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And The Stiffs Just Keep On Comin'

A couple other WNCI stiffs (I have 45's of both)...Frost - Rock and Roll Music at #105 and Freedom - Nobody which didn't even bubble under. 1970 or so on both.
 
BobOnTheJob said:
A couple other WNCI stiffs (I have 45's of both)...Frost - Rock and Roll Music at #105 and Freedom - Nobody which didn't even bubble under. 1970 or so on both.
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Still seems wrong those calls don't belong to Nationwide anymore...

OK. Here's one by Bobby Sherman that peaked at #29 in 1971..."The Drum".

And for the truly obscure...here's Ozone's "You Don't Want My Love" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQEeaFtnC6M It can be heard from 1:00 to 2:00 of the attached eight-minute clip. They were signed to Motown.
 
Iwas surprised that not one release (of many) by Climax charted after Precious & Few. Several were pretty good too:

Life & Breath (Peaked at #52)
Caroline This Time
Rock N Roll Heaven (Original version written by Climax)

Others were: Its Gonna Get Better & Walking In The Georgia Rain. Neither were all that great.

They also had 5-8 songs never released which were quite good. Bad Promotions people?

Everything they did was the sound of that timeframe...
 
SirRoxalot said:
Climax emerged from the Cleveland band The Outsiders ("Time Won't Let Me). There were a lot of twists and turns that led them astray. It's an interesting journey from Top 5 to obscurity that you can follow here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climax_(band)

BTW, Buffalo played a big part in breaking "Precious and Few".
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October '71...months before it went national. #1 for a month after "Maggie May" spent six weeks there. I remember Jack Armstrong and DB talking how the song had hit first in Hawaii.

The promo ad for "Rock & Roll Heaven" referenced "first Hawaii, then Buffalo" as their prediction that the song would break like "Precious And Few"...only much quicker.

I only learned about the reason they didn't continue calling themselves The Outsiders a couple weeks ago, over on Forgotten Hits.
 
chas108 said:
BobOnTheJob said:
A couple other WNCI stiffs (I have 45's of both)...Frost - Rock and Roll Music at #105 and Freedom - Nobody which didn't even bubble under. 1970 or so on both.
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Still seems wrong those calls don't belong to Nationwide anymore...

OK. Here's one by Bobby Sherman that peaked at #29 in 1971..."The Drum".

And for the truly obscure...here's Ozone's "You Don't Want My Love" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQEeaFtnC6M It can be heard from 1:00 to 2:00 of the attached eight-minute clip. They were signed to Motown.
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Nationwide Communications Incorporated...WNCI. 185KW in the middle of downtown...so much for being able to listen to anything else there.

#54 was all that Booby Sherman could muster with Waiting At The Bus Stop in 1971. And I do remember The Drum!
 
Someone mentioned the Doors - Runnin' Blue. They had another stiff in that same era called Wishful Sinful at #44 in 1969.
 
Just when you thought this thread was just about sunk? I found one that I don't believe was mentioned. Brownsville station, which went to #3 in early 1974 with "smokin in the boys room" followed that up with the "classic" kings of the party which peaked at #31 later that year.
 
qman said:
Just when you thought this thread was just about sunk? I found one that I don't believe was mentioned. Brownsville station, which went to #3 in early 1974 with "smokin in the boys room" followed that up with the "classic" kings of the party which peaked at #31 later that year.
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You read all 176 pages?

And to keep the space/time continuum intact, I offer up Eric Carmen's "Sunrise"...which followed up "Never Gonna Fall In Love Again" in 1976 but only made it to #34.
 
I remember playing Eric Carmen's "Never Gonna Fall In Love Again". Ranks right up there with "All By Myself" and "Alone Again, Naturally" on the depression scale. Maybe Pearl Jam will bring it back like they did J. Frank Wilson's "Last Kiss".
 
SirRoxalot said:
I remember playing Eric Carmen's "Never Gonna Fall In Love Again". Ranks right up there with "All By Myself" and "Alone Again, Naturally" on the depression scale. Maybe Pearl Jam will bring it back like they did J. Frank Wilson's "Last Kiss".
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Don't forget this 1973 remake by Wednesday... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRiAMe1zsQ0 Died at #34 - but peaked at #2 in Canada.
 
Here's one that I thought of the other day. Dunno if it's been mentioned or not.
Ha Ha Said The Clown. We played The Yardbirds' version, which was a stiff in N. America. Manfred Mann's version was a hit in England, but IMO not as good.
 
What a surprise to find this thread still has a pulse. Amazing. So here's one more log to throw on the fire, a song we played to death on that 1 kilowatt flamethrower in the Pennsylvania Poconos. It but went absolutely nowhere. Seems the PD loved the group and all the jocks loved the song and the label was only too happy to send us singles and promo albums. A dangerous combination. Submitted for your consideration and dancing pleasure, from around 1973, Good Feeling To Know, from Poco.
 
"Good Feeling To Know, from Poco."

Not a top 40 hit, to be sure--but that song actually had quite a life on early album rock FM, it was a frequent play in the closest thing stations like WCMF, QFM 97 (the original name of what we now now as 97 Rock), WNEW-FM and its brethren had to a hot rotation. If we ranked songs by airplay, requests and album sales back then to the degree we do now, instead of zeroing in on singles sales as we did back in the day, Poco might have had a better run.
 


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