Hot Platters Morbid Song List


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Subject: Re: MORBID DEATH TUNES From: brikrn@earth.execpc.com (Brian Korn) Date: 4 Jul 1995 03:17:08 GMT Message-ID: 3tabrk$es7@homer.alpha.net>

>HotPlatter (hotplatter@aol.com) wrote: >I'm trying to compile a list of songs dealing with death. >Anyone want to add any ? >A few that come to mind. > Jimmy Cross - I want my baby back > J. Frank Wilson - Last Kiss > Ray Peterson - Give Us Your Blessing > Ray Peterson - Tell Laura I Love Her > Dickey Lee - Laurie > The Cadets - Car Crash > Mark Dinning - Teen Angel > Pat Boone - Moody River > Donald Woods - Death of an Angel > Keep 'em coming > HotPlatter Two Hour Honeymoon - Paul Hampton Teenage Honeymoon _ Kenny Ancel Tragic Honeymoon _ Cody Brennan Susie Forgive Me - Kenny Karen Valeri - Mark III Psycho - Jack Kittel This is truly weird. Not your typical lovers death song. I'll keep searchin for these cool toons. Brian Korn
Subject: Re: MORBID DEATH TUNES From:mrlee@oro.net(Brian Lee) Date: 4 Jul 1995 05:36:53 GMT Message-ID: 3tak1l$moi@hg.oro.net> Here are a few that I could come up with: Deep sea blues Dominoes Dont mind dyin Poets Ghost of my baby Checkers Endless sleep Jody Reynolds Tragedy Thoms Wayne Brian
Subject: Re: MORBID DEATH TUNES From: normk@ix.netcom.com (Norm Katuna) Date: 4 Jul 1995 13:48:40 GMT Message-ID: 3tbgro$fn8@ixnews3.ix.netcom.com> Here's three that I have come up with. Bobby Blue Bland "St. James Infirmary"--Duke Cliff Gleaves "Long Black Hearse"--Liberty And In my opinion, one of the "all time" morbid death songs The Dominoes-featuring Clyde McPhatter (Crying and wailing his head off.) The "Bells"(Federal). This has to be one of the most gut wrenching songs about death I've ever heard. "There's my baby, over there's my baby, and over there's my baby"-Jimmy Cross. Norm Katuna
Subject: Re: MORBID DEATH TUNES From: gkaye@hamlet.umd.edu (Kaye - George) Date: 4 Jul 1995 16:00:52 GMT Message-ID: 3tbojk$t5s@hecate.umd.edu> The greatest of the genre was "The Bells", by the Dominoes, with Clyde McPhatter (I believe, maybe it was Jackie Wilson) on lead. The man knew how to emote. Others: Endless Sleep--Jody Reynolds Patches--Dickey Lee Running Bear--Johnny Preston George "You're gonna need an ocean of calomine lotion." --Coasters
Subject: Re: MORBID DEATH TUNES From: normk@ix.netcom.com (Norm Katuna) Date: Tue, 04 Jul 1995 16:53:40 GMT Message-ID: 3tbrn3$2g4@ixnews1.ix.netcom.com> mrlee@oro.net(Brian Lee) wrote: >Here are a few that I could come up with: >Endless sleep Jody Reynolds **************************************************** Have to argue against this one. If we are talking about morbid death songs, then this doesn't fit. At the very end of the song he jumps in the water pulls his baby out and "Saved my baby from an Endless Sleep". She never did die. Norm
Subject: Re: MORBID DEATH TUNES From: davidis@interaccess.com (David Silberberg) Date: Tue, 04 Jul 1995 14:05:20 -0600 Message-ID: Best song about death - "Paint It Black" (Stones). David Silberberg
Subject: Re: MORBID DEATH TUNES From: harlac@pgh.nauticom.net(Dr. Whett N. Wylde) Date: Tue, 4 Jul 1995 20:49:48 GMT Message-ID: Here's three.... the death ain't morbid, but the tunes sure are: Patches (Dickey Lee?) Ode To Billy Joe The Night The Lights Went Out In Georgia (see, the last two were so bad, I wouldn't even hazard a guess as to who did them.) Now for cookers, how about: "Sinner's Repent" (I think that's the title. Big Steve?) "The Bells"
Subject: Re: MORBID DEATH TUNES From: mdnathan@netcom.com (Marc Nathan) Date: Wed, 5 Jul 1995 08:25:53 GMT Message-ID: How about: "Condition Red" - The Goodees or, my favorite.... "Once You Understand" - Think (featuring Lou Stallman) "Mr Cook, you have a son, Robert...Robert Cook, aged 17?" "I'm sorry Mr. Cook, you'd better come down to the station house, your son is dead." (nice bedside manner, eh, Copper?) - "Dead.....how????" "He died of an overdose" - "Oh My God...." Things get a little easier ... once you understand :) -- mdnathan@netcom.com - "A is for Asshole, which is what I am, how rude of me,------------------- I owe you an apology... I'm sorry!" "A" - Barenaked Ladies/1994 - LP: Maybe You Should Drive
Subject: Re: MORBID DEATH TUNES From: lmiller@sunny.dab.ge.com (Larry Miller) Date: 5 Jul 1995 13:13:47 GMT Message-ID: 3te36b$eah@theopolis.orl.mmc.com> Funeral For A Friend/Love Lies Bleeding - Elton John, Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
Subject: Re: MORBID DEATH TUNES From: allen.reams@kandy.com (ALLEN REAMS) Date: Wed, 05 Jul 95 08:04:00 -0800 Message-ID: 8ACA1E4.0F55001D24.uuout@kandy.com> DSBest song about death - DS"Paint It Black" (Stones). Here's a better one: `Oh Death'...Kaliedoscope Papa Rock... * OLX 2.2 * The first step towards philosophy is incredulity.
Subject: Re: MORBID DEATH TUNES From: bphilli@larry.cc.emory.edu (Brian D. Phillips) Date: 5 Jul 1995 12:28:27 -0400 Message-ID: 3teejb$esc@larry.cc.emory.edu> : I apologize if this one was brought up. I went through all the : postings for this subject and did not see anything on this one. : Netcruiser, still does not get all postings. : I previously mentioned the "Bells" as one of the all-time morbid death tunes. Unless I have forgotten what the song is about, here is the All-time morbid death tune, in my opinion. : "Timothy" by the Buoys. Please pass me another finger and toe. Ugh. : What can be more morbid than a little "Cannibalism". Climbing into the grave with your former loved one as in "I Want My Baby Back" by Jimmy Cross ranks with that, I should think. Brian
Subject: Re: MORBID DEATH TUNES From: mdnathan@netcom.com (Marc Nathan) Date: Wed, 5 Jul 1995 16:44:55 GMT Message-ID: "Dead Skunk" OK, I got my dead animal thread out of the way. -- mdnathan@netcom.com - "A is for Asshole, which is what I am, how rude of me,------------------- I owe you an apology... I'm sorry!" "A" - Barenaked Ladies/1994 - LP: Maybe You Should Drive
Subject: Re: MORBID DEATH TUNES From: jimaking@aol.com (JimAKing) Date: 5 Jul 1995 13:33:16 -0400 Message-ID: 3teics$sig@newsbf02.news.aol.com> In article 3tecbp$49@ixnews6.ix.netcom.com>, normk@ix.netcom.com (Norm Katuna) writes: >"Timothy" by the Buoys. Please pass me another . > finger and toe. Ugh >What can be more morbid than a little "Cannibalism". > I thought Timothy was the donkey. Jim
Subject: Re: MORBID DEATH TUNES From: buyensl@primenet.com (Lorrill Buyens) Date: Wed, 05 Jul 1995 13:00:35 -0600 Message-ID: 3ter3f$t5h@panic.primenet.com> Leader of the Pack - The Shangri-Las Big Bad John - ??? Dead Man's Curve - Jan and Dean Gotta Get a Message to You - ?? Lady Samantha - Elton John The Green, Green Grass of Home - Tom Jones Seasons in the Sun - Andy Williams The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald - Gordon Lightfoot Peter, Paul and Mary also sang a couple of songs dealing with or mentioning deaths - the four I can remember are "Flora," "Where Have All the Flowers Gone," "One Kind Favor," and "Polly Von." ---------------------------------------------------------------- | Doctor Fraud |Always believe six| |Mad Inventor & Purveyor of Pseudopsychology |impossible things | | Weird Science At Bargain Rates |before breakfast. | |----------------------------------------------------------------| |"Where did Robinson Crusoe go | "On a double | | with Friday on Saturday night?" - Al Jolson | date?" - Me| ----------------------------------------------------------------
Subject: Re: MORBID DEATH TUNES From: roman@xp.psych.nyu.edu(Robert Roman) Date: 5 Jul 1995 20:26:08 GMT Message-ID: 3tesh0$hfv@cmcl2.NYU.EDU> In article 3taa75$ae@newsbf02.news.aol.com>, HotPlatter wrote: >I'm trying to compile a list of songs dealing with death. >Anyone want to add any ? Long Black Limousine - Elvis Presley Papa was a Rolling Stone - Temptations Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll - Bob Dylan Mercy Mercy Me - Marvin Gaye (death of a planet) Bob
Subject: Re: MORBID DEATH TUNES From: jmfinney@ucdavis.edu (Antman) Date: 7 Jul 1995 22:17:14 GMT Message-ID: 3tkbpa$6gh@mark.ucdavis.edu> Hasn't anyone ever heard "The Water Was Red"??? Can't remember who sang it, but it was about a guy who watched his chick get munched by a shark!! Swear to God!! And it charted, too! I'll find out the artist and position and report back, but this one has to be the grossest "death rock" genre song I've ever heard. BTW, was there any actual killing in the song "Stranded in the Jungle" by the Cadets? lots of cannibalism talk, but perhaps no meal. Still hollower than a pepper sprout, Antman
Subject: Info on the MORBID DEATH TUNE From: jmfinney@ucdavis.edu (Antman) Date: 7 Jul 1995 16:01:23 GMT Message-ID: 3tjloj$90d@mark.ucdavis.edu> In tagging onto Robert Roman's response in the MORBID DEATH TUNE thread, I mentioned a rather dismal number called "The Water Was Red", about a girl on the beach that becomes fish food! Whoa! I researched it a little to reassure myself that it wasn't a bad flashback trip from the 60s. I found out that it was sung by Johnny Cymbal, who had a few more visible hits, most notably "Mr. Bass Man". He also went by the name of Derek, and hit again with one of my all-time favorite songs from that era, "Cinnamon" ("Let me i-i-i-i-i-i-n-n-n...."). How bout dat! Antman "Do you remember Jeffrey Hardy? They're about to organize a searching party." --- Alan Sherman, "Camp Grenada"


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We'll throw in "Over You" by Aaron Neville
"There'll be some sad walking 'Gonna be some sad talking.... ..."They'll dig a hole about six feet deep, For you, baby, to take your sleep..."

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