The Drive, 8/21/08: 1973

[RGMike]

A sledgehammery year, but it'll be OK.

Especially when Edgar, Rick & Co are givin' Free Rides!

[RGMike]

BOS "Photograph" -- Ringo and Richard Perry at their most flamboyantly Spectoresque.

[RGMike]

Dude! Sweet! BOS2!

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

[RGMike]

"the hotel detective, he was outta sight"

Yeah, nothing like a house dick!  VHM GFR, "WAAB", Woo-ooh!

[RGMike]

Stevie heads for higher ground.

[RGMike]

Lordy! it's the Heep, who done the rancher's daughter. BOS3 "Stealin'".

[RGMike]

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).

[RGMike]

It ain't '73 w/out da Floyd.

[RGMike]

louielouielouielouie loo-wah.  WOS Stories, still one of my least-favorite #1s of that era.

But BOS4 the Mighty Zep.

[RGMike]

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 

[Gazoo]

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"?

[RGMike]

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.