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Post by chrislc on Jul 19, 2022 23:25:53 GMT -5
I was just listening to a WNEW Gene Klavan aircheck from August 4, 1975 and he played I’m Easy! I didn’t expect to hear an MOR station breaking a hit  I’m on an iPad so I can’t paste the link but just Google it to hear Gene’s thrilling late morning spot fest. There must be 25 minutes of spots per hour. Or whatever the legal limit was back then. Gene also played One Hell Of A Woman by Vikki Carr, which I never knew was a thing. But it was. And at the risk of getting all mga707 about Vikki, she was one hell of a woman. . Oh, the joys of Easy Listening Radio! Just when you’re about to fall asleep at the wheel, along comes Vikki Carr. My dear God, indeed. Anyway, 1975. The President is telling the city to drop dead but Tom Carvel is telling the city that Fudgie the Whale will make it all good. |
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Post by dth1971 on Jul 20, 2022 7:13:12 GMT -5
So, Keith Carradine's "I'm Easy" was first released in 1975 but never charted until a year later?
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Post by mga707 on Jul 20, 2022 12:25:33 GMT -5
So, Keith Carradine's "I'm Easy" was first released in 1975 but never charted until a year later? Correct. The "Nashville" soundtrack album, and Carradine's single from it, were both released in mid-1975. The LP charted 7/19/75, peaking at #80, 13 wks on the top LP chart. The single did not chart until 5/8/76, after it had won an Academy Award for Best Song From a Motion Picture. On a side note, I enjoyed that typically-quirky Robert Altman film. Would like to see it again after 46 or so years. |
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Post by mga707 on Jul 20, 2022 12:29:02 GMT -5
And at the risk of getting all mga707 about Vikki, she was one hell of a woman. . All right--I'm a 'thing' now!  |
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Post by chrislc on Jul 20, 2022 13:17:19 GMT -5
And at the risk of getting all mga707 about Vikki, she was one hell of a woman. . All right--I'm a 'thing' now! Yes. Well, that was quite a summer for more than one of us. But as I grow older and older I tend to dwell more and more on the painful end of it. So much for Barbra's 1974 theory! "It's the laughter we will remember". Ummmm no not always. I hope your Dean Friedman thing worked out better than mine. I always thought he was just a Billy Joel wannabe anyway. There we go. Blame it all on Dean Friedman. That's the ticket. But between your post and "The Infamous Townsend Coleman Edition!" thread how can I forget the Summer of 77? I mean most of us first thought that said Sanford Townsend Band, right? Anyway - imagine listening to a Summer 1975 aircheck and hearing a Summer 1976 hit on it. It was like hearing Hey Jude on a 1967 aircheck. Weird. But, yes, the movie had been out for two months and this was a NYC station so I guess the record company - or the movie studio - was giving it a shot. And the station segues from songs right into spots. I always thought that was strange. Why have a DJ at all? But I guess the theory was - or is - that the station won't be as closely associated with the spots that way. I still think Dan Ingram did it (and most things) best. He embraced the spots and had fun with them. Of course we all can't be Dan Ingram. Which should probably be on my tombstone. |
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Post by mrjukebox on Jul 22, 2022 12:16:39 GMT -5
I remember seeing "Nashville" back in the day-Among its stars were Henry Gibson & Lily Tomlin who both appeared on "Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In".
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I’m on an iPad so I can’t paste the link but just Google it to hear Gene’s thrilling late morning spot fest. There must be 25 minutes of spots per hour. Or whatever the legal limit was back then. Gene also played One Hell Of A Woman by Vikki Carr, which I never knew was a thing. But it was. And at the risk of getting all mga707 about Vikki, she was one hell of a woman. 
