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Your favorite complete "bomb" (aka Non-hit)

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johnbasalla

What is your favorite record that was a complete "bomb"... one that didn't make any chart locally or nationally as far as you know? Choose one only, please.

Mine is "I NEED A HUNDRED OF YOU" by COVEN. The group that hit a couple of times with "One Tin Soldier" had this song released as a single in 1974 on Buddah Records. It was from the album "Blood On The Snow". This one didn't even "bubble under" on the Billboard chart. It's a fantastic (imho), upbeat Pop-Rock love song. I'd love to hear the backstory on why this got no attention at all...(poor promotion?).
 
"Kites Are Fun" by Free Design from 1967. I think it may have made the Adult Contemporary or Easy Listening, or whatever they were calling that MOR chart back then, but it definitely didn't make the Billboard Hot 100.
 
Devil You May Be - Dovers .... not a bomb, just didn't chart

"paper roses" by my cousin Angie, now that's a bomb, it sucks.
 
whatever the knickerbachers' (or however you spell it) follow up was to "lies'. we had a pirate station in a shed and used to play it. 'like an old time movie' by scott mc kenzie was a minor hit-still sounds great to me
 
Money Back Guarantee, by the Five Man Electrical Band. Maybe not a complete bomb though....CKLW played it for a couple weeks. Anything to fulfil Canadian Content regulations.
 
radioman148 said:
You're Gonna Miss Me--13th Floor Elevators. We loved it at our high school station, but hardly anyone else did.
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i'm pretty sure KRIZ in Phoenix played it 'cause i know i heard it...probably it was too cool for KRUX !
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radiobum said:
whatever the knickerbachers' (or however you spell it) follow up was to "lies'. we had a pirate station in a shed and used to play it. 'like an old time movie' by scott mc kenzie was a minor hit-still sounds great to me
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"One Track Mind" Top 50 US. On Hickory records if memory serves me right..
 
Oooops the newbeats were on Hickory, not the Knickerbockers.... I alway confuse those two groups
 
Let Her Dance by The Bobby Fuller Four. I heard it just a few years ago on the syndicated Little Steven's Underground Garage. I understand it was huge in L.A. and unheard of everywhere else.
 
"California" was composed by Joe Brooks who wrote Debby Boone's super-seller, "You Light Up My Life". I think "California" was the follow-up single. Anyway, Joe Brooks had his own group do a version of the song as released on Atlantic Records. Debby Boone's version is significantly better. She's a better singer for one thing and the production values are better too.
 
"Mama Weer All Crazee Now" - Slade, from late 1972. Not a hit despite the fact that I played it in hot rotation on our dorm's carrier current radio station at Ball State University!
 
Kind of like when you can't help falling in love with a puppy because it's so ugly, I am still fascinated with Double Date, by the late Ron(nie) Burns.

Date premiered on an episode of The George Burns TV Show, the sequel to the just-cancelled Burns & Allen Show. Don't even ask me how it charted, but it was a painfully dreadful attempt at competing against rock-crooner Rick(y) Nelson's growing popularity on Ozzie & Harriet. Showcasing Nelson and Burns boosted ratings for both shows, but unlike his celebrity peer, Burns was no singer. Burns was the adopted son of George Burns and Gracie Allen.
 
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