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The Rhino Brothers Present the World's Worst Records is a compilation album released by Rhino Records in 1983. It features mostly novelty songs, parodies and cover versions of popular songs, performed very poorly (though in many cases, intentionally so, either as a novelty or as a joke). None of the songs were ever top 40 hits (though at least two hit the Billboard Hot 100), and just two of the featured bands (The Turtles and The Troggs) contributed significantly to popular music outside their lone featured song, though Ogden Edsl and Barnes and Barnes also had other contributions to the novelty music field. A few of the artists on the original album are outsider musicians. The original album included an airsickness bag and a warning that the album "may cause internal discomfort;" Dr. Demento wrote the liner notes for the album.

Contents

Volume 1

  1. "The Crusher" (The Novas) (see also: The Crusher (wrestler))
  2. "Big Girls Don't Cry" (Edith Massey and The Eggs)
  3. "I Want My Baby Back" (Jimmy Cross)
  4. "I Like" (Heathen Dan)
  5. "Kazooed on Klassics" (The Temple City Kazoo Orchestra)
  6. "Fluffy" (Gloria Balsam)
  7. "Paralyzed" (Legendary Stardust Cowboy)
  8. "I Wanna Be Your Dog" (The Seven Stooges)
  9. "Boogie Woogie Amputee" (Barnes and Barnes)
  10. "Kinko the Clown" (Ogden Edsl)
  11. "Umbassa and the Dragon" (The Turtles)
  12. "Ugly" (Johnny Meeskite)
  13. "Surfin' Tragedy" (The Breakers)
  14. "Young at Heart" (Wild Man Fischer)

Volume 2

A follow-up album was released in 1985, under the title The Rhino Brothers Present the World's Worst Records, Vol. 2. This volume featured some more recognizable names from the novelty music field; it also included at least one top-40 hit ("Nag" by The Halos) and was more focused on the comedic than the outright-bad tone of its predecessor.

  1. "Downtown" (Mrs. Miller)
  2. "K'nish Doctor" (Mickey Katz)
  3. "Party in My Pants" (Barnes and Barnes)
  4. "Foreign Novelty Smash" (The Credibility Gap)
  5. "Nag" (The Halos)
  6. "Who Hid the Halibut on the Poop Deck" (Yogi Yorgesson)
  7. "Goodbye Sam" (Shad O'Shea)
  8. "Just a Big Ego" (Bob Rivers and Zip)
  9. "Candy Rapper" (Sticky Fingers)
  10. "Hands" (Debbie Dawn)
  11. "Baseball Card Lover" (Rockin' Richie Ray)
  12. "Fudd on the Hill" (Little Roger and the Goosebumps)
  13. "Split Level Head" (Napoleon XIV)
  14. "Teenage Enema Nurses in Bondage" (Killer Pussy)
  15. "The Troggs Tapes" (The Troggs)

References

The Rhino Brothers Present the World's Worst Records Wikipedia
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