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And The Stiffs Just Keep On Comin'

Wow, WLNG's TSL must be thru the roof...

Context has always been important to me. The great memories associated with hearing, say, The English Congregation or Climax or even the Archies and Partridge Family is just as much from the song itself as it was knowing the next song may be Zeppelin...or the Isley Brothers...or America, or Jackson 5, or some killer oldie from The Beatles or Stones. It's the only way to understand the maniacal success of a "You Light Up My Life" (the biggest record of the 1970's!?) or "Chick-A-Boom" or hundreds of other titles...put it in context of the times in which it was a hit. I'll have to check WLNG out.
 
Eighteen months running, 142 pages, 28,652 views. Who knew?
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Radnowski - on point. I read this thread now only out of respect for it's creation, and it's creator (sorry, I paint my own house, however with Pabst in the fridge)
When Two & A Half Men prevents me from logging on to this thread...i guess it's a sleeper now for me. I applaud those keeping it alive, but reality says....alright already...
I admire this whole thing..so shoot me with a water gun....but seriously...Goodyear can't stretch this rubber any further. The entire business revolves around musical tastes...and the Stiffs are just that..DEAD.

I recoil now, and retreat to my ipod.....love you guys...really!! ;)

That's all
 
I've been wracking my brain for a contribution to this thread, and finally came up with one after hearing the song pop up on my iPod last night while in shuffle mode. Anyone remember "Once You Understand" by Think? It made the KB Top 30 back in 1971 or so. It was a song about the generation gap that really resonated with me as a semi-rebellious 16-year-old at then time. Haven't heard it on the radio since. Remarkably, I found it on iTunes a year or two ago. Anyway, that's my contribution to the "stiff's" list.
 
I remember the title (I was MD, after all), but not the song itself.

PS-To Heydaybegone: Yeah, this thread has gotten ridiculously long and even somewhat repetitive. But it's fun...jogs the memory cells that have laid dormant for decades (in some cases), and gets our minds off the shoddy state of radio today. I believe it's our version of what Shakespeare called "comic relief."
 
Here's one from around 1992 which was a one-hit wonder I happened to hear playing in a store this week--Corina's "Temptation (Is A Part Of Life)".

Charted high, but has anyone heard it-or Corina-lately?
 
Philip_Airtime said:
I've been wracking my brain for a contribution to this thread, and finally came up with one after hearing the song pop up on my iPod last night while in shuffle mode. Anyone remember "Once You Understand" by Think? It made the KB Top 30 back in 1971 or so. It was a song about the generation gap that really resonated with me as a semi-rebellious 16-year-old at then time. Haven't heard it on the radio since. Remarkably, I found it on iTunes a year or two ago. Anyway, that's my contribution to the "stiff's" list.
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Early 1972, on Big Tree/Bell. Re-released early 1974 after Big Tree's distribution had gone to Atlantic but by then it was old news...most notably I remember the ending, with a cop notifying the parents in the song that their son had died of a drug overdose. We hear the parents' reaction which upon hearing the news descends into quiet weeping as the hook "Things get a little easier once you understand" is repeated 3x. However there was either an edited version or Debaser/Jeff Kaye had it edited to tone down the shock value at the end.

And NOW that I think of it...DB or any other KB alumni reading this post, who was the parody/commentary song guy you had back in that period? I think his last name was Moriarty? He did a parody of "Once You Understand where the son comes home a new father IIRC, and the tagline was "things get a little easier when both sides understand". He'd done a few other commentaries: "Rocky's Off His Rocker" about NY Governor Nelson Rockefeller, another song about a new Bills' stadium (which I remember for the line "two football stadiums going up, what they really need is two football clubs! We oughta win a few games then...") Anyway after a few of those he was gone.
 
chas108 said:
And NOW that I think of it...DB or any other KB alumni reading this post, who was the parody/commentary song guy you had back in that period? I think his last name was Moriarty? He did a parody of "Once You Understand where the son comes home a new father IIRC, and the tagline was "things get a little easier when both sides understand". He'd done a few other commentaries: "Rocky's Off His Rocker" about NY Governor Nelson Rockefeller, another song about a new Bills' stadium (which I remember for the line "two football stadiums going up, what they really need is two football clubs! We oughta win a few games then...") Anyway after a few of those he was gone.
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That would be Tommy Calandra, one of the most decent human beings and talented musicians to come out of Buffalo. Sadly, Tommy passed away a few years ago. His parody songs and creativity live on, as does his work with what could have been a supergroup to come out of Buffalo. Raven, it's said, was signed to Columbia Records, home to Chicago, Santana and Simon & Garfunkel. Fate had different plans. As great as Raven was (and it was), the band never made an impact nationally. Tommy was a big part of that band.
 
Here's one: "Look Out Girls, Here We Come" by Dino, Desi and Billy (offspring of Martin, Arnaz, and I don't know the third.) Not an obscure album track. I heard it on the Toy Bulldog, so it had to have been for real :)

Nick Seneca
 
Debaser said:
Billy Hinsche---a school friend of Dino and Desi.
They were brought to their label by Frank Sinatra, btw. Not a bad recommendation to get!
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True dat, but keep in mind these kids were legacies. The late Dino being Dean Martin's son and Desi the son of Desi Arnaz. That don't hurt.
 
I had to get back on here...we're so close to 30,000 views. While on the subject of celebrity offspring, here's Soupy Sales' two sons on NBC's "Hullabaloo" in 1966. Really, REALLY BADDDDDD...this is worth watching to see the stupefying NY Mets song after the boys do "Day Tripper". What NBC wonk thought this would fit on a rock & roll show is beyond me...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVqxSd6EfIg
 
To help this thread get to 30,000 views, (then it can be retired) I now offer the following stiffilonis:

Grass Roots - "Love Is What You Make It" (1973)
5th Dimension - "Carpet Man" (1968)
Animals - "The Night" (1983)
Supremes - "Automatically Sunshine" (1972)
Toto - "Anna" (1987)

My apologies if any of these appeared before... :)
 
I know, I know...but as I type this we're about 100 views away from 30,000.

5 stiffs by The Beach Boys (not B sides):
Sail On Sailor (released twice - 1973 and 1976)
Wild Honey
Good Timin'
It's O.K.
Getcha Back

5 stiffs by the Bee Gees (same criteria, no B sides):
First Of May
Alive
Edge Of The Universe
He's A Liar
The Woman In You

Even The Beatles had a couple...again no B sides:
My Bonnie
I'll Cry Instead
 
A few weeks ago I decided not to contribute to this thread and allow it to take its course and fade out gracefully. But much like Strawberry Fields Forever, it fades back in as a result of our friend from Pittsburgh (and others) adding to it. Here's what I hope to be my final contribution, fittingly a salute to two Blue Ribbon jazz greats, Hank Jones, who passed away last Sunday (5/16/10) and Art Tatum.

I heard a replay of a Terry Gross interview with Hank Jones in which he recalled years ago playing "at the Anchor Bar in Buffalo." While he was booked at the Anchor Bar, the legendary Art Tatum was playing across town at "a place called McVans." To jazz fans, Jones and Tatum playing in Buffalo at the same time would be like the Stones and Springsteen playing in Buffalo on the same night to rock fans.

Jones' recalled his nightly show at the Anchor Bar ended before Tatum's, which allowed Jones to cab over to McVans to watch and study Tatum's breathtaking style of jazz piano. Jones recalls watching Tatum at McVans. "He'd be sitting at the piano, playing... a bottle of Pabst at his side..."

Cheers!
 


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