On a related note, when I was in college in the first time in the early 1980s, I went to a screening of a short-form documentary called “Men’s Lives” that was made in 1974. I saw many references to it over the years but was never able to find it anywhere, on any format, until last night. We’ve changed a lot in 50 years, and we haven’t changed either. 43 minutes in length; it appears to have been a film-school project that was mostly, if not entirely, filmed in Ohio.
I know this got played on Dr. Demento, but my Mom was playing it around the house much earlier.
This may not have been the greatest song ever but it was the first song I heard when I bought a car that had an FM-stereo radio. 10CC “I’m Not in Love” That breathy background singing had me hooked . If it was playing when I arrived,… I would just sit in my car and listen until it was over. The music would go from one side of the car to the other, then back -to-front! Amazing through the stereo
Great song! There are several, “The Making of…” videos of that tune and they’re just fascinating. It’s said Billy Joel nicked the back-up vocal technique for, “Just The Way You Are.”
I used to run into Lorraine Segato once in a while as she rented at the video store at which I worked. Very nice lady. I really liked that Parachute Club sing, and the original video is such a crazily evocative time capsule of early-80s Toronto. I think you can see my office building in the background of a few shots.
Cancon hits of yesteryear could fill this thread. There were plenty of acts that were played on the radio or MuchMusic or (showing my age) Samantha Taylor’s Video Hits simply because they were made north of the 49th, but have since largely vanished. There’s a song called “He’s The Man Who Would Be King” that I loved but I don’t remember who performed it and I haven’t heard it since 1988 or so. Sometimes one of those few-hit-wonder bands has an oddly long life: National Velvet only released a few albums to declining sales, but “Flesh Under Skin” and “68 Hours” from their first record still slay at the clubs here.
I remember hearing a radio spot from the 1970s where a guy is asking a little girl(?) if she knows what certain words mean, like “prejudice.”
50 years later, I’m listening to Casey Kasem’s “American Top 40” on Sirius, and out of nowhere, I hear that same exchange. Turns out it wasn’t a radio spot at all, but a song by a DJ named Tom Clay, which would peak at #8 on the Hot 100 in 1971.
Was the song “The Man Who Would Be King” related to this 1975 movie?
The Man Who Would Be King (film) - Wikipedia.
I actually revived this thread because I had an earworm a few days ago, and eventually figured out it was this Deep Track, which really should have been a big late 1970s hit. It’s a remake of a 1970 single by Vanity Fare (“Hitchin’ A Ride”) that did not chart.
I assume so. There are plenty of songs by that title, including one by Iron Maiden, apparently, but I still can’t find the 80s one.
Also, are you sure that’s the title? Many songs can be hard to identify because the title, and even the artist, is not what or who most people think it is.
I remember the lyrics to the chorus, and googling that comes up empty as well. It’s like a bunch of Canadian and/or undergroud music from the eighties (before "alternative was codified), it’s gone into a cultural black hole, it seems.
When I was 6 to 7 years old (1974 - 1975), my mother would sunbathe on the back porch while listening to a country station on her AM radio. I remember the (non-obscure) song Rhinestone Cowboy by Glen Campbell being played all the time. By my favorite was a now-obscure song called Singin’ in the Kitchen by Bobby Bare. (As a side note, Bobby Bare is still alive, at 89 years old.)
I think I posted this earlier but the site was taken down:
I Think I Love You- Partridge Family
Dizzy-Tommy James
Mama Told Me Not to Come-?
Three Dog Night (written by Randy Newman)
Also from my late 1970s tween years: “Time Bomb” by the German-British band Lake. They never really made it in the States, but charted in other countries.
This was the first 45 I ever bought. When I discovered the album version is almost twice as long, I gave it to someone else.
I have that Lake album on vinyl (now ripped to mp3). Great album, too bad the band never got much traction. The AOR station I listened to back in my teens used to play “Between The Lines” quite a bit.
When I was a kid (40ish years ago), there was a Sunday morning request program on the local country station. I would hear this song every dang week (alongside the awful teddy bear duo: “Teddy Bears’ Picnic” and “Teddy Bear” by Red Sovine).
Which came first, the song or the streakers
Had no idea there was a video for that. Thanks for sharing. Boogity, boogity.