And The Stiffs Just Keep On Comin'

[Mike Sheridan]

How or why I came to think of Bobby Bare's "All American Boy," (credited to Bill Parsons) I have no idea. And I can't explain (as the Who once sang), how it lead to this: Drop Kick Me Jesus, from Bobby Bare. I need to go back to work.

One of the first 45's I had as a kid, I started collecting records very early (I was destined to be in radio).

 

[Penrod Rightout]

How or why I came to think of Bobby Bare's "All American Boy," (credited to Bill Parsons) I have no idea. And I can't explain (as the Who once sang), how it lead to this: Drop Kick Me Jesus, from Bobby Bare. I need to go back to work.

One of the first 45's I had as a kid, I started collecting records very early (I was destined to be in radio).

Another clue a person is destined to be in radio (which in itself could be another thread): I had a reel-to-reel tape recorder plugged into my modified clock radio to record my favorite songs. I still have some of those tapes from the late 1960s.

One of those in my collection I submit in honor of the recent passing of Gordon Waller of Peter & Gordon, their followup single to "Lady Godiva" - "The Knight in Rusty Armour"

Every suit of armour ever made
Has a kink
Chain mail pants with a missing link

 

[JustPastBuffalo]

How or why I came to think of Bobby Bare's "All American Boy," (credited to Bill Parsons) I have no idea. And I can't explain (as the Who once sang), how it lead to this: Drop Kick Me Jesus, from Bobby Bare. I need to go back to work.

One of the first 45's I had as a kid, I started collecting records very early (I was destined to be in radio).

Another clue a person is destined to be in radio (which in itself could be another thread): I had a reel-to-reel tape recorder plugged into my modified clock radio to record my favorite songs. I still have some of those tapes from the late 1960s.

One of those in my collection I submit in honor of the recent passing of Gordon Waller of Peter & Gordon, their followup single to "Lady Godiva" - "The Knight in Rusty Armour"

Every suit of armour ever made
Has a kink
Chain mail pants with a missing link

Whoa! That motivated me to reach for my Best of Peter & Gordon CD for one of my favorite P&G songs, "You've Had Better Times." KB played this song sporadically when it was new, but the lyrics were wayyy too risque (and risky, heh) for the times: "You are just a jump ahead of / people who get on your bed" ... "Honey understand that I must be some kinda fool / Cuz I'm gonna spend my money / and I'm gonna stay all night with you."

Wow! They pressed that on vinyl in 1968?! You can almost see the station license flying out the window. The song was essentially banned by proxy.

These guys, as most of us know, were pretty well-connected, too, with "some guy" named Bernard Webb writing a song or two. Guess it didn't hurt that Sir Paul dated Peter Asher's sister. Loved the way P&G fused folk and pop, with a dash of rock in a slightly different vein than say, the Byrds.

 

[Silkie]

So Far Away - The Pastels

 

[Bill Myers]

Speaking of grabbin' a shortie to hit the network -

One Broken Heart For Sale - Elvis Presley - A buck 37ish?
I'm Available - Margie Rayburn - Dewey Do Do Do Dewey Do

Because They're Young - Dwayne Eddy. Cart #1260 - 1:50

Another bathroom break:

George Benson - Long version of This Masquerade - A good 8 minutes.

 

[Radknowski]

Restroom Classics: "Sky Pilot" unedited version, Eric Burdon & the Animals, complete with aerial combat FX and bagpipes.

Sunday Stiffs: "I'm Easy" by Keith Carradine and "Rub It In" by Billy 'Crash' Craddock (which wasn't a stiff on the Country charts, IIRC.)

 

[JimMcGrath]

Restroom Classics: "Sky Pilot" unedited version, Eric Burdon & the Animals, complete with aerial combat FX and bagpipes.

Love it. Could probably add to that list Eric's version of "To Love Somebody" or "River Deep, Mountain High"

 

[Silkie]

Ginny Come Lately - Brian Hyland

 

[qman]

Don't believe "I'm Easy" by Keith Carradine was a stiff but I agree it's a lost 45.

 

[Mike Sheridan]

Speaking of grabbin' a shortie to hit the network -

One Broken Heart For Sale - Elvis Presley - A buck 37ish?

and a largely repetitive ending so you could fade it early!

 

[Mike Sheridan]

How or why I came to think of Bobby Bare's "All American Boy," (credited to Bill Parsons) I have no idea. And I can't explain (as the Who once sang), how it lead to this: Drop Kick Me Jesus, from Bobby Bare. I need to go back to work.

One of the first 45's I had as a kid, I started collecting records very early (I was destined to be in radio).

Another clue a person is destined to be in radio (which in itself could be another thread): I had a reel-to-reel tape recorder plugged into my modified clock radio to record my favorite songs. I still have some of those tapes from the late 1960s.

One of those in my collection I submit in honor of the recent passing of Gordon Waller of Peter & Gordon, their followup single to "Lady Godiva" - "The Knight in Rusty Armour"

Every suit of armour ever made
Has a kink
Chain mail pants with a missing link

Whoa! That motivated me to reach for my Best of Peter & Gordon CD for one of my favorite P&G songs, "You've Had Better Times." KB played this song sporadically when it was new, but the lyrics were wayyy too risque (and risky, heh) for the times: "You are just a jump ahead of / people who get on your bed" ... "Honey understand that I must be some kinda fool / Cuz I'm gonna spend my money / and I'm gonna stay all night with you."

Wow! They pressed that on vinyl in 1968?! You can almost see the station license flying out the window. The song was essentially banned by proxy.

These guys, as most of us know, were pretty well-connected, too, with "some guy" named Bernard Webb writing a song or two. Guess it didn't hurt that Sir Paul dated Peter Asher's sister. Loved the way P&G fused folk and pop, with a dash of rock in a slightly different vein than say, the Byrds.

Speaking of risque songs it's funny nobody ever kicked up a fuss about "Lightning Strikes" by Lou Christie. Just what were those backup singers singing?

 

[yugoidar]

Speaking of risque songs it's funny nobody ever kicked up a fuss about "Lightning Strikes" by Lou Christie.  Just what were those backup singers singing?
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Mike, were you thinking of "Rhapsody in the Rain"?  As I recall, those lyrics were even more risque.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnFU-bMDICE

 

[Silkie]

Egyptian Shumba - Lou Christie and the Tammys

 

[Savage]

Then there was the legendary controversy about Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels' "Sock It To Me Baby."

"Every time you kiss me....it's like a....WHAT??"

Some stations banned play of this song in '67 because of the murky lyric. I know, I know...we're getting into "Louie Louie" territory here, but....

 

[Silkie]

St. Theresa of the Roses - Jackie Wilson

 

[Radknowski]

As long as we're at the corner of Suggestive Street and Lurid Lane, here's a song I'm almost embarrassed to say that a younger Aunt Helen knew the lyrics... and sang. Ughhh! You really do not want to envision that. Delete. Delete. Delete. Can... not... delete.... fast.... enough. On this rain soaked Saturday night in Buffalo, I give you the sunny voice of Meri Wilson, adding new meaning to shag carpeting, here's Telephone Man.

 

[Silkie]

(If This Is Just A Dream) Please Don't Wake Me - The Cinderellas

 

[Debaser]

Just rooting through my old 45s and came across Gorgio's "Son of My Father," which got played on KB. The artist later achieved fame as a disco producer when he used his full name, Giorgio Moroder.

 

[Savage]

Legend has it Moroder was waiting to play his demo of "Maniac" for the producer of as-yet-unnamed "Flashdance" and was cooling his heels in the reception area, blissfully misinformed about the subject matter. As originally written the song Moroder wrote was about a serial murderer.

Chatting with some other people in the office, Moroder learned to his great consternation that the movie was really about an aspiring ballerina who was a welder, not a killer. He re-wrote the lyrics on the spot minutes before the meeting.

I give Moroder props for bankrolling a valiant - if eventually not very successful - attempt to restore and revive the famous Fritz Lang silent sci-fi classic film "Metropolis" back in the mid-80s. As re-released for home video, Moroder game the film a kinda-mod synth-heavy rock soundtrack. The film was later "mostly" restored for a 2002 general re-release, with much of the work being done at George Eastman House in ROC using a negative of lost footage unearthed in Australia. I say "mostly" because as originally released in 1926, "Metropolis" was a butt-numbing 3 1/2 hours long.

 

[John C]

Just rooting through my old 45s and came across Gorgio's "Son of My Father," which got played on KB. The artist later achieved fame as a disco producer when he used his full name, Giorgio Moroder.

Legend has it Moroder was waiting to play his demo of "Maniac" for the producer of as-yet-unnamed "Flashdance" and was cooling his heels in the reception area, blissfully misinformed about the subject matter. As originally written the song Moroder wrote was about a serial murderer.

Chatting with some other people in the office, Moroder learned to his great consternation that the movie was really about an aspiring ballerina who was a welder, not a killer. He re-wrote the lyrics on the spot minutes before the meeting.

I give Moroder props for bankrolling a valiant - if eventually not very successful - attempt to restore and revive the famous Fritz Lang silent sci-fi classic film "Metropolis" back in the mid-80s. As re-released for home video, Moroder game the film a kinda-mod synth-heavy rock soundtrack. The film was later "mostly" restored for a 2002 general re-release, with much of the work being done at George Eastman House in ROC using a negative of lost footage unearthed in Australia. I say "mostly" because as originally released in 1926, "Metropolis" was a butt-numbing 3 1/2 hours long.

Holy segue Savage! ;D Did you have DB set you up or were you strategically waiting almost 100 pages of stiffness before you enlightened us with your Moroder knowledge? Either way I'm impressed!