Songs I Like

[hardrockminer]

This album won a grammy for best album in 1967.  This song was one most played at drug parties.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=naoknj1ebqI

[hardrockminer]

This song from 1981 marked an inflection in the trend of music.  It was eerily prescient about where music was going and where it is today.  The Buggles....


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRAn0ZM2TGM

[hardrockminer]

In this song the singer reflects on someone who left him.  We're not sure why she left...maybe died, maybe not.  The singer is still growing strong in his eighth decade of performing.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7f189Z0v0Y

[hardrockminer]

This is one of those songs from the sixties that I looked forward to at high school dances because it meant you could hold your girlfirend close and feel her warmth.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwPxhWU1koE

[Galactica]

Southern Culture on the Skids

https://youtu.be/KVN6HCmFFF4?si=ZOU9Hzb3_cJM-spF

[Galactica]

Ween

https://youtu.be/CLPQznD11xU?si=XGSUFeAZtz3JUwck

[Galactica]

The Mammas and Pappas

https://youtu.be/USibFMyk3Rw?si=u6JP0rZmIQ6BWIh4

[hardrockminer]

This song is a story of unrequited love.  The singer is looking for somebody, anybody frankly that he can fall in love with.  There is some really good harmony here too.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kijpcUv-b8M

[hardrockminer]

This singer really likes making love late at night.....


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Il-usrZxGns

[Steve G.]

This week in 1976, the Elvin Bishop single “Fooled Around and Fell in Love” debuted on the UK Singles Chart at #50 (May 9)

Despite the fact that this is an Elvin Bishop single, he didn’t sing it.

He didn’t think his voice would suit the song, so he asked Mickey Thomas who was his backup singer to sing it instead.

Bishop recalled:

“I tried singing it, and I said, 'That's not buttering my biscuit, my vocal on this. Why don't we give Mickey a shot at this?'
And the producer said, 'Well, that's big of you.' And I said, 'Well, I don't think so. It's just common sense, you know?'
And Mickey just tore it up."

It went on to become a hit, going to #3 on the US Billboard Hot 100 and in New Zealand, #16 in Australia, #22 in Canada, and #34 in the UK.

Based on his work with Bishop, Mickey Thomas was invited to become the lead singer for Jefferson Starship (who would later evolve into simply Starship), and went on to sing on mega hits like “Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us Now”, "We Built This City" and "Sara".

 Here’s a live uncut gig of the hit, of course,  on the Midnight Special. Program originator Burt Sugarman dictated no lip sinking, live uncut  only.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YdsaKI8gHM&pp=ygVBZWx2aW4gYmlzaG9wIGZvb2xlZCBhcm91bmQgYW5kIGZlbGwgaW4gbG92ZSBsaXZlIG1pZG5pZ2h0IHNwZWNpYWw%3D

[hardrockminer]

I really like that song but didn't know Elvin wasn't the singer.  I had the album and played the song many times.

This iis a sad story about a guy who comes home to find his wife in bed with another guy.  He packs his suitcase and leaves.  Next day he dictates a letter to his secretary that he want's sent to his wife to explain that he plans to leave her.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvFsULpx0To

[hardrockminer]

This quartet had several hits back in the 60's.  In this song a jilted girl sings about her ex someday coming back to her.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvyOqKhKWQ4

[hardrockminer]

Happy Birthday to this 70's rocker who spent the first half of his life drunk and stoned, but turned himself around and now is dry and clean.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXWvKDSwvls

[hardrockminer]

Another birthday boy, a 60's rocker who is still rocking. 


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhdOPhTHeoE

[Steve G.]

On this day in 1975, the 10cc single “I’m Not In Love” debuted on the US Billboard Hot 100 at #84 (May 17)

The inspiration for the song came from Eric Stewart’s wife commenting that he didn’t tell her he loved her often enough, and Stewart responding that if he kept saying "I Love You" over and over, it would become meaningless even though he did love her.

He wrote the lyrics in a couple of days, but his band mates weren’t impressed…

Stewart recalled,
“When I took the song to the band, they said: 'I'm not in love'?
What the f--k is that? You can't say that!'
But Graham Gouldman, our bass-player and chord-master, agreed to work on it with me.

We both liked ‘The Girl From Ipanema’, so we gave it a similar bossa nova style.
Then Kevin Godley, our drummer, said it was crap.

We were about to scrap it and wipe the tape but, as I walked around the studio, I heard the secretary singing it and the window-cleaner whistling it.
I knew we had a tune: we just hadn't captured it properly.

Kevin suggested doing it again, but with banks of voices.
I thought that meant hiring a choir, but Lol Creme, our keyboard player, said we could do it using tape loops."

Eventually, some 256 vocal dubs built up from chord loops and multi tracks were required to complete the lush harmonies behind Eric Stewart's vocal.

The atmospheric, innovative love song went all the way to to #1 in the UK, Ireland, and Canada, and was a top 10 hit around the world, in countries like Australia, New Zealand, the Netherlands, Brazil, Norway, Germany, Switzerland, and the US, where it eventually peaked at #2 on the Billboard Hot 100.

The whispered vocals of "Be quiet, big boys don't cry" came from the secretary of Strawberry Studios (the studio the band operated), Kathy Redfern.
The band were looking for a certain sound when Redfern entered the studio to quietly tell Eric Stewart he had a phone call.
When they heard her voice, they knew it was just right for the song!

A 70s classic....


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STugQ0X1NoI&pp=ygUUMTBjYyBpJ20gbm90IGluIGxvdmU%3D