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And The Stiffs Just Keep On Comin'
- Thread starter Radknowski
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Now let's help Radknowski set a record for posts:
Suite: Judy Blue Eyes - C,S,N
Do it Again - Steely Dan
heydaybegone said:
As long as the Dow doesn't sink below 6278, that's fine.
But hey, it's not my thread. It's yours. It started as a beer-soaked Saturday night post and has grown into a thread that has attracted the attention of the regulars as well as visitors, featuring Forgotten 45s, Rarities, Comedy Songs, Turntable Hits, Specialty Songs, oddities and DJ favorites from the 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s "Yesterday & Today," Last Week & Last Month.
My add for the night is Ahab The Arab by Ray Stevens, (oh my... Fatima looks like a young Aunt Helen) a song that would seem outrageous, egregious, preposterous (as Jackie Chiles, Esq. might say) if it was played on the radio today.
There it is.The bottom line. ;D Passion. Passion drives this business (almost wishing I was back in it, but everynight I wake up in a sweat thinking I was - damn). One subject line fits all - sort of.
Bottoms up.
heydaybegone said:
and Passion brings to mind another entry into this ever-growing list- Rod Stewart's "Passion" - while not a stiff (charting at #5 in 1980) it's one of his forgettable tracks... which could lead to another thread of "Most forgettable"
Penrod Rightout said:
If a song is that forgettable in the scheme of things- even though it charted and maybe charted well....wouldn't that make it kind of a stiff anyways?
I try, when possible, to listen to the "American Top 40" reruns from the 70s on the weekends, as they were the tunes of my late adolescence (a stage of life that some will insist I am still in). I never cease to be amazed how many of those tunes I adored at the time- and have in the interim completely forgotten.
I submit four examples:
1. "Good Things Never Last Forever"- Esctasy, Passion, and Pain
2. "Sad Sweet Dreamer"- Sweet Sensation
3. "How Do I Survive"- Amy Holland
4. "10, 9, 8"- Face to Face"
One story about a stiff...
Our station had a concert promotion give-away back around 1982-83. The PD comes up with the idea of snippets of five hit songs by the artist in five seconds.
Name the hits, win the tix.
Okay...the artist is Dianna Ross. I figured, how tough can this be?
Well, the contest ran three or four days without a winner, because one of the songs in the selections was an outright STIFF.
Can you pick it out from the list below?
-Baby Love
-Stop! In the Name of Love
-Love Hangover
-Inside Out
-Muscles
Yeah, right. Like anybody would have considered Muscles a "hit" (although checking back, it did place #10 one week). Still, you don't hear it anywhere today..even satellite radio.
I don't even think it was on our playlist at the time, but he goes ahead and labels it a "hit".
Surprised he didn't put another stiff in there....Last Time I Saw Him (circa 1974).
Our station had a concert promotion give-away back around 1982-83. The PD comes up with the idea of snippets of five hit songs by the artist in five seconds.
Name the hits, win the tix.
Okay...the artist is Dianna Ross. I figured, how tough can this be?
Well, the contest ran three or four days without a winner, because one of the songs in the selections was an outright STIFF.
Can you pick it out from the list below?
-Baby Love
-Stop! In the Name of Love
-Love Hangover
-Inside Out
-Muscles
Yeah, right. Like anybody would have considered Muscles a "hit" (although checking back, it did place #10 one week). Still, you don't hear it anywhere today..even satellite radio.
I don't even think it was on our playlist at the time, but he goes ahead and labels it a "hit".
Surprised he didn't put another stiff in there....Last Time I Saw Him (circa 1974).
Golly, never heard of THAT before
Maybe "Muscles" was caught up in the general backlash against Michael Jackson, since it was written and produced by Jacko. Or maybe it was recognized as a pretty silly recording-- well, at least I thought it was...
"Last Time I Saw Him" was far from a stiff on "Rambling With Gambling"-- I distinctly recall John A. playing it. I'm sure it made the WOR Hit Parade as well, as it was a #1 Adult Contemporary Hit for three weeks according to the Billboard Book.
I'm pretty sure that fellow model railroader Rod Stewart vowed that he would never sing "Love Touch" again and probably wishes that was a stiff and not a #6 entry from 1986. ("Passion" got to #5 in '80-- and noted in an amazing bit of prescience: "Even the President needs passion" ;D).
And finally, I had forgotten about "How Do I Survive" by Amy Holland; produced by hubby Michael McDonald (who will be at the Rochester International Jazz Festival this year). After "Sweet Freedom" (from the film "Running Scared") in 1986, McDonald didn't hit the Top 40 again, suggesting that he has a number of singles that fit the category. I would put his "Our Love" in there for example.
In terms of the forgotten: how about "Read 'Em And Weep" by Barry Manilow, getting the Meat Loaf treatment from producer Jim Steinman? Don't like that one? How about "Some Kind Of Friend". Manilow's last two Top 40 entries...
"Last Time I Saw Him" was far from a stiff on "Rambling With Gambling"-- I distinctly recall John A. playing it. I'm sure it made the WOR Hit Parade as well, as it was a #1 Adult Contemporary Hit for three weeks according to the Billboard Book.
I'm pretty sure that fellow model railroader Rod Stewart vowed that he would never sing "Love Touch" again and probably wishes that was a stiff and not a #6 entry from 1986. ("Passion" got to #5 in '80-- and noted in an amazing bit of prescience: "Even the President needs passion" ;D).
And finally, I had forgotten about "How Do I Survive" by Amy Holland; produced by hubby Michael McDonald (who will be at the Rochester International Jazz Festival this year). After "Sweet Freedom" (from the film "Running Scared") in 1986, McDonald didn't hit the Top 40 again, suggesting that he has a number of singles that fit the category. I would put his "Our Love" in there for example.
In terms of the forgotten: how about "Read 'Em And Weep" by Barry Manilow, getting the Meat Loaf treatment from producer Jim Steinman? Don't like that one? How about "Some Kind Of Friend". Manilow's last two Top 40 entries...
...and another garage band-sounding production, The Moody Blues' "Go Now" when Denny Laine was with the group-- what a contrast to "Days of Future Passed"
Wasn't the Syndicate Of Sound's '66 hit "HEY Little Girl"? And in that same era: "Gimme Gimme Good Lovin'" by Crazy Elephant.
The unforgettable toe-tappin' followup to "Louie Louie," how about "The Jolly Green Giant" by the Kingsmen.
And the McCoys' cover of the Buddy Holly hit, "Come On Let's Go."
1969's "Tracy" by the Cufflinks. "Want Ads" by The Honey Cone.
The unforgettable toe-tappin' followup to "Louie Louie," how about "The Jolly Green Giant" by the Kingsmen.
And the McCoys' cover of the Buddy Holly hit, "Come On Let's Go."
1969's "Tracy" by the Cufflinks. "Want Ads" by The Honey Cone.
Also from 1966 - Herman's Hermits "No Milk Today"
Since we're in the middle of the British Invasion, let's "Do the Freddie" with Freddie and the Dreamers, and "You Were Made for Me"
Since we're in the middle of the British Invasion, let's "Do the Freddie" with Freddie and the Dreamers, and "You Were Made for Me"
Savage said:
The album cover has it "Little Girl" but I've also seen it noted with HEY in the title.
Hearing the Cufflinks "Tracy" makes me want to fire up the 8-track and play "Goodbye Columbus" from the Association from that same year.
How about the gritty sound of Spirit in 1968 with "Mechanical World." Their opening act when they toured was newly-formed Led Zeppelin, who would later rip off their instrumental "Taurus" for the opening of "Stairway to Heaven"
Well, it's Saturday night, the Buffalo Sabres beat the Montreal Canadiens, 4-3, in a shoot out and since some of the recent posts have taken us back to the 60s, what about a good ol' hoot 'n holler honkytonk hit from Roger Miller? "Chug-a-lug!" Seems fitting.
How about Ozark Mountain Daredevils - "If You Want to Get to Heaven", you got to raise a little Hell.
And eerily predictive of the demeanor of Whoopi Goldberg: Miriam Makeba's "Pata Pata."
Too many pages, too many posts to search - forgive me if it's already been noted, the follow-up to "Western Union" ... the 5 Americans' "Zip Code." (Somehow the notion that five digits don't make audible noise like Morse Code escaped the producers.)
"Come Saturday Morning" by the Sandpipers.
Too many pages, too many posts to search - forgive me if it's already been noted, the follow-up to "Western Union" ... the 5 Americans' "Zip Code." (Somehow the notion that five digits don't make audible noise like Morse Code escaped the producers.)
"Come Saturday Morning" by the Sandpipers.