'60s Songs You Don't Hear Anymore for Obvious Reasons...

[hornet61]

I'll add a few
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"Wives and Lovers"-Jack Jones
"Ahab the Arab"-Ray Stevens
"Too Many Chiefs and Not Enough Indians"-Dean Martin
"For the Love of Him"-Bobbi Martin
"Mecca"-Gene Pitney
"Witchi Tai To" (sp?)-Brewer and Shipley

"Witchi Tai To" the hit version, if you want to call it a hit (#69 in 1969), was by "everything is everything"

 

[deltas69]

Brewer and Shipley also had a version in 1969 off their "Weeds' LP....I have to say I had never heard either version...

 

[hornet61]

I've never heard the Brewer and Shipley version..thank you for confirming their version..The charted version is all in native tongue ???...I have it on one those ERIC CD's "hard to find hits".............http://youtu.be/Sg9LT4qR_Dw

 

[hornet61]

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Have always wondered if at some point in time the publishers got in the way of the origional Hello It's Me, credited to the "group" NAZZ. Save for visits to YouTube, haven't heard that song played anywhere in over 40-years.

I rarely hear the original "Hello It's Me" by Nazz (#69 in 1969)...somewhat forgotten after Todd Rundgren re-recorded version (#5, in 1973) stomped the original. Even thou he was in Nazz I don't think that's Rundgren on lead vocals. It was written by Rundgren.
Another great song by Rundgren is "I Saw The Light" and a a sweet country version by Hal Ketchum is super...

 

[radioman148]

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Have always wondered if at some point in time the publishers got in the way of the origional Hello It's Me, credited to the "group" NAZZ. Save for visits to YouTube, haven't heard that song played anywhere in over 40-years.

I rarely hear the original "Hello It's Me" by Nazz (#69 in 1969)...somewhat forgotten after Todd Rundgren re-recorded version (#5, in 1973) stomped the original. Even thou he was in Nazz I don't think that's Rundgren on lead vocals. It was written by Rundgren.
Another great song by Rundgren is "I Saw The Light" and a a sweet country version by Hal Ketchum is super...

I've always preferred the Nazz version of "Hello It's Me"

 

[cyberdad]

I've always preferred the Nazz version of "Hello It's Me"

+1

Where I was in college radio when the Nazz version came out, it was one of our most requested songs every week for about a month or so, despite not doing much on either the local or national charts. For whatever reason, most of those requests were coming from east coast kids....who made up about a third of the student body.

 

[jfrancispastirchak]

I've always preferred the Nazz version of "Hello It's Me"

+1
Where I was in college radio when the Nazz version came out, it was one of our most requested songs every week for about a month or so, despite not doing much on either the local or national charts. For whatever reason, most of those requests were coming from east coast kids....who made up about a third of the student body.

Spooky parallel-- I too was doing college radio in '69, in NM. And, like your campus, ours was saturated with east-coast students, thanks to a clever, if misleading marketing campaign. Nearly half of our dorm wing were new arrivals from the New York City/Long Island area. But, getting back to the thread, I too recall that NAZZ' Hello Its Me was the flavor of choice for many weeks that Fall.

 

[deltas69]

I liked "I Saw The Light" better than either version of 'Hello It's Me"..However I think Todd actually considers it a 'fluff' piece..not anything serious...

 

[cyberdad]

About a third of the kids on our campus were from the east coast....and a little over half of those (including a couple of guys I shared an apartment with) were from the Boston area. I think....but I don't know for sure....that it may be the Nazz version of "Hello It's Me" was getting airplay on Boston radio at the time. If not top 40, perhaps college or underground programming.

 

[hornet61]

I liked "I Saw The Light" better than either version of 'Hello It's Me"..However I think Todd actually considers it a 'fluff' piece..not anything serious...

even fluffier than "Gotta Find You A Woman"

 

[deltas69]

I haven't heard all of Todd's songs..but the one I mentioned is the only one I like...I only know of three others that got airplay, Hello, It's Me, Get You A Woman, and Bang the Drum..

 

[CTListener]

I haven't heard all of Todd's songs..but the one I mentioned is the only one I like...I only know of three others that got airplay, Hello, It's Me, Get You A Woman, and Bang the Drum..

Sirius XM's Deep Tracks plays lots of Rundgren, and hardly any of it has the broadly appealing pop sound of his three hits. Reminiscent of Van Morrison, who has recorded hundreds of songs but only impacted top 40 radio with Wild Night, Domino, Wavelength and, of course, the all-time focus group favorite Brown Eyed Girl. (Moondance wasn't a hit, but has become one in the revisionist eyes of classic hits programmers.) But you listen to his deeper cuts and realize that there was no way any of them would work in a CHR format.

OTOH, Nick Lowe knows his way around a catchy pop-rock song like few others, but only had one hit, Cruel to be Kind, despite filling his albums with plenty of equally accessible tunes. Go figure.

 

[radioman148]

I've always preferred the Nazz version of "Hello It's Me"

+1

Where I was in college radio when the Nazz version came out, it was one of our most requested songs every week for about a month or so, despite not doing much on either the local or national charts. For whatever reason, most of those requests were coming from east coast kids....who made up about a third of the student body.

Where I was in college same thing. Then about a year later I was in New Orleans and it was getting airplay there. Nevertheless the Nazz version never got the airplay it deserved IMO.

 

[SolidGold16]

I haven't heard all of Todd's songs..but the one I mentioned is the only one I like...I only know of three others that got airplay, Hello, It's Me, Get You A Woman, and Bang the Drum..

Completely agree with you, "I saw the light" IMHO by far his best song. Love the beat, especially the intro.

After that, in order:

Hello, It's Me
We Gotta Get You a Woman
Bang the Drum All Day

And that's pretty much all I know of his music too. I have a 3" commercially produced CD somewhere that had just those four songs on it, so it seems someone else agrees with us...

 

[deltas69]

My list also..in that order...

 

[willdav713]

Was it the slow original version of Hello It's Me or the later faster version that was played? Okay, I am asking as a way to simply say hello to CT Listener as I think I know you from my days at XM. Still doing Relics & Rarities on several stations and still going way deep mixed with the hits!

Dave the Rave
Air Personality
WIBG-FM
www.davetherave.com

Here are a couple of hours of WDRC-FM, just to illustrate my point. This was 3 to 5 yesterday afternoon:

Get Down Tonight
Brick House
Honky Tonk Women
Sweet Caroline
Cherry Bomb
Lady (Styx)
Takin' Care of Business
Paperback Writer
Fame (David Bowie)
In the Summertime
Causing a Commotion
Tighter, Tighter
Roll With It
Magic (Pilot)
The Rubberbnd Man
Proud Mary (CCR)
Two out of Three Ain't Bad
Happy Together
Hello It's Me
I'm a Believer
Don't You Forget About Me
Over My Head

OK, what doesn't belong? I'll go on record as saying I enjoy this sort of music mix. Maybe it's a little too relentlessly upbeat, but it pretty much touches all the relevant musical bases. No Motown in these two hours, but Stevie Wonder's "I Wish" got a spin in the next hour, and the Four Tops' "Bernadette" was played a couple of hours previous. They have pretty much banished the British Invasion, though, outside of the Beatles, Stones, "Downtown" and, for some reason, the Dave Clark Five's "Bits and Pieces."

I prefer Tina Tuner's Version of Proud Mary. CCR's Heard it through the Grapvine is rarely played anymore, too.

 

[hornet61]

CCR "Heard It Thru the Grapevine"...rarely played said willdav..probably the least played cut from Cosmo's Factory..also 11:00 minutes long..

Cosmos Factory..in retrospect could be called CCR's Greatest Hits vol 1 ??

 

[firepoint525]

I prefer (Ike and) Tina Tuner's Version of Proud Mary. CCR's Heard it through the Grapevine is rarely played anymore, too.

Corrected. Tina Turner didn't go solo (at least on record, although she had left him years earlier) until 1984.

 

[unitron]

Here's one I actually did hear that shouldn't have been aired...EVER!
Jimmy Loves Mary Ann by Looking Glass......AWFUL!

Not only did I hear it once, I heard it 3 times within a week and I probably didn't even accumulate 4 total hours of listening to that particular station....

It was an even better song than "Brandy", but sadly radio audiences didn't realize it.

 

[unitron]

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Have always wondered if at some point in time the publishers got in the way of the origional Hello It's Me, credited to the "group" NAZZ. Save for visits to YouTube, haven't heard that song played anywhere in over 40-years.

Why would you put group in quotes?

There were, as I recall from the album, 4 of them, only one of whom was Rundgren.