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Hits That Never Get Played on Radio Any More

Heyday, the song my head always defaults to as "Example A"...a giant hit in its day...biggest of the decade of the 70's, in fact...but so wore out its welcome is...

Debby Boone "You Light Up My Life".
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Sure, "go for the gusto" (Schlitz owned that one...but I digress). It's ok to hear if I haven't been driving the interstate for 5 hours at 2:00am on a dark desert highway. But...I think the damage there may have come from the "later" religious references. Otherwise, it would be a genuine "wow" tune that rekindles "engagements", "weddings", "first love's" and of course the "Chevy Van scenario". All in all, you make a valid point (and these types of things are subject to discretionary choice). So...maybe just food for thought?

That's all
HDBG
 
heydaybegone said:
Heyday, the song my head always defaults to as "Example A"...a giant hit in its day...biggest of the decade of the 70's, in fact...but so wore out its welcome is...

Debby Boone "You Light Up My Life".
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Sure, "go for the gusto" (Schlitz owned that one...but I digress). It's ok to hear if I haven't been driving the interstate for 5 hours at 2:00am on a dark desert highway. But...I think the damage there may have come from the "later" religious references. Otherwise, it would be a genuine "wow" tune that rekindles "engagements", "weddings", "first love's" and of course the "Chevy Van scenario". All in all, you make a valid point (and these types of things are subject to discretionary choice). So...maybe just food for thought?

That's all
HDBG
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Indeed Heyday. Of course you had to make a backhanded reference to "Chevy Van" by Sammy Johns...which I guess could qualify for a lunar-lunar play every now and again. There's another song that could have happened in no other time in history...
 
Yeah, I just looked at the 1970 and 1966 charts, and I see once again why I like 1966 music.
WLS and others did a good job of highlighting local bands and as a result it charted many songs that never went national,
but happen to be one my favorite sounds, kinda grungy, dirty garage proto-punk.

This guy's in Chicago, guess I better be gettin in touch with him.

A great local song that didn't show on that '66 chart :

Searchin' by The Omens. They were from Hammond or East Chicago, and this song is "full-blast" 1966 rock.
 
Debaser said:
Have you folks seen this site?

http://forgottenhits60s.blogspot.com/
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I have now... ;D Like I needed another site to waste hours on end...partway down the page some guy has posted some snippets from a couple remixes of The Looking Glass's "Brandy"...I'm now on his page and between these two sites could waste wayyyyy too much time!

Great stuff full of Hits That Never Get Played On Radio Anymore!
 
Sheena Easton - "You Could Have Been With Me"
 
Ok so shoot me! Just when you thought this thread was gone forever, I just had to resurrect it with the song playing in my head this morning, from the fall of 1974...

Kiki Dee - "I've Got The Music In Me"
 
Don't know how much of a hit or miss it was but Kim Mitchell's "Go For A Soda" sounded very good when I played it the other night.
 
JimMcGrath said:
Don't know how much of a hit or miss it was but Kim Mitchell's "Go For A Soda" sounded very good when I played it the other night.
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Debaser said:
Big Hit in Canada. Does that count?
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All but the East German judge say yes! And speaking of Yes, how about "Your Move/I've Seen All Good People"
 
From Yes' 90125 I would submit, "It Can Happen", "Changes" or "Leave It", which all received airplay back in the day. "Owner of a Lonely Heart" seems to be the only song from the LP that gets any airplay now.
 
John C said:
From Yes' 90125 I would submit, "It Can Happen", "Changes" or "Leave It", which all received airplay back in the day. "Owner of a Lonely Heart" seems to be the only song from the LP that gets any airplay now.
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Just so's ya know, your post and song rundown motivated me to dig out the CD and track it. Stimulating. Thanks. Which reminds me of "I Do The Rock" -Tim Curry. "I could never hit a ball with such vel-los-oh-tee."
 
The only song ever to name check "Governor Brown and Linda." Gee, I wonder if he's elected again in California if she will re-hook up with him.

Meanwhile, if anybody has the 12" version of "Leave It," if you listen to it on headphones, right near the end of the tune you can hear Jon Anderson clear his throat.

Trivia time!
 
Debaser said:
Meanwhile, if anybody has the 12" version of "Leave It," if you listen to it on headphones, right near the end of the tune you can hear Jon Anderson clear his throat.
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I used to only buy the 12" singles of songs in the 80's - I miss those!

I bought the 12" singles for Leave It by Yes and Is There Something I Should Know by Duran Duran at close to the same time (both at the awesome Record Theatre that used to be in Midtown Plaza).

But those ended up being two of the worst 12" singles I ever bought. They were basically just horrible dub versions of the songs (the Yes one sounding nothing at all like the original and the Duran Duran one mostly just an instrumental).

The only thing they're good for is music beds. I think I'm going to use the Leave It music bed next week.
 
I forgot to specify that it's the acapella version of Leave It I was talking about. The 12" version of the full tune was exactly the same as the LP version. But I agree with J-A; many 12" versions at that time were simply instrumental fills leading up to a boosted-bass-for-the-dance-floor mix.

One exception to that "rule" was Big Audio Dynamite's 12" version of "The Bottom Line," which was totally different from the album version including a whole section of the song at the end that didn't occur in any other version of the song.
 
Debaser said:
I forgot to specify that it's the acapella version of Leave It I was talking about. The 12" version of the full tune was exactly the same as the LP version. But I agree with J-A; many 12" versions at that time were simply instrumental fills leading up to a boosted-bass-for-the-dance-floor mix.

One exception to that "rule" was Big Audio Dynamite's 12" version of "The Bottom Line," which was totally different from the album version including a whole section of the song at the end that didn't occur in any other version of the song.
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I now had to get the 12" out to hear this. I think I heard it about 30 seconds or so from the end of the song - that was the only spot that sounded like a clearing throat in the background.

I bought the 12" for the 9:30 "Hello, Goodbye Mix" on the A side. It's just so bad and nothing like the lp, re-mix, or acappella versions.

But there were a lot of great 12" singles back then that also fit into this thread. These are songs where the long version stayed true to the original...

Breakdance - Irene Cara
I Wanna Be A Cowboy - Boys Don't Cry
Spanish Eddie - Laura Branigan
One For The Mockingbird - Cutting Crew
We Are The Young - Dan Hartman
Second Nature - Dan Hartman
Notorious - Duran Duran
We Close Our Eyes - Go West
Out Of Mind Out Of Sight - The Models
(What) In The Name Of Love - Naked Eyes
Downtown - One 2 Many
Dare Me - Pointer Sisters
Funky Town - Pseudo Echo
Wot's It To Ya - Robbie Nevil
Only When You Leave - Spandau Ballet
Get That Love - Thompson Twins
Let's Go - Wang Chung

I could go on and on - there's a lot from the 80's that never gets heard anymore (except on my iPod lol).
 
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