1) Silver Star-The Four Seasons (Warner WBS 8203) #38 1976
Third and final single from Who Loves You, silly lyrics from Bob Gaudio and Judy Parker and Frankie Valli takes a break from this song. I still love the song for what it is. A forty five edit of the six minute song to which Curb Records did reissue later on, but with a different song sequence than on the Warner album. B side Mystic Mr. Sam is silly fun, so is this Mystic Mr. Sam and his Cosmic Christian Band. We should ask Bob Gaudio about this.
2) Too Late The Hero-John Entwistle (Atco 7337) 1981
John's Atco album with Joe Walsh and Joe Vitale should have been much better effort. John has played second fiddle to Pete Townsend's songs in The Who but he has written some winners, My Wife, Boris The Spider and the best songs off Face Dances and It's Hard was from John. Two singles were issued off Too Late The Hero. This one and Talk Dirty. B side I'm Coming Back might have done wonders had Atco promoted that one, but they replaced it with Dancing Master. Too Late The Hero was edited to three and half minutes from it's 7:29 album cut.
3) Peter Gunn-Emerson, Lake & Palmer (Atlantic 3641) 1979
Love Beach pretty much ruined ELP to the point that Peter Gunn got hardly any airplay on the radio. KRNA played it twice. Tiger In The Spotlight is a lesser known song off Works Vol 2.
4) It Takes Time-Dave Dudley (Mercury 73404) 1973 #37 Country
5) Nothing To Do (and all night to do it)-Billy Burnette (Warner 7-19042) 1992 #64 country
Billy never broke through, he did a couple a cool Rockabilly albums on Columbia, with Ian Wallace playing drums on the S/T album and Gimme You, which the Muscle Shoals swampers helped but neither sold and Billy drifted from label to label, in the process was in Fleetwood Mac during the Behind the Mask album and later on, Time, by far the worst selling and worst sounding Mac album in history. At this time, Billy decided to try his hand back into country and it never took off. Tho' Warner Music issued this as a 45, the purported album Coming Home would be released on Capricorn Records, which Warner distributed for a couple years.
6) Slow Walk-Sil Austin (Mercury 70963x45) #17 1956
Sil's answer to Honky Tonk A slow building blues song, which influenced something we call The Stroll. I remembered this from the 1987 45s On CD that Polygram issued showcasing the hits of the Mercury label.
7) Oh Oh I'm Falling In Love-Jimmie Rodgers (Roulette R-4045) #7 1958
8) Don't You Write Her Off Like That-McGuinn, Clark, Hillman (Capitol 4893) #33 1979
9) Step Out Of Your Mind-The American Breed (Atca 45-804) #24 1967
10) Dawn Of Correction-The Spokesmen (Decca 31844) #36 1965
So upon completing this top ten, I came up one short and looked through my collection to see if i may have missed one from the past and turns out, I bought this single at Half Price Books last year. I did find the album five years before hand. Long story short, J. Madena decided to do an answer record to the bleak Eve Of Destruction by Barry McGuire and it did fairly well, tho once again time and corporate radio have rendered this into the forgotten pile.
5 Star Mud Bowl Game: San Francisco 21 Los Angeles 13 (Kezar Stadium 11/6/1966)
Kezar Stadium had the worst drainage system, which mean when it rained, you were going to get lots of puddles in the soft ground turning into mud. The NFL Game Of The Week at that time, showed Merlin in a nice clean white uniform, which went by the wayside when Lamar Lundy plopped him from behind and the next play, his back numbers were covered up. Later on, Deacon Jones bumped into him into the muck. These games are so much fun to watch over and over again. Real football, real weather. However the rains ended and the sun came out in the 4th quarter. This was John Brodie's game as he rushed for two touchdowns and threw a TD Pass to Kent Kramer. LA had two FGs and a Tommy McDonald TD reception. But for a real mud game. We must be in Kezar Stadium. (Note: somehow this starts in the middle of the game, so you may have to move it back to start. This starts at the 9 35 mark.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M99oFzpZhv0&fbclid=IwAR1TUaiskEovbYcFlrUqhtx8-oF4N9f1J4-PA_RHtjcYfQuaE1FdvFWyP94
Subject for further research: Fausto Papetti. Beneath this friendly face lies a guy who has many albums out there with not safe for work softcore photo work. I knew nothing of his albums, but he recorded two per year. Google Fausto Papetti's sexy album covers and go from there. I'd post them but they might censor me for that.
https://bassic-sax.info/blog/2011/the-very-sexy-covers-of-fausto-papetti/
Record Reviews:
Dave Edmunds-Pile Of Rock (Castle 2001)
Little did we know that this 1997 concert with Billy Bremner and G. Watkins backed with the Refreshments (not the Roger Clyne led band) would be one of the last things Edmunds would issue. He really did walk away from it all and retired back to Wales, but in a final blast, he tears through most of his classic songs and takes Sabre Dance into a whole new level. While some claim that this is the better of the live albums, I think it holds better than the King Biscuit show, but still think I Hear You Rocking was a tad bit better. The presence of Billy Bremner from the Rockpile era helps of course. But since this came out on the Sanctuary label in the US, it turned out to be hard find even when available. I love Dave Edmunds enough to buy this and celebrate his memory, after all Rockpile was my Beatles during the late 70s and early 80s, till they split up, and neither Nick Lowe or Dave Edmunds recovered, they still made good albums but the tension was long gone. Edmunds would record a album of guitar instrumentals and a revisit of his Plugged In album, but A Pile Of Rock is his farewell. And a sound one.
B+
Brandy Clark-Your Life Is A Record (Warner 2020)
The most anticipated record of last year kept getting delayed to the point that I damn near forgot all about her, after being wowed by her Big Day In A Small Town, which came out in 2016. Even when this did come out, I ended up buying the record than the CD. What it was worth the wait? In some ways it was, getting gruff ole Randy Newman to co sing on Bigger Boat is a WOW factor. And side closers Apologies and The Past Is The Past are grand statements to end the record on a positive. The surprise is how Jay Joyce, after fucking up Miranda Lambert's last album, stays in the background most of the time and brings out the best in Brandy with less gimmicks. Of course this is not like Kacey Musgraves' Happy Hour to which Kacey sells out to pop music, Brandy is far into real Americana and real country, but a bit darker and respective from within. But we all know how much Warner Nashville has messed with Brandy Clark's albums to to point that the public never quite knew they were out there. Your Life Is A Record is not as catchy as Big Day is, but give it a few plays and you'll be humming the songs in your subconscious. And thank your lucky stars Dave Cobb didn't get a hold of her.
B+
Beaker Street Play List: Clyde's Temporary Sign Off
Tyler Vincent compiled. Clyde has some medical issues to take care of but his replacement will do a good job. Highlights: Crow's forgotten Cottage Cheese, Moody Blues' Watching And Waiting and our very own Linn County's Fever Shot.
9 p.m. – 10 p.m.
1. Crow “Cottage Cheese”
2. Shocking Blue “Venus”
3. Mountain “Mississippi Queen”
4. Mike Oldfield “Shadow On The Wall”
5. Canned Heat “Sandy’s Blues”
6. Python Lee Jackson (f/ Rod Stewart) “In A Broken Dream”
7. Doc Severinson “In The Court Of The Crimson King”
8. Everything Is Everything “Witchi Tai To”
9. Yes “Take The Water To The Mountain”
10. Billy Thorpe “Children Of The Sun (Revisited)”
11. Joe Walsh “The Confessor”
12. Frank Zappa “Peaches En Regalia”
10 p.m. – 11 p.m.
1. The Youngbloods “Get Together”
2. Flipoff Pirates “Copperhead/ Walkin’ Blues”
3. Trapeze “Medusa”
4. Deep Purple “Sheild/ Anthem”
5. Uriah Heep “Bird of Prey”
6. Grateful Dead “Hell In A Bucket”
7. The Moody Blues “Eyes Of A Child Part 1> Floating/ Watching and Waiting”
11 p.m. – Midnight
1. The Allman Brothers Band “One Way Out” (Live- Eat A Peach)
2. String Cheese Incident “Mouna Bowa” (Live)
3. Moonalice “Dance Inside The Lightning”
4. The Spring Standards “Goodbye Midnight”
5. The Corporation “Drifting”
6.. Quicksilver Messenger Service “What About Me?”
7. Within Temptation “Mother Earth” (Live)
8. Trout Fishing In America “No Matter What Goes Right”
9. Linn County “Fever Shot”
10. Stevie Ray Vaughn & Double Trouble “Riviera Paradise”
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