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Saturday in the Park.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ky Fried Redleg
Heard that one while in Walmart the other day. It was the only good thing that happened while in Walmart. Such a great song.Quote:
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I don’t know the answer to this. But it made start thinking.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ky Fried Redleg
I did see Fleetwood Mac a couple times. The first was during my time at Ohio State like early 70’s. It was the Bob Welch and some other guy I can’t remember version of the band. I had bought “Bare Trees” out of the cutout bin for $.99 but mildly liked it. They played at Mershon Auditorium but I don’t remember much of the show. As usual, I was under the influence of multiple legal and illegal substances. The second was a big Fleetwood Mac show at Riverfront Coliseum with Jeff Beck and Jan Hammer like 1976? I was there to see Beck because “Blow by Blow” had been recently released and I *really* liked it. Beck played first and had a great set. Fleetwood Mac was the headliner and it was the Buckingham/Nicks version. I had their first album but hadn’t become a big fan yet. I think that show got me hooked.
I've been a big fan of Fleetwood Mac for a long time. I had the "Bare Trees" album, as well. Christine McVie's "Spare Me a Little of Your Love" is simply splendid. She was SO good! RIP She was truly the glue in that band. Such a smooth, warm voice. I really love Buckingham, too. He's such an underrated guitarist and a terrific showman. When I went to my first FM show I was expecting Stevie Nicks to be the one who grabbed the most attention. I was wrong. Buckingham was the show stopper! Absolutely stole the show with his playing, singing, and showmanship. I can see why Nicks was so jealous of him. He was better than her by a lot.Quote:
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https://youtu.be/Rp-h9QbksT0?list=RDRp-h9QbksT0Quote:
Originally Posted by Ky Fried Redleg
It all makes sense now. This is the only Stevie Nicks song that I even mildly liked. It had to have Prints fingerprints all over it. The video should be put in a 1980s time capsule as it captures exactly how I remember that decade.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwS9BIqbffU&list=RDgwS9BIqbffU&start_radio =1
Bob Welch wrote several fine tunes for Fleetwood Mac (Hypnotized is a true gem). But to me, FM ceased to exist once Peter Green was out of the group.
Mid-70s puff rock or this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVrN2E4VHzQ&list=RDeVrN2E4VHzQ&start_radio =1
Do you all prefer Peter G. or Lindsey B. ?
https://youtu.be/heC_FoP7RQ4?list=RDheC_FoP7RQ4
I love Bare Trees, one of my favorite Mac attacks.
re: texasdave: The Green era was great (as were many of his solo records) but all eras FM are fantastic, even the Spencer/Kirwan years. Tusk is their masterpiece.
that video of PG is sick.
I'd choose the Peter Greene version, acknowledging that Lindsay Buckingham was a wonderful guitarist.
Here is another version that rocks pretty well. I bought this album on a whim because I had been out drinking and stopped at a record store while buzzed. BWB - Buying while buzzed. Anyhow, I am a Houston Rockets fan and the album was by the Rockets so it seemed preordained in a way. Turned out to be a fairly decent record. Serendipity.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzazgG-y7uM&list=RDEzazgG-y7uM&start_radio=1
They are all recording artists who hit their peak in the 70s[emoji3] Seriously, I have no idea.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ky Fried Redleg
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Tusk is one of my favorite albums EVER. And to think, some were disappointed that it wasn't another Rumours. As much as I love Rumours, I love Tusk even more. 20 songs and most all of them very good. I really liked the direction Buckingham took this album. I think it's his masterpiece.
Bryan Bassett is the guitarist who played in all three bands: Wild Cherry, Molly Hatchet, and Foghat. He is best known for playing the iconic guitar riff (you remember the one) on Wild Cherry’s 1976 hit "Play That Funky Music," later joining Molly Hatchet in the 1990s, and becoming a long-time member of Foghat starting in 1999.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ky Fried Redleg
Here's the man with that opening riff:
https://youtu.be/BHcYFxU4fMo?list=RDBHcYFxU4fMo
I didn’t like “Tusk” because it had the song “Sara” on it which was Mrs Tucker’s #1 name. The first few times I listened to that side of the LP, I heard it and went “nope, no, hell no”. It fell out of my album rotation pretty quick.
(Coda… Mrs Tucker #1’s sister contacted me recently and said that Sarah has Alzheimer’s now and asked if it was ok for Sarah to write me. One flaw I have is I’m a nice guy so I said sure. Evidently earlier memories stick the longest and she’s started calling her husband Bruce (which is my name). So we text now and she comments on my Facebook page often. Life sure can turn out funny sometimes).
I always liked how enthusiastic the guys in Wild Cherry were when playing that song. They seemed to be having a blast and it really translated to the audience, who really got into that song. Just a great old song. And those boys in the band could flat play those instruments. Super talented. The band was from Steubenville , Ohio. Anyone ever been to Steubenville?
Here's a strong selling point, for every 100 females age 18 and over there are 86.8 males age 18 and over. If you're a guy, you gotta like those odds.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ky Fried Redleg
I’ve been to Weirton WV which is right across the Ohio River from Steubenville. I did some computer consulting for Weirton Steel in the mid 80’s when I worked for DEC. Spent a month onsite writing device drivers for factory shop floor machinery. Pretty weird writing code while seeing steel poured. The original company had gone out of business but the employees bought the company. Good folks but not much happens in Weirton.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ky Fried Redleg
While we are in the vicinity: What's the biggest moving job in history? Wheeling, West Virginia. <groan>
I am fairly certain that I have been through Steubenville. When I was 6, my family had 2 weeks to wait to move into a new house. So, it was a spur-of-the-moment vacation. We travelled along the Ohio River up to New Martinsville, where one of my dad's army buddies lived. An overnight stop there, and then a drive up to Pittsburgh where my father lived for a few years growing up. We saw his old stomping grounds, Mount Washington. It reminded me of some of the hills in Cincinnati, down along the river. My memories of the whole trip are a bit fuzzy. I don't recall any women standing on the side of the road holding up signs that read "Will marry for food". But, it could happen.
168. Sometime in 1980, Waylon Jennings called this singer/songwriter and asked her to write a song for him and his wife Jessi Colter to do on an duet album they had planned for release early in '81. He even told the songwriter what he wanted the title of the song to be. When the song's chorus was done, she sent it to Waylon and he loved it and told her to go ahead and finish the rest of the song. It was not one of these songs that was written in 20 or 30 minutes. This one took awhile... a long while.
Upon finally finishing the song, the singer/songwriter learned that Waylon and Jessi were breaking up. Waylon told her he still wanted to do the song by himself. But with all the work she had put into this project of writing a song that explains what it's like to be in love with someone in the same business, and how to approach dealing with each other, she told Waylon that this was not a song that could be sung solo. And it wasn't done solo. It would eventually be sung by the song's writer and her musician/ lover , who had a torrid and tumultuous, ill-fated love affair, fueled by by excess and drug abuse and aggravated by the music industry.
In fact, about this time in her life, she wrote , " After all the work I had put into the philosophy of two people dealing with this problem, I told Waylon that only 4 people in this world could sing this song: he and his wife, or myself and Don. " Problem is, her lover, Don, hated the song at first. He thought it was terrible. He told her to start over and work til she got it right(what an ass!) After painstakingly working to get the finished product the way way she wanted, she recorded a simple demo of the song with Don.
The writer/songstress added," Don and I had been going out for quite awhile, and, bless his heart, he did sing it with me, and again, as fate would have it, it became one of the most special love songs that I would ever write... and remains that, even today, after all these years. All in all, it was an unforgettable experience, as was he. Blame it on my wild heart."
The song peaked at #6 on the Billboard Hot 100 early in 1982. Waylon and Jessi never got to sing the song that was written for them. Their duet album was released early in 1981 and bore the same title as the title of the song they never got to record. Instead, the song's creator and her musician lover recorded the song that climbed the charts late in 1981 and early in '82 .
Can you name the song and the two singers who took it to #6 on the Billboard chart?
Leather and Lace, by Stevie Nicks and Don Henley. The Don hint may have given this one away [emoji6] Absolutely love that song!Quote:
Originally Posted by Ky Fried Redleg
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https://youtu.be/iLEMiDrdSKU?list=RDiLEMiDrdSKU
169. For those who don't know, the torrid, but ill-fated love affair between Nicks and Henley produced a pregnancy, which Nicks terminated. She did, however, name the never born child. In fact, it served as part of the inspiration for yet another one of Ms. Nicks' hit songs, peaking at #7 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1980.
Now, if you are a regularly reader of this thread , you know that this song is not a favorite of Roy Tucker, whose first wife had the same name as the title of this song. You'll hear it often on classic soft rock radio channels. You know the song, don't you?
170. The guys who wrote this song gave it to the R&B band, Tavares, to record. Tavares took the record to #32 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1978. Now, you are not going to hear Tavares' version on classic rock radio. You'll hear the version recorded by the guys who wrote the song. The creators of the song never released it as a single. Instead, their version of the song was included on the album soundtrack to a movie, as was the Tavares version. Also, both versions of the song were included in the movie. The album soundtrack, which featured both versions of the song , is the second best selling soundtrack of all time, and possibly the most culturally influential on the music industry in history.
Can you name this song, which was a major part of an iconic soundtrack, and is more associated with the guys who wrote the song than it is with the band who recorded it and took it to #32 on the Billboard chart?
More Than a Woman by The Bee Gees. Off the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ky Fried Redleg
My parents were in Florida and I was there for business. God knows why, but I went with my mom to see this movie. There were parts of it where she said “oh my”.
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Originally Posted by Ky Fried Redleg
Bee Gees:
https://youtu.be/717TcuN_-oo?list=RD717TcuN_-oo
Tavares:
https://youtu.be/D53HgCX1dR8?list=RDD53HgCX1dR8
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Originally Posted by Roy Tucker
Wait. She named the baby as if it were a real human being and terminated it? Someone explain that one to me.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ky Fried Redleg
The role of Stephanie Mangano was played by Karen Lynn Gorney. She also played the role of Tara Martin in the soap opera All My Children. She was in the love triangle of Tara, Phil, and Jeff. I watched All My Children for a while when I was in college. We’d watch it at the OSU student union. When I saw her in this movie, I went “OMG it’s Tara!!!”Quote:
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171. Who am I Redzone music fans?
* I was born Steven Demetre Georgieu in London to a Greek father and a Swedish mother
* The first single I ever recorded was called "I Love My Dog."
* I've sold over 100 million records and have over 2 billion streams
* In 2004, I was traveling to the U.S. to meet with Dolly Parton , when my flight from London to Washington was diverted, and I was denied entrance into the U.S. I was put on a terrorist "watchlist."
* I recorded a demo of a song in 1965, that I sold for 30 British pounds. The song became an international hit for four different artists. Forty years after I first demoed the song, I received back-to-back ASCAP "Songwriter of the Year" Awards for this song in 2005-2006.
* I contracted tuberculosis in 1969 and came very close to death.
* I nearly drowned off the coast of Malibu in 1976. After shouting, , "Oh, God! If you save me I will work for you," a wave appeared and carried me back to shore.
* Following my second nomination , I was inducted into the R&R Hall of Fame by Art Garfunkel.
* One of my songs was included in the movie "Clash of the Titans. The same song was included in the soundtrack to the movie "We Are Marshall."
* My former lover, Carly Simon , wrote the song "Anticipation " about me. I wrote "Sweet Scarlett" to her.
Do you know my crazy ass and the song that won me back-to-back ASCAP songwriting awards?
Based on only this My former lover, Carly Simon , wrote the song "Anticipation " about me. I wrote "Sweet Scarlett" to her.
I'm going to say Cat Stevens. I didn't know the other stuff
I started to include just the above clue but I thought that would be too hard. So I tossed in some extra. LOLQuote:
Originally Posted by Sea Ray
That sounds right.Quote:
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She wrote You’re So Vain about Warren Beatty around the same time. She got around.
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What Cat Stevens song became an international hit for four different artists?
172. What did Cat Stevens , Ozzy Osbourne, the O'Jays , and Rod Stewart have in common?
OK, we can still guess on your final question. I have no idea which songs he wrote but my favorites are Father & Son and Where Do the Children Play. Was it either of those?Quote:
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She looks like hell today...but I don't mean to disparage her. I still like her and her music. She just didn't age very wellQuote:
Originally Posted by Roy Tucker
Morning Has Broken? I couldn't name you the artists but I know others have done that songQuote:
Originally Posted by Ky Fried Redleg
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Originally Posted by Ky Fried Redleg
Songwriter Cat's version:
https://youtu.be/aBccr-aLu4I?list=RDaBccr-aLu4I
#18 on the UK Singles chart(1967) :
https://youtu.be/CF5F8Zy4xLw?list=RDCF5F8Zy4xLw
#1 Canadian AC chart (1973) :
https://youtu.be/fJgPd1pLleo?list=RDfJgPd1pLleo
#1 UK Singles chart / #18 Billboard Hot 100 (1977) :
https://youtu.be/c5NRH_DxWJE?list=RDc5NRH_DxWJE
#1 Billboard AC chart (2003):
https://youtu.be/dK9eLe8EQps?list=RDdK9eLe8EQps
The Rod Stewart version of “First Cut is the Deepest” was off the album “A Night on the Town”. Back when Rod still recorded in the UK and his music was good. I listened to that album a lot back in the day.
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Of the five versions posted above, Rod's is my favorite. Rod was in his prime back then. On top of his game.
On a sidenote : Man, Sheryl Crow sure was a nice looking woman back then. Also, she nailed the song.
I would’ve guessed “Wild World”. Clearly, that was the wrong answer.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ky Fried Redleg
Btw, Sheryl Crow was (maybe still is?) one of the hardest working people in the business. I went to dozens of concerts in the early ‘90s and it seemed like she was the opening act for just about every other one of them…until she started headlining her own shows, that is. Never one of my favorites but she put on a good show.
173.. Early in 1969 , the founding member and bassist of a pioneering country-rock band left the band just prior to the release of the band's debut album. A couple of years later, in 1971, he would help found another country rock band that would popularize that genre of music on a grand scale. The guy who replaced him in the 1969 band , soon after he left, would again replace him in 1977 in the band he formed in 1971. That's right, the founding member of two bands was replaced twice , each time BY THE SAME GUY , eight years apart.
Who were these two bassists /vocalists and what were the two bands?