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38 years ago tonight---
- Thread starter Ultimajock
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Ultimajock said:
I'm impressed somebody else remembers Maury Muehleisen. Cashman and West's Lifesong album had a song dedicated to him after his passing which I played often on the air back in the 1970's.
FYI: http://www.maurymuehleisen.com/songs.html
I saw a Time-Life infomercial just the other night featuring footage of Jim Croce singing. I wasn't for certain, but I figured that that was Maury in the background right behind him.
I liked Jim Croce's music and have wondered how far he
would have gone had he lived.
I'm flirting with a breach of taste here, but another event
happened that night that I suspect more people remember:
the Billie Jean King-Bobby Riggs battle of the sexes tennis match,
which, IMHO, was one of the biggest jokes in sports history, right
up there with George Foreman fighting five nobodies or Muhammad
Ali taking on the Japanese wrestler Antonio Inoki. The whole thing
was a spectacle; Riggs, at 55, had virtually no chance of beating the
thirtysomething King, then at the peak of her career, and Howard Cosell
was especially polysyllabic, as I recall.
would have gone had he lived.
I'm flirting with a breach of taste here, but another event
happened that night that I suspect more people remember:
the Billie Jean King-Bobby Riggs battle of the sexes tennis match,
which, IMHO, was one of the biggest jokes in sports history, right
up there with George Foreman fighting five nobodies or Muhammad
Ali taking on the Japanese wrestler Antonio Inoki. The whole thing
was a spectacle; Riggs, at 55, had virtually no chance of beating the
thirtysomething King, then at the peak of her career, and Howard Cosell
was especially polysyllabic, as I recall.
I was thinking that the actual date was September 20, 1973, that the plane crash occurred. Further saddening when you consider that their next stop was only about 70 miles away. :'(
...it was -- shortly after Midnight...firepoint525 said:
...it was exposure to Muehleisen's intricacies in melody and lyric that inspired Croce to change his own composing style to what we heard on those hits. Prior to that, Croce had closely patterned himself after the United Artists-era Gordon Lightfoot and Merle Haggard...Bill DeFelice said:
...interestingly enough, Our World did an episode about the Autumn of 1973, and as part of her opening comments, Linda Ellerbee quoted Croce's "Time in a Bottle" -- but didn't mention Croce himself, simply mentioning that the song was popular that autumn; it had been released as a single just after Halloween, was the highest-ranked debut single (at #65) on the Cash Box Top 100 Singles chart of November 17th http://cashboxmagazine.com/archives/70s_files/19731117.html and hit #1 on the same chart on http://cashboxmagazine.com/archives/70s_files/19740112.html January 12th. One of the main events that was covered in the episode was the King-Riggs gag at the Astrodome; of course, since ABC had the television rights, Our World could use all of that match they felt like. As for Croce, his widow and sometime songwriting partner, Ingrid Croce Rock, has said that Jim had moved his family to San Diego in order to open the nightclub that Ingrid herself did open a few years later (and http://www.croces.com/ still operates). She successfully sued Terry Cashman and Tommy West for illegally removing her songwriting credit from several of Jim's songs (one in particular, "Age," appeared on Jim & Ingrid's Capitol album, Croce, with her credit intact, but it had somehow disappeared when Jim recorded the song again for the ABC album I Got a Name). Resultingly, Ingrid now controls all of Jim's recordings that were issued on the ABC label as well as the publishing rights for the songs...bpatrick said:
I remember "I Got A Name" being all over the radio in the
fall of '73; in fact I think it was already on the radio since
it peaked at number 10 on the Billboard charts on Nov. 17,
1973. That same week "Time In A Bottle" debuted at #79
and was number one for two weeks: Dec. 29, 1973 and
Jan. 5, 1974.
BTW, how many of you used "Time In A Bottle" at your
wedding? I have a few friends who did.
fall of '73; in fact I think it was already on the radio since
it peaked at number 10 on the Billboard charts on Nov. 17,
1973. That same week "Time In A Bottle" debuted at #79
and was number one for two weeks: Dec. 29, 1973 and
Jan. 5, 1974.
BTW, how many of you used "Time In A Bottle" at your
wedding? I have a few friends who did.
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