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Title: The Drive, 12/20/06: 1969!
Post by: RGMike on December 20, 2006, 07:59:03 AM
TOTHC: the 'oo!
Title: Re: The Drive, 12/20/06: 1969!
Post by: princessofcairo on December 20, 2006, 08:01:06 AM
Quote from: "RGMike"
TOTHC: the 'oo!


how can bob folloooowww?
Title: Re: The Drive, 12/20/06: 1969!
Post by: RGMike on December 20, 2006, 08:01:54 AM
Quote from: "princessofcairo"
Quote from: "RGMike"
TOTHC: the 'oo!


how can bob folloooowww?


Freedom tastes of reality.  Mmmmm... reality for breakfast...
Title: The Drive, 12/20/06: 1969!
Post by: RGMike on December 20, 2006, 08:06:28 AM
You can't always get what you want for Xmas.
Title: Re: The Drive, 12/20/06: 1969!
Post by: princessofcairo on December 20, 2006, 08:06:31 AM
Quote from: "RGMike"
Quote from: "princessofcairo"
Quote from: "RGMike"
TOTHC: the 'oo!


how can bob folloooowww?


Freedom tastes of reality.  Mmmmm... reality for breakfast...


i'll stick to corn flakes.

here come mick with his other "mister" - jimmy.
Title: Re: The Drive, 12/20/06: 1969!
Post by: RGMike on December 20, 2006, 08:11:15 AM
Quote from: "princessofcairo"
here come mick with his other "mister" - jimmy.


HA!  For years I thought "a man did he look pretty ill" was "a man, pretty looks, pretty is".
Title: The Drive, 12/20/06: 1969!
Post by: RGMike on December 20, 2006, 08:14:18 AM
Quote from: "RGMike"
You can't always get what you want for Xmas.


and appropriately, here's the Beatles (yay) ripping off "Please Come Home For Xmas".
Title: The Drive, 12/20/06: 1969!
Post by: princessofcairo on December 20, 2006, 08:19:32 AM
bos: zagar and evans!!!
Title: The Drive, 12/20/06: 1969!
Post by: princessofcairo on December 20, 2006, 08:20:54 AM
#2 to cocker!
Title: The Drive, 12/20/06: 1969!
Post by: princessofcairo on December 20, 2006, 08:25:11 AM
venus - woohoo!
Title: The Drive, 12/20/06: 1969!
Post by: princessofcairo on December 20, 2006, 08:28:25 AM
we're getting all of the hits today! i guess it will be a 10-way tie.
Title: The Drive, 12/20/06: 1969!
Post by: RGMike on December 20, 2006, 08:30:18 AM
Quote from: "princessofcairo"
bos: zagar and evans!!!


I wish someone would unearth the follow-up to "2525", "Mr Turnkey", which flopped (didn't even make the Hot 100!):

Mr Turnkey, it's 10 pm in Wichita Falls
August 16, 1969 and I'm in some bar
Mr Turnkey, I need a woman and I'm ain't getting far
I never was the kind of man a woman looked for.

But Mr Turnkey, she looked at me with flirting eyes
Mr Turnkey, she was loveier than oil lights
Mr Turnkey, she led me on, she led me on,
She knew she wasn't going to let love her.

Mr Turnkey, there's been a rape in Wichita Falls
Mr Turnkey, I'm sitting here crying in my coveralls
Mr Turnkey, I don't want to be the man I am
Mr Turnkey, I'm calling from block number 4
Mr Turnkey, you ain't never seen nothing like this before
Mr Turnkey, I nailed my wrist to your wall, I'm going home

Mr Turnkey, I'm calling from block number 4
Mr Turnkey, I ain't got the strength to call once more
Mr Turnkey, I'm crying, hanging here dying
Tell her I'm sorry
Title: The Drive, 12/20/06: 1969!
Post by: princessofcairo on December 20, 2006, 08:32:38 AM
Quote from: "RGMike"
Quote from: "princessofcairo"
bos: zagar and evans!!!


I wish someone would unearth the follow-up to "2525", "Mr Turnkey", which flopped (didn't even make the Hot 100!):

Mr Turnkey, it's 10 pm in Wichita Falls
August 16, 1969 and I'm in some bar
Mr Turnkey, I need a woman and I'm ain't getting far
I never was the kind of man a woman looked for.

But Mr Turnkey, she looked at me with flirting eyes
Mr Turnkey, she was loveier than oil lights
Mr Turnkey, she led me on, she led me on,
She knew she wasn't going to let love her.

Mr Turnkey, there's been a rape in Wichita Falls
Mr Turnkey, I'm sitting here crying in my coveralls
Mr Turnkey, I don't want to be the man I am
Mr Turnkey, I'm calling from block number 4
Mr Turnkey, you ain't never seen nothing like this before
Mr Turnkey, I nailed my wrist to your wall, I'm going home

Mr Turnkey, I'm calling from block number 4
Mr Turnkey, I ain't got the strength to call once more
Mr Turnkey, I'm crying, hanging here dying
Tell her I'm sorry


no wonder it flopped! :) sounds like something a punk band should remake.
Title: The Drive, 12/20/06: 1969!
Post by: RGMike on December 20, 2006, 08:34:00 AM
BOS BBs, "I Can Hear Music", a lovely cover, rescuing one of the Ronettes lesser hits from obscurity.  (the full-blown Spector revival was still several years away at this point, despite his great production on "Black Pearl" in '69).
Title: The Drive, 12/20/06: 1969!
Post by: RGMike on December 20, 2006, 08:38:06 AM
Quote from: "princessofcairo"

no wonder it flopped! :) sounds like something a punk band should remake.


And kind of amazing, really -- it's virtually impossible NOT to chart with the follow-up to a single that sold millions and was #1 for 6 weeks. Especially when you get airplay on the notoriously conservative, very-short-playlist WABC, the biggest Top 40 station in the country. But they actually played it for a couple of weeks. RCA must've been tearing their hair out.

and speaking of Hair, BOS2 3DN, "Easy to be Hard".
Title: The Drive, 12/20/06: 1969!
Post by: urth on December 20, 2006, 09:46:06 AM
Quote from: "princessofcairo"
bos: zagar and evans!!!


Nice 'fro, Princess. Angela Davis?
Title: The Drive, 12/20/06: 1969!
Post by: RGMike on December 21, 2006, 07:50:54 AM
The Who  I'm Free    5.5%
CSN   Long Time Gone    8.7%
Rolling Stones   You Can't Always Get What You Want    14.2%
Beatles   Oh Darling   8.7%
Zager & Evans   In the Year 2525    17.3%
Joe Cocker   Feeling Alright   6.3%
Shocking Blue   Venus   11.0%
Led Zeppelin   Good Times Bad Times    12.6%
Beach Boys   I Can Hear Music   6.3%
Three Dog Night   Easy to Be Hard    9.4%

wow -- Z&E win it. (if only they'd gotten 25.25% of the votes...)