March 21st, 2010 by Paul
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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March 20th, 2010 by Paul
I have always treasured the two albums by Pavlov’s Dog I have on an old cassette, with tracks like “Julia”, “Late November”, “Fast Gun”, “Natchez Trace”, “Theme From Subway Sue”, “Of Once and Future Kings”, “She Came Shining”, “Gold Nuggets”, “Early Morning On” and “Did You See HIm Cry”. The band from St. Louis, Missouri, […]
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March 19th, 2010 by Paul
In the early Seventies a band from New York (really a duo, Donald Fagen and Walter Becker, with additional musicians) called Steely Dan began having a series of hits, such as “Do It Again”, “Reelin’ In The Years” and “Rikki Don’t Lose That Number”. At the end of the decade, or easing into the next […]
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March 18th, 2010 by Paul
It was 1976 when former Guess Who lead singer and composer Burton Cummings released “Stand Tall”. This is another one of those Seventies songs that I knew, and always instantly recognise, but I didn’t really connect the name of Burton Cummings with The Guess Who. In fact I must confess that, while I knew the […]
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March 17th, 2010 by Paul
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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