by Paul
San Fancisco band Journey were very successful from the late Seventies on into the Eighties, with songs like “Wheel in the Sky”, “Lights”, “Lovin,’ Touchin,’ Squeezin’”, “Any Way You Want It”, “Who’s Crying Now” and “Don’t Stop Believin’”. I remember that in the part of southern Germany where I lived in the early 1980s (Franconia, […]
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by Paul
There have been over 100 versions of the Chicago song “If You Leave Me Now”, but the classic was and is the original, which went to Number 1 in the USA (both singles and album charts, the album was Chicago X), Australia and in the UK, among others, in 1976. Chicago had many hits right […]
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by Paul
New Zealand band Dragon, who relocated to Sydney, Australia in 1975 had a national hit in 1977 with “April Sun In Cuba”, which reached No. 2 in Australia. I don’t actually remember any of their other songs, but “Are You Old Enough?” reached No. 1 a year later. This is “April Sun In Cuba”: And […]
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Three Dog Night hardly wrote a song of their own, but they had numerous hits with the songs they covered, such as “One”, “Celebrate, “Eli’s Coming” and “Easy To Be Hard”, “Mama Told Me Not To Come”, “Just An Old Fashioned Love Song”, “Black And White” or “Joy To The World” (sometimes called “Jeremiah Was […]
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It may have hit the charts in 1971, but when I heard “Burning Bridges” by The Mike Curb Congregation earlier this evening, I still knew the words… My family were watching a video of the Clint Eastwood/Donald Sutherland/Telly Savalas film “Kelly’s Heroes” from 1970 – one of a big box of videos we recently acquired. […]
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