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Post by 1finemrg on Feb 24, 2014 21:02:15 GMT -5
For February 26, 1972, America's first 45 "A Horse With No Name" was at #47 in its second week on the Hot 100. From there, it galloped to the top at a Secretariat-like pace (84-47-20-7-2-1). The album was originally self-titled, but then re-titled after the first single. It went to #1 as well. The "B" side of the 45 never appeared on an album until a 1991 compilation "Encore: More Greatest Hits". The best way I can describe it is that it's a great laid-back rocker, ala the Eagles "Take It Easy". Everyone I Meet Is From California - America
America's second album "Homecoming", included a track where the song was reprised. California Revisited - America
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Post by Ponderous Man on Mar 1, 2014 6:35:25 GMT -5
My B side this week coincides with my lost '70s classic for this week. It was the third track off of Chicago XI & the B side of "Little One". As the time of this album, Peter Cetera, Terry Kath, & Robert Lamm were doing lead vocals on the majority of Chicago's songs. Lee Loughnane also did lead vocals on a couple of songs as well. This song featured James Pankow on lead vocals. After all, he did write the song. My B side classic this week: "Till The End Of Time" by Chicago www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQQolX3ewNY
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Post by rayshae3 on Mar 3, 2014 11:48:37 GMT -5
B-side time to correspond with last week’s 80s AT40 (which I missed posting a song for…); The flip-side of “Don’t Answer Me” by Alan Parsons Project (bulleted new entry @#70 for week ending March 3, 1984). Though the A-side is from “Ammonia Avenue”; side B is from a previous album that came out seven years earlier (‘I Robot’). Indeed this b-side was an A-side of an earlier 1977 45-release that happened to peak at #92 in early 1978. This song, “Don’t Let It Show”, like most Alan Parsons’ numbers is multi-tempo with extended instrumental part. Don’t Let It Show – Alan Parsons Project
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Post by 1finemrg on Mar 3, 2014 21:27:31 GMT -5
March 2, 1968 saw Cream's "Sunshine Of Your Love" reach its peak #36 position. It would linger in the middle of the charts for several more weeks before ending its 15 week chart run on April 13. The "B" side was composed by Pete Brown and band member Jack Bruce. They collaborated on several Cream songs including "White Room", "I Feel Free", and the aforementioned "A" side (with Clapton). This may have been their trippiest and most psychedelic of the bunch. **SWLABR - Cream**She Was Like A Bearded Rainbow (aka She Walks Like A Bearded Rainbow) By the way, "Sunshine Of Your Love" would re-chart in July of 1968, spendng 11 weeks and become Cream's highest charting single reaching #5.
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Post by rayshae3 on Mar 3, 2014 21:49:56 GMT -5
I admit, when I first heard this b-side as part of ‘Still Crazy After All These Years’ album in 1976, the track didn’t grab me at the beginning. But long as the LP spent on my turntable during those teenage years, I gradually warmed up to this crafty song; now of course a favorite of mine from Paul Simon. To coincide with this week’s AT40-70s edition of 3/13/76 (On the flip-side of “50 Ways to Leave Your Lover” at #11): Some Folks Lives Roll Easy – Paul Simon
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Post by 1finemrg on Mar 10, 2014 5:19:17 GMT -5
Columbia records released a fourth single from Boz Scaggs' #2 smash album "Silk Degrees". On March 12, 1977, "Lido Shuffle" would be the highest debuting single at #72. It would peak at #11 during a 17 week chart run. Like his previous 45 "What Can I Say", they stuck with the same "B" side. It was the closing track on "Silk Degrees", and the song would be covered and become a top ten single for Rita Coolidge later that year. We're All Alone - Boz Scaggs
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Post by rayshae3 on Mar 12, 2014 20:54:53 GMT -5
To correspond with this week’s AT40/80s for week ending March 15, 1986. On the other side of the week’s #9 (“King for a Day”) is an exclusive b-side instrumental, not previously on any of Thompson Twins studio albums. Co-produced by Nile Rodgers, it is called “Rollunder”; It’s the instrumental version of another Thompson Twins’ song called “Roll Over” which was included on U.S. pressings of their ‘Here’s to Future Days’ album. Infectious electronic instrumental with great percussion. The music on the following YouTube video starts at 0:16sec. Rollunder – Thompson Twins
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Post by rayshae3 on Mar 13, 2014 15:12:09 GMT -5
Columbia records released a fourth single from Boz Scaggs' #2 smash album "Silk Degrees". On March 12, 1977, "Lido Shuffle" would be the highest debuting single at #72. It would peak at #11 during a 17 week chart run. Like his previous 45 "What Can I Say", they stuck with the same "B" side. It was the closing track on "Silk Degrees", and the song would be covered and become a top ten single for Rita Coolidge later that year. We're All Alone - Boz ScaggsAnother great choice! I didn’t realise this was used as a theme song of sorts for the closedown at the end of the broadcast day of Irish broadcaster RTE1 in the early 80s. Come to think of it, it could have been used on the opposite side of the album as an opening track for ‘Silk Degrees’ too; a credit to the timeless merit of this song. Of all the versions, my favorite after the Boz Scaggs’ and Rita Coolidge’s (some stations like KBEQ actually spliced them together as a duet back when the song was hot in 1977) are the following, posting them for comparative purposes. We’re All Alone – The Walker Bros. BTW, Boz Scaggs himself names them as one of his influences, per this interview from 1977: Boz Scaggs Interview We’re All Alone – La CostaShe is LaCosta Tucker, C&W Tanya’s older sister.
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Post by vto66 on Mar 13, 2014 20:45:21 GMT -5
I remember that "duet" version of "WAA" between Boz and Rita. It got some airtime in the Bay Area on one of their Adult Contemporary stations (either KNBR or KLOK, or maybe both of them).
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Post by 1finemrg on Mar 17, 2014 5:06:03 GMT -5
The March 23, 1963 Hot 100 saw the Four Seasons fall from the top of the Hot 100 to #5. Their third #1 single, “Walk Like A Man” had spent three weeks in the top spot. The “B” side lost classic of this Vee-Jay forty-five was a cover of a song that reached #14 in 1959 by the duo of Billy & Lillie. Not much of a dancer, but I’m guessing a few people learned to cha-cha to this song. Lucky Ladybug – Four Seasons
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Post by rayshae3 on Mar 17, 2014 13:45:27 GMT -5
To add another instrumental to the bag of this week’s choices on different Lost and Classic threads, is on the b-side of #32 for week ending March 26, 1985 (the upcoming presentation of AT40/80s edition). The A-side is “This Is Not America” by David Bowie/Pat Metheney from the soundtrack of the movie “The Falcon and the Snowman”. The exclusive instrumental flip-side (not on the soundtrack album) is a version minus David Bowie vocals, therefore credited to Pat Metheney Group only. BTW, a bit under-rated, the movie, the cold-war spy crime/drama (happening in the late 70s) which I own on DVD, has a good catch-22 story IMHO for those who want to discover it. This Is Not America - Pat Metheny Group (instrumental)
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Post by Ponderous Man on Mar 22, 2014 9:45:03 GMT -5
Since Chicago's "Along Comes A Woman" is on this week's 1985 show, here is the B side to that song. It was the second track off of Chicago 17. Robert Lamm does the lead vocals, but there are 2 notable singers who had top 40 hits in 1989 that are on background vocals (Donny Osmond & Richard Marx). My B side classic this week: "We Can Stop The Hurtin'" by Chicago www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbfFsLIyeiw
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Post by 1finemrg on Mar 24, 2014 5:10:19 GMT -5
The "B" side lost classic for March 27, 1961 is by the artist who had the unenviable task of performing in place of Buddy Holly the night after the Clear Lake, Iowa plane crash that took his life. 15 year old Robert Velline and his band the Shadows performed at the Moorhead, MN armory the next evening. Robert Velline became Bobby Vee. He charted 39 times on the Billboard Hot 100 between 1959 and 1970, including six top 10 records and the #1 single “Take Good Care Of My Baby”. The “A” side of his current single on 3/27/61 was “Stayin’ In”. It was in its final week on the chart at #79, having peaked at #33 during a 7 week chart run. The “B” side was originally written and recorded by Crickets' members Sonny Curtis and Jerry Allison. Bobby’s version was also in its final week on the Hot 100 at #69. It had peaked at #61 during a five week chart run. The song went Top 10 in the UK, peaking at #4. Just a conjecture, but I’m guessing that it made quite an impression on a then 12-year old Leo Sayer. Nineteen years later, his cover would become a monster hit peaking at #2 for five weeks during a 23 week chart run. More Than I Can Say – Bobby Vee
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Post by rayshae3 on Mar 24, 2014 21:32:56 GMT -5
To coincide with this week’s AT40/80s show for week ending March 26, 1988: A rather famous b-side by Barry Manilow on the other side of his very last Hot 100 entry. Yes, after more than 13 years his singles got dried up on the big chart. And this song by any measure trumps the A-side (A-side being “Hey Mambo” @#95 this week in ’88); not only because the flip side is regularly featured in his concerts, but also because it was this b-side, called “When October Goes”, that was issued four years earlier in ’84 as an A-side & peaked at #6 on the AC chart. Even slower comparing to his hits in the mid-70s, I suspect if it was composed and released between ‘75 and ‘78, it might have been as big as “Mandy”, “I Write the Songs”, “Could It Be Magic”; but the taste of the public and radio changed ten years after and increasingly in favor of much louder power ballads especially on the AC side and away from overly sentimental days of singer-songwriters… Finished by Barry Manilow from Johnny Mercer’s uncompleted lyrics (due to his death in 1984), which was then offered by the Mercer’s widow for the singer to deal with: When October Goes-Barry Manilow
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Post by Ponderous Man on Mar 29, 2014 3:20:10 GMT -5
This week's 1975 show has "Harry Truman" by Chicago in the countdown. Here is the B side to that song. It was the 5th track off of Chicago VIII. Terry Kath is the main man behind this song as he wrote it & sang lead. My B side classic this week: "Till We Meet Again" by Chicago www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-0tYFNp3Jw
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