8 June 2009: Chartbusters 1972-1982

[RGMike]

so, have we skipped '73 and gone directly to '74? 'Cause "Jet" wasn't a "chartbuster" until spring of that year.

Hrm. '74 repped by GFR, locomoting. 'cause, see, they're Grand Funk Railroad -- GET IT?? Somebody at Capitol Records thought that was immensely clever at the time, I betcha.

[ggould]

Billie Jean King!

Elton's Philadelphia Freedom

[urth]

Anyone else think that "Kotter" clip was just a little lacking? We heard more of Marcia Strassman than we did Mistah Kah-tah. And it was over far too quickly with no real punchline.

[RGMike]

As for the substitution of "chartbusters" for "vertical tasting", I think that's just another way they're trying to distance AL's 10@10 from the Dave years, to make it hers without borrowing much at all from Dave. About the only thing that's carried over that I can tell is the little bit of Time Warp that opens the intro. Otherwise it's completely reinvented.

And no sooner do I post that than she uses Dave's "Nineteen-seventy-threeeeee" choral bumper to lead into McCartney's Jet.

the "Zoom" clip was from Dave's library too, tho' I supposed she coulda got it off YouTube.

BOS "Philly Freedom", one Dave never played all that much iirc.

[RGMike]

Anyone else think that "Kotter" clip was just a little lacking? We heard more of Marcia Strassman than we did Mistah Kah-tah.

Ms Strassman was every good Jewish boy's dream wife back in the day.

[Tinka Cat]

I think I remember EJ doing this on Mike Douglas show and Billie Jean King sat w him on the piano bench.  Could have been a  scene straight from Martuni's Bar @ Market and Velencia streets

[Alicat]

BOS EJ philly, always good to hear

[urth]

Anyone else think that "Kotter" clip was just a little lacking? We heard more of Marcia Strassman than we did Mistah Kah-tah.

Ms Strassman was every good Jewish boy's dream wife back in the day.

You didn't even have to be Jewish. I remember thinking she was hot, too.

[Tinka Cat]

Anyone else think that "Kotter" clip was just a little lacking? We heard more of Marcia Strassman than we did Mistah Kah-tah.

Ms Strassman was every good Jewish boy's dream wife back in the day.

yeah, but did you hear the enthusiastic audience applause response when Gabe K said "Good morning?"   His hair had magical powers over 70s audiences.

and I'm impressed you remembered Strassman's name.    And I concur, she was hawt. 

[ggould]

Anyone else think that "Kotter" clip was just a little lacking? We heard more of Marcia Strassman than we did Mistah Kah-tah.

Ms Strassman was every good Jewish boy's dream wife back in the day.

BTW, does anyone have a copy of her one-time hit "The Flower People" on some sort of 60's retro compilation?

[Alicat]

BOS Frampton
you KNEW I was gonna say that didn't you?

[ggould]

Peter Frampton and the squawk box
"Show Me the Way"

[Gazoo]

I think I remember EJ doing this on Mike Douglas show and Billie Jean King sat w him on the piano bench.  Could have been a  scene straight from Martuni's Bar @ Market and Velencia streets

Haha, I remember when I went there for the first time.  My friend Robert prefaced it in his best archaeologist's voice: "We're going to observe the mating habits of the native homosexual."

And I was hoping for "Nadia's Theme" in its entirety.

[RGMike]

Anyone else think that "Kotter" clip was just a little lacking? We heard more of Marcia Strassman than we did Mistah Kah-tah.

Ms Strassman was every good Jewish boy's dream wife back in the day.

BTW, does anyone have a copy of her one-time hit "The Flower People" on some sort of 60's retro compilation?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPjqmBWlHuE

[urth]

Anyone else think that "Kotter" clip was just a little lacking? We heard more of Marcia Strassman than we did Mistah Kah-tah.

Ms Strassman was every good Jewish boy's dream wife back in the day.

BTW, does anyone have a copy of her one-time hit "The Flower People" on some sort of 60's retro compilation?

From the bio page of her website a fan site:

In April, 1967, Marcia attempted to launch a singing career with the recording of Jerry Goldstein and "Lord" Tim Hudson's "The Flower Children" song (these two coined the phrase "flower power"). The single was the #1 hit in Los Angeles and San Francisco, but failed to make it to the top 100 nationwide.