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And The Stiffs Just Keep On Comin'

&M's Jon Konjoyan kept hammering me to add it and I kept turning him down...I was sure wrong
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Were you holding out for those concert seats he couldn't get you!!! (Grin, smile, chuckle)
 
Heard this song on a Canadian AM oldies station, the call letters I cannot recall, and thought it was ideal for this thread. Even though I like the song and it has a cool gospel-like organ riff on the intro, it stiffed. From 1973, I offer for your consideration, Three Dog Night Let Me Serenade You. BTW, is that a Stanton 681EEE cartridge & stylus on that tonearm?
 
Well...I'm thinkin' about it...okay, it was never released as a single. Can we split the difference? Not like I was ever a huge fan of anything else they did but that song, and I made the post the day Mary died. Thank you for any slack yous can offer.
 
Here's one from the 70s that really, really stiffed. The group was New Birth, which once had 17 members! The song, on RCA, sounds like it came out of an episode of Starsky & Hutch or Charlie's Angels. Bad mix, way too long. I never heard this song on the radio. It was discovered going through some water damaged 45s that were thrown out of a relative's house. I looked it up a few days later. Here's "I Wash My hands Of the Whole Damn Deal." A genuine stiff, but a title that has to make you laugh.
 
Well, I finally finished going through my singles, and here are 3 more that a) may or may not have been mentioned already...and b) may or may not be stiffs based on whether or not anybody still plays them:

The American Breed-Bend Me Shape Me
The Neon Philharmonic-Morning Girl
The Trade Winds-Mind Excursion.
 
Good one with the Trade Winds-Mind Excursion, one I didn't remember until giving it a play on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFCMhe-0uzA

Then I remembered the song they're most known for, "New York's a Lonely Town"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M25V7EM0OrI

KRLA featured this on one of their oldies albums--a special edit, where they (rather poorly) added the line after New York's a lonely town: "Because there's no KRLA."

I had it on vinyl and 4-track.

In keeping with the "Mind" theme I was going to submit the Amboy Dukes "Journey to the Center of the Mind" but seeing it reached #16 on the BB charts it falls outside the stiff criteria
 
"The American Breed-Bend Me Shape Me"

Actually did very well. Peaked at #5 on the Billboard national charts early in 1968, and praked as high as #3 on WABC in NYC in mid-January of that year. Same group added Chaka Kahn as lead singer in 1974, renamed itself Rufus, and hit #1 with songs like "Tell Me Somerhing Good."

Hardly a bunch of stiffs as a band, and the song wasn't either. It's one of those songs that could be an "oh, wow" if anyone would play it.
 
Ed Trefzger said:
qman said:
"Bend Me, Shape Me" is in secondary rotation on Legends 102.7 which means it receives a couple of spins a week.
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That should soon qualify it for the "burn outs" thread!
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LOL. Just one of the many simple pleasures of this thread.

BTW, Debaser, "Morning Girl" was mentioned in post #1 wayyyyyy back when.
 


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