Here’s some great footage and music!
Take a gander at the shirts (blouses:confused:) that the guys in The Peppermint Rainbow are wearing.
Someone earlier posted to beware of the bad fashions - but I have to say as bad as some of them were they give me a great feeling when I see them. They take me right back. LOVED the video of the band Christie (Yellow River). Sooooo 70’s.
I don’t know; I only know that it was the Mac and Katie Kissoon version that was popular on the AM radio where I lived in 1971-72, and it was on our junior high jukebox. Never heard the Middle of the Road version until I was an adult.
I think both of these songs may be slightly disqualified, but I spent a bit of time listening to Joe Tex threaten and insult me and I should not be the only one to suffer.
First song that came into my mind was Ain’t Gonna Bump No More (With No Big Fat Woman) but this song is a bit too late to fit this thread.
Then I remembered Joe’s earlier hit I Gotcha. The Wiki describes it as a song about a man angry about being cheated on-- but no. This is full on Nice Guy owed something and is just so very rape-y. I’m not the only one to think so because it was used very recently in that Ted Bundy movie (so not really forgotten). I have to admit that I still like it, though.
I don’t think it’s quite that bad. That song got as high as #4 on the charts, so somebody must have liked it back in 1970 when it was released.
Besides, if ‘Kung Fu Fighting’ is worthy of a mention in this thread, then ‘Patches’ certainly can be considered as well.
Somebody must have loved lutefisk to make it a National Dish but it doesn’t mean it’s good.
I’m a person who loves sappy, cheesy songs. Overwrought teenage puppy love ballads? I’m right there. Story songs where dads shoot their daughters aiming at the baby daddy? I sing loudly and shed a tear. But this is just outlandishly stupid and insipid, playing on a sad stereotype dreck. I expect better from Clarence Carter.
I hate posting twice in a row but I just remembered the name of this group that I’ve been wracking my brain for since I first saw this thread. My dad and uncle were in a do-wop group and this the lead on this sounds EXACTLY like my dad before smoking killed is upper range. And then him. Fuck cancer. Oh wait, were was I?
You’re right - the Wikipedia entry was very inaccurate. I re-wrote the part you refer to. Please look at it and let me know what you think.
Much better!
Clarence Carter made up for it by giving us “Strokin’”.
I suspect that a fair number of Scandinavian folks might disagree with you.
I am not. Obviously our musical tastes differ.
Agreed.
Truth.
Who remembers Gilbert O’Sullivan?
A quintessentially British invasion song: Here Comes My Baby.
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Who remembers Gilbert O’Sullivan?
[/QUOTE]Aww, why ruin my blissful forgetfulness?
Fun fact about the Tremelos: everyone knows the story about how Decca turned down the Beatles. But they decided to sign the Tremelos instead, partly because Brian Poole and his group were from London while the Beatles were in the boonies of Liverpool.
It amuses me. 
This has been bugging me all day. A local oldies station used to have a morning DJ who would have a contest in which they play three songs and listeners would call in to guess what those songs had in common. The DJ also took suggestions for what three songs to use and accepted one of my suggestions; the other suggestion they couldn’t do because one song wasn’t in their library.
For the life of me, I cannot remember what that third song was was nor the artist; all I remember is that the song was a minor hit around this thread’s required timeframe and the artist did a short stint as a TV game show host. The other two songs were “Palisades Park” & “Black Denim Trousers and Motorcycle Boots”.
“Pack of Cards,” by Wink Martindale?
ISTR the guy I’m trying to remember has a darker complexion. 
Wikipedia’s list of game show hosts wasn’t any help so this guy likely was on a very short lived program.
NM.
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