I remember a version of Love Potion No. 9 where the last verse includes lines about he singer wanting to go back to the shop and get a bottle of Love Potion No. 10. I don’t have a clue who did it, and I don’t know anyone else who remembers it either.
When I saw the thread title, I immediately thought of “Like a Sunday in Salem” by Gene Cotton. Also known as “The Amos & Andy Song.”
By the way, Jinx, I’m totally with you on Billy. Wish I had a tenth of his talent. Given the chance, I’d gladly help him in math class.
For some of us older boomers…
Not So Sweet Martha Lorraine by Country Joe and the Fish
Let it All Hang Out by the Hombres
Love Song for the Dead Che By the United States of America, from the only album the group released. A haunting melody. Also on the same album Hard Coming Love featuring a ring modulator, an early synthesizer, with an insistent, increasing beat that was designed to mimic the rhythm of sex.
Kim Carnes’ first song to get any radio airplay was a duet with Gene Cotton called You’re a Part of Me. It failed to hit the top 30, and is mostly forgotten. Her next duet, Don’t Fall in Love with a Dreamer, with Kenny Rogers, was a much bigger hit.
Stevie Nicks had a duet with Robbie Patton called Smiling Islands." It received a fair amount of airplay, but is likewise forgotten.
And I do remember Like a Sunday in Salem (and even still have a 45!).
Jinx - I never heard Paperlace do Billy Don’t Be A Hero. The one I have is Bo Donaldson as well. But I know Ian Mathews’s Shake It, and Paperlace’s The Night Chicago Died (which was a favorite of mine when I was about ten.)
Earl Snake-Hips Tucker - you mentioned Shel Silverstein and a few of his songs recorded by Dr. Hook. I have a Dr. Hook LP from the late 70s called Pleasure & Pain, and there are a bunch of Silverstein songs on it: Sweetest of All, I Don’t Wanna Be Alone Tonight, Knowing She’s There and You Make My Pants Wanna Get Up And Dance. They also covered Jessie Colter’s song Storms Never Last, and Waylon Jennings’s Clyde on that album. I’m always astonished when people say they’ve never heard Dr. Hook do these songs, because two of the other songs on this album were among their biggest hits: When You’re In Love With a Beautiful Woman and Sharing The Night Together.
Does anyone besides me know the song Motorcycle Mama by Sailcat?
Two statements:
a) I want to confirm: Did Shel Silverstein write “The Unicorn” and a “Boy Named Sue”?
b) The novelty records starting with David Seville (Aberdashin?) who brought us UFOs and chipmunks into song of the 1950s, I believe, to “Judy in Diguise” and Leader of the Laundramat" in the 1960s, I believe, to “King Tut”, “Mr. Jaws” and “The Energy Crisis” of the 1970’s to “Pac Man”, “Do the Donkey Kong”, and The Curly Shuffle" of the early 1980’s made it all worthwhile to listen to AM radio! There was even a AT&T Break-up song to the tune of Neil Sedaka’s “Breaking Up Is Hard To Do”. Then, came Weird Al…and no one has done any novelty records since. Why? Ah, some memories of the waning years of the AM dial can never be replaced! - Jinx
“Lullaby” made it on to the Royal Tenenbaums soundtrack. Gorgeous song. I’d like to track the album down - what’s it called?
There was a magazine I used to pick up every now and again that had a cd included, all kinds of different songs. Some of the songs would later reappear all over the place (“One Week” by Barenaked Ladies comes to mind), and others just disappeared. “So Long, Superman” by Firewater was one that disappeared. It’s a shame, too; it’s a fun little song.
Paper Lace and Bo Donaldson had competing versions on the radio. In Canada and England, the former won out, in the US, the latter.
I do! Got the record and everything.
Actually, we had the Bo Donaldson version in Canada too. It charted at Toronto’s 1050 CHUM in 1974. I well remember that summer–couldn’t get away from that song.
By the way, fishbicycle, I well remember a number of the songs you posted in your above list. And now I can’t get Bond’s “Dancin’ on a Saturday Night” out of my head! Argh!
I’ll throw one back at you for that. Nowadays, the Five Man Electrical Band is remembered for “Signs,” and occasionally, “I’m a Stranger Here.” But do you remember their “Werewolf”?
Then we heard a shot–
And I said, "Papa got him.
Then we heard a scream–
And Mama smiled and said,
“Betcha Billy got him.”
My contribution to the OP (I can’t be the only one who remembers “Werewolf”) is Cathy Kinsman’s “Being There,” a very pretty tribute to Peter Sellers, recorded in the early 1980s.
Yes, it’s listed in The CHUM Chart Book, but the Paper Lace version isn’t. That just means that CHUM didn’t play it. CHUM didn’t play all kinds of stuff! But it was on the playlists at CKOC and CHAM (Hamilton), plus CKEY (Toronto).
Good! I’m glad somebody knows those songs! I wish I knew somebody else personally with whom I could share the memories of early '70s Canadian radio, play all those records and have them say “Yeah! I remember that!”
Sure! I have all their records, and the CD compilation. Remember “Absolutely Right” and “Julianna”? How about their “Moonshine (Friend Of Mine)”, which was covered in the US by John Kay?
I’ve spent the last five years digitally remastering all those Cancon singles I bought when they were new, removing all traces of noise, and preserving them on CDs for my own enjoyment. The vast majority of them will never be issued on a commercial CD. If you’d like to discuss it further, please feel free to e-mail me. It’s in my profile.
**Emmit Rhodes, for some reason. 
**Emmit Rhodes, for some reason.
Charlene (no last name used) had a big hit in the early 80s with “I’ve Never Been to Me.” Several years earlier she had recorded a song called “Freddie,” a tribute to the late Freddie Prinze, which received some limited airplay before disappearing.
Hm, Bullfrong Blues and Electronic Dance by Billy Mitchell. Had the album for a few years and an exroommate stole it, an i have never been able to track it down since.
“Preying Mantis” by Don Dixon. Off the “Most of the Girls Like to Dance But Only Some of the Boys Do” CD. A catchy slice of pop that impressed the hell out of my husband on our second date because I recognized it.
Also “I’d Lie to You for Your Love” by Danny Spanos. I love this and wish it were available on CD.
I recently acquired a CD, “Japanese Underground Compilation”. It has quite a few nice tracks in it, but my favorite is the first: “Peach” by Yoshihide Otomo New Jazz Ensemble. It’s very reminiscent of 1920’s style New Orleans blues, with a touch of synthesizer. The female vocalist sounds a bit odd at first, but the somewhat hoarse, high-pitched singing somehow fits.
Best band name on the disc: MC Hellshit & DJ Carhouse.
Anyone ever heard “State of the Nation” by Industry ?
A 1984 anti-war synth tune, that blew my then 14 year old mind. First anti war tune I had ever heard (or at least paid attention to).
Here’s a link to the lyrics. Cheesy, sure. But not to my 14 year old self.
http://lyrictracker.com/show.php?id=NjMyNzk=
I seem to remember a video for it, maybe? I think I’ve heard it on the radio maybe three times, total. Bought the album on ebay years ago for two dollars just to have prove that I wasn’t making it up.
John Stewart did a tour of duty with “The Kingston Trio,” and had a very mediocre career post-Trio. He did manage to score a top-10 hit with “Gold,” which contained the famous mondegreen “Climbin’ old potatoes, singin’ to my soul. . . .” and a couple of other top-40 hits in the late-70s thru early 80s.
However, between the “Trio” and “Gold,” I saw him on the old “Smothers Brothers” show performing his new single, “Armstrong.” At the time, Neil Armstrong had become the first person to set foot on the moon. The song was about how the whole world stopped and watched as that happened.
I remember a bit of a verse of some song from the early 80s that no one ever seems to recognize. It went something like, “Another high school killing on a Saturday night, somebody got shot…”
Also some song by Glen Burtnick about a kid who gets the makover/star treatment, name-change, etc.
“Pilot of The Airwaves” by Charlie Dore.
“John’s Been Shuckin’ My Corn” by God-knows-who.
Sir Rhosis
About BJ: Yeah, but I sure wish he’d learn to stay on the road! :mad:
Can I give him driver’s ed? (His wife-to-be sounds too smart for him, IMHO.)
But seriously, folks! Do any McCartney and/or Wings fans remember good ole “Sallie G”? "…I never knew what the letter ‘G’ stood for, but I know for sure it wasn’t ‘good’ " It was almost a country-sounding tune you could square dance by! Or, Paul’s 1980’s hit “Take It Away”, an awesome little number never to be heard from again. (What gives?) Or, what about John Lennon’s “Nobody Told Me There’d Be Days Like These”?
Also, here’s a real odd-ball from the early 1970’s. There was a song we played to death as kids called “Abergavanni” by Shannon. He’s British (or UK) and sings about some wonderful place to visit called by this name (which I may have spelled wrong) and how he has to get there fast. “If you can’t go, then I promise to show you a photograph!”
Last, not even Cher seems to remember the song that became a Budweiser jingle: The title “When you say love…” became the jingle “When you say Bud, you’ve said it all.”
Ah,. what memories! Say, now I must go look for my wacky-pack stickers! 
Say, I’d love to hear “King Tut” by Steve Martin on the radio again! 
- Jinx