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Post by mga707 on Aug 5, 2019 22:39:32 GMT -5
August 9, 1975 optional extras: Hour #1: "Run Joey Run" - David Geddes (#68) Hour #2: "They Just Can't Stop It (Games People Play)" - The Spinners (#82; highest debut) Hour #3: "It Only Takes A Minute" - Tavares (#62) Two soul classics and one melodramatic bathroom break.  |
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Post by matt on Aug 6, 2019 10:10:52 GMT -5
August 9, 1975 optional extras: Hour #1: "Run Joey Run" - David Geddes (#68) Hour #2: "They Just Can't Stop It (Games People Play)" - The Spinners (#82; highest debut) Hour #3: "It Only Takes A Minute" - Tavares (#62) Two soul classics and one melodramatic bathroom break. No doubt about that..."Run Joey Run" is a song I really never need to hear again. Ranks up there with "Playground In My Mind". The others are two of my more favorite songs from the late summer/early fall of '75. |
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Post by artsmusic on Aug 6, 2019 11:03:09 GMT -5
No doubt about that..."Run Joey Run" is a song I really never need to hear again. Ranks up there with "Playground In My Mind". The others are two of my more favorite songs from the late summer/early fall of '75. At 2:55, the bathroom break will need to be quick. |
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Post by Hervard on Aug 6, 2019 13:32:44 GMT -5
No doubt about that..."Run Joey Run" is a song I really never need to hear again. Ranks up there with "Playground In My Mind". The others are two of my more favorite songs from the late summer/early fall of '75. At 2:55, the bathroom break will need to be quick. 2:55 would be plenty of time to do a #1 (including washing your hands). A #2 is doable, but you'd have to make it a quick one. |
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Post by mkarns on Aug 6, 2019 13:50:43 GMT -5
At 2:55, the bathroom break will need to be quick. 2:55 would be plenty of time to do a #1 (including washing your hands). A #2 is doable, but you'd have to make it a quick one. Either way make sure that you finish by doing what should have been done to the first optional extra song 44 years ago. |
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Post by Hervard on Aug 6, 2019 15:39:11 GMT -5
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Post by mrjukebox on Aug 6, 2019 17:22:35 GMT -5
I'm not a huge fan of "Run Joey Run" either-I liked David Geddes' followup a lot better-That was "Last Game Of The Season".
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Post by mkarns on Aug 6, 2019 22:41:07 GMT -5
A few countdowns to look forward to in the next month or so... WINNER -- July 27, 2019 - July 28, 1973 (stand alone)WINNER -- August 10, 2019 - August 9, 1975 (stand alone)WINNER -- August 17, 2019 (adjusted broadcast date) - August 21, 1971 (the A show)With Peteski already spilling the beans next week, the 'B' show has to be 1977, right? Other potential pairings 74, 75, and 76 have all been played to death recently. Could be but we're about due for a 1977 standalone, which we haven't had since the beginning of June. Maybe in one of the following few weeks. 1976, 1978, and 1979 could also be B's; those years last A's/standalones in June and early July. 1975 is out since it's this coming weekend's sole show, and the next time we get 1974 it should probably be on its own (last such was in May, and we've had two 1974 B's since then.) |
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Post by mga707 on Aug 7, 2019 0:01:01 GMT -5
I'm not a huge fan of "Run Joey Run" either-I liked David Geddes' followup a lot better-That was "Last Game Of The Season". Was just goint to post that as awful as 'Run, Joey, Run' is, I'd still rather suffer through it than that gawdawful dead blind man song that Geddes followed it with! |
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Post by mga707 on Aug 7, 2019 0:05:08 GMT -5
No doubt about that..."Run Joey Run" is a song I really never need to hear again. Ranks up there with "Playground In My Mind". The others are two of my more favorite songs from the late summer/early fall of '75. And at the same time that Joey's girlfriend takes her Dad's bullet for him, we were also assaulted with "Rocky". SO many dead wives and girlfriends in the fall of '75! |
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Post by doofus67 on Aug 7, 2019 10:41:38 GMT -5
And at the same time that Joey's girlfriend takes her Dad's bullet for him, we were also assaulted with "Rocky". SO many dead wives and girlfriends in the fall of '75! I always think of Run Joey Run and Rocky as a "package deal." |
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Post by briguy52748 on Aug 7, 2019 10:47:04 GMT -5
Wow, so much backlash for “Run, Joey, Run.”
For me, not really a song that fits in the format. I’m sure there was a reason it was as popular back in the day. (Anyone want to guess how it became an eventual No. 4 hit?)
If anything, there is I think a socially relevant theme in the song. It’s strongly implied Joey got her pregnant and her dad strongly disapproved of him even prior to what happened.
Anyway, those are my thoughts.
I’d rather have heard “Blue Eyes Crying In the Rain” by Willie Nelson. Even though it had yet to crack the Hot 100 and was just gaining a solid foothold on the country side, that song holds up far more than “Run, Joey, Run.”
Now “Rocky” I really dig. Always have ... particularly the country version that was also just being released as by Dickey Lee.
Brian
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Post by matt on Aug 7, 2019 14:05:14 GMT -5
With Peteski already spilling the beans next week, the 'B' show has to be 1977, right? Other potential pairings 74, 75, and 76 have all been played to death recently. Could be but we're about due for a 1977 standalone, which we haven't had since the beginning of June. Maybe in one of the following few weeks. 1976, 1978, and 1979 could also be B's; those years last A's/standalones in June and early July. 1975 is out since it's this coming weekend's sole show, and the next time we get 1974 it should probably be on its own (last such was in May, and we've had two 1974 B's since then.) Guessing 8/27/77 (the show with the Elvis obit) happens the last weekend in August. |
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Post by matt on Aug 7, 2019 14:09:10 GMT -5
Wow, so much backlash for “Run, Joey, Run.” For me, not really a song that fits in the format. I’m sure there was a reason it was as popular back in the day. (Anyone want to guess how it became an eventual No. 4 hit?) If anything, there is I think a socially relevant theme in tge song. It’s strongly implied Joey got her pregnant and her dad strongly disapproved of him even prior to what happened. Anyway, those are my thoughts. I’d rather have heard “ Blue Eyes Crying In the Rain” by Willie Nelson. Even though it had yet to crack the Hot 100 and was just gaining a solid foothold on the country side, that song holds up far more than “Run, Joey, Run.” Now “Rocky” I really dig. Always have ... particularly the country version that was also just being released as by Dickey Lee. Brian "Run Joey Run" is somewhat appropriate for a 1975 hit. I've always felt that '75 was one of the more "schizophrenic" years in music (much like 1981). Any year that can have as many #1's by John Denver and Freddie Fender as that year had surely had to have a place for a song like "RJR". |
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Post by briguy52748 on Aug 7, 2019 17:14:06 GMT -5
"Run Joey Run" is somewhat appropriate for a 1975 hit. I've always felt that '75 was one of the more "schizophrenic" years in music (much like 1981). Any year that can have as many #1's by John Denver and Freddie Fender as that year had surely had to have a place for a song like "RJR". As were going to be getting 1971 in a couple of weeks, we’re going to get our annual dose of Tom Clay’s recording “Abraham, Martin and John/What the World Needs Now Is Love.” Thoughts on whether that song belongs in 1971 or has a socially relevant message in 2019, 48 years after its original release. Brian |
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