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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 May 26, 2017: SPECIAL (chart singles from 1973): Celebrating Uncle Michael’s favorite charting singles from 1973!

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Artist Track Album Approx. start time
Uncle Michael  Hinky Dinky Time Open   Favoriting   0:00:00 (Pop-up)
The Intruders  I'll Always Love My Mama   Favoriting single (b/w I'll Always Love My Mama (Part II)) (Gamble - 7 Mar 1973)   0:02:20 (Pop-up)
Al Green  Call Me (Come Back Home)   Favoriting single (b/w What A Wonderful Thing Love Is) (Hi - Feb 1973)   0:04:52 (Pop-up)
Ann Peebles  I'm Gonna Tear Your Playhouse Down   Favoriting single (b/w One Way Street) (Hi - Jan 1973)   0:07:49 (Pop-up)
Sylvia  Pillow Talk   Favoriting single (b/w My Thing) (Vibration - Feb 1973)   0:10:28 (Pop-up)
Three Degrees  Dirty Ol' Man   Favoriting single (b/w Can't You See What You're Doing To Me) (Philadelphia International - Sep 1973)   0:14:42 (Pop-up)
Willie Hutch  Brother's Gonna Work It Out   Favoriting single (b/w I Choose You) (Motown - 14 Feb 1973)   0:17:40 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
Crown Heights Affair 

Super Rod (Instrumental)   Favoriting

single (b/w Super Rod (Vocal)) (RCA Victor - Jul 1973)  

0:22:20 (Pop-up)
Dobie Gray  Drift Away   Favoriting single (b/w City Stars) (Decca - Jan 1973)   0:26:20 (Pop-up)
Hall & Oates  She's Gone   Favoriting single (b/w I'm Just A Kid (Don't Make Me Feel Like A Man)) (Atlantic - Nov 1973)   0:30:06 (Pop-up)
B.W. Stevenson  My Maria   Favoriting single (b/w August Evening Lady) (RCA Victor - Jul 1973)   0:33:28 (Pop-up)
Mocedades  Eres Tu   Favoriting single (b-side to Touch The Wind) (Bell - 13 Apr 1973)   0:35:51 (Pop-up)
El Chicano  Tell Her She's Lovely   Favoriting single (b/w (Se Fue Mi) Chachita) (MCA - Jul 1973)   0:39:16 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
The Wailers 

Stop That Train (Instrumental)   Favoriting

single (b-side to Rock It Baby) (Island - Jan 1973)  

0:42:24 (Pop-up)
Beach Boys  Sail On Sailor   Favoriting single (b/w Only With You) (Brother / Reprise - 24 Feb 1973)   0:46:24 (Pop-up)
Three Dog Night  Shambala   Favoriting single (b/w Our "B" Side) (Dunhill - May 1973)   0:49:34 (Pop-up)
Stories  Brother Louie   Favoriting single (b/w What Comes After) (Kama Sutra - May 1973)   0:52:49 (Pop-up)
Stealers Wheel  Stuck In The Middle With You   Favoriting single (b/w José) (A&M - Feb 1973)   0:56:39 (Pop-up)
Dr. John  Right Place Wrong Time   Favoriting single (b/w I Been Hoodood) (Atco - Mar 1973)   0:59:58 (Pop-up)
Redbone  Come And Get Your Love   Favoriting single (b/w Day To Day Life) (Epic - 29 Aug 1973)   1:02:45 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
Chairmen Of The Board 

Finders Keepers (Instrumenta)   Favoriting

single (b-side to Finder's Keepers (Vocal)) (Invictus - Apr 1973)  

1:06:11 (Pop-up)
Brownsville Station  Smokin' In The Boys' Room   Favoriting single (b/w Barefootin') (Big Tree - Sep 1973)   1:11:45 (Pop-up)
Aerosmith  Dream On   Favoriting single (b/w Somebody) (Columbia - 27 Jun 1973)   1:14:36 (Pop-up)
Alice Cooper  Billion Dollar Babies   Favoriting single (b/w Mary Ann) (Warner Bros. - 11 Jul 1973)   1:18:55 (Pop-up)
Sweet  Blockbuster!   Favoriting single (b/w Need A Lot Of Lovin') (Bell - May 1973)   1:22:27 (Pop-up)
The Raspberries  Tonight   Favoriting single (b/w Hard To Get Over A Heartbreak) (Capitol - 6 Aug 1973)   1:25:35 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
Mike Oldfield 

Tubular Bells (Instrumental - Short Version)   Favoriting

single (b-side to Tubular Bells (Instrumental - Long Version)) (Virgin - 1973)  

1:29:01 (Pop-up)
Tanya Tucker  Blood Red And Goin' Down   Favoriting single (b/w The Missing Piece Of The Puzzle) (Columbia - 29 Jun 1973)   1:34:36 (Pop-up)
Dolly Parton  Jolene   Favoriting single (b/w Love, You're So Beautiful Tonight) (RCA Victor - Jul 1973)   1:37:32 (Pop-up)
Merle Haggard  If We Make It Through December   Favoriting single (b/w Bobby Wants A Puppy Dog For Christmas) (Capitol - Oct 1973)   1:40:06 (Pop-up)
Jerry Reed  Lord, Mr. Ford   Favoriting single (b/w Two-Timin') (RCA Victor - May 1973)   1:42:44 (Pop-up)
Kris Kristofferson  Why Me   Favoriting single (b/w Help Me) (Monument - Feb 1973)   1:45:58 (Pop-up)
Conway Twitty  You've Never Been This Far Before   Favoriting single (b/w You Make It Hard (To Take The Easy Way Out)) (MCA - Jul 1973)   1:49:19 (Pop-up)
Charlie Rich  Behind Closed Doors   Favoriting single (b/w A Sunday Kind Of Woman) (Epic - 17 Jan 1973)   1:52:17 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
Gladys Knight & The Pips 

Midnight Train To Georgia (Instrumental)   Favoriting

single (b-side to Midnight Train To Georgia) (Buddah - Aug 1973)  

1:55:08 (Pop-up)
Manu Dibango  Soul Makossa (Original Version)   Favoriting single (b/w Lily) (Atlantic - May 1973)   2:01:10 (Pop-up)
Billy Paul  Am I Black Enough For You   Favoriting single (b/w I'm Gonna Make It This Time) (Philadelphia International - Mar 1973)   2:05:31 (Pop-up)
Curtis Mayfield  Future Shock   Favoriting single (b/w The Other Side Of Town) (Curtom - Jul 1973)   2:10:43 (Pop-up)
Eddie Kendricks  Keep On Truckin' (Part 1)   Favoriting single (b/w Keep On Truckin' (Part 2)) (Tamla - 26 Jul 1973)   2:14:13 (Pop-up)
Barry White  Never, Never Gonna Give You Up (short version)   Favoriting single (b/w Never, Never Gonna Give You Up (long version)) (20th Century - Oct 1973)   2:17:39 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
Barry White 

Never, Never Gonna Give Ya Up (Instrumental)   Favoriting

single (b-side to Never, Never Gonna Give Ya Up) (20th Century - Oct 1973)  

2:21:33 (Pop-up)
Rolling Stones  Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo (Heartbreaker)   Favoriting single (b/w Dancing With Mr. D.) (Rolling Stones - 19 Dec 1973)   2:24:52 (Pop-up)
Deep Purple  Woman From Tokyo   Favoriting single (b/w Super Trouper) (Warner Bros. - Jan 1973)   2:28:12 (Pop-up)
Focus  Hocus Pocus   Favoriting single (b/w Hocus Pocus II) (Sire - Feb 1973)   2:33:51 (Pop-up)
Edgar Winter  Frankenstein   Favoriting single (b/w Undercover Man) (Epic - 21 Feb 1973)   2:37:05 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
Screaming Jay Hawkins 

Africa Gone Funky (Instrumental) (DJ Lean Rock)   Favoriting

single (b/w Africa Gone Funky (Vocal)) (London - 1973)  

2:40:24 (Pop-up)
Fred Wesley And The J.B.'s  Doing It To Death   Favoriting single (b/w Everybody Got Soul) (People - Apr 1973)   2:44:00 (Pop-up)
Gladys Knight & The Pips  I've Got To Use My Imagination   Favoriting single (b/w I Can See Clearly Now) (Buddah - Nov 1973)   2:48:57 (Pop-up)
Tina Turner  Nutbush City Limits   Favoriting single (b/w Help Him) (United Artists - Aug 1973)   2:52:17 (Pop-up)
O.V. Wright  I'd Rather Be Blind, Crippled And Crazy   Favoriting single (b/w Please Forgive Me) (Back Beat - Nov 1973)   2:53:30 (Pop-up)
Four Tops  Are You Man Enough   Favoriting single (b/w Peace Of Mind) (Dunhill - 24 May 1973)   2:56:07 (Pop-up)
Stevie Wonder  Higher Ground   Favoriting single (b/w Too High) (Tamla - Jul 1973)   2:59:29 (Pop-up)
Fleetwood Mac  Albatross   Favoriting single (b/w Jigsaw Puzzle Blues) (Blue Horizon - 1968)   3:02:31 (Pop-up)


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Listener comments!

Avatar 🛒 Swag For Life Member 11:51am
Brian in UK:

Hey Uncle, left home on the last day of '72 so in many ways '73 was a big year for me. Biggest thing to leave home was the stereogram.
  12:01pm
frenchee:

1973...a very good year. Can't wait to hear your choices, Unka M~
Avatar 🛒 12:01pm
βrian:

Little Radio on the Prairie. Can't wait.
Avatar 🛒 Swag For Life Member 12:02pm
listener james from westwood:

Loving these 70s singles surveys and looking forward to this one!
Avatar 12:03pm
V Priceless:

hey Mr. Uncle Michael!
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ndbob:

afternoon UM and everyone!
Avatar 12:05pm
Lewis:

present...
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Doug Schulkind:

Apologies for running long, Uncle Michael. That's what you get for choosing to follow an amateur.
Avatar 🛒 12:08pm
βrian:

It feels like it's MCMLXXlll again.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:08pm
Uncle Michael:

Brian! Brian! Jame! VP! Bob! Lewis! Doug!

No worries!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:08pm
Uncle Michael:

FRENCHEE!
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doctorjazz:

Hey UM and Hinkskateers!
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doctorjazz:

AL!!!
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Uncle Michael:

Doc!
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Jeff Golick:

Do the jerk! Hi.
  12:11pm
DEZ:

Hey, Michael!!!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:12pm
Uncle Michael:

Jeff! Oh, you like Hi? Here's another!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:12pm
Uncle Michael:

DJ DEZ!
Avatar 12:13pm
still b/p:

Gonna kill me to not hear this whole thing! I'll be dead DEAD!
Speaking of (show opening) inka dinka doo, I missed a "nostalgia" trivia question out of a book at a bar the other day. I thought it was Durante who used to say, "What a revoltin' development this is!" Wrongo. Any of youse trivia whizzes know who?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:14pm
Uncle Michael:

Yes but I won'tgive it away
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Uncle Michael:

Stay for the whole thing, SBP!
Avatar 12:19pm
still b/p:

I couldn't have got the answer if you held a radio tube to my head. The show title's really well-known but I don't know the characters and details.

I just got a half-hour reprieve for another hunk of Hinky enjoyment. Miracolo!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:19pm
Uncle Michael:

Yay!

Here's a little proto-disco!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:24pm
Doug S.:

All hail, 1973. What a motherfucking great year for music.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:26pm
Little Danny:

This Willie Hutch is so massive. Motown turning towards Philadelphia in 1973.
  12:26pm
Dean:

I was always a little disappointed that Dick Clark never described it as such on American Bandstand.
Avatar 🛒 Swag For Life Member 12:31pm
Jeff Golick:

Primo earworm material rightchere.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:31pm
Lane Gray:

Cool first set. If it means jettisoning house/techno, I'd bring back disco. Dance music has always been less interesting than "listen" music, but the current crop? Ick. (off my lawn)
Avatar 12:31pm
still b/p:

The sometimes bemoaned change in soul pop/funk from early 70s socially conscious to disco glitz...is there a term for that shift? Coin one.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:32pm
coelacanth∅:

hello Uncle M and hdinklings
i clicked to toggle my imagination -and it worked!
  12:32pm
Dean:

Whew. "Dixie Chicken" was 1973.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:32pm
Mark the Sardine:

Yeah Uncle Michael!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:32pm
Uncle Michael:

Dean! Lane! Coela!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:33pm
Lane Gray:

I'd not noticed the twangy Tele in this before. Pete would be happy. Do it is of no relation.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:33pm
Uncle Michael:

Mark!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:34pm
Mark the Sardine:

Friday afternoon is better with HDTime.
  12:34pm
frenchee:

@still b/p: was it Eddie Cantor?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:35pm
Uncle Michael:

There's a charted 1973 C&W cover of Drift Away. Not inclueded today...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:35pm
melinda:

hi all!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:36pm
Uncle Michael:

Melinda!
Avatar 12:36pm
still b/p:

No. (Tangent trivia: I was reading something recently in which his peers completely trashed Eddie Cantor as difficult and nearly talentless.)
Avatar 🛒 Swag For Life Member 12:36pm
Jeff Golick:

Never heard the H&O flip. Is good?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:36pm
Uncle Michael:

the carbon and monoxide...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:37pm
Lane Gray:

Stupid autocorrect. Dobie is of no relation
Avatar 12:37pm
ndbob:

Hi Melinda!
Avatar 🛒 Swag For Life Member 12:38pm
Brian in UK:

Abandoned Luncheonette is one great album.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:38pm
Uncle Michael:

My Maria gives me physical chills. Such production.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:39pm
Uncle Michael:

No idea, Jeff!
  12:39pm
johnk77:

motown moved all operations to california
in june 1972
Avatar 🛒 Swag For Life Member 12:40pm
Brian in UK:

@Jeff, great track, last track side one, memories of a relationship so I remember it.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:41pm
Lane Gray:

One more proof that Brooks and Dunn should leave other people's records alone
Avatar 🛒 Swag For Life Member 12:41pm
listener james from westwood:

Long time since I've heard a straight read on "Eres Tu" on FMU; usually there's a goofy latter-day cover. Glad to hear this one!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:41pm
Uncle Michael:

John!

This is the 1973 Eurovision runner-up.
Avatar 🛒 Swag For Life Member 12:41pm
Brian in UK:

Hey Lane, on the road?
Avatar 🛒 Swag For Life Member 12:42pm
Jeff Golick:

Yeah, @ljfw, these UM shows have a very strong "back to the source" vibe about them.
Avatar 🛒 Swag For Life Member 12:42pm
Jeff Golick:

@Brian: thanks; will try to remedy.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:44pm
Uncle Michael:

I'm bad at irony.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:44pm
coelacanth∅:

so, who are the people in the image over there?
Avatar 🛒 Swag For Life Member 12:45pm
Brian in UK:

I find ironing very relaxing and a great way to listen to music.
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Lane Gray:

Yes, Brian
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:45pm
Uncle Michael:

Coel, those are kids in a UK television studio in 1973 trying to dance to Slade's COFTN. Seriously.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:46pm
Uncle Michael:

I'm good at ironing.
  12:46pm
Dean:

Irony is replete with wrinkles.
Avatar 🛒 Swag For Life Member 12:47pm
Brian in UK:

Uncle would guess that it is Top of the Pops as they are dancing to six different songs at the same time.
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still b/p:

So I heard the fresh Eurovision winner this year delivered a "My music's right and pure, the music of many others is not" kind of message. We might agree in conversation,but that's some chutzpah, or ego, and not the most...gracious?...choice for remarks in the winner's spotlight.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:48pm
coelacanth∅:

the wailers released TWO AMAZING ALBUMS in 1973!
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ndbob:

I missed most of Eurovision this year
  12:50pm
Dean:

Shoot, forgot about the (aborted) procedure. Your emphasis on "minor" is encouraging.
Avatar 🛒 Swag For Life Member 12:52pm
Brian in UK:

Yes, Holland is up there. Sorry turning singles into LPs.
Avatar 🛒 Swag For Life Member 12:52pm
doctorjazz:

Love this Beach Boys album!
(sorry about having to do it yet again, UM).
(OK, Dean, you pushed me into getting the Brain Box! Had an Amazon discount, went for it, probably get it in a week. See if either of us ever gets to hear the whole thing...)
Avatar 🛒 Swag For Life Member 12:52pm
Jeff Golick:

I took the dancers for Europeans...wonder why? Not slack-jawed enough to be Americans?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:52pm
Webhamster Henry:

Party like it's 1973! That was the summer I was on exchange in Switzerland.I came back with a tenor recorder that I play to this day! But I wasn't listening to the radio that much.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:53pm
Lane Gray:

Still, that attitude is what caused me to temporarily quit listening to Dale Watson. Once he gave up on Nashville he got better again
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:53pm
Mark the Sardine:

Such a different sound for the Beach Boys
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:54pm
Uncle Michael:

Henry!
  12:55pm
βrian:

@Mark: Yes, listenable even.
  12:55pm
Dean:

Brain Boxers, unite!
  12:56pm
frenchee:

@still b/p: I'm not a big fan of Eddie C.
  12:56pm
Dean:

According to the 'pedia, another recording of this 3DN tune was almost simultaneously released by B.W. Stevenson. It, too, charted.
Avatar 12:57pm
ndbob:

right - always thought the BW Stevenson was the originsl - top 100 but not top 40
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:57pm
melinda:

Enjoying the sounds of 1973.
  12:57pm
frenchee:

btw, I lovelovelove the determined dancers gif. Good one UM.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:58pm
Uncle Michael:

Dean, you're stealing my program notes.
  12:58pm
Dean:

Leaked.
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melinda:

This is the theme for Louis CK's show, didn't know it came from 1973.
Avatar 12:59pm
ndbob:

originally done by Hot Chocolate I think?
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Uncle Michael:

This is a cover of a Hot Chocolate original.
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chromaphone:

I was only 3 when these songs came out but I must've been listening a lot because these hits have been permanently etched in my mind.
  1:00pm
Dean:

I won't mention that Ian Lloyd went on to work and chart with Ric Ocasek later in the decade.
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Jeff Golick:

Which version did Louie CK use for his show...?
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Jeff Golick:

This is my jam.
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still b/p:

Have to bail soon. The catchphrase "What a revoltin' development this is," was from Chester Riley, played by William Bendix, in Life of Riley. In my head and ear, I swear I still have a stubborn Durante playback.
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Lane Gray:

Dueling banjos, between Strat and string section
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chromaphone:

As I recall it was this one JG. That scat singing at the end is pretty silly.
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doctorjazz:

Gotta do something about those DAMN LEAKS! We'd have a great, no, the BEST show without them!
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Uncle Michael:

Chroma!
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Jeff Golick:

Sounds right, @chromaphone.
  1:02pm
Stanley:

UM - you're killing it today.
Yeah
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:02pm
Uncle Michael:

Take care, SBP!
  1:03pm
βrian:

I always heard "stuck in the middle with glue."
  1:03pm
Dean:

Never before occurred to me how much this song consciously or otherwise inspired Sheryl Crow's first hit, the one about Santa Monica Blvd.
Avatar 1:03pm
hyde:

hello!
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Uncle Michael:

Stanley! Thanks!
  1:03pm
frenchee:

LOVE Wm Bendix, perennial player of goofballs from Brooklyn..bye bye, @still b/p
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chromaphone:

I remember when that crappy Crow song was all over the radio and I immediately heard what she was stealing it's vibe from.
Avatar 🛒 Swag For Life Member 1:04pm
Jeff Golick:

I hear that, @Dean.

@UM: how were the "charts" managed/compiled, if you know?
  1:04pm
βrian:

I guess I conflated with the Velvet Underground song.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:05pm
Uncle Michael:

No one knows, Jeff...no one.
Avatar 🛒 Swag For Life Member 1:06pm
Jeff Golick:

That sounds about right. Any idea if it was sales-based, or airplay-based?
Avatar 1:06pm
hyde:

i like William Bendix in Macao, that gauzy noir by von Sternberg with Mitchum and Jane Russell and Gloria Grahame
  1:08pm
Dean:

http://www.nytimes.com/1996/01/25/arts/are-pop-charts-manipulated.html
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still b/p:

Mmmmm, Gloria Grahame.
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chromaphone:

Who says you need to have verses to have a hit? Not Redbone.
Avatar 1:09pm
hyde:

are pop charts manipulated seems to me like a question along the lines of is water wet
  1:09pm
frenchee:

1973: giggling young teen Frenchee and frens subbed in "shove it up your ass" for the lyrics to this Redbone classic. WE WERE HILARIOUS.
  1:09pm
mike:

This Redbone track never gets old.
  1:11pm
Dean:

Butt humor, frenchee, transcends all differences. My 6YO daughter chuckles at it, as does her 57YO dad.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:12pm
coelacanth∅:

that redbone track gets a lot of play at the bar i hang in. (as does "brother louie", but that's usually me putting it on)
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Jeff Golick:

Yes, @hyde. That headline is a rare exception to Betteridge's Law of Headlines (en.wikipedia.org...).
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listener james from westwood:

I'd rather have heard "Stuck in the Middle" a zillion times in the mid-1990s than the Crow song.
Avatar 🛒 Swag For Life Member 1:13pm
Jeff Golick:

And thanks for the link, @Dean. "Because a single is not eligible for the charts until it goes on sale, this insures that it enters the singles charts, calculated by a combination of sales and radio play, at a high spot." Clear as mud.
Avatar 1:14pm
hyde:

fun Gloria Grahame story: when she was married to Nicholas Ray, he caught her in bed with his son (her stepson). The marriage did not last.
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coelacanth∅:

i like the hot chocolate version better, for sure - but the stories guy does have a great voice.
Avatar 1:15pm
ndbob:

Tandyn Almer?
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Lane Gray:

Apparently Interstate 64 is The Road to Shambala
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Webhamster Henry:

I thought it was a Van Dyke Parks song.
Avatar 🛒 1:16pm
βrian:

The scholar's lament.
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Marc Francis:

EVERYTHING IS PERFECT MON ONCLE!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:18pm
Uncle Michael:

That's the guy, Bob. Thanks.
  1:18pm
Dean:

Looks like a go-to article about charts is Peter Hesbacher, Robert Downing & David G. Berger, "Sound recording popularity charts: A useful tool for music research," Popular Music and Society, 4:1, 3-18, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03007767508591066 (probably paywalled).
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:18pm
coelacanth∅:

i guess i'll miss whatever you play from "larks' tongues in aspic" and "goats head soup" -i have to get to work.
Thanks Uncle Michael! -ciao
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:19pm
Uncle Michael:

Marc!
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melinda:

@Jeff G: this from wiki:

The song, with slightly different wording, is used as the theme song to the television series Louie, a sitcom loosely based on the life of American comedian Louis C.K. The word "cry" was changed to "die" in the second repetition of the chorus. This version was produced by Reggie Watts, with the intro emulating the Hot Chocolate version, and with Stories singer Ian Lloyd reprising his vocals.
Avatar 🛒 Swag For Life Member 1:20pm
Jeff Golick:

Hey, thanks, @melinda!
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Uncle Michael:

Question: What was the first power ballad, as we know them?

This?
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Jeff Golick:

Stairway?
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Jeff Golick:

It's a tough slow dance, that's for sure.
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Uncle Michael:

Probably so.
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frenchee:

I'm standing next to my desk at work, shakin' my 70s mane and scarf-draped mic stand, DREAM ON~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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βrian:

Mom always insisted we were talking about a Sinclair Lewis novel.
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Lane Gray:

That 1994 Comedy Central show Limboland had a bit with a rock band speak into the mic "are you ready to rock?!?" and the unseen audience responds in unison; "Not yet. Give us 5 minutes."
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paul b:

In High School in my little town (Holliston) in eastern Massachusetts Dream on was the biggest song in the entire world
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V Priceless:

Woo! B$B, baby!
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Rich in Washington:

Ha! I've been on an Alice Cooper kick lately.
Great show, UM!
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Jeff Golick:

@paul b: same up on the North Shore
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V Priceless:

DD on bass - nuts!!
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Uncle Michael:

Paul! Rich!
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V Priceless:

Dunaway's right-hand picking speed on this is insane!
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hyde:

paul b ha, you're from Hollyrock? i grew up in Sherborn. Aerosmith played the Dover-Sherborn prom at one point before 1973 (before my time)
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Lewis:

sounds like the radio I listened to while I worked on my motorcycle...
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Uncle Michael:

hyde!
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βrian:

I was working on my hunter green Raleigh Grand Prix.
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Lewis:

I had a 125cc Penton...
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doctorjazz:

Rasberries, great track!
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Jeff Golick:

The Joe Perry Project played my (Marblehead) high school.
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Uncle Michael:

I had a hunter green raleigh grand prix.
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Lewis:

HST had a 250cc Penton goo.gl...
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βrian:

My head is rotating again.
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V Priceless:

nice with the T Bells, Uncle M! Great record!
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johnk77:

i wish i had seen joe perry project
in my hazy memories of seventies
beach boys holland
acheived unusual
critical/collegiate/stoner
crossover success
back in 2017
riding trek hybrid urban
in seventies yamaha 250
enduro only fun off-roadi riding
keep on rockin;>
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hyde:

i used to love Let the Music Do the Talkin' by Joe Perry
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paul b:

Hyde: Dover Sherborn! We played you guys in football Tri-valley league. You guys had stadium lights, Friday night lights
  1:38pm
johnk77:

hst huge commandercody/moonliters fan
he was at a show i worked
in colorado maybe 1979
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ndbob:

Tanya's best record!
  1:40pm
mike s.:

That's actually Donovan singing with Alice on BDB.
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hyde:

@paul b i don't remember ever ging to games, really. what were you guys, the panthers?
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Uncle Michael:

Thanks, Mike!
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Lewis:

this song goes so wrong...
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βrian:

This kind of music was said to be from the other side of the tracks where I grew up.
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Uncle Michael:

I sure would like to know who's picking guitar on Jolene.
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ndbob:

My friend is named after this song - but for some reason her parents spelled it Joleen
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V Priceless:

though to this day, there are still moments when Alice and Michael Bruce's voices are almost indistinguishable, especially on the early records, IMHO
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chromaphone:

Doesn't Dolly do some finger picking'?
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Lewis:

@chromaphone - I was thinking the same thing...
  1:45pm
johnk77:

mike chapman worked w/
sweet+tanyatucker
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Lane Gray:

When did Candy's version come out, and did it chart?
I think I like her version a bit better.
Love this Merle
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listener james from westwood:

Good to hear from Jerry!
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Lewis:

Jerry is so much fun and clever to boot...
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Uncle Michael:

I think Candi really killed it. I think i was never a single...might have been unreleased until compiled.
  1:49pm
johnk77:

is there a great book about
the history of country music
in california
maybe 40s->80s?
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Rich in Washington:

Why me, Lord...
I always wanted to know where that oft-used by Negativland sample came from.
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Lewis:

Damn UM, this is excellent!
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hyde:

@johnk i have't read it, but have often eyeballed The Birth of the Bakersfield Sound: A Honky Tonk Attitude by Lawton Jiles
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Uncle Michael:

Thanks, Lewis.
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hyde:

i've been listening to my Kristofferson box set a lot lately, i really love the early 70's records.
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Lane Gray:

Some of the least suitable guitar fills in recorded history in this cut. Lots of what Lester Flatt would say "that song didn't need what he done"
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Brian in UK:

Chip Taylor was making some great Country around this time with the Jordanaires on backing vocals.
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Lewis:

@Lane - I had an interesting question regarding slide players for you the other day, but now I have forgotten it...
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johnk77:

thanx @hyde
$$$ on amazon
have u seen it as a
pdf or ebook?
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Lane Gray:

If it comes to you, my email is Kcsteelplayer@aol.com
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frenchee:

LOL, @Lane Gray, good quote from Mr. Flatt. anybody else kinda creeped out by Conway here? bumpbumpbum....
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Uncle Michael:

I'm always a little creeped out by Conway. I thank that's his gimmick.
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johnk77:

i like the idea of bakersfield
as an attitude
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Lewis:

Thanks!
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hyde:

@johnk77 whoa, i don't remember it being that expensive when i looked at it! don't know of any other source, unfortunately.
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johnk77:

added to my wish list
commander cody often
talks about the influence of
bakersfield on him
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hyde:

jeez, and barnes and noble had it for $16.99 awhile ago and now they have it for 111$! i guess i should have bought it when i was eyeballing it
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mauri:

Evening.
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Dean:

Guitarist on "Jolene": Jimmy Colvard? https://www.discogs.com/Dolly-Parton-Jolene/release/2095317
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Lewis:

check out abehbooks.com - good used and some new / remainders... www.abebooks.com
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johnk77:

many generations
of roots moves
bothrock+country
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ndbob:

I disagree with you there UM - I thought Johnny Rodriguez was great - though I haven't listened to his records fora while
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Lane Gray:

Frenchee,, the Mrs Johnson crowd (remember "the Lord Knows I'm Drinking") asked Conway about that song. He insisted that the" forbidden places " was just the hand of a woman married to someone else.
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Webhamster Henry:

When you get to 1974, you get this: (from the WFMU Worst Song Contest). We had to break out 1974 from the rest of the 70s so it wouldn't bum out the whole decade.
www.wfmu.org...
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Lewis:

@Webhamster Henry - big break between the "top" 4 and the rest of the pack...
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melinda:

That's a funny list, Henry.
  2:07pm
johnk77:

thank for the link
@lewis
i will save any book link
but their $ almost
2Xamazon
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Uncle Michael:

Lane, great songs, great vocals...shit record. Nashville was emasculated.
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Brian in UK:

Uncle, not sure exactly what you want but this has some juice in it.
www.penguinrandomhouse.com...

...and a review
www.publishersweekly.com...
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johnk77:

are used paperbacks
new hot investmest?
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melinda:

Sunshine on My Shoulders is a classic.
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Uncle Michael:

Thanks, Brian.
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johnk77:

soul makossa
top historic
dance+world+++
played hundreds of times
at sobs nyc
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johnk77:

investment?
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Jeff Golick:

Not Cali Country, but a decent book nonetheless: a.co...
  2:11pm
johnk77:

yes to dawidoff
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annie:

i thought it would be a dull show, but it's been great.. i just could not stand 70's radio... it's a reason i switched to country-western. albany had a few good stations..
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hyde:

@johnk77 i notice it a lot with low print run academic press books on movies, music or art. as soon as they go out of print, the prices skyrocket.
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Uncle Michael:

Thanks, annie! I saved 1973!
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Lane Gray:

I just listened to Johnny's Pass Me By. The steel would need to add energy and soul to get to tepid. . And I'd have moved to a shuffle beat for the chorus.
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frenchee:

I was wondering when Brother Curtis would stop by. Oh my.
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hyde:

@JG that's a classic. the best general country music history book i've read is Country Music USA, by Bill C Malone. though i read the first edition, which covers up to 1960. i think he's revised it since.
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Lane Gray:

I had to double check when Michael said that. Unca Michael was right again
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Uncle Michael:

Surely someone ha written well about what the hell happened to C&W in the '70s.
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Lane Gray:

Malaise
  2:19pm
johnk77:

i have to view uncle michael
show live as crucial
but never before from
investment angle
thanks
@golick
@hyde
did skinny music exist
in 1973?
raspberries probably?
country pays worse
than rock
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Uncle Michael:

Nashville started building K-Cars?
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Lane Gray:

I miss the days when Presidents actually used words of subtlety.
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hyde:

@UM it's funny, there *are* plenty o' books on the country-rock and outlaw country aspects of the seventies, but i don't know of anyone who has written about how the country mainstream fell apart at the same time
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annie:

just read an article about the planned gentification of the "Harlem" name, hoping to change it to something with "less history"
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Uncle Michael:

Haarlem, perhaps.
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annie:

hehe
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Jeff Golick:

Wishful thinking that "quitting just ain't his shtick?"
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frenchee:

@annie, I heard something about that too. Some developers wanna call it SoHA. to which I say bushWHA
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Brian in UK:

There were probably articles at the time relevant to the change from C&W to Country and the 'fallout'.
Our library must have a mountain of Country & Western stickers for their CDs as they still on new ones. Makes me smile.
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Uncle Michael:

Jeff, he pronounce Yiddishisms about as well as ZZ Top did.
  2:32pm
johnk77:

just east of east haarlem
walking distance
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chromaphone:

Just watched the Stones doc from 2012 on Netflix. Pretty great
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melinda:

I had a brief C&W radio phase around 80-81.
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Jeff Golick:

Is that the Scorsese movie, @chroma?
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Uncle Michael:

I need to watch music documentaries on days the Cubs don't play.
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βrian:

Now this one I thought was about a sweet Hungarian wine.
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annie:

wonder if billy boy still has offices in harlem.. oops, bushwah!
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Uncle Michael:

I'm going as long as I need to finish...forewarned. One more R&B set...
  2:36pm
chromaphone:

No Jeff, it was something else. All about early 70s years.
  2:37pm
frenchee:

THE DRUMS THE DRUMS. they are the awesomeist.
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V Priceless:

of course!
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chromaphone:

Love this tune
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Uncle Michael:

Oh so sadly, this is the single edit. Breaks my heart...but it's the law.
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ndbob:

scrolling back - @Henry I remember those lists - 1974 was awful - though I do like Time In a Bottle
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hyde:

i confess that i sold my Focus records
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Dean:

Proud to Be an Okie: http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520248892
  2:42pm
Dean:

The part where Edgar Winter sounds like Gentle Giant...
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chromaphone:

Who needs from solos anyway ;)
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chromaphone:

Drum not from
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V Priceless:

Gentle Edgar, Winter Giant
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hyde:

i saw Edgar Winter warm up for someone in the late 70's, but i don't remember who.
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V Priceless:

wow - forgot how much of a bastardization the edit is
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hyde:

it was at the Boston Gahden, i remember that. so it prob was either the Allman Bros or Yes.
  2:47pm
Dean:

J. Geils Band?
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Dean:

So you *will* play Tales from Topographic Oceans!
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Uncle Michael:

Someday?
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Dean:

[BTW, see the comment above about guitarist on "Jolene"?]
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hyde:

that last dj mistake was just like the flaw that Islamic mosaicists put into their work, because only the Music Gods are perfect
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Uncle Michael:

I saw. I will re-see, later. Thanks.
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Lane Gray:

Michael, a lot of the Hot 100 then was kinda laid back and mellow, and mainstream country is often pop in cowboy boots. That's, I suspect, part of the tepidity of the country.
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Dean:

I'm struck by the absence of hits on Apple.
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Uncle Michael:

I could have played a few. Didn't.
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Uncle Michael:

Ringo's "Photograph" almost made it in.
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Dean:

Nice.
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V Priceless:

switching to the app = thanx, Uncle M! Have a fun, safe holiday, US peeps!
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Uncle Michael:

See you later, VP! Have a good weekend.
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Lane Gray:

In bluegrass, 1973 saw both Act 2 and Act 3. Not hits, but some of the best modern bluegrass (the J. D. Crowe Rounder record was cool too, but later)
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ndbob:

excellent show UM!
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Uncle Michael:

umm...uhh...
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Jeff Golick:

This sounds...advanced...for 1973...
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chromaphone:

Was just thinking same thing
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doctorjazz:

Getting to that time, too busy to post much but enjoyed the tunes, thanks UM!
Fun weekend all!
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Uncle Michael:

I made it go away.
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Lane Gray:

I may be biased, but they're still damn good.
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Uncle Michael:

Thanks everyone. See you next week for Freeform Friday
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Lane Gray:

Excellent show, Michael
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listener james from westwood:

You did 1973 proud, UM! Thanks!
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hyde:

great stuff! thanks.
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Jeff Golick:

Thank ye for '73!
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johnk77:

extended hinkymix
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βrian:

All this on your Chevy Vega's 8-track, Uncle? Impressive.
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Webhamster Henry:

Yes, a lot of Guilty Pleasures (Not) here today!
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doctorjazz:

(Great track to end on!)
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johnk77:

this gets remixed
w/soulmakossa
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Dean:

Another absence I was noting, Mr. Wonder. Good to hear.
  3:06pm
johnk77:

riddim possible
clavinet?
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Artie Haywire:

Thanks, Michael!
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Uncle Michael:

See yas!
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Stanley:

Just caught up. Great show and 1973 very nostalgic for me, too. Interesting to note what was going down then in America compared to England. Some crossover stuff, though. I still remember each note of Edgar Winter's Frankenstein and in the right order, too.
Thanks UM
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