My contribution for the day is a collection of soft-rock hits from two groups which, to the untrained ear (and many a trained one), sound exactly alike:
Ambrosia
How Much I Feel
You’re The Only Woman
And gone from the charts, but never from our hearts, The Biggest Part of Me
Then we have Firefall
Just Remember I Love You
Strange Way
You Are The Woman
Of all the songs above, I think only Strange Way sounds different from the others, tbh.
“Is” under-rated.
ETA: I’ve always thought Crystal Closet Queen was a great rocker and never understood why a serious rock band never covered it.
agree
Which is an infinitely better song than “Wildfire” by any sane metric.
I remember a song from decades ago. Looked it up and its stoll awesome.
I love Jesus by Carman.
Chicago is unusual in having a radio station (87.7 MeTV FM) that still plays a large number of songs people have been naming here.
I think I’ve told this here before, but my appreciation of that song (such as it was) will be forever tainted by my acquaintance of MMM. He used to drop his kid off at the same school as I did my girlfriend’s son. Most the parent’s showed up in sweats, gowns or PJs - except Mr. Murphy who was always sporting concert apparel replete with fringe jacket, BillyJack-type hat and lots and lots of turquoise jewelry.
Oh man, don’t get me started on Leon Russell. But you did…
I have “This Masquerade” and “Hummingbird” somewhere in my top 20 songs of all time. And there’s also “Delta Lady” and “A Song For You”. He stole the show at George Harrison’s Bangladesh Concert with “Jumping Jack Flash/Youngblood”.
You occasionally hear George Benson’s version of This Masquerade on Adult Contemporary and Soft Jazz channels. As well as The Carpenter’s version. It has become somewhat of a standard for the Jazz crowd.
@Lucas_Jackson were you implying he is still with us? He died in 2016.
No, I was responding to kayaker :
I understood that to mean he thought Russell was underappreciated ‘back in the day’, I was stating my belief he is underappreciated still, today. A sentiment that Kayaker subsequently agreed with.
I wouldn’t necessarily agree that he stole the show at Bangladesh but he damn sure was a major player. Jumping Jack Flash was a defining song of my youth, and of my friends as well.
ETA: BTW, what did you think of his Hank Wilson’s Back LP?
I actually remember that, when they changed the spelling of their name, they took out adverts in the UK music press about the change. There’s a weird memory dredged from nowhere.
Speaking of which, anyone remember Conquistador by Procol Harem, which flitted into my mind the other day without explanation? I wondered (from the title) if it was in some way racist, and that was why it had largely disappeared - but I checked the lyric and see no racism (or, indeed, literal meaning) in there.
Others:
UK hit version, much liked by McCartney, apparently
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This morning’s WTF song is one I am sure the singer-- Somebody O’Day or O’Toole-- is singing about his masturbatory imaginings.
I said, “What?”
She said, “Wooo Wee”
I said, “All right!”
She said, “Love me, love me, love me!”
Some songs are cool to wake up with and some songs are. . . not.
Undercover Angel, Alan O’Day
Well, the name clinches it. Undercover angel, answer to my dreams. I never had a dream that made sweet love to me! How’d that jerk-off song make it past the sensors?
We had whole threads with songs about masturbation IIRC, and many of those songs made the charts.
There isn’t anything inherently wrong with jerk off songs, but Undercover Angel is just a very bad song. I’m going to try to get Prince’s Darling Niki stuck in my head instead.
Of course I also think so, I just wanted to point out that many sexually suggestive songs flew over the heads of censors.
Wow, those bring back memories. I love Conquistador. Nice.
Was Buttercup mentioned upthread? Because it’s been on my mind for the last week. I’ve been playing the crap out of it. And every cover I could find. Speaking of, here’s Julia Nunes light-hearted version (stay with it until about the 1:10 mark).
Bread, not so much.
That was pleasingly strange. My son dabbles in Uke - I must send that to him.
That’s re Ken Boothe, right? If you don’t know it, give Ken a listen. I don’t like Bread, but I like Ken.
One I was .wondering about. Macy Gray disappeared from view, did she not?
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Eta - here’s something else I haven’t heard in an age:
Cherry Bomb by the Runaways.
I love her cover of this song.