I just rediscovered Seasons in the Sun a few weeks ago. I actually put it on the iPod. It really took me back to my early childhood. It occupies the same pigeon hole in my brain as Billy Don't Be a Hero.

Yeah yeah, for me Billy Don't Be a Hero shares that space with The Night Chicago Died.

non-edit to add, Yes, I Actually Do Enjoy Being Old.

Interesting thing about Billy Don't Be A Hero is that it's performed by two different bands, and each made it a hit. It hit number one in the UK by one band, and before they could get their act together to release the single in the US, a band in the US recorded it and released it here, and it hit number one here. So when you talk about the original number one hit Billy Don't Be a Hero, the folks in the UK and the US are thinking of two different versions.

omg, but I heard The Night Chicago Died on an old compilation CD and I cranked it in my car, roof down...it was pretty FUN!

Brandy, you're a fine girl...is another one that gets me singing along.

I like those old ones that aren't all sappy crappy why don't you love me boo hoo stuff.

OMG GLATT

I did not know that! But after looking it up, this explains the "Billy" and "Night Chicago Died" connection...

because in Britain they were done by the same band, Paper Lace, and even released on the same album.

But anyway, they're also all part of one same category, which is "60s-70s hit singles in which a major character in the song dies."

Billy, Don't Be a Hero (who dies: Billy)
Casey Jones (who dies: Casey Jones)
Leader of the Pack (who dies: Jimmy, apparently the Leader of the Pack)
Run, Joey, Run (who dies: in an ironic twist, not Joey, but his preggers whore girlfriend)
The Night Chicago Died (who dies: hoodlum gang members, a hundred cops... but not dad!)
Indian Reservation (who dies: Cherokee people, Cherokee tribe)
Seasons in the Sun (who dies: singer, listener)

But they really crossed over the line when the animals started to get it:

Wildfire (who dies: Wildfire; and, you might have missed it, Wildfire's owner)
Shannon (who dies: Shannon; and the lyrics don't say it, but they are about a dog)

But it wasn't enough to get just the animals, oh no, they had to get the imaginary mythical creatures too.

Puff, the Magic Dragon (who dies: Puff, the Magic Dragon. Honest.)

I gotta say, the night ChiCAHHHHHGo died is more about the life of the cop who made it back.

And Wildfire makes me freaking cry, you meanie weanie. I don't know who Shannon is.

And the little cartoon of Puff makes me cry.

Cry cry cry.

:lol:

For me, the only pigeon hole for "Billy" and "Seasons" is "Songs I remember well from my early childhood and haven't heard often since then."

Another one of those is "Thunder Island." Although I was older then.

im: edited!

Now you've done it. You've reminded me of the really bad song Timothy

Hahahahhaa. That's better!

See, I can't help myself...that beat of The Night Chicago Died...gives me dancy legs. :p:

Pete, don't think I've heard Timothy.

Now, ballads could be considered sappy, but who doesn't like The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald? I get chicken skin whenever I hear it.

There is sap that makes me vomit, sap that I like, sap that I am indifferent to, sap that elevates me. I think it's all in the quality of the sap.

Have we had that banshee wail from The Bodyguard yet?


AIIiiiiAAAIiiiiiiiiAAAAiiiii ... willl allllwaaaayyyiiyyyss luuuurrrvveee youououuooooouuuuuuu!!!!!1

It was banned in lots of places due to its content.