The Sound (LA), 4/29/09: 1HW's

[mshray]

So far:

Come On Eileen
One Toke Over the Line
How Long
Mississippi Queen
No Rain

[mshray]

Turning Japanese, I really think so.

[mshray]

gonna go to the place that's the best...and vote it best of set.

Norman Greenbaum rules!

[mshray]

always nice to thear the Troggs original "Wild Thing", but they're actually a 3-hit wonder.

[RGMike]

always nice to thear the Troggs original "Wild Thing", but they're actually a 3-hit wonder.

indeed -- and I agree with Little Steven that they're quite underrated.

[mshray]

...and wrapping up nicely with White Bird.

[urth]

always nice to thear the Troggs original "Wild Thing", but they're actually a 3-hit wonder.

Yeah, and I believe It's A Beautiful Day had at least one other hit as well (although I don't find them in Whitburn at all).

[RGMike]

always nice to thear the Troggs original "Wild Thing", but they're actually a 3-hit wonder.

Yeah, and I believe It's A Beautiful Day had at least one other hit as well (although I don't find them in Whitburn at all).

"White Bird" qualifies as a "hit"?  on prog FM, maybe, but as a Top 40 single? Larry's parameters are rather untraditional, methinks.

[mshray]

always nice to thear the Troggs original "Wild Thing", but they're actually a 3-hit wonder.

Yeah, and I believe It's A Beautiful Day had at least one other hit as well (although I don't find them in Whitburn at all).

No, in fact they're a Zero Hit Wonder.  "White Bird" didn't chart at all as far as I can tell on the Hot 100.

[RGMike]

always nice to thear the Troggs original "Wild Thing", but they're actually a 3-hit wonder.

Yeah, and I believe It's A Beautiful Day had at least one other hit as well (although I don't find them in Whitburn at all).

No, in fact they're a Zero Hit Wonder.  "White Bird" didn't chart at all as far as I can tell on the Hot 100.

Larry needs a stern talking-to from Casey Kasem.  I want a concerted effort! He needs to use his f---ing brain!

[Tinka Cat]

always nice to thear the Troggs original "Wild Thing", but they're actually a 3-hit wonder.

Yeah, and I believe It's A Beautiful Day had at least one other hit as well (although I don't find them in Whitburn at all).

No, in fact they're a Zero Hit Wonder.  "White Bird" didn't chart at all as far as I can tell on the Hot 100.

Larry needs a stern talking-to from Casey Kasem.  I want a concerted effort! He needs to use his f---ing brain!

LOL...!~ 

man, the woman vocalist sounds like Grace Slick. 

(eta: just looked them up and it's Pattie Santos, but I'm sure everyone here except me already knew that.)

[RGMike]

Come On Eileen - Dexy's Midnight Runners
One Toke Over the Line - Brewer & Shipley
Tubthumping - Chumbawumba
How Long - Ace
Mississippi Queen - Mountain
No Rain - Blind Melon
Turning Japanese - The Vapors
Spirit in the Sky - Norman Greenbaum
Wild Thing - The Troggs
White Bird - It's A Beautiful Day

Well, Larry certainly covered all the decades!

[Gazoo]

always nice to thear the Troggs original "Wild Thing", but they're actually a 3-hit wonder.

Yeah, and I believe It's A Beautiful Day had at least one other hit as well (although I don't find them in Whitburn at all).

No, in fact they're a Zero Hit Wonder.  "White Bird" didn't chart at all as far as I can tell on the Hot 100.

Larry needs a stern talking-to from Casey Kasem.  I want a concerted effort! He needs to use his f---ing brain!

LOL...!~ 

man, the woman vocalist sounds like Grace Slick. 

(eta: just looked them up and it's Pattie Santos, but I'm sure everyone here except me already knew that.)

I didn't - thank you!

Having heard lots of regional period psychedelia on Technicolor Web of Sound and various Bosstown comps, I can say that a lot of people were trying to sound like Grace Slick.  Maybe that's a paper to pitch to EMP: Grace Slick's underrated influence as a vocal *presence*.

I thought Blind Melon had also charted Top 40 with "Tones of Home," but I was wrong.