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Post by mga707 on Dec 23, 2023 11:51:18 GMT -5
Wow, it's great to hear Blackfoot's "Train Train" for the first time in a gazillion years! Anybody else think Richie Furay's "I Still Have Dreams" might've been a much bigger hit if it had come out in the mellower earlier half of the 70s? Yes. Or just a year later, in the brief 'mellow' era of '80-'81.
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Post by caseyfan100 on Dec 23, 2023 12:18:31 GMT -5
As we enter the last weekend of WXXM Rewind 92.1 in Christmas music mode, later today might come AT40: The 70's via WVLI Kankakee with 12/22/1979 hoping hour #2 has the non "Pop Musik" remix to start off the hour. WSQL starts the 70's show at the same time as WVLI. If WSQL airs the 70's show it will be the four hour version.
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Post by Hervard on Dec 23, 2023 13:17:04 GMT -5
LOL! I forget - what song was it? Some 'faux-Chipmunks' Christmas song. 'Shirley and Squirrelly', maybe? It was very annoying. Wups - I forgot to check the time stamp - that was actually after I stopped listening to the show. The filler extra that I remember hearing at the end of Hour 2 was some "elevator music" instrumental version of "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus".
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Post by rgmike on Dec 23, 2023 13:49:23 GMT -5
A pair of zeitgeist-capturing songs back-to-back at #s 22 and 21: "Coward of the County" and "This is It", both of which were assumed at the time to be referencing the Iranian hostage crisis, even tho' both were written before it happened.
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Post by lasvegaskid on Dec 23, 2023 16:00:12 GMT -5
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Post by mrjukebox on Dec 23, 2023 16:40:32 GMT -5
"Deja Vu" by Dionne Warwick was one of the featured selections on 12/22/79-One of the writers was Isaac Hayes whose own hit "Don't Let Go" was also heard on the same countdown.
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Post by mrjukebox on Dec 23, 2023 17:21:21 GMT -5
"Ships" wasn't written by Barry Manilow as I had originally thought-It was actually written by Ian Hunter of Mott The Hoople fame.
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Post by dth1971 on Dec 23, 2023 17:44:23 GMT -5
I just tuned into WVLI Kamakee, Illinois this Saturday afternoon which starts at 3 PM with hour #2 - I think "Pop Musik" by M at #32 is the correct original version and not a remix to me.
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Post by caseyfan100 on Dec 23, 2023 18:31:00 GMT -5
"Ships" wasn't written by Barry Manilow as I had originally thought-It was actually written by Ian Hunter of Mott The Hoople fame. Ian Hunter also wrote the song Once Bitten,Twice Shy by Great White which peaked at #5 in 1989. Talk about going from one extreme to another.
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Post by lasvegaskid on Dec 23, 2023 18:35:59 GMT -5
Thanks for the heads up, they have a powerhouse stream
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Post by TheOriginalArtist on Dec 24, 2023 7:23:52 GMT -5
Wow, it's great to hear Blackfoot's "Train Train" for the first time in a gazillion years! Anybody else think Richie Furay's "I Still Have Dreams" might've been a much bigger hit if it had come out in the mellower earlier half of the 70s? I love both of those songs and loved the first hour of 12/22/79. I Still Have Dreams sounds very much like the mellow SoCal music of Jackson Browne, Randy Meisner, JD Souther and Poco who all had hits in that era, and is also reminiscent of earlier country/folk rock Eagles songs. I think he just wasn't a big name so he didn't have the star power to get much play. Ironic because he was an original member Buffalo Springfield, Poco and a band with JD Souther!
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Post by Hervard on Dec 24, 2023 7:57:20 GMT -5
"Ships" wasn't written by Barry Manilow as I had originally thought-It was actually written by Ian Hunter of Mott The Hoople fame. Ian Hunter also wrote the song Once Bitten,Twice Shy by Great White which peaked at #5 in 1989. Talk about going from one extreme to another. The song I most associate with Ian Hunter is his own "When The Daylight Comes", which was never released as a single, but I remember hearing on the radio fairly regularly in the spring of 1979. www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNdeiHyQo1M
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Post by 1finemrg on Dec 24, 2023 8:25:17 GMT -5
Ian Hunter also wrote the song Once Bitten,Twice Shy by Great White which peaked at #5 in 1989. Talk about going from one extreme to another. The song I most associate with Ian Hunter is his own "When The Daylight Comes", which was never released as a single, but I remember hearing on the radio fairly regularly in the spring of 1979. www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNdeiHyQo1MIan Hunter also gave us "England Rocks" in 1977. In 1979, it was rewritten/recorded as "Cleveland Rocks" on his "You're Never Alone With A Schizophrenic" album. The Presidents Of The United States Of America covered it in 1997. That version became the opening theme for "The Drew Carey Show". "Cleveland Rocks" was the flipside to Ian Hunter's only solo Hot 100 single "Just Another Night". It peaked at #68 in 1979.
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Post by 1finemrg on Dec 24, 2023 8:57:10 GMT -5
Wow, it's great to hear Blackfoot's "Train Train" for the first time in a gazillion years! Blackfoot's lead singer Rickey Medlocke was an early member of Lynyrd Skynyrd. He would rejoin the band in the mid-90s and still records and tours with the band. Rickey's dad "Shorty" (Paul) wrote and plays harmonica on "Train Train". I believe the opening harmonica sequence was played by a second "harmonicat", Brownsville Station's front man Cub Koda.
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Post by mga707 on Dec 24, 2023 11:04:45 GMT -5
1979 show starting right now on KDRI 'The Drive' Tucson. Only 3 hours, though.
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