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Post by 1finemrg on Aug 14, 2014 5:19:38 GMT -5
He switched to Columbia Records for this self-titled effort. The single from the "Stills" album is a lost 70s classic from August 16, 1975. It briefly cracked the Hot 100, charting for three weeks and reaching #87. It's a good but somewhat unusual song that switches tempo back and forth. The verses are bluesy and slower paced while the chorus is more upbeat rock and roll. Saw Chicago do a great cover of this tune live in the late 70s. Turn Back The Pages - Stephen Stills
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Post by at40petebattistini on Aug 16, 2014 16:51:17 GMT -5
To coincide with this week's 70s program from Premiere, here's a "lost (disco!) classic" from the Hot 100 of August 16, 1975. www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2P_7_Nuk8M7-6-5-4-3-2-1 (Blow Your Whistle) Gary Toms Empire
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Post by rayshae3 on Aug 17, 2014 2:57:54 GMT -5
For week ending August 16, 1975: The Stylistics’ single “Can’t Give You Anything (but My Love)” was enjoying its biggest chart week this week in '75 on the Hot 100 (#51) and on Hot Soul Singles list (#18). But more importantly on the other side of the Atlantic, this single became their only number one that very same week in the British singles chart for the first of three weeks in a row.; augmented by older “Best of Stylistics” compilation returning to #1 in the UK album chart and subsequently making that compilation the biggest album seller in Britain for the entire 1975. Great sounding orchestration arranged by Van McCoy conducting his Soul City Symphony orchestra backing the group. And one of the finest intros. ever in a song IMO. Can't Give You Anything (but My Love)-The Stylistics
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Post by rayshae3 on Aug 20, 2014 4:27:35 GMT -5
Considering Cher’s almost six decades in music business, her short time with MCA in the first half of the 70s was fairy productive, with back-to-back number ones (“Half-breed” and “Dark Lady”) followed by another top 40 hit, “Train of Thought”. But these successes would stop with much lower-tempo and standard ballad-like song “I Saw a Man and He Danced with His Wife” which went as high as #3 on the AC list, but would stop at #42 on the pop chart. It was still climbing up the Hot 100 at #66 for week ending August 24, 1974. I Saw a Man and He Danced with His Wife-Cher
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Post by 1finemrg on Aug 20, 2014 21:06:46 GMT -5
The third single off the "Piano Man" album is this week's lost 70s classic from August 24, 1974. It briefly appeared in the Hot 100, charting 4 weeks and peaking at #77. The opening track to the album, it is a first-cousin to bluegrass in nature. Dolly Parton's cover in 1999 earned her a Grammy. Need this one on your roadtrip playlist. Travelin' Prayer - Billy Joel
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Post by pgfromwp on Aug 23, 2014 12:21:07 GMT -5
Offering a lost classic from 8/18/79 (SXM), which failed to crack Billboard's top 40. This group covered the Casinos' top 10 hit from early 1967:
"Then You Can Tell Me Goodbye" - Toby Beau
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Post by pgfromwp on Aug 25, 2014 6:50:13 GMT -5
Offering a lost classic from 8/29/70, which failed to crack Billboard's top 40. It's a cover of the hit originally released by the Four Tops in summer 1964, and was successfully covered by Johnny Rivers in early 1967:
"Baby I Need Your Loving" - O. C. Smith
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Post by 1finemrg on Aug 25, 2014 21:13:50 GMT -5
His American debut was at the Troubador club in Los Angeles on August 25, 1970, introduced to the approximately 300 attendees by Neil Diamond. After the first of a six night gig, Robert Hilburn, music critic for the Los Angeles Times, wrote: “Tuesday night at the Troubadour was just the beginning. He’s going to be one of rock’s biggest and most important stars.” He was right. His first charting single was "Bubbling Under" on August 29, 1970. In the US, it was the last 45 to be released on the Congress label before it folded. Re-released on Uni, it spent 5 non-consecutive weeks in the Hot 100, peaking at #92. Aretha Franklin's cover would peak at #37 towards the end of 1970. Border Song - Elton John
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Post by rayshae3 on Aug 26, 2014 22:36:57 GMT -5
His American debut was at the Troubador club in Los Angeles on August 25, 1970, introduced to the approximately 300 attendees by Neil Diamond. After the first of a six night gig, Robert Hilburn, music critic for the Los Angeles Times, wrote: “Tuesday night at the Troubadour was just the beginning. He’s going to be one of rock’s biggest and most important stars.” He was right. His first charting single was "Bubbling Under" on August 29, 1970. In the US, it was the last 45 to be released on the Congress label before it folded. Re-released on Uni, it spent 5 non-consecutive weeks in the Hot 100, peaking at #92. Aretha Franklin's cover would peak at #37 towards the end of 1970. Border Song - Elton JohnGreat pick! I first became aware of it on his massive Greatest Hits package that came out at the end of 1974.
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Post by pgfromwp on Aug 30, 2014 12:13:00 GMT -5
Offering a lost classic from 8/26/72 (SXM), which failed to crack Billboard's top 40. It's a neat cover of the top 10 hit charted by Bobby Darin in fall 1966:
"If I Were a Carpenter" - Bob Seger
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Post by pgfromwp on Sept 1, 2014 6:39:14 GMT -5
Offering a lost classic from 9/09/78, which failed to crack Billboard's top 40. From the album "Darkness at the Edge of Town":
"Badlands" - Bruce Springsteen
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Post by 1finemrg on Sept 1, 2014 12:22:23 GMT -5
A lost 70s classic from 9/9/78 that's more appropriate for the end of the week. Included in the FM movie and soundtrack. Peaked at #52 and stayed on the charts for 6 weeks. Livingston Saturday Night - Jimmy Buffett
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Post by rayshae3 on Sept 2, 2014 23:40:41 GMT -5
I had some songs in mind to add to the LOST threads, to coincide with the labor day AT40 re-broadcasts, but haven’t had a chance until now, so belatedly on this and counterpart threads are my choices for last week. For Week Ending August 29, 1970: First chart entry for the legendary band and a future R&R Hall of Famer Grateful Dead. Since being formed a couple of years earlier, they had already established themselves as a major touring band. Their single “Uncle John’s Band” (climbing to #72 for the week to peak at #69 a few weeks later) is from their album ‘Workman’s Dead’, their first LP after the departure of the keyboardist Tom Constanten. But if you happen to have gotten the 2003 re-issue of the album, you’d still get Tom on this and a few other of the album tracks live as extra bonuses (since before including the song in the album, they were already performing it in late 1969 in their concerts.) Music by Jerry Garcia and Lyrics by Robert Hunter, an easy folk rocker and a staple of progressive FM rock stations back in the days. Uncle John’s Band-Grateful Dead
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Post by 1finemrg on Sept 4, 2014 5:18:29 GMT -5
I had some songs in mind to add to the LOST threads, to coincide with the labor day AT40 re-broadcasts, but haven’t had a chance until now, so belatedly on this and counterpart threads are my choices for last week. For Week Ending August 29, 1970: First chart entry for the legendary band and a future R&R Hall of Famer Grateful Dead. Since being formed a couple of years earlier, they had already established themselves as a major touring band. Their single “Uncle John’s Band” (climbing to #72 for the week to peak at #69 a few weeks later) is from their album ‘Workman’s Dead’, their first LP after the departure of the keyboardist Tom Constanten. But if you happen to have gotten the 2003 re-issue of the album, you’d still get Tom on this and a few other of the album tracks live as extra bonuses (since before including the song in the album, they were already performing it in late 1969 in their concerts.) Music by Jerry Garcia and Lyrics by Robert Hunter, an easy folk rocker and a staple of progressive FM rock stations back in the days. Uncle John’s Band-Grateful DeadAs a 45 collector, one of my best finds was picking up clean copies of "Uncle John's Band", "Sugar Magnolia", and "Truckin" from a store (sadly no longer in business) several years ago. Minor correction: Album is "Workingman's Dead".
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Post by rayshae3 on Sept 6, 2014 14:53:11 GMT -5
I had some songs in mind to add to the LOST threads, to coincide with the labor day AT40 re-broadcasts, but haven’t had a chance until now, so belatedly on this and counterpart threads are my choices for last week. For Week Ending August 29, 1970: First chart entry for the legendary band and a future R&R Hall of Famer Grateful Dead. Since being formed a couple of years earlier, they had already established themselves as a major touring band. Their single “Uncle John’s Band” (climbing to #72 for the week to peak at #69 a few weeks later) is from their album ‘Workman’s Dead’, their first LP after the departure of the keyboardist Tom Constanten. But if you happen to have gotten the 2003 re-issue of the album, you’d still get Tom on this and a few other of the album tracks live as extra bonuses (since before including the song in the album, they were already performing it in late 1969 in their concerts.) Music by Jerry Garcia and Lyrics by Robert Hunter, an easy folk rocker and a staple of progressive FM rock stations back in the days. Uncle John’s Band-Grateful DeadAs a 45 collector, one of my best finds was picking up clean copies of "Uncle John's Band", "Sugar Magnolia", and "Truckin" from a store (sadly no longer in business) several years ago. Minor correction: Album is "Workingman's Dead". Thanks for the correction; despite having the LP, as I was typing, subconciously I might have had workman’s compensation in mind. I have to be careful if I ever choose a song by the BTO, not to let obvious tonnage of the band members side-track my attention, and identify them as ‘Bachman-Turner Overweight’. BTW, when it comes to my YouTube links, I prefer to go with the single edit version; but in the case of “Uncle John’s Band” I had a tough time finding one (the single clocks in at 3:07 according to the trades/Whitburn’s Pop Annual and discogs site) and am wondering what was cut/edited out on the single’s version.
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