Author Topic: The Drive, 8/21/08: 1973  (Read 2188 times)

RGMike

  • The Core
  • Eight Miles High
  • *****
  • Posts: 79473
    • View Profile
The Drive, 8/21/08: 1973
« on: August 21, 2008, 07:59:40 AM »
A sledgehammery year, but it'll be OK.

Especially when Edgar, Rick & Co are givin' Free Rides!
« Last Edit: August 21, 2008, 08:01:32 AM by RGMike »
You spin me right 'round, baby, right 'round

RGMike

  • The Core
  • Eight Miles High
  • *****
  • Posts: 79473
    • View Profile
Re: The Drive, 8/21/08: 1973
« Reply #1 on: August 21, 2008, 08:05:44 AM »
BOS "Photograph" -- Ringo and Richard Perry at their most flamboyantly Spectoresque.
You spin me right 'round, baby, right 'round

RGMike

  • The Core
  • Eight Miles High
  • *****
  • Posts: 79473
    • View Profile
Re: The Drive, 8/21/08: 1973
« Reply #2 on: August 21, 2008, 08:09:55 AM »
Dude! Sweet! BOS2!

Y'know, I figure a guy with a "little willy" would go home -- alone -- more often than not.

You spin me right 'round, baby, right 'round

RGMike

  • The Core
  • Eight Miles High
  • *****
  • Posts: 79473
    • View Profile
Re: The Drive, 8/21/08: 1973
« Reply #3 on: August 21, 2008, 08:14:52 AM »
"the hotel detective, he was outta sight"

Yeah, nothing like a house dick!  VHM GFR, "WAAB", Woo-ooh!
You spin me right 'round, baby, right 'round

RGMike

  • The Core
  • Eight Miles High
  • *****
  • Posts: 79473
    • View Profile
Re: The Drive, 8/21/08: 1973
« Reply #4 on: August 21, 2008, 08:15:54 AM »
Stevie heads for higher ground.
You spin me right 'round, baby, right 'round

RGMike

  • The Core
  • Eight Miles High
  • *****
  • Posts: 79473
    • View Profile
Re: The Drive, 8/21/08: 1973
« Reply #5 on: August 21, 2008, 08:20:15 AM »
Lordy! it's the Heep, who done the rancher's daughter. BOS3 "Stealin'".
You spin me right 'round, baby, right 'round

RGMike

  • The Core
  • Eight Miles High
  • *****
  • Posts: 79473
    • View Profile
Re: The Drive, 8/21/08: 1973
« Reply #6 on: August 21, 2008, 08:25:54 AM »
as usual, Bob plays Orleans' "Dance With Me" in '73, the year it was released (tho' nobody actually, y'know, heard it on the radio until '75).
You spin me right 'round, baby, right 'round

RGMike

  • The Core
  • Eight Miles High
  • *****
  • Posts: 79473
    • View Profile
Re: The Drive, 8/21/08: 1973
« Reply #7 on: August 21, 2008, 08:28:24 AM »
It ain't '73 w/out da Floyd.
You spin me right 'round, baby, right 'round

RGMike

  • The Core
  • Eight Miles High
  • *****
  • Posts: 79473
    • View Profile
Re: The Drive, 8/21/08: 1973
« Reply #8 on: August 21, 2008, 08:39:26 AM »
louielouielouielouie loo-wah.  WOS Stories, still one of my least-favorite #1s of that era.

But BOS4 the Mighty Zep.
You spin me right 'round, baby, right 'round

RGMike

  • The Core
  • Eight Miles High
  • *****
  • Posts: 79473
    • View Profile
Re: The Drive, 8/21/08: 1973
« Reply #9 on: August 21, 2008, 08:45:29 AM »
Edgar Winter Group - Free Ride 
Ringo Starr - Photograph 
Sweet - Little Willy 
Grand Funk - We're An American Band 
Stevie Wonder - Higher Ground 
Uriah Heep - Stealin' 
Orleans - Dance with Me 
Pink Floyd - Speak to Me/Breathe 
Stories - Brother Louis 
Led Zeppelin - The Ocean 
You spin me right 'round, baby, right 'round

Gazoo

  • The Core
  • Transcendent Typist
  • *****
  • Posts: 15259
    • View Profile
Re: The Drive, 8/21/08: 1973
« Reply #10 on: August 21, 2008, 08:56:33 AM »
louielouielouielouie loo-wah.  WOS Stories, still one of my least-favorite #1s of that era.
I never knew this.  Does the distaste extend to their cover of "Mamy Blue"?
“The choir of children sing their song.  They've practiced all year long.  Ding dong.  Ding dong.  Ding dong.”

RGMike

  • The Core
  • Eight Miles High
  • *****
  • Posts: 79473
    • View Profile
Re: The Drive, 8/21/08: 1973
« Reply #11 on: August 21, 2008, 09:03:41 AM »
louielouielouielouie loo-wah.  WOS Stories, still one of my least-favorite #1s of that era.
I never knew this.  Does the distaste extend to their cover of "Mamy Blue"?

No. In fact I almost posted "WOS Stories, hitting #1 with their only truly bad single". "Mammy Blue" was quite good, and check out their Macca-esque (or at least Emmitt Rhodes-esque) "I'm Coming Home", from the summer of '72.

I disliked "BL" at the time because to me (not having heard the Hot Choc version) it was just a retread of "Society's Child", which I felt had done the interracial-romance thing definitively.
« Last Edit: August 21, 2008, 09:05:32 AM by RGMike »
You spin me right 'round, baby, right 'round