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KBCO, 02/20/06: 1971
« on: February 20, 2006, 09:08:06 AM »
HM's to the Moodies' "Story in Your Eyes" and the Stones' "Bitch."  How did radio deal with the latter -- did they bleep it?  Or was "bitch" OK for mainstream consumption by then?
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KBCO, 02/20/06: 1971
« Reply #1 on: February 20, 2006, 09:12:02 AM »
BOS to the excerpt from Brian's Song -- I've never seen the movie, but the book is a personal favorite of mine.  Brian Piccolo is one of those people that I regret not having had the opportunity to meet.

Followed by a nice Elton song that I've never heard, "Where to Now, St. Peter?"  Adorable.  Think I'm gonna have to listen to "Mona Lisas and Mad Hatters" when this set's over.
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« Reply #2 on: February 20, 2006, 09:18:29 AM »
nice "Light Up or Leave Me Alone" sung by the late Mr. Capaldi.
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« Reply #3 on: February 20, 2006, 09:21:03 AM »
"Oh My Love"
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« Reply #4 on: February 20, 2006, 09:22:33 AM »
in the middle of 10@10?
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« Reply #5 on: February 20, 2006, 09:24:28 AM »
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"Oh My Love"


Yes, and a fine one.

Where's Mike?  He'll be sorry he missed Ms. King's "It's Too Late."
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« Reply #6 on: February 20, 2006, 09:24:55 AM »
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in the middle of 10@10?


Yeah, KBCO's unique among the 10@10s that way.
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« Reply #7 on: February 20, 2006, 09:29:06 AM »
nice to hear the Band on the way out the door!

"Life is a Carnival!"
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« Reply #8 on: February 20, 2006, 09:36:24 AM »
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nice to hear the Band on the way out the door!

"Life is a Carnival!"


Geoff, get back here!  Be late!  It's Marvin's inner city blues!
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Re: on my way to office, but
« Reply #9 on: February 20, 2006, 09:59:54 AM »
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Geoff, get back here!  Be late!  It's Marvin's inner city blues!

damn!  When will we have internet radio in our cars?
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Re: KBCO, 02/20/06: 1971
« Reply #10 on: February 20, 2006, 10:25:49 AM »
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HM's to the Moodies' "Story in Your Eyes" and the Stones' "Bitch."  How did radio deal with the latter -- did they bleep it?  Or was "bitch" OK for mainstream consumption by then?


Damn, I figured Rob, Ginger & Bob would take the day off.

"Bitch" didn't get any AM Top 40 play (it was the B-side of "Brown Sugar", iirc), but FM prog stations played it as a badge of coolness.

ETA: I'm stunned that there are any early EJ songs you haven't heard
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Re: KBCO, 02/20/06: 1971
« Reply #11 on: February 20, 2006, 11:04:55 AM »
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HM's to the Moodies' "Story in Your Eyes" and the Stones' "Bitch."  How did radio deal with the latter -- did they bleep it?  Or was "bitch" OK for mainstream consumption by then?


Damn, I figured Rob, Ginger & Bob would take the day off.

"Bitch" didn't get any AM Top 40 play (it was the B-side of "Brown Sugar", iirc), but FM prog stations played it as a badge of coolness.

ETA: I'm stunned that there are any early EJ songs you haven't heard


This makes me really curious to know how airplay was tallied for the charts, in terms of ratios of FM-to-AM stations.  I often find myself wishing that today's charts were more adult-oriented, as the '70s' seemed to be, but it might be a case of "be careful what you wish for."  Interesting to me, at any rate.
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Re: KBCO, 02/20/06: 1971
« Reply #12 on: February 20, 2006, 11:19:41 AM »
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HM's to the Moodies' "Story in Your Eyes" and the Stones' "Bitch."  How did radio deal with the latter -- did they bleep it?  Or was "bitch" OK for mainstream consumption by then?


Damn, I figured Rob, Ginger & Bob would take the day off.

"Bitch" didn't get any AM Top 40 play (it was the B-side of "Brown Sugar", iirc), but FM prog stations played it as a badge of coolness.

ETA: I'm stunned that there are any early EJ songs you haven't heard


This makes me really curious to know how airplay was tallied for the charts, in terms of ratios of FM-to-AM stations.  I often find myself wishing that today's charts were more adult-oriented, as the '70s' seemed to be, but it might be a case of "be careful what you wish for."  Interesting to me, at any rate.


I'm looking at the Hot 100s for that period, and "Bitch" was never actually listed on the chart; at the the same time B-sides of Cocker's "High Time We Went" and Neil D's "I Am... I said" were listed.  Which says that few reporting Top 40 stations on Billboard's panel were playing "Bitch". A Pavlovian reaction, obviously. But I don't think '70s singles charts were any more "adult" -- Osmonds? Partridges? Shaun Cassidy?

But FYI, Airplay was a smaller fraction of the equation back then, it was almost all sales. Billboard only started publishing a separate airplay chart in the mid-'80s, iirc.  Which became a bone of contention in the early '90s when "American Top 40" switched to the airplay chart for their countdown in an effort to avoid having to play rap (which at that time was a turn-off to their core audience, and those records were not being played on most "AT40" affiliates anyway).  Obviously, times changed.
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KBCO, 02/20/06: 1971
« Reply #13 on: February 20, 2006, 01:12:27 PM »
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Followed by a nice Elton song that I've never heard, "Where to Now, St. Peter?"  Adorable.  Think I'm gonna have to listen to "Mona Lisas and Mad Hatters" when this set's over.


I too am surprised you've never heard 'St. Peter.' although it's certainly been eclipsed by many other tunes in EJ's career, it sure got a good bit of AM airplay circa 71-72, at least on the Top 40 stations in Sacramento. The hook in the chorus is still one of EJ's best, imo. Tumbleweed Connection was probably my earliest exposure to his music--both Country Comfort and Burn Down the Mission were also included, although I couldn't tell you which was the more prominent on radio; per AMG, there weren't any charting singles even though it hit #5 on the Pop Albums chart.

ETA: Whitburn confirms the lack of singles from TC. The theme from Friends charted in April of 71, but nothing else did til Levon in January of 72, which was on Madman Across the Water. I think we've commented before on EJ's prolific output of 1971-73: no fewer than 5 albums of new material during that three year period(TC, Madman, Honky Chateau, Don't Shoot Me, and GBYBR), as well as a live album (11-17-70) and a movie soundtrack (Friends). Amazing.
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KBCO, 02/20/06: 1971
« Reply #14 on: February 20, 2006, 04:24:02 PM »
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Followed by a nice Elton song that I've never heard, "Where to Now, St. Peter?"  Adorable.  Think I'm gonna have to listen to "Mona Lisas and Mad Hatters" when this set's over.


I too am surprised you've never heard 'St. Peter.' although it's certainly been eclipsed by many other tunes in EJ's career, it sure got a good bit of AM airplay circa 71-72, at least on the Top 40 stations in Sacramento. The hook in the chorus is still one of EJ's best, imo. Tumbleweed Connection was probably my earliest exposure to his music--both Country Comfort and Burn Down the Mission were also included, although I couldn't tell you which was the more prominent on radio; per AMG, there weren't any charting singles even though it hit #5 on the Pop Albums chart.

ETA: Whitburn confirms the lack of singles from TC. The theme from Friends charted in April of 71, but nothing else did til Levon in January of 72, which was on Madman Across the Water. I think we've commented before on EJ's prolific output of 1971-73: no fewer than 5 albums of new material during that three year period(TC, Madman, Honky Chateau, Don't Shoot Me, and GBYBR), as well as a live album (11-17-70) and a movie soundtrack (Friends). Amazing.


It had never occurred to me... but it is kind of astounding that there were no charted singles from TC -- "Your Song" had just been Top Ten and you'd think they'd've wanted to follow that up. I guess "Friends" (being another ballad) fit the bill, but it was from a sndtk on a different label (Paramount), even though the single was on UNI (soon to become MCA).  Musta been some contractual non-compete situation.

And of course Caribou came out just 9 months after GYBR, and was followed 4 months later by his first GH set!
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