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And The Stiffs Just Keep On Comin'

Rounding out the seasons: It May Be Winter Outside (But In My Heart It's Spring) - Love Unlimited and Autumn Medley - Strawbs. And who can forget Vivaldi's Four Seasons.
 
Donna Summer - Cold Love (1980, heard on WPIX-FM/NYC during one of their stints as Top 40)
 
In honor of the close of this decade (and sometimes the last song a station will play before changing format) I give you The Doors "The End". Happy New Year to all! :)
 
I was only aware of Slade's original "*** On Feel The Noize" and "Mama We're All Crazy Now" from reading BIllboard's "Hits Of The World" charts. However, two songs that weren't remade by Quiet Riot, "Run Runaway" and "My Oh My", peaked at #20 and #37 respectively in #84.

To back up just a bit, I ran across a list of 'KB's Top 100 of 1973 the other day. After posting "Gillian Frank" to this list of stiffs, I must now take it back: the song landed at #29 for the year. Ahead of such classics as "Higher Ground", "We're An American Band", "Bad Bad Leroy Brown" and 67 other tunes, about half of which can be found today in an oldies, A/C or classic rock format.

So Gillian Frank was truly a hit in WNY.

And the number one song of '73? Clint Holmes' "Playground In My Mind". Number one from 5/25 - 7/20. This song could be the start of another thread, tunes that could NEVER be remade today...
 
chas108 said:
And the number one song of '73? Clint Holmes' "Playground In My Mind". Number one from 5/25 - 7/20. This song could be the start of another thread, tunes that could NEVER be remade today...
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Or..."songs we would NEVER want the contestants on American Idol to sing...under ANY circumstances!" :D
 
Or..."songs we would NEVER want the contestants on American Idol to sing...under ANY circumstances!"
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I started imagining that one in my mind...bad. BAD!

BTW if Simon ever leaves that'll be the end of the hits from Idol...

'KB's #61 song for 1973...peaked at #40 on Billboard's weekly Hot 100 so definitely a regional hit at best:
Gunhill Road - "Back When My Hair Was Short".

I gotta get a turntable w/USB and quality cartridge hooked into my home studio...it's the only way I'll hear that song again...
 
Debaser said:
chas108 said:
And the number one song of '73? Clint Holmes' "Playground In My Mind". Number one from 5/25 - 7/20. This song could be the start of another thread, tunes that could NEVER be remade today...
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Or..."songs we would NEVER want the contestants on American Idol to sing...under ANY circumstances!" :D
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Look what they've done to my thread, Aunt Helen! Which reminds me of "Look What They've Done To My Song" by Melanie Safka, the follow-up to "Brand New Key."

BTW, Chas, don't buy the USB turntable. The three people that I know have them (including Willie the Tagger) say they totally destroy vinyl. One play and your collector's item Beatles Butcher Block LP will sound like it's Q-burned from start to finish.
 
chas108 said:
BTW, Chas, don't buy the USB turntable. The three people that I know have them (including Willie the Tagger) say they totally destroy vinyl. One play and your collector's item Beatles Butcher Block LP will sound like it's Q-burned from start to finish.
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Better yet, get a USB Phono Plus Audiophile Computer Interface from ARTcessories. It's a pre-amp for your existing turntable with a USB output for your computer. Then just use it to record onto your hard drive with any number of music programs (I use Audacity).
 
Wow, thanks guys. Among the irreplaceables in my collection is WKBW Klassics Volume II. Sounds like I better just replace the belt and cartridge in my old Techincs. I'll research the Audiophile Computer Interface too.

Software is Vegas Pro 8.

Radknowski, I'll see you "Look What They've Done To My Song" and raise you two other Melanie stiffs, both out on competing labels in winter '72: "Ring The Living Bell" (on Melanie's Neighborhood imprint) and "The Nickel Song" (on Buddah). And if these were posted earlier, my apologies.

Debaser, here's one you added at 'KB in Winter '72 that was SO obscure its Pop-Top is on Rock Radio Scrapbook under its first line "She Gets Up". It's Alzo "That's Alright, I Don't Mind". How I remember this scares me...if I'm wrong please correct me...
 
chas108 said:
Or..."songs we would NEVER want the contestants on American Idol to sing...under ANY circumstances!"
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I started imagining that one in my mind...bad. BAD!

BTW if Simon ever leaves that'll be the end of the hits from Idol...

'KB's #61 song for 1973...peaked at #40 on Billboard's weekly Hot 100 so definitely a regional hit at best:
Gunhill Road - "Back When My Hair Was Short".

I gotta get a turntable w/USB and quality cartridge hooked into my home studio...it's the only way I'll hear that song again...
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If you're REALLY desperate to hear "Back When My Hair Was Short" and can't wait...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BnGe6TA9UM

Ok, time for a stiff. I really didn't think it was a stiff based on the airplay it received in this area but Foreigner's "Juke Box Hero" only made it to #26. That was a follow-up to the longest running #2 (not THAT #2! :D ) song on the Billboard chart, spending an incredible 10 weeks at #2, which was...? ???
 
Here's one for a cold January morning, Frijid Pink, "House of the Rising Sun." This version sounds like Deep Purple meets Amboy Dukes.
 
chas108 said:
Debaser, here's one you added at 'KB in Winter '72 that was SO obscure its Pop-Top is on Rock Radio Scrapbook under its first line "She Gets Up". It's Alzo "That's Alright, I Don't Mind". How I remember this scares me...if I'm wrong please correct me...
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Well, now, let's see...I remember the name Alzo, but that's about it. So I'd say that song is definitely a stiff. And you should be scared for remembering it. ;)
 


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