Biggirl was looking for the name of a song in another thread. The answer, it turned out, is Chakachas. I’ve never heard of it before.*
I started thinking about buying CDs, back in the day, before you could buy song by song and had to take the whole album to get what you wanted. I liked a series of compilations by Rhino called “Super Hits of the 70s: Have a Nice Day.”
There were a few nice surprises, e.g. “Run Run Run” by Jo Jo Gunne.
I didn’t know the group or the title of the song when I bought the disc, but once I played it I knew I’d heard it…and it rocks.
But the compilations had other songs I didn’t remember being hits at all. I wondered if these were just padding—songs Rhino got on the cheap and included to improve their bottom line. E.g.:
Julie Do Ya Love Me/Bobby Sherman
But after I moved out of the Midwest, I was talking to a friend who had lived in the Southwest. He mentioned the song being a hit. Perhaps it was a regional hit? Or something that was on “Here Comes the Brides,” which I never watched? I mentioned some other songs that I thought were big hits, but he didn’t recognize them. Hmm…
It would be different if I remembered them and remembered not liking them—I just don’t remember them, period.
Some other songs on the Rhino compilations that I don’t remember at all:
Hot Rod Lincoln/Commander Cody and His Airmen
Dead Skunk/Loudon Wainright
Ma Belle Amie/The Tee Set
For the Love of Him/Bobbi Martin
Which Way You Goin’ Billy/The Poppy Family
Neanderthal Man/Hotlegs
Fallin’ Lady/Punch
Games/Redeye
Burning Bridges/Mike Curb Congregation
In a Broken Dream/Python Lee Jackson
We’ve got to get it on again/Addrisi Brothers
There are more…no time to list them at present however.
Anybody care to validate the above as hits? I was certainly listening to the radio in the 70s but missed these completely. What are the songs that maybe show up in a film etc., causing others to get nostalgic, but you really don’t remember at all?
*Biggirl said she doesn’t remember where she heard it, so maybe it wasn’t a “hit” at the time.