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oldies76 said:
Not kidding at all. This was probably the worst offender in their list of "Oh Wow" songs, but I've heard many other mainstream songs land there too.
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'60s Songs You Don't Hear Anymore for Obvious Reasons...
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Not kidding at all. This was probably the worst offender in their list of "Oh Wow" songs, but I've heard many other mainstream songs land there too.
I saw a song in my Whitburn book that I never heard of before...Crow-Evil Woman Don't Play Your Games With me..it peaked at #19 in 1969. I found a clip of it and it sounded pretty good..a blues rock jam.
The anti-woman lyrics of that song (and similar songs of the era) would never fly today. Yet as I probably mentioned earlier in this thread Eminem/Rihanna "I Love The Way You Lie" was a huge hit and it's violent lyrics are more extreme than anything that would have been accepted in the 60s.
The anti-woman lyrics of that song (and similar songs of the era) would never fly today. Yet as I probably mentioned earlier in this thread Eminem/Rihanna "I Love The Way You Lie" was a huge hit and it's violent lyrics are more extreme than anything that would have been accepted in the 60s.
a few more you don't hear : white lies,blue eyes/bullit-absolutely right/five man electrical band- pledge of love/joe jeffery group-bad time/grand funk railroad-you could have been a lady/april wine- i saw the light/todd rundgren-el chicano/tell her she's lovely-guess who/bus rider..and hundreds more tons of GREAT tunes from the 60's/70's that only get played online...IF you can find a station that knows what it's doing...
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I know it didn't get a lot of airplay even when it was new, but I doubt you'd hear Bob Seger's "Horizontal Bop" anymore.
I still hear its B-side, "Her Strut." In fact, I've even seen that 45 listed on Ebay with "Her Strut" listed as the A-side!nocomradio said:
oldies76 said:firepoint525 said:Thanks. Your situation reminds me of the Clear Channel classic rock station here in Nashville that played what they called a "deep cut" by the Beatles, and it turned out to be "Hey Jude"! The biggest hit by the biggest band of all time is a "deep cut"?
Obviously, the target audience did not live in 1968, so they would not know any better. How depressing!
I remember WAQY Springfield, MA, a very tight-playlisted classic rocker, doing a regular feature where the jock would pretend he was walking down to the "basement" to dust off a forgotten track. Footsteps, creaking doors, sounds of rats scurrying away, the works. And what glorious obscurity did he bring up from the basement? Tom Petty's "You Got Lucky"!
cyberdad said:
If anyone else here can explain "Why does it do the way it does" I'll let them explain. If no one knows what that refers to, I'll explain it.
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It's a line from "Baby, How'd We Ever Get This Way," another forgotten Andy Kim single. I'm still partial to his first, "Shoot 'em Up Baby."
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Greg Goodfellow said:
That was the Crystals. I heard it mentioned a lot but I don't believe it ever charted. I hate to say it but I could imagine Rihanna having a hit today with that same title or theme.
I noticed that through the 70s it wasn't uncommon for a man to address a woman as "woman" in a song. For example in Free Movement-I've Found Someone Of My Own or ELO-Evil Woman, there are hundreds of other examples. Also you don't hear women refered as "mama" which used to be quite common in songs.
Santana's Black Magic WOMAN, circa 1969, Gary Puckett & The Union Gap's WOMAN, WOMAN, (1967?), Helen Reddy's I Am WOMAN, early 70's...Jay F said:
Of these three songs, only "Evil Woman" really belongs. "I Am Woman" is Reddy singing about all women, "Black Magic Woman" is Santana telling us about one particular woman. Only Puckett is addressing one as simply "Woman," in an accusatory fashion.jfrancispastirchak said:
George McCrae manages to use both "woman" and "mama" in "Rock Your Baby." The "Sexy mama" softly moaned in the intro might be the most memorable part of the song, and the singing part actually begins with a drawn-out "Wooooo-maaaaan."
Peter and Gordon had a song called "Woman". I vaguely remember a song (Vogues maybe?) called "Woman Helping Man"...pretty un-PC for today. Then again, "Bobby's Girl" was as anti-feminist as they came and still found its way onto oldies playlists.
borderblaster said:
So did John Lennon. And that's one that still gets classic-hits airplay.
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I don't believe you'll hear "Johnny Get Angry" very often either.
cyberdad said:
That one gets rotated on KCDX. Lots of deep cuts there and it's about the only place to hear Nick Lowe and Klaatu anymore.
Actually, "Evil Woman" is the only one of the above-mentioned that actually still gets airplay. You can add Cliff Richard's "Devil Woman" for some airplay right around Halloween.CTListener said:
firepoint525 said:
"Black Magic Woman" is still in classic hits rotation up this way, as is "Devil Woman" -- and not just around Halloween. Up until last year, when more '80s titles were added (a process that is ongoing), we used to get "Woman, Woman" and several other Puckett hits, but I think all but "Young Girl" are gone now.
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