Feel It Still – Portugal. The Man
Happy Jack – The Who
Without Love – Tom Jones
Jolly Mon Sing – Jimmy Buffett
Stone Cold Sober – Del Amitri
Hercules – Aaron
Neville
Another Star – Stevie Wonder
Orange-Coloured Sky – Richard
Thompson
True Love Part 2 – X
Cross My Heart – Billy Stewart
Summer Kisses, Winter Tears – Elvis Presley
Sealed With A Kiss – Brian Hyland
Harbor Lights – The Platters
Conga – Gloria Estefan
Cheatin' Songs – Midland
When I Grow Up – Michelle Shocked
The Promised Land – Bruce Springsteen
Can't Get There From Here – R.E.M.
Dedication to My Ex (Miss That) – Lloyd
Don't Play That Song – Bruce Springsteen
Gone Again – Quicksilver Messenger Service
California Love – 2Pac
When the Feeling Comes Around – Jennifer Warnes
You'll Never Get to Heaven (If You Break My Heart) – The
Stylistics
If You Could Read My Mind – Gordon Lightfoot
What Are You Doing New Year's Eve? – The Orioles
Sail Away – Randy Newman
California Sun – Gin Blossoms
Never a big fan of Sedaka, although he made a big contribution pre-British invasion. Amazingly, he grew up in the same Jewish Brooklyn neighborhood about the same time as these contemporaries: Carole King (of course), Neil Diamond, Barbra Streisand, and Barry Manilow.
ReplyDeleteAnyway:
1. Laughter in the Rain
2. Bad Blood
3. Next Door to an Angel
4. Breaking Up is Hard to Do
5. Calendar Girl
I wasn't a huge fan either, although I did like his remake of Breaking Up is Hard to Do.
DeleteKen Emerson wrote a great book, Always Magic in the Air, about Sedaka/Greenfield and 6 other great songwriting duos of the era.
Ouch -- not sure how I forgot this classic.
Deletehttps://ramblingrhoads.blogspot.com/2016/02/103-rainy-day-bells-globetrotters-1970.html
I owned the Happy Jack 45 a long time ago.
ReplyDeleteI may still have the 45 of Ride Away (Orbison), and maybe one or two by Jay & the Americans. None by the Association -- I just bought the LPs. ;-)
DeleteTrivia from this week's top 40 in 1966:
ReplyDeleteRed Roses for a Blue Lady appears in the top 40 three times this week. Who are the three artists?
Guessing (will look later) -- Vic Dana, Bert Kaempfert, Andy Williams.
DeleteWas that a trick question? It was 1965, not 1966.
DeleteAt any rate, 2 out of 3 ain't bad. (Wayne Newton, not Williams.)
You are correct, it was '65.
ReplyDeleteI never would have guessed Vic Dana.
This week SiriusXM played the top 50 one-hit wonders, as decided by listeners' survey. The song had to have been the artist/group's only hit to reach the top 10 anytime between 1955 and 1974, a period they called the "transistor era."
ReplyDeleteIt was a fun listen.
The top ten:
10. Dominique - The Singing Nun ('63)
9. The Sting - Marvin Hamlishch ('74)
8. Who Wrote the Book of Love - Monotones ('57)
7. Israelites - Desmond Dekker ('69)
6. Pipeline - Chantays ('63)
5. Popsicles and Icicles - Murmaides ('64) - written by David Gates!
4. Hold Your Head Up - Argent ('72)
3. Dueling Banjos - Eric Weissberg/Steve Mandell ('73)
2. In the Summertime - Mungo Jerry ('70)
1. In the Year 2525 - Zager and Evans ('69)
Quite a mixed bag there! Didn't know that Gates wrote #5 (great song, btw).
DeleteMy all-time "oneder" was a bit later than their window, peaking at #9 in '77. https://ramblingrhoads.blogspot.com/2014/07/43-smoke-from-distant-fire-sanford.html
And "Smoke" always gets my attention when it comes on.
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