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Post by pgfromwp on Aug 23, 2014 7:33:25 GMT -5
Offering a lost classic from 8/30/69, which failed to crack Billboard's top 40. From the album "Cucumber Castle":
"Don't Forget to Remember"'- Bee Gees
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Post by pgfromwp on Aug 23, 2014 7:39:12 GMT -5
Offering a lost classic from 8/24/68, which failed to crack Billboard's top 40. It followed the group's top 40 hit from spring 1968, "Time for Livin'":
"Six Man Band" - Association
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Post by 1finemrg on Aug 25, 2014 22:31:30 GMT -5
Recapping the current cycle of lost 60s classics: - 1960: Wreck Of The John B - Jimmie Rodgers - 1961: Every Breath I Take - Gene Pitney - 1962: Boom Boom - John Lee Hooker - 1963: I Cried - Tammy Montgomery (Tammi Terrell) A Breath Taking Guy - Supremes - 1964: I Can't Hear You - Betty Everett - 1965: Danger Heartbreak Dead Ahead - Marvelettes - 1966: I Love Onions - Susan Christie - 1967: ? ? ? - 1968: Hard To Handle - Otis Redding - 1969: Listen To The Band - Monkees - 1970: Gimme Shelter - Merry Clayton
As far as lives go, his was an interesting one but all too short. His only #1 single was written by Pete Ham and Tom Evans of Badfinger. They would both take their own lives ten years apart by hanging. The apartment he owned in London was unfortunately the final resting place for Cass Elliot and Keith Moon. John Lennon and Paul McCartney were huge fans of his album "Pandemonium Shadow Show". From that album, his first charting 45 debuted as a "Bubbling Under" entry on August 26, 1967. It would chart an additional week and peak at #122. It's a Beatles cover that incorporated snippets of other Beatles songs in his multi-layered background vocals. You Can't Do That - Nilsson
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Post by pgfromwp on Aug 29, 2014 17:58:46 GMT -5
Offering a lost classic from 8/31/63, which failed to crack Billboard's top 40. From the album "Baby, I'm Yours":
"Straighten up Your Heart" - Barbara Lewis
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Post by pgfromwp on Aug 29, 2014 18:03:34 GMT -5
Offering a lost classic from 8/31/68, which failed to crack Billboard's top 40. From the album "Beggar's Banquet":
"Street Fighting Man" - Rolling Stones
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Post by mga707 on Aug 29, 2014 18:18:51 GMT -5
Offering a lost classic from 8/31/68, which failed to crack Billboard's top 40. From the album "Beggar's Banquet": "Street Fighting Man" - Rolling Stones One of the Stones' best singles ever...and one of the lowest-charting. But I can understand why a Top 40 station program director would've been hesitant to air it in late summer 1968, given the subject matter.
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Post by blackbowl68 on Aug 29, 2014 18:21:10 GMT -5
Here's a somewhat rediscovered lost hit that was in its third week at its #44 peak the week on 8/26/1967. It has an interesting release history. It first appeared on its parent album in the summer of 1965. It then got issued as a B side of a 1966 single. Then it was finally issued as a A side (with a new B side) in June 1967. Each time it got released the track AND its flip were credited as taken from the album "Shotgun." (A two-year album at this point, and the artist just released their fourth LP - a live set) Shoot Your Shot - Jr. Walker & the All-StarsThis dance floor filler has since become a Northern Soul classic, a popular hip hop sample beat, and the subject of debate amongst DJs which I will post in another thread.
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Post by pgfromwp on Aug 30, 2014 6:45:44 GMT -5
Offering a lost classic from 9/02/67, which failed to crack Billboard's top 40. From the album "ID Music":
"Run Run Run" - Third Rail
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Post by pgfromwp on Aug 30, 2014 6:51:01 GMT -5
Offering a lost classic from 9/03/66, which failed to crack Billboard's top 40. From the album "Satisfied With You":
"Satisfied With You" - Dave Clark Five
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Post by pgfromwp on Aug 30, 2014 14:36:30 GMT -5
Offering a lost classic from 9/05/64, which failed to crack Billboard's top 40. This group covered the Bobby Day top 10 hit on their album "California Sun":
"Rockin' Robin" - Rivieras
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Post by pgfromwp on Aug 30, 2014 14:50:12 GMT -5
Offering a lost classic from 9/06/69, which failed to crack Billboard's top 40. From the album "The Soft Parade":
"Runnin' Blue" - Doors
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Post by 1finemrg on Sept 1, 2014 12:39:47 GMT -5
From September 3, 1966, this lost 60s classic is one of those Motown songs you might think would have charted higher than #47 during a seven week stay. It did make it to #10 on the R & B charts. The Doobie Brothers tried to duplicate their success of their Motown cover of "Take Me In Your Arms (Rock Me)" by covering this song as well. Their cover fell one notch short of the original version. Little Darling, I Need You - Marvin Gaye
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Post by rayshae3 on Sept 3, 2014 4:34:21 GMT -5
Another un-lost song: This time a signature tune from Jose Feliciano. What is one of his most famous songs that never charted higher than #76? “Light My Fire”? “Feliz Navidad”? Nope. It is his other celebrated song. From the week of 8/30/69 at #77: Here is “Rain”, the original and still the best version, Rain-Jose Feliciano
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Post by pgfromwp on Sept 6, 2014 7:24:34 GMT -5
Offering a lost classic from 9/07/68, which failed to crack Billboard's top 40. From the album "Music from Big Pink":
"The Weight" - The Band
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Post by pgfromwp on Sept 6, 2014 7:32:48 GMT -5
Offering a lost classic from 9/13/69, which failed to crack Billboard's top 40. From the album "Monkees Present":
"Good Clean Fun" - Monkees
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