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Fantastic Oldies Game!

Love the flip side of "Its A Shame" - Spinners. "Together We Can Make Such Sweet Music".
 
"Shame, Shame" by the Magic Lanterns is a rarely heard oldie from 1968; the rock quintet from Lancashire came at the tail end of the '60s British Invasion.
 
Shame Shame is a 39 year old song that barely cracked the top 30. Lots of big stations (like WABC, WLS, WCFL) played it.

PS According to the Billboard Top 1000 list, Hey Jude is the BIGGEST SELLING RECORD from 1955-1978. I won a tv from WIND, Chicago because I knew that in abouy 1079..
 
"Hey Baby (They're Playing Our Song)" was one of the bigger hits for The Buckinghams, the quintet from Chicago who also gave us "Kind Of A Drag," "Mercy, Mercy, Mercy," and "Don't You Care."
 
The Originals "The Bells & Baby I'm For Real" from Motown's Soul label were the back-up vocalists on Marvin Gaye's "Mercy Mercy Me". Marvin played drums on their sessions.
 
In their 1971 hit "Whatcha See Is Whatcha Get," The Dramatics, the R&B group from Detroit, gave assurances that "Baby, I'm for real, I'm as real as real can get."
 
Shame, Shame and Watcha...are two of my all-time favorites...up there with "This I Swear" by the Skyliners and "True Love Ways" by Buddy Holly. That Dramatics hit is truly a "bowl full 'o soul"! Shame sounds much like Hamilton, Joe Frank & Reynolds.
 
Who knew that Herb Alpert could sing until he recorded a #1 song "This Guy's In Love With You" in 1968, and since it was written by Burt Bachrach and Hal David, it just had to be covered by one of their favorites, Dionne Warwick, the following year as "This Girl's In Love With You."
 
"This Guys...." proved Herb Alpert couldn't sing! He's better with the horn to his lips! Great arrangement and orchestration though.

Speaking of love songs, one of the great easy flowing ones is Marshall Tucker Band's "Heard It In A Love Song".

Hey y'all...we're almost at 5000 reads... only 350 or so to go.
 
Here are two excellent "big man" songs by two "Four" groups: "Big Man" by The Four Preps, and "Big Man In Town" by The 4 Seasons Featuring the "sound" of Frankie Valli.
 
Two of the greatest, complementary, Motown love songs of the mid-60s were Smokey Robinson's two "my" compositions: "My Guy" by Mary Wells and "My Girl" by The Temptations: you know, "he may not be a movie star, but when it comes to being happy, we are" and "I've got sunshine on a cloudy day" -- and they don't get much better than that!
 
"Temptation" was a song released by the Everly Brothers, which reached #27 in 1961. The brothers have had their differences over the years.
 
The Everly Brothers owe some of their success to the husband and wife team Boudleaux & Felice Bryant for writing some of the brothers' biggest hits, including "All I Have To Do Is Dream," "Wake Up Little Susie," "Bird Dog," and (their first hit) "Bye Bye Love."
 
It didn't sound like the Bobby Darin many of us knew (and loved), but his 1966 single "If I Were A Carpenter" was his biggest hit since "You're The Reason I'm Living" in 1963, and his last song to chart in the Top 20.
 
AlexBrowne said:
It didn't sound like the Bobby Darin many of us knew (and loved), but his 1966 single "If I Were A Carpenter" was his biggest hit since "You're The Reason I'm Living" in 1963, and his last song to chart in the Top 20.
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Getting back to the late 50s, the Fireflies had a great one called "You Were Mine."
 
The Turtles' "You Baby" was listed as one of the best drum lines in a Rock song by MTV. Really! Flo and Eddie were just as surprised! They laughed. If you like them, get hte remastered CD set with the liners. The quality and the notes are well worth it.
 
Speaking of Eddie, here's something that's ginchy!

Eddie Byrnes, that rock and roll-loving, wisecracking, hair-combing, beatnik, P.I. wanna-be, valet parking attendant next door, who played "Kookie" on the TV series, 77 Sunset Strip, teamed with Connie Stevens for a big hit called "Kookie, Kookie, Lend Me Your Comb."

I saw that show for the first time the other night on the American Life cable network.
 
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