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And The Stiffs Just Keep On Comin'

Hangin' out with my friends Schult & Dooley, blissfully mellow courtesy of a few cold Saranacs while listening to ZZ Top and getting ready for the Sabres game.

Can't figure out where Billy, Dusty and Frank were driving the bus on the song I'm about to serve up tonight. Was it to Adult Contemporary Estates or down Country Lane? From the their 1981 LP, "El Loco" comes the single, "Leila" (pronounced Lee-la and nothing like Clapton's classic, Layla.) A ballad (ballad!?) from that little ol' band from Texas.

I always liked the song. It's so weird it's good. Sounds like it has a Beach Boys influence on the chorus. But really, you have to wonder what the hell those boys were drinkin' and thinkin' when they came up with this one.
 
George Baker Selection-"little Green Bag" - Lighthouse "One Fine Morning"- Cilla Black "You're My world"- & anything by "Lee Hazlewood and Nancy Sinatra- including "Some Velvet Morning".
 
Our bearded friends Billy, Dusty and Frank were invoked not long ago in this perpetual thread (well, two out of three--Frank Beard actually doesn't wear one) with their ballad "Leila"...I remember another ZZ Top single that actually did chart pretty high in '86, "Velcro Fly", pulled from the Afterburner album. The video featured dancers doing an Egyptian thing like they'd jumped out of a heiroglyphic mural...made top 40 on the Hot 100 and top 10 on the Billboard mainstream rock chart.
 
John C said:
Happy Birthday to the Stiffs! It was started a year ago today. :)
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Wow! How'd that happen?! Congratulations to the posters who kept it alive, revived it and made it work. Speaking of which, now off to a day of slingin' mud, huffing paint thinner, enduring Uncle Oskie's repulsive cigar chewing and ragging about the crew, who will ignore him while trying to seal and paint 12 foot ceilings. Windows will be open, fans will be on high and hopefully, the crew won't be.

In honor of the first anniversary of the thread, we should create "The Stiffy Awards" (insert sponsor and rim shot cart here), nominations for the best, worst and most unusual contributions to the thread. Yeah... I'll get right on that.

Back to instrumentals again, has anybody mentioned Cozy Powell, "Dance With the Devil?"
 
Radknowski said:
In honor of the first anniversary of the thread, we should create "The Stiffy Awards" (insert sponsor and rim shot cart here), nominations for the best, worst and most unusual contributions to the thread. Yeah... I'll get right on that.

Back to instrumentals again, has anybody mentioned Cozy Powell, "Dance With the Devil?"
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I second that emotion, "The Stiffy Awards" -- sponsor, rimshot, and fanfare should be on a re-loaded Fidelipak cart with generous brush marks from scrubbing off the old labels. Of course we'll need a music bed for the presentation, from the instrumentals or favorite-backtime-to-network-news category I submit Raymond Lefevre's "Soul Coaxing (Ame Caline)"

Rimshot and fanfare should be from the late 60s/early 70s Pepper-Tanner production library.
 
Penrod Rightout said:
For some bizarre reason the mention of Hedgehoppers Annonymous brought to mind a track which had been totally buried and forgotten in the murky depths of my memory. I submit this long-forgotten track from Gino Vannelli, released in 1977 on his "Pauper in Paradise" album:

"One Night With You"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpQVAz7omxE
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I have the LP but didn't know "One Night With You" was released as a single or got any airplay. I think "I Just want To Stop" was about the only song that got any airplay in South Florida. Maybe Gino benefitted from the Canadian content rule?

I know WGR played "People Gotta Move" from the same LP.

As for the connection with Hedgehoppers I must be missing something!
 
As I was reading the Hedgehoppers post Gino's "One Night With You" started playing in my head. It received airplay in Vegas, and possibly Tuscon and Phoenix.

I hadn't thought of that song or Hedgehoppers Annonymous for many years...
 
RE: Gino Vanelli:

People Gotta Move was the hit. KB played it as well.

When I worked on the oldies station Key 590 in Toronto, even they didn't play "One Night With You," which would therefore qualify for a Stiffie on both sides of the border.

Do you think the customs people would let Gino into the U.S. if they asked if he had anything to declare and he responded, "Yes I have a stiffie."

:)
 


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