Some listeners like this version better that the Joan Baez version we’ve played before. Here’s the version by The Band of “The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down” Which one do you prefer??
Another great song from REO Speedwagon, one of my favorite bands of the 1970s. It’s off their “You Can Tune a Piano, But You Can’t Tuna Fish” album and rose to #58 on the charts, their biggest hit at so far. The band made a music video for the song–well before there was MTV–and it became popular on that music channel when it first took off. Still a great song…
“Cruel to Be Kind” is a song by Nick Lowe, co-written by Lowe and his former Brinsley Schwarz bandmate Ian Gomm. Written by Lowe and Gomm while the pair were in Brinsley Schwarz, the song was saved on a demo until Columbia Records convinced Lowe to release it. Here’s a performance from 1978 on Britain’s “Top of the Pops.”
“Cheeseburger, cheeseburger, cheeseburger!” If you watched the original cast of Saturday Night Live back in the 70’s, you’ll remember the sketches from The Olympia Restaurant, where Greek owner (played by John Belushi) barks out grill orders to cook (played by Dan Aykroyd who’s really cooking burgers on a grill as the scene opens!) in rapid succession, often overruling customer who would rather have a tuna sandwich, or grilled cheese instead….
One of the great recurring sketches from the early days of Saturday Night Live was The Coneheads, about a family of aliens with bald conical heads who, when confronted about their unusual appearance claimed they were “From France” and somehow that appeased the questioner. It premiered on the January 15 episode (Season 2 episode 11) and starred Dan Aykroyd as the father Beldar, Jane Curtin as the mother Prymaat, and…
Here’s a great LIVE performance by The Little River Band of their smash, “Reminiscing” on The Midnight Special back in 1978. Here’s more about the song from Wikipedia: “Reminiscing” is a 1978 song written by Graeham Goble, and performed by Australian soft rock music group Little River Band. It remains their greatest success in the United States, peaking at #3 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and #10 on the…
How moved were you by music back in the day? Enough to make your own video of top song, like Kansas’ “Dust in the Wind”? If you were, you were likely the teen who made this 8MM movie, somewhere in rural America. And not just any movie, one that shows a literal translation of the lyrics “all we are is dust in the wind” by having actors simply vanish into…
Who doesn’t remember The Bob Newhart Show, one of the great TV sitcoms of all time! It ran on CBS from September 16, 1972, to April 1, 1978, and, in addition to Bob, starred Suzanne Pleshette as his wife; Bill Daily was their friendly but inept neighbor; Peter Bonerz was the dentist in he shared the office floor with, and their sharped-tongued receptionist was played by Marcia Wallace. Here are…
This has to be one of the most loved–and hated–songs every recorded. People either think it’s a masterpiece or belongs in the garbage; there is no middle ground when it comes to “MacArthur Park” with its famous line that “someone left the cake out in the rain.” WHAT??? After hearing the 1978 Donna Summer version recently, I decided to listen to all three of the famous version again to see…
I know you know this song by heart, but who remembers the band “Sniff ‘n’ The Tears? The British band made eight albums over the years, starting in 1979, but “Driver’s Seat” off their debut album Fickle Heart was the only real hit they ever had. In fact, the song didn’t do nearly as well in the UK not because the public didn’t like it, but because the record label…