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Post by mga707 on Jan 5, 2021 11:55:02 GMT -5
This week’s lost classic comes from a double album that released two Top 40 singles in 1974, Chicago VII. Produced at James William Guercio’s Caribou Ranch in a remote Colorado area in the Rocky Mountains, it was an ideal setting for recording “Song Of The Evergreens.” With a lyric, “I can hardly wait for winter, I can hardly wait for the snow,” this Terry Kath-written tune combines an appreciation of nature and living in an isolated mountain cabin. To further set the mood, no other song likely ever repeated the word “snow” more than 100 times. But here it is. Like a weather front delivering a winter storm, the song’s tempo accelerates as the “snow, snow, snow” moves in. Still selling among Billboard's Top LPs on January 4, 1975, it's vintage Chicago. Bundle up and enjoy! www.youtube.com/watch?v=-c1DqgO2L6E'VII' had three top 40 singles: "(I've Been) Searching So Long", "Call Me", and the great (IMO) "Wishing You Were Here". In addition, "Happy Man" got a lot of airplay,and is still occasionally heard today.
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Post by at40petebattistini on Jan 5, 2021 21:17:50 GMT -5
This week’s lost classic comes from a double album that released two Top 40 singles in 1974, Chicago VII. Produced at James William Guercio’s Caribou Ranch in a remote Colorado area in the Rocky Mountains, it was an ideal setting for recording “Song Of The Evergreens.” With a lyric, “I can hardly wait for winter, I can hardly wait for the snow,” this Terry Kath-written tune combines an appreciation of nature and living in an isolated mountain cabin. To further set the mood, no other song likely ever repeated the word “snow” more than 100 times. But here it is. Like a weather front delivering a winter storm, the song’s tempo accelerates as the “snow, snow, snow” moves in. Still selling among Billboard's Top LPs on January 4, 1975, it's vintage Chicago. Bundle up and enjoy! www.youtube.com/watch?v=-c1DqgO2L6E'VII' had three top 40 singles: "(I've Been) Searching So Long", "Call Me", and the great (IMO) "Wishing You Were Here". In addition, "Happy Man" got a lot of airplay,and is still occasionally heard today. mga707, thanks for keeping me honest. “Happy Man”, “Byblos” and “Life Saver” are also great tracks from VII which was, in my opinion, Chicago’s last great album. They began trading out their jazz roots for more commercial appeal after this release.
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Post by 1finemrg on Jan 5, 2021 21:27:54 GMT -5
'VII' had three top 40 singles: "(I've Been) Searching So Long", "Call Me", and the great (IMO) "Wishing You Were Here". In addition, "Happy Man" got a lot of airplay,and is still occasionally heard today. mga707, thanks for keeping me honest. “Happy Man”, “Byblos” and “Life Saver” are also great tracks from VII which was, in my opinion, Chicago’s last great album. They began trading out their jazz roots for more commercial appeal after this release. "Happy Man" is a great song. Also liked "Skinny Boy" which featured the Pointer Sisters. By the way Pete, WDRV-FM (The Drive) completed their A to Z journey with the playing of "Ziggy Stardust" at 3:04 PM (CST) this afternoon. The list is here: The Drive A to Z
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Post by mga707 on Jan 5, 2021 21:57:19 GMT -5
By the way Pete, WDRV-FM (The Drive) completed their A to Z journey with the playing of "Ziggy Stardust" at 3:04 PM (CST) this afternoon. So 'our' (Tucson's) KDRI-FM/AM 'The Drive' is not the only 'Drive' station out there. I sure wish that our 'Drive' would pick up Casey...
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Post by at40petebattistini on Jan 6, 2021 2:12:47 GMT -5
mga707, thanks for keeping me honest. “Happy Man”, “Byblos” and “Life Saver” are also great tracks from VII which was, in my opinion, Chicago’s last great album. They began trading out their jazz roots for more commercial appeal after this release. "Happy Man" is a great song. Also liked "Skinny Boy" which featured the Pointer Sisters. By the way Pete, WDRV-FM (The Drive) completed their A to Z journey with the playing of "Ziggy Stardust" at 3:04 PM (CST) this afternoon. The list is here: The Drive A to ZAwesome... thank you!
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Post by 1finemrg on Jan 6, 2021 6:30:18 GMT -5
"Happy Man" is a great song. Also liked "Skinny Boy" which featured the Pointer Sisters. By the way Pete, WDRV-FM (The Drive) completed their A to Z journey with the playing of "Ziggy Stardust" at 3:04 PM (CST) this afternoon. The list is here: The Drive A to ZAwesome... thank you! I'm with you on VII being their last great album. Recorded at the Caribou Ranch in the mountains of Colorado. Remembering being disappointed with Chicago VIII, although it did contain that great iron-on decal. Unfortunately it lasted only a couple of washes.
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Post by dth1971 on Jan 6, 2021 9:55:51 GMT -5
mga707 , thanks for keeping me honest. “Happy Man”, “Byblos” and “Life Saver” are also great tracks from VII which was, in my opinion, Chicago’s last great album. They began trading out their jazz roots for more commercial appeal after this release. "Happy Man" is a great song. Also liked "Skinny Boy" which featured the Pointer Sisters. By the way Pete, WDRV-FM (The Drive) completed their A to Z journey with the playing of "Ziggy Stardust" at 3:04 PM (CST) this afternoon. The list is here: The Drive A to ZToo bad "Zombie" by the Cranberries isn't on the list.
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Post by at40petebattistini on Jan 13, 2021 11:33:15 GMT -5
This week’s lost classic comes from an album that was released on January 17, 1976, M.U. – The Best of Jethro Tull. It was a compilation of some of Tull’s more popular tracks, from 1971-1975. And one of those, “Skating Away On The Thin Ice of the New Day” had been previously released as a single on February 8, 1975. Although it failed to reach Billboard’s Hot 100, the song climbed to #75 on 3/22/75 on CashBox’s Top 100 Singles chart. “Skating Away” continued to receive AOR requests and airplay, resulting in its re-release on the 1976 LP. How did this one miss the national Top 40? Was it due to a title deemed too lengthy for pop radio? Or perhaps it was the song's weighty lyric, of facing adulthood and maturity. Well, do you ever get the feeling That the story's too danm real And in the present tense?
Or that everybody's on the stage And it seems like you're the only Person sitting in the audience?Maybe a combination of both reasons. Regardless, for a winter's day, it’s classic Jethro Tull. www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Z2RzVhw4rE
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Post by at40petebattistini on Jan 20, 2021 8:40:28 GMT -5
A smooth, disco track from the January 22, 1977 survey is this week’s lost classic. The O’Jays’ “Darlin’ Darlin’ Baby” debuted at #80 on the Hot 100, the chart’s highest ranking new single. However, in an attempt to reach Top 40 fame and fortune, it spent all of 4 weeks on the survey, climbing only to #72. The song, however, needed an inordinate amount of time to reach the Hot 100, after its November 27, 1976 debut on Billboard’s Hot Soul Singles chart. In fact, in just 6 weeks on the Soul Survey, it peaked at #1 on January 8, 1977. How did this classic tune miss out on becoming a pop hit? The linked youtube version here, taken from a Soul Train broadcast, was condensed down to 1:28. If the single had reached an AT40 program in 1977, no doubt Ken Martin would’ve supersized it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2cYrjZSW_QEnjoy!
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Post by pb on Jan 20, 2021 13:45:33 GMT -5
Also liked "Skinny Boy" which featured the Pointer Sisters. "Skinny Boy" had been the title track of Robert Lamm's little noticed solo album. For Chicago VII, they dubbed Chicago's horn section onto the song. Here is the original: www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQopW2jEunk
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Post by at40petebattistini on Jan 20, 2021 13:49:20 GMT -5
With many lost classic options for January 22, 1972, a solid choice is a song that was in its 10th and final week on the Hot 100. From Jefferson Airplane’s “Bark” album (with vinyl originally wrapped in brown paper bag packaging), the song “Pretty As You Feel” was their final charting single release using the original group name. The song peaked at #60 on the previous week’s chart. Recorded 50 years ago in January 1971, a bluesy and mellow Grace Slick (and Paul Kantner) with a track that just seemed more at home on AOR radio… www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dbshnvztGA
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Post by darnall42 on Jan 20, 2021 15:38:31 GMT -5
Always liked that o'jays single .here in the UK it got into the top 30 and was a regular on the radio along with other soul and RnB songs that were hits in Europe that failed state side Jack in the box by the moments was a massive hit here in the UK in January 1977 that totally flopped in the billboard chart
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Post by mga707 on Jan 20, 2021 22:35:15 GMT -5
Always liked that o'jays single .here in the UK it got into the top 30 and was a regular on the radio along with other soul and RnB songs that were hits in Europe that failed state side Jack in the box by the moments was a massive hit here in the UK in January 1977 that totally flopped in the billboard chart Wow--that is cool. The U.S. fast food chain could have used that song for ads! Would've put Rodney Allen Rippy out of a job though... One needs to be American, older than dirt (like me), and had to grow up in a part of the country where 'Jack' has or had outlets to get that reference, so this will help: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodney_Allen_Rippy
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Post by Rodney on Jan 21, 2021 21:50:58 GMT -5
Being named Rodney, born in 64, I remember watching him on Fat Albert and other variety shows. Different childhood friends called me Rodney Allen Rippy and as I grew up it turned to Rodney Dangerfield. Never saw the TV ads though... no Jack in the Box in Florida.
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Post by dth1971 on Jan 23, 2021 9:24:08 GMT -5
Always liked that o'jays single .here in the UK it got into the top 30 and was a regular on the radio along with other soul and RnB songs that were hits in Europe that failed state side Jack in the box by the moments was a massive hit here in the UK in January 1977 that totally flopped in the billboard chart I wonder if at least 1 Soul Train episode circa 1976-1977 played this song? Speaking of the Jack in the Box fast food chain, there used to be Jack in the Box locations in the Chicago area but they all closed down in 1981.
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