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And The Stiffs Just Keep On Comin'

Yupper. It had a great hook. How about a song with a great intro and at least a dozen posts to hang your hat on and great energy? "Shining On" -Grand Funk Railroad.
 
As we count down to reply #1000 (I believe that honor should be reserved for our painter friend who started this last fall) I give you a song which wasn't a Billboard Top 40 single but did hit the KB charts in 1976, Hagood Hardy- The Homecoming.
 
Rumble - Link Wray and His Ray Men (originally called "Oddball") - somehow it does not seem to be a stiff, but I am pretty sure it is.
 
You want a stiff? "Don't It Make You Feel Good" by Looking Glass. The record stiffed, and the band was headed for the dustbin of life until a D.C. morning guy named Harv Moore flipped the record over and played the "B" side.

Check out "the rest of the story" here.
 
Couldn't help but think of this song yesterday as I saw North Jersey get smaller in my rear view mirror: "Goodbye" by Mary Hopkin, accompanied in this You Tube clip by a very young Sir Paul beside her before Paul became "Sir" and very much pre-face lift.
 
SirRoxalot said:
You want a stiff? "Don't It Make You Feel Good" by Looking Glass. The record stiffed, and the band was headed for the dustbin of life until a D.C. morning guy named Harv Moore flipped the record over and played the "B" side.

Check out "the rest of the story" here.
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Okay now that's pretty cool. I enjoy behind the music stories. Oh and thanks to Harv Moore!
 
JimPastrick said:
Couldn't help but think of this song yesterday as I saw North Jersey get smaller in my rear view mirror: "Goodbye" by Mary Hopkin, accompanied in this You Tube clip by a very young Sir Paul beside her before Paul became "Sir" and very much pre-face lift.
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That was a staple of early '70's MOR radio as they tried to get a little more contemporary. It's on the "Those Were The Days" LP that also contains "Knock Knock Who's There" and some other really nice tracks. I liberated the LP from the record library at WFTL! My kids love it.
 
I remember seeing Melanie one day having breakfast at the Holiday Inn on Delaware during the mid-80s. As I recall, rumor was that she was in town doing some recording. Anyone remember?
 
JimPastrick said:
Couldn't help but think of this song yesterday as I saw North Jersey get smaller in my rear view mirror: "Goodbye" by Mary Hopkin, accompanied in this You Tube clip by a very young Sir Paul beside her before Paul became "Sir" and very much pre-face lift.
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Don't tell us... you recognized her because she was wearing roller skates. Rimshot. Gray Fidelipac. Did anybody post Chick-a-Boom by Danny Dewdrop? Was that a national hit or was it only a K-Big "pick to click."
 
JimPastrick said:
JimPastrick said:
Couldn't help but think of this song yesterday as I saw North Jersey get smaller in my rear view mirror: "Goodbye" by Mary Hopkin, accompanied in this You Tube clip by a very young Sir Paul beside her before Paul became "Sir" and very much pre-face lift.
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Don't tell us... you recognized her because she was wearing roller skates. Rimshot. Gray Fidelipac. Did anybody post Chick-a-Boom by Danny Dewdrop? Was that a national hit or was it only a K-Big "pick to click."
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Chick-a-Boom was national. My girlfriend and I at the time loved the song. My high school days, so now he'd be Grandpa Dewdrop.
 
"qman" gets the honor of leading off page 100. As I reflect back, it reminds me of a genuine stiff from The Byrds, who had several hits redoing (i.e. "singing") Bob Dylan tracks:

My Back Pages
 
SirRoxalot said:
"qman" gets the honor of leading off page 100. As I reflect back, it reminds me of a genuine stiff from The Byrds, who had several hits redoing (i.e. "singing") Bob Dylan tracks:

My Back Pages
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The mention of the Byrds brings to mind a tune from former Byrds Roger McGuinn, Gene Clark, and Chris Hillman which came out at the peak of disco in 1979:

"Don't You Write Her Off Like That" - McGuinn, Clark, and Hillman
 
Gimmie a radio station that plays all these songs! It's got to be better than hearing Elton sing "Rocket Man" again and again and again and again!
 


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