Dave Barry's Worst Songs and Other Hits

By: Dave Barry

Narrated by: John Ritter, Arte Johnson

Ever notice how bad song lyrics get stuck in your head? It's not just you. After Pulitzer Prize-winning humorist Dave Barry's column about this tendency, reader response was enormous. But Barry didn't know what he was getting himself into when he invited his Legion of Alert Readers to submit their nominees in the Bad Song Survey. "Song badness," he soon learned, "is an issue that Americans care deeply about."

Encompassing such categories as "songs people always get wrong," "teen death songs," and "songs women hate," this musical commentary offers a humorous look at the world's worst lyrics and bad songs in general; "Feelings", "MacArthur Park." Any record by Gary Puckett. The largest number of votes went to "MacArthur Park," followed by "Yummy, Yummy, Yummy (I Got Love in My Tummy)" by the Ohio Express and "(You're) Having My Baby" by Paul Anka. Who can resist such a book?!

©1997 Dave Barry (P)1997 Phoenix Books, Inc.

Read well but...

This is well performed but the bad song survey is spread out out of order.

Not Enough Music

Loved John Ritter's and Arte Johnson's performances, but this is the first Barry book I didn't care for. I loved Dave Barry's Book of Bad Songs. I thought this would be something like a sequel. Nope. I love Barry, but this isn't his best - and all/most of the music mentioned was covered in the other. Perhaps this was another "Greatest Hits" book. It should have been titled thusly.