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Favorite Songs You Never Hear On Radio Anymore

Does anybody hear any of these on radio anymore
The Babys
Detective
Robin Trower
Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes
Crawler
Charlie
New England
Chilliwack
Duke Jupiter
Molly Hatchett
Les Dudek
Zebra
Angel
Starz

Geez, I could go on and on. I used to hear all these on WIOQ back in the 70's and 80's. They were progressive and they were great.
 
I heard Bridge of sighs about a month ago on Rock 102.5 out of south alabama. Thats a good song which should be played more.
What about Billy Paul - War of the Gods
 
Thunderclap Newman - "Something In The Air"
Bubble Puppy - "Hot Smoke & Sassafras"
People - "I Love You"
The Rugby's - "You, I"
Max Frost & The Troopers - "Nothing Can Chang The Shape Of Things To Come"
Seatrain - "13 Questions"

got a whole brainful of 'em
 
Here are a few more:
Supertramp- School
Anything by Zappa
Bad Company- Running With the Pack
Cheap Trick-Stop This Game
The Kinks-R&R Fantasy
Talking Heads- Cities
 
These are all songs that got airplay on Chicago's Top-40 legend, WLS.
1. Steppenwolf/Hey Lawdy Mama
2. Steppenwolf/Move Over
3. Steppenwolf/Rock Me Baby
4. Three Dog Night/Eli's Coming
5. " " " /Easy To Be Hard
6. " " " /Out In The Country
7. Grand Funk Railroad/Closer To Home
8. Mouth & McNeal/How Do You Do
9. Paul McCartney & Wings/Listen To What The Man Said
10. John Lennon & the Plastic Ono Band/Power To The People
11. Grassroots/Wait A Million Years
12. Chicago/Questions 67 & 68
13. Moody Blues/Question
14. Moody Blues/Just A Singer In A Rock n Roll Band
15. Dr. John/Right Time, Wrong Place
16. Beginning Of The End/Funky Nassau
17. Yes/Roundabout
 
OK...here's a few more:

Drivers Seat - Sniff 'n' the Tears
Thunder Island - Jay Ferguson
Gold - John Stewart w/ Stevie Nicks & Lindsay Buckingham
 
More great songs that I haven't heard on the radio for a long time:

I'm Losing You/Rare Earth
Long Dark Road/The Hollies
Evil Woman/Crow
House Of The Rising Sun/Frigid Pink
All Day Music/War
One Fine Morning/Lighthouse
It's Your Thing/Isley Brothers
War/Edwin Starr
Absolutely Right/Five Man Electrical Band (follow-up hit to Sign)
What Is Life/George Harrison
Layla/Derek & The Dominoes
Tumbling Dice/Rolling Stones
 
I heard Layla the other day on the "oldies" stream I listen to on the computer
 
Ok, I just stumbled across this site and think it's great! Glad to hear that people actually still give a crap about classic rock. I would love to put some input on some tunes as well. I am a PD for a Classic Rock station in Northern Indiana and we play quite a few of the deeper Skynyrd cuts and the Triumph tunes. We also dig into some lost classics like:

Runner - Manfred Mann's Earth Band
Run Run Away - Slade
Why Me? - Planet P Project(Great trip back to the early days of MTV)
Voices - Russ Ballard
New York Groove - Ace Frehley
He Can't Love You - Michael Stanley Band
One Hit To The Body - Rolling Stones
Backwater - Meat Puppets
Darlington County - Bruce Springsteen
I would also suggest anything from UFO or April Wine. A couple of great Canadian rock bands that have some great jams!

Most of this stuff hit the top 40. Listeners really love to hear it once in awhile. Helps freshen things up and a great trip back for em.
 
Good choices Jellyman, good choices.

As steeped as I am in alternative I would love to eventually do some programming with a classic rocker, it's my bread and butter. There's no reason the format has to be a predictable snoozer. The choices you listed are all good, and I was impressed to see the Meat Puppets track pop up as it's something of a contemporary 90's (1994) alternative track, but you know, a good song is a good song. Great call on the Ace Frehley and Bruce Springsteen choices, by the way.

We all have our favorites, of course, from Doors, Zeppelin, etc., but some once-in-a-while flavor tracks from my little sack of goodies include:

Station Man - Fleetwood Mac
J. Geils Band - House Party
On the Hunt - Lynyrd Skynyrd
Hold Back the Water - BTO
Song of Love - Manassas (actually the first three tracks off the album)
Burn - Deep Purple (docked a notch for having D. Coverdale on vocals)
Wasn't Born to Follow - The Byrds (great Goffin-King cover from Easy Rider soundtrack)
...and for Springsteen, I'll take "She's the One" and "State Trooper."

Thanks.
 
Songs I'd love to hear:

Riverside - The Beat Farmers (r.i.p. Country Dick)
Halo Of Flies - Alice Cooper
Jack The Stripper/Fairies Wear Boots - Black Sabbath
Another Piece Of Meat - Scorpions
Rusty Cage - Soundgarden
I Heard It Through The Grapevine (unedited version) - Creedence Clearwater Revival
50 States of Freedom - Brewer and Shipley
Lazy - Deep Purple
Once Upon A Time In The West - Dire Straits
Down - Stone Temple Pilots
Jack The Toad - Savoy Brown
Hocus Pocus - Focus
Inside Looking Out - Grand Funk Railroad (live version)

...whew!

Oh and to cleanse the palate...anything by P-Funk! ;D
 
A lot of the songs discussed in this thread are on my mp3 player, as well as Are You Ready (Pacific Gas and Electric), Woman from Tokayo (sic) (Deep Purple), Stealin', Easy Livin', Sweet Lorraine (Uriah Heep), Little Queenie (REO Speedwagon, the studio version with Boots Randolph on sax), I Don't Want To Love You (Sutherland Brothers and Quiver), Put It Where You Want It (Jazz Crusaders), Blue Collar (Bachman Turner Overdrive) Gypsy Man (War), You Know Like I Know (Ozark Mountain Daredevils), The Masterpiece (Temptations), Runnin' Away (Sly and the Family Stone), Goin' Down for the Last Time (Greg Guidry)...if it's on the radio, it's probably not on my mp3 player.

One I could never find back in the P2P days is No (Bulldog), circa 1972 or '73. Anyone besides me remember that one?
 
I didn't yet get a chance to read all the posts so far but I used hey words "one hit wonder" and got an interesting website www.onehitwondercentral and they list a lot of hits from the 50's-90's many of which were very popular at the time, many of which are rarely heard on commercial radio stations. For that reason I enjoy the offerings of the musci choice "choices" on cable and often get fustrated listining to the same limited playlists on the local FM"s.
"They" must think we listeners are a bunch of gerbils or something.
 
Yo' - AOR played the hell out of these in the late 70s early 80s - How come they never made the jump to classic rock???

Shooting Star "Last Chance"
Tarney/Spencer Band "No Time To Lose"
Axe "Rock And Roll Party In The Streets"
Missouri "Movin' On"
Point Blank "Nicole"Charlie "She Loves To Be In Love"
Crawler "Stone Cold Sober"
Garland Jeffreys "Wild In The Streets"
Triumph "Fight The Good Fight"
Michael Stanley Band "Let's Get The Show On The Road"

The list goes on and on... I guess we are stuck with Boston, Foreigner, Journey, Styx, Bad Comany etc, etc, over and over and over again.

Damn - at least dig a little deeper on the artists you already beat us over the head with. The Kinks made about 30 albums, but classic rock seems to like only about 6 songs of theirs.

I heard "Something About You" by Boston on the local classic rocker the the other day and just about fell out of my chair. It's deep cuts like that we should be hearing more of.

Cheers!
 
vibe said:
I didn't yet get a chance to read all the posts so far but I used hey words "one hit wonder" and got an interesting website www.onehitwondercentral and they list a lot of hits from the 50's-90's many of which were very popular at the time, many of which are rarely heard on commercial radio stations. For that reason I enjoy the offerings of the musci choice "choices" on cable and often get fustrated listining to the same limited playlists on the local FM"s.
"They" must think we listeners are a bunch of gerbils or something.
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Ohhh My ! ! You give them to much Credit !!! The do not Think ! ! They LISTEN to what other tell them they will be playing. NO QUESTIONS ASKED ! ! Real TEAM players they are ! Remember, DJ's, according to their Corporate Masters, are not smart enough, or discerning enough to play Good Music. The DJ's aren't allowed to pick the music. That delicate operation is taken care of by the Master Control Program, and the MCP knows what's Best! Don't you agree ! !

I Thank God for the MCP ! ! ! {Sarcasm Alert!}
 
For those with digital cable w/ the 40 or so "Music Choice" options, if one listens for even an hour on the classic rock selection, one finds so many songs that just don't appear on the the classic rock stations. And I'm sure it holds true w/ other formats. I'm sure the number of songs that could be safely played on a classic rock station numbers at least 3000-5000. And they're good songs!
 
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