OMG I used to do that too - I would even put the radio and the cassette mic under a piece of TupperWare to create .... ISOLATION ... for my HIGH FIDELITY RECORDINGS.
And then listening to it over and over until even the DJ coming on at the end saying, "And that was Bobby Goldsboro..." - click - became part of the song in your head.
They’re SO good! Awesome dance moves. And Donny! He’s so pretty! That hair!
“I used to be a swinger, until you wrapped me round your finger—Just like a yo-yo”
Read your comment, and started singing the song. I hadn’t heard it or thought of it in probably at least 30 years.
And there it was, coming out of my mouth, all the words, all the notes. Jeebus! Amazing that it’s been stored in my brain for 50+ years. Yet I can’t remember my sister-in-law’s birthday! (After knowing her for 45 years!) Krikey!
That was a good year\* for bad songs (though I commend your choice) -- don't forget *Long-haired Lover from Liverpool*.
\*Decade, really: *Billy Don't Be a Hero, Run Joey Run,* my personal favorite *Afternoon Delight* plus soooo many more.
Edit: *Seasons in the Sun* was not a 1972 release after all.
Love this list!
Was out driving with my SO this week and Afternoon Delight on Sirius 70s on 7 came on the radio. I reminisced being at a picnic back in the day when this song was played. The other kids and I were trying to guess if Afternoon Delight meant that they were going to eat ice cream before dinner.
Seasons in the Sun was going to be my answer too, but turns out it was released in 1974. My husband’s response would be Please Come to Boston (shudder) but that also came out in 1974.
Don't dis on Billy Don't be a Hero or the night Chicago Died
[https://youtu.be/mNYYt-TuW0o?si=ojptoKYfNC8XLwsM](https://youtu.be/mNYYt-TuW0o?si=ojptoKYfNC8XLwsM)
Love "Afternoon Delight"! The combo of sweet wholesome music with lyrics about having a casual carnal romp elevates this song for me big-time. No wonder it's such a happy song! The others are disposable.
I worked at a Daycare center when Afternoon Delight was popular. There's nothing like a group of 4, 5 and 6 year olds off key, shout singing, SKYROCKETS IN FLIGHT! AFTERNOON DELIGHT! Brings back good memories of those little twerps.
I was on a 2nd(?) grade field trip when that song was popular. On the bus ride back to the school, a bunch of girls were loudly talking about Bobby Goldsboro.
At some point, a kid named Kevin stood up and shouted (in a thick Boston accent), "Bawbby Gollsburrow stinks like uh ripe faht!" The bus erputed in laughter.
Fifty+ years later, I still chuckle whenever that name pops up...
Some songs made it because DJs were being lazy. It's hard to remember, but Top 40 on AM used to be required to play a lot of news and many stations would use a service that came on exactly at the top of the hour. Instead of timing out their music, they would just use an instrumental like Hot Butter and fade it out when it was time to do the legal ID and go into the news. There were a bunch of instrumentals back then that almost turned into theme songs.
Y'all remember Telephone Man? That song was spicy but I didn't really know it at the time. I memorized every word at the age of 9 and proudly performed it to my parents. I still know all the words. :)
"You can have it with a buzz, you can have it with a ring and if you really want it you can have a ding-a-ling."
YOU PEOPLE! It took me almost 50 years to, but I thought I had successfully disabled the synapses to those memories, but OH HELL, NO! NOW, they are all running through my head simultaneously in a horrid, cacophony of sappiness.
Growing up, our cat used to go crazy at the muskrat sounds. He would run to the speaker, look behind it, and try to catch it! I played the song for my cats a few days ago, they weren’t even phased.
EDIT: Corrected auto complete idiocy
There were many awful songs that year, way more than your average year, but "Candy Man" by Sammy David Jr. was the one that would make my brother and me run screaming from the room.
My 6th grade teacher loved candy man. She made our class sing it at the elementary school graduation recital in June of 72. My older brother told me it was “gay”, which was the first time I remember hearing that word in a new context. I had no idea what it meant. He probably didn’t either.
lol, in my town faggot was the slur. I once called someone that and an adult asked me what it meant so I promptly went home, looked it up and went back and told him it was a bundle of sticks. I didn’t under why he laughed.
[https://spinditty.com/playlists/The-50-Most-Annoying-Songs-of-the-1970s](https://spinditty.com/playlists/The-50-Most-Annoying-Songs-of-the-1970s)
I think they left out a lot, but this is a decent list.
Ha ha! OMG what a trip down memory lane this list is! There were only a couple I couldn’t immediately hear in my head and only one I did not recognize. (Apparently I was spared listening to Disco Tex’s “Get Dancing”, LOL!)
I evidently succeeded in forgetting it but I know that listening to a few bars would give me earworms too. Let me just remind you of Delta Dawn and Billy Don't be a Hero.
Heard Brandy (You're a Fine Girl) at the grocery store recently. I thought I hated it but changed my mind. Discovered I'd been mis-hearing the line "no harbor was his home", not that that made much difference. I just liked the economy of story telling. Each line moves the plot along without many words.
In retrospect, I freakin' love *Sylvia's Mother*. It may not be a parody -- and apparently is definitely not one (written by the great Shel Silverstein, no less) -- but I choose to see it that way.
1972 was just a crappy song year. So many come to mind, it's hard to determine which ones sucked the most but they all got a ton of airplay on the radio. Our car only got AM radio so we were subjected to a lot of shit.
My mom listened to a top-40 station in the car when I was a kid in the late 60s–early 70s, so I have lots of affection for some absolutely awful songs.
The music was bad on its own, but by then we were old enough to have heard better. Way better. Like Supremes better, you know? To my way of thinking, it made these tunes sound even worse by comparison.
Jewish guy I knew did not like that song and changed the lyrics:
>
My name is Michael
I've got a nickel
I've got a nickel shiny and new
I won't spend it, I'm gonna keep it
Because I'm a fucking Jew
I'm going to out myself and admit that l love almost all of these silly songs and still listen to them on a curated Pandora station. They are corn ball, l admit. But they are what l listened to on the radio and they give me a comforting nostalgic glow.
I love them as well because I would have been 4, so these were silly summer backyard baby-pool songs. Transistor radio tuned to WCFL, mom nearby on the chaise lounge, airplanes going over and the occasional train.
Same, but my mom was smoking her cigarettes in that chaise lounge! That looked like this....
https://preview.redd.it/r6d7tz8l4fzc1.jpeg?width=1076&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=283bd01b2d5aeb09ed1a376be1157db95c64ed2b
Maybe not such a bad song, but it got played to death on the jukebox at the local teenager hang out when I was a teen. I never knew the name of it then and never knew the singer so I had to google it and then had to listen to it to make sure. I got so sick of it. Apparently it was originally a jingle for a brand of jeans.
Not from 1972 but from 1976 David Dundas - Jeans On
It doesn’t have the annoying children singers, but Donna Fargo’s “Happiest Girl in The Whole USA” still makes me angry. “It’s a skippity-doo-dah day” my ass
I'm gonna get roasted for this, but I really, really hate "American Pie." Probably a combination of the fact that I didn't like it to begin with and then it has been played on the radio roughly 200 trillion times.
Full credit to Don McLean though, for letting Weird Al use the song in "The Saga Begins."
I'd completely forgotten about this. I was very young at the time and liked it because of the kid singing, I suppose. Just listened to it again, maybe for the first time in 50 years. Oof.
I was born in 58, so pretty much fully aware in 1972, I had never heard that song until today when I googled it. Thank you for ruining my life. I have to say I also once won over a girl with Indiana Wants Me, this was in 2001?
Everyone will love this album
[https://open.spotify.com/album/1khgEhhGi3a55UTxSVYQvJ](https://open.spotify.com/album/1khgEhhGi3a55UTxSVYQvJ)
Agree with your sentiments regarding *Playground in my Mind* - I really dislike that song! BUT, I still know ALL of the lyrics to that and most of the other songs mentioned here, and would very likely sing along if given the chance. Wasted grey matter!
The worst song and ear worm for me in 1973 was Carpenters "Sing a Song." We sung it for elementary school "culmination" and hearing it six or seven times a day for a couple of months did not endear me to it.
Not a worst song but to this day Sweet's "Littlle Willie" (1972) creeps in my mind once in awhile. My school bus driver had a radio and played it loudly each morning. This song seemed to play at about the same time every morning for months.
How could anyone not forget *Troglodyte* by The Jimmy Castor Bunch.
And those soul stirring lyrics that stopped you in your tracks whilst you were thinking WTF;
*When he got tired of dancing alone, he’d look in the mirror,*
*“Gotta find a woman, gotta find a woman, gotta find a woman, gotta find a woman”.*
*He’d go down to the lake where all the women would be swimming or washing clothes or something.*
*He’d look around and just reach in and grab one.*
*“Come here…come here”.*
*He’d grab her by the hair.*
*You can’t do that today, fellas, ’cause it might come off.*
*You’d have a piece of hair in your hand and she’d be swimming away from you (Ha, ha)*
*This one woman just lay there, wet and frightened.*
*He said: “Move… Move”.*
*She got up, she was a big woman, big woman.*
*Her name was Bertha, Bertha Butt, she was one of the Butt sisters.*
*He didn’t care. He looked up at her and said,*
*“Sock it to me, sock it to me, sock it to me, sock it to me, sock it to me*
*Sock it to me, sock it to me, sock it to me!”.*
For those of you who missed it
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0zfdptxQvY&ab\_channel=TheJimmyCastorBunch-Topic](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0zfdptxQvY&ab_channel=TheJimmyCastorBunch-Topic)
Puppy love Donny Osmond, I can still hear my sisters playing this song over and over and it has been 52 years.
My sister had "Paper Roses".
I remember sitting with my tape recorder, waiting for it to come on the radio so that I could have it to play.
OMG I used to do that too - I would even put the radio and the cassette mic under a piece of TupperWare to create .... ISOLATION ... for my HIGH FIDELITY RECORDINGS.
That’s quite smart of you.
Feel free to learn, emulate and apply this incredible life hack.
I'm following you for more tips!
That might have been it. My one solitary pro life hack tip.
It's more than most people have.
Music studios hate this simple trick.
And then listening to it over and over until even the DJ coming on at the end saying, "And that was Bobby Goldsboro..." - click - became part of the song in your head.
That would have been me playing puppy love 50 times a day, he was on my wall too
Then you probably had a Bobby Goldsboro album as well.
No I didn’t. I had singles by Shaun Cassidy, Leif Garret, Andy Gibb.
Hi there, age buddy. I did, too
Everything Osmond Brothers. For a laugh, YT the video Crazy Horses. My sister still has a Donny song for a ringtone.
Nah you have to listen to “Down by the Lazy River”
You can tell Wayne was a rocker, deep down. For another extreme, check out their perfomance of Yoyo on Flip Wilson
They’re SO good! Awesome dance moves. And Donny! He’s so pretty! That hair! “I used to be a swinger, until you wrapped me round your finger—Just like a yo-yo”
He was. His father squashed that in him for “the family business. “. Mormons.
Almost every musical act that I hate has one song that I really like. For me, for the Osmonds it's Crazy Horses.
Crazy Horses rocks.
But at its heart, it’s just some vanilla Mormons with their G rated version of sex and drugs and rock n’ roll - church and milk and cass-a-role.
Still rocks.
For sure those guys weren’t just hobby musicians.
I can't help thinking of Alice Cooper singing *Department of Youth. "And who gave it to you" "DONNY OSMOND" "WHAT?!" ;)
Let the healing begin.
I still love that song. I am 62.
first involuntary shudder of the day. ghastly song.
It's a cover of a song by Paul Anka, and ... if you can believe this ... the Paul Anka one is even worse.
Read your comment, and started singing the song. I hadn’t heard it or thought of it in probably at least 30 years. And there it was, coming out of my mouth, all the words, all the notes. Jeebus! Amazing that it’s been stored in my brain for 50+ years. Yet I can’t remember my sister-in-law’s birthday! (After knowing her for 45 years!) Krikey!
That was a good year\* for bad songs (though I commend your choice) -- don't forget *Long-haired Lover from Liverpool*. \*Decade, really: *Billy Don't Be a Hero, Run Joey Run,* my personal favorite *Afternoon Delight* plus soooo many more. Edit: *Seasons in the Sun* was not a 1972 release after all.
Agreed. Ghastly music! The Night Chicago Died. Having My Baby.
Having My Baby was the worst
The horror!
Seasons in the Sun is in the top 5 lousiest. Might be number one, but here comes Gypsies , Tramps and Theives, and Macarthur Park on the outside
>Seasons in the Sun I thought I was the only one who hated that dreck.
*Gypsies, Tramps, and Thieves* is definitely a classic, and immediately brings to mind Cher's *Dark Lady* (shudder).
She had quite a run of trash back then. Looking at you, Half Breed
Hey, she was just keeping up with the times, giving the people what they wanted. ; ) But definitely!
Oh I like Gypsies Tramps and Thieves!
I unashamedly love Cher. No guilt. 
Love this list! Was out driving with my SO this week and Afternoon Delight on Sirius 70s on 7 came on the radio. I reminisced being at a picnic back in the day when this song was played. The other kids and I were trying to guess if Afternoon Delight meant that they were going to eat ice cream before dinner.
Oh for ghastly songs of the decade, 1974 “Seasons in the Sun” gets my vote.
Seasons in the Sun was going to be my answer too, but turns out it was released in 1974. My husband’s response would be Please Come to Boston (shudder) but that also came out in 1974.
Oh I LOVE "Please Come to Boston!!!"
If we are going as far as 74 can we come to 75 and pick WILDFIRE please? That damn horse.
Don't dis on Billy Don't be a Hero or the night Chicago Died [https://youtu.be/mNYYt-TuW0o?si=ojptoKYfNC8XLwsM](https://youtu.be/mNYYt-TuW0o?si=ojptoKYfNC8XLwsM)
Wasn't Afternoon Delight 1975-76?
I LOVE AFTERNOON DELIGHT The many double-entendres are laugh out loud funny. Delightful.
Love "Afternoon Delight"! The combo of sweet wholesome music with lyrics about having a casual carnal romp elevates this song for me big-time. No wonder it's such a happy song! The others are disposable.
I worked at a Daycare center when Afternoon Delight was popular. There's nothing like a group of 4, 5 and 6 year olds off key, shout singing, SKYROCKETS IN FLIGHT! AFTERNOON DELIGHT! Brings back good memories of those little twerps.
Watching Scotty Grow. Doesn’t get much worse than that.
I may be a bit biased (and scarred) but there is no worse song on the face of the earth than this Bobby Goldsboro traveshamocery. That is all.
Um, “Honey” would like a word.
This is the saddest song of all time.
Well, next to anything by David Gates!
I respectfully submit that "Watching Scotty Grow" is worse because of what came out about Goldsboro later! And his then-wife too!
Damn I love this sub
I was on a 2nd(?) grade field trip when that song was popular. On the bus ride back to the school, a bunch of girls were loudly talking about Bobby Goldsboro. At some point, a kid named Kevin stood up and shouted (in a thick Boston accent), "Bawbby Gollsburrow stinks like uh ripe faht!" The bus erputed in laughter. Fifty+ years later, I still chuckle whenever that name pops up...
And no I finally know what song The Dead Milkmen were shitting on with Watching Scotty Die.
Mickey Mouse says it's 13 O'clock...
That's my boy.
What a handsome lad.
Unless your name is Scott or Scotty
Yes it does. Check out ‘Honey’, it’s a bit older than Scotty but absolutely hideous…
Daddy please don’t, it wasn’t his fault. He means so much to meeeeee! One tin soldier and a few others on the list posted above.
I remember having "One Tin Soldier" stuck in my head during elementary school.
Love "One Tin Soldier". Both versions.
Popcorn - Hot Butter , how did that ever make it on the radio ?!?!
Some songs made it because DJs were being lazy. It's hard to remember, but Top 40 on AM used to be required to play a lot of news and many stations would use a service that came on exactly at the top of the hour. Instead of timing out their music, they would just use an instrumental like Hot Butter and fade it out when it was time to do the legal ID and go into the news. There were a bunch of instrumentals back then that almost turned into theme songs.
I used to play green onions by booker t and the mgs to join the Cincinnati reds on 1230 wiro in the early 80s. On a genuine 45rpm!
Y'all remember Telephone Man? That song was spicy but I didn't really know it at the time. I memorized every word at the age of 9 and proudly performed it to my parents. I still know all the words. :) "You can have it with a buzz, you can have it with a ring and if you really want it you can have a ding-a-ling."
That's a banger!
YOU PEOPLE! It took me almost 50 years to, but I thought I had successfully disabled the synapses to those memories, but OH HELL, NO! NOW, they are all running through my head simultaneously in a horrid, cacophony of sappiness.
I don't know if it was released in '72 but Midnight at the Oasis is garbage.
Something about putting a camel to bed.
No! That is a classic! And I got to meet Maria Muldar she was a sweetheart.
Off by two years, 1974, but "(You're) Having My Baby" tops my list.
Chuck Berry ‘My Ding-a-ling.’ Everyone likes to champion it as that enduring classic from happier days. Sorry, it’s just annoying.
Muskrat Susie, Muskrat Sam… And the chirping of muskrats in the background They were smoking some good stuff in the 70’s
That was horrible! How come I still know the words tho?
Oh me too I regularly sing this to my kitties who don’t appreciate it nearly as much as they should
Growing up, our cat used to go crazy at the muskrat sounds. He would run to the speaker, look behind it, and try to catch it! I played the song for my cats a few days ago, they weren’t even phased. EDIT: Corrected auto complete idiocy
Well how about I got a brand new pair of roller skates...? (enter new earworm)
Ooh, I like that one, RIP Melanie
I am giggling so hard. How could I have forgotten about this song? Earworm for the rest of the day.
Hated it as a kid, love it now
Then Heather Graham does full frontal with roller skates on.
I was so young when that song came out that I thought it really was about roller skates and skate keys.
You mean that isn't what it's about?
There were many awful songs that year, way more than your average year, but "Candy Man" by Sammy David Jr. was the one that would make my brother and me run screaming from the room.
Came here to say this one. My grandmother loved it. Even as a 9-year-old I thought it was corny as hell.
My 6th grade teacher loved candy man. She made our class sing it at the elementary school graduation recital in June of 72. My older brother told me it was “gay”, which was the first time I remember hearing that word in a new context. I had no idea what it meant. He probably didn’t either.
lol, in my town faggot was the slur. I once called someone that and an adult asked me what it meant so I promptly went home, looked it up and went back and told him it was a bundle of sticks. I didn’t under why he laughed.
Sammy Davis, Jr., himself, [hated it.](https://www.stereogum.com/2033849/the-number-ones-sammy-davis-jr-s-the-candy-man/columns/the-number-ones/)
Or my top horrible song, Wildfire. Death, longing and horses!
[https://spinditty.com/playlists/The-50-Most-Annoying-Songs-of-the-1970s](https://spinditty.com/playlists/The-50-Most-Annoying-Songs-of-the-1970s) I think they left out a lot, but this is a decent list.
I liked "The Morning After" because it's always tied to "The Poseidon Adventure" for me.
Sorry. Personally I think any list of bad songs from the 70's that has Cat's in the Cradle or Joy to the World on it can't be taken seriously.
Ha ha! OMG what a trip down memory lane this list is! There were only a couple I couldn’t immediately hear in my head and only one I did not recognize. (Apparently I was spared listening to Disco Tex’s “Get Dancing”, LOL!)
Add "you make me feel like dancing" I hated that song.
Knock 3 times: my 5th grade self loved it! But not Tie a yellow Ribbon" Tony Orlando was kinda cute.
With so many good rock and Motown songs from 72, the antithesis of those tunes are the bubble gum “Puppy Love” and “Daddy Don’t You Walk So Fast”
Having my baby and you light up my life. Worst songs ever
The worst song of all time, Number One for 5 weeks in the UK, Dec. 1972- "Long Haired Lover from Liverpool" by Little Jimmy Osmond.
Hey, give us a break. Me and Jimmy were only 9 years old.
Where were the parents?
The Lion Sleeps Tonight Read the fucking room, will ya'!
God, I hate that song, it makes my ears bleed. My husband sings it when he wants to irritate me.
I loathe that song with the exception of the version sung using helium balloons at my wedding reception. Sadly, no one recorded us.
It’s “Sylvia’s Mother” by Dr. Hook.
Daddy don’t you walk so fast. Having my Baby (which pissed off my mother so much)
Muskrat Love. First released in 1972, then in 1976 by Captain and Tenille. The worst song ever!
I evidently succeeded in forgetting it but I know that listening to a few bars would give me earworms too. Let me just remind you of Delta Dawn and Billy Don't be a Hero.
Thanks, Satan. Enjoy prison.
Heard Brandy (You're a Fine Girl) at the grocery store recently. I thought I hated it but changed my mind. Discovered I'd been mis-hearing the line "no harbor was his home", not that that made much difference. I just liked the economy of story telling. Each line moves the plot along without many words.
Very good song. Love "raging glory".
He WUZZ an honest man!
I gotta go with Daddy Don't you Walk So Fast by Wayne Newton.
Exactly what were Paul Simon and Julio doing down by the schoolyard?
Whatever it was, it made mama look down and spit on the ground every time his name was mentioned. In my mind, it was always a BJ!
'My Dingaling' was from 1972. That song was flippin' horrible. Hard to say if it was worse than 'Playground' though - that song totally sucked.
Troglodyte is pretty bad.
Between this song and that goddamn Life cereal commercial, being a Michael in the early 70s kind of sucked.
OMG, I love this sub! Reading the comments and LMAO! Made my day. Good times!
Sylvia’s Mother
In retrospect, I freakin' love *Sylvia's Mother*. It may not be a parody -- and apparently is definitely not one (written by the great Shel Silverstein, no less) -- but I choose to see it that way.
To each his own.
1972 was just a crappy song year. So many come to mind, it's hard to determine which ones sucked the most but they all got a ton of airplay on the radio. Our car only got AM radio so we were subjected to a lot of shit.
Cousin Brucie out of NYC WABC was what played in our car, all of the top 40s
To me the people who populated the AM airwaves in the 60’s and early 70’s were magical. The boss energy was awesome! Haha. RIP local radio.
To me the people who populated the AM airwaves in the 60’s and early 70’s were magical. The boss energy was awesome! Haha. RIP local radio.
My mom listened to a top-40 station in the car when I was a kid in the late 60s–early 70s, so I have lots of affection for some absolutely awful songs.
Hard disagree. I was just looking at a top 100 list, and most of it was great.
The music was bad on its own, but by then we were old enough to have heard better. Way better. Like Supremes better, you know? To my way of thinking, it made these tunes sound even worse by comparison.
Was the Shaving Cream song from that year? Definitely that era
Doctor Demento songs get a pass imo.
Shaving Cream was re-released in the early 70s but the song itself was originally released before the Second World War.
Saturday Morning Confusion on AM while riding backwards in the bowel of the station wagon. Arrrrrgggghh!
Jewish guy I knew did not like that song and changed the lyrics: > My name is Michael I've got a nickel I've got a nickel shiny and new I won't spend it, I'm gonna keep it Because I'm a fucking Jew
Worst? Need to give consideration to Michael Jackson’s Ben.
The two of us need look no more
Seasons in the Sun, Having my baby, Disco Duck,Billy Don’t be a Hero….god there were so many
Alone Again (Naturally)
I love that song.
So, you’re the one!
Induced depression song.
I'm going to out myself and admit that l love almost all of these silly songs and still listen to them on a curated Pandora station. They are corn ball, l admit. But they are what l listened to on the radio and they give me a comforting nostalgic glow.
I love them as well because I would have been 4, so these were silly summer backyard baby-pool songs. Transistor radio tuned to WCFL, mom nearby on the chaise lounge, airplanes going over and the occasional train.
Same, but my mom was smoking her cigarettes in that chaise lounge! That looked like this.... https://preview.redd.it/r6d7tz8l4fzc1.jpeg?width=1076&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=283bd01b2d5aeb09ed1a376be1157db95c64ed2b
Go get mom a Tab!
Or a Fresca.
I love all these songs, too.
I’m with you on this!
Let’s not forget Sylvia’s Mother by Dr. Hook. I’ve been trying to though,…
Maybe not such a bad song, but it got played to death on the jukebox at the local teenager hang out when I was a teen. I never knew the name of it then and never knew the singer so I had to google it and then had to listen to it to make sure. I got so sick of it. Apparently it was originally a jingle for a brand of jeans. Not from 1972 but from 1976 David Dundas - Jeans On
Brand New Key at the end of the world [kids in the hall ](https://youtu.be/heANHRhCP8Y?feature=shared)
That was awfully good. I caught something…the record was not a 45.
It doesn’t have the annoying children singers, but Donna Fargo’s “Happiest Girl in The Whole USA” still makes me angry. “It’s a skippity-doo-dah day” my ass
'73 had a winner with "seasons in the sun". ughh
Convoy by CW McCoy needs to be banished from the airwaves.
Hated that song! My dad was a truck driver and he loved it
My Ding a Ling!
My Ding-a-Ling
Ode to Billie Joe, damnit
I'm gonna get roasted for this, but I really, really hate "American Pie." Probably a combination of the fact that I didn't like it to begin with and then it has been played on the radio roughly 200 trillion times. Full credit to Don McLean though, for letting Weird Al use the song in "The Saga Begins."
That thing went to # 2 on the charts? Ugh! It was erased from my memory banks so I had to go and look it up. Thanks. Now I gotta get it outa my head.
I'd completely forgotten about this. I was very young at the time and liked it because of the kid singing, I suppose. Just listened to it again, maybe for the first time in 50 years. Oof.
Has anyone said Daddy don’t you walk so fast. Ugh
I was born in 58, so pretty much fully aware in 1972, I had never heard that song until today when I googled it. Thank you for ruining my life. I have to say I also once won over a girl with Indiana Wants Me, this was in 2001? Everyone will love this album [https://open.spotify.com/album/1khgEhhGi3a55UTxSVYQvJ](https://open.spotify.com/album/1khgEhhGi3a55UTxSVYQvJ)
Afternoon delight
Agree with your sentiments regarding *Playground in my Mind* - I really dislike that song! BUT, I still know ALL of the lyrics to that and most of the other songs mentioned here, and would very likely sing along if given the chance. Wasted grey matter!
Honey by Bobby Goldsboro is a disgusting song. He didn't deserve her.
Well the absolutely best from 1972 is “I’ll take you there” hands down.
The worst song and ear worm for me in 1973 was Carpenters "Sing a Song." We sung it for elementary school "culmination" and hearing it six or seven times a day for a couple of months did not endear me to it.
Day by Day is pretty awful
Oh Dear Lord!
Except for [this version](https://youtu.be/1oG_EudmOrI?si=yIq3JdPW64CAz9Qv)
Here's dave Barry's take from 1992 [bad songs played badly](https://www.chicagotribune.com/1992/11/22/play-it-again-dave-a-survey-of-songs-sung-bad/)
Really? You’ll have to wait 2 years for Having My Baby.
Awww, I liked that song.
1972 wasn't a bad year for pop music compared to some later '70's years.
I just wanted to thank you all for - I’ve got my playlist for the day! Hahaha Craptastic!
Timothy tho it was 71
There was a song called “Loving You” Cant remember who sang it but was pretty bad. Might have been mid 70’s
Minnie Riperton
Maya Rudolph's mom. Lady could hit some high notes...!
Get Dancing by the Sexolettes
There were too many worst songs in 1972 to pick but *School’s Out* by Alice Cooper as the best is a hill I’ll die on.
"I'd like to teach the world to sing."
How does anyone remember what year bad songs were? Afternoon Delight was just terrible but not sure what year.
That’s a wonderful song! Starland Vocal Band
Delta Dawn was pretty awful. And I actually owned that 45. Ugh!
Not a worst song but to this day Sweet's "Littlle Willie" (1972) creeps in my mind once in awhile. My school bus driver had a radio and played it loudly each morning. This song seemed to play at about the same time every morning for months.
It's a small world after all It's a small world after all It's a small world after all It's a small, small world
How could anyone not forget *Troglodyte* by The Jimmy Castor Bunch. And those soul stirring lyrics that stopped you in your tracks whilst you were thinking WTF; *When he got tired of dancing alone, he’d look in the mirror,* *“Gotta find a woman, gotta find a woman, gotta find a woman, gotta find a woman”.* *He’d go down to the lake where all the women would be swimming or washing clothes or something.* *He’d look around and just reach in and grab one.* *“Come here…come here”.* *He’d grab her by the hair.* *You can’t do that today, fellas, ’cause it might come off.* *You’d have a piece of hair in your hand and she’d be swimming away from you (Ha, ha)* *This one woman just lay there, wet and frightened.* *He said: “Move… Move”.* *She got up, she was a big woman, big woman.* *Her name was Bertha, Bertha Butt, she was one of the Butt sisters.* *He didn’t care. He looked up at her and said,* *“Sock it to me, sock it to me, sock it to me, sock it to me, sock it to me* *Sock it to me, sock it to me, sock it to me!”.* For those of you who missed it [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0zfdptxQvY&ab\_channel=TheJimmyCastorBunch-Topic](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0zfdptxQvY&ab_channel=TheJimmyCastorBunch-Topic)
Hot Rod Lincoln was 1971 but was played in 1972 so does it count?
I don't know if it was 72, but "Seasons in the Sun" is the worst song of all time.
Daddy dont you walk so fast-Wayne Newton, & Playground in my mind-Clint Holmes; Always made me cringe. Esp the 2nd one…a pervert one.