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And The Stiffs Just Keep On Comin'

Silkie said:
Sitting - Cat Stevens
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I'd forgotten that one...Jack Armstrong used to play a cool album cut from that same LP called "Can't Keep It In".
 
Holy smokes, what a list... I count over 800 songs. Of course, I gotta add a few more... here's a dozen for the weekend...

Chris Hodge "We're On Our Way" (ooh, aah)
Osmonds "Hold Her TIght"
Greg Guidry "Goin Down"
Richard "Dimples" Field "If It Ain't One Thing, It's Another"
Frankie Goes To Hollywood "Two Tribes"
Grace Jones "Pull Up To The Bumper" (was the traffic theme on Power 99 in Phila for the longest time)
Madonna "Burning Up"
Bob Welch "Precious Love"
Bangles "Walking Down Your Street"
Invisible Man's Band "All Night Thing" (aka Five Stairsteps)
Hamilton, Joe Frank & Reynolds "Winners & Losers"

...and from the stiff-filled year of 1980...
Ali Thompson "Take A Little Rhythm"
 
Penrod Rightout said:
Rick Springfield "Bruce" (1984)
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Now THERE'S a song with a l'il history behind it.

"Bruce" is a humorous song about Rick Springfield being mistaken for Springsteen, in the last verse even Rick's mom calls him "Bruce". It was recorded in 1978 for Mercury and don't know if it was ever actually released at that time, I'm thinking it wasn't. The back story was printed on the jacket in which the promo 45 came.

Springsteen was in a hot period in '78 but no one knew who Rick Springfield was unless you were familiar with 1972's "Speak To The Sky". Even then, who would care? But in December '84, between General Hospital and his string of RCA hits, Rick was a household name...and Bruce was white-hot with "Born In The U.S.A" and its 7-hits.
 
travist102 said:
Holy smokes, what a list... I count over 800 songs. Of course, I gotta add a few more... here's a dozen for the weekend...

Chris Hodge "We're On Our Way" (ooh, aah)
Osmonds "Hold Her TIght"
Greg Guidry "Goin Down"
Richard "Dimples" Field "If It Ain't One Thing, It's Another"
Frankie Goes To Hollywood "Two Tribes"
Grace Jones "Pull Up To The Bumper" (was the traffic theme on Power 99 in Phila for the longest time)
Madonna "Burning Up"
Bob Welch "Precious Love"
Bangles "Walking Down Your Street"
Invisible Man's Band "All Night Thing" (aka Five Stairsteps)
Hamilton, Joe Frank & Reynolds "Winners & Losers"

...and from the stiff-filled year of 1980...
Ali Thompson "Take A Little Rhythm"
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"Hold Her Tight", if you haven't heard it, is a gem of a record...Donny is relegated to background and the riff is straight from...wait for it..."Immigrant Song". It actually peaked at #14 but probably would have charted higher had it been released under another name. The Osmonds had a nice little run of catchy power pop-rockers in 1972-73 but IMO since they'd been pigeonholed as bubblegum, only "Down By The Lazy River" reached critical mass on the charts (Peaked #4).
 
Speaking of Donny Osmond, what about his 80s comeback with "Soldier of Love" (#2 1988) and "Sacred Emotion" (#13 1989) Both had heavy plays on AC but both seem to have fallen off the face of the planet.
 
Getting To Know You - Hurricane Smith
Grapevine - Creedence Clearwater Revival
Lay A Little Lovin' On Me - Robin McNamara
 
Silkie said:
La La La La La La La La Means I Love You - The UFOs
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Can't even find this. Are you sure that you don't mean the Delfonics - which went to #4 in 1968?

And "Lay a Little Lovin' On Me" by Robin McNamara went to #11 nationally - and charted higher in the Northeast. Hardly a stiff.

"I Heard It Through the Grapevine" received worthy treatment from CCR, but at 11:00 minutes on the Cosmo's Factory album, it was hardly single material in those days. The edited version was released 6 years later in an attempt to cash in on the CCR name after the band split up.

Hurricane Smith had a novelty hit in "Oh, Babe, What Would You Say". No surprise that the followup was a stiff.
 
SirRoxalot said:
Silkie said:
La La La La La La La La Means I Love You - The UFOs
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Can't even find this. Are you sure that you don't mean the Delfonics - which went to #4 in 1968?

And "Lay a Little Lovin' On Me" by Robin McNamara went to #11 nationally - and charted higher in the Northeast. Hardly a stiff.

"I Heard It Through the Grapevine" received worthy treatment from CCR, but at 11:00 minutes on the Cosmo's Factory album, it was hardly single material in those days. The edited version was released 6 years later in an attempt to cash in on the CCR name after the band split up.

Hurricane Smith had a novelty hit in "Oh, Babe, What Would You Say". No surprise that the followup was a stiff.
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La-La-Means I Love You - The UFOs:  Underground Records #1147 (flip side of Manhattan Spiritual, by Reg Owens).  At least that's what the label on my 45 RPM says. Saxophone instrumental, runs 3:06
 
I remember "Lay A Little Lovin' On Me" making 'KB's Top 100 of 1970, fwiw...she was signed to Jeff Barry's (from the Brill Building) Steed imprint.

As for the Supremes, starting in 1968 they had more stiffs than hits...'64-'67 really was their time. In 1971, "Nathan Jones" peaked at #16, followed up by "Floy Joy", also #16, then "Automatically Sunshine" at #37.

I probably associate the two because they were out at the same time and were both on Capitol, but Hurricane Smith reminds me of Edward Bear, whose hit "Last Song" was followed up by this stiff: "Close Your Eyes".

And First Class followed up their hit "Beach Baby" with this stiffiloni: "(Jenny Jenny) Dreams Are Ten A Penny".
 
Depending on which Top 40 charts you consider, "Make Your Own Kind of Music", by Mama Cass Elliot made the Top 40 or top 5.

Barbra Streisand tried to pull off a medley version that made it to #98.
 
...and another "More Music, More Head-Scratching Hour"...

Afternoon Delights "General Hospi-tale"
Hall & Oates "Missed Opportunity"
Carole Bayer Sager "Stronger Than Before"
Night Ranger "Secret of My Success"
Saint-Tropez "One More Minute"
Elton John "Victim Of Love"
Huey Lewis & The News "Small World"
Prince "Mountains"
Fine Young Cannibals "Don't Look Back"
Fred Knoblauch & Susan Anton "Killin Time"
Randy Meisner "Hearts On Fire"

...and from the stiff-filled year of 1980...
Oak "Set The Night On Fire" (can't find the full version anywhere)
 
1980 seemed to have more than its share of stiffs...a true downer time in Top 40 history.

Jim Photoglo - "We Were Meant To Be Lovers"
Donna Summer - "Cold Love" (I may have listed that one before)
John Cougar Mellencamp - "This Time"
Alice Cooper - "Clones" (We're All)
Larsen/Feiten Band - "Who'll Be The Fool Tonight"
Korgis - "Everybody's Got to Learn Sometime"
Bette Midler - "When A Man Loves A Woman"
ELO - "Last Train To London"
Hall & Oates - "How Does It Feel To Be Back"
Linda Ronstadt - "I Can't Let Go"

All from 1980...
 
I have a 45 rpm of "A Place In The Sun", by The Temptations and Diana Ross and The Supremes - original Motown label. It's in halfway decent shape too. On this particular 45 - again, it's on the original Motown label - the flip side is "I'm Gonna Make You Love Me", by The Temptations and Diana Ross and The Supremes.

That's The Temptations and Diana Ross and The Supremes, NOT WITH Diana Ross and The Supremes. Papa used to say, "WITH...WITH...it means so many things.
 


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