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Dave, there are many worse songs now than MacArthur Park. You wrote your column in that innocent time before rap was invented.
Posted by: Elon | April 27, 2010 at 05:38 PM
“Havin My Baby” by Paul Anka must rate way down there among some of the worst songs ever to emanate from a recording studio. I really hated that song. By the way, the journalist Dave Barry’s seminal work titled something like “Book of Bad Songs” that came out in the 1990s is a wonderful compendium of songs like Havin My Baby….. Songs to make you just EXCLAIM: “Oh my God! I remember that ! And it was truly awful!”
Obviously this is a commenter with taste!
Posted by: Jeff Meyerson | April 27, 2010 at 06:13 PM
Dang! I just had to go on and read the comments. As in gambling, one should know when to stop.
Posted by: Steve | April 27, 2010 at 06:18 PM
Feelings, anything by "he who must not be linked to...
Posted by: Siouxie | April 27, 2010 at 06:30 PM
There a lot of songs that I liked the first 500 times I heard them and then they kept on playing them over and over. McArthur Park and Honey are 2 that I just cannot even stand to think about. And anything by Paul Anka.
Posted by: nursecindy | April 27, 2010 at 06:41 PM
I'm right there with you Siouxie on Feelings. My mother loved that song, and would play it over and over. To this day, my siblings and I tease her that any problems we have were caused by being tortured with that song.
Posted by: Dorakay | April 27, 2010 at 06:47 PM
I still have one of my old piano lesson books. One of the songs was Feelings. Another was Muskrat Love. Yet somehow I managed to grow up not completely hating music.
Posted by: KJP | April 27, 2010 at 07:19 PM
That truly is disgusting...to read a Dave Barry masterpiece, copy it, and then NOT give credit to the master, but then to USE it for his own rewards...
I'd sue him.
(Just kidding...he has a whole chapter on protstitues in his book...where he did EXTENSIVE research that was not even funny. No amount of money can help him.)
Posted by: Novanglus | April 27, 2010 at 08:28 PM
Sounds like a copyright infringement case to me...
Posted by: ArcticAl | April 27, 2010 at 09:56 PM
Guess the Times had no news that was fit to print.
Posted by: Loudmouth | April 27, 2010 at 10:00 PM
Question to Mr. Dubner: "Who is guilty of some serious plagiarism?"
His answer: "I am, I said."
Posted by: Meanie the Blue | April 27, 2010 at 10:31 PM