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AT40 - This Week In 1975 (1 Viewer)

Uruk-Hai

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40. "Rocky" - Austin Roberts

Welp, we kick off with one of those whitebread story-songs that were so big back then. Stuff like "Blind Man In The Bleachers", "Shannon", and "Run Joey Run".

 
39. "Letting Go" - Wings

I don't recall this making much of a mark, but Paul could put his grocery list on vinyl in the 70s and make it sound good. 

 
38. "The Agony And The Ecstasy" - Smokey Robinson.

Smokey in Quiet Storm Land, which ain't a bad place to be. 

 
37. "Just Too Many People" - Melissa Manchester.

I don't recall this song at all. Manchester was a good singer, if a little too Broadway for my taste. 

 
36. "18 With A Bullet" - Pete Wingfield

:lmao:  I had forgotten all about this record. It's dumb and trashy and glorious.

 
35. "Mr Jaws" - Dickie Goodman

I'm guessing ol' Dickie (or someone) got rich doing these kind of novelty records. God bless him/her/them. 

 
That's gotta be the weakest Back Five of any of your Saturday excursions into the past, my friend. Sad, since it involves two abso legends.

 
34. "There Goes Another Love Song" - Outlaws

Softish, as far as Southern Rock records go but it solidified the genre as something more than just the ABB and Skynyrd. This was a really good band.

 
33. "Sweet Sticky Thing" - Ohio Players

Absolutely obscene ballad, though it's sung like a choir of virgins. The Players were jazzier than a lot of the funky groups and kept some of that in all but their most foot-stomping vamps.

 
32. "Fly Robin Fly" - Silver Convention

This is when "disco" started to ossify into something brittle to me, though I like this song. 

 
31. "Blue Eyes Crying In The Rain" - Willie Nelson

There are a lot of recordings I'd call "perfect". This is one of them.

 
30. "Nights On Broadway" - Bee Gees

Another brilliant pop record. They did multi-part better in four minutes than Pink Floyd did on the whole of Dark Side Of The Moon

 
Uruk-Hai said:
32. "Fly Robin Fly" - Silver Convention

This is when "disco" started to ossify into something brittle to me, though I like this song. 
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This is like finding a can of something on a shelf your'e pretty sure must have come with the house and opening it just to see. not even a stench to indicate how bad it is...

Uruk-Hai said:
31. "Blue Eyes Crying In The Rain" - Willie Nelson

There are a lot of recordings I'd call "perfect". This is one of them.
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tru dat. of all songs, the one i most wouldnt be able to resist singing harmony to, even to avoid torture

 
27. "I Only Have Eyes For You" - Art Garfunkel

Whoever produced this tried like hell to match the eerie feel of the original, but Art castrates it. His singing is fine, but it's just boring.

 
26. "Born To Run" - Bruce Springsteen

One of my favorite lines of rock criticism is about this record. I don't recall who it was, but he wrote something like "this song is like a '57 Chevy running on melted-down Crystals records."

I couldn't get into Bruce when he came out. He seemed like a parody, given the seriousness of most rock bands. I've come around since, though I'm by no means am a fanboy. THIS record, though, is a damned classic.

 
24. "What A Difference A Day Makes" - Esther Phillips

Disco was taking a shotgun approach to everything in the mid-70s - old TV themes, commercial jingles, rock classics, pretty much anything....... It resurrected Esther for this abomination. I hope she got paid well.

 
23. "You" - George Harrison

Do not like. The melody stinks and -Lord knows - George can't overcome being down like that at half time

 
Uruk-Hai said:
26. "Born To Run" - Bruce Springsteen

One of my favorite lines of rock criticism is about this record. I don't recall who it was, but he wrote something like "this song is like a '57 Chevy running on melted-down Crystals records."

I couldn't get into Bruce when he came out. He seemed like a parody, given the seriousness of most rock bands. I've come around since, though I'm by no means am a fanboy. THIS record, though, is a damned classic.
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I had a comedy show "Zero Hour" on radio at the time this came out and i did a bit about an old man in a nursing home ranting with food in his mouth which - thanks mostly to the excellent work of my producer - came close enough to sounding like "Born to Run" for the premise to be recognized without violating copyrights and become one of my most-known. My favorite moment was when the old man spit his food out (to "in an everlasting kiss......PHWAAA") before squeaking down the hall in his chair with the "baby" with whom he was born to run.

 
21. "Carolina In The Pines" - Michael Murphy

Another of those mid-70s songs that should have been played on Grizzly Adams or The Waltons

:sleep:

 
20. "SOS" - ABBA

This sounds like KISS compared to the last couple. I actually think ABBA was pretty creative and forward-thinking. 

 
19. "Low Rider" - War

Great band and great record. They are pretty much forgotten now, mainly because they couldn't be pigeon-holed by Rolling Stone.

 
18. "The Way That I Want To Touch You" - Captain & Tennille

A whole lot of late babies were made to this in the suburbs.

 
16. "This Will Be" - Natalie Cole

Another of those perfect mid-70s pop records. Her vamp at the end gives her a bonus point or two.

 
Uruk-Hai said:
16. "This Will Be" - Natalie Cole

Another of those perfect mid-70s pop records. Her vamp at the end gives her a bonus point or two.
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This is not long after her turning-herself-out-for-speedball-money phase @ UMass. I knew a few purported samplers....

 
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14. "Do It Anyway You Wanna" - Peoples Choice

More proto-disco, but still looser than the Euro crap that was right around the corner.

 
11. "Brazil" - Ritchie Family

Now, THIS is a fun song. It's another lets-dig-up-something-old-and-make-it-disco record, but they do some interesting things with it.

 
Uruk-Hai said:
13. "Dance With Me" - Orleans

I know this song isn't good or creative, but I love it. 
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the $$ i made from this song paid for a decade of bad behavior. wish i could say more, but i had to relinquish my interest as result of a lawsuit (including NDA) soon after it hit 

 
7. "Who Loves You" - Four Seasons

Another toe-dip into disco by an established act. This one works better than some of the others.

 
5. "Games People Play" - Spinners

Awesome group of singers and a ringer for a band. This was about as good as it got in the '70s

 
4. "Lyin' Eyes" - Eagles

They really should have enjoyed their success more instead of whining about how disrespected they were by the rock press. Because they made some fine records. Sold a ton of 'em, too.

 
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