When I think of the wimpiest records ever this one has to be under consideration for the title.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTkgVvmca1k

What would you pick as the wimpiest hit record of the 50s?

The 2 big Fleetwoods hits would be in the running. Maybe some Johnny
Mathis like "Misty."

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Some Others

Tonight You Belong To Me - Patience & Prudence
Hey Paula - Paul & Paul
Puppy Love - Paul Anka / Donny Osmond
Cherish - Association
Mr. Lonely - Bobby Vinton
O Dio Mio - Annette
My Wish Came True - Elvis
It Hurts Me - Elvis
All Out of Love - Air Supply
Vincent = Don McLean
Can't Smile Without You - Barry Manilow
Muskrat Love - Captain & Tennille
Michelle - Beatles
Here, There & Everywhere - Beatles
Lady Jane - Rolling Stones
You're The Inspiration - Chicago
Hello - Lionel Richie

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I'm Not Lisa - Jesse Colter
Three Times A Lady - Commodores
Rubber Ball - Bobby Vee
Cindy's Birthday - Johnny Crawford

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I Just called to Say I Love You - Stevie Wonder
If You Leave Me Now - Chicago
If - Bread
Longer - Dan Fogelberg
Scarborough Fair - Simon & Garfunkel
El Condor Pasa - Simon & Garfunkel
Silly Love Songs - McCartney
You Light Up My Life - Debby Boone
Sailing - Christopher Cross
The Long And Winding Road - Beatles
Jean - Oliver

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On 6/23/2025 11:41 PM, Bruce wrote:

When I think of the wimpiest records ever this one has to be under consideration for the title.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTkgVvmca1k

What would you pick as the wimpiest hit record of the 50s?

The 2 big Fleetwoods hits would be in the running. Maybe some Johnny
Mathis like "Misty."

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I would certainly say that the lyric "I'm as helpless as a kitten up a
tree" is probably the wimpiest *lyric* of all time. I've always hated
that song, probably for that reason. Hate it even more by the Vibrations.

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On 6/24/2025 12:30 AM, Bruce wrote:

Cindy's Birthday - Johnny Crawford

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I used to refer to this as "the worst record ever made" when I was young
and naive.

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On Tue, 24 Jun 2025 3:41:27 +0000, Bruce wrote:

When I think of the wimpiest records ever this one has to be under consideration for the title.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTkgVvmca1k

What would you pick as the wimpiest hit record of the 50's

A few....

"Put Your Head On My Shoulder" - Paul Anka
"Bobby Sox To Stockings" - Frankie Avalon
"Seven Little Girls Sittin' In The Back Seat" - Paul Evans
"Rainbow" - Russ Hamilton
"My Special Angel" - Bobby Helms
"Goodbye Jimmy Goodbye" - Kathy Linden
"He's Got The Whole World In His Hands" - Laurie London
"Susie Darlin'" - Robin Luke
"Tonight You Belong To Me" - Patience & Prudence
"Kookie Kookie Lend Me Your Comb" - Connie Stevens/Edd Byrnes
"Pink Shoelaces" - Dodie Stevens
"Primrose Lane" - Jerry Wallace

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On Tue, 24 Jun 2025 5:54:49 +0000, Dean wrote:

I've hated this whiny exercise in self-pity since I first heard it in
1982. To think, Motown foisted that thing on us!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txGhgfo6Iew&ab_channel=TopPop

This woman Charlene moved to the UK at one stage in the 80's and lived
near my old hunting ground in the rough tough East End

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On Tue, 24 Jun 2025 13:05:55 +0000, Roger wrote:

On Tue, 24 Jun 2025 3:41:27 +0000, Bruce wrote:

When I think of the wimpiest records ever this one has to be under
consideration for the title.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTkgVvmca1k

What would you pick as the wimpiest hit record of the 50's

A few....

"Put Your Head On My Shoulder" - Paul Anka
"Bobby Sox To Stockings" - Frankie Avalon
"Seven Little Girls Sittin' In The Back Seat" - Paul Evans
"Rainbow" - Russ Hamilton
"My Special Angel" - Bobby Helms
"Goodbye Jimmy Goodbye" - Kathy Linden
"He's Got The Whole World In His Hands" - Laurie London
"Susie Darlin'" - Robin Luke
"Tonight You Belong To Me" - Patience & Prudence
"Kookie Kookie Lend Me Your Comb" - Connie Stevens/Edd Byrnes
"Pink Shoelaces" - Dodie Stevens
"Primrose Lane" - Jerry Wallace

I guess we do have a different idea if what "wimpy" means. "Primrose
Lane" is now wimpy at all IMO. It's just a Darin/Sinatra type song in
that late 50s type pop/swing style. "Kookie Kookie" is much more novelty
than wimpy. Nothing wrong with "Pink Shoe Laces." She dings it rather dynamically rather than wimpy, like "16 Reasons" by Connie Stevens.

Still waiting to hear what makes "True Love Ways" not wimpy and "Susie
Darlin'" wimpy.

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On Tue, 24 Jun 2025 15:13:59 +0000, Bruce wrote:

On Tue, 24 Jun 2025 13:05:55 +0000, Roger wrote:

On Tue, 24 Jun 2025 3:41:27 +0000, Bruce wrote:

When I think of the wimpiest records ever this one has to be under
consideration for the title.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTkgVvmca1k

What would you pick as the wimpiest hit record of the 50's

A few....

"Put Your Head On My Shoulder" - Paul Anka
"Bobby Sox To Stockings" - Frankie Avalon
"Seven Little Girls Sittin' In The Back Seat" - Paul Evans
"Rainbow" - Russ Hamilton
"My Special Angel" - Bobby Helms
"Goodbye Jimmy Goodbye" - Kathy Linden
"He's Got The Whole World In His Hands" - Laurie London
"Susie Darlin'" - Robin Luke
"Tonight You Belong To Me" - Patience & Prudence
"Kookie Kookie Lend Me Your Comb" - Connie Stevens/Edd Byrnes
"Pink Shoelaces" - Dodie Stevens
"Primrose Lane" - Jerry Wallace

I guess we do have a different idea if what "wimpy" means. "Primrose
Lane" is now wimpy at all IMO. It's just a Darin/Sinatra type song in
that late 50s type pop/swing style. "Kookie Kookie" is much more novelty
than wimpy. Nothing wrong with "Pink Shoe Laces." She dings it rather dynamically rather than wimpy, like "16 Reasons" by Connie Stevens.

Oxford lists wimpy as "weak and feeble". Exactly what I hear in all the
above

Still waiting to hear what makes "True Love Ways" not wimpy and "Susie Darlin'" wimpy.

Luke personifies the definition as above. On the Holly the backing fits
the song as sounds good to me

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On Tue, 24 Jun 2025 06:48:29 -0400, DianeE <[email protected]> wrote:

I used to refer to this as "the worst record ever made"...

For me, it was that "bouncy-bouncy" record" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kinBHw-zkPQ (with lyrics)

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Jerry Wallace and Dodie Stevens don't sing those records weak or feeble
at all. Buddy Holly sounds much more weak and feeble on things like
"True Love Ways" and "Heartbeat."

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On Tue, 24 Jun 2025 13:05:55 +0000, [email protected] (Roger)
wrote:

What would you pick as the wimpiest hit record of the 50's

"Seven Little Girls Sittin' In The Back Seat" - Paul Evans

pleasant enough novelty

"Susie Darlin'" - Robin Luke
"Kookie Kookie Lend Me Your Comb" - Connie Stevens/Edd Byrnes
"Pink Shoelaces" - Dodie Stevens

I for one dig these groovy tunes, man, especially Susie Darlin'

THE worst major or semi-major artists from the1950s for me are the 95%
boring Roy Hamilton and the coarse raspy sound of The Olympics - raspy
can be okay in r&b/r'n'r, but not Walter Ward on some sides.

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On Tue, 24 Jun 2025 18:02:36 +0000, [email protected] (Bruce) wrote:

Buddy Holly sounds much more weak and feeble on things like
"True Love Ways" and "Heartbeat."

Gee, don't opinions differ somewhat around here.
"Heartbeat" is definitely fine, but "True Love Ways" is truly
horrible.

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On Tue, 24 Jun 2025 18:29:31 +0000, RWC wrote:

On Tue, 24 Jun 2025 18:02:36 +0000, [email protected] (Bruce) wrote:

Buddy Holly sounds much more weak and feeble on things like
"True Love Ways" and "Heartbeat."

Gee, don't opinions differ somewhat around here.
"Heartbeat" is definitely fine, but "True Love Ways" is truly
horrible.

Ridiculous!

"True Love Ways" is one of the best recordings to come from that last
session at the Coral Studios certainly miles better than the dull and
boring "Moondreams" from the same session.

And of course easily up there with that sessions most famous
recordings---"It Doesn't Matter Anymore" and "Raining In My Heart"

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On Tue, 24 Jun 2025 3:41:27 +0000, Bruce wrote:

When I think of the wimpiest records ever this one has to be under consideration for the title.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTkgVvmca1k

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On Tue, 24 Jun 2025 15:13:59 +0000, Bruce wrote:

Still waiting to hear what makes "True Love Ways" not wimpy and "Susie Darlin'" wimpy.

Simple!

The first is a good stronger song by a decent singer whereas "Susie
Darlin'" is a pretty weak song by a weak singer (the better singer
Tommy Roe does what he can with it later but an inherently weak song has
a habit of staying a weak song)

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On Tue, 24 Jun 2025 18:02:36 +0000, Bruce wrote:

Jerry Wallace and Dodie Stevens don't sing those records weak or feeble
at all. Buddy Holly sounds much more weak and feeble on things like
"True Love Ways" and "Heartbeat."

I think we must be listening to different recordings.

Jerry Wallace's "Primrose Lane" is a weak and watery affair to these
ears and the Dodie Stevens thing is just shrill unlistenable junk

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On Jun 28, 2025 at 2:04:39 PM CDT, "Roger" <Roger> wrote:

On Tue, 24 Jun 2025 18:29:31 +0000, RWC wrote:

On Tue, 24 Jun 2025 18:02:36 +0000, [email protected] (Bruce) wrote:

Buddy Holly sounds much more weak and feeble on things like
"True Love Ways" and "Heartbeat."

Gee, don't opinions differ somewhat around here.
"Heartbeat" is definitely fine, but "True Love Ways" is truly
horrible.

Ridiculous!

"True Love Ways" is one of the best recordings to come from that last
session at the Coral Studios certainly miles better than the dull and
boring "Moondreams" from the same session.

And of course easily up there with that sessions most famous
recordings---"It Doesn't Matter Anymore" and "Raining In My Heart"

Amen.

--md

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