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Topic: Songs that were... Posted: October 26 2017 at 17:59
stegor wrote:
Jump Into the Fire by Harry Nilsson. Such a great and unique song. I just loved it when I was about 12, still do. First album I ever bought. I still catch a glimpse of it once in a while but it's always in a commercial or bumper music on a talk show, never being played on the radio.
I think you're right, that one literally never plays on the radio anymore.
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Posted: October 26 2017 at 17:54
Squonk19 wrote:
Rock 'n' Roll (Part 2) - a great instrumental stomper from the early 70s glam rock scene by some guy called Gary Glitter. Never hear it anymore on radio or TV - can't think why?
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Posted: October 26 2017 at 05:51
Squonk19 wrote:
Rock 'n' Roll (Part 2) - a great instrumental stomper from the early 70s glam rock scene by some guy called Gary Glitter. Never hear it anymore on radio or TV - can't think why?
Gary Glitter has a 20+ year history of pedophilia and child sex abuse, is a lifetime registered sex offender in the UK, and is banned in more than 20 countries. That may have something to do with radio stations not wanting to play his songs anymore ...
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Posted: October 25 2017 at 21:01
Jump Into the Fire by Harry Nilsson. Such a great and unique song. I just loved it when I was about 12, still do. First album I ever bought. I still catch a glimpse of it once in a while but it's always in a commercial or bumper music on a talk show, never being played on the radio.
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Posted: October 25 2017 at 17:05
Rock 'n' Roll (Part 2) - a great instrumental stomper from the early 70s glam rock scene by some guy called Gary Glitter. Never hear it anymore on radio or TV - can't think why?
“Living in their pools, they soon forget about the sea.”
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Posted: October 25 2017 at 16:08
Prog Sothoth wrote:
I remember hearing "99" by Toto an awful lot on easy rock radio back in the early 80s. I still hear a few of their other hits quite a bit, but never that one. Shmaltz, but with nostalgic value.
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Posted: October 25 2017 at 16:07
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YESESIS wrote:
Tom Ozric wrote:
Too Shy by Kajagoogoo !! Yep, still love me some Kaja........Nick Beggs’ bassline is up there with Luminol
Haha, my brother and I used to laugh about how much of a 'one hit wonder' they were. Like whenever that subject would come up, one of us would say Kajagoogoo!!! We were pretty young and just silly. Anyway it is a cool song though, surprised they didn't have more hits.
They did have a few, but none as high up the charts as Too Shy. Big Apple was another good one.
They were probably more popular in Europe. Where I grew up(upstate NY), I only ever remember hearing that one song from them.
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Posted: October 25 2017 at 16:01
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YESESIS wrote:
Another one is On The Loose by Saga. I distinctly remember that playing on the radio in the early 80's, but now as far as I can tell it never does.
That one and Wind Him Up still get played fairly frequently here in Canada - mostly because classic rock stations (well, all radio stations) here need to get their quota of Canadian content.
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Posted: October 25 2017 at 03:30
I recall Rick Wakeman had a couple of tunes they played on the airwaves for a brief moment in history, but they flopped I guess : White Rock and Elizabethan Rock, from memory. Rock Wakeman, anyone ??
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Posted: October 25 2017 at 03:26
YESESIS wrote:
Tom Ozric wrote:
Too Shy by Kajagoogoo !! Yep, still love me some Kaja........Nick Beggs’ bassline is up there with Luminol
Haha, my brother and I used to laugh about how much of a 'one hit wonder' they were. Like whenever that subject would come up, one of us would say Kajagoogoo!!! We were pretty young and just silly. Anyway it is a cool song though, surprised they didn't have more hits.
They did have a few, but none as high up the charts as Too Shy. Big Apple was another good one.
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Posted: October 24 2017 at 22:09
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The.Crimson.King wrote:
Not exactly popular songs that vanished, but still a related prog story...
Beginning
in the mid 70's, the biggest rock radio station in San Jose was KOME.
They had a big tie to prog with the DJ Greg Stone and his Sunday night
prog radio show, "Stone Trek". For both Going for the One &
Tormato, KOME played the albums in full the night they were released!
That should give an idea of how huge Yes was back then on rock radio.
Anyway, that was obviously the last time I ever heard Awaken, Parallels,
Future Times, Release Release or On the Silent Wings of Freedom again
on radio
Along
the same lines, on Christmas eve of 1976 KOME played a radio simulcast
recording of the Genesis Trick of the Tail tour show recorded earlier
that year in Pittsburgh! Obviously that was the one and only time I
ever heard Robbery, Assault & Battery on the radio
Yeah, not exactly what I was talking about but
thanks for sharing.. that sounds like an awesome radio station. Is it
still around?
Nah, KOME shut down back in '98...Greg Stone stayed on SF bay area radio until around 2004...
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Posted: October 24 2017 at 19:57
Prog Sothoth wrote:
I remember hearing "99" by Toto an awful lot on easy rock radio back in the early 80s. I still hear a few of their other hits quite a bit, but never that one. Shmaltz, but with nostalgic value.
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Posted: October 24 2017 at 19:55
YESESIS wrote:
Another one is On The Loose by Saga. I distinctly remember that playing on the radio in the early 80's, but now as far as I can tell it never does.
That one and Wind Him Up still get played fairly frequently here in Canada - mostly because classic rock stations (well, all radio stations) here need to get their quota of Canadian content.
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Posted: October 24 2017 at 19:52
I remember hearing "99" by Toto an awful lot on easy rock radio back in the early 80s. I still hear a few of their other hits quite a bit, but never that one. Shmaltz, but with nostalgic value.
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Posted: October 24 2017 at 17:34
Tom Ozric wrote:
Too Shy by Kajagoogoo !! Yep, still love me some Kaja........Nick Beggs’ bassline is up there with Luminol
Haha, my brother and I used to laugh about how much of a 'one hit wonder' they were. Like whenever that subject would come up, one of us would say Kajagoogoo!!! We were pretty young and just silly. Anyway it is a cool song though, surprised they didn't have more hits.
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