In Case You Missed “Terrible Tune Tuesday”

Every Tuesday, Scott Prather and I choose a song for "Terrible Tune Tuesday."  Yeah, I know...it's not about sports (although sometimes it is at least indirectly).  It's become a popular feature on "The Sports Gap" heard Monday through Friday on ESPN1420.

Today, Scott picked a record breaking hit (and we're still trying to figure out how that happened) and Jay went back about forty years for a song that today, never would have gotten on the radio.

Scott's choice

LOS DEL RIO--MACARENA (1996)--A couple of guys in their 40's recorded this song, which went on to break all sorts of longevity records.  "Macarena" spent 14 weeks at #1 and 60 weeks on the charts, records that sustained until Adele's "Rolling in the Deep."  It was the number one song of 1996 and was #1 on VH1's list of greatest one hit wonders.  But it was also on the list of 40 awesomely bad songs, also from VH1.  All we can say nearly twenty years later is "what the hell were we thinking?)

Jay's choice

CHER--HALF-BREED (1973)---I don't know what's worse:  the song itself or the "performance" of the song on the Sonny and Cher show, where Cher wears very little in her Native American garb.  The term isn't as offensive as "Redskin" but I don't know too many people who would want to be called by that term.  The lyrics include "The Indians said that I was white by law...the white man always called me Indian squaw.  I wonder what the NCAA's mascot division would think of this song today.