Robert Hunter, lyricist for The Greatful Dead
Dean Ford passed away 12/31/18. So he missed any kind of year end coverage last year.
Dean Ford was the lead singer of the Scottish pop group Marmalade.
While they only had one big hit here, they had NINE (9) top ten hits in the UK between 1968 and 1976
Their big one here was Reflections of My Life. This remains one of my all time favorite songs and I actually did own this album back in the day. One of very few I was able to accumulate prior to working part time at HyVee about two years later and making some decent spending money.
Here's that song dating from the period of its popularity along with another updated version not too much before Mr. Ford's passing.
I once saw Ric Ocasek in Valley West Mall with Paulina Porizkova. Yep. Cool story bro.Peter Tork DayDream Believer - he does most of the opening piano open
Eddie Money Two Tickets to Paradise
Darly Dragon aka The Captain Love Will Keep Us together
Ric Ocasek Cars Magic
Daniel Johnston - early grunge-ish singer, great song:
I once saw Ric Ocasek in Valley West Mall with Paulina Porizkova. Yep. Cool story bro.
I'm pretty sure she ordered it with the raw egg.Paulina had it bad for those Orange Juliuses.
I thought of this song the minute I saw the partial title of the thread in the new threads box (It shows "On That Note: Reflections of My..."). I love that song.
I wonder why they never made it big over here?
Has Wiki changed the way it does the discographies? I looked at several artists this morning (including Roxette) and they're only listing albums, and not what singles charted on which charts. Me no likey...I was such a "British Invasion" guy I have done some research and found some real gems by looking at British Charts of the past to see what made it there that didn't make it here. Another one of their big UK hits was a cover of Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da.
If you go on Youtube and just search Marmalade most will come up thanks to Brit posters.
My best research is to just go to the Wikipedia site for the band and they usually have some kind of a discography. Check the singles releases. Most have their chart info in at least the US and UK. Some many many more countries. So, yeah, the music geekiness is strong in this one.
Johnston probably is known more for impact on indie/low-fi/alt-rock and his influence on notable artists such as Kurt Cobain, Yo La Tengo, Sonic Youth and Tom Waits. Most of his music was recorded on cassette tapes at home. He used to hand out free tapes when he worked at McDonald's in the '80s.
Has Wiki changed the way it does the discographies? I looked at several artists this morning (including Roxette) and they're only listing albums, and not what singles charted on which charts. Me no likey...