Confession time: "unhip," "uncool" music you're embarrassed to admit liking.

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Couple of things...

It's sad to see Chris Farley joking about getting liquored up cuz he did die over his drinking and cocaine abuse...

And a few months ago, a popular conservative pundit was mocking SNL cuz they made the same point he made on a recent sketch and he was all, "Oh, the subversive SNL is talking common sense now..." And I was thinking, no one has thought of SNL as "edgy" since the early 80's. This bit is from the 90's and at least half these folks identify as either conservative or republican.

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Tiny Tim...

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Donny Osmond in the 80's

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So I guess in the early 2000's there was almost a Batman Broadway musical based on the Tim Burton movies. They even got some of the songs done. I clicked on it not expecting much, then I'm like "Isn't this part here the bridge from the 'Streets of Fire' movie theme song? Who wrote this anyway?" I look it up and it's JIM STEINMAN! Legendary songwriter for Meatloaf and tons of other artists. Now I wish we'd gotten that Batman play, not because I care about seeing the story but I would have loved to hear the songs with big budget arrangement and big voiced singers.

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[ed2962]

Originally written by Paul Simon, the version that most people know is from Harpers Bizarre. And if I didn't know this was a real thing, I would have thought this was a parody. Liberace and "The Young Folk" doing a version on the Red Skelton show...

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Yakko, Wakko and Dot in "1968" sing the same song on "The Ed Sullivan Show"

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Like most people I know this song because of the Muppets. What I didn't know until fairly recently is that it was originally done for some obscure Italian sex-farce movie, "Svezia, inferno e paradiso,"...

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[PaulBullion]

Originally written by Paul Simon, the version that most people know is from Harpers Bizarre. And if I didn't know this was a real thing, I would have thought this was a parody. Liberace and "The Young Folk" doing a version on the Red Skelton show...

That may have been the whitest thing I have ever seen.

[ed2962]

That may have been the whitest thing I have ever seen.

SNL actually spoofed this sort of thing ( where someone like Pat Boone would do say a Chuck Berry or Fats Domino song and completely blanderize it) back in the 70's. Ray Charles was the host and they did a skit where he's bothered by the fact that "The Young Caucasians" are going to cover What'd I Say

https://archive.org/details/saturday...aye-11-12-1977

The skit starts roughly around 23:20

[caj]

Not sure if it's been mentioned but I love The Partridge Family. Especially their first three albums. At one time, I had about six of their cds.

David Cassidy was an underrated singer for sure

[MajorHoy]

SNL actually spoofed this sort of thing ( where someone like Pat Boone would do say a Chuck Berry or Fats Domino song and completely blanderize it) back in the 70's.

And yet, one of Fats Domino's best-known hits, 1956's Blueberry Hill, was previously performed by white performers like the Glenn Miller Orchestra back in the 1940s.

[The Darknight Detective]

And yet, one of Fats Domino's best-known hits, 1956's Blueberry Hill, was previously performed by white performers like the Glenn Miller Orchestra back in the 1940s.

In my music library, I have versions of that song from, besides Fats (my mother still has her original '78) and Elvis, Miller, Gene Autry, and Louis Armstrong from the Forties. Having said that, my favorite is still the Fatman's.