Nice shirt, Chas. Tried to come up with a shirt stiff, but nothin' in the memory banks...
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And The Stiffs Just Keep On Comin'
- Thread starter Radknowski
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Why thank you SirRox...I even ironed it.
Wonder if I ever mentioned "God Knows" by Debby Boone? It was the follow up to the biggest song of the decade, "You Light Up My Life", and it was DOA, although I think 'KB played it for about five minutes.
Now that I think of it..."You Light Up My Life"...brings up an idea for a new thread...
Hits We Wish Had Been Stiffs!
Wonder if I ever mentioned "God Knows" by Debby Boone? It was the follow up to the biggest song of the decade, "You Light Up My Life", and it was DOA, although I think 'KB played it for about five minutes.
Now that I think of it..."You Light Up My Life"...brings up an idea for a new thread...
Hits We Wish Had Been Stiffs!
SirRoxalot said:
Green Shirt from Elvis Costello's Armed Forces album might have worked had it been released as a single. A stretch, no doubt, but had to give it the ol' college try since we got the pub from Sean.
JustPastBuffalo said:
JustPast, IMO none of Elvis' best stuff ever gained any traction as hit singles...from "Alison" to "Accidents Will Happen"...the one thing that did catch (somewhat), 1983's "Everyday I Write The Book", never did much for me. I never really understood why, did CBS promoters never work the stuff to Top 40 or were they released at the wrong moment in time?
But now that I'm back here I need to supply another stiff and so I give you the follow-up to Katrina & The Waves' "Walking On Sunshine"..."Do You Want Crying".
Although I probably put that one up there about 100 pages ago or so...if you don't tell I won't either...
Don't worry, Chas. I think the "Stiffs Police" have long ago stopped patrolling these pages. 
Good to see DB back and contributing as well. Back to the Stiffs, I don't think anyone has mentioned "Everybody Dance" by Chic, which charted at #38 following "Dance, Dance, Dance (Yowsah...) and was their only top 40 hit that whiffed on the top 10.
Good to see DB back and contributing as well. Back to the Stiffs, I don't think anyone has mentioned "Everybody Dance" by Chic, which charted at #38 following "Dance, Dance, Dance (Yowsah...) and was their only top 40 hit that whiffed on the top 10.How 'bout this minor hit?
Jingle: (stager (tympani) .......1967)
Fapardokly and their song Tomorrow's Girl?
Jingle: (stager (tympani) .......1967)
Fapardokly and their song Tomorrow's Girl?
Bobby Goldsboro - "Muddy Mississippi Line". Peaked at #46.
Thanks to Kurt over at Forgotten Hits for that one!
http://forgottenhits60s.blogspot.com/
Thanks to Kurt over at Forgotten Hits for that one!
http://forgottenhits60s.blogspot.com/
Debaser said:
Ok DB, you got me on "Heartbreaker", it got to #16 in Billboard. I thought it peaked further down the Hot 100. And considering the many Top 20s and below Pitney had...I guess it's more of a hit. I see it was slightly bigger than "Twenty Four Hours From Tulsa", a song with which I've long been familiar.
So hit rewind...remove "She's A Heartbreaker" and in its place...a 1967 song by the Dave Clark Five that made it to #44...yes, it's one of Kurt's Forgotten...or more appropriately, "One You Didn't Even Know You Forgot!"
..."I've Got To Have A Reason". http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUsE18mDZEQ
"I've Got To Have A Reason" is great song and the DC Five did a very nice treatment of the lyrics and arrangement, although it might have done better with another verse and a longer bridge. It's not one of those songs you played when you had to drain the vein. Pity it's not on the DC Five Greatest Hits CD, Five by Five CD or GoldDisc for that matter. It does appear on disc two of the Greatest Hits double CD set. This is the kind of song that would be a fine remake for one of today's pop idols.
I just found this thread, and what a great one it is.
If only so-called "Oldies" or "Classic Hits" stations played some more of these songs instead of the same 1500 "tried-and-true consultant approved" hits, they could expand their audience, and maybe generate some buzz. I will never understand why a song that was either a hit or at most in the mix in the 70's, "can't" be played anymore. Just my $.02.
How about "I'm On Fire" by the Dwight Twilley Band?
If only so-called "Oldies" or "Classic Hits" stations played some more of these songs instead of the same 1500 "tried-and-true consultant approved" hits, they could expand their audience, and maybe generate some buzz. I will never understand why a song that was either a hit or at most in the mix in the 70's, "can't" be played anymore. Just my $.02.
How about "I'm On Fire" by the Dwight Twilley Band?
I couldn't agree with you more. When I was brought in to do a "KB Reunion" show many years ago along with many of the personalities who had been on the air with me in the 70s, I was shocked that WHTT--an oldies station---wasn't playing anything from the 70s. Why bring Danny and Sandy and Stan, Jack Armstrong and myself in if they weren't even going to feature some 70s gold?
I also maintain that Entercom might have done a whole lot better when they brought back KB if they had integrated more 70s gold into the mix.
Stepping off my soap box now....
I also maintain that Entercom might have done a whole lot better when they brought back KB if they had integrated more 70s gold into the mix.
Stepping off my soap box now....
And the stiff follow up - Springtime Mama...better tune IMHO.qman said:
Debaser said:
Back during the revival, I tuned in and caught some of Armstrong, sounding much like the good ol' days. Except he was coming out of an early 60's record, and the next song was Del Shannon's "Runaway"...
It just didn't connect.
Part of 'KB's magic was the inherent excitement and, dare I say it - danger! - of hearing Jack mix in Zeppelin, Tull, Alice Cooper and other new, edgy, harder titles with the other hit music and Hot Prospects.
So to hear Jack sounding like 1972...while playing music from 1962...I admit I had to ruminate on what I'd heard but it eventually became obvious. It wasn't just the music mix...but the basic fact that even if he'd played what he did back in 1972, you still can't recreate the excitement and danger of the new...since that very same music is now 40 years old, quite familiar and safe.
In retrospect I'd have liked to heard the jocks just being themselves...in the present...doing an oldies format that would have covered the entire 30-years of 'KB. Then simulcast that on FM.
Don't get me going on Entercom...I once worked for them...'nuff said.
And now, with that digression behind me, in honor of the life of Davy Jones, who passed away this morning of an apparent heart attack at the age of 66...here's a great stiff from 1971.
One that I heard Jack Armstrong play when it was new...
Davy Jones - "Rainy Jane" (BB #52)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btLfixqHs-U&feature=related
RIP Davy Jones. 66 is wayyyy to young, and he looked like he was in pretty good shape for his age. Wow.
How about a stiff from another guy named David Jones, who decided that performing under that name would be unwise in his early days? It was the follow-up to "Let's Dance" and "Modern Love", and title track of the follow up to the "Let's Dance" album. Here's "Tonight" for your listening and dancing pleasure....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Swj3pmKric
How about a stiff from another guy named David Jones, who decided that performing under that name would be unwise in his early days? It was the follow-up to "Let's Dance" and "Modern Love", and title track of the follow up to the "Let's Dance" album. Here's "Tonight" for your listening and dancing pleasure....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Swj3pmKric