Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/17/84; site mhuxt.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!houxm!mhuxt!js2j From: js2j@mhuxt.UUCP (sonntag) Newsgroups: net.music,net.misc Subject: Re: opinion poll for worst song ever! Message-ID: <729@mhuxt.UUCP> Date: Wed, 3-Apr-85 11:00:23 EST Article-I.D.: mhuxt.729 Posted: Wed Apr 3 11:00:23 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 4-Apr-85 06:10:48 EST References: <1390@orca.UUCP> <8328@watarts.UUCP> <234@uvaee.UUCP> <265@unc.UUCP> <1200@reed.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill Lines: 37 Xref: watmath net.music:6803 net.misc:7765 > > There is one song that is so horrible that I almost like it. I don't > remeber the name of it, nor the name of the performer. The first > line was - > "Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz". > Does anyone remember the rest of it? > > elizabeth purtell > (Lady Godiva) I think that was done by Janice Joplin. Some more lyrics: "O Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz? My friends all drive Porches. I must make amends. Worked hard all my lifetime, no help from my friends. So Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz? O Lord, won't you buy me a color TV? ....." That's all I remember. The singer, (I think it's Janice) does it in a really strange kind of gravelley, scratchy voice. I've just remembered another similar old song. Maybe someone can identify the performer: "I don't care if it rains or freezes, as long as I've got my plastic Jesus, riding on the dashboard of my car. I can go ninety miles an hour, as long as I got that magic power..." and once again, I forget the rest. -- Jeff Sonntag ihnp4!mhuxt!js2j "No, not bird, nor plane, nor even frog. Just little old me, UNDERDOG!"- not Idi Ahmin