*First line is the artist name. 1960. This was a novelty song about a famous event in the summer of 1876. Content warning. There are words in the lyrics that are understood to be offensive today. It hit #1. In a retrospective review, Stereogum writer Tom Breihan panned the song, giving it one star out of ten while calling it "offensive", "morally wrongheaded", and "unlistenable musically." It's been called the worst song of all time. Shortly after this atrocity, the singer took up a long career building sets in Hollywood.