Yesterday, I blogged on a different music blog about anti-love songs, mainly in response to someone on Facebook who took me to task for being "mean" to lonely people. For the record, it was never my intention to be mean or offensive to anyone. We had a rather unpleasant exchange at the end of which I invited her to unfriend me if I was that annoying to her. She didn't unfriend me, but I was left feeling kind of pissed.
I should probably thank her, though, since she inspired my Valentine's Day post. I had a lot of fun finding anti love songs... I'm not going to post them here, since that would be redundant. I just wanted to say it was surprisingly enjoyable wracking my brain for anti-Valentine's Day songs. It beats posting stuff about this...
I admire Sir Paul McCartney a great deal, but sometimes his lyrics are ridiculous. I guess I have no reason to criticize, though, since he's made a mint with his "Silly Love Songs"...
I'd rather hear Paul McCartney sing that song than Donny and Marie... and Sonny and Cher. Yikes!
Back in the early 1980s, variety shows were still sort of popular. Donny & Marie Osmond had been very successful with their show, Donny & Marie, which featured musical guests and lots of squeaky clean skits and sketches. I never watched their show when it was on prime time. What I did watch was Barbara Mandrell and the Mandrell Sisters. Every Saturday night at 8:00, right after Hee Haw, I'd tune in for their country flavored variety show. Afterwards, I'd watch TheLove Boat and Fantasy Island.
Barbara Mandrell and her sisters wore snazzy-- okay tacky-- polyester outfits that were similar, but different. They sang popular hits of the day and danced...
They had cornball musical numbers...
Toward the end of each episode, they'd show how musically talented they were by playing songs on many different instruments. I hear Barbara can play about a dozen different instruments besides being a singer.
They even had Donny Osmond on their show.
And they performed with the Kroft Family Puppets or something like that. They were basically redneck puppets. At the end of each show, they sang a gospel number...
It was good clean fun. We had no reality TV, so we had to settle for cheesy variety shows.
