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And The Stiffs Just Keep On Comin'
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RCS.....ROFLMAO....
I know it wasn't a stiff but I'm wondering what those of you who were on the air at the time thought of Hocus Pocus by Focus? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpV5InLw52U
A short-lived rival magazine to Rolling Stone, Zoo World, interviewed Focus. They were classically trained and "Hocus Pocus" was their spoof of rock 'n' roll.
I have yet to find the original 45 mix on CD...the CD version I've heard repeats the first yodeling break for the last break that originally had whistling in it. Kinda like "Hungry Like The Wolf"...I don't know that the 5:09 hit version of that song ever made it to CD.
Ok, now two stiffs: "Tyranny" by the Stabilizers from Erie, PA...and "The Sweet Love That You Give" by Steve Forbert.
I have yet to find the original 45 mix on CD...the CD version I've heard repeats the first yodeling break for the last break that originally had whistling in it. Kinda like "Hungry Like The Wolf"...I don't know that the 5:09 hit version of that song ever made it to CD.
Ok, now two stiffs: "Tyranny" by the Stabilizers from Erie, PA...and "The Sweet Love That You Give" by Steve Forbert.
The power of associative thinking. John C's post mentioned Tears For Fears which triggered thoughts of a stiff from Garland Jeffries, his version of 96 Tears. To this day I prefer the original which was anything but a stiff.
Pablo Cruise - "I go to Rio"
DB, didn't you play "48 Crash" for about a day-and-a-half?
In the little town in Vermont where I went to high school...where I really started paying attention to 'KB (and I only started paying attention after leaving WNY in 1970, go figure)...I'd hit up Captain Bullfrog's Record Shop every week and pick up the previous week's Billboard for free before they threw it out. In the "Hits Of The World" section was where I'd learned about Suzi Quatro...and how different "Stumblin' In" was from, say, "Can The Can".
"Stumblin' In" peaked at #4. And the footnote in my Joel Whitburn book says..."Chris (Norman) is lead singer of Smokie". I just learned something...
"Living Next Door To Alice" made it to #25.
In the little town in Vermont where I went to high school...where I really started paying attention to 'KB (and I only started paying attention after leaving WNY in 1970, go figure)...I'd hit up Captain Bullfrog's Record Shop every week and pick up the previous week's Billboard for free before they threw it out. In the "Hits Of The World" section was where I'd learned about Suzi Quatro...and how different "Stumblin' In" was from, say, "Can The Can".
"Stumblin' In" peaked at #4. And the footnote in my Joel Whitburn book says..."Chris (Norman) is lead singer of Smokie". I just learned something...
"Living Next Door To Alice" made it to #25.
Since we're in the 70s, how about this one from '72 which sputtered and stalled at #86 on the US charts:
Boz Scaggs - Dinah Flow
Boz Scaggs - Dinah Flow
What a cool thread to run across by accident online .
A few of what I think you'd call stiffs that I remember from WHFM in the mid-late 70's that I didn't see anyone mention...
The two follow-up singles to Starbuck's "Moonlight Feels Right"..."I Got To Know" (later in 1976) and "Everybody Be Dancing" (1977 I think)
Helen Reddy "I Can't Hear You No More" (late-summer 1976?)
Charlie "Turning To You" (1977)
Steely Dan "The Fez" (late 1976)
Natalie Cole "Mister Melody: (late 1976)
"Lonely Boy" Andrew Gold's two less-successful follow-ups "Thank You For Being A Friend" and "Never Let Her Slip Away" (1978)
The strangest thing I remember hearing on that station around that time was Roger Whittaker's "The Last Farewell", which apparently cracked the Billboard top-20 in early 1975, but I recall WHFM playing it with some regularity in the summer of 1977. (?)
.A few of what I think you'd call stiffs that I remember from WHFM in the mid-late 70's that I didn't see anyone mention...
The two follow-up singles to Starbuck's "Moonlight Feels Right"..."I Got To Know" (later in 1976) and "Everybody Be Dancing" (1977 I think)
Helen Reddy "I Can't Hear You No More" (late-summer 1976?)
Charlie "Turning To You" (1977)
Steely Dan "The Fez" (late 1976)
Natalie Cole "Mister Melody: (late 1976)
"Lonely Boy" Andrew Gold's two less-successful follow-ups "Thank You For Being A Friend" and "Never Let Her Slip Away" (1978)
The strangest thing I remember hearing on that station around that time was Roger Whittaker's "The Last Farewell", which apparently cracked the Billboard top-20 in early 1975, but I recall WHFM playing it with some regularity in the summer of 1977. (?)
Wow..Starbuck's two follow-ups..."Everybody Be Dancin'" was in May 1977...peaked at #38. "I Got To Know" didn't even make the Top 40. Just as well..."Moonlight" was a great song for its day, the two follow-ups, IMHO, not so much.
Andrew Gold's "Thank You For Being A Friend" made it to #25...I remember hearing this on 'KB.
"The Last Farewell" got to #19. I don't remember that one firsthand...I do remember "Blue Skies" and "New World In The Morning" though. Must've been big A/C or MOR hits, I remember hearing both on CJRN when I lived in Niagara Falls, but neither made the Billboard Top 40.
FWIW, I got my copy of Whitburn's Top 40 (1955-86) when B94/Pittsburgh decided to toss away most all its early history, just prior to its first format change to active rock in July 2004. Radio junkie that I am, I picked up jingles, Filmhouse TV Videos...tons of '80's promo CDs. And didn't ask why it was being tossed out lest management come to its senses.
Andrew Gold's "Thank You For Being A Friend" made it to #25...I remember hearing this on 'KB.
"The Last Farewell" got to #19. I don't remember that one firsthand...I do remember "Blue Skies" and "New World In The Morning" though. Must've been big A/C or MOR hits, I remember hearing both on CJRN when I lived in Niagara Falls, but neither made the Billboard Top 40.
FWIW, I got my copy of Whitburn's Top 40 (1955-86) when B94/Pittsburgh decided to toss away most all its early history, just prior to its first format change to active rock in July 2004. Radio junkie that I am, I picked up jingles, Filmhouse TV Videos...tons of '80's promo CDs. And didn't ask why it was being tossed out lest management come to its senses.
chas108 said:
Good move. It's never valuable until someone asks to have it.
Indeed. I've always been a pack rat with that stuff but still keep it manageable.
B94, meanwhile, made a comeback in Sept. 2007. After a half-hearted attempt at Active Rock and then Man Talk, CBS came to their senses and replaced Joel Hollander with Dan Mason, who promptly turned all but one, or maybe two, of the Man stations back to their previous formats. So B94 was now wishing they'd have kept some of that history to facilitate their relaunch. That was during my 3 1/2 years away from radio, so I wasn't around for them to ask if they could borrow some audio artifacts that I'd have gladly lent them.
It's all moot now...B94 was blown up two months ago for an all-sports format. But FWIW, it's live and local 24/7.
B94, meanwhile, made a comeback in Sept. 2007. After a half-hearted attempt at Active Rock and then Man Talk, CBS came to their senses and replaced Joel Hollander with Dan Mason, who promptly turned all but one, or maybe two, of the Man stations back to their previous formats. So B94 was now wishing they'd have kept some of that history to facilitate their relaunch. That was during my 3 1/2 years away from radio, so I wasn't around for them to ask if they could borrow some audio artifacts that I'd have gladly lent them.
It's all moot now...B94 was blown up two months ago for an all-sports format. But FWIW, it's live and local 24/7.