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C'mon --- 'Fess up! Who are your musical guilty pleasures!? Artists/bands that you don't want to admit you like for some reason? Kenny G? Michael Bolton? Britney Spears?I thought of this today because I wanted to pick my spirits up, and put on the poppiest orchestral music I had: Leroy Anderson. You know, "Bugler's Holiday" --- "Fiddle-Faddle" --- "The Typewriter" etc. Great schmaltz!Other nominees:Hard Rock: AC/DC (Let There Be Rock)Pop: The Bee Gees (I Started A Joke)Punk/Rock: The MC 5 (Kick Out The Jams)Crooners: Bing Crosby (Gay Love)60's: Lou Christie (Lightning Strikes)British Invasion: Freddie and the Dreamers (I'm Telling You Now)Death Metal: Morbid Angel ('nuff said)How embarrassing! What sayest youse guys?Ern

I may be flayed for this--Barry Manilow.

Quote: I may be flayed for this--Barry Manilow. Oh no --- not Manilow! I gotta admit I like some of Neil Diamond's stuff. Ern

A friend of mine and I somehow got on the subject of Tom Jones, and I mentioned I had bought the She's a Lady and Puppet Man 45s when I was a kid. This got me intreged and I started listening to some of the old pop from my day (early '70s)...Timothy by The Buoys, Toast and Marmalade for Tea by Tin Tin, Burning Bridges by the Michael Curb Congregation,...You and Me and a Dog Named Boo, Chickaboom, Indian Reservation. My mind is going. There is no question about it....

Yup, I forgot Tom Jones. What pipes! He still sings great ---Ern

Quote:Yup, I forgot Tom Jones. What pipes! He still sings great ---Ern He does, but my friend said this about "She's a Lady":"That song was not sung - it was INFLICTED"

Quote:Crooners: Bing Crosby (Gay Love)I love Bing...I own all the Road Movies on VHS and DVD! Love Dottie and Bob Hope too - at one time I could sing all the songs from Road To Morocco by heart...

Ooh --- Oooh --- "Brick House" by the CommodoresUsed in a T.V. ad now, but it's still a great dance song.Ern

Four Seasons - Opus 17Buckinghams - Kind of a DrapAnimals - Don't Let Me Be MisunderstoodDonovan - Mellow YellowManfred Mann - Quinn the EskimoBee Gees - Nights on BroadwaySanford Townsend Band - Smoke From a Distant FireGrass Roots - Temptation EyesPhish - Gin & JuiceTemptations - Poppa Was a Rolling StoneElvis - All Shook UpHollies - Crimson and CloverBobby Bloom - Montego BayHoyt Axton - Boney Fingers It has been pointed out many times about how lame I can be so don't waste your breath.

Quote:Four Seasons - Opus 17Buckinghams - Kind of a DrapAnimals - Don't Let Me Be MisunderstoodDonovan - Mellow YellowManfred Mann - Quinn the EskimoBee Gees - Nights on BroadwaySanford Townsend Band - Smoke From a Distant FireGrass Roots - Temptation EyesPhish - Gin & JuiceTemptations - Poppa Was a Rolling StoneElvis - All Shook UpHollies - Crimson and CloverBobby Bloom - Montego BayHoyt Axton - Boney Fingers It has been pointed out many times about how lame I can be so don't waste your breath. Crimson and Clover was Tommy James and The Shondells... Get your musicall guilty pleasures straight!!!!One of mine, besides the Monkees and Melanie (yes, Melanie) is "Walk Away Renee" buy the Left Banke... I also love listening to "I Got You Babe" by Sonny and Cher. Casey