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Post by mkarns on Jan 24, 2013 16:44:06 GMT -5
Always thought Robert John's remake of the Tokens' "Lion Sleeps Tonight" (1972) was more of an early 1960's - sounding tune than a standard early 1970's recording. Do you mean in a technological or recording quality sense? Obviously, since it was a remake of an early 1960s hit with a virtually identical arrangement, one would otherwise expect it to sound like something from a decade earlier.
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Post by rgmike on Jan 24, 2013 18:03:20 GMT -5
I always thought Concrete Blonde's "Joey" was a great-sounding single that easily could've been a #1 record in the mid-'80s, but seemed lost in the Top 40 environment of 1990, when it peaked at #19.
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Post by pgfromwp on Jan 24, 2013 19:25:39 GMT -5
Always thought Robert John's remake of the Tokens' "Lion Sleeps Tonight" (1972) was more of an early 1960's - sounding tune than a standard early 1970's recording. Do you mean in a technological or recording quality sense? Obviously, since it was a remake of an early 1960s hit with a virtually identical arrangement, one would otherwise expect it to sound like something from a decade earlier. I meant that such an arrangement didn't seem to fit the style of early 1970's music; that if it charted in, say, 1963 (1+ years after the original), it would have been more commonplace for that time.
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Post by rgmike on Jan 25, 2013 14:28:57 GMT -5
Do you mean in a technological or recording quality sense? Obviously, since it was a remake of an early 1960s hit with a virtually identical arrangement, one would otherwise expect it to sound like something from a decade earlier. I meant that such an arrangement didn't seem to fit the style of early 1970's music; that if it charted in, say, 1963 (1+ years after the original), it would have been more commonplace for that time. It's worth noting that 1972 was the beginning of the '50s revival that would sweep the country for the rest of the decade, and which was already underway in the UK. Grease, the musical, had just opened off-B'way in Feb of '72. So a faithful cover of this particular song becoming a huge hit was not really surprising.
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Post by mga707 on Jan 25, 2013 23:39:44 GMT -5
I meant that such an arrangement didn't seem to fit the style of early 1970's music; that if it charted in, say, 1963 (1+ years after the original), it would have been more commonplace for that time. It's worth noting that 1972 was the beginning of the '50s revival that would sweep the country for the rest of the decade, and which was already underway in the UK. Grease, the musical, had just opened off-B'way in Feb of '72. So a faithful cover of this particular song becoming a huge hit was not really surprising. Could not have said it better. The "Rockin' Robin" remake followed "TLST" into the top 10 just a month or so later, followed by the chart resurgences of Chuck Berry and Elvis later that same year, until just a year later there was a hit song about the whole 'revival' phenom: "Yesterday Once More". Then came "American Graffitti" and "Happy Days"... And my High School started having "50s dress-up days"! The 50s/pre-Beatle 60s were hot in the early 70s.
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Post by Hervard on Jan 26, 2013 8:31:07 GMT -5
Remember Jermaine Stewart's 1988 hit "Say it Again"? The song started out with a promising chart run, but it suddenly stopped at #23 and dropped out after spending two weeks there. Had the song been released about ten years earler, it probably would have at least hit the Top 20.
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Post by lasvegaskid on Jan 26, 2013 18:16:05 GMT -5
If Tierra's song had come out in 74 or 75, Together would have been top 5.
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Post by jcs72 on Feb 26, 2013 13:27:42 GMT -5
"Electric Boogie" by Marcia Griffiths (peaked at #51, premiered in 1989)
"Bad Love" by Eric Clapton (peaked at #88, 1990)
Both sounded like something out of 1974.
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Post by cachiva on Mar 3, 2013 7:52:28 GMT -5
One example is a song that's at #34 on this week's 80s show, Tavares' "A Penny For Your Thoughts" (peaked at #33 on Christmas Day and was at that position for the rest of its Top 40 run). I think that song could have been their second Top 10 hit if it were released in 1981 instead; it just does not sound like a late '82/early '83 song. Hmmmm... maybe earlier than that. This was written by Kenny "I Like Dreaming" Nolan, and was pretty wimpy by Tavares' standards. Perhaps if it had been recorded in 1977 they could have given it a bit more of the muscle Tavares was known for, and this track lacks.
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Post by canat40fan on Mar 3, 2013 18:47:38 GMT -5
I always thought that "Don't Say You Don't Remember" by Beverly Bremers was reminiscent of the songs of the early sixties girl groups.
It's a very good song that hit #15 in '72, but if it was released 10 years earlier, I think would have done much better.
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Post by cachiva on Mar 4, 2013 1:19:05 GMT -5
Agree. It would have made a great Petula Clark song, too!
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Post by mga707 on Mar 4, 2013 15:36:55 GMT -5
Agree. It would have made a great Petula Clark song, too! Agree, but her LP cover was definitely in the early '70s hottie mode! ;D
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Post by lasvegaskid on Apr 3, 2013 12:10:02 GMT -5
Fact of Life-Sometimes sounds like it would have been a bigger hit in 1971.
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Post by lasvegaskid on Apr 5, 2013 15:28:59 GMT -5
Who Do You Think You're Foolin' by Donna Summer would have been bigger in 78 than 81 IMO.
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Post by woolebull on Apr 5, 2013 16:54:26 GMT -5
If Donna Allen's "Serious" had come out in 1984 or 1985, it would have definitely been a bigger hit than it was in 1987, peaking at 21.
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