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And The Stiffs Just Keep On Comin'

Let me offer up "Sometimes Good Guys Don't Wear White" by the Standells. (1966?) Pretty sure that KB played this one, at least for a bit. The fact that this didn't even crack the Billboard Top 40 convinces me that there is no justice in this world! :)
 
John C said:
I have to give credit where credit is due, Chas. The "Hush" info came from WHTT and Bill Lacey's "Lost Classics". A happy Labor Day weekend to you all as we push on to 50,000 views! ;D
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Now that it's been found, along with all the other (ahem) lost classics, does anybody think they'll be be played more than once? Nah, didn't think so. "Hey look! We found this lost classic, a great song. We played it once but we conveniently LOST it again. Doesn't test well. Now back to the same 362 songs you've all heard 3,274 times."
 
We all know that local programmers are at the mercy of corporate and consultants. Let's dish out some props to the guys who take the time and trouble to program special weekends. A-to-Z, Top 500, and the rest of the "countdown" type weekends give them an excuse to expand the playlist. Even the features like "lost classics" help break up the regular rotation.
 
SirRoxalot said:
We all know that local programmers are at the mercy of corporate and consultants. Let's dish out some props to the guys who take the time and trouble to program special weekends. A-to-Z, Top 500, and the rest of the "countdown" type weekends give them an excuse to expand the playlist. Even the features like "lost classics" help break up the regular rotation.
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Well said, Rox. Some of the special programming run by 97 Rock, WHTT, etc. bring back good memories. I guess you could call it a "labor of love". ;)
 
John C said:
SirRoxalot said:
We all know that local programmers are at the mercy of corporate and consultants. Let's dish out some props to the guys who take the time and trouble to program special weekends. A-to-Z, Top 500, and the rest of the "countdown" type weekends give them an excuse to expand the playlist. Even the features like "lost classics" help break up the regular rotation.
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Well said, Rox. Some of the special programming run by 97 Rock, WHTT, etc. bring back good memories. I guess you could call it a "labor of love". ;)
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Local programming across the way from where I am tends to be voice tracking the same old crap to save money on overtime; and a person who sort of, but not completely (since the disc washer is running from RI posts, among other things) gets to come clean and keep the job. I just listen to the CBS FM Top 1001 Countdown. At least that's good clean entertainment.
 
This song may have already been noted somewhere in the 167 pages of this thread, but today I heard All Strung Out by Nino Tempo & April Stevens on a store's music service. It stopped me in my tracks because I hadn't heard this Phil Spector-esque song in years. At first I thought it was the Mamas & Papas. Then my radio-rolodex spun to Nino & April. Barely a stifferoni, it peaked on the Billboard charts at #26 in 1966. Bonus points: Nino & Tempo (sic) (correction Nino & April) were from Niagara Falls.BTW, Lloyd Thaxton had a great show mostly featuring music, as well as some Ernie Kovacs type shtick that was ahead of its time and influenced a lot of radio and TV performers, notably David Letterman.
 
JimPastrick said:
This song may have already been noted somewhere in the 167 pages of this thread, but today I heard All Strung Out by Nino Tempo & April Stevens on a store's music service. It stopped me in my tracks because I hadn't heard this Phil Spector-esque song in years. At first I thought it was the Mamas & Papas. Then my radio-rolodex spun to Nino & April. Barely a stifferoni, it peaked on the Billboard charts at #26 in 1966. Bonus points: Nino & Tempo (sic) (correction Nino & April) were from Niagara Falls.BTW, Lloyd Thaxton had a great show mostly featuring music, as well as some Ernie Kovacs type shtick that was ahead of its time and influenced a lot of radio and TV performers, notably David Letterman.
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Another version of the same song that was even more of a stiff was by John Travolta in 1977, peaking at #34. I'm too lazy today to do a "stiff search" and see if this one's already been mentioned. ;D
 
Here's a borderline stiff, although a pretty decent tune from 1981. Suasalito Summernight from Diesel. It peaked at 25 on Billboard, although it was top ten in Canada. Haven't heard it on the radio in Buffalo or Canada in a years. Probably doesn't make the cut in music tests.
 
I hear that song occasionally on satellite radio as a "lost hit" and on old countdown shows which features the biggest hits of the week any given year. When 1981 comes up during the week that song was on the charts you'll most likely hear it there!
 
Radknowski said:
Here's a borderline stiff, although a pretty decent tune from 1981. Suasalito Summernight from Diesel. It peaked at 25 on Billboard, although it was top ten in Canada. Haven't heard it on the radio in Buffalo or Canada in a years. Probably doesn't make the cut in music tests.
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Great song in its day...I used to play it as an oldie in both Syracuse (actually Fulton on WKFM, now WBBS) and Cortland-Ithaca (OK-100, now I-100 and about to be swallowed up and spat out by Cumulus...)
 
Happy 3rd birthday to The Stiffs! :) I know it's past it's prime but I think it's given those of us who participated some memories, laughs and some education as well. From 1976, though it hit #5 in the KB weekly countdown, "We Can't Hide It Any More" by Larry Santos only hit #36 nationally. I know, I know, he didn't have any other chart singles so it's not technically a "stiff" but I'm ready to outrun the "Stiffs police" if someone tries to pull me over. ;)
 
Past its prime? Perish the thought!

If I posted these before, I apologize to the stiffs police in advance.

My two sons are in a positive hardcore metal band (how's that for a subgenre?!) based here in Pittsburgh. Allow me one proud papa moment and link the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CVNYmb5B08
Another proud papa moment: Dave is the drummer, Jon the bassist.

Ok, back on topic...frontman Jesse's father, himself a musician, is the biggest Knack fan I've ever met! He can wax on and on (especially after you get a few beers in him) about what a great power-pop band they were and about all these songs and albums they did that should been hits...I think the guy's even played in a Knack tribute band (?!) a time or two...

So in his honor I give you these gems; the first is the answer to a question absolutely nobody ever asked (besides some Capitol Records wonk): "What do you get when you put "My Sharona" in a blender, hit "puree" and then pour it out on a record?"

"Baby Talks Dirty": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pPlXvoBeMk&feature=related

The second is so out of character but it's indeed a stiffer-than-stiff for a band who, only two years prior, had scored the #1 song of the year...

"Pay The Devil": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ra51snkbH8
 
John C said:
Happy 3rd birthday to The Stiffs! :) I know it's past it's prime but I think it's given those of us who participated some memories, laughs and some education as well. From 1976, though it hit #5 in the KB weekly countdown, "We Can't Hide It Any More" by Larry Santos only hit #36 nationally. I know, I know, he didn't have any other chart singles so it's not technically a "stiff" but I'm ready to outrun the "Stiffs police" if someone tries to pull me over. ;)
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Three years. Imagine that! You folks have made this a more entertaining thread than I could ever imagine. That it still pops up on the Buffalo-Niagara Falls-Rochester board is further testament to your contributions. Here's a song that peaked at #20 on the Billboard chart. Technically not a stiff, it's one of those songs that ran its course when it was a near-hit, but won't likely be heard on any Oldies-Classic Hits station because it surely doesn't test well and few John or Jane Doe-ski's would recognize it. I submit for your consideration 12:30 (Young Girls Are Coming To The Canyon), a somewhat haunting song by the Mamas and Papas, featuring Cass Elliott's melodically superb vocals leading a soaring chorus. G'night now.
 
"The march toward 50000 views continues with a song performed during the 1968 World Series which hit #50, Jose Feliciano's version of "The Star Spangled Banner"."

I've worked for a couple of different stations that used the Feliciano Star Spangled Banner as either sign-off or sign-on music. Probably the main reason you don't hear it any more, is that stations rarely sign off any more unless they encounter transmitter or STL trouble.
 
Nick Gerard said:
I haven't sifted through 168 pages, but has Carly Simon's "Attitude Dancing" been mentioned?

When viewing it on You Tube, I was surprised to learn that this song was also recorded by....are you ready...Fred Astaire! Have a listen: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orwXAl-oHA0

Nick Seneca
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That one reminds me of this Carly Simon single from 1972...did 'KB even play this? I only remember it from the local hometown station in Vermont, where I was perfecting the fine art of dx'ing with a 1941 GE Console Superheterodyne AM/FM/FM2 receiver...

"Legend In Your Own Time"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSSt96CrMfI
 


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