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And The Stiffs Just Keep On Comin'

I've probably already posted this...but Kurt Kotal had it over on Forgotten Hits this past Friday, so I'm sharing it now...uh, or, again...

It was on ABC/Dunhill (like the Mamas & Papas) so I believed it. And I heard it on 'KB!

Emitt Rhodes - "Fresh As A Daisy"

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

Oh what the heck, here's the single that came before it. An even bigger stiff...I'll always remember Sandy Beach playing - and raving about - "She's Such A Beauty"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cu7Hbbx8_Xo
 
There was a minor hit by a group called Crabby Appleton bacjk in 1970 called "Go Back"...the followup, which didn't make it, was called "My Little Lucy." Better song, but the lyrics were raunchy enough (the chorus was "My little Lucy...she tastes so good") that jocks couldn't resist making the raunchiest back-sells they could get away with, and PDs seem to have decided to pull it back after about a week.
 
This thread's so close to 50,000 views I can taste it!

And to help things along...here's an early track by Hall & Oates that landed with a thud.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cj5XlIf8KGw

Another release from the "Abandoned Luncheonette" album was a smash...but only after its 1976 re-release: "She's Gone".
 
Jeff Michaels said:
I rather liked People Like Us. A good album but nothing like the first Mamas & Papas album!
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Have to admit...out of all the Mamas & Papas songs I don't remember that one...

But this thread has made it to 50,000 views!!!

Always nice to set a goal and see it achieved, isn't it...now, since I've had Crabby Appleton's "Go Back" in my head since reading Bob's post a couple days back...I'm linking it here, just because:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEn6UGDmT6U

Besides, it peaked at #36 in Billboard, summer 1970, I think.

If that isn't stiff enough, here's the original version of a song everyone knows by the Four Tops. I heard this - once - on the tiny hole-in-the-wall AM in the southern Vermont town where I went to high school...

Hamilton, Joe Frank & Reynolds - "Ain't No Woman" (Like The One I've Got)

This one will require a little patience, but it's the only version of it on You Tube. The clip's a medley of ABC-era tunes, and "Ain't No Woman" comes on at 1:57. Gotta be familiar with the lyrics though, because the refrain is a different melody (same lyrics), but at 2:23 the first verse begins - using the melody we're all familiar with.

So Lambert & Potter extensively reworked it for the Four Tops...even the lyric "I would kiss the ground she walks on, I'd be happy to obey" became "I would kiss the ground she walks on, because my words, my words she'll obey"...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jUJXwF92ho

It segues to something else at 3:47, but from 5:47 to 7:31 is a snippet of "One Good Woman"...which didn't fare much better than "Ain't No Woman". Both singles came from an album called Hallway Symphony, released to the sound of crickets chirping in 1972, after which ABC said buh-bye.

Later hits such as "Fallin' In Love" and "Winners & Losers" were on the Playboy imprint.
 
That's Old Fashioned - The Everly Brothers
He's The Kind of Boy You Can't Forget - The Raindrops
 
Everybody knows "He's So Fine" (Doo lang doo lang doo lang. BTW, I don't think George Harrison ripped off the melody line intentionally for "My Sweet Lord") and "Sweet Talkin' Guy," but how this one didn't break the top ten is beyond me. It's a great song. Some girl group should cover it today. For your stiff enjoyment from the summer of '65, I submit "Nobody Knows What's Goin' On (in my mind but me)" by the Chiffons. It peaked at #49. Hmmmmm, maybe it stiffed because it had no intro and the title was too long.
 
Radknowski said:
Everybody knows "He's So Fine" (Doo lang doo lang doo lang. BTW, I don't think George Harrison ripped off the melody line intentionally for "My Sweet Lord") and "Sweet Talkin' Guy," but how this one didn't break the top ten is beyond me. It's a great song. Some girl group should cover it today. For your stiff enjoyment from the summer of '65, I submit "Nobody Knows What's Goin' On (in my mind but me)" by the Chiffons. It peaked at #49. Hmmmmm, maybe it stiffed because it had no intro and the title was too long.
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Did Petula Clark do a version of that stiff?
 
heydaybegone said:
et Clark does just about everything. She's quite versatile
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Is there anything she hasn't done, or covered? :D
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Her version of Whole Lotta Love is one for the books.
 
I Couldn't Live Without Your Love might be a stifferoo, or just forgotten about. I still have my 45 with hole off center, but Kind of Drag, by The Buckinghams wasn't exactly a stiff.
 
The Buckinghams - one of the great Chicago horn groups that ended up under the tutelage of James William Guercio, who also mentored Chicago and BS&T. After they left Jimmy, they couldn't buy a hit.
 
This group's last effort had a slow start but slowly made their way up the charts in the Spring. Their next release showed some signs of life early but looks to be heading downward. I'm talking about the 2011-12 Buffalo Sabres. :p
 
Just when we thought this thread had gone into history...
I was sent a picture of an old magazine cover that featured the Cryan Shames, promoting a song that I used to hear on the radio when I was a kid but had completely forgotten about. So I nominate "Could Be We're In Love" for the latest entry into the Stiff Sweepstakes.
 
Debaser said:
Just when we thought this thread had gone into history...
I was sent a picture of an old magazine cover that featured the Cryan Shames, promoting a song that I used to hear on the radio when I was a kid but had completely forgotten about. So I nominate "Could Be We're In Love" for the latest entry into the Stiff Sweepstakes.
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DB, good to see you back!

I'll take the Cryan Shames and raise you Gene Pitney's "She's A Heartbreaker", today's 'Forgotten Hit' courtesy of Kurt Kotal.
 
And (drum roll) today...2/21/12...Sean Ross has linked to this thread off his Ross On Radio column.

Everyone on their best behavior...I'm gonna go change my shirt.

And to keep things reallly stiff...I give you...Al Wilson's "The Snake"...which peaked at #27 in 1968.
 


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