Salad Days Are Here Again– Procol Harum
Yay, Hurricane Smith. Reminds me of Mouth and McNeal’s How Do You Do?
About all you ever hear from It’s a Beautiful Day is “White Bird,” but their “Girl with No Eyes” is just as beautiful.
Totally agree on the excellent “Let it Out” by the Hombres!
To that I’ll add 1968’s ”Living in the USA” by the Steve Miller Band.
The Newbeats: Bread and Butter (1964).
This song brings back good memories. Silly and fun. I don’ think anything like this could be a hit today.
Don’t forget Summer Wine!
Can we still play if we weren’t born in the 60s?
Pink Floyd’s (flop) third single, “Apples and Oranges”
Taste, “What’s Going On”
My favorite “forgotten” Cream song, “As You Said”
Jake Holmes, “Dazed and Confused”
13th Floor Elevators, “You’re Gonna Miss Me” (RIP Roky Erickson)
While the original recording of Dazed and Confused was barely remembered during it’s release and is now surely forgotten, the song most certainly is not. Glad you posted it though. That was a treat!
“Rock Candy”. Sammy Hagar on vocals.
I’ll violate my own terms for posting in this thread to add:
Anything by Quicksilver Messenger Service. Especially Pride of Man, The Fool, or the absolutely electric Who do you Love (live at the Fillmore West).
“Loving You” by Minnie Reperton
Just to emphasise how forgotten Desmond Dekker was, I saw him play a shit nightclub in a shit north of England town on a Thursday night, to a total of SIX people. Yep - me, my brother, and the table to our left. Heartbreaking.
Which raises an interesting point. I would argue that UK pop reggae is a forgotten genre - I mean some of it was revived (well, appropriated) by 2-Tone et al (which leads directly to the great story about how UB40 covered Red Red Wine thinking it was a Tony Tribe original - but that’s another story. Reggae-fied versions of songs were not uncommon.) But most remains pretty obscure.
Anyways - this was a significant force in UK for - woo - decades, I guess. Here are a couple of UK number ones, each exquisite in their own way:
Everything I Own by Ken Booth
Double Barrel by Dave and Ansell Collins
And as a bonus - I have not a clue if these have even ever been heard of in the US -
Liquidator by the Harry J All Stars
- which, truth be told, has on odd afterlife as a not uncommon pre-game tune at football matches. If you’re going to give yourself one treat today, make it one of these three.
j
You forgot to mention my personal UK “reggae” fav- Judge Dread!
The group lasted all of twelve weeks, but the album stayed in print a long time. They may not have a Wikipedia entry; however Gary Lee Yoder does.
Skylark’s “Wildflower” is effing great. I think it found its way to the forgotten bin because few people, myself included, remember(ed) the real name of the song. The closest the lyrics come to the title is, of course, “She’s a free and gentle flower growing wild”. Brandy, by the way, was a hit for The Looking Glass (unless there is another, same-name song by Mirror Image). They later morphed into the group Starz.
I chiefly know that song from its use in Drugstore Cowboy. I suspect that’s true for a lot of Americans. (And maybe Brits too.)
A great pick. That song was very popular when I was in 4th grade.
Forgot? Uh, no…
j
I can think of two pretty-much forgotten songs that made the US top forty:
- “Hot Smoke and Sassafras” by Bubble Puppy (#14)
- “As the Years Go By” by Mashmakahn (#31)