Does anyone here know You're So Fine by The Falcons? Well you know how people like to pigeon hole people by their age group? Well I played this song awhile back and to my surprise my two daughters (then 16 and 23) loved it. Go figure!
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You're So Fine by The Falcons
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DougD
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It's a great song. One of those "lost" oldies that didn't really appear much on playlists EVEN WHEN "OLDIES" stations were playing oldies.
I'm not in that "demo" but like that song. That song quality was so much better than the compartively "plastic" and "manufactured" sounds that dominated the 70s and 80s (outside of CHICAGO etc).
What a bunch of dopes running AM-FM radio into the ground.
I'm not in that "demo" but like that song. That song quality was so much better than the compartively "plastic" and "manufactured" sounds that dominated the 70s and 80s (outside of CHICAGO etc).
What a bunch of dopes running AM-FM radio into the ground.
doug said:
That was the great thing about the Drake "Classic Gold" format that was used on the RKO FM stations. I'm sure that was the first place I heard the song.
I agree it's a great example of the roots of Rock & Roll, basic talent, not over produced. It's just a little before my time. I started listening to the radio at a very young age!
MikeM
Great song not to be confused with the song "So Fine" by the Fiestas which came out around the same year (1959?)
Heard the Falcons song for the first time on WMCA NYC and later was played a lot by Hy Lit on WIBG Philadelphia during his Sunday Night Hall of Fame show 7-Mid 1962-1966.
Heard the Falcons song for the first time on WMCA NYC and later was played a lot by Hy Lit on WIBG Philadelphia during his Sunday Night Hall of Fame show 7-Mid 1962-1966.
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MaiTKwinn
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Great song from 1959 featuring the lead vocals of
Joe Stubbs, brother of the Four Tops' Levi Stubbs.
Wilson Pickett was also a member of the group at
one time. It was their only real claim to fame on
the Hot 100 chart.
Joe Stubbs, brother of the Four Tops' Levi Stubbs.
Wilson Pickett was also a member of the group at
one time. It was their only real claim to fame on
the Hot 100 chart.
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DougD
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That whole era had a lot of great songs- and not just the biggies like GREAT BALLS OF FIRE, TWIST AND SHOUT, SHOUT, LA BAMBA, etc.
I'm thinking of songs such as THIS TIME - Troy SHondell, ONCE IN A WHILE - The Chimes, THIS I SWEAR- Skyliners, etc.
These were wonderful songs that appeared a few years before I was even born - 1962- and then for a few years after.
As I said, I'm not in that "demo" and could care less for the most part of the songs I'M SUPPOSED TO LIKE. Like, no one listening to the radio in '69 heard anything that preceded that year...
I'm so glad I got a chance to hear a taste of the first great rock and roll era from NORM N. NITE (US Hall of Fame) and COUSIN BRUCIE (Live From the 60s) on their oldies shows during the early 90s.
Or KOMA's Wax Hall of Fame or their doo wop specials.
I'm thinking of songs such as THIS TIME - Troy SHondell, ONCE IN A WHILE - The Chimes, THIS I SWEAR- Skyliners, etc.
These were wonderful songs that appeared a few years before I was even born - 1962- and then for a few years after.
As I said, I'm not in that "demo" and could care less for the most part of the songs I'M SUPPOSED TO LIKE. Like, no one listening to the radio in '69 heard anything that preceded that year...
I'm so glad I got a chance to hear a taste of the first great rock and roll era from NORM N. NITE (US Hall of Fame) and COUSIN BRUCIE (Live From the 60s) on their oldies shows during the early 90s.
Or KOMA's Wax Hall of Fame or their doo wop specials.
Doug, you mentioned some favorites of mine in your post...wow great songs! Sometimes I forget just how great.
Mike Sheridan said:
Yep! It was on the Unart label before it became United Artists Records.
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DougD
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TheFonz said:
They do. I heard Norm N. Nite's show this summer. Does he sound great or what! Taking us on a trip through the late 50s, with such greats as PARTY DOLL by Buddy Knox (what a rockin' guitar that song had!) and REBEL ROUSER by Duane Eddy, one of the all-time R&R greats.
Too bad commercial radio vomited this kind of greatness out of its system and ran talent like Nite and Brucie out of the FM part of the business.
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