European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 24, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Last laugh the hold your ears worst song of All a Macarthur Park i it aim i Hope you Haven t Hal anything to Cut recently because a  list week today i urn pro renting the Winner Oftle chit song Survey in analysing these Rcd Ull t bad to Mako n few . For example the Bob Dylan Lity lady Lay would stove easily won As worst Overall song with 17,006 vote except Tomt i Luul to Ltd Cliff it i Low 17,004 vote on the ground that they were Kennthy my research department Judi Smith who tabulated the Vole not who Viates Lay lady Lay to win n song hint to he known Well enough Ifni a Tot of people Eiml hate in till is a Sli Unie in a Way because some obscure song Tomt people voted for Are wonderfully hideous. One Reader sent n tape of a song called  by a group called Barbara and inc Hoys old could he the worst song in be Ever heard. It consist no not entirely of the Hoy singing a a Booty i loot i la Tolyl Quot and then Bur hum saying a Howdy Ilo Oty  a several Reader Cut in an amazing cd from Rhino record culled Golden throats which con fit it i it of popular actor  to King popular music Iuliu Linig William Shatner attempting Lucy in the sky with diamonds Uon urd Nimoy attempting proud maty Mae West attempting a vist and shout Eddie Alweil attempting mowing in the we Niido this Ift my favorite a Jack a soul Quot Webb attempting try u Lith tenderness you need thin cd hut now for our Survey results without question lie voter#1 Choice Tor worst song in both the worst Overall and worst l lyrics category i drum Roll a a Macarthur Turk As sting by Richurd Harris and later remade for no comprehensible reason by Donna summer it hard to argue with this selection. My 12-Yerir-old son Hob was going through a pile of ballots and be asked me Bow Macarthur Park goes so i Sang it giving it my Best shot and Rob laughed so hard Tomt when i got to the part about leaving the cake out in the rain and it look so Long to bake it and ill never have that recipe again Hob was 011 the floor. He did no to relieve those lyrics were real lie was sure his Wacky old humor columnist dad was making them up the Clear runner up again in both categories is Yummy Yummy Yummy 7 got love in my Tummy performed by Ohio express a voter sent me an even worse version of this performed by actress Julie London who no one time a and Don t Tell me this is Mere coincidence a was married to Jack Webb or Mug in a Strong third is you re having my Plahy by i aul Anka this song is deeply hated. As one voter put it Quot it has no redeeming value whatsoever a except my Friend Brian yelled out during the birth scene in the sequel to the Fly in full song 1 Laving Iny Maggot in a honorable mention goes to Bobby Goldsboro who got Many Voles for various songs especially Honey one voter wrote a Why docs everybody Hale Hobby Goldsboro s hone a i hate it too but i want to know Why a Why consider this verse.ts7jc wrecked the car and Vic Wax sad and m afraid that i d he mad hut what Tho Heck 77m�?T i pretended hard to he guess Yon could say she saw through me and hugged my neck As one Reader observed a Bobby never caught on that he could have bored n Hole in himself and let the sap out.�?�. A recent song that i is aroused great hostility is achy i Beaky heart by Billy Ray Cyrus according to voter Mark Freeman the song sound like this you can Tell my lips or you can toil my hips that you re going to dump to Tayou can but Don t Tett my liver it never won a forgive her it might now up and circumcise this Mun Many voters feel a special lifetime bad achievement award should go to Mac Davis who wrote in the ghetto watching Scotty grow and baby Don t get hooked on me which contains one of inc worst line in musical history you be a hot Nood cd woman child and it s warm where you re touching me  military life in Europe a Start m m # m a Saf v _. Tom a a a a a a a that might be As bad As the part in careless whisk per where George Michael sing sin a never Gonna dance again guilty feet have got no rhythm. Speaking of bad lyrics Many voters also cited paid Mccartney who Ever since his body was taken Over by a pod person has been writing things like someone s knocking at the door somebody s ringing the Bell repeat do me a favor _ open the door and let him in. There were Strong votes for various tragedy songs especially teen Angel til never kiss your lips again they buried you  and Timothy a song about a really a three trapped miners two of whom wind up eating inc third. Other tremendously unpopular songs for their lyrics or Overall badness arc Muskrat love sugar sugar i m too sexy surfing Bird in be never been to me in a Gadda a Vida afternoon Delight feelings you Light up my life and in the year 2s2s violent hatred for this song. In closing let me say that you voters have performed a major Public service and that just because your song did no to make the list that does t mean it in t awful unless you were one of the badly misguided people who voted for 77te Tupperware singlet me Ulso say that i am very relieved to learn that there arc people besides me who hate stairway to heaven. Thank you. . Also i shot the sheriff til Miami Herald a a. J by Charles Kaufman ton six reasons not to Send on of the fill toils of Tho Clinton  could com bum Iraq. Swu la . Go hmm into Hoy it q still Haven t cleaned out nil the tand bom our equipment from the lost Lime we were in Iraq. Baffes sales would drop which would Hurt the funding of mar programs. We a Boon la Iraq i jote town there would really be no u a troops left in Europe lag Ira i my Fikas Jantuah a t i t i