I can’t resist naming these:
Isaac Hayes, “Theme from Shaft”:
The Trammps, "Disco Inferno": They just don't make 'em like this today. Burn, baby, burn! :cool:I’ve probably heard “Can’t You See” a couple jillion times on our local classic rock station in the last five years.
Same here. One of the classics. D-C-G all the way. I probably know some other songs by them, but that’s the only one I could think of off the top of my head.
I wonder how many of these depend on your local playlists (though, by now, everything has gotten so homogenized.) Most of these suggestions I’m not that familiar with, but some I’m just really surprised by, as they got played to here and back on the local stations that feature that era of music.
Oh, yeah, yeah, just keep my mind wandering through all those concerts I went to in my distant youth…
Rare Earth, I Know I’m Losing You. When’s the last time you heard that one?
And now for something completely different…
Dana, “All Kinds of Everything”:
The Three Degrees, "When Will I See You Again?"
Yeah, that’s it. That movie blew chunks.
Love Unlimited Orchestra, “Love’s Theme”:
With seldom heard lyrics.The Hues Corporation, “Rock the Boat”:
One more from '74,
Carl Douglas, “Kung Fu Fighting”:
Love this one! :)This one was practically an anthem in its day: Lay Down (Candles in the Rain), by Melanie.
What a different time it was.
“White Bird” by It’s a Beautiful Day
“Wildflower” by Skylark
“Brandy” by Mirror Image
“Snowblind Friend” by Steppenwolf
“Kentucky Woman” by Deep Purple
“Ball of Confusion” by the Temptations
May I interest you in an excellentcover version?* This Mortal Coil* introduced me to a lot of earlier stuff I would never have encountered - Tim Buckley, Spirit, Big Star, Roy Harper, Pearls Before Swine, solo Syd Barret
And one for you as well?
This is difficult for me because so, so many of those already mentioned are in my regular rotation. I’m having a difficult time defining “forgotten”.
Anyway, I came up with this one:
Love on a Two Way Street by the Moments.
mmm
Who nowadays listens to Petula Clark? Or The Seekers?
“Downtown”:
This one says “British!” to me.
“I’ll Never Find Another You”:
I really had forgotten about this one until YouTube suggested it: Down in the Boondocks - Billy Joe Royal
Desmond Dekker and the Aces: Israelites (1969).
I think I’ve heard it on the radio once in the past 50 years.
What a great song. Bet you can’t listen to it without busting a few dance moves.
In the mid-60s, there was a restaurant in Minneapolis called The Chestnut Tree, on the edge of downtown. My dad used to hang out there for hours at a time, while I sat reading comic books or drawing planes and tanks. (I wanted to be as good an artist as the guys who illustrated DC war comics and Marvel’s Sgt Fury.)
The jukebox in the restaurant was constantly playing songs like these in the background:
Dusty Springfield, “I Only Want to Be with You”:
Skeeter Davis, “The End of the World”:
Dean Martin, "Everybody Loves Somebody Sometime":
A couple from Nancy Sinatra/Lee Hazlewood:
Some Velvet Morning: Some Velvet Morning - Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazlewood (1967) - YouTube
Sugar Town: NANCY SINATRA - Sugar Town 1967 - YouTube
Anything from Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass.
Whenever I watch the British soap Heartbeat, I hear a lot of “lost” songs by “forgotten” artists.
Who remembers Cilla Black?
“You’re My World”:
“Anyone Who Had a Heart”:
Two more from The Chestnut Tree:
Gale Garnett, “We’ll Sing in the Sunshine”:
Dusty Springfield, "You Don't Have to Say You Love Me":