You must hate the Youngbloods’ “Get Together”.
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Tom Petty’s done a cover of this one. Doesn’t that redeem it?
[/QUOTE]Sure - approximately 14% more tolerable. Actually I liked the Dear Prudence-y guitar in the break.
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That song didn’t need it. Thunderclap Newman was great. Speedy Keen, Jimmy Mccullough and Andy Newman on Piano. Why isn’t the genre simply called “good” for this:
[/QUOTE]My martyred yolk with Cirrus-Cloud Newman stems mainly with that preposterous vocalist. When “and you know that it’s, riiiiiiiiiiiight…” is sung, a sporran* of hummingbirds die. And that honky tonk or whatever it is piano break would probably make most cats’ ears angle back in disdain, punctuated with a fluttering, irritated tail “hmph!” kinda thing.
At first I thought, what - a Beatles cover? And then the chorus came up and I’m like, oh right, I know that one.
Really - I wish I could somehow throw my lawnchairs at it.
I’ve linked this a couple times, and let’s all hope, for our sanity, that this will be the final time ever: Sister Janet Mead’s “The Lord’s Prayer”.
Here I’ve cued it tothe killer live performance.
Yes, pray, indeed, this is never linked here again.
Huh, according to wiki, it charted for 13 weeks, peaking at number four on the Billboard 100 during Holy Week in 1974.
First Australian artist to sell one million U.S. copies of a record produced in Australia.
Right on.
*The collective noun for hummingbirds.
I like this song quite a lot, although it always freaks me out when listening to it on headphones as the piano opening is on one track/one side only, which makes me think something has gone wrong with the headphones.
An excellent song…when sung by Bill Withers. When sung by anyone else who is not Bill Withers, it’s dire. (And of course one needs to mention the “duck in the microwave” joke here).
One I discovered recently and wish I hadn’t: Say I Won’t Be There by The Springfields. This one has thankfully faded into obscurity but it made it to #5 in the UK charts in 1963. There’s just so much to marvel at in this one I can’t choose which bit is my favorite: Is it the fingernails-on-chalkboard nasal twang? Is it the fact that the horrible uber-hillbilly accent is being affected by a bunch of middle-class Brits? Is it the utter desecration of “Au Clair de la Lune”? I vote for “all of the above”!
Fortunately, shortly thereafter one of the singers decided that she’d had enough of this faux-folk crap and went off on a much more successful solo career, and that was the end of The Springfields.
This is a wonderful song. In fact I can’t think of anything by Al Stewart that I don’t like.
“Shannon” by Henry Gross (appropriate last name)
My goodness! Isn’t Shannon supposed to be a setter?
Aren’t you blaspheming your own username?
Does #26 qualify as a hit? Enjoy! (sarcasm)
“Get Together” was written by Chet Powers (better known as Dino Valenti when he was with Quicksilver). The Kingston Trio first recorded it in 1964 as a typical rousing folk song. Then everybody did. A solo David Crosby, We Five, Linda Ronstadt, Jefferson Airplane, even H. P. Lovecraft (the great lost psychedelic band).
They each do it very differently but they’re all off in some way. The Youngbloods were the one to crack it and make the song into the peace and love anthem of the ages.
Most of the truly bad songs here could never be improved. But listening to something potentially wonderful and not succeeding is a trial. It’s the soundtrack in The Medium Place.
I appear to be getting my Beatles song titles mixed up.:o
Jefferson Airplane did it better. Signe’s solo at the start of verse 2 is the 60’s summed up in 8 seconds.
Oh man we could never hang out. Not only do you like my least favorite song, but you don’t like “We Belong” and I adore that song!
I hope I’m not offending any hardcore Barry White fans if I slam his Beethoven’s 5th.
His “Hustle”, though - no one touches that.
Don’t go dissin my Hustle - if you have a problem with it then you are three-step-and-clap challenged.
(Yeah? You’re tryin it right now, right?)
Also in a bit of a quandary over whether Jim Stafford’s “Spiders and Snakes” would be considered a novelty or is just plain super shitty.
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Does #26 qualify as a hit? Enjoy! (sarcasm)
[/QUOTE]OK, I’m sorry, but that line “I said high, she said yeah, I guess I am” is fucking classic. That had me laughing my ass off. The song deserves props just for that. The rest of the lyrics are pretty stupid (he seems to be name-checking a lot of local references to appeal to a specific audience - maybe it was meant to be a sort of novelty New Jersey song.) The album cover is straight out of Anchorman.
I can see why the song had some success; it’s pretty memorable. The band also has some commendable chops; the rhythm guitar and bass parts are particularly good.
Unless he did a cover I don’t know about, “The Hustle” was by Van McCoy.
And "A Fifth of Beethoven"was by Walter Murphy.
Wow. I am speechless. (“I always thought…”)
Thank-you for the tolchoks to my ignorance! (got a “this video not available” for that one, btw)
The only number that it seems I know for sure is a BW original - Can’t Get Enough of Your Love, Baby…smooth.
Chicago’s “You’re the Consti- er I mean Inspiration”
That’s right. Barry White was the low-voiced guy who moaned ‘Baby’ all the time.
Oh yes. An Irish Setter to be exact. If one is going to sing maudlin, whiny, songs about dogs, please choose another breed. Irish Setters deserve happy-go-lucky songs. They are the clowns of the dog world.
Don’t be dissin’ Barry, man. And I’d be surprised if you’ve never encountered You’re My First, My Last, My Everything.
Get it together, baby.
He looks exactly like Billy Joel if Billy Joel had become a pornstar in the mid-70s instead of a wildly successful piano player. 
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