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Post by 80sat40fan on Jan 6, 2024 5:10:20 GMT -5
Gladys Knight & The Pips were credited on “Try To Remember/The Way We Were” from 1975 but I don’t hear The Pips singing with Gladys. Would this qualify?
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Post by dth1971 on Jan 6, 2024 7:36:36 GMT -5
Gladys Knight & The Pips were credited on “Try To Remember/The Way We Were” from 1975 but I don’t hear The Pips singing with Gladys. Would this qualify? If you don't count Gladys Knight without the Pips performing on Dionne (Warwick) and Friends "That's What Friends Are For".
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Post by LC on Jan 6, 2024 9:07:37 GMT -5
Of course, the Chipmunks were really just David Seville/Ross Bagdasarian.
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Post by freakyflybry on Jan 6, 2024 9:33:10 GMT -5
Chicago's "Hard To Say I'm Sorry" was actually just Peter Cetera featuring David Foster and members of Toto.
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Post by mga707 on Jan 6, 2024 12:23:37 GMT -5
Gladys Knight & The Pips were credited on “Try To Remember/The Way We Were” from 1975 but I don’t hear The Pips singing with Gladys. Would this qualify? If you don't count Gladys Knight without the Pips performing on Dionne (Warwick) and Friends "That's What Friends Are For". Huh? No Pips credit on that record.
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Post by giannirubino on Jan 6, 2024 21:47:39 GMT -5
Does Ian Broudie (Lightning Seeds) count? "Pure" reached #31 for the week ending July 28, 1990.
The funny thing is, he did form a band a few years later. However, in 1990, it was just him. Right?
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Post by freakyflybry on Jan 6, 2024 21:54:54 GMT -5
Similarly, the Foo Fighters on their debut album was just Dave Grohl solo; "Big Me" made top 10 on Casey's Top 40. He'd form a Foo Fighters band for their next album, and they have been a full band ever since.
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Post by dth1971 on Jan 7, 2024 9:04:04 GMT -5
Could we even add Primative Radio Gods to this list?
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Post by mstgator on Jan 7, 2024 10:31:29 GMT -5
Could we even add Primate Radio Gods to this list? Yes, on their lone big hit Primitive Radio Gods was just Chris O'Connor.
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Post by retrodaddy on Jan 7, 2024 21:44:12 GMT -5
Does Ian Broudie (Lightning Seeds) count? "Pure" reached #31 for the week ending July 28, 1990. The funny thing is, he did form a band a few years later. However, in 1990, it was just him. Right? Same situation with Karl Wallinger performing as World Party. Wallinger took on band mates for World Party's third album.
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Post by 1finemrg on Jan 9, 2024 12:56:44 GMT -5
The clucker on the Henhouse Five Plus Too's version of "In The Mood" was Ray Stevens.
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Post by rayshae3 on Jan 11, 2024 0:04:15 GMT -5
Yeah, I always got a kick out of that male 'Supreme' background voice in that song. Then-Motown songwriter Johnny Bristol, who co-wrote the song, is the voice. No Mary, no Cindy. The Waters sisters, Julia and Maxine, provided the female backing vocals. I’ve read more than a version of who the background singers really are. Personally, I am in the faction who are not sure 100% who the background singers to Diana Ross are… But the real reason I dropped in here, was that I wanted to point out an extreme case example here: Not a solo imposing for the group, but an entire group masquerading as another entire group. At least in the case of the Supremes they had been legitimately on their first 12 number ones; in this case it was their only #1. I am talking about the Crystals 1962’s “He’s a Rebel”. But the Crystals were at the time touring and not available when Phil Spector insisted on having the song released and charted as fast as possible. So the group that is really on the billing should be Darlene Love (& the Blossoms). Another interesting story is that of the song “I Was Kaiser Bill’s Batman” (nothing to do with the comic's superhero here, batman is a soldier's orderly). Anyway, the instrumental novelty song is credited on the billing to ‘Whistling Jack Smith’. It became a Top 20 hit on the Hot 100, after being #5 in the UK in 1967. The only thing is that despite videos you might see on the web (lip syncing!), especially the ones taken from Top Of The Pops, the person whistling is really John O’Neill. Who is John O’Neill? He is the celebrated background whistle-ist of a few hits of the Beatles,O. Newton-John’s, not to mention the biggest of them all: He was recruited for the OST of “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly”.
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Post by mga707 on Jan 11, 2024 10:50:29 GMT -5
Another interesting story is that of the song “I Was Kaiser Bill’s Batman” (nothing to do with the comic's superhero here, batman is a soldier's orderly). Anyway, the instrumental novelty song is credited on the billing to ‘Whistling Jack Smith’. It became a Top 20 hit on the Hot 100, after being #5 in the UK in 1967. The only thing is that despite videos you might see on the web (lip syncing!), especially the ones taken from Top Of The Pops, the person whistling is really John O’Neill. Who is John O’Neill? He is the celebrated background whistle-ist of a few hits of the Beatles,O. Newton-John’s, not to mention the biggest of them all: He was recruited for the OST of “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly”. As for Beatles, do you mean the background 'sound effect' whistling in "Yellow Submarine"? And for 'Livvy', I'm guessing "Something Better to Do"?
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Post by chrislc on Jan 11, 2024 15:08:32 GMT -5
The Waters sisters, Julia and Maxine, provided the female backing vocals. I’ve read more than a version of who the background singers really are. Personally, I am in the faction who are not sure 100% who the background singers to Diana Ross are… But the real reason I dropped in here, was that I wanted to point out an extreme case example here: Not a solo imposing for the group, but an entire group masquerading as another entire group. At least in the case of the Supremes they had been legitimately on their first 12 number ones; in this case it was their only #1. I am talking about the Crystals 1962’s “He’s a Rebel”. But the Crystals were at the time touring and not available when Phil Spector insisted on having the song released and charted as fast as possible. So the group that is really on the billing should be Darlene Love (& the Blossoms). Another interesting story is that of the song “I Was Kaiser Bill’s Batman” (nothing to do with the comic's superhero here, batman is a soldier's orderly). Anyway, the instrumental novelty song is credited on the billing to ‘Whistling Jack Smith’. It became a Top 20 hit on the Hot 100, after being #5 in the UK in 1967. The only thing is that despite videos you might see on the web (lip syncing!), especially the ones taken from Top Of The Pops, the person whistling is really John O’Neill. Who is John O’Neill? He is the celebrated background whistle-ist of a few hits of the Beatles,O. Newton-John’s, not to mention the biggest of them all: He was recruited for the OST of “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly”. I Was Kaiser Bill's Batman. I wonder how many kids saw that 45 in the store and excitedly bought it, brought it home, put it on the record player, and then WTF (or the 1960s kids version of WTF). My parents bought me a Batman Theme LP and I was CRUSHED when it wasn't the actual version from the TV show.
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Post by mga707 on Jan 11, 2024 16:35:10 GMT -5
I Was Kaiser Bill's Batman. I wonder how many kids saw that 45 in the store and excitedly bought it, brought it home, put it on the record player, and then WTF (or the 1960s kids version of WTF). My parents bought me a Batman Theme LP and I was CRUSHED when it wasn't the actual version from the TV show. So they didn't get you Neal Hefti's "Batman Theme" LP. That was the 'real deal'. My brother had the Hefti "Batman theme" 45, which reached #35 in the spring of '66. Ironically, The Marketts' 'cover' version of the theme did better on the Hot 100, reaching #17. That surf group also recorded a "Batman Theme" LP that charted the same week as Hefti's LP (3/12/66). And even Jan and Dean, of all artists, took a crack at the theme, but their version only reached #66. Among the last things J & D recorded before Jan Berry's near-fatal car crash in April of '66. 20th Century Records also attempted to cah in on the hit ABC-TV series, releasing a 'Batman' LP that spring that featured dialogue excerpts from the show (by stars Adam West and Burt Ward) along with music conducted by Nelson Riddle. No one in '66 did as well with 'Batman'-related recordings as Prince would 23 years later! And, totally unrelated to anything above, did you know that there is a city in eastern Turkey (or 'Turkiye', as the Turks now prefer) that is called 'Batman'? Not sure how the Turks pronounce it, though.
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