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Turning over the toy box and jamming together the gloriously mismatched musical Lincoln Logs, Legos and Tinker Toys from Tin Pan Alley pluggers, pickled egg tavern weepers, lockstep soul ensembles, skinny-tie power poppers, Eurotrash ravers, moontanned art school rockers, drunken soccer anthems and anything else that seems like a good idea at the time. There are no guilty pleasures.

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Favoriting June 17, 2022: Show #450: "No goddam death dedications."

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Artist Track Album Label Year Comments Approx. start time
Uncle Michael  Hinky Dinky Time Open   Favoriting          
Godspell - OBC  Day By Day   Favoriting single (b/w Bless The Lord)  Bell  1972  #44  0:02:36 (Pop-up)
Joe Tex  You Said A Bad Word   Favoriting single (b/w It Ain't Gonna Work Baby)  Dial  1972  #43  0:05:40 (Pop-up)
Procol Harum  Conquistador   Favoriting single (b-side to A Salty Dog)  A&M  1972  #42  0:08:05 (Pop-up)
Luther Ingram  (If Loving You Is Wrong) I Don't Want To Be Right   Favoriting single (b/w Puttin' Game Down)  KoKo  1972  #41  0:12:14 (Pop-up)
Aretha Franklin  All The King's Horses   Favoriting single (b/w April Fools)  Atlantic  1972  #40  0:15:44 (Pop-up)
Jackson Five  Little Bitty Pretty One   Favoriting single (b/w If I Have To Move A Mountain)  Motown  1972  #39  0:19:32 (Pop-up)
Little Jimmy Osmond  Long Haired Lover From Liverpool   Favoriting single (b/w Mother Of Mine)  MGM  1972  #38  0:22:13 (Pop-up)
Supremes  Automatically Sunshine   Favoriting single (b/w Precious Little Things)  Motown  1972  #37  0:24:19 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
The Spotnicks 

If You Could Read My Mind   Favoriting

single (b/w Last Date) 

Polydor 

1971 

 

0:26:54 (Pop-up)
 
Graham Nash And David Crosby  Immigration Man   Favoriting single (b/w Whole Cloth)  Atlantic  1972  #36  0:33:01 (Pop-up)
Donny Osmond  Too Young   Favoriting single (b/w Love Me)  MGM  1972  #35  0:36:10 (Pop-up)
Mouth and McNeil  How Do You Do?   Favoriting single (b/w Land Of Milk And Honey)  Philips  1972  #34  0:38:59 (Pop-up)
Michael Jackson  I Wanna Be Where You Are   Favoriting single (b/w We've Got A Good Thing Going)  Motown  1972  #33  0:41:54 (Pop-up)
Derek and the Dominos  Layla   Favoriting single (b/w I Am Yours)  Atco  1971  #32  0:44:38 (Pop-up)
Frederick Knight  I've Been Lonely For So Long   Favoriting single (b/w Lean On Me)  Stax  1972  #31  0:47:18 (Pop-up)
Millie Jackson  Ask Me What You Want   Favoriting single (b/w I Just Can't Stand It)  Spring  1972  #30  0:50:31 (Pop-up)
The Moody Blues  Isn't Life Strange   Favoriting single (b/w After You Came)  Threshold  1972  #29  0:53:28 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
Herbie Mann 

Respect Yourself   Favoriting

single (b/w Mississippi Gambler) 

Atlantic 

1972 

 

0:56:49 (Pop-up)
 
Harry Chapin  Taxi   Favoriting single (b/w Empty)  Elektra  1972  #28  1:01:24 (Pop-up)
David Cassidy  How Can I Be Sure   Favoriting single (b/w Ricky's Tune)  Bell  1972  #27  1:07:55 (Pop-up)
Wayne Newton  Daddy Don't You Walk So Fast   Favoriting single (b/w Echo Valley 2-6809)  Chelsea  1972  #26  1:10:57 (Pop-up)
Creedence Clearwater Revival  Someday Never Comes   Favoriting single (b/w Tearin' Up The Country)  Fantasy  1972  #25  1:14:15 (Pop-up)
Cher  Living In A House Divided   Favoriting single (b/w One Honest Man)  Kapp  1972  #24  1:18:05 (Pop-up)
Cornelius Brothers & Sister Rose  Too Late To Turn Back Now   Favoriting single (b/w Lift Your Love Higher)  United Artists  1972  #23  1:21:00 (Pop-up)
Al Green  Look What You Done For Me   Favoriting single (b/w La-La For You)  Hi  1972  #22  1:24:06 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
Apollo 100 

Beethoven 9   Favoriting

single (b/w Valley's) 

Pink Elephant 

1972 

 

1:27:05 (Pop-up)
 
Commander Cody & His Lost Planet Airmen  Hot Rod Lincoln   Favoriting single (b/w My Home In My Hand)  Paramount  1972  #21  1:33:23 (Pop-up)
Elton John  Rocket Man   Favoriting single (b/w Suzie (Dramas))  Uni  1972  #20  1:35:58 (Pop-up)
America  I Need You   Favoriting single (b/w Riverside)  Warner Bros.  1972  #19  1:40:38 (Pop-up)
Love Unlimited  Walkin' In The Rain With The One I Love   Favoriting single (b/w I Should Have Known)  Uni  1972  #18  1:43:37 (Pop-up)
The Pipes And Drums And The Military Band Of The Royal Scots Dragoon Guards  Amazing Grace   Favoriting single (b/w Cornet Carillon)  RCA Victor  1972  #17  1:47:51 (Pop-up)
Todd Rundgren  I Saw The Light   Favoriting single (b/w Marlene)  Bearsville  1972  #16  1:51:00 (Pop-up)
Bread  Diary   Favoriting single (b/w Down On My Knees)  Elektra  1972  #!5  1:53:52 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
Ramsey Lewis Trio 

Upendo Ni Pamoja (Love Is Together)   Favoriting

single (b/w Eternal Peace) 

Columbia 

1972 

 

1:56:57 (Pop-up)
 
The Rolling Stones  Tumbling Dice   Favoriting single (b/w Sweet Black Angel)  Rolling Stones  1972  #14  2:02:38 (Pop-up)
Cat Stevens  Morning Has Broken   Favoriting single (b/w I Want To Live In A Wigwam)  A&M  1972  #13  2:06:13 (Pop-up)
The Carpenters  It's Going To Take Some Time   Favoriting single (b/w Flat Baroque)  A&M  1972  #12  2:09:27 (Pop-up)
Roberta Flack  The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face   Favoriting single (b/w Trade Winds)  Atlantic  1972  #11  2:12:20 (Pop-up)
Bill Withers  Lean On Me   Favoriting single (b/w Better Off Dead)  Sussex  1972  #10  2:16:31 (Pop-up)
Dr. Hook  Sylvia's Mother   Favoriting single (b/w Makin' It Natural)  Columbia  1972  #9  2:20:08 (Pop-up)
5th Dimension  (Last Night) I Didn't Get To Sleep At All   Favoriting single (b/w The River Witch)  Bell  1972  #8  2:23:50 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
Quincy Jones 

Ironside (Theme From "Ironside" - NBC - TV)   Favoriting

single (b/w Cast Your Fate To The Wind) 

A&M 

1972 

 

2:26:57 (Pop-up)
 
Mr. Science  The Sexes   Favoriting Series 02  96x  1979-83    2:31:53 (Pop-up)
The Jimmy Castor Bunch  Troglodyte   Favoriting single (b/w I Promise To Remember)  RCA Victor  1972  #7  2:33:59 (Pop-up)
Billy Preston  Outa-Space   Favoriting single (b-side to I Wrote A Simple Song)  A&M  1972  #6  2:37:18 (Pop-up)
Gallery  Nice To Be With You   Favoriting single (b/w Ginger Haired Man)  Sussex  1972  #5  2:41:18 (Pop-up)
Chi-Lites  Oh Girl   Favoriting single (b/w Being In Love)  Brunswick  1972  #4  2:43:52 (Pop-up)
Neil Diamond  Song Sung Blue   Favoriting single (b/w Gitchy Goomy)  Uni  1972  #3  2:47:09 (Pop-up)
Staple Singers  I'll Take You There   Favoriting single (b/w I'm Just Another Soldier)  Stax  1971  #2  2:50:11 (Pop-up)
Sammy Davis Jr  Candy Man   Favoriting single (b/w I Want To Be Happy)  MGM  1972  #1  2:53:20 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
Fleetwood Mac 

Albatross   Favoriting

single (b/w Jigsaw Puzzle Blues) 

Blue Horizon 

1968 

 

2:56:24 (Pop-up)

 
           
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Listener comments!

Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:55am
THE LORD:

First!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 11:59am
Uncle Michael:

Sinner! Be careful what you wish for.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:01pm
THE LORD:

Everything needs a Prime Mover.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:02pm
spodiodi:

good morning, UM!
good morning, Hinks and Dinks!
(splitting time in half hour slots today -- cruel scheduling gods!)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:02pm
listener james from westwood:

Greetings, UM and all!

"Is Don on the phone?!"
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:03pm
Aaron in Minneapolis:

Uncle!!!!!!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:03pm
Doug Schulkind:

Oh what a tune!
Avatar 🛒 Swag For Life Member 12:03pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...hadda ketch the Return of Irwin last week - but wanna be here this week ...not sure yet how to work this timeslot - ketch one every week in Archives - but when ?? I'll figger it out...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:04pm
doctorjazz:

Helllloooooooo Hinks and Dinks!
  12:04pm
dan:

Good afternoon all
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:05pm
listener james from westwood:

Whoa, church sacrament-class flashback right here!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:05pm
Uncle Michael:

spodi! james! Aaron! Doug! Rev!Doc! dan!
Avatar 12:06pm
mauri:

I'm gonna get me a star!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:06pm
Pauly from Clifton:

Hey Uncle Michael, folks!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:06pm
listener james from westwood:

When I finally heard this and the Hair OBC album, I wondered if this was their answer to the Hare Krishna song on the latter, in that both tracks can be sung more or less as long as you like/need the flock to.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:07pm
Uncle Michael:

mauri! Pauly!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:07pm
coelacanth∅:

greetings Uncle M, y'all

it's been a few decades on the this one
(like 5)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:08pm
spodiodi:

had to sing that one regularly in school (in the 70's)
  12:08pm
dan:

Is this a show of songs from 1972?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:08pm
listener james from westwood:

I would be quite happy if it were, dan!
Avatar 🛒 Swag For Life Member 12:08pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Whut *would* it be like to go back & listen to some 1972 Radio... ZiggyStardust just turned Half Century yesterday with RoxyMusic's 1st...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:09pm
Uncle Michael:

coel!
Avatar 12:09pm
still b/p:

Hang on,sleuthy, sleuthy hang on.
The wee quickie glimpse on the screen behind Mr. Casem?
Joan Jett, I Love Rock 'N Roll.
I'd demand a prize, but prize goeth before a fall.
  12:09pm
Andres:

Hi, Uncle Michael and all! I’m taking the show with me on the road. Looking forward to the mic break confessional.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:09pm
coelacanth∅:

i think it's a show of songs on labels named after common household items
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:10pm
listener james from westwood:

Ooh! "Conquistador"!
  12:10pm
dan:

Looks like I might be right.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:11pm
Hopey Sockmonkey:

Good morning, UM and Dinks.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:11pm
coelacanth∅:

nice work, s b/p
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:12pm
coelacanth∅:

my older brother made fun of me liking conquistador when it was all over am radio back then
Avatar 12:13pm
still b/p:

I've mentioned in these neighborhoods before how we got in a big hand-holding circle at the direction of a teacher and danced round to Day By Day during an end of 8th grade and elementary school career celebration in the cafeteria, 1972.
Can we do that now....can we?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:13pm
Uncle Michael:

Hopey! spodi!
  12:13pm
Robm:

@Uncle michael if you can could you play salty dog by procol harum, thats a great song
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:14pm
Uncle Michael:

Robm! I suspect I have, and may again.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:15pm
coelacanth∅:

a salty dog easily my favorite procol harum song
  12:15pm
Robm:

@UM thanks in advance
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:16pm
listener james from westwood:

@still b/p I'd be happy with that and I'm an atheist! Or maybe that one Maypole Song from Wicker Man.
  12:16pm
Robm:

@Coel mine too
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:16pm
StringOFperils:

An almighty blast out of Topeka! Good aft, UM!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:16pm
Uncle Michael:

SOp!
  12:16pm
dan:

Still can't believe that Gary Brooker is gone. He's immortal in my eyes.
Avatar 🛒 Swag For Life Member 12:19pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

'All the best people are dead.'
- a terminal Timmy Leary
  12:20pm
phat in lincoln:

Diddly-shit
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:21pm
Rudy Poot:

Wait a sec - am I not welcome here?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:21pm
Uncle Michael:

phat! Rudy-Jeff!
  12:22pm
phat in lincoln:

Who cares, they're from Ireland and nobody gives a shit!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:23pm
doctorjazz:

This Jackson 5 version is very cool!
  12:23pm
dan:

For all you international cinema lovers, one of the greatest French actors that ever lived, Jean-Louis Trintignant, died earlier today. "Three Colors: Red", "A Man And A Woman", "Amour", "Z", "The Conformist", to name a few.
  12:24pm
Dean:

Let's see, 1972. Well, one great track is "Close to the Edge." Another is "Supper's Ready." Still another, "Mountain Jam" + "Mountain Jam, cont'd."
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:24pm
Uncle Michael:

Dean!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:25pm
Hopey Sockmonkey:

Wow, this Jimmy Osmond is quite a blast from the past.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:25pm
Rudy Poot:

Mmm.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:25pm
listener james from westwood:

Mormon content requirement: Fulfilled.
  12:25pm
phat in lincoln:

Oh, the Osmonds. The 1970s were something else.
Avatar 🛒 Swag For Life Member 12:26pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Not quite 10 years too late but see it from there.
Avatar 12:26pm
still b/p:

Man, I think I saw The Conformist....didn't I? I should go back and revisit the scattering of such stuff I was seeing more often in the long-ago decades.
  12:26pm
Robm:

Anyone remember watching donnie and marie on abc back in the 70s
  12:26pm
Dean:

If I were into karaoke, this LJO is the track I'd pick. This or Ten Years After "Going Home."
  12:27pm
dan:

@Still B/P
Bertolucci film about a hitman hired to take out his mentor.
Avatar 🛒 Swag For Life Member 12:27pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...Little Jimmy born '63 like me...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:28pm
Uncle Michael:

Dean, definitely the TYA...that's a karaoke monster.
  12:28pm
phat in lincoln:

@Robm every week, for some reason
Avatar 🛒 12:31pm
PAULS:

Greetings UM and fellow dinkers
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:32pm
Hopey Sockmonkey:

Ooooo, I want that book!
Avatar 12:32pm
still b/p:

Now this show is "clothed in immense power!" And I am compelled to hear ALL ALL ALL of it.
  12:34pm
dan:

On June 17 1972, Gilbert O'Sullivan's "Alone Again (Naturally)" made it's debut on the charts at #88 and would peak at #1 eventually.
  12:35pm
Dean:

Clarification: The Godspell track was at 44 fifty years ago and the rest ascend the chart one by one?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:35pm
Uncle Michael:

dan, can you resist temptation today?
Avatar 🛒 Swag For Life Member 12:35pm
Brian in UK:

Uncle. so it was fifty years on Dec 31st that I moved out of home. Thanks for jogging the memory, pal.
  12:36pm
phat in lincoln:

This should be a great experiment in context.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:36pm
Uncle Michael:

BiUK!

Yes, Dean.
Avatar 🛒 Swag For Life Member 12:36pm
Alvy Singer:

Hi Uncle Michael. This show is gonna be fun.
  12:37pm
dan:

@UM
One more, "Brandy (You're A Fine Girl)" also debuted on the charts on this very day.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:38pm
coelacanth∅:

dan shut the fuck up
Avatar 🛒 Swag For Life Member 12:38pm
KevinfromBayRidge:

Hello everybody. Well, this N&C wasn't bad at all. Kinda wore out the LP at the time!
  12:38pm
dan:

@coelcantho
We're not hearing those songs today. I'm not giving anything away on today's show.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:38pm
Hopey Sockmonkey:

This is a great idea for a show! The early 70s are kinda all mashed up in my memory. I was 11 at the time and listened exclusively to AM top 40. Oh, and thanks for inserting the chart positions, UM!
  12:38pm
Dean:

Thanks. I saw that ephemeral #44 at the top of the show and figured it had something to do with the charts.

Also, it's possible, isn't it, that a song recorded in '71 stayed aloft into mid-'72, isn't it?
  12:39pm
Dean:

^recorded or released
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:39pm
Uncle Michael:

Alvy! Kevin!

Yes, Dean!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:39pm
coelacanth∅:

dan, sorry. but how you figure? if it debuted on the charts?
  12:40pm
dan:

@coelacanth∅:
Billboard's archive site says so.
Avatar 12:40pm
still b/p:

Bless his heart...too much cheese in it, but Donny's trying to own it.
Avatar 🛒 Swag For Life Member 12:40pm
Brian in UK:

Dean, pedantry rules!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:40pm
Zipperhead7:

He was too young, dammit. Jeez, when I was in high school all the cool gurls were dating local musicians in their 20s.It scarred me for life. Even got turned down by my potential prom date boo hoo hoo
  12:40pm
Robm:

Personally fellow listeners but i am not gonna google any top 40, i want to be suprised
Avatar 🛒 Swag For Life Member 12:41pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...wull I was eight - but an older brother gettin' all kindsa Hippie & GlitterRawk ...may have actually had my first Beatle album of my own by then ...Oh yes. DonnyOsmond was a thing then ...that child's voice tho...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:41pm
coelacanth∅:

okay, if that's true.
again i'm sorry.
...just trying to be respectful of our hosts wishes.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:41pm
StringOFperils:

You listen to the abyss, the abyss gets in your ear
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:42pm
Zipperhead7:

This earworm was stuck in my head a month ago.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:42pm
Uncle Michael:

Zipperhead!
Avatar 🛒 Swag For Life Member 12:42pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...' A.M. Gold '...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:42pm
Hopey Sockmonkey:

Oh dang! I loved this Mouth & McNeil! It was constantly played on SF Bay Area radio.
Avatar 🛒 Swag For Life Member 12:42pm
Brian in UK:

Will be interested to see how many crossed the Atlantic both ways.
Avatar 🛒 Swag For Life Member 12:43pm
Alvy Singer:

How Do You Do went Gold in the United States.
  12:44pm
Dean:

Flip side of this Mouth and McNeil should have been The Proclaimers, "I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)."
Avatar 12:44pm
still b/p:

Gee, ain't that a trivia nugget? I mean, among the many people who'd recognize How Do You Do, how many could come up with who recorded it?
  12:44pm
dan:

Someone needs to do a documentary on Dutch Rock and it's brief foray into the American market.
  12:44pm
phat in lincoln:

Gonna resist googling the chart. I turned 2 in November of 1972. I certainly have no memory of the radio at the time.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:44pm
Hopey Sockmonkey:

I think this might be my fave Jacko tune. And almost impossible to sing along to.
  12:45pm
Robm:

Not really sure how I feel about Michael Jackson on here, ruined a lot of lives
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:46pm
Zipperhead7:

In an earlier time, the Church would have ensured that MJ kept that high voice forever
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:46pm
Uncle Michael:

Another asshole coming right up, Robm....
  12:46pm
Dean:

Assholes. Can't live with 'em, can't live without 'em.
Avatar 🛒 Swag For Life Member 12:46pm
Sweet Corn Lizzie:

Tuned in a little late and now I understand the theme. 1972, the year I graduated high school, and plenty of drama in my love life. Several of these songs were involved. This is going to be ....interesting.
  12:47pm
Gerry from Miami:

Hey, UNCLE MICHAEL!! A day full of 50-year old records! 1972, didn't we re-elect Richard Nixon?
  12:47pm
dan:

@Zipperhead7
Reminds me of a dystopian book I have by Kingsley Amis called "The Alteration" which has to do a society of castratos in the future.
Avatar 🛒 Swag For Life Member 12:47pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

What year was 'Ben' by Jacko ? Rather liked that - don't much remember him under his own name except that & then MTV Megadom... More & more I can Cancel without regret, yerknow...
  12:48pm
Dean:

We are blessed these days with some amazing countertenors.
  12:48pm
phat in lincoln:

Kind of a jarring juxtaposition
  12:48pm
dan:

@Gerry
Big cities and Appalachia didn't re-elect Nixon
  12:48pm
Robm:

Uncle Michael talking about eric clapton?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:48pm
Uncle Michael:

yep
Avatar 12:49pm
still b/p:

I recall a friend..who turned out to be a dick...doing his own twisting little Layla dance as he was drinking some Boone's Farm in preparation for a concert. I don't recall who he was going to see. We were 14 years old.
Avatar 🛒 Swag For Life Member 12:49pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

'I want my best friend George Harrison's wife' - after all...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:49pm
Zipperhead7:

There was a bar in Austin that had Eat a Peach on the CD jukebox, and if anybody played Mountain Jam the jukebox was unplugged and the person who selected it was thrown out of the bar.
  12:49pm
Robm:

@Uncle Michael gotcha
  12:50pm
phat in lincoln:

Hard to deny that's still a ridiculously good tune.
Avatar 🛒 Swag For Life Member 12:50pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...hell the Dominos' drummer ...well nevermind...
  12:50pm
phat in lincoln:

Was that a single mix?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:51pm
StringOFperils:

Eric Clapton's telemetry...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:51pm
Zipperhead7:

Nice lipsynch, Michael!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:51pm
Hopey Sockmonkey:

@still b/p Boone's Farm! Everyone drank the strawberry variety at my school. (wait, were there even other flavors?)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:51pm
Uncle Michael:

yes, phat
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:51pm
Hopey Sockmonkey:

@phat Thankfully, yes that was the single
  12:53pm
phat in lincoln:

I actually always thought the piano part was the best part of that record.
  12:53pm
Gerry from Miami:

The Allmans' take on Donovan's "First There is a Mountain" was actually a favorite of mine. Those Brothers had some fine taste in covers!
Avatar 🛒 Swag For Life Member 12:54pm
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Yerknow now for $10 one just gets ...wine. What was our trip with Boone'sFarm anyway...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:54pm
Uncle Michael:

Too the best of my knowledge, I'm playing all single edits, where applicable.
  12:56pm
dan:

Moody Blues, one of rock and roll's treasures.
  12:56pm
Listener Robert:

Sorry I'm not there for you, or you me, UM, but come on, Irwin's up against you this summer, and that's, like, unfair competition. But I'll watch you spin.
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...*this* was *Top40*.
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Uncle Michael:

Thanks for sharing your deep thoughts, Robert.
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...I reckon the Allmans could actually Play a bit.
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still b/p:

The Stating the Obvious stick is passed to me:
Looking at or listening to chart titles from years before and just after this makes one feel like King of Fogeys, not just for heavy nostalgia but because it shoves in one's face again the disappointments of current chart music's -- I'm talking just the radio pop zone, now -- commitment to bulldoggedly formulaic, redundant, generic sounds and voices. It could be said it was ever so, but something about the moments of variety and appeal back then was surely different to fogey ears.
  12:58pm
dan:

Justin Hayward gets no credit as an amazing lead and rhythm guitarist.
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Zipperhead7:

Oh yes, love "Mountain Jam." Duane Allman was beyond wonderful. A "grail" tape is an Allmans show at New Orleans in Nov. 1970 when Peter Green sat in with them. Hopefully it will surface someday.
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Brian in UK:

dan, here is a starting point for Dutch music, right here on this station.
wfmu.org...
  12:59pm
Listener Robert:

It'only gotten very hard for longtime audiences with the multiple streams. Terre T's up against Ken and Andy, Dennis Diken vs. Stork. At least everybody should know they're being edged out only by high quality.
  12:59pm
Robm:

@Still b/p this was before iHeartRadio took over and completely fucked up radio
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Hopey Sockmonkey:

50 years from now old fogeys will be nostalgic for the pop music of today while disparaging the current state of music as "formulaic, redundant, generic". It's the way the world goes round . . .
  1:02pm
Robm:

@Listener Robert there is the archives
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Hopey Sockmonkey:

Having said that, the 60s and 70s were the BEST :)
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Almost nothing about the Production (with exceptions), actual Media used to listen, the Distribution - or above all the Business of Music is now what it was then. I'm not honestly even certain what 'Charting' constitutes today. People generally don't like to pay for music anymore (...honestly? me included) - & posessing a Hard Copy @ all is becoming more antiquated...
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dan:

Harry Chapin’s “Taxi” couldn’t possibly have a single edit because it’s a very involved ballad. Cut any part, and you get half the tale
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listener james from westwood:

Taxi was another one of those songs I heard as a teen where I was, "Holy shit, they can DO this in songs?!" Mind expanding.
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Robm:

Damn miss harry. Was a junior when he died
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Brian in UK:

What a lovely man was Harry Chapin.
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Uncle Michael:

I saw him perform back in the day. He was mesmerizing, live.
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still b/p:

Way of the world...Of course, but sad, and interesting, brain-wiring-wise. I'm gonna drink a bottle o' strawberry AND apple Boone's Farm and swim in music melancholy.

I knew someone who thought Taxi's best line and moment, in an amusing pulp novel kinda way, was "I stashed the bill in my shirt."
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Brian in UK:

Uncle, me too, think his brother played cello.
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Stanley:

@Hopey - I don't think so. By anyone's judgement, popular/chart music nowadays has a narrow spectrum of styles. To me Autotune has a lot to do with it.
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Stanley:

And hello Uncle and everyone
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Uncle Michael:

Stanley!
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

TheBeatles created an entire titanic Market that hadn't been before. The Demographics (Boomers - lotsa Kids) were new - the technology, the distribution & the culture were new in the 1960s (& the Industry consolidated & grew in the 1970s). That's when it was all Pioneered - & that *is* different.
Now also - More & More is owned by Fewer & Fewer - the central fact of our time, I put it to you. Not just in Music & Culture - but these are always the singing little canary in the coalmine ...& *this* too is a real difference. The label may have a Mom & Pop Farm on it ...but the Lawyers & Accountants control *everything*.
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KevinfromBayRidge:

"Harry, keep the change", one of my fave lines.
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dan:

You will never have another troubadour like Harry Chapin making hit records today. Record companies aren't in the business of releasing ballads.
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Top40 #28 ChartHit here.
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Zipperhead7:

I played Leonard Cohen's "Tower of Song" at 45 rpm awhile back and his voice sounded amazingly like Dylan circa 1972
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Brian in UK:

W.O.L.D. is still one of my favourites.
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Uncle Michael:

It's going to be embarrassing if I miscounted and the last track isn't #1. I wouldn't put it past me.
  1:11pm
Robm:

@BIUK mine too with Harry, wonder how he would do today if he lived
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Brian in UK:

Uncle, did Steely Dan ever make the singles charts with tracks on their first album in '72?
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Uncle Michael:

HUGE coincidence coming up.
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Uncle Michael:

Yes, BiUK.
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phat in lincoln:

Well shit, David, good job. This is a HELL of a great song.
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Doing the Rascals no favors - but has some vocal range & lungs.
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Gerry from Miami:

Harry Chapin's "Taxi" is a masterpiece! Had the pleasure of seeing him in concert at Cornell University in the fall of 1977. Some undergraduate fans coerced a local print shop to draw up an exact replica of a diploma showing Harry had graduated(he never completed his degree there). He sadly died far too young in an auto accident on a New York State thruway.
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Brian in UK:

Robm it is a great track to sing along to, if there is no one else around!
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Alvy Singer:

@Uncle Michael...No chance of a long distance dedication ehh? I just lost a goldfish that I've had for a couple of weeks.
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Uncle Michael:

Did you check the toilet?
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KevinfromBayRidge:

Gerry, I thought it was the LIE near Huntington.
  1:14pm
dan:

@Gerry
The car crash happened on the Long Island Expressway as he was heading in the direction of Eisenhower Park where he was to do a free show later that night.
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phat in lincoln:

I have to say that the strength of the writing of that Cassidy track made it stand out.
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listener james from westwood:

I'd heard of this Newton track, but never actually heard it!
  1:15pm
Robm:

@gerry i was a junior in high school and hit me harder then john lennon did
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Uncle Michael:

Cassidy song a Rascals' cover.
  1:15pm
phat in lincoln:

The arrangement was really good, too. But that's my absolute favorite Rascals tune.
  1:15pm
Robm:

@BIUK oh yeah I agree
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Brian in UK:

What has happened to the quirky, odd songs that sporadically hit the charts in the 60s/70s?
  1:15pm
phat in lincoln:

So I'm a sucker, regardless.
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Zipperhead7:

I wonder if Wayne was sportin' his pencil-thin mustache back in '72?
  1:17pm
dan:

CCR's Swan Song.
  1:17pm
phat in lincoln:

Mike Shelley's interview with Felix Cavaliere was great.
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Uncle Michael:

you better loin it young
  1:19pm
phat in lincoln:

Not enough choogling!
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Rudy Poot:

Belatedly, re "Layla": learned today that someone is tweeting out GoodFellas, one-second-frame by one-second-frame - mobile.twitter.com...
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still b/p:

www.mic.com...

Some of what the article describes -- Scientists Just Discovered Why All Pop Music Sounds Exactly the Same, from a few years ago -- was just as true decades ago. A hit leading to a nearly indistinguishable next shot by same artist(s).
There's much other writing and study regarding the direction, characteristics and devolving complexity of pop.
But for now, let us eat potato chips and grant our sprits rest, and just enjoy.
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Zipperhead7:

A friend's girlfriend was housesitting for Saul Zaentz many years ago. I peed in his pool and said "This is for John Fogerty," hehheh
  1:22pm
dan:

@still b/p
It all has to do with algorithms and Autotune. That's why songs sound the same these days.
  1:22pm
dan:

@Zipperhead7
I think Fogerty would approve.
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listener james from westwood:

@Rudy Poot: We're almost to Johnny Two Times on that GF account!
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Brian in UK:

Uncle have you considered perhaps doing a little tap dancing on the studio cam from time to time?
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Uncle Michael:

BiUK, strangely...I have not.
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Rudy Poot:

This right here, a perfect radio song. Elevated recently by Black Klansman.
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Stanley:

You betcha still b/p. I've got a beer and a packet of Quavers.
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

'This Is Your Brain On Music' suggests there's technical evidence that it's all about the balance of Familiarity & Novelty. Which makes sense : Don't alienate, but also don't bore...
Haha Zipperhead !!
...I think a parallel is Special FX in films. To the News, old FX look hokey & *LoDef*. To us Olds, the CGI looks pushbutton & sterile. So with the Sounds as well...
  1:25pm
Dean:

I checked out the current Billboard chart. I'm familiar with a bunch of the songs, because my kids listen to them. There is a certain sameness to the chart, but it's not lacking variety (no pun intended).
  1:25pm
dan:

@listener james
Get the papers...get the papers.
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Rudy Poot:

@ljfw: wonder if he'll tweet it two times, two times.
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still b/p:

A smooth gliding special dance in studio for Too Late. Yes!
  1:25pm
phat in lincoln:

My God, this Cornelius Brothers...
  1:26pm
Gerry from Miami:

Thanks, Kevin and dan!! I was unsure exactly what highway Harry Chapin died on. You guys have great memories!
  1:26pm
phat in lincoln:

Am I wrong, or are the tunes getting better as we get closer to #1?
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Hopey Sockmonkey:

Now it's time to clicky star everything
  1:27pm
dan:

@phat
Depends on the week.
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Need something back there on the wall over the LucasPerch
...but whut ?!?
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Uncle Michael:

I think I overlooked a "Gerry!" way earlier.
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still b/p:

Now I want to choreograph a number with several dancers to Too Late To Turn Back Now. Let's put on a show! "How Do You Do? Uncle Michael's '72 Review!"
  1:28pm
dan:

When Al Green received the Kennedy Center Honor a few years ago, Sam Moore and Mavis Staples did a dynamite rendition of "Take Me To The River". Find it when you can, it's worth a listen.
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PAULS:

I am a 10 year-old, walking with a few of my pals to Mohican Hills pool in Glen Echo Heights, MD, just above the C&O Canal and Potomac River. I've got my transistor radio tuned to WINX-FM or WEAM-FM. I do a fair Al Green. Thanks, UM! It's all comin' back!
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Uncle Michael:

PAULS!
  1:30pm
dan:

The ol Ludwig Van
  1:30pm
phat in lincoln:

Lol. Maybe no.
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still b/p:

Surprises the memory that Green scored higher with that track than some of the other more lastingly familiar entries.
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...RightRight...
  1:30pm
phat in lincoln:

Not that I don't love Ode to Joy.
  1:31pm
phat in lincoln:

Oh. Bed music. Lol.
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Clockwork Orange
Release dates
19 December 1971 (New York City)
13 January 1972 (United Kingdom)
2 February 1972 (United States)
  1:32pm
Robm:

Just clicked on the whole episode
  1:34pm
Gerry from Miami:

UM, I know you're awful busy manning the turntables for us fans. Enjoying the heck out of a lot of these chart hits. But very few of these records made their way into my personal collection.
  1:34pm
Dean:

I hope I'm not spoiling the fun, but when UM does this fifty years from now, Harry Styles' "As It Was" will be no. 1. Kate Bush is no. 4 with a bullet with "Running Up That Hill (A Deal with God)."
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...Top20 !...
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chresti:

1972 was not a happy time for me
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Yay! CmnderCody.
CountrySwing in the PopChart.
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Uncle Michael:

chresti! I'm sorry not to trigger happier memories for you.
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Probly where I picked up that typical 'Country' riff on Gittar from...
  1:39pm
Dean:

Was in Portland last week, where I took the kids (one of whom is 30) to the drag races, souped-up stock cars mostly, not the deafening funny cars and rails. But still, fun. Very much a hot rod Lincoln vibe.
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Flimflamfilmnoir:

Was a sophmore in college back then, what a good time for music. These songs hold up amazingly well!
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Uncle Michael:

Fffn!
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spaniel:

UM, I’ve really been enjoying this. My parent’s 50th is this summer and I might steal this idea wholesale for their party playlist
  1:40pm
Dean:

Elton John is on the latest Billboard chart, the duet thing with Dua Lipa. Is that nuts or what?
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Zipperhead7:

Bill Kirchen -- Mastuh of the Telecastuh
  1:40pm
phat in lincoln:

The variety is quite startling.
  1:40pm
dan:

Elton John's backing band (Davey Johnstone, Dee Murray and Nigel Olsson) had some of the best harmonies for a non-sibling unit.
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Gerry from Miami:

@Dean. Today they don't calculate the chart position of records in the same way as in 1972. And Kate Bush's current "hit" is where it is because of being featured on a TV series, "Stranger Things."
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

A rewrite of SpaceOddity - but bygawd they do it all the way up.
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still b/p:

Was pleased to hear recently that the Kate Bush track is enjoying the great new run, precisely because it goes against the grain, putting some of the generally absent character into the current chart world.

Gotta confess...the recent -- yes, a recent favorable reaction! -- Dua Lipa and Elton thing that adapts this...I like it's bouncy catchy ease.
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Uncle Michael:

spaniel! There'd be a different hart for the right week.
  1:41pm
Dean:

Oh, I know, @Gerry from Miami.
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KevinfromBayRidge:

Gerry, that was a "Day the Music Died" moment for me( and many others in this board, I'm sure). So my memory is pretty granular on that. Saw him play a local Suffolk HS( Half Hollow Hills) with Steve Goodman and Pete Seeger several times.
  1:42pm
phat in lincoln:

@Zipperhead7 if you get a chance to see Kirchen, he's still touring, God bless him.
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Stanley:

Hah I went riound all my friend's houses with Honky Chateau under my arm
  1:44pm
phat in lincoln:

This might be the only America song that doesn't make me angry.
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Hopey Sockmonkey:

I played that America's Greatest Hits album constantly back in the day.
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Uncle Michael:

angry? That's some reaction to America
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KevinfromBayRidge:

Follow up to "Horse With No Name"?
  1:45pm
egould:

One hour drive back to Seatac to drop off this rental car. Guide me Uncle Michael. Guide me with music.
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...to all my previous pontifications on the current state of things 'Now' compared to 'Then' - I amend that by no means am I in the 'no good Music now' camp. It's a big World full of Creatives. I'm postulating however that the conditions Artists are in now vis-a-vis the Industry & the Audience are disorientingly different.
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Uncle Michael:

egould! you got it.
  1:46pm
phat in lincoln:

@Uncle Michael utterly irrational. But they push that button.
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Uncle Michael:

interesting
  1:47pm
Gerry from Miami:

America was Jann Wenner's most "unfavorite" band. Reviews of their albums in Rolling Stone magazine's record guide were all 1 or 2 stars.
  1:47pm
Dean:

When I upgraded my turntable a few months back, I played America's Greatest Hits first. It's an LP in fair condition, nothing special, and I figured it would be a good MOR approach to hearing what the upgrade could deliver. Holy crap. It was astonishing, just beautiful.

I suppose the only America song that makes me angry is "Ulster Boy."
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Uncle Michael:

Jann Wenner is a dick.
  1:47pm
phat in lincoln:

Bread does it to me too.
  1:48pm
Gerry from Miami:

Anybody seen any "alligator lizards in the air" lately?
  1:48pm
dan:

@UM
Rolling Stone wrote 1 star reviews of Led Zeppelin, Queen and Toto, to name a few. They were then and now on the wrong side of music.
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phat in lincoln:

America seem like a perfect band for Wenner.
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Hm. So much of our relation to Music - especially Pop? - is the Social Context. Could it be that the 1970s comprised a lot challenges for a lot of people here ...that is, our Socialization.
  1:49pm
Dean:

What's that strange sound in this Love Unltd song? Sounded like a ratchet and a ringing noise?
  1:50pm
phat in lincoln:

America might be the only thing Wenner and I agree on! May have to re-evaluate. Lol.
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Hopey Sockmonkey:

Really? This charted? Haha, "amazing".
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Uncle Michael:

Didn't hear it, Dean.

@Hopey: right?!
  1:51pm
dan:

This version of Amazing Grace was the number 1 song of all of 1972 in the UK. It outsold Elton John, who practically owned that year.
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Rudy Poot:

***slowly adjusts volume***
  1:52pm
Dean:

Yes, you did. It was a telephone with a rotary dial.
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...often say my personal kryptonite in wanting to be a good broadminded tolerant Music obsessive is stuff that was too Popular in the 1970s~80s ...Is that legit tho? Isn't PopMusic charged with Social Context fundamentally ?
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WR:

A 1972 memory:
1972 I was the manager of a retail record store in south Texas. I gave my tickets to a concert that included America to musician friends of mine. Met them for late night dinner after the concert. They were entertaining me with whiny singing parody of what America's harmony singing sounded like. Waiter came and said that we were disturbing the other diners. At that point we realized that the complainants were members of the band sitting nearby. The singing at our table stopped but spontaneous outbursts of giggles continued for a bit.
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Uncle Michael:

up or down, Jeff?
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Hopey Sockmonkey:

This always makes me think of Spock's funeral in Wrath of Khan. (sorry, spoilers)
  1:52pm
Dean:

I thought maybe this was "Mull of Kintyre," but too early.
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Uncle Michael:

WR!
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Stanley:

Sheesh, I get enough of this o' baloney as it is
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Wow - don't remember the Pipes being a Hit ...what does *this* @ #17 say about 1972 ? 'Nam ??
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Uncle Michael:

There has to be a story I don't know about that charting. Was it in a film? I have no idea. Where's Gaylord?
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

WR haha !!
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Brian in UK:

Not a big Todd fan but this one is fabulous. Stands the test.....
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Rudy Poot:

Took it down a few notches. Back up now.
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Gerry from Miami:

Glodean of Love Unlimited(and Barry White's wife) would have had the world's largest umbrella to protect her while "walkin' in the rain" with the one she loved!
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Sweet Corn Lizzie:

WR THAT IS MAGNIFICENT
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Hopey Sockmonkey:

My mom loved this Todd song. I think it's what made her a lifelong fan. She took me to see him live many times.
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Uncle Michael:

Lizzie!
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Uncle Michael:

sorry, not sorry, phat
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Sweet Corn Lizzie:

Hi UM! I have the day off so I can listen with the volume up.
I adore this song. The ambiguity. Lifelong fan.
  1:56pm
Dean:

Bread! Crank it!!!
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Hopey Sockmonkey:

Did somebody say "Bread"??
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Sweet Corn Lizzie:

I mean Todd…
  1:57pm
phat in lincoln:

Lol
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still b/p:

The pipes...people like 'em.
"The Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo is Scotland's biggest, bestselling outdoor spectacle."
My dad took my brother and I to see a version of it in Boston Garden. The best part in my kid outlook was an appearance of an Aston Martin doin' some lowe-grade stunts! ..some Bond stand-in included...leanin' on the hood, lightin' a smoke.
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Zipperhead7:

Glodean?!
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Hopey Sockmonkey:

For some reason I'll always remember that my girlfriend's dad had a quad copy of Best of Bread.
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Rudy Poot:

Interesting: "The Pipe Major of the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards was summoned to Edinburgh Castle and chastised for demeaning the bagpipes," post-"Amazing Grace."
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Uncle Michael:

Yes, Glodean.
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phat in lincoln:

This makes me very, very thankful for hardcore.
  1:59pm
Gerry from Miami:

I celebrated my first year back from the war in Vietnam in June of 1971 when all these records were nestled in the charts. Had a friend who would turn into a "puddle of goo" whenever he heard David Gates and Bread come on the radio.
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Big Market for Mellow in the 1970s.
  1:59pm
phat in lincoln:

Lol. I'm literally cracking up because I really do still hate Bread. Lol.
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phat in lincoln:

Yes!!
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Gerry: ...a better outcome than (frankly) I expect when I see 'Vietnam' & 'puddle of goo' in the same sentence. Which must be appreciated.
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WR:

@phat, I never liked Bread, but I actually just enjoyed that Bread tune. Context? Age?
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Gerry from Miami:

Zipperhead, two thirds of the singing trio Love Unlimited were sisters, Glodean was not the "firecracker" in the group, though. Her younger sister was
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StringOFperils:

Going outside. Must venture outside the shelter. Must....
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doctorjazz:

I readd the title of the Bread as Dairy (which gave me some gas...)
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Hopey Sockmonkey:

I am absolutely loving this show.
  2:04pm
phat in lincoln:

My last show upstairs at that auditorium was KISS.
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Wigkey says 'Amazing Grace' was in BodySnatchers (of all things) - but later in 1978.
& Grace was a smash #1 in the UK (as suggested already).

Exile - ftw.
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Hopey Sockmonkey:

GDAMMMM, I love 70s Stones.
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dan:

Heard Mick got a touch of the Rona in the middle of the unbelievable 60th anniversary tour.
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still b/p:

Never grasped hate for America or Bread. Can understand a take-'em-or-leave-'em attitude or just a leave 'em attitude. But hate. Hm. The Bread of the day seems like pretty fair pop ballad stuff. I reckon it's like cilantro.
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Uncle Michael:

still b/p, that cilantro line is cherce!
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

BrianJones both an inspiration & a millstone. They sure ran fast (if not too far) for a while.
  2:07pm
Gerry from Miami:

Not sure why Linda Ronstadt chose to cover this Stones classic. Rock critic Lester Bangs once wrote an "alternative" set of lyrics in Creem magazine. Called it "Tumbling Ovum!"
  2:08pm
phat in lincoln:

@still b/p I can't explain my rage.
  2:08pm
Gerry from Miami:

Not sure why Linda Ronstadt chose to cover this Stones classic. Rock critic Lester Bangs once wrote an "alternative" set of lyrics in Creem magazine. Called it "Tumbling Ovum!"
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Uncle Michael:

Linda had a heart like a wheel. You had to roll her.
  2:11pm
Dean:

Linda Ronstadt's cover of Dolly's "I Will Always Love You" is sublime, at least as good as Dolly's.
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

The only critique of Linda - she covered too many things that had been done definitively. Must be tempting when you have a Voice that great but don't Write much? & then she goes & proves herself in quite a range of Genres.
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Uncle Michael:

(Carole King song, this Carpenters)
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Rudy Poot:

Gotta run -- time to celebrate a kid who's graduating h.s. today. Thanks for time travel, @UM!
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Uncle Michael:

Mazel, Jeff!
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still b/p:

phat, you might try a circle dance with your schoolmates to Day By Day. Three times a day, and a banana-cilantro smoothie after. The rage is not good for the spirit and body and air (said the eight-times-a-day rager sitting at this keyboard).
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Congrats Rudy ! :D
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Uncle Michael:

burn some sage...or put it in your smoothie
  2:13pm
Gerry from Miami:

@Dean. Yes, but it was Whitney's version that filled Dolly's mailbox with royalty checks
  2:14pm
Dean:

For sure, but as much as I enjoyed Whitney, that song made me angrier than America's "Ulster Boy."
  2:15pm
phat in lincoln:

@Uncle Michael that's Carol King? Huh. I was just thinking it'd made a good sitcom theme song (this is not a criticism).
  2:16pm
Gerry from Miami:

@Dean. Wasn't it featured in a crappy Kevin Costner film titled "The Bodyguard?"
  2:16pm
dan:

The higher the songs, the better the string arrangements get.
  2:16pm
phat in lincoln:

Roberta Flack makes everything better. Good lord, this woman.
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still b/p:

rev, I thought the same about Linda choices -- Blue Bayou, Poor Poor Pitiful Me, When Will I Be Loved -- I couldn't dial in any satisfaction from how she did those.
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...*maybe* it's that in the 1970s - that Smoooth Production thing began (as the successes of the 1960s became consolidated). It can feel featureless to the point of seeming manipulative : You MUST be Mellow NOW... Ironic kitsch is one thing, see ...but some of us had to Survive this. For real. Actual Social pressures upon our identities. In a few years - there would be Punk. But it seemed an Eternity then.
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KevinfromBayRidge:

Wow...! This was the week I graduated HS in '72. Thanks fer jogging my faltering memory UM.
  2:19pm
dan:

Whenever I think of "Lean On Me" I think of this line from The Simpsons, "Thank god we're back in Hollywood, where everyone looks out for one another."
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Hopey Sockmonkey:

Everyone in music class banged out these chords on piano at the time.
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Uncle Michael:

My pleasure, Kevin. Might I recommend some Ginko Baloba?
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grillwhatufeel:

why you trying to make me cry . i trust u tho
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...' "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" is a 1957 folk song written by British political singer-songwriter Ewan MacColl
...MacColl made no secret of the fact that he disliked all of the cover versions of the song. His daughter-in-law wrote: "He hated all of them. He had a special section in his record collection for them, entitled 'The Chamber of Horrors'. '...
  2:21pm
Gerry from Miami:

@still b/p. I thought Linda did a bang-up rendering of Doris Troy's "You're No Good." And the Waddy Wachtel guitar work was choice as well!
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Uncle Michael:

Maybe Ewan was both talented *and* stupid.
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still b/p:

Folks need to carry the lyrics to Lean On Me in their wallets. A few impromptu singalongs I've seen...haven't gone well.
If only there were, I don't know a device that would let you call up song words and stuff.
Actually a very pressed smudgy slip of paper out of the wallet or shoe or bra is better.
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

~ BillWithers for World Emperor ~
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...starting in the same Key (somehow) helps too...
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still b/p:

I do like that one a bit more among her others, Gerry.
  2:23pm
dan:

"And the operator says 40 cents more for the next 3 minutes." The most Shel Silverstein line there ever was.
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

UM - I'm guessing his Socialism (?) didn't prevent him cashing the residuals...
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spodiodi:

not familiar with this song, but it occurs to me it's probably why there's a listener who uses this ad their user name :-B cool!
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Hopey Sockmonkey:

I remember having some K-tel album of hits from this time and it was the first time I'd ever heard this Dr Hook tune.
  2:24pm
phat in lincoln:

Dr. Hook being a platinum seller seems like a very long time ago. They never got their re-evaluation like everybody else (like Bill Withers, for example).
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spodiodi:

(or at least i think there's such a user)
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Alvy Singer:

Another hit written by Shel Silverstein.
  2:26pm
dan:

I think the lyric should've been "Please Mrs. Shapiro..."
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Really interesting for (I presume) following the ShelSilverstein vocal demo - but ...not being ShelSilverstein's voice.
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Uncle Michael:

Please Mrs. Epstein
  2:27pm
dan:

@UM
Signed Epstein's Mother
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still b/p:

Mrs. Shapiro or Epstein sounds like Allan Sherman take on it.

Wouldja ever poll listeners for a suggested year if you do another of these, Uncle Michael?
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Uncle Michael:

mmhmm
  2:28pm
phat in lincoln:

I've had a crush on Marilyn McCoo for nearly 50 years. And can you blame me? Listen to that!
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spodiodi:

i got a note
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Brian in UK:

The flip of Lean on Me has one of the most startling endings.
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Alvy Singer:

Bobby Bare had a country hit with Sylvia's Mother too.
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

A name I shoulda known awlready :
en.wikipedia.org...
...maybe after a whole Century or more I'll know something about this Music...
  2:31pm
Gerry from Miami:

Shel Silverstein really got around! Renowned author of children's books, songwriter(Dr. Hook), novelty recording artist("The Great American Smokeout") and columnist for Playboy magazine. Multi-threat that guy!!
  2:34pm
dan:

Gee, I didn't know Mr. Science was on the Billboard Charts.
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Uncle Michael:

That it does, BiUK.
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still b/p:

Shel's nephew on Dr. Hook band -- "They were just a bar band from New Jersey, as much as Columbia Records tried to make them some crazy Cajun band that came out of the swamps."
  2:36pm
dan:

@still b/p
CCR were from California, not the bayou. I guess record companies wanted that swampland sound to the music.
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Yup CCR - BayArea.
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still b/p:

Partridge Family -- outa the swamps.
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...otoh - from NewHampshuh up here - NJ *is* the South ! :D ...not really ...more Star&Bars up here in the hills I'd wager...
  2:38pm
phat in lincoln:

Holy hell, I've never heard this Jimmy Castor track. And, well...
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Always think this is the BarKays.
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Doug Schulkind:

Hi
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Hopey Sockmonkey:

Awww yeah, Outta Space. So good.
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Brian in UK:

This is a job for Honeybunch Kaminski.
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Uncle Michael:

oh, hai
  2:40pm
dan:

I may have mentioned it on the chat before, but there's a new Billy Preston documentary in the works and I cannot wait to see it.
  2:40pm
Gerry from Miami:

Doesn't Soringsteen refer to "the swamps of Jersey" in one of his early songs?
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Listening to BeatlesThemed podcasts - they never tire of crediting Billy's talents.
  2:41pm
AS from MP:

UM: I think you have uncovered where Glen Jones gets his playlist from every week.
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still b/p:

Ohhh, fellas and gals felt compelled to quote Troglodyte lines with for a while there.
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still b/p:

with a harsh sorta glee, I meant to say.
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Uncle Michael:

AS, not impossible.
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Uncle Michael:

I love clavinet.
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Alex In Illinois:

It is about time someone made a Billy Preston documentary
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Uncle Michael:

Alex!
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Brian in UK:

Sun is receding, time to water the flowers & veg patch. Thanks for this little timepiece, Uncle.
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Hopey Sockmonkey:

Oh wow, another 70s song that I still hum to this day but have no recollection of who recorded it.
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

ProClavinet
AntiEnvelopeFollower...
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

OneHitWonders ?
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Uncle Michael:

Does this sound like a Detroit record? It is. Dennis freaking Coffey co-produced it!
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Uncle Michael:

Rev, the ghost of Garcia will haunt you now.
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Hopey Sockmonkey:

Okay, why isn't this Chi-Lites number one? (maybe it already had been?)
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...these things happen...
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still b/p:

Nice To Be With You can be credited as a successfully conceived and assembled catchy pop song....that is utterly vacant.

Oh, Girl is one of the tracks of the period that gets ya in a good mm-mmm wistful swaying mood, with intermittent singing attempts.
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Uncle Michael:

I think this Chi-Lites was on its way back down.
  2:48pm
Listener Robert:

Is that your producer?
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Uncle Michael:

That's the boss.
  2:49pm
dan:

We went from Fake Neil Diamond with the Gallery song to the real deal in only 2 slots.
  2:50pm
phat in lincoln:

"I try to be hip..." is actually one of my favorite lyrics ever.
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still b/p:

"44 Hits, 400 Judgements"
Is it too unkind to say that Neil was on his way down at this point?...and I don't just mean chart position or hit-making, cuz he still was Mr. Chart Big later. I mean, y' know.
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

@UM: The fellow who *gave me* my Charvel electric gittar up here in NH-Vermont has been the Gittarist in the JerryGarciaBand. The liquid LSD a friend shred with me in my youth got it from high West Coast provenance: that's how the Dead smuggled it to the Pyramids. My friend had lived in Egypt. My ex-gf in SantBarbara ended up in the same rehab Jerry died in.
...He may be haunting me already...
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Geezus NeilDiamond wrote ...so many.
  2:53pm
dan:

Wow UM, you timed this pretty well.
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

#2 ! Nice.
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Uncle Michael:

The song is "almost completely a call-and-response chorus",[1] with the introduction and bassline being lifted -- uncredited -- from "The Liquidator", a 1969 reggae hit written by Harry Johnson and performed by the Harry J Allstars.
  2:54pm
Gerry from Miami:

Great idea for a show, Uncle Mike! You must do it again some time!
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PAULS:

SAMMY!!!!
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Stanley:

Great idea, Uncle. Lots of good music that week in '72.
Thanks.
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Hopey Sockmonkey:

Oh this is just the best No. 1 ever. Well done.
  2:56pm
dan:

And we end this fine show with the man of a million talents Sammy Davis Jr. Thanks UM
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Uncle Michael:

Going out with a bang!
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adamdoesit:

Hey UM and candyfolk! Just got back from a hike with the dogs. I look forward to catching up on the archive.
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still b/p:

Man, Hinky Dinky put extra Excellence in my shopping cart this special day.

Hah...Candy Man, getting ready for school, breakfast in the kitchen, radio tuned to WHDH where the MOR rotation swung this HARD for a while.
  2:57pm
Dean:

The episode in which Sammy appeared on All in the Family aired on Feb. 19, 1972.
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Willy Wonka film year early June 1971. Good to see that utterly weird psychedelic fairly tale in the Theater as a kid.
  2:57pm
phat in lincoln:

Nice. I get the sense we may have been a really unhappy country in 1972.
  2:58pm
egould:

Lot of child chorus in ‘72
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Alvy Singer:

A fun jog down memory lane Uncle Michael. Thank you.
  2:58pm
Listener Robert:

Yay! Now that I've seen it, I'll come back to hear it on archive, probably Sunday morning.
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still b/p:

Archie: "would you like cream and sugar in your eye?"
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spodiodi:

thanks, UM!
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Hopey Sockmonkey:

That was a fantastic show. Thank you so much, UM!
  2:59pm
Dean:

Of all of the records played today I bought precisely one: The Staple Singers. That happens to be the one song released in '71.
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

'The USA thinks if it lost its Soul - it can exercise its Body & it'll be okay. [Raspberry] Bullshit ! Don't work like that - !!'
- George Carlin
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listener james from westwood:

Many thanks, UM!
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KevinfromBayRidge:

Sad fact. Sammy let Tricky Dick use it for his '72 campaign
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Pauly from Clifton:

Thanks, Uncle Michael! Fun show!
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KevinfromBayRidge:

Great shew!
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WR:

Thank you for taking us there today UM. I went down a rabbit hole or two about the Amazing Grace by the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards. Seems a fluke. Didn't find out how / why they recorded at all.
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coelacanth∅:

our house had at least 18 of these songs on vinyl, mostly my parents' 45s.
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

~ TY Always DJ UM ~
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chresti:

Thanks UM!
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coelacanth∅:

Thanks UM!
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doctorjazz:

Thanks, UM!
  3:03pm
phat in lincoln:

Great show UM.
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Uncle Michael:

Thanks everyone!
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WR:

RE: The Pipes And Drums And The Military Band Of The Royal Scots Dragoon Guards. The Royal Scots Dragoon Guards, a cavalry regiment, was newly formed in 1971 from several existing regiments.

en.wikipedia.org...

Stands to reason that the pipe and drum corp for the new regiment was recorded to help establish their identity. Amazing Grace becoming a hit was an organic response of the UK public of the time, and it grew from there.
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Michael 98145:

Have to admit, i remember the music of 50 years ago
  9:40am
Listener Robert:

I'm so old, these didn't even register to me as "oldies".
  12:05pm
Listener Robert:

It was worth waiting for. Since Friday I mean, not 50 years. I would not have thought to look it up after 50 years, that's YOUR thing.
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