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And The Stiffs Just Keep On Comin'

I don't think it's been mentioned but The Association's follow up to #1 "Cherish" was #35 "Pandora's Golden Heebie Jeebies". I have to confess to never hearing that song but Whitburn doesn't lie! ;)
 
I have heard quite a few stiffs on the rebroadcasts of American Top 40 on Sirius XM's 70's on 7. Some of the stuff from the bottom of the weekly charts were songs I swear I've never heard before (with good reason awful stuff).
 
I'm a fan of the Association and I don't think I have ever heard "Pandora's Heebie Jeebies" get airplay - well, it wasn't included on my 4-track tape "The Association's Greatest Hits" - that compilation did include the follow-up to that stiff, "No Fair At All" which performed even worse on the charts (#51 Billboard #53 Cashbox). OK, just listened to it on Youtube and maybe I did hear it back in the the mid-60s on the radio, but didn't think it was the Association...
 
Dunno if I ever posted this...

But Chicago released this clinker in 1980...great song that didn't so much as chart. "Song For You"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JE3SHMGb9bY

Wonder how it would've done had it come in, say, 1977?

This would be their last single on CBS/Columbia. Comeback "Hard To Say I'm Sorry" came June '82 on Full Moon/WB. Come to think of it...the third single from Chicago 16 was a big stiff, it followed 'Love Me Tomorrow"...

"What You're Missing" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Id4lZS51oUo
 
"Song for You" was from Chicago 14. By that point the label and the band were not getting along and 14 was released along with a second greatest hits album to fulfill the contract. The album cover and production was done cheaply and the album not promoted. That said, it was their weakest album at that point in their history and "Song for You" is pretty cheesy.

I remember "What You're Missing" getting some airplay. To me 16 was an album that flowed and you just wanted to listen to it start to finish - "What You're Missing" fit into well.
 
I know it's not a stiff but rode my bike by WBTA Saturday pm and heard "My Melody of Love". I don't think I've heard that song over the air since the KB days in '74.
 
It may have been mentioned earlier in this legendary thread, but who's gonna click through a couple of hundred pages... how about The Parliaments, "(I Wanna) Testify." It's a strong song, but it peaked on Billboard's Pop chart at #20 in late summer of 1967. It did far better on the R&B chart, peaking at #3.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAR6BBQO8-k

"Testify" is the kind of song that could have been a top 5 hit had the Temptations recorded it. In fact, George Clinton, who sang lead for Parliament, captured the style of the Temptations' "(I Know I'm) Losing You." In 1969 Stax singer Johnnie Taylor covered "(I Wanna) Testify" and his version peaked at #4 on the R&B chart, #36 Top 40.

Even stiffer, the Parliament's follow-up "All Your Goodies Are Gone," released in October of '67, it peaked at #80. I don't think WNIA even played it.
 
To be fair, Jim Peterik did OK with his follow-up band - Survivor. He's also co-written songs for everybody from Chase (the late Bill Chase's band) to 38 Special, Sammy Hagar, and the Doobies. He's still out there playing - and Ides of March does get together from time to time, so he hasn't forgotten the guys he grew up with.
 
In honor of Sir Paul's appearance in Buffalo last week (and because you can't live without The Stiffs) I give you "Letting Go" by Wings from 1975. It peaked at #39 as a follow up to the #1 "Listen to What the Man Said". Yes, I did go and yes, it was an excellent show.
 
Pretty sure I made some contributions to this thread at some point during the last 7 years.

Speaking of Paul MccCartney...how about his stiffs like - "GIve Ireland Back To The Irish", "Mary Had A Little Lamb" and "Mull Of Kintyre."
 


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