http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4BgInk3vwk
Ronnie Jones- Video Games (1981)

Arlo Guthrie
"When A Soldier Makes It Home"
1996

For Memorial Day

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kezNWALtps

Arlo Guthrie
"When A Soldier Makes It Home"
1996

For Memorial Day


O0 Good one!  New to me.

Ok, here is another obscure song. There was a group called The American Peddlers. They had an album called Survive which was all about the Air Force basic training. They used to play airmen's clubs on a lot of bases. I bought the album in tech school at Sheppard AFB in Wichita Falls, TX and they signed it. (OOOH). Anyone who went through basic totally related to all of the songs. This one in particular really hit a lot of people-Yesterday I Was a Rainbow. It really describes all the thoughts you have in basic (Yeah, I have been known to shed a tear or two when listening to it-even now.)

Explanation: When you arrive on Lackland AFB, you are called a Rainbow because you are wearing all sorts of colors. Then you got your fatigues and you are called a uncanned pickle. About a week later, you get your nametags and then you are a canned pickle.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeH0lxHTi7U

When we would see new rainbows coming in, we would sing:

Rainbows, rainbows don't be blue.
Our recruiters screwed us, too.  ;D ;D ;D


Cat

   

Ok, here is another obscure song. There was a group called The American Peddlers.

I quite enjoyed that one.  Nice mellow track

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPS826rpZlA
Roy Ayers- Poo Poo La La (1984)

From the man wh brought you "Gold"...

...this song received both AM AND FM play in the summer of 1972, as if it couldn't decide whether it wanted to be an AM hit or an FM album classic. It kind of ended up being neither and got blown away into the sands of time. But there are those who remember hearing it, and it echoes in their mind like a dream..."is that song real or did I dream it..."

John Stewart
"Arkansas Breakout"
1972

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D466rMeN94Y

From the man wh brought you "Gold"...

...this song received both AM AND FM play in the summer of 1972, as if it couldn't decide whether it wanted to be an AM hit or an FM album classic. It kind of ended up being neither and got blown away into the sands of time. But there are those who remember hearing it, and it echoes in their mind like a dream..."is that song real or did I dream it..."

John Stewart
"Arkansas Breakout"
1972


O0 New to me - I like!  IMO, it doesn't strike me as quite commercial enough for AM Top 40 in '72, but definitely worth a listen.

A laid-back album cut I adore from a not-that-obscure but somewhat overlooked album, by a group we all know.  IMO the album is excellent (albeit a bit disco-ey).  The album is The Jacksons, their 1980 album Triumph.  I love Michael's and Marlon's lead vocals on this cut, along with the delightful backing vocals.

The Jacksons - Give It Up
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cboz9n87iUo

This beloved soft-touch gem, though not exactly obscure, does fall under the "lesser known" category.  It resides on their 1975 album, Katy Lied -

Steely Dan - Any World (That I'm Welcome To)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDWV-570oXo

O0 New to me - I like!  IMO, it doesn't strike me as quite commercial enough for AM Top 40 in '72, but definitely worth a listen.


That's the story of John Stewart's life. After his success with the Kingston Trio he made over 40 solo albums from 1968 to his untimely death in 2008. They were on a string of major labels, and then when his major label run was through he just put them out on his own. He never stopped. Many are brilliant, none are less than very good. Yet all anyone knows is "Gold" and thee fact he wrote "Daydream Believer" which was a smash hit for a bubblegum group. In fact, predictably, that was what was in his obituary. Though many did mention the 40 albums.

There was a local group called the Wood's Tea Company. They are disbanded now and several of its members are no longer with us.  :\'( :\'(  They usually did sea shanties and other Irish folk music. But, they also did some original music. This is one of their originals-written by Tom Tom MacKenzie who is sing lead on this one and he is also playing the hammer dulcimer.


Arrgh! (I should have played this on Talk Like A Pirate Day.  ;D ;D )

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcMhrR2JBqk

I ALMOST got a job with them (booking) but it fell through.


Cat

David Blue was a mainstay of the Greenwich Village folk scene of the early/mid 60s and was part of the crowd with Bob Dylan, Joan Baez and the like. But he somehow never scaled the Heights of his illustrious companions and remained somewhat on the fringes. He died while jogging in Central Park in New York in 1982.

He also wrote "Outlaw Man" which The Eagles covered on the "Desperado" album.

I love the feel of this sad tale from 1968.

David Blue
"These 23 Days In September"
1968

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwC8AW-459c

There was a local group called the Wood's Tea Company. They are disbanded now and several of its members are no longer with us.  :\'( :\'(  They usually did sea shanties and other Irish folk music. But, they also did some original music. This is one of their originals-written by Tom Tom MacKenzie who is sing lead on this one and he is also playing the hammer dulcimer.


Arrgh! (I should have played this on Talk Like A Pirate Day.  ;D ;D )



I ALMOST got a job with them (booking) but it fell through.


Cat


Like this! O0

Fleetwood Mac
"Spare Me A Little"
1972

A lovely song by Christine McVie from the classic "Bare Trees" album. You know, Christine's songs from these earlier, pre-Buckingham/Nicks Fleetwood Mac albums aren't so different from her later songs that were hits. And I DID hear this one an awful lot on FM back in the day. I love the great  "watery" guitar sound during the solo (played by either Bob Welch or Danny Kirwan who were both in the band at the time). That sound just isn't used anymore, unfortunately. In fact, the guitar textures on the entire album are just extraordinary. Also check out how it suddenly shifts tempo at the very end for no real reason.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HiGEEHtumDM

Fleetwood Mac
"Spare Me A Little"
1972

A lovely song by Christine McVie from the classic "Bare Trees" album. You know, Christine's songs from these earlier, pre-Buckingham/Nicks Fleetwood Mac albums aren't so different from her later songs that were hits. And I DID hear this one an awful lot on FM back in the day. I love the great  "watery" guitar sound during the solo (played by either Bob Welch or Danny Kirwan who were both in the band at the time). That sound just isn't used anymore, unfortunately. In fact, the guitar textures on the entire album are just extraordinary. Also check out how it suddenly shifts tempo at the very end for no real reason.


O0 Love this!  It sounds vaguely familiar - perhaps from a previous post?

(About that tempo shift, I've contended before that the 70's was the decade where such tempo changes were most common, but it didn't seem that anyone else agreed.  The thread I created about it died.)

This Marty Balin song from Jefferson Airplane's 1968 "Crown of Creation" album is just plain brilliant. I could say "if you wanna know what the 60s were like, just listen to this", which is true, but it's also too timeless to be confined that way. 

"the world around you never catches up with you..."

Jefferson Airplane
"Share A Little Joke"
1968

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxZrA32JEXM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIb97yoz6f4

I never knew The group Blue Magic who had their hit "Sideshow" had this hit in 1983 called "See Through", this one is amazing.  :)

(About that tempo shift, I've contended before that the 70's was the decade where such tempo changes were most common, but it didn't seem that anyone else agreed.  The thread I created about it died.)


Missed that thread. I definitely agree with you about the tempo shift being a seventies thing.

Best Years Of Our Lives was a 1982 UK Top 5 hit song for the British band Modern Romance and is perhaps best known in the US through a 2001 cover version by Baha Men from the film Shrek.  In 1983, a Canadian all-female group called Mens Room recorded a version and while it did not become a hit, it was released as a single and appears in the 1983 film and on the soundtrack to Private School starring Matthew Modine and Phoebe Cates

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In 1980, Bryan Adams released his self-titled debut album.  One of the singles from the album was called Hiding From Love, and while it failed to catch on world-wide, it also sort of technically failed in Canada, where it only peaked at #64 (Canadian Content regulations still got the song well-known on Canadian radio).  Quite a few acts would cover it, and the most successful version is kind of an interesting one...

A Scottish band called Rosetta Stone, fronted by ex-Bay City Rollers guitarist Ian Mitchell, released an EP in 1981 called Hiding From Love that featured 2 songs written by a then-unknown Adams (he had yet to have a hit song outside of Canada) and the song in question peaked at #46 in Canada by 1982 and appears in the 1983 film Class starring Rob Lowe and Andrew McCarthy

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My favourite version of Hiding From Love was released as a single in 1984 by Bruce Murray, the late brother of country singer Anne Murray

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"Say You Don't Mind" is a song written and originally recorded by English musician Denny Laine. It was a top 20 hit for Colin Blunstone in 1972.

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I hope the video is all right for remember I do not have speakers for my computer.