On That Note: Hits that time forgot
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I've heard With a Little Luck on the Sirius Beatles Channel. Probably twice in the last couple weeks. And I don't listen to it all that often. Haven't heard Coming Up on there yet.
I found this 45 a couple years ago. Had completely forgotten about it. Their first to make Billboard Charts - but only made #48. 1969.
It's possible I heard that song somewhere along the way, but if so, it was quite some time ago. I like that quite a bit. More of a straight-up late-60s blues-rock than most Grand Frank stuff I know.
A couple from Hall & Oates!
This single followed 4 straight top-5’s, three which went gold, so not a big surprise it fell through the cracks. Still, it reached top 10.
“Did It In a Minute” (1982) #9 U.S.
This was last of three releases from H2O (each was top 10)
“Family Man” (1983) #6 U.S.
This single followed 4 straight top-5’s, three which went gold, so not a big surprise it fell through the cracks. Still, it reached top 10.
“Did It In a Minute” (1982) #9 U.S.
This was last of three releases from H2O (each was top 10)
“Family Man” (1983) #6 U.S.
Yeah it falls into that late 60's blues/rock subgenre. James Gang etc. Not at all like their later product. That's why it was fun to find it and sort of rediscover that bit of their history.
I forgot how much I liked this song (and band). Every once in a while I hear it on the radio.
Everyone remembers "Physical" or the hits from Grease by Olivia Newton-John. But I think my favorite song of hers is one that no one ever seems to remember and was her very last top 10 hit: "Twist of Fate" from the movie soundtrack for Two of a Kind (also with John Travolta). It peaked at #5 in 1983.
I recently rediscovered Sponge and have been listening to this song, Plowed, Wax Ecstatic, and Have You Seen Mary, a lot lately.
Sponge got (*ahem*) absorbed into the post-grunge wave, and perhaps unfairly became a mid-90s footnote. Some of those songs aged better than I would've predicted at the time.
Yeah, there are some very good non-grunge 90s bands and songs that fell to the wayside a bit in the grunge wave. And I'm a grunge fan as well, but still appreciate a lot of the other good music of the era.
A personal Sponge-worthy nugget: I saw Sponge at an outdoor festival in Wis-SCAHN-sin, round-about spring ’95. Others on the bill: Faith No More (well after its apex, but band played a solid set); Collective Soul (killer set); and at least one other up-and-coming/hot act that evades memory. Headliner: The Ramones, near tail-end of career. Ramones' set lasted maybe just north of 30 minutes. Only time I got to see ‘em, so it was cool, but anti-climactic.
(I’ve probably mentioned that show in past CF threads.)
OMG, I think that's IT!
... Awesome find, thanks. (And Bush was the band that evaded my memory).Weather was total crud that day. Temp in the 40s, light rain all day. It might as well have been mid-March or early-November.
OMG, I think that's IT!
Weather was total crud that day. Temp in the 40s, light rain all day. It might as well have been mid-March or early-November.
I always forget the lineup from concerts I've been to or where they were at exactly. So google is my friend. I was curious as to what band you were forgetting so I had to look it up.
I attempted a Google and had no success -- Admittedly, I didn't try very hard.
I've managed to find dates & venues when topics of "best live shows you've seen" threads arise on CF.Those alive at the time surely recall the CB radio craze of the 1970s. I just rediscovered it on Google, mistakenly believing that it was Jed Clampett on The Beverly Hillbillies who said “this gal's built like a burlap bag full of bobcats.”
Of course this was before cellphones. The hit movie Smokey and the Bandit came out in 1977.
C.W. McCall’s number 1 hit on both the Billboard popular and country music charts, Convoy, came out in 1976. An earlier hit, with multiple western Iowa references — Old Home Filler-Up An’ Keep On A-Truckin Cafe — came out in 1975. The music originated with Bill Fries, an Audubon, Iowa, native who worked for an Omaha advertising agency. The music though was performed by Chip Davis, and although not identified as such, his group Mannheim Steamroller. At first there were just bread commercials.
Below the two music videos below are informational links, and commercials so popular the Des Moines Register reportedly included the airtimes in its TV listings.
Pisgah, Iowa: Old Home Filler-Up An’ Keep On A-Truckin’ Cafe
https://www.roadsideamerica.com/tip/6016
Of course this was before cellphones. The hit movie Smokey and the Bandit came out in 1977.
C.W. McCall’s number 1 hit on both the Billboard popular and country music charts, Convoy, came out in 1976. An earlier hit, with multiple western Iowa references — Old Home Filler-Up An’ Keep On A-Truckin Cafe — came out in 1975. The music originated with Bill Fries, an Audubon, Iowa, native who worked for an Omaha advertising agency. The music though was performed by Chip Davis, and although not identified as such, his group Mannheim Steamroller. At first there were just bread commercials.
Below the two music videos below are informational links, and commercials so popular the Des Moines Register reportedly included the airtimes in its TV listings.
Pisgah, Iowa: Old Home Filler-Up An’ Keep On A-Truckin’ Cafe
https://www.roadsideamerica.com/tip/6016
"Convoy" was huge. In addition to Billboard #1 and Country #1, topped the chart in Canada, Australia and New Zealand.
I remember the first time I saw McCall performing it, I was kinda taken aback, since I associated the singer directly to how the trucker looked in the break commercials. I thought, "Wow, he's got long hair!"
I remember the first time I saw McCall performing it, I was kinda taken aback, since I associated the singer directly to how the trucker looked in the break commercials. I thought, "Wow, he's got long hair!"
Yeah, I think CB radio had a lot to do with it, though probably hard to imagine now.
I seem to recall it kind of coming a bit out of the blue, and in just a few years, something you might consider buying, even if only a means to communicate with others in case of an emergency. Though we never did. Listening to it now, it is easy to see where Smoky and the Bandit came from. Before writing this post, I wouldn’t have necessarily known the song Convoy came a year before it. I barely recall the commercials, though I recall his songs on the radio and places I am familiar with.
I seem to recall it kind of coming a bit out of the blue, and in just a few years, something you might consider buying, even if only a means to communicate with others in case of an emergency. Though we never did. Listening to it now, it is easy to see where Smoky and the Bandit came from. Before writing this post, I wouldn’t have necessarily known the song Convoy came a year before it. I barely recall the commercials, though I recall his songs on the radio and places I am familiar with.
