And The Stiffs Just Keep On Comin'

chas108 · Jun 15, 2012

SirRoxalot said:
How about a whole album that the critics raved about, and got some airplay, but couldn't break into the top 30? Anybody remember Emitt Rhodes, a McCartney sound-alike who had a couple of albums in the early '70s? I remember playing "Live Till You Die" way back when. Here's a sample...

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

Probably already mentioned it but I remember Sandy Beach playing - and raving about - "She's Such A Beauty" in the Fall of '70. One beautiful stiff if you ask me...

Debaser · Jun 15, 2012

Radknowski said:
What a surprise to find this thread still has a pulse. Amazing. So here's one more log to throw on the fire, a song we played to death on that 1 kilowatt flamethrower in the Pennsylvania Poconos. It but went absolutely nowhere. Seems the PD loved the group and all the jocks loved the song and the label was only too happy to send us singles and promo albums. A dangerous combination. Submitted for your consideration and dancing pleasure, from around 1973, Good Feeling To Know, from Poco.

We played that at KB as well.

Debaser · Jun 15, 2012

Radknowski said:
What a surprise to find this thread still has a pulse. Amazing. So here's one more log to throw on the fire, a song we played to death on that 1 kilowatt flamethrower in the Pennsylvania Poconos. It but went absolutely nowhere. Seems the PD loved the group and all the jocks loved the song and the label was only too happy to send us singles and promo albums. A dangerous combination. Submitted for your consideration and dancing pleasure, from around 1973, Good Feeling To Know, from Poco.

We played that at KB as well.

mrswarts · Jun 18, 2012

Thanks Don, for the "W K B W instant replay replay replay replay...."

chas108 · Jun 18, 2012

mrswarts said:
Thanks Don, for the "W K B W instant replay replay replay replay...."

Loved the minute-and-a-half edits that constituted the "instant replay". Another way of making weekends special way back when.

I just saw a FB post from the PM Driver at the local CC CHR, to listen for cuts from the forthcoming Bieber album today...

...shades of old 'KB, right?

Except it's not a local station feature. It's on iHeart Radio.

Now here's a reallly stiff stiffiloni by Poco..."Under The Gun".

John C · Jul 20, 2012

About the same time as Poco's "Under The Gun" was Toto's "Georgy Porgy" which bubbled up under the top 40 at #48.

chas108 · Jul 21, 2012

John C said:
About the same time as Poco's "Under The Gun" was Toto's "Georgy Porgy" which bubbled up under the top 40 at #48.

Toto had a couple other "Anna" songs in their catalog after the success of 1982's "Rosanna"...

"Holyanna" came out in 1985 and fell off the face of the earth, though it wasn't a bad song.
Then a couple years later it was just plain "Anna"...a sleepy 80's A/C midtempo record.

Of course "Rosanna" was Rosanna Arquette...no accounting for the inspiration for the "Anna" stiffs.

SirRoxalot · Jul 22, 2012

Rosanna got around. She was also the inspiration for Eddie Money's "Shakin'", which only got to #63. That would be a stiff for Eddie. The actress in the video is Patricia Kotero, better known as Apollonia. Make sure you listen carefully to the second chorus, after "she slammed on the brakes"...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hA1wDgPZCDA

Bob1370 · Jul 23, 2012

Sir RoxALot said, "Rosanna got around. She was also the inspiration for Eddie Money's "Shakin'", which only got to #63. That would be a stiff for Eddie." Maybe as a single. But you still hear it often on FM classic rockers. it's another one of those "turntable hits" that was in the closest thing AOR stations got to hot rotation after formats like Lee Abram's "Superstars" came to dominate FM rockers. And the album it was from, "No Control", was a major hit on the Billboard 200 charts.

John C · Aug 1, 2012

From Canada- Bryan Adams went from #1 "(Everything I do) I Do It For You" to #2 "Can't Stop This Thing We Started" to a #31 stiff, "There Will Never Be Another Tonight". On a different note, if a certain out of town poster was born in Canada, would he be known as "The Big Eh"? ;D

umtrr-author · Aug 2, 2012

chas108 said:
Toto had a couple other "Anna" songs in their catalog after the success of 1982's "Rosanna"...
"Holyanna" came out in 1985 and fell off the face of the earth, though it wasn't a bad song.
Then a couple years later it was just plain "Anna"...a sleepy 80's A/C midtempo record.
Of course "Rosanna" was Rosanna Arquette...no accounting for the inspiration for the "Anna" stiffs.

Toto had a number of songs with female names as the title-- not quite one per album, but close. "Anna" was from "The Seventh One" which also included "Pamela," the last of their ten Top 40 Hits. I like "Melanie" from their CD "Mindfields" (despite quite the silly video!) but radio didn't and the album didn't do well either.

chas108 · Aug 10, 2012

For some reason...Kansas' "People Of The South Wind" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wveGtAQk6Ko popped into my head this morning. Did Kirshner/CBS even attempt to work this one beyond AOR?

John C · Aug 27, 2012

In 1982 Paul Davis followed up his biggest hit, "'65 Love Affair" (hit #6) , with his lowest top 40 charter, "Love or Let Me Be Lonely", which peaked at #40. I believe that is the epitome of a Stiff.

You're up, Chas.

chas108 · Aug 28, 2012

John C said:
In 1982 Paul Davis followed up his biggest hit, "'65 Love Affair" (hit #6) , with his lowest top 40 charter, "Love or Let Me Be Lonely", which peaked at #40. I believe that is the epitome of a Stiff. You're up, Chas.

And that was one remake I really liked...but what a stiffiloni.

There was Kansas' "Fight Fire With Fire" in the summer of '83. Got all the way to #58.

JustPastBuffalo · Aug 28, 2012

OK, I'm up for adding another slice of Stiffaroni to this pizza, but damned if I can remember the artist/group or the exact title of the Big 80s song with a hook that pounded out the lyrics, "I'm On the Rebound." Chas? John? Mike? Rox? Sherlock?

chas108 · Aug 29, 2012

JustPastBuffalo said:
OK, I'm up for adding another slice of Stiffaroni to this pizza, but damned if I can remember the artist/group or the exact title of the Big 80s song with a hook that pounded out the lyrics, "I'm On the Rebound." Chas? John? Mike? Rox? Sherlock?

It was former Argent lead singer Russ Ballard. I played it as an oldie on OK100/Cortland-Ithaca in 1983. It was on Epic.

What a pedigree! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russ_Ballard

I admit to getting him confused with Glen Ballard who produced Alanis Morissette's iconic Jagged Little Pill.

John C · Sep 4, 2012

It took me awhile looking on iTunes, but a local tune that I don't know ever had airplay outside of Rochester? Buxx- "Can't Say No": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYs2pMLIAJ4

I have another song from about the same era on a cassette but I'll be dipped if I can find it anywhere. Pop/rock- "Drive In Show"?

"The nightime falls and now it's time to come to life.
You waited all day and now your time has come.
But no one shows they've all forgot you're there.
The ticket-taker's gone to sleep for sure.

(I can give more lyrics if anyone needs them or cares.)

Chas? Anyone? ???

chas108 · Sep 5, 2012

John C said:
It took me awhile looking on iTunes, but a local tune that I don't know ever had airplay outside of Rochester? Buxx- "Can't Say No": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYs2pMLIAJ4

I have another song from about the same era on a cassette but I'll be dipped if I can find it anywhere. Pop/rock- "Drive In Show"?

"The nightime falls and now it's time to come to life.
You waited all day and now your time has come.
But no one shows they've all forgot you're there.
The ticket-taker's gone to sleep for sure.

(I can give more lyrics if anyone needs them or cares.)

Chas? Anyone? ???

Clicking on the link shows it was out in '82.

I may have heard "Can't Say No" on the old 94Rock (now WYYY)...or on 95X or Utica's Rock 107. I worked on WKFM (now WBBS) that fall and definitely did not play it.

Concurrent to Buxx was Syracuse's 805. I think they were on RCA for about an hour and a half...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0l6IfoFfGk

"Drive-In Show" rings no bells at all...

JustPastBuffalo · Sep 5, 2012

chas108 said:
JustPastBuffalo said:

OK, I'm up for adding another slice of Stiffaroni to this pizza, but damned if I can remember the artist/group or the exact title of the Big 80s song with a hook that pounded out the lyrics, "I'm On the Rebound." Chas? John? Mike? Rox? Sherlock?

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It was former Argent lead singer Russ Ballard. I played it as an oldie on OK100/Cortland-Ithaca in 1983. It was on Epic. What a pedigree! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russ_Ballard I admit to getting him confused with Glen Ballard who produced Alanis Morissette's iconic Jagged Little Pill.

A long overdue "Thank You" for the research, Chaz. Mystery solved. Ballard also did "Voices" which was played by AORs and CHRs at the time, mostly due to the song's appearance on Miami Vice. http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xgd3kh_russ-ballard-voices-1984-hq-miami-vice-version_music BTW, the hull of that boat in the video is taking a beating.

chas108 · Sep 7, 2012

JustPastBuffalo said:
chas108 said:

JustPastBuffalo said:

OK, I'm up for adding another slice of Stiffaroni to this pizza, but damned if I can remember the artist/group or the exact title of the Big 80s song with a hook that pounded out the lyrics, "I'm On the Rebound." Chas? John? Mike? Rox? Sherlock?

Click to expand...

It was former Argent lead singer Russ Ballard. I played it as an oldie on OK100/Cortland-Ithaca in 1983. It was on Epic. What a pedigree! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russ_Ballard I admit to getting him confused with Glen Ballard who produced Alanis Morissette's iconic Jagged Little Pill.

Click to expand...

A long overdue "Thank You" for the research, Chaz. Mystery solved. Ballard also did "Voices" which was played by AORs and CHRs at the time, mostly due to the song's appearance on Miami Vice. http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xgd3kh_russ-ballard-voices-1984-hq-miami-vice-version_music BTW, the hull of that boat in the video is taking a beating.

My pleasure JPB.

Wow...Russ Ballard's "Voices" passed me by entirely. Or at least I don't remember it. Sometimes I look at this stuff and marvel that it's been 30 years since I did weekends in Syracuse...actually Fulton at WKFM (now WBBS).

One of the things I always liked about Upstate radio in those days was the spice of both regional acts (including national acts with Upstate roots) and Canadian imports such as Loverboy, Saga, Aldo Nova and April Wine. I played this one winter '84 at OK100...Burbach PD Bill Shannon had just hired Bill Weston away from PM drive at 97Rock to be our PD. Bill was one of the all-time best I'd ever worked under. He ended up in NYC and is now at WMMR/Philly.

April Wine "This (This) Could Be The Right One"...hmmm, did Ratt copy that technique for "(Round) Round And Round"?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znRDoo3s36s

And I've probably mentioned this one before..."Queen Of The Broken Hearts" by Loverboy. Fall '83. Follow-up the the massive "Hot Girls In Love". Spread some roast beef and rye bread from Wegmans' deli below the screen, here comes the cheese!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWSLgpQGw3I

And The Stiffs Just Keep On Comin'

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