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And The Stiffs Just Keep On Comin'

I definitely posted Mary Had A Little Lamb, but probably not on this board. It was actually part of our Christmas fare when we had a bizillion kiddies running around.

On the other hand, you would think that The Fifth Dimension's "Sweet Blindness" was a stiff given the little bit of airplay it got anywhere.
 
It's been over three years since this thread has seen any activity - so I submit, for your approval, the following tune which only managed to reach #50 on the US charts in 1978 and a memory from my days on the air doing AOR. Brought to mind by my friend Doris Jones, Chuck Leavell (Allmann Brothers, Rolling Stones, etc.) and Sea Leavel "That's Your Secret."
 
Wow, this thread lives!

Will have to do some thinking. Did you go back through all 187 pages so there's no dups? lol.
 
Penrod Rightout said:
It's been over three years since this thread has seen any activity - so I submit, for your approval, the following tune which only managed to reach #50 on the US charts in 1978 and a memory from my days on the air doing AOR. Brought to mind by my friend Doris Jones, Chuck Leavell (Allmann Brothers, Rolling Stones, etc.) and Sea Leavel "That's Your Secret."
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Congratulations on reviving one of the most interesting threads on the board. Here's a song from a similar vein, with a thematic reference: From 1977, Jesse Winchester "Nothing But a Breeze" ... it made the national Hot 100 and peaked at 86, got airplay on some AOR stations, a few $pin$ on AM, then quickly stiffed in both formats.
 
How about Christmas stiffs? "Please Come Home For Christmas" by Charles Brown peaked at #76 in 1961, although it did much better on the Christmas charts in the following years. In those days, who programmed off the Christmas charts? A notable exception was the Houston-to-New Orleans corridor along I-10 where it was a monster hit. It became a million-seller, but it took a decade to do it. Then a band called the Eagles did a remake...
 
What an interesting thread. The OP notes that it began fifteen years ago! Made for some good reading. I didn't get through more than three pages before noticing that many of the posters no longer post. Who were these people? They put up some good posts.
 
Ruby and The Romantics originally performed "Your Baby Doesn't Love You Anymore", which was played all over the place, over and over. It never made it to the hot 100, but the Carpenters took it Top 40.
 
"Gimme Some Lovin'" was a 1966 hit in a few markets, including Boston, for a Pennsylvania band called the Jordan Brothers. It didn't chart nationally, and its run on Boston radio ended just a few months before the Spencer Davis Group's single -- which hit No. 4 nationally -- debuted.
 
Wanted to get The Stiffs back to page 1. Henry Gross followed up "Shannon" aka "The Snuggles song" with "Springtime Mama" which made it to #37 a few months after Shannon.
 
CTListener said:
"Gimme Some Lovin'" was a 1966 hit in a few markets, including Boston, for a Pennsylvania band called the Jordan Brothers. It didn't chart nationally, and its run on Boston radio ended just a few months before the Spencer Davis Group's single -- which hit No. 4 nationally -- debuted.
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Didn't Spenser Davis Group make a hit of this?????
 
I'd say that #4 nationally would be considered a hit, but that was by the Spenser Davis Group. The Jordan Brothers version would qualify as a stiff nationally.
 
Speaking of Ruby and the Romantics I heard their 1963 song "My Summer Love" the other night on an Oldies show that's done on shortwave station WTWW. I have worked in oldies radio, I listened to radio in 1963, yet somehow never heard this song. How can that be? I loved it! Made it to 16 on the hot 100 and 6 a/c. (was there A/C back then or MOR?)
 
Just noticed this thread has a five star rating which is no surprise given the number of posts, the number of posters and the voluminous information. There's one sad point, however: A few of the posters have gone to the great border blaster in the sky... others no longer post. Maybe this thread gets them back. (No, not those who passed away.) I didn't review the entire thread, but "Rice Is Nice," the Lemon Pipers' follow up to "Green Tambourine" from 1968 should qualify as a stiff. It peaked at No. 46 on the US Billboard charts, No.42 on the US Cashbox charts. Stiff-a-roni! The group is said to have disliked both songs because they didn't represent what the band was all about.
 


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