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Title: 19 Feb 2008: it's...a 70's VT
Post by: mshray on February 19, 2008, 10:00:38 AM
Thanks Susan! (the Foghead who turned 50 today)

Today is also my Dad's 71'st.  Happy B-day, Dad!
Title: Re: 19 Feb 2008: it's...a 70's VT
Post by: RGMike on February 19, 2008, 10:01:48 AM
Gaz gets some Sly, lookin' at the gavel, er, devil.
Title: Re: 19 Feb 2008: it's...a 70's VT
Post by: Gazoo on February 19, 2008, 10:02:12 AM
Gaz gets some Sly, lookin' at the gavel, er, devil.

"Gavel" still makes perfect contextual sense to me.
Title: Re: 19 Feb 2008: it's...a 70's VT
Post by: Gazoo on February 19, 2008, 10:03:48 AM
Hayy B-Day, DadShray!

"Youth and truth are making love, dig it for a starter /
Dying young is hard to take, selling out is harder."

That line was awkward to hear when I saw them live in December.
Title: Re: 19 Feb 2008: it's...a 70's VT
Post by: Gazoo on February 19, 2008, 10:04:46 AM
Dave Edmunds was at #4 with this on this weekend's Kasem Kountdown.
Title: Re: 19 Feb 2008: it's...a 70's VT
Post by: ggould on February 19, 2008, 10:04:59 AM
ahh, Dave Edmunds'  "I Hear You Knockin'"
Title: Re: 19 Feb 2008: it's...a 70's VT
Post by: RGMike on February 19, 2008, 10:06:17 AM
Gaz gets some Sly, lookin' at the gavel, er, devil.

"Gavel" still makes perfect contextual sense to me.

Oh, absolutely -- I thought it was that for years, I thought the song was about a guy standing before a judge, narrating his life story.

uh-oh, a GazWOS: VHM DaveEdmunds, paying tribute to '50s rock -- that nostalgia train was just getting ready to leave the station in '71 and it would chug along for most of the '70s.
Title: Re: 19 Feb 2008: it's...a 70's VT
Post by: ggould on February 19, 2008, 10:07:27 AM
Bye Bye Miss American Pie, the long version

Title: Re: 19 Feb 2008: it's...a 70's VT
Post by: RGMike on February 19, 2008, 10:07:49 AM
OK, I really only need to hear "American Pie" one a year, tops.
Title: Re: 19 Feb 2008: it's...a 70's VT
Post by: Lightnin' Rod on February 19, 2008, 10:08:52 AM
-- that nostalgia train was just getting ready to leave the station in '71 and it would chug along for most of the '70s.

"American Pie" confirms that opinion.
Title: Re: 19 Feb 2008: it's...a 70's VT
Post by: ggould on February 19, 2008, 10:09:33 AM
Bye Bye Miss American Pie, the long version
I remember getting my literary criticism class all atwitter discussing this current song during my abortive attempt at college re-entry at Berkeley back then!

Title: Re: 19 Feb 2008: it's...a 70's VT
Post by: Wayback on February 19, 2008, 10:10:30 AM
Helter skelter in a summer swelter.
The birds flew off with a fallout shelter,
Eight miles high and falling fast.
It landed foul on the grass.
The players tried for a forward pass,
With the jester on the sidelines in a cast.

Now the half-time air was sweet perfume
While the sergeants played a marching tune.
We all got up to dance,
Oh, but we never got the chance!
`cause the players tried to take the field;
The marching band refused to yield.
Do you recall what was revealed
The day the music died...
Title: Re: 19 Feb 2008: it's...a 70's VT
Post by: mshray on February 19, 2008, 10:13:29 AM

Bye Bye Miss American Pie, the long version


Welcome back Geoff!

I'll always remember driving back to St. Louis from spending New Year's in Chicago circa 1987 with my brother Chris, in our old 1968 Chevy Biscayne with a broken radio, him and me singing this song for probably an hour before we figured we had remembered all the lyrics.
Title: Re: 19 Feb 2008: it's...a 70's VT
Post by: RGMike on February 19, 2008, 10:14:19 AM
Helter skelter in a summer swelter.
The birds flew off with a fallout shelter,
Eight miles high and falling fast.
It landed foul on the grass.
The players tried for a forward pass,
With the jester on the sidelines in a cast.

Now the half-time air was sweet perfume
While the sergeants played a marching tune.
We all got up to dance,
Oh, but we never got the chance!
`cause the players tried to take the field;
The marching band refused to yield.
Do you recall what was revealed
The day the music died...

A remarkably detailed (if sometimes literal-minded) illustration/exegesis of "American Pie" (orig posted in the "You Tube" thread a few weeks ago):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ycgegp0KdE4
Title: Re: 19 Feb 2008: it's...a 70's VT
Post by: Wayback on February 19, 2008, 10:15:53 AM
Ah yes, Do It AGAIN!
Title: Re: 19 Feb 2008: it's...a 70's VT
Post by: Gazoo on February 19, 2008, 10:16:13 AM
It's a clean sweep for the Dan!
Title: Re: 19 Feb 2008: it's...a 70's VT
Post by: ggould on February 19, 2008, 10:16:39 AM
Do It Again is 72!

[the above rant is a Katrina in itself!]
Title: Re: 19 Feb 2008: it's...a 70's VT
Post by: RGMike on February 19, 2008, 10:16:45 AM
Ah yes, Do It AGAIN!

It's a Steely Dan clean sweep -- all 4 sets today.
Title: Re: 19 Feb 2008: it's...a 70's VT
Post by: Gazoo on February 19, 2008, 10:17:32 AM
Ah yes, Do It AGAIN!

It's a Steely Dan clean sweep -- all 4 sets today.

Clean sweep JINX!
Title: Re: 19 Feb 2008: it's...a 70's VT
Post by: RGMike on February 19, 2008, 10:17:41 AM
Do It Again is 72!

[the above rant is a Katrina in itself!]

but the single was charted in Feb '73 (when most folks remember it). And my reply is a Katrina too, I reckon!
Title: Re: 19 Feb 2008: it's...a 70's VT
Post by: ggould on February 19, 2008, 10:18:53 AM
Do It Again is 72!

[the above rant is a Katrina in itself!]

but the single was charted in Feb '73 (when most folks remember it). And my reply is a Katrina too, I reckon!
one Katrina begets another!  Radio was different out here!
Title: Re: 19 Feb 2008: it's...a 70's VT
Post by: RGMike on February 19, 2008, 10:22:27 AM
Direct from Branson, MO: Jim Stafford.
Title: Re: 19 Feb 2008: it's...a 70's VT
Post by: mshray on February 19, 2008, 10:22:28 AM
Dave shore does love them spiders and snakes!
Title: Re: 19 Feb 2008: it's...a 70's VT
Post by: Wayback on February 19, 2008, 10:22:35 AM
Do watcha wanna do ...
Title: Re: 19 Feb 2008: it's...a 70's VT
Post by: ggould on February 19, 2008, 10:23:27 AM
re: Spiders and Snakes
when I was working in the PO at Rincon Annex, I had a Chevy with only an AM radio. Perhaps my last continuous exposure to pop radio.
Title: Re: 19 Feb 2008: it's...a 70's VT
Post by: RGMike on February 19, 2008, 10:24:25 AM
Dave shore does love them spiders and snakes!

well, "snakes", anyway ;)
Title: Re: 19 Feb 2008: it's...a 70's VT
Post by: mshray on February 19, 2008, 10:24:33 AM
betcha the 1975 track is either Labelle or ELO.
Title: Re: 19 Feb 2008: it's...a 70's VT
Post by: Wayback on February 19, 2008, 10:24:57 AM
GRAND FUNK (I thought this was in 74?)
Title: Re: 19 Feb 2008: it's...a 70's VT
Post by: RGMike on February 19, 2008, 10:25:55 AM
yikes, was GFR the best/most representative chart single from '75 we could've gotten?
Title: Re: 19 Feb 2008: it's...a 70's VT
Post by: RGMike on February 19, 2008, 10:26:15 AM
betcha the 1975 track is either Labelle or ELO.

if only!

ETA: well, one song late...
Title: Re: 19 Feb 2008: it's...a 70's VT
Post by: Wayback on February 19, 2008, 10:28:19 AM
betcha the 1975 track is either Labelle or ELO.
we knew ELO had to appear in the set somewhere!
Title: Re: 19 Feb 2008: it's...a 70's VT
Post by: Wayback on February 19, 2008, 10:30:29 AM
will we hear a disco hit from 77, 78, 79??   ???
Title: Re: 19 Feb 2008: it's...a 70's VT
Post by: mshray on February 19, 2008, 10:31:17 AM

betcha the 1975 track is either Labelle or ELO.

if only!

well, one song late...


did a sort of the Db and was looking at past sets from around this time of year, "Can't Get It Out Of My Head" & "Lady Marmalade" were early March entries in the past for 1975.  Was going to predict "Dreamweaver" for '76, but glad I hesitated!

Manfred Mann was a slam dunk for 1977, it has appeared in VT's thrice already, airing between Jan 21 & Mar 4
Title: Re: 19 Feb 2008: it's...a 70's VT
Post by: RGMike on February 19, 2008, 10:34:48 AM
little Early Pearly came by in his Curly Whirly -- Bruce was smokin' some serious shit when he wrote this one.
Title: Re: 19 Feb 2008: it's...a 70's VT
Post by: mshray on February 19, 2008, 10:34:57 AM
will we hear a disco hit from 77, 78, 79??   ???

"Night Fever" is a real possibility, played once in a March 4th VT

ETA: hope it isn't Queen, "We Are The Champions", which has appeared in Feb 5th and Jan 21st VT sets of the past.
Title: Re: 19 Feb 2008: it's...a 70's VT
Post by: Wayback on February 19, 2008, 10:35:20 AM
Wrapped up like a douche??

Mama always told me not to look into
The eyes of the sun
But mama that's where the fun is
Some brimstone baritone
Anticyclone rolling stone
Preacher from the east
Says dethrone the dictaphone
Hit it in it's funnybone
That's where they expect it least
And some new mown chaperone
Was standing in the corner
Watching the young girls dance
And some fresh-sewn moonstone
Was messin' with his frozen zone
Reminding him of romance
Title: Re: 19 Feb 2008: it's...a 70's VT
Post by: RGMike on February 19, 2008, 10:36:06 AM
will we hear a disco hit from 77, 78, 79??   ???

"Night Fever" is a real possibility, played once in a March 4th VT

indeed -- as is Yvonne Elliman.
Title: Re: 19 Feb 2008: it's...a 70's VT
Post by: RGMike on February 19, 2008, 10:37:53 AM
Wrapped up like a douche??

now, now, we all know it's "revved up like a deuce". Tho' the Summer's Eve folks did want to use it for a commercial ;)
Title: Re: 19 Feb 2008: it's...a 70's VT
Post by: RGMike on February 19, 2008, 10:39:39 AM
will we hear a disco hit from 77, 78, 79??   ???

"Night Fever" is a real possibility, played once in a March 4th VT

ETA: hope it isn't Queen, "We Are The Champions", which has appeared in Feb 5th and Jan 21st VT sets of the past.

well, it's the Bee Gees, anyway...
Title: Re: 19 Feb 2008: it's...a 70's VT
Post by: Alicat on February 19, 2008, 10:40:47 AM
BOS BeeGees.
You just can't go too wrong in the 70's.
Title: Re: 19 Feb 2008: it's...a 70's VT
Post by: Gazoo on February 19, 2008, 10:41:32 AM
Remarkable prognostications today!  So we'll finish in '79 with ... ?  I'll go left-field and say Ian Gomm.
Title: Re: 19 Feb 2008: it's...a 70's VT
Post by: Gazoo on February 19, 2008, 10:43:42 AM
MUCH further left field!  There's no Need. To. Be. Un. Hap. Py.
Title: Re: 19 Feb 2008: it's...a 70's VT
Post by: RGMike on February 19, 2008, 10:43:54 AM
Remarkable prognostications today!  So we'll finish in '79 with ... ?  I'll go left-field and say Ian Gomm.

OMFG! almost as left-field: "YMCA", which Dave doesn't play very often, actually.
Title: Re: 19 Feb 2008: it's...a 70's VT
Post by: Alicat on February 19, 2008, 10:44:07 AM
VHM Village People. This is always fun.
Title: Re: 19 Feb 2008: it's...a 70's VT
Post by: RGMike on February 19, 2008, 10:46:44 AM
Remarkable prognostications today!  So we'll finish in '79 with ... ?  I'll go left-field and say Ian Gomm.

OMFG! almost as left-field: "YMCA", which Dave doesn't play very often, actually.

indeed, the shraytabase sez it's a bustout!   I'd swear Dave's played it at least once, tho' it musta been a while ago.  Bob's played it more often than Dave!
Title: Re: 19 Feb 2008: it's...a 70's VT
Post by: Wayback on February 19, 2008, 10:46:59 AM
It's fun to stay at the Y-M-C-A...
(http://www.fugly.com/media/IMAGES/Crazy/ymca_jesus.jpg)
Title: Re: 19 Feb 2008: it's...a 70's VT
Post by: mshray on February 19, 2008, 10:47:19 AM
Remarkable prognostications today!  So we'll finish in '79 with ... ?  I'll go left-field and say Ian Gomm.

OMFG! almost as left-field: "YMCA", which Dave doesn't play very often, actually.

Quick, get another feather headdress picture!
Title: Re: 19 Feb 2008: it's...a 70's VT
Post by: mshray on February 19, 2008, 10:47:55 AM
<--YMCA at the art museum

LOL!
Title: Re: 19 Feb 2008: it's...a 70's VT
Post by: RGMike on February 19, 2008, 10:48:47 AM
Remarkable prognostications today!  So we'll finish in '79 with ... ?  I'll go left-field and say Ian Gomm.

OMFG! almost as left-field: "YMCA", which Dave doesn't play very often, actually.

Quick, get another feather headdress picture!

(http://img.costumecraze.com/images/vendors/eloper/LA3571-thumb2.jpg)
Title: Re: 19 Feb 2008: it's...a 70's VT
Post by: Gazoo on February 19, 2008, 11:03:17 AM
<--YMCA at the art museum

LOL!

I second that emoticon.   :D
Title: Re: 19 Feb 2008: it's...a 70's VT
Post by: RGMike on February 19, 2008, 11:08:31 AM
I'n sticking around for the bonus, which should be from 1980 -- it better be something other than "Call Me", which Renee played at 5:45 this morning and thus began my day.
Title: Re: 19 Feb 2008: it's...a 70's VT
Post by: RGMike on February 19, 2008, 11:16:21 AM
I'n sticking around for the bonus, which should be from 1980 -- it better be something other than "Call Me", which Renee played at 5:45 this morning and thus began my day.

well, Annalisa violates the spirit of the thing by offering album tracks rather than chart hits, but I won't bitch about hearing Pete's "And I Moved".
Title: Re: 19 Feb 2008: it's...a 70's VT
Post by: mshray on February 19, 2008, 11:31:52 AM
I'n sticking around for the bonus, which should be from 1980 -- it better be something other than "Call Me", which Renee played at 5:45 this morning and thus began my day.

well, Annalisa violates the spirit of the thing by offering album tracks rather than chart hits, but I won't bitch about hearing Pete's "And I Moved".

likewise.  And in what seems to be the soonest ever promo to tip the following day's set, we learn that tomorrow we're going to 1980.
Title: Re: 19 Feb 2008: it's...a 70's VT
Post by: RGMike on February 19, 2008, 12:57:28 PM
02/19/2008 - Tuesday! Vertical Tasting...Feb. 19, 1970 - 1979
 
1.  1970 - Sly & the Family Stone - Thank You (Falletinme Be Mice Elf Agin)   
2.  1971 - Dave Edmunds - I Hear You Knocking   
3.  1972 - Don McLean - American Pie (BEST OF SET!!)   
4.  1973 - Steely Dan - Do it Again   
5.  1974 - Jim Stafford - Spiders & Snakes   
6.  1975 - Grand Funk - Some Kind of Wonderful   
7.  1976 - ELO - Evil Woman   
8.  1977 - Manfred Mann's Earth Band - Blinded By the Light   
9.  1978 - Bee Gees - Stayin' Alive   
10.  1979 - Village People - YMCA   
 
BONUS TRACK:  1980 - Pete Townshend - And I Moved

(Kudos to Dave's intern for correctly spelling the Sly title!)