Wretched Music! Brandy, You’re a Fine Girl by Looking Glass

This song is one I only seem to hear when passing through a casino. It’s from the early 70’s by a one-hit wonder band from New Jersey called Looking Glass. It is about some kind of bar wench that serves sailors in a port who is in love with a sailor. However, a sailor’s true home is the sea, so he is away. Brandy, of course, would make a fine wife- what a good wife she would be- but her lover the sailor is otherwise betrothed. Freemont St in Las Vegas, the old strip, they freebase the song. The video slot only casino chain Dotty’s out in Vegas, they have it constant replay, so whenever I would walk into one to buy a Diet Coke it would be playing.
It’s truly heinous.
It is perhaps based on the notion men sometimes have that the woman working at the bar will go to bed with them after their shift. For whatever reasons though, it is specifically casinos that seem to have made this their anthem. Red Hot Chili Peppers do a cover of it live, but they're also pretty wretched.
Still, it is a funny kind of bad, whereas indie rock is merely bad.