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Fantastic Oldies Game!

Tommy Roe sneaked in a minor hit called "Come On" in 1964 in between two of his biggies, "Everybody" and "Sweet Pea."
 
The Who's rock opera "Tommy", about a catatonic pinball wizard, has lived multiple lives: as an album in 1969, a movie in 1975, and a Broadway musical in 1993.
 
TOMMY Facenda cut many "local" versions of "High School U.S.A."
 
One of the most memorable and stirring tributes to rock 'n roll comes from the Chuck Berry classic "School Day":

"Hail, hail rock and roll,
Deliver me from the days of old,
Long live rock and roll,
The beat of the drums, loud and bold
Rock, rock, rock and roll,
The feelin' is there, body and soul."
 
I just love the lyrics to Chuck Berry's "Let It Rock," that ol' train just keeps on comin'.
 
Dont forget about "Just let me hear some of that rock and roll music, any old way you choose it! One of Chuck's best!
 
John Lennon said that if rock music had another know, it would be called Chuck Berry
 
I can link the last few posts all together!!

Tommy Roe covered Chuck Berry's original hit recording "Carol" and Neil Sedaka had his own record called "Oh Carol (I am but a fool)" but it was a totally different song.
 
[An aside... you can link the previous entry to yet another earlier one: Neil Sedaka's "Oh! Carol" was written about Carole King. Now back to the continuing game...]

Sly & The Family Stone's biggest hit, "Everyday People," helped popularize the old phrase "different strokes for different folks."
 
I didn't know that about Carole King. That's what's great about this game.

Even if some of our oldies tastes march to the beat of a different drum (Linda Ronstadt w/ The Stone Poneys 1967), we can all learn about different types of records from each other!
 
One of my favorite lost hits is "Joanne" by Michael Nesmith on RCA from 1970.
 
The Playmates had a couple of hits such as "Beep Beep (I'll show you that a Cadillac is not a car to scorn)" and "What Is Love" but they also had a tune that has been forgotten by many people called "Joanne."
 
Barbra Streisand's first hit was her 1964 recording of "People" from the Broadway musical "Funny Girl," written by Jule Styne and Bob Merrill.
 
During the run of Funny Girl, Barbra Streisand was married to Elliot Gould, and in their bedroom they had a mini-refrigerator which they stocked with coffee ice cream.
 
I'll throw in a curve ball.

On The "Onyx" record label (best known for the group The Velours who recorded "Can I Come Over Tonight") in the late 50's, a doo-wop group called "The Pearls" had a tune called called "Ice Cream Baby."
 
Although The Pearls' music is classified as doo-wop, their style was closer to 1940's vocal groups and while they were never very popular, their music is included on a gold series album, The Pearls v The Velours, which includes Ice Cream Baby.
 
I first heard the Velours "Can I..." on the Lost Nite label on one of Joe Niagara's Knocked Out Nifties of the Past. Each one of those jock's albulms were like a rock 'n roll education in 12"s.
 
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