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And The Stiffs Just Keep On Comin'

Greetings from Erie, PA...

I love reading threads like this, as I've archived many of the songs you've all mentioned. Being a mobile entertainer, I rarely play them at events I do, but ya never know when you might get a request for something odd.

Someone mentioned Stonebolt. It's on Vol. 2 of the Barry Scott Lost 45's CD's. Pricey though.

I visit a site called To 40 Music On CD alot to find out what CD's have the 'stiffs'

Carry On...
 
I always thought a stiff was a song by an established artist, released to great fanfare, and promptly falls flat on it's face! For example, Chinese Democracy or Peter Frampton's I'm in you.

Based on the songs in the thread, How about Kon Kan "I beg your pardon" from 1989. It was composed mostly with samples but not in the Jive Bunny and the master mixers way.
 
Years before country's Diamond Rio came "Ain't That Peculiar" by the pop/rock group Diamond Rio....

"Wild Thing" by Fancy and Katfish's cover of "Dear Prudence", both on Big Tree Records.

"Don't Ever Wanna Lose Ya" by New England (heard it overnight in the Adirondacks off the powerful KB back in '79)
 
Believe it or not, I heard the Timmy Thomas tune on WSEN-FM out of Syracuse this past summer during my travels. Here's another classic stiff: The Beat Goes On/Switching to Glide by The Kings. Came out in the early '80s I believe.
 
qman said:
Believe it or not, I heard the Timmy Thomas tune on WSEN-FM out of Syracuse this past summer during my travels. Here's another classic stiff: The Beat Goes On/Switching to Glide by The Kings. Came out in the early '80s I believe.
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Don't tell a Canadian that The Kings were a stiff. It's still a Can-con staple on Classic Rock stations north of the border.
 
Holy memory bank, Batman...

I thought I was the only human being on earth to remember Soul Makossa and Jungle Fever...as well as all the others that have been mentioned...heard all of them on the fabled WBBF (a station that I remember fondly but never really liked at the time- but Rochester had no other daytime choice other than WKBW then- but at night- WOW!).

I've thought of many, many others since this thread started- but by the time I got the time to do anything about it, someone else invariably comes up with them- but here's one- anyone else remember Cant Find the Time by the Rose Colored Glass- and I don't mean the original by Orpheus, or the far more recent version (not bad though) by Hootie and the Blowfish?
 
Radknowski said:
Added to The Radknowski Saturday Night Stiff List: "Why Can't We Live Together" from Timmy (no-relation-to-Tom) Thomas, which I first heard on The Voice of Labor, Big 10 WCFL; the wicked groove of "Soul Makossa" by Manu Dibango; and the blush-inducing "Je T'aime... Moi Non Plus" by Jane Birkin & Serge Gainsbourg, along with "Jungle Fever" by The Cachacas.
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I wouldn't call "Why Can't We Live Together" a stiff. It got to #3 and was a #1 R&B hit at the end of 1972. "Jungle Fever" got up to #8 in the early part of 1972, not stiffs at all. Forgotten oldies? Yep!
 
Mike Sheridan said:
Radknowski said:
Added to The Radknowski Saturday Night Stiff List: "Why Can't We Live Together" from Timmy (no-relation-to-Tom) Thomas, which I first heard on The Voice of Labor, Big 10 WCFL; the wicked groove of "Soul Makossa" by Manu Dibango; and the blush-inducing "Je T'aime... Moi Non Plus" by Jane Birkin & Serge Gainsbourg, along with "Jungle Fever" by The Cachacas.
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I wouldn't call "Why Can't We Live Together" a stiff. It got to #3 and was a #1 R&B hit at the end of 1972. "Jungle Fever" got up to #8 in the early part of 1972, not stiffs at all. Forgotten oldies? Yep!
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C'mon Mike, give the Polish painter a break. It was the best I could do after shoveling my wacky Aunt Sophie's car out of a snowbank created by a city snow plow after she "forgot" to move her car to the other side of the street. This is the woman who can rattle off bingo nights at fire halls and churches within a 60 mile radius but she "forgets" to move her car from one side of the street to the other or put it in the garage that has plenty of space available or in the driveway that can accomodate two trucks and two cars. BTW, how often do you hear these songs anyway, not counting XM or Sirius? Okay, Forgotten 45s they are, but you get the idea.
 
I was glad you mentioned them actually. I have a real stiff "Roses and Rainbows" by Danny Hutton, got lots of play, a great AM radio record but went nowhere...and yes I love it! Unfortunately I can think of a ton of songs you never hear on the radio anymore, old goat that I am.

Charlotte's turn for snow tonight and the city goes into panic mode before the first flake falls. Milk and bread are probably gone already! The people here don't know how to drive in the snow.
 
biggguy said:
anyone else remember Cant Find the Time by the Rose Colored Glass- and I don't mean the original by Orpheus, or the far more recent version (not bad though) by Hootie and the Blowfish?
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I dunno about Rose Colored Glass, but I'm impressed that you remember Orpheus. I LOVED "Can't Find The Time To Tell You" and am now going surfing to try to find a version of it somewhere on the net. Good call on that one!

BTW- Motherlode's "When I Die" is a completely different song than Blood Sweat and Tears' version of Laura Nyro's "And When I Die."
 
BTW- Motherlode's "When I Die" is a completely different song than Blood Sweat and Tears' version of Laura Nyro's "And When I Die."
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I stand corrected. I could have sworn.... The old grey cells ain't what they used to be. :mad:
 
As long as we're "stuck in the sixties and seventies" what about The Edwin Hawkins Singers "Oh Happy Day" and "Are You Ready" by Pacific Gas & Electric. Both seem to fit the events in Washington, DC.
 
Re: 9's Washington related items: how about Laugh at the Judge by the 70's era no-hit wonders, The Grease Band, dedicated to our Chief Justice and Prez-to-be; neither of which could get the swearing-in right the first time thru...
 
JohnW said:
Re: 9's Washington related items: how about Laugh at the Judge by the 70's era no-hit wonders, The Grease Band, dedicated to our Chief Justice and Prez-to-be; neither of which could get the swearing-in right the first time thru...
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"No hit wonders" only if you discount the early hits of Joe Cocker, on which they were the band.
 
ALW, Laugh at the Judge is on a '71 album by themselves. The only people on it were Neil Hubbard (vocals, guitar); Henry McCullough (guitar); Alan Spenner (bass guitar); Bruce Rowlands (drums).
 


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