Weirdest songs to chart in the U.S.

[Crusherkc]

Weird, yet attractive...

Lene Lovich - Lucky Number

[mackro]

Things Get a Little Easier

Think. "Once You Understand" was a charting U.S. single in early 1972.
It was meant to be a novelty "social criticism" song at the time, but now it's some of the best ahead-of-its-time comedy ever.
Exact that last part, which was sampled in a well known techno song.

[yesno]

A*Teens--Dancing Queen charted in the US, barely. How many other tribute bands can say the same?

[JonFromMaplewood]

Things Get a Little Easier

Think. "Once You Understand" was a charting U.S. single in early 1972.
It was meant to be a novelty "social criticism" song at the time, but now it's some of the best ahead-of-its-time comedy ever.
Exact that last part, which was sampled in a well known techno song.

Whoa. Hard to top that.

[Shaggy 2 Grote]

Things Get a Little Easier

Think. "Once You Understand" was a charting U.S. single in early 1972.
It was meant to be a novelty "social criticism" song at the time, but now it's some of the best ahead-of-its-time comedy ever.
Exact that last part, which was sampled in a well known techno song.

Whoa. Hard to top that.

That twist at the end was devastating. Knocked the wind out of me. If only they had understood Robert!!

[mackro]

Don't know if any of you were into the club/rave scene in the early 1990s, but this song was a staple. You'll immediately recognize the intro sample now:

4 Hero - Mr Kirk's Nightmare

[mackro]

And unsurprisingly, WFMU wrote about "Once You Understand", the 4 Hero track, and the full Think album "Encounter" on their Beware blog back in '07. You can preview the whole album here:

http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2007/01/365_days_18_thi.html

[Steve of Bloomington]

Things Get a Little Easier

Think. "Once You Understand" was a charting U.S. single in early 1972.
It was meant to be a novelty "social criticism" song at the time, but now it's some of the best ahead-of-its-time comedy ever.
Exact that last part, which was sampled in a well known techno song.

Oh man, that was horrifying. Between this and Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer it's clear adults were real a-holes in the 60s and early 70s.

[cavorting with nudists]

The comments to that "Beware of the Blog" piece are amusing. What must be the same guy posting under about a dozen different names keeps going on about how Bobby Susser, the composer of "Things Get a Little Easier," is a giant of the business and is on his way to an unstoppable comeback featuring a musical based on the song and a new powerhouse album of incredibly timely hits for kids AND adults that are going to blow everyone away, run the table at the Grammys, etc. etc.

[buffcoat]

The comments to that "Beware of the Blog" piece are amusing. What must be the same guy posting under about a dozen different names Bobby Susser keeps going on about how Bobby Susser, the composer of "Things Get a Little Easier," is a giant of the business and is on his way to an unstoppable comeback featuring a musical based on the song and a new powerhouse album of incredibly timely hits for kids AND adults that are going to blow everyone away, run the table at the Grammys, etc. etc.

Gotta be, yeah?

[cavorting with nudists]

Yeah, I think so.  My favorite is when somebody points out that the song was sampled by De La Soul and the guy, whoever he is, says something like "Who cares who sampled it? The point is, Bobby Susser was a total genius, my nieces and nephews listen to his songs all the time!"

[yesno]

I love this:

Jerry, I just heard the new Bobby Susser CD All Roads Lead To Home too. A kid in my nursery class just brought it in.

[buffcoat]

It sort of plays out like a Newbridge call.

[daveB from Oakland]

"Seasons in the Sun" is pretty weird.

[Shaggy 2 Grote]

Oh, man, that is great. I want to meet Bobby Susser now.

All these rumors about Bobby Susser are extremely possible. However, since I am in the children's book and audio-video business, I always hear things about work that Bobby Susser is doing. The two big rumors are that he's finishing a new collection of children's songs, and that his work should be out on a new label soon. Ofcourse, any other things may be possible because when you're in the children's audio-video business you will hear things about Bobby Susser on a regular basis. He may not always announce things he's doing until it's all done, but it's for sure that Bobby Susser is surely doing something, and that something is usually working on children's songs in one way or another.