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And The Stiffs Just Keep On Comin'
- Thread starter Radknowski
- Start date
Or "Paper Tiger", by Sue Thompson (1964)
or... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zAX5StHD6A - Shirelles
or... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMK3R8ALK8s&feature=related - Jesse Belvin
All of this should probably also go to Fantasy Programming Board - LOL
or... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zAX5StHD6A - Shirelles
or... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMK3R8ALK8s&feature=related - Jesse Belvin
All of this should probably also go to Fantasy Programming Board - LOL
.Savage said:yugoidar jolted the snoozing memory cells:
How about "Funny Man" by Ray Stevens?? Decidedly out of character for Mr. Novelty Artist...
As was the more often played, "Everything is Beautiful".
Bill Myers said:Question for Mr. Berns:
If you were Music Director at KB, is it true that KB played Beverly Bremers Don't Say You Don't Remember pretty heavily? I spoke
with a few people that remember that song being a great
KB classic - played alot.
Bill
Yes, Bill, The Beverly Bremers song was a big one for us. If I remember correctly, we even did a "pop top" jingle for it!
And to that backwards radioguy (cute), I LOVED "Mr. Businessman!" and would rather hear that again than just about any of the 300-500 songs that get repeated as nauseum on just about any oldies station. That goes for, as an example, The Beach Boys too. I would rather hear "Friends" or "Heroes and Villains" than "Good Vibrations" or "Surfin' Safari" any day!
That's why I like this thread so much. It's really jogging my memory to songs that have been ignored for years, not because they were actually stiffs, but because they didn't make the top 10 nationally which seems to be the play list criteria for most stations. To me, local and regional hits are what made each local station special. And because I grew up with WDRC in Hartford (a station with a 60 [!!!] record hit list) I grew to love songs that were never played elsewhere. And when I was fortunate enough to become music director at WKBW, my love of all kinds of music was broad enough that I looked well beyond what was being played on the charts nationally to find as much great music as I could for us to play.
What were we thinking back then? I'm not sure about you, but I know I was thinking that I wanted our listeners to hear as much great music as we could fit in our format, and was I ever lucky to have a PD that agreed with me!
-cheers-
berns with an "e"
What were we thinking back then? I'm not sure about you, but I know I was thinking that I wanted our listeners to hear as much great music as we could fit in our format, and was I ever lucky to have a PD that agreed with me!
The other day I picked up an LP of the group Seatrain (remnants of The Blues Project) and on it a song I remembered the minute I heard it again "13 Questions". I tried looking it up in the limited reference material I have with no luck. Does anyone remember this one? Was this only regional(NY) in 1970 or thereabouts?
J
JustPastBuffalo
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This Seatrian link may provide some useful background information.
I remember Seatrain. If you need your memory jogged, check out this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1eFi4p_m3K4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1eFi4p_m3K4
Savage said:Didn't Seatrain follow up "13 Questions" (yes, it was the winter of 1970-71) with an even bigger stiff - IIRC it was "Marblehead Messenger??"
According to "The Bubbling Under..." book I have "Marblehead Messenger" reached #108 and then disappeared. But the "13 Questions" were not listed so it made the chart or didn't get any response at all.
I guess I should just copy pages of the "Bubbling Under The Top 100" to this thread. On the first page that I looked at to see about "Marblehead Messenger" there was a group called The Vejtables. Now they seem to have potential here.
For your amusement, I nominate "Goodbye To You" by Scandal. Think I heard this on some station's Big 80s Weekend. How fitting. Love the video: Reekin' of 80s, so detached and disjointed lip-synch. Patty Smyth, now married to John McEnroe was a cutie and the keyboard player Benjyi King, locks and style, reminds me of our good friend and production maven Matt Young.
JimPastrick said:For your amusement, I nominate "Goodbye To You" by Scandal. Think I heard this on some station's Big 80s Weekend. How fitting. Love the video: Reekin' of 80s, so detached and disjointed lip-synch. Patty Smyth, now married to John McEnroe was a cutie and the keyboard player Benjyi King, locks and style, reminds me of our good friend and production maven Matt Young.
Don't you mean Matt "Fabio" Young?
A Stiff and a "forgotten". A stiff as a song, soundtrack and movie, I give you Xanadu! (and I don't want it back ;D ) For a "forgotten" 80s song how about "Missing You"? Not the John Waite #1 but the song by the briefly together group of HSAS which included Sammy Hagar before he fronted Van Halen/Hagar. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBiRl6-0_EE
I commend for your dancing pleasure a stiff that has been in my head for days, and it really is a forgotten goody - Nosey Joe, by Bull Moose Jackson. It was featured on the "Cry Baby" soundtrack.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aj5dMXquxt0&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aj5dMXquxt0&feature=related
Submitted for your consideration through the haze of five properly chilled Pabst Blue Ribbons this fine Saturday night, following after a stopover for two-foot longs at Ted's:
From the novelty bin, inspired by the Ray Stevens songs mentioned earlier in this thread: "My Girl, Bill" by Jim Stafford (throw "Spiders And Snakes" in there if you'd like.)
And from the 70s, the delightful throwback stylings and radio and record guy lyrics of Pete Wingfield's (super sure shot, A-Side and B-Side, national breakout, high on the charts, smash double header, pick to click), "Eighteen With A Bullet."
Drink up! And drive anything but the car.
From the novelty bin, inspired by the Ray Stevens songs mentioned earlier in this thread: "My Girl, Bill" by Jim Stafford (throw "Spiders And Snakes" in there if you'd like.)
And from the 70s, the delightful throwback stylings and radio and record guy lyrics of Pete Wingfield's (super sure shot, A-Side and B-Side, national breakout, high on the charts, smash double header, pick to click), "Eighteen With A Bullet."
Drink up! And drive anything but the car.
OMG you didn't just submit that !!! Well, yes I guess you did! Was it the Pabst or the Ted's ???Radknowski said:From the novelty bin, inspired by the Ray Stevens songs mentioned earlier in this thread: "My Girl, Bill" by Jim Stafford (throw "Spiders And Snakes" in there if you'd like.)
Drink up! And drive anything but the car.