Rad...very "Rad"!! ;D
That sucker burned through my speakers...shall we we say "too often". Can't figure only 42 on the charts. ??? But then, that was then..now is now!!
Never say never...especially with this thread!! :
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And The Stiffs Just Keep On Comin'
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Rad...very "Rad"!! ;D
That sucker burned through my speakers...shall we we say "too often". Can't figure only 42 on the charts. ??? But then, that was then..now is now!!
Never say never...especially with this thread!! :
That's all
HDBG
Chas108 said:
-Lids all over the ice as Chas108 scores the hat trick
Silkie:
Didn't everyone put the Bomp in? Tag your it!! ;D
HDBG
(or are you saying the Marcels stiffed?) just asking
Didn't everyone put the Bomp in? Tag your it!! ;D
HDBG
(or are you saying the Marcels stiffed?) just asking
Not quite sure if this is a response to Savage's comments on the longevity of the WADD thread, disinterest in the WXXI thread or a genuinely worthwhile post recalling a stiff from the Washington DC area that was played on WPGC, WEEL and WEAM.
You make the call.
I submit for your approval, "White Lies" by Grin, featuring Nils Lofgren, a superb guitarist who's done a number of projects over the years and also played on a couple of tours with Bruce Springsteen.
You make the call.
I submit for your approval, "White Lies" by Grin, featuring Nils Lofgren, a superb guitarist who's done a number of projects over the years and also played on a couple of tours with Bruce Springsteen.
I still maintain that Joe Cocker can't sing worth a damn. He sounds like he gargles with razor blades, yet the guy is got money coming out of his ears.
JimPastrick said:
I get that title confused with something called "White Lies - Blue Eyes"...or so I think I remember...
Just over on Forgotten Hits blog to look up something I read yesterday on a new Joel Whitburn update that'll make this thread all the more fun...now including a "Total Hits" list accounting for those Top 40/Rock icons who sold infinitely more albums than singles. Here's the link to Joel's site:
http://www.recordresearch.com/pop/top_pop_singles_1955_2010.php
Anyway...today's Forgotten Hits brings back the 1973 original version of "Rock & Roll Heaven" by Climax. They don't get much stiffer...really interesting to hear it alongside the Righteous Brothers' cover hit that came out a year later. Jim Croce and Bobby Darin had died during that 12-month span and so they replaced references to Buddy Holly & Ritchie Valens in the second verse.
http://forgottenhits60s.blogspot.com/
As I recall, the Billboard ad for Climax's original predicted it would break out of Hawaii and then Buffalo just as "Precious And Few" did...but I don't remember ever hearing the song on 'KB.
Just when I thought this thread had finally died...
Has anyone mentioned Buzz Clifford's "Baby Sitting Boogie"?
Or Ferlin Husky's "Enormity In Motion" (the novelty "answer" song to "Poetry In Motion" featuring the classic line-Enormity In Motion, waddlin' by my side. Enormity in motion-makes my friends run and hide)?
Has anyone mentioned Buzz Clifford's "Baby Sitting Boogie"?
Or Ferlin Husky's "Enormity In Motion" (the novelty "answer" song to "Poetry In Motion" featuring the classic line-Enormity In Motion, waddlin' by my side. Enormity in motion-makes my friends run and hide)?
This one didn't chart, but it's especially relevant for Valentine's Day: Tell Her She's Lovely" by El Chicano. To remember this one, you had to be a collector, a listener to late night distant signals or maybe you grew up in border Texas or LA. Definitely a Classic Stiff.
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"Tell Her She's Lovely" by El Chicano. To remember this one, you had to be a collector, a listener to late night distant signals or maybe you grew up in border Texas or LA. Definitely a Classic Stiff."
Or living in metropolitan Syracuse, where it was top-10 and heavily requested while we were playing it on WHEN. Seemed like for a while there in, mmm, late '73 or early '74, it was the first song out of every other newscast in the afternoons (and I remember, since I was doing those newscasts)...
Or living in metropolitan Syracuse, where it was top-10 and heavily requested while we were playing it on WHEN. Seemed like for a while there in, mmm, late '73 or early '74, it was the first song out of every other newscast in the afternoons (and I remember, since I was doing those newscasts)...
Must... Not... Post... On... NPR/CPB... Or... WECK... Thread...
Okay.... so how about this tasty treat from the Big 80s: Greg Phillinganes' "Behind The Mask." Please, don't tell me "Hey Pastrick, that song was mentioned on page 36." :
Okay.... so how about this tasty treat from the Big 80s: Greg Phillinganes' "Behind The Mask." Please, don't tell me "Hey Pastrick, that song was mentioned on page 36." :
JimPastrick said:Must... Not... Post... On... NPR/CPB... Or... WECK... Thread...
Okay.... so how about this tasty treat from the Big 80s: Greg Phillinganes' "Behind The Mask." Please, don't tell me "Hey Pastrick, that song was mentioned on page 36." :
"Behind The Mask" is so good it merits two mentions IMHO. Played it at OK-100/Cortland-Ithaca for about five minutes. I think it's begging for a remake...
From that same time period: Franke & The Knockouts - "Outrageous". I don't care that it sounds like low-rent Loverboy, I still thought it was cool in its day.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHv1QiB4cfo
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"Off-topic...Bob, was WHEN in the 70's anything like I heard it in 1982-83? That was one awesome personality Hot AC in the early 80's."
It was. Of course it had continuity in the person of morning man Phil Markert (who, with the exception of a couple of years out of town in, IIRC, the late 70s) spanned most of WHEN's great years as an AC station. (No disrespect to Ray D'Orio, who held the gig down for a few years but may be better remembered for his afternoon work there after Jack Mindy left.)
There are those of us who remember the 1973-75 iteration of WHEN so well, and feel so fond about it, that we're partial to it. The lineup was Phil Markert, Dr. Al Adams, Jack Mindy, John Simmons and Roy Taylor with "The Coyote" on weekends--as good a lineup as Syracuse ever had. PD Jim Ashbery built the lineup and created a music mix and formatics which made it sound truly major market, and Bob Ashton and later Rod Wood headed up a 24/7 news team that ranks with the best an Upstate New York radio station ever put together--to find anything equal or better, IMHO, you have to look to the news teams Jim McLaughlin put together at WKBW in the early 70s and at WBEN in the late 70s and 80s.
At WHEN in the 70s we even had a fulltime airborne traffic reporter, pilot and broadcaster "Captain Gordon" Spooner, on air during both drive times--we were a true full service radio station. Again, you have to go to WBEN to find something similar.
Those who remember WHEN as it was in the 70s will know this isn't just a former staffer's nostalgia...though in the interest of full disclosure, it is that. In Western NY, 1972-77 WGR and 1978-83 WBEN had the same clout and the same quality in doing the full service AC approach.
It was. Of course it had continuity in the person of morning man Phil Markert (who, with the exception of a couple of years out of town in, IIRC, the late 70s) spanned most of WHEN's great years as an AC station. (No disrespect to Ray D'Orio, who held the gig down for a few years but may be better remembered for his afternoon work there after Jack Mindy left.)
There are those of us who remember the 1973-75 iteration of WHEN so well, and feel so fond about it, that we're partial to it. The lineup was Phil Markert, Dr. Al Adams, Jack Mindy, John Simmons and Roy Taylor with "The Coyote" on weekends--as good a lineup as Syracuse ever had. PD Jim Ashbery built the lineup and created a music mix and formatics which made it sound truly major market, and Bob Ashton and later Rod Wood headed up a 24/7 news team that ranks with the best an Upstate New York radio station ever put together--to find anything equal or better, IMHO, you have to look to the news teams Jim McLaughlin put together at WKBW in the early 70s and at WBEN in the late 70s and 80s.
At WHEN in the 70s we even had a fulltime airborne traffic reporter, pilot and broadcaster "Captain Gordon" Spooner, on air during both drive times--we were a true full service radio station. Again, you have to go to WBEN to find something similar.
Those who remember WHEN as it was in the 70s will know this isn't just a former staffer's nostalgia...though in the interest of full disclosure, it is that. In Western NY, 1972-77 WGR and 1978-83 WBEN had the same clout and the same quality in doing the full service AC approach.
Bob1370 said:
Thanks for responding Bob.
I remember Phil Markert...maybe from my wife mentioning him...don't remember too many names from when I listened in '82-'83 but they were all good.
WGR 1972-77 was the Larry Anderson era. I worked for Larry 1989-92 at WWVA-WOVK/Wheeling and loved it.
Now here's a stiff that probably got mentioned before, maybe even by me...Starz - "Cherry Baby"
Interesting trivia I never knew before, if you hit the link...connections to Looking Glass and Kiss:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jaD5CYylU60