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The 1972 Song Draft ... (1 Viewer)
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Uruk-Hai
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No problem. Need to be a little careful on the O'Jays GH albums - they've been around for over 45 years & there are several GH packages that are really full of non-hits from the 60s. Not the same sound at all (or quality) as their Philly International heyday. This holds true for many older R&B and country artists - they'd bounce around from label to label, most didn't own the rights to their songs, and if they hit big with one label you'd see a proliferation of cash-in albums from labels they used to be with. There's a legit Willie Nelson Greatest Hits that was released in the early 80s that had all of his 70s/80s big hits. The cover was a painted picture of Willie's face against a blue sky. A friend had the album & I wanted a copy too. So I went to the record store & bought a greatest hits album with a painting of Willie's face against a blue sky. Didn't look at the song list though - it was a ripoff & had a bunch of inferior songs from the 60s (many sounded like demos to me).
Nigel Tufnel
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The Allman Brothers Band - "Les Brers in A Minor"
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Nigel Tufnel
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Sorry about the delay. I get here around 9 Central. Always feel free to skip me, as I won't care that much if my songs get taken. I've got a lot left.
Nigel Tufnel
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No problem. I'd hate to know that we were stagnant on account of me.Sorry we moved ahead, chief.
FairWarning
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Who's head of the decision committee on a song? I want to clear up a song by PM if possible (Mine) before posting it.
Loggins tends to be thought of as the Footloose and Danger Zone-guy, which is unfair, really. He has dozens of great songs and, like you said, most of them are done in the singer-songwriter style and not in the over-produced style that his mid-eighties output would indicate.It's a lot like the Bee Gees. People think of them as that disco group, when in reality, they've had a twenty-five year career with only two or three of them being disco-oriented.
Nigel Tufnel
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I just PM'd him.
Nigel Tufnel
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You can send it to me, if you want. If I can't figure it out, I'll send it to someone else.
Uruk-Hai
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And I don't hold the BeeGees "disco" period against them anyway; they absolutely dominated the charts (esp. in '78) & deserved it.Kenny Loggins was also partly responsible for a #1 hit for the Doobies. Michael McDonald had part of a song (either verse or chrous, I forget), but was stuck. Loggins was invited over to dinner & as he walked up to McDonald's door, Mike was playing the part he had finished on his piano. Loggins asked about it when he got inside & MM said he was hung up & didn't know where to go. Loggins said he had a piece of a song that would go well with it and voila! "What A Fool Believes" was born.
FairWarning
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I thought these drafts flew during the day. 
Another Loggins hit, This Is It, was written while his dad was sick and in the hospital. His dad was beginning to pity himself and was losing his will to fight his illness, Loggins had angry words with him at his bedside and went home. He returned the next day with his acoustic guitar and sang the song he had written the night before. His dad had an attitude turnaround and ended up being discharged from the hospital a few weeks later (where he was run over by a truck on his way out, ironically) {ok, that last part didn't happen}.The next time you hear This Is It, check it out, it will change the way you hear it.
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Nigel Tufnel
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zamby, you can go ahead and pick. TU's obviously indisposed.
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When I hear This Is It I can still see Darrell Griffith from Louisville dunking in those promos for the NCAA tourney.Another Loggins hit, This Is It, was written while his dad was sick and in the hospital. His dad was beginning to pity himself and was losing his will to fight his illness, Loggins had angry words with him at his bedside and went home. He returned the next day with his acoustic guitar and sang the song he had written the night before. His dad had an attitude turnaround and ended up being discharged from the hospital a few weeks later (where he was run over by a truck on his way out, ironically) {ok, that last part didn't happen}.The next time you hear This Is It, check it out, it will change the way you hear it.
Print Is Dead
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great song. longest intro ever.
Nigel Tufnel
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I was having trouble deciding what to take from that album. I'm also having trouble deciding what to take from a certain double-album that you already took a song from. Just about every song is good and I can't make up my mind.
Print Is Dead
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if there's a "drums->space" on there, you should take that.I was having trouble deciding what to take from that album. I'm also having trouble deciding what to take from a certain double-album that you already took a song from. Just about every song is good and I can't make up my mind.
FairWarning
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Very nice indeed.Is it me or is 1972 one of the worst years of the 70's for music?Nice!
zamboni
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I think it's a solid year, as with all of the '70s. What makes it a bit different is that it's generally a "'tweener" year for certain '70s titans like Zep, Floyd and the Who, among others.ETA: what Doug said.Very nice indeed.Is it me or is 1972 one of the worst years of the 70's for music?
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Not much staying power in the 1971-1974 era IMO
Nigel Tufnel
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I don't know. I'm diggin' this year more so than any other we've done so far ('69 is close, though). It's all up in my wheelhouse, though, since I was raised on classic rock.
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Just a lots of artists that never really did much after about '74. It was a transitional era between protest music and disco. Should I go ahead and pick?
The early '70s were kind of a transitional period from the rock of the '60s to the disco and other types of music of the later '70s and '80's. The Beatles had broken up and McCartney hadn't really gotten Wings going yet. Lennon was fooling around being a father. Motown was going downhill fast as Berry Gordy moved to LA and lost the real soul sound. Punk had'nt gottten started to rejuvenate music. And as has been said, the Who and Zep et al took the year off. The Stones were touring, IIRC, and not doing studio stuff. I think the percentage of "one-hit wonders" is higher in the early 70s than in almost any other period.If you didn't live through the 72-75 period it's hard to explain the kind of funk that the entire country and culture went through during that period. A deep recession as the Vietnam war wound down, the first oil embargo and Watergate/Nixon resigns is enough to put anybody in a real downer mood for a while, and the music that was made reflected that.
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I do own the whole 25-cd set of Have A Nice Day (all 70's one and two hit artists). Put out by Rhino. Some really good stuff, but some real bad stuff. '72 was one of those years.
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