Doc Safari
02-25-16, 17:29
Short version: My girlfriend is heavily into Seventies music. We've spent hours reminiscing about favorite hits from that era. I like music from all eras, but she's such a huge seventies fan that I decided to download some songs from Amazon and make us both a CD for Valentine's day.
There are a lot of songs I ran across by accident that I had totally (or almost totally) forgotten about.
Some gems:
"Substitute" by Clout
Wasn't a very big hit. I probably heard it a total of five or six times back in the day. I ran across it completely by accident while looking at song lists of seventies CD's on Amazon.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2BFH6MhFJU
"Couldn't Get It Right" by Climax Blues Band
Did they ever have another hit?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwnC_8_ZeYE
"How Long" by Ace
Would not have found this in a million years but for a lucky break. They played it on satellite radio and of course Sirius displays the artist and song title.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZ2ZNCip9YM
"Third Rate Romance" by Amazing Rhythm Aces
Of course there have been other versions, but this one is the classic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTT-Jmi1nOc
Certainly, there are other seventies gems I'll never forget, like Driver's Seat (Sniff N the Tears), Magnet and Steel (Walter Egan), Jackie Blue (Ozark Mountain Daredevils), and others, but these rare gems are some that took genuine research and a lot of searching....and some luck.
A little trivia: the Ozark Mountain Daredevils were originally going to call themselves "Cosmic Corn Cob & His Amazing Ozark Mountain Daredevils" but the band members thought they would be confused with the "Amazing Rhythm Aces."
One obscurity I could not find to download: the original "One Tin Soldier" by Coven that is on the Billy Jack soundtrack. Every other version is a re-recording by a different group.
And this leads me to one caveat: there are a LOT of these old songs that were re-recorded by the original artists, so make sure you play a song before you buy it (if you can). I got bitten by a re-recording of "It Only Takes a Minute" by Tavares. My girlfriend downloaded an awful re-recording of "Magnet and Steel".
There are a lot of songs I ran across by accident that I had totally (or almost totally) forgotten about.
Some gems:
"Substitute" by Clout
Wasn't a very big hit. I probably heard it a total of five or six times back in the day. I ran across it completely by accident while looking at song lists of seventies CD's on Amazon.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2BFH6MhFJU
"Couldn't Get It Right" by Climax Blues Band
Did they ever have another hit?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwnC_8_ZeYE
"How Long" by Ace
Would not have found this in a million years but for a lucky break. They played it on satellite radio and of course Sirius displays the artist and song title.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZ2ZNCip9YM
"Third Rate Romance" by Amazing Rhythm Aces
Of course there have been other versions, but this one is the classic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTT-Jmi1nOc
Certainly, there are other seventies gems I'll never forget, like Driver's Seat (Sniff N the Tears), Magnet and Steel (Walter Egan), Jackie Blue (Ozark Mountain Daredevils), and others, but these rare gems are some that took genuine research and a lot of searching....and some luck.
A little trivia: the Ozark Mountain Daredevils were originally going to call themselves "Cosmic Corn Cob & His Amazing Ozark Mountain Daredevils" but the band members thought they would be confused with the "Amazing Rhythm Aces."
One obscurity I could not find to download: the original "One Tin Soldier" by Coven that is on the Billy Jack soundtrack. Every other version is a re-recording by a different group.
And this leads me to one caveat: there are a LOT of these old songs that were re-recorded by the original artists, so make sure you play a song before you buy it (if you can). I got bitten by a re-recording of "It Only Takes a Minute" by Tavares. My girlfriend downloaded an awful re-recording of "Magnet and Steel".