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Written by Dave Barry - Audio book performed by Mike Dodge - Abridged Fiction - 1 CASSETTE - 1.5 hours

Publisher, HighBridge Audio (1997)

THE AUDIO THE RECORD INDUStrY DIDN'T WANT YOU TO HEAR!

Based on the results from Dave Barry's monumental survey, Dave Barry's Books of Bad Songs is a compilation of some of the worst songs ever written, including such special categories as:

Teen Death Songs
Songs That People Always Get Wrong
Songs Women Hate
Weenie Music

We all have experienced a song that buzzes relentlessly in our heads like a starving mosquito. And, most likely the tune is irritating, inescapable, and very, very, very repetitive! Enter Dave Barry, nationally known newspaper columnist. After receiving over 10,000 responses to his Bad Song Survey, Barry has compiled the choicest picks in his Book of Bad Songs. You know the kind, those pernicious melodies that stick to your brain like a wad of gum on the sole of your shoe. In his book, Barry wryly attacks popular rock 'n' roll songs such as Tony Orlando and Dawn's "Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree": "If we really want people to come home perhaps we should not have this song playing." Barry leaves few songs and artists unscathed and in his whimsical hands even the most hopeless ditty can at least produce a chuckle.

So, next time you hear something like Donna Summer's version of "Mac Arthur Park," which, take a seat, has no evident meaning other than that someone's cake was left out in the rain, relax, take Mr. Barry's advice and laugh, laugh, laugh.