Ruined songs

[Llamatron]

I've just heard Ain't No Sunshine by Bill Withers for the first time. I heard it on Notting Hill yesterday so I had to find it.

It's absolutely fantastic until he starts blithering 'I know I know I know' over and over and over. Just ruins the whole thing for me.

Anyone else know of any other songs ruined by something daft, annoying or just plain strange?

[B00]

LOL, totally agree, brilliant song till he does that isn't it?

anything by Maria Carey winds me up, she takes a perfectly good song which she carries well- untill she does that forced 'warbling' it drives me nuts.

Minnie Riperton's Loving you, again nice song till she starts "la laaing", it's just not right, lol.

[naz_nomad]

any Beatles song where one of them decides to start singing

[Dudley]

The even bigger Bill Withers' song 'Lovely Day' is fine until he hangs on to one note for about 30 seconds and he keeps doing it. So irritating and radio stations keep playing it. Why?

[littleoldme]

I absotively posilutley agree with B00 about the Mariah Carey Effect - if you're that good a singer, dear, try holding a note rather than tweetling and twootling all over the shop. Snort.

[willa]

There's a lovely, haunting arrangement of "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" by the late Hawaiian singer Israel Kamakawiwo'ole. It's used a lot in commercials and in TV/movies (including an episode of "ER"). It's on the album "Alone in IZ World".

Even though Iz mangles the words a bit, it's still beautiful. But the ending is annoying because he trails off in something I can only describe as Polynesian gutteral utterances that almost sound like he's choking on something. Authentic Hawaiian? Perhaps. Incredibly unappealing? Definitely.