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« Reply #15 on: April 14, 2006, 08:40:11 AM »
Damn, I would have *loved* to have heard BW's "I'm Gonna Love You Just a Little More, Babe" instead of the nonsensical emptiness of "Shambala."
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« Reply #16 on: April 14, 2006, 08:40:59 AM »
BW Stevenson's estate raking in the resids!
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« Reply #17 on: April 14, 2006, 08:41:09 AM »
BOS #3 3DN "Shambala".  When I was looking up B. W. Stevenson yesterday I saw he covered this (or was it a different song with same titile?).  Anyone familiar?

ETA: so, based on Mike's post B.W. wrote this & 3DN is the cover?
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« Reply #18 on: April 14, 2006, 08:43:31 AM »
BOS #4, the county judge who held a grudge...
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« Reply #19 on: April 14, 2006, 08:43:59 AM »
"Band on the Run" wasn't '74?
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« Reply #20 on: April 14, 2006, 08:44:50 AM »
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BOS #3 3DN "Shambala".  When I was looking up B. W. Stevenson yesterday I saw he covered this (or was it a different song with same titile?).  Anyone familiar?

ETA: so, based on Mike's post B.W. wrote this & 3DN is the cover?


Yes.  His version came out at the same time, but of course 3DN were huge so they got the hit.  It is generally felt that radio played "My Maria" as a kind of give-the-guy-a-break thing.

I know we've discussed this previously -- comes up whenever Dave mentions it.
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« Reply #21 on: April 14, 2006, 08:46:45 AM »
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"Band on the Run" wasn't '74?


wha'choo smokin' this mornin', boy?

We've had this discussion too... the LP came out in Nov or Dec  of '73, legal in both years.
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« Reply #22 on: April 14, 2006, 08:46:58 AM »
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BOS #3 3DN "Shambala".  When I was looking up B. W. Stevenson yesterday I saw he covered this (or was it a different song with same titile?).  Anyone familiar?

ETA: so, based on Mike's post B.W. wrote this & 3DN is the cover?


Stevenson recorded the initial version of, but did not write, "Shambala," a Daniel Moore composition.  3DN covered it and had the hit (they had the benefit of reputation and better distribution) so Stevenson linked up with Moore and they wrote the soundalike "My Maria."
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« Reply #23 on: April 14, 2006, 08:47:26 AM »
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"Band on the Run" wasn't '74?


Dec. 5, 1973.  Betcha Bob will say "...released just in time for Christmas of '73...", as he is wont to do.
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« Reply #24 on: April 14, 2006, 08:48:15 AM »
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BOS #3 3DN "Shambala".  When I was looking up B. W. Stevenson yesterday I saw he covered this (or was it a different song with same titile?).  Anyone familiar?

ETA: so, based on Mike's post B.W. wrote this & 3DN is the cover?


Stevenson recorded the initial version of, but did not write, "Shambala," a Daniel Moore composition.  3DN covered it and had the hit (they had the benefit of reputation and better distribution) so Stevenson linked up with Moore and they wrote the soundalike "My Maria."


I stand corrected!
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« Reply #25 on: April 14, 2006, 08:49:57 AM »
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BOS #3 3DN "Shambala".  When I was looking up B. W. Stevenson yesterday I saw he covered this (or was it a different song with same titile?).  Anyone familiar?

ETA: so, based on Mike's post B.W. wrote this & 3DN is the cover?


Stevenson recorded the initial version of, but did not write, "Shambala," a Daniel Moore composition.  3DN covered it and had the hit (they had the benefit of reputation and better distribution) so Stevenson linked up with Moore and they wrote the soundalike "My Maria."


I stand corrected!


So I guess he must be smoking the good stuff then, eh?
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« Reply #26 on: April 14, 2006, 08:51:30 AM »
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Quote from: "mshray"
BOS #3 3DN "Shambala".  When I was looking up B. W. Stevenson yesterday I saw he covered this (or was it a different song with same titile?).  Anyone familiar?

ETA: so, based on Mike's post B.W. wrote this & 3DN is the cover?


Stevenson recorded the initial version of, but did not write, "Shambala," a Daniel Moore composition.  3DN covered it and had the hit (they had the benefit of reputation and better distribution) so Stevenson linked up with Moore and they wrote the soundalike "My Maria."


I stand corrected!


So I guess he must be smoking the good stuff then, eh?


He's smoking the AMG Gold.
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« Reply #27 on: April 14, 2006, 08:51:57 AM »
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BOS #3 3DN "Shambala".  When I was looking up B. W. Stevenson yesterday I saw he covered this (or was it a different song with same titile?).  Anyone familiar?

ETA: so, based on Mike's post B.W. wrote this & 3DN is the cover?


Stevenson recorded the initial version of, but did not write, "Shambala," a Daniel Moore composition.  3DN covered it and had the hit (they had the benefit of reputation and better distribution) so Stevenson linked up with Moore and they wrote the soundalike "My Maria."


I stand corrected!


Well, not so much corrected; your version of things doesn't diverge from mine much.  It all happened within a few months so it was essentially contemporaneous.  3DN, for their part, were resentful of how "Shambala" came to pass: A song seller had pitched them on it, they requested a "hold" on it, and the seller unethically turned it around and pitched it to others as "the song Three Dog Night's about to record," forcing 3DN to rush-record and rush-release it to beat the competition.  Which they did.
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« Reply #28 on: April 14, 2006, 09:04:10 AM »
odd; no list from yesterday posted.

TEN @ 10 LOG FOR 04.14.06
1973

Edgar Winter  -  Free Ride
The Allman Brothers  -  Southbound
Seals & Crofts  -  Diamond Girl
ELO  -  Roll Over Beethoven
Aerosmith  -  Dream On
Styx  -  Lady
Focus  -  Hocus Pocus
Led Zeppelin  -  D'Yer Ma'ker
Three Dog Night  -  Shambala
Paul McCartney  -  Band on the Run

Monday we will feature 10 great songs from 1978.
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