A great song title can launch a hit in seconds. It can also quietly ruin an artist’s life. Some titles were misunderstood. Others aged badly. A few became punchlines the moment they hit radio. For these artists, the title didn’t just sell the song. It became the thing they could never escape.

Plenty of tracks from the 60s and 70s felt tailor-made for the music video era that hadn’t arrived yet. They were theatrical, stylish, weird, moody, or bold enough that there’s no doubt MTV would’ve eaten them up instantly. If MTV had shown up a decade earlier, these songs would have dominated the channel

The Bradys are still one of the best families on TV, but behind the scenes, “family” secrets threatened to have the show yanked off-air.