Oops. Got the number wrong. 100,000 - and we've now exceeded that! Radknowski, look what you started!
-
Get involved.
We want your input!
Apply for Membership and join the conversations about everything related to broadcasting.
After we receive your registration, a moderator will review it. After your registration is approved, you will be permitted to post.
If you use a disposable or false email address, your registration will be rejected.
After your membership is approved, please take a minute to tell us a little bit about yourself.
https://www.radiodiscussions.com/forums/introduce-yourself.1088/
Thanks in advance and have fun!
RadioDiscussions Administrators
And The Stiffs Just Keep On Comin'
- Thread starter Radknowski
- Start date
Still slingin' plaster on drywall and huffing cigar smoke from Uncle Oskie's cheap stogies, yougoidar. Whodathunkit!? We'll meet at Wiechec's. Pabst for everybody! Cold. From a bottle, dammit. BTW, did somebody jack up the "views" in the last 24 hours just to break the 100 grand mark? I thought this thread was running on fumes. Each poster made it last a lot longer than anybody could have guessed. Amazing contributions here.
Suddenly, the number of views went down again. WTH? Oh, well, onward and upward!
SirRoxalot said:
And I thought it was a milestone when we hit 25,000.
Somewhere back in time, I may have posted this...but now that's it's 30 years since I was actually playing this title on a red Fidelipac loaded with high-bias "hot tape"...here it is again.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kNwvIEQsg0
To this day, when someone says "Chris DeBurgh"...my memories go here, not to "The Lady In Red" (puh-leeze!)
Heard a good one last night I hadn't heard in 30 years. Jefferson Starship - Play on Love
Sitting at a watering hole and the sound system plays "I'm Happy Just to Dance With You" from the movie, A Hard Day's Night. George Harrison and the Beatles, of course. In 1965, it peaked at #95. That might be because it was the B-Side of "I'll Cry Instead" which peaked at #25. In those days, Beatles 45s were usually two sided chart hits. It's just that this 45 wasn't. A dubious stiff, but what the hell, the thread needed some excitement. Barkeep! More PBRs!
tce said:
Thought I saw this comment here a few days ago and started responding to it...okletstryagain.
Climax followed its 4-week-at-#1-on-'KB "Precious And Few" (three months before it went national) with the following stiffs...
"Life And Breath" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=om2xn3w8KzU (Could the George Clinton who wrote this be the same George Clinton from Parliament/Funkadelic!?)
"Caroline This Time" (so stiff it's not even on YouTube)
And from here it gets really interesting...promising another smash "breaking out of Hawaii and Buffalo" (the trajectory "Precious And Few" took to get into the national Top 40), Climax released a song written by ("Undercover Angel") Alan O'Day about Rock stars who've passed on. It also stiffed...and can't be found on YouTube.
But after Jim Croce and Bobby Darin died, some additional lyrics were penned and The Righteous Brothers found themselves with a huge comeback in "Rock & Roll Heaven".
I'm sure I posted all this about 74,238 views ago...but I don't have time to go look it up and am sure you don't either.
Enjoy the day!
nitro99 said:
Never heard of it 'til now. And here are two that were played by 13Q/Pittsburgh in 1975 but were national stiffs...
Frank Zappa - "Don't Eat The Yellow Snow" (they edited it for airplay)
Fanny - "Butter Boy"
I was reminded of both yesterday in a FB discussion...wonder how many regional records our grandkids will be discussing 40 years from now...
...cue the crickets. JPB, I think that's on a grey Fidelipac...
Fanny. Forgot about that band. I remember playing "Butter Boy" and "Charity Ball" back in the day. Hey, it was hard to get free records in small markets...
SirRoxalot said:
I remember KB playing "Charity Ball" for about a minute and a half, and Jack Armstrong mentioning it was an all-female band.
Why this reminds me of the Pincushions' two stiffs...or were they regional semi-successes, "Share Your Love" and "Milk And Molasses", I'll never know. And YouTube has neither of these gems although a couple people have posted "Gillian Frank" by that guy from the Road...
Yes I've lost focus, It's 2AM as I type this and 13 TV spots plus revisions will be clamoring for my attention in the morning.
Nighty-night. Here's a stiff from Lenny Kravitz. Music starts at :21. "Dig In"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFclmhF2kj4
Doesn't the hook sound like he was listening to Brownsville Station's "Let Your Yeah Be Yeah" when he wrote it?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OiO7oazbntc
Share Your love is out there on Youtube.
First of all, the group is Barbara St. Clair and the PinKooshins.
(Not Pincushions).
I would post the youtube link of the song but the Youtube site
is blocked from me at the moment.
If ya do a search on Share Your Love you get a bunch of search
results for Share Your Love but none that relate to the Pinkooshins
song. Type in Barbara St. Clair and the Pinkooshins and it should
come up.
First of all, the group is Barbara St. Clair and the PinKooshins.
(Not Pincushions).
I would post the youtube link of the song but the Youtube site
is blocked from me at the moment.
If ya do a search on Share Your Love you get a bunch of search
results for Share Your Love but none that relate to the Pinkooshins
song. Type in Barbara St. Clair and the Pinkooshins and it should
come up.
Bill Myers said:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKC_Jc3_lrA
Thanks Bill! The 2AM lounge feel of "Share Your Love" was totally lost on my then 14-year-old ears. Rich harmonies and a great bassline. Had no idea they were signed to Mercury, then Chess/Janus.
And here's the other one..."Milk And Molasses"...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0zfBNy_BBk
Debaser, were the local tracks only played at night?
We run some local tunes on my current station (Country), but unless it's part of a feature or AM show thing, they only run after 7PM.
Alright one more...I don't remember hearing this on the radio but I somehow ran across a Buddah/Kama Sutra sampler in the early 70's and heard it there.
True confessions...spending my childhood years in a household hostile to that evil, demonic Rock & Roll, I'd totally missed the Zombies' original.
The Road's groo-vay cover of "She's Not There"...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVbubFgaJj4
Alright. Time for a truly national stiff. 1998. But it got its fair share of play on my onetime sister station B94 (now The Fan)/Pittsburgh.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljV0KM5zZOk Do NOT miss the Beatlesque "woo"s!
True confessions...spending my childhood years in a household hostile to that evil, demonic Rock & Roll, I'd totally missed the Zombies' original.
The Road's groo-vay cover of "She's Not There"...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVbubFgaJj4
Alright. Time for a truly national stiff. 1998. But it got its fair share of play on my onetime sister station B94 (now The Fan)/Pittsburgh.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljV0KM5zZOk Do NOT miss the Beatlesque "woo"s!
Oh gawsh, The Road - I'd completely forgotten about this band! Weren't they previously called "Mellow Brick Road?" I think it was the first live local band I ever saw...it was a weekend afternoon "under 18" show at some place on Transit Rd. Thanks for the memories!
Nick Seneca
Nick Seneca
Continuing the thread that refuses to die, I submit Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazelwood: "Summer Wine" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQiDs9tKZv4