hampton Va. Drove from Richmond. The other side of the album was also great!

[@Michael-i8t5c]

I'm 65 and I can remember when cereal companies used to put cardboard records on the back of their cereal box. One of those records was "Sugar, Sugar".

[@scruffybearbreaks8774]

I still have all my cardboard records from the cereal boxes. Lol

[@JasonNation72]

Woah, there's nothing cheesy about "Spirit In the Sky". That heavily distorted bass line and that beat is what makes it so cool.

[@bettykillsnight4812]

Iron Butterfly is great, nothin "cheesy" about them.

[@wesleycook7687]

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.

[@ollilehtonen2762]

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.

[@leebaker2588]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/aYiUe6Bon6trg6s this a good cover

[@linnymaemullins3319]

😁😍

[@nicoleknight9412]

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

[@marionward5958]

The Aussie guy who recorded ' the me kangaroo down sport' was the now disgraced Rolf Harris

[@nicoleknight9412]

@@marionward5958 Thanks for the info, but what did he do to get disgraced?

[@chrisbraid2907]

@@marionward5958 stuff happened way back probably when Trump was grabbing little cats ... much like Bill Cosby ....

[@alexlanning712]

You hit the nail on the head

[@sgd5k292]

"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!!!

[@debbieanne7962]

I was 8 years old in 69' growing up in Australia. I loved watching The Archies and adored 'Sugar Sugar '

[@stebaer]

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.

[@ejdiii333]

These are not cheesy, but narrator can't be over 22, and has not a clue what cheesy music is. not at all.

[@bobair2]

To be sure!

[@davidstoyanoff]

Justin Bieber? Cheesy. Taylor Swift? Cheesy. Iron Butterfly? Definitely not cheesy.

[@handyandy6437]

@Spork Spatula I am young and I say these songs are not cheesy. Just great music!!

[@catalino5304]

Must have grown up idolizing Milli Vanilli

[@rs8461]

Cheesiest in the title but never heard the word in the video

[@gusarvanitis8308]

NOTHING CHEESY ABOUT THESE SONGS WHATSOEVER! Someone doesn’t know the meaning of cheesy, which is tacky!

[@172-e5s]

Selling millions of records is not cheezy. This guy is a total idiot !!

[@geneuhrhammer7423]

@@172-e5s Not an idiot. Just needs to fact check. And some of these songs are favorites.

[@MIKELIN8]

I agree. Cheesy makers no sense where these songs are concerned.

[@MostlyBrenda]

Something is cheesy if it is cheaply made and falls apart after little use. (like it was made of cheese) So I agree, the channel really doesn't know the meaning of the word and I really don't know how it would even apply to a song.

[@kennethgoin628]

Apparently the music industry's slang definition of "cheesy" hasn't reached the book ends of the 80s/90s era. As a performer up and coming in the '90s, "cheesy" was a title given to "bubble gum" songs. They may be hits, popular, and well remembered, but their origination was based on something simple, not very technical, repetitive, and appealing to "teeny-boppers" because of their hook. Everyone in the industry at the time talked about writing something "cheesy" because it was run of the mill, era playlist, instant hit type stuff, but after being overplayed, became that repetitiously boring, ridiculous thing you hated to have stuck in your head. Play the Archies song "Sugar, sugar" over and over for a minimum of 6 hours ought to get the message through, with at least five and a half hours to spare. This author is not an idiot, but giving a personal opinion of what was "cheesy" in the 60's, based on an '80s/90s slang term. An example of "80s Cheese" would be Joan Jett's "I Love Rock 'n Roll". Painfully simple with a little attitude hook, extremely repetitive, and appealing to young listeners who still knew what a jukebox was. But hey, she composed it, millions of us bought it and rocked out to it. It's well remembered and when played to the proper nostalgic audience, it'll blow the roof off the joint! But by industry terms, by the definitions of jealous peers everywhere, it's a cheesy song, and so is most (if not all) of this author's list.

[@stevenbaer4979]

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.

[@ronhancock4607]

Hooah! Who is this kid to call our fun music "Cheesy?"

[@tubecrazy65]

Hey buddy I was born a year before you and I totally agree with everything you said

[@danbasta3677]

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.

[@workplacewarriordoctorpepp203]

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.

[@wwrk25]

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.

[@cynthiacooney1486]

Love this song spirit in the sky.

[@cynthiacooney1486]

Love this one too,shamans.

[@cynthiacooney1486]

Love godda davita too

[@irishgrl]

I had that same cereal box record! There was a time when a lot of 45s were obtained from a cereal box!

[@noworriesmate5903]

🤣 your old. Wait I had them too. Crap I'm old. But we grew up in the greatest time!

[@pookatim]

There is nothing "cheesy" about any of these songs.

[@2011littlejohn1]

I beg do differ regarding the Archies. And my offer of an example is My Boy Lollipop by Millie.

[@anne_n_nimity]

All of them are cheesy

[@johndeeter9522]

I agree nothing cheesy about this music. Better a one hit number than to never have a hit at all

[@markbhoward]

I hate Monster Mash. But some of these songs are legit.

[@jimmyliao3249]

@@anne_n_nimity ignorant

[@LarryBarkerPBP100]

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.

[@geraldfriend256]

Wow always thought Shang a Lang was Bay City Rollers

[@BALLFAN]

@@geraldfriend256 Yes it was but it's a different song , this is Bang-Shang- A-Lang

[@kensolar69]

The Archies, AKA: The Cheese Factory.

[@HotRod12667]

Also a minor hit with Feelin So Good (Skooby Do)

[@tomfields3682]

How can they be"hits" if >I've< never heard of them?

[@vickiross1025]

Ah yes, I remember them well. 😍 They make me smile.

[@bdflatlander]

Yes, they may be one hit wonders but they are all good and memorable songs.

[@DYR]

True 🤗

[@robertharrison4967]

They may have been one hit wonders but also some great music from those times and great for dancing. Flower power lives on in the music of that era, so glad I lived through it.

[@RHoffmnn]

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.

[@ronhancock4607]

Hooah! Who is this kid to call our fun music "Cheesy?"

[@boomer1579]

@@ronhancock4607 He's a clown.

[@deaddocreallydeaddoc5244]

@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.

[@amcken9316]

Greenbaum's "Canned Ham" reached number 26 in Canada.

[@Condor512]

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😵‍💫🤤

[@josepherhardt164]

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. :)

[@andrewmccormack4295]

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.

[@jsb354]

@@RockChild56, *Flowers and Beads*... are something [still].

[@johnsipma9382]

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.

[@RobertJones-ux6nc]

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.

[@nialnaumczyk8024]

How can you call theses the cheesiest??!! Classics that I’ve listened to a lot over 40 years!

[@bobbibuttons8730]

Definitely, Spirit in the Sky was a classic indeed. In fact I wanted it for my funeral, except, I’m Jewish lol

[@caroldriehorst1165]

Just because they were one hit wonders doesn't mean they weren't great, they certainly weren't cheesey.

[@jcc2917]

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.

[@caroldriehorst1165]

@@jcc2917 😂😂😂

[@stovepipe9er]

Only a few cheese songs and some good ones

[@kennethschenavar3291]

This is not from my generation but these songs are not cheesy. They are iconic

[@VE6XTC]

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.

[@rockwasequim5924]

Ed King from Skynyrd played on that song.

[@bill5552]

Those were popular during my high school days

[@9284vr]

...and don't forget Pushin' Too Hard by the Seeds!

[@9284vr]

@@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.

[@9284vr]

...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.

[@roberttagao9398]

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.

[@DRCole-kq2wk]

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.

[@DYR]

Very poetic

[@172-e5s]

Waxing philosophical !!!! Nice!!!!

[@wesleycook7687]

@@DYR Old songs are just little houses where our hearts once lived.

[@lenpey]

I think the labelling of some of these acts as "cheesy" says a lot about the taste of this video's presenter.

[@DYR]

They’re great songs

[@DreamRust]

@@DYR so why are you calling them cheesy?

[@tgore276]

@@DYR what is your definition of "cheesy?"

[@michaelglickman1300]

@@DreamRust Probably click-bait.

[@kennethgoin628]

@@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.

[@michaeltsavaris3243]

Songs that could have been included are : In the Year 2525 by Zager and Evans, Venus by the Shocking Blue, Summertime Blues by Blue Cheer, Shelly Fabre's Johnny Angel, Baby It's You by Smith, San Francisco by Scott McKenzie, Eve of Destruction by Barry McGuire, Bob Lind's Elusive Butterfly, 98.6 by Keith, Spiral Staircase's More Today Than Yesterday, The flying Machine's Smile a Little Smile for Me, Sunshine by Jonathan Edwards, signs by the 5 Man Electrical Band, Walk Away Renee by the Left Banke, Incense and Peppermints by Strawberry Alarm Clock, and Merilee Rush's Angel of the Morning.

[@koytoy2656]

Michael Tsavaris...don't forget "The bird is the word" by the 'trashman. 1963 or 64

[@jettcarlburg356]

"Let's Get Together" - Hayley Mills 1961

[@dwlopez57]

Signs was 1971. And I believe its Spiral Starecase not Staircase

[@michaeltsavaris3243]

@@dwlopez57 Daniel, you are correct about Signs however, I recall that they did not spell staircase the way you would expect. You can look it up. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/More_Today_Than_Yesterday

[@freewill1114]

Best one hit wonder of the 60's: "Angel of the morning" by Merrilee Rush. I still love that song.

[@amcken9316]

"Angel..." reached #1 in Canada in July 1968. She also had a top 30 with "That Kind Of Woman" in September 1968.

[@keithallen5795]

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.

[@sludge8506]

@@keithallen5795 America was about…segregation.

[@keithallen5795]

@@sludge8506 with the murdering gangs.And freelancing.Thats why.

[@keirbateman267]

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)

[@edwarddowd9502]

I saw Bobby Boris Pickett at the Warfield in San Francisco in '91.He was part of the Dr.Demento show. Best part was I got comped,so that made it even better!!!

[@racheln8563]

My favorite never gets mentioned-“In The Year 2525” by Zager and Evans.

[@AvoidsPikes-]

Yep!

[@DYR]

Good one

[@philipstallwood9813]

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.

[@BenEBrady]

The top grossing one hit wonder ever

[@johnmcdermott4737]

I agree, love that song!

[@Darwinsmom]

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!

[@berwick777]

The Archies had another hit called Jingle Jangle. The lead singer of the Archies was Ron Dante who is now a member of the Turtles. I see him perform every summer at the Happy Together concert.

[@honeypie784]

"In The Year 2525" by Zager and Evans. Come on, people....great song.

[@crankychris2]

"We've taken everything this old Earth can give...and we ain't put back nothing...Noo-ooh. Another good un. ;))

[@johnrettig1880]

Number one song among time travelers .

[@1mattadams]

Are we still In the age of Aquarius ? I’m an Aquarium. What’s your sign?

[@johnrettig1880]

@@1mattadams I don't know But You really need to change the filter and get a couple of algae eaters

[@bettyschneider5268]

@@1mattadams iam a Scorpio ♏ the Scorpion!🦂 your a Aquarius sign! ♒ the water barrier!🌊💦💧💦⛲🛥🚣

[@JukeboxJoeB]

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!

[@robertsr.249]

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 ,

[@kenchristie9214]

@@robertsr.249 It was Brian Poole & The Tremeloes who had the hit with Do You Love Me.

[@jerrybrownell3633]

@@kenchristie9214 - The Tremeloes version was #1 in 1963 in the U.K. but it never made the U.S. Charts.

[@okcray7130]

First I Look at the Purse

[@jerrybrownell3633]

@@okcray7130 - "First I Look At The Purse" only made it to #54 on the charts so it doesn't really qualify as a hit.

[@Stuart68505]

There are so many songs that I really loved in the 60s. My first solo singing in a musical theater group was “The Monster Mash.” Four Children got a big kick out of hearing me sing it to them while their mom was working and we were in the car waiting. A stand up comedian in a comedy club close to Times Square in NYC gave me permission is to sing a little something. He kept asking me where I was from so I decided to throw in a verse from “The Monster Mash.” I sang and projected my voice the best I could. He was taken by surprise and the people in the room started laughing including the comedian on the stage. They gave me a free pass to come back when I was leaving. I definitely will. It so much fun being there.

[@lesterpowers7212]

"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.

[@georgedaw6955]

"Here's looking 👀at you kid !!! 🤔🙄 😉👍🙂

[@georgedaw6955]

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 !!! 🌎

[@TheGlssr60]

"Wonderful Summer" by Robin (Jackie) Ward. Can't get enough of that voice no matter how manufactured it may be.

[@clivejones7104]

Iron Butterfly may have only had 1 chart hit but I would suggest that this and many other tracks are still well known and appreciated today (2021) among people of a certain age and inclination, me among them!

[@BertGrink]

You're damn right! 😁

[@GeraldM_inNC]

By 1967 "hit" had become a meaningless term, because LPs were now selling in huge quantities and often there were great songs on them that weren't on either side of a single or which were on a single but didn't chart well although they drove the big album sales. "Stairway to heaven" was hands down the most popular song of the 1970s, but was never on a single.

[@Patriot2017]

Iron Butterfly makes the list of one-hit wonders only if you ONLY listened to AM radio. Full album was awesome. I'd take it off this list and substitute Incense and Peppermints.

[@GeraldM_inNC]

@@Patriot2017 Look, you can't call a song a "hit" just because it's great, not if very few people know it exists. I know lots of fabulous album cuts that the public has never heard on the radio. Yes, I grant that from the late-60s through the 1970s it's perfectly possible to have an album cut that was a "hit" but which was never a single (like "Stairway to Heaven"), but those LP hits got lots of FM airplay and drove LP sales because of their popularity. But I listened to FM constantly from 1967 on and I could swear I never heard any of those Iron Butterfly LP cuts played. I'm not disputing with you whether they were great or not, but whether the public was sufficiently aware of them to drive album sales. I doubt it!

[@markhunter8554]

@@Patriot2017 17 minutes and no room for a bass solo.

[@jpt5577]

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" .........

[@mjonhouston]

yup, it's been a beautiful ride, hasn't it W.C. ? :-)

[@teresafarrell6457]

I feel the same about the 70's. 🙂

[@Bream243]

I think purple people eater was 1957

[@pearlcaster8287]

@@I_Am_Monad I read it as JP T is just expressing an emotional association, not describing a factual item.

[@bengemeister]

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.

[@STI2000]

I remember watching The Archie’s on Saturday mornings. They lived in Riverdale along with Josie And The Pussycats and Sabrina The Teenage Witch.

[@MichelleGreenwood-e6i]

And the groovy goolies.

[@STI2000]

@ I forgot about the Goolies!

[@corineusa1454]

SUGAR SUGAR was my favorite hit when I was a kid. My daughters nick nane is SUGAR. I use to play the song for her when she was a baby.👍🌞

[@DYR]

That’s cute 👶🏼

[@ronaldoleksy8264]

I was 8 years old in 1969.my mom loved Sugar Sugar. She would play it over an over. We had a juke box in the house. Not only did she play it over an over, it got louder an louder lol.

[@ronaldoleksy8264]

Oh by the way we still own the juke box ...

[@rebeccaquartieri5509]

@@ronaldoleksy8264 i was seven and watched the archies on saturday mornings. I remember one of their records being on the back of a cereal box.

[@hotrod9199]

I was born in 1973 and remember these songs like it was yesterday

[@DougFrantz]

The whole Iron Butterfly album is really worth a listen.

[@tagnut1952]

I always expected Flowers and Beads to become a Top 10 hit.

[@user-hh5rn4jz6o]

Totally

[@Roger-ny9xr]

Great video about songs that are 60 classics. I'll never get tired of listening to them!!! Love the back story on In-a-gadda-da-vidda or should I say, In the Garden of Eden.

[@jerrybrownell3633]

The Archies with Ron Dante singing lead had two other top 30 hits- "Bang Shang a Lang" #22 in 1968 and "Jingle Jangle" #10 in 1969( the follow up to "Sugar Sugar". "Wipeout" was the B-Side to "Surfer Joe" and both charted.

[@cwalker3166]

Grew up across the street from him on Staten Island. He had other hits, not the least of which was "Tracy" as Tracy and the Cufflinks. It and sugar sugar in the top 10 at the same time.

[@jerrybrownell3633]

@@cwalker3166 -I assume you are referring to Ron Dante. The Cuff Links also had a minor hit in 1967 with "When Julie Comes Around". Dante was also the lead singer for The Detergents who had a 1965 hit "Leader of The Laundromat"- a parody of The Shangri-Las 1964 hit "Leader of The Pack". Ron was also a successful song writer and record producer.

[@cwalker3166]

@@jerrybrownell3633 Yea...manilow of all people. My sister still has autographed Detergents album.

[@recordman64]

@@jerrybrownell3633 Not only did Ron Dante sing with the Cuff Links, but so did Rupert Holmes of "Escape" fame! He was also doing a lot of session singing at that time.

[@jerrybrownell3633]

@@recordman64 - Rupert Holmes joined The Cuff Links after Dante left. The way I understood it Don Kirshner offered him a better deal to do The Archies. Actually there was never a group called The Cuff Links. Dante provided all the vocals both lead and back up. After Ron left Producer/Songwriters Paul Vance and Lee Pockriss did put together a group and named them The Cuff Links with Holmes on lead.

[@DIANNEELEE]

One of the most romantic love songs in 1961, "I love how you Love Me" , said to be not only sung by The Paris Sisters, but written and recorded by them in their garage!!!

[@strummingbird10]

Beat the bejeezus outta Bobby Vinton's version!

[@ronhancock4607]

Hooah! Who is this kid to call our fun music "Cheesy?"

[@elaineteeter2904]

I LOVE "Sugar Sugar!" It brings back happy, carefree days in junior high. It always makes me smile.

[@gdj6298]

Me too. Only irritation is that Veronica is playing pedals with the wrong foot. And, since they have a bass guitarist, she wouldn't be playing them at all. Yep, still as pedantic now as I was then :-)

[@dannyboudreaux5137]

Who was sugar sugar girl?

[@im1who84u]

They were hits, but I wouldn't call them "cheezie".

[@brendakrolow5835]

Brings back good memories. THE 60S HAD THE BEST MUSIC

[@russellcampbell9198]

"Do You Love Me?" Cheesey?!! I don't think so. Ditto "Spirit in the Sky".

[@johnhughes9978]

Both were great songs.

[@tommiesmith3191]

Well my opinion of "cheesy" and this 12 year old's opinion of "cheesy" are vastly different. Oh well I guess it's all in the ear of the beholder.

[@michaelglickman1300]

@@tommiesmith3191 I think the word "cheesy" was actually supposed to be click-bait.

[@russellcampbell9198]

@@michaelglickman1300 Yep.

[@cherylblancher5984]

So far, I am ❤loving these songs 🇨🇦😷

[@orbyfan]

I don't know what this person means by "cheesy," since some of these songs are pretty good. The Archies had more than one hit (look it up), and "Spirit in the Sky" was from 1970, not 1969. Whoever compiled this video should be taking history lessons, not giving them.

[@ferociousgumby]

Cheesy was added to the title to get more clicks.

[@Pythonaria]

Used to ice skate to "Spirit in the Sky". Happy days.

[@edwin5licqb906]

Wilson Picket also made a soulful recording of Sugar, Sugar.

[@Weeeewriter]

*I think he just wanted a response, I doubt he thought they're cheesy too and we all fell for it lol*

[@mattveteska8559]

Spirit in the sky debuted in late 69, so it overlapped into 70

[@Ekkie101]

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.

[@mangot589]

I just loaned my 20 year old grandson my copy of that album lol.

[@Ekkie101]

@@mangot589 He'll probably think his grandpa is nuts! 🤣

[@mangot589]

@@Ekkie101 Lol

[@thewolfdoctor761]

My first poem, at age 9, had the words "monster mash" in it.

[@michaelpagano6241]

I sing it every year on Halloween with a neighborhood band!

[@joycecummings9661]

The 60s being what they were and had become we needed these songs. Made you feel special and the worries went away for awhile. Thank u for all

[@jimmcclements979]

This music doesn’t sound cheesy at all. I am glad that you are giving the music another life.

[@gabstanace2]

Sugar Sugar by The Archies is one of my favorite songs of all time: the very definition of catchy!

[@davidstegemoller9460]

bubble gum music....but catchey

[@lutherheggs]

They lipped synced it.

[@elc1960]

That song was a Top 40 hit for two acts: The Archies, and Wilson Pickett.

[@chrisclermont456]

Sugarloaf's "Green Eyed Lady" and the Small Faces' "Itchycoo Park" are huge favs of mine!! Not sure if either group had another hit.

[@henrikbragge]

The Small Faces had many more hits (in Europe at least)!

[@dwlopez57]

Green Eyed Lady was from 1970, Sugarloaf would chart again 4 years later

[@Court_Reporting_Help]

Don't call us; we'll call you.

[@nahkohese555]

Yes, Sugarloaf did chart again with " Don't call us, we'll call you". Ironically, the song is them lamenting about being a 1 hit wonder band.

[@VE6XTC]

Traffic's "Hole in My Shoe" song was a gem. As far as I remember, that was their biggest hit.

[@HandleTakenlol]

The day my momma socked it to the Harper Valley PTA

[@DYR]

That’s a good one

[@jimsouthern1398]

Actually, Jeanie C. Riley had a good run of 14 Top 40 Country hit singles.

[@normanpearson8753]

I.m not surprised she did ,they were all Harper Valley hypocrites .

[@cardinalbob1]

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.

[@jeffduncan9140]

That would be too cool.

[@willemvandeursen3105]

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!

[@LynnRedwine800]

Everything about Spirit In The Sky is genius.

[@gregzeigler3850]

Except they lied. All men have sinned and fallen from the grace of God.........

[@noobvr1962]

@@gregzeigler3850 what ?

[@gregzeigler3850]

@@noobvr1962 "Never been a sinner. I never sinned I got a friend in Jesus So you know that when I die He's gonna set me up with The spirit in the sky"

[@noobvr1962]

@@gregzeigler3850 oh so you too have sinned

[@gregzeigler3850]

@@noobvr1962 Indeed. All have. “For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;”-Romans 3:23 KJV