Sugarloaf’s ‘Don’t Call Us We’ll Call You’
I Had Too Much to Dream Last Night by the Electric Prunes.
If I’m allowed, I post another Everly Brothers song. Their fame began to wane after the advent of the Beatles, ironically so as they were a big influence and idols for the fab four, but in my mind they still did their best work in the sixties. Here’s another beautiful single, 1964’s “Gone, Gone, Gone”, only reaching reaching #36 on the US charts. I’ve never heard it play on the radio, I learned about the song first from Fairport Conventions’ cover on “Heyday: BBC Radio Sessions”.
Thanks for the correction. I should have used Google.
There was a summer replacement show where different acts competed for a big contract. I thought this group should have won, they already had a single on the charts, but they came in 2nd and some group I had never heard of came in 1st. Like anyone ever heard of Sly and the Family Stone?
American Breed - Bend Me Shape Me
I had a terrible crush on a girl in Jr High Grass Roots - Midnight Confessions
There was this war… Animals - We Gotta Get Out Of This Place
These next two were on my set lists at the coffee house. Never both the same night.
Speaking of Vietnam and The Animals, their (minor) hit song that comes to mind is “Sky Pilot”.
Great tune that I should have remembered from back in the day (I was a wee one, but I was there). I don’t think it got airplay in the Baltimore/Washington market. Thanks to Lenny Kaye’s “Nuggets”, I made its acquaintance in the late 70s and it became the first song I listened to while stoned. It was perfect
Always loved this one: Long Tail Cat, Loggins and Messina.
I hesitate to include songs like Wildfire, The O’Jay’s Back Stabbers, and In The Rain by The Dramatics because they still get airplay on the radio-- but on “Urban” stations that are quite popular but very, very few on this message board listen to.
Here’s a fav of mine that gets little airplay today: I Can’t Stand The Rain by Ann Peebles (although I do prefer Graham Central Station’s cover which, I think, just squeaks in under the time limit.)
Itchycoo Park by Small Faces - It’s on my playlist, but I don’t think I’ve heard it anywhere else in ages.
This one doesn’t get much airplay even on oldies stations or Sirius, and I love it:
The Critters ‘Mr. Dieingly Sad’
Patches by Clarence Carter. This song won a Grammy, but I don’t hear it much, even on satellite radio.
“Tighten up on that bass, now.”
Archie Bells still get a good amount of airplay, though.
A lot of the songs list here I still hear on the local oldies stations, which really has a comprehensive playlist, but it stops in the early 70s.
However, I recently had a few songs come up kind of randomly in a YouTube playlist that I literally hadn’t heard since the 70s. These all date from 1975, though.
Warning: Bad 70s Fashions Ahead!
Sky High by Jigsaw.
Magic by Pilot.
Make Me Smile by Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel.
Oh, Sky High! I remember being young enough to hit that note. As for Clarence Carter’s Patches-- the less anyone is subjected to that dreck, the better.
And the many other songs that JK did under pseudonyms, such as *Nemo *and The sun has got his hat on. No doubt played much less after JK got convicted.
Be grateful. That song makes me want to barf. I am probably not the only one to feel that way about it.
Wait for some sort of replay of the hits of the psychedelic era. And this was one of the weakest ones.
Was that the original? The UK knew of the version from Middle of the Road. The singer looked as brain-free as the lyrics she sang.
It’s very rare to hear “The Relay” by the Who. It was only released as a single, and didn’t do particularly well on the charts. Their other single of that time, “Join Together,” gets some reasonable airplay, but “The Relay” does not.