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In reply to the discussion: Does any else remember those gruesome songs from the 1950s-1970s? I don't know why [View all]argyl
(3,064 posts)37. J.Frank Wilson and Last Kiss. We have a winner. n/t.
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Does any else remember those gruesome songs from the 1950s-1970s? I don't know why [View all]
japple
Jun 2019
OP
In 1960 in Catholic school our nun let us bring records to play on Fridays. One song was about a guy
wasupaloopa
Jun 2019
#3
I think it was because we thought we were going to burn up in a mushroom cloud any day,
wasupaloopa
Jun 2019
#9
One of my favorite Byrds songs! I thought this 80's Ultravox song about a nuclear
50 Shades Of Blue
Jun 2019
#26
One of those songs I had to jump up to replay it several times. Like song you posted.
Hoyt
Jun 2019
#33
This is from 2000, so it doesn't quite meet the criterion, but here it is anyway.
cos dem
Jun 2019
#16
"Billy and Sue" by BJ Thomas and the Dakotas, and "The Wreck on the Highway" by The Louvin Bros.
NBachers
Jun 2019
#38
What's that song where she keeps wailing "Let it please be him, oh dear lord it must be him..."
Grasswire2
Jun 2019
#42