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Ok. Looking back at the clues, I highly doubt CSN had released 13 albums by 1982. But I had forgotten that I had once owned what I believe to be the album in question. So I am going to go with Hard To Say I’m Sorry - Chicago….Final Answer.Quote:
Originally Posted by Revering4Blue
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The songbird referenced must be Christine McVie. I think she had a relationship with Dennis Wilson.
But I don’t know what the song title is. I kinda fell off the Fleetwood Mac bandwagon after Tusk (and I really didn’t like Tusk all that much).
Dang. It has to be Hold Me - Fleetwood Mac in that case. Gypsy wasn’t a hit until that Fall of 1982 - My Freshman Year of High School. In any case, you (Roy) deserve all of the credit here.Quote:
Originally Posted by Roy Tucker
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Ahh. I got you in the neighborhood. You drove us home.Quote:
Originally Posted by Revering4Blue
The only song I liked off Tusk was Sara. That’s my ex-wife’s name and around the time of Tusk, I was finally getting ok with being divorced and that song kinda seemed about that. And a recent coda to that… Sarah and I still text every so often about random life events. She just told me she was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s. I felt badly for her. Even though she screwed me over about as badly as any human can to another human being, she was still a big part of my early life and in a weird way, she still. has a place in my heart. I told her I’m always there for her but I doubt she’ll take me up on it.
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Originally Posted by Ky Fried Redleg
https://youtu.be/E0sha1XfHxw?list=RDE0sha1XfHxw
132. Another one from '74-75. The album dropped early in '74. The first two single releases were underwhelming. The first single peaked at #32 on the Billboard Hot 100, while the follow up didn't make the Top 40 , peaking at #52. But it's the third release that is the subject of this question. It was a track that wasn't supposed to be anything but an afterthought, much less a hit. It was all happenstance, just a happy accident. The band liked the song, but never even considered the possibility of it being a hit. The record label agreed. The song was relegated to the indignity of being the B-side of the album's initial release in March of '74. Yes, it's one of those rare B-sides that became a bigger hit than the A-side--- A MUCH bigger hit!!!
A little of the backstory. The band's guitarist came up with this riff a year before, thinking that one day he would do something with it and write a song. This is story of how a timeless classic was crafted from that simple acoustic riff and only became known to the population at large because a disc jockey in Virginia flipped a record over. Let's get into it.
The inspirations for the song included the Mississippi River, a couple of Mark Twain classic novels, and the singer/songwriter's sojourns in and around New Orleans, visiting clubs in the French Quarter and listening to Dixieland Jazz. The band had spent a week playing in New Orleans, when the songwriter decided it was time to put words to that riff. He took a streetcar from the district around Tulane University, heading to uptown New Orleans to do some laundry. It started to rain, but the sun continued to shine as the rain poured. He jotted down some lyrics while on the trolley.
The opening section of the song draws from his childhood imaginings of the South from reading Twain's Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer. Subsequent lyrics, after the first chorus, including its melodious a capella section, drew upon his experiences partying in the French Quarter and listening to Dixieland jazz bands and watching the moon reflect off of the mighty Mississippi.
So how did a tune that the band and it's record label view as nothing more than a B-side become a timeless classic? Well, you see, there was this disc jockey in, of all places, Roanoke, VA, that decided to flip over the A-side record and listen to the B-side. The A-side had stalled at #32 on the Billboard chart, and was eventually pulled from radio airplay due to the lyric, "And the radio just seems to bring me down," which apparently offended a lot of people in radio.
I suspect the reason the DJ flipped the record over and played the B-side is due to the song's title having a geographical connection to Roanoke. Regardless of the reason, the DJ liked the song and , after listeners responded positively to the record, and started requesting it, the song was played in heavy rotation on the station. Then, I guess , a friend of a friend of someone in Roanoke , who lived in Minneapolis , heard about the song and got the word out to a DJ in that city. Before long, the song was in heavy rotation in Minneapolis.
From there, word of mouth resulted in the song being played on radio stations all across the country. Due to its sudden, unexpected popularity, that happened just by chance, the band released the record, this time as a A-side in November of 1974. In March of '75, it became the band's first of two #1 songs. The band's next #1 wouldn't come until 1977, when a different lead singer took a song to #1.
Can you name this most surprising #1 song, a record that began as a B-side to a mediocre offering, but became one of the most beloved classics of all time, known for its folksy, laid back charm and its evoking of imagery of the Mississippi River and New Orleans nightlife?
That's Black Water from the Doobie Brothers.
Do you know the name of the A-side ?Quote:
Originally Posted by dfs
Another park, another Sunday.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ky Fried Redleg
I loved that album's title - What once were vices are now habits. Classic.
B-Side , turned A- Side, turned #1 song:
https://youtu.be/KHjs6s6gbKc?list=RDKHjs6s6gbKc
Original A-side, then yanked off the air:
https://youtu.be/8xUBoG7uGho?list=RD8xUBoG7uGho
Was a great jukebox song. It’s a lost art to go to bars and dump a bunch of quarters in the jukebox and play tunes. It was always a score when your song sequence rotated around to play.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ky Fried Redleg
Man, I always loved the jukebox. My sister and I had this favorite little diner downtown that served those little burgers(like White Castle, but better). We'd stay in there for hours eating burgers, playing the pinball machine and playing songs on the jukebox. I can still remember hearing John Denver's "Take Me Home Country Roads" playing on that jukebox about every time we went in there to play pinball. In fact, I usually heard it several times by the time we left.Quote:
Originally Posted by Roy Tucker
133. It's Saturday morning, and I got to thinking about Saturday morning and afternoon TV when I was a kid. My lineup was usually cartoons from early morning until about 11 , or so. Then it was TWIB, with Mel Allen. And then it was time for my Saturday music lineup with American Bandstand around noon and then Soul Train, with Don Cornelius, at 1:00 pm. Did anyone else here do the AB and ST double dip on Saturdays. I mean , it was like a Saturday ritual in our house. Did you enjoy those as much as I did?
You know I have to do a trivia question , now, don't you? lol
133. What was the first ever song performed on Soul Train by a white superstar artist? It was a huge crossover hit. It went to #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 and #15 on the Hot Soul Singles chart, driven by heavy airplay on R&B stations. The song was also the first ever Billboard #1 song that made use of a stuttering technique. In 2024, Rolling Stone ranked the song at #371 of the 500 greatest rock in roll songs of all time. How many #1 songs about fictional glam girl bands do you know? Only one that I know of. You know it, too, don't you? Play that funky music, white boy!
I believe Elton John was the first white artist to play on Soul Train. Since you mentioned stuttering, it has to be B-B-B-Bennie and the Jets.
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Originally Posted by Ky Fried Redleg
Did you know that B-B-B-Bennie was a girl ? "She's got electric boots, a mohair suit..."
https://youtu.be/Z-tSEwzWCEE?list=RDZ-tSEwzWCEE
While Elton is widely recognized by many music aficionados as the first while male artist to perform on Soul Train, it's really not the case. Yes, Elton was the first white superstar artist to appear on the show. By the time May of '75 rolled around, Elton was pretty much the biggest thing in rock music in America . He's the one everyone remembers, because he's a legend and many of us tuned in to watch that episode in March of '75. It was a cultural phenomenon, and it paved the way for other white artists like Bowie, the Average White Band, Hall & Oates, and others to appear on the show. Elton's appearance actually greatly overshadowed two white guys who had previously knocked on Don's Soul Train doors.
A fellow by the name of Dennis Coffey, a guitarist, performed his instrumental hit, "Scorpio,"(many of you will remember that song) on Soul Train, way back in 1972. So, really, Dennis was the first white dude to perform on ST. Sure, Dennis didn't sing, but he did play. Now, the many legions of the Rocketman's fans will say, well, Elton was the first white artist to SING on Don Cornelius' Soul Train.
Not so fast, my friends ! One of the reasons you click on RZ music trivia thread is to get those little known stories or facts about songs or happenings in the history of music that many are unaware of. It just so happens that about three months before Elton appeared on Soul Train, another white guy performed on the show, AND HE DID SING! And guess what ... you're gonna tell me who he was.
134. Three months before Elton's landmark and trailblazing appearance on Soul Train, a white Canadian-born singer appeared on the show and sang his first charting hit, a song that peaked at #22 on the Billboard Hot 100 in late 1974 , and led to him touring with Stevie Wonder and being invited to perform his hit on Soul Train, early in '75.
You might remember him better for two major hits that he had a few years later. His highest charting single came in 1978 with a song that peaked at #4 on the Billboard Hot 100 and was #1 in Canada. The song was nominated for a Grammy for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance. He lost to Barry Manilow. Then, in 1981 he had another gigantic hit that peaked at #6. The dude had a fantastic head of hair(even better than Richard Marx) and a very fine singing voice. While he was born in Montreal, his parents immigrated there from Italy, so he is an Italian- Canadian. He was a heart throb for many young girls in the late 70's, and particularly the early 80's. And dorks like me would have died for that hair.
So, while Elton is usually credited for being the first white artist to perform on Soul Train, he was really the third . Can you name the VERY FIRST white artist to SING on Soul Train?
I know Dennis Coffey (a white guy) played his instrumental hit Scorpio on Soul Train as the first white performer. But he didn’t sing.
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Originally Posted by Ky Fried Redleg
First line of his biggest hit: "When I think about those nights in Montreal, I get the sweetest thoughts of you and me."
Bennie and the Jets stuttered its way to #! on the Billboard Top 100 in 1974. Later that year, another song did likewise. This was from another foreign group, which was born after the breakup of a Canadian band that hand multiple songs chart on Billboard. The stuttering was a gentle poke at the lead singer's brother, who was also a member of the band.
What are the song and the group?
You Ain't seen Nothing Yet. BTO
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Originally Posted by Ky Fried Redleg
This dude appeared on Soul Train three months before Elton, but no one remembers Gino's appearance. EVERYONE remembers the Rocketman. Gino's brother wrote this song. Vanelli's biggest hit:
https://youtu.be/PjfuDSPde_g?list=RDPjfuDSPde_g
There ya go, now I’ve learned something today!
Great background singers and nice sax solo. Earmarks of the 70’s.
99% of people will swear Elton was first. If someone tells you they bet you a thousand bucks it was Elton, show them this from February of 1975. Does anyone remember this song? It was Vanelli's first hit.
Vanelli on Soul Train , 91 days before Elton's famous appearance:
https://youtu.be/Hy4W0kYD74c?list=RDHy4W0kYD74c
Gino's return to Soul Train four years later, in 1979:
https://youtu.be/av60zVmjD9k?list=RDav60zVmjD9k
Came across this awhile back and thought it was really sweet. It was a FB post from Mr. Vanelli back in 2018, talking about his marriage to his wife , Patricia, and why they had been able to stay married for so long. A lot of really good advice here.
Also, is it just me , or does Gino Vanelli, if you took away all of the 70's hair, look eerily like another Canadian of Italian descent that we all know Doesn't Vanelli look like Joseph Daniel Votto?
https://scontent.fosu2-1.fna.fbcdn.n...7g&oe=69F0980F
Gino Vannelli
June 5, 2018
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Just Married
When Patricia and I met because of a snowed-out concert in Portland Oregon in the autumn of 1974, little did I imagine I’d be looking at this photo decades later. Which brings to mind the question I am often asked: How did you guys ever manage to stay married? Of course there are infinite reasons, (not the least of which being a little luck) but I will let you in on one important contributing factor.
On the day we shared formal vows, after the crowds thinned and we scooted back to our hotel room, Tricia and I added one more condition to our marriage pact—swearing one more sacred vow—and that is, to never, ever say something we both couldn’t take back. This included all cuss words, including A words, B words, C words, F words, in my special case, being raised in Montreal, throw church relics and saints into the mix of no-go zones. Added to the blacklist were any disparagements, nit-picking, hen pecking, whining, character assassination (in-laws included), brow beating, passing slurs, transitory tear downs, inventive name calling, no mud slinging whatsoever (however clever). No matter how angry we ever got, we decided, better to bite our tongues and choke on the silence than hurl slings and arrows of indelicate maxims. Our unwritten pledge also included: no cheeky sign language, meaning: wanker signs, birds, thumbed noses, chin flicks, forearm jerks, tongue pointing and L’s on the forehead. We signed that addendum to our marriage vows on a page in our hearts and abided by it all this time. (Although there were some moments I was certain one of us was dangerously teetering on the edge and was one phrase away from breach of contract)
Amazingly enough, to this day, we have both never even whispered a pained 'please' or an offhand 'shut up' to each other.
Bottom line: Just shut the hell up before you say something stupid to the one you love.
Big hug to all
G
Sadly, Mr. Vanelli lost his wife, Patricia, in 2024 after her long battle with cancer. Gino was her caregiver for over five years. I saw an interview he gave sometime back last year and it was heartbreaking. He put out a new album on Feb. 7, 2025(almost 50 years to the day he first appeared on Soul Train) called The Life I Got(To My Most Beloved). He dedicated the album to his late wife, Patricia.
Here's a blog post from May 21, 2024, soon after her passing. This was just beautiful. Made me tear up. Well, actually, it made me cry like a baby :
https://ginov.com/to-my-most-beloved/
135. This question is because of my father. He is almost 86 years old, and in failing health. His heart is struggling to function properly. He's looking at a heart surgery in another few weeks. He's running out of time. I guess we all are. Still, I will occasionally catch him talking to his "Alexa" and asking her to play him one of his favorite old songs. This is one that he often requests. It's always been one of his very favorites. It's also one of those songs I remember being played so frequently on that jukebox in the Krystal Kitchen diner in downtown Corbin back in 1971, when my sister and I would spend all day in there playing pinball.
This song was released in the summer of '71. It was the singer's breakthrough hit, and became a country standard. But this blockbuster hit was a bit of a fluke. Another one of those happy accidents. You see, this singer had been recording songs for more than 18 years but hadn't had a song on the charts since 1959. By the time he released his 1970 album, he was recording for Capitol Records. The initial single , the title track, didn't do well, stalling outside the top 60. Capitol summarily dropped the singer from the label and pulled the album from distribution.
But now for the miracle. And yes, it involves another one of those DJs. A DJ from WPLO-AM in Atlanta started playing a cut from the album, the same album that Capitol had pulled the plug on. The song exploded, and before you know it, it was being played all over the country. Capitol rushed to release the song as a single(of course they did) and it reached #1 on the Billboard Country chart even before Capitol could even re-sign the singer. That's right- the singer of the #1 country song in the nation didn't even have a record contract. He had been fired!!! Well, of course, the label hurriedly re-signed the singer, and he went on to have many, many more hit records for Capitol. Were it not for that DJ in Atlanta, this song would have never been heard, and likely the singer's career would have been over.
Now, not only was this song a huge smash on the country charts , it was also a big crossover hit. The song peaked at # 17 in November of '71 on the Billboard Hot 100 , where it was positioned just above "Two Divided By Love" by the Grass Roots and just one notch below the Carpenters' "Superstar." It ended 1971 as the 69th biggest song on the Billboard Hot 100 for the year, ranking just above "Liar" by Three Dog Night. This song was the singer's only pop hit.
The song spent three weeks at #1 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart in '71 and was the ACM #1 Song of the Year in BOTH 1971 and 1972. The momentum from this blockbuster hit propelled the singer to have a dozen subsequent top 10 country hits, including an incredible run of six consecutive #1 country hits(including this song).
Now, if you're still not sure of this country standard, here's just a bit more. The original working title included two additional words, "Teenage Hearts." But those two words were eventually dropped from the title. The singer/songwriter said his goal, as he set out writing this song, was to write something that every man would like to say, and that every woman would like to hear.
It was the first #1 country song that had the word "sexy" in its lyrics. The singer/songwriter seriously considered removing the line which included the word "sexy," fearing that it would not clear the censors. He left it in, and it cleared the censors. That "sexy" line is the first thing I think of when I think of this song.
Can you think of this big crossover country/pop hit from 1971, one of my dad's all-time favorite songs? I love it , as well. Great song , written and sung by a fine gentleman. RIP
I know so little about country music that I can honestly say that I have never of this gentleman nor any of his songs. This was real country, and not that twangy pop music that they call country nowadays.
Yes sir, REAL country. I have nothing but disdain for what passes for country music today. I was actually a fan of country music in the 70's but this "Bro Country" stuff today has little resemblance to what I grew up hearing on the country side of things.Quote:
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Originally Posted by Ky Fried Redleg
https://youtu.be/yzRhrBCHiBU?list=RDyzRhrBCHiBU
Freddie took home about all of the hardware at the '72 ACM Awards--
Entertainer of the Year
Album of the Year
Top Male Vocalist of the Year
Single Record of the Year
Song of the Year
https://youtu.be/9umOdZYtPQE
If Roy comes on here and said he went to a Freddie Hart concert back in '72 and did some serious mushrooms, I'll be doubly impressed.
Somewhere, I actually own a Freddy Hart 45.
btw, Gino V had a better fate than his cousin Millie.
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True , and we can be most certain that Milli wasn't the only artist to ever lip sync on Soul Train. They probably felt pretty much at home on that stage. LOL
https://youtu.be/JTYwbsepZ58
Nah. Searching the Roy memory banks, I find no Freddy Hart show.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ky Fried Redleg
Looking at the google, I see he played the Ohio State Fair in that era. I saw Johnny Cash and Waylon Jennings shows there at the fair. The Waylon show I went to the fair with the intent to see it. But the Johnny Cash show we just stumbled upon with Mrs Tucker #1. That was the bands played outside on a temporary stage on the horse track and we sat in the grandstands.
I was more on the outlaw country/country rock side of things then. Classic country was too… country for my hippie tastes then. In retrospect, I wish I would have gone to see some of those shows. But I was poor then.
136. Do you recognize the band below? This band is often acknowledged as a one-hit wonder because they had just one top 40 hit on the Billboard Hot 100. But that one hit record was a biggie. It went all the way to #1 in 1974. Now, they did have one other huge #1 hit but it was in the UK, not the US. However, a guy from Cincinnati took their UK #1 to #1 in the US a few months later. Can you unravel all this madness from '74?
Who's the band below and what was their big #1 hit in America ? Also, who took their UK #1 to #1 in the US a few months later?
https://scontent.fosu2-1.fna.fbcdn.n...4Q&oe=69D07321
I cannot recall the particulars, but I believe it involves Paper Lace, Bo Donaldson and the Heywoods and the song 'Billy Don't Be a Hero".
Or, I could be completely mistaken.
This band is, indeed, the English band, Paper Lace. #1 song in August of '74:Quote:
Originally Posted by Ky Fried Redleg
https://youtu.be/w2OFubG0dPo?list=RDw2OFubG0dPo
#1 in the UK in March of '74 :
https://youtu.be/6RvG5bJsu5Q?list=RD6RvG5bJsu5Q
#1 in America in June of '74. Cincinnati's own. Bo knows heroes:
https://youtu.be/p-PNagzijy0?list=RDp-PNagzijy0
137.
49 years ago today, one of the best selling albums of all time hit #1 on the Billboard 200. The album remained on top for most of of that year, and even into the following year--- a total of a whopping 31 weeks at #1. No other album in history has ever spent more weeks at the top spot on the US Billboard 200 album chart. The album was awarded the Grammy for Album of the Year, and produced four Top 10 singles, including the band's only' #1 single, to date, on the US Billboard Hot 100. The album has sold more than 40 million copies worldwide and has been certified 21x Platinum by the RIAA.
Can you name the album that first hit #1 on this date 49 years ago and can you name the band's only #1 single?
hmmm. spitballing here......I'm pretty sure the Boston album would be prior to 77. Hotel California was from that era, but I suspect they had a #1 prior to that. I remember Dark Side of the Moon set sales records but that would be earlier.
That leaves Fleetwood Mac's Rumors with Stevie Nicks singing Dreams as the feature. Pretty sure they didn't have a #! prior to Dreams. From your text I'm surprised they didn't have a #1 after Dreams, but I can't point to another song that I'm SURE was a #1.
Probably have to go to Born in the USA or Thriller to find an album that sold more than Rumors.
Four top 10 hits? Dreams, The Chain, Gold Dust Woman and Don't Stop Believing?
Final answer?
Pretty sure Rumours was the album. It sold a gazillion copies. I think Go Your Own Way was in the singles mix too.Quote:
Originally Posted by dfs