Songs we are too embarrassed to own up to singing

When I was at school in Madrid, we would go to horseriding lessons on Saturday mornings. We used to be taken on a small bus and a group of girls would bring along a battery operated record player. This INFAMOUS songwas one (I am now ashamed to say), we all sang along to. Listen if you dare...... This particular song was playing when I had an argument with one of the boys.

He said: "She thinks I like her... I don't like her, I like Maria."
I said: "I hate you with a capital H!"
He said: "Good!"

All to the chorus of "Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep".
BTW: I did end up talking to this boy again after 12 months had elasped...he couldn't remember this fight at all!

Maybe we could start a meme on "Songs you sang along to in your adolescence". I bet there's a lot of closet ABBA fans out there. Confess...I want to hear your sing-a-long songs of the past.

Comments

[Pica]

Y'know, Jenny, I didn't feel so bad about Abba songs once I saw Priscilla, Queen of the Desert and saw them all camped up. But Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep -- yep, that was classic.

[Marie]

Gotta say that I listened to quite a bit of Olivia Newton John and the Captain and Tennille. And, you really don't want to hear me sing...

[Tvindy]

And Abba was also very prominent in "Muriel's Wedding". As for "Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep", I don't think that has made it to the US yet.

I didn't have an especially musical adolescence, but I seem to remember singing the lyrics to "Valley Girl" quite a lot.

[kyte]

Abba? Now I feel *really* old. Does anyone else remember The Purple People Eater?

[Tvindy]

You mean the one-horned, one-eyed flying one? Yep.

[kyte]

or: How much is that Doggy in the Window? But I jest. Those were from my childhood. In my teens it was Beatles and Monkees all the way.

[Geoff]

We used to deride my younger sister because she liked Abba, and our taste was for Supertramp and Pink Floyd. And we listened to Neil Young, Cat Stevens, America. And we HATED Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep, yet even now I can sing the blasted song word for word.... The only song I recall we detested more was "Tie a yellow ribbon around the old oak tree". Can you believe that song must have been played on commercial radio every hour for a year. We pretended to dislike Abba- didn't everybody? - they weren't cool - but now its okay to admit to that. Ahh... the seventies ...what can I say?

[kyte]

Who or what was Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep???? I also liked Neil Young et al, I worked for a few years in a bar/restaurant in in town a few nights a week, (song/guitar) and those were the songs everyone wanted. I also made them listen to other favourites of mine, like Leonard Cohen, Dory Previn, Joni Mitchell. Joni is still my all-time favourite.