Song Of The Day, from the 50's, 60's, 70's
 

Added two new pages to https://thevillagerockers.com/

The Young Rascals https://thevillagerockers.com/the-rascals/

and

Song Of The Day https://thevillagerockers.com/song-of-the-day/

View the first Youtube video linked on "The Rascals" page. I have two interesting and personal stories about the band and Stevie Van Zandt. But, I will save them for one of our first meetings.

And, "Song Of The Day" will allow you to show us your favorite song. Use the "Submit A Song" page.

Today's song is my pick for 1967, "How Can I Be Sure". I saw The Rascals perform this song, twice, both times at the UNC Chapel Hill, Carmichael Auditorium. The song captivated my imagination and has stayed with me for 53 years.

Great Song!

Added Jimi Hendrix and The Doobie Brothers to the Songs page.

Hey Rocknroller, did you get the green light from TV Rec yet? I'm looking forward to your group.

And yeah that was something when all four original Rascals reunited recently. But they didn't tour so I didn't get to see them. Darn it all! Loved their album Once Upon a Dream. Saw Felix solo a few years ago. Great show but he did confess he wanted to retire. Can't blame our heros for wanting to pack it in. It is a job after all.

"Hey Rocknroller, did you get the green light from TV Rec yet? I'm looking forward to your group. "

No, and I have noticed that there have not been any new clubs displayed on the inside front cover of the weekly Rec News supplement for some weeks.

Thanks for asking, I will call the Rec Dept tomorrow.

04-22-2020 Layla, Eric Clapton at Live Aid

Who is the most recognizable drummer?

Do you mean on this video? That would be Phil. If you mean in general, I'd have to say Ringo. But I might be a tad biased. :icon_wink::icon_wink::icon_wink:

Yes, LpW, that is Phil Collins, you win the vaulted, and much admired, cardboard record, to be presented at our first meeting.

Huh? Just curious - you think most people wouldn't be able to recognize him? Maybe I'm biased there, too, having been a huge Genesis fan for a large part of my life, but I thought he pretty much became a household name when he went the mainstream pop route in his solo career and became at least as recognizable as say Billy Joel or Rod Stewart, no?

Thanks for the cardboard, btw.

OK, my turn. I'd like to post a "Song of the Day". One of my favorites of all time: Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Cortez the Killer ( live 1991 ) HD - YouTube

Thanks, added it here https://thevillagerockers.com/songs-submitted/

If you've never watch the entire Live '00 Running Back Thru Canada movie, do it, here's a taste

The Guess Who - No Sugar Tonight/New Mother Nature, Albert, Hand Me Down World, Bus Rider

The Guess Who - No Sugar Tonight/New Mother Nature, Albert, Hand Me Down World, Bus Rider - YouTube

Great great band. Saw them at least twice that I can remember, most recently September 2001 in DC. Burton Cummings opened the show with a little tribute to the United States expressing his sympathy for the horrible incident that month and how he always "looked up" to America. Miss that underrated band. I hear Burt was planning to do a solo tour this year. Guess it's probably called off now. Damn shame.

I will nominate one of my absolute all time favorites. From The Allman Bros. Album "Eat a Peach", in 1972, the song "Blue Sky".

I have the DVD of Running Thru Canada, it was a Canadian import about 2001, never came out down here, I sold them through my online business. It's pretty good show. I was really surprised they played during a thunderstorm. The only other other time I've seen that is Cheap Trick at Red Rocks in Denver playing Gonna Raise Hell while thunder and rain is happening.

I saw the Guess Who twice, first time was Nov 1970 at Loyola College of Baltimore. They were fantastic. I was surprised that Randy Bachman was already gone, Kurt Winter was the guitarist. I remember the last song because Burt said, we've got to go, "We have No Time"......

Cheap Trick - Gonna Raise Hell. Lightning storm at Red Rocks 8/30/2016 - YouTube

I was out with some friends, I just looked it up, it was Sept 6, 1969. We went to the Bayfront Center in St. Pete to see George Carlin at 8pm. The box office told us, the show is sold out, but come back at 10pm and we have tickets. There was nothing going on in downtown St. Pete at night in '69 for four guys that were 19.

We decided to go to the Electric Zoo, I had never been, but I heard a lot about the place. It was out by Sunshine Drag Strip, about 10 miles away. We got there about 9pm and I remember some girl said, do you guys have some money, I need $3.50 to get in. So we gave some change.

We go inside and there is a band that first thing I notice is they have two drummers, one white and one black. A guy on a red guitar with long blonde hair just wailing away. Some guy sitting down playing keyboards and singing. I never seen nothing like it, but then again, at 19 I had not seen that many bands, in fact Vanilla Fudge was the only concert I had seen at that point.

Anyway, it was fantastic and after they played for it seems like a couple of hours, the singer said, our first album comes out in 2 months and we hope you buy it, we're the Allman Brothers.

Three months later I'm in the Army and all of '70 and '71 I'm out of circulation, basic training, school, Korea 13 months. Finally 1972 I'm stationed in Savannah and I'm at this girl's house, in fact I took her to the Jethro Tull Thick as a Brick Concert, it was fantastic, best concert I've ever seen. Anyway, I'm flipping through her albums and I see these guys that look familiar, and I say, hey I've seen these guys a couple of years ago, and then I realized they made it.

Added it here https://thevillagerockers.com/allman-brothers/

Thanks

Wow, cool story, seeing the Allman Brothers back when they were still a local Florida band. I saw them many times but never with Dwayne unfortunately. They are surely in the top 10 of my fave bands of all time. It was a sad day when Greg died not too long ago and I came to the conclusion there will never be any more Allman Brothers ever.

...and the bass player Berry Oakley died almost one year exactly also on a motorcycle and within a couple of blocks of where Duane was killed. I remember watching In Concert on TV and at the bottom of the screen it said, killed last week in a motorcycle accident. I think that was a Friday night show for a few years, really good, unlike Midnight Special, it would be just one band for the entire hour. I remember seeing Jim Groce on In Concert and the same thing, he died after the show was already recorded.

Wow. Loved that Allman Brothers story. Getting back to the Rascals -- "Beautiful Morning" has been a been a favorite of mine, and makes me feel good every time I hear it.

Right. I remember both. In Concert was the cooler Midnight Special. Then there was Don Kirshner's Rock Concert too. Nostalgia. What a time!

Makes me smile

ABBA on Don Kirshner's Rock Concert (1977)

Shanty, Johnathon Edwards, 1971.

There is very little live Uriah Heep with the late David Byron on vocals. Much of what you'll see is Japanese shows with the music from another source. We can thank Don Kirschner's Rock Concert for Uriah Heep Live '74. I saw Heep August 8, 1975 at the Bayfront Center in St. Petersburg with Manfred Mann's Earth Band. David Byron was a one-of-a-kind frontman.

Uriah Heep - Live at Shepperton Film Studios 1974 (Remastered) - YouTube

Here's a suggestion. Instead of a whole decade which can span from doo whop to psychedelic. Maybe use a theme, I remember songs by the year and what I was doing. In '69 I had a summer job working on the boardwalk in Ocean City Maryland cooking on the grill making steak subs. We were open until 3am and we had a juke box right in front and it played non-stop. The summer of '69 I can remember the start of so many great bands. Whenever I hear one of these songs, I think back to what I was doing.

Credence Clearwater Revival - Bad Moon Rising

The Guess Who - These Eyes

Blood, Sweat & Tears - Spinning Wheel

Three Dog Night - One

Zager & Evans - In the Year 2525

The Doors - Touch Me

Donovan - Atlantis

Crazy Elephant - Gimme Gimme Good Lovin'

The Beatles - Get Back

The Cowsills - Hair

The Youngbloods - Get Together

Elvis - Suspicious Minds

...and so many more

Ah, the summer of 1969. Besides lamenting my parents wouldn’t let me go to Woodstock, I would’ve been listening to Beggars banquet, Axis bold as Love, vanilla fudge’s Beat Goes on, and lots of Doors , Jefferson airplane and Moody blues. And Beatles of course. After 1968 or so, I lost interest in “hit singles” and always wanted to dig deeper where the really good stuff was. WBCN in Boston helped in that regard.

I was only in Ocean City in '69 for four months, but we had no TV stations, Baltimore and DC were 150 miles away. No cable and one radio station. I never knew Woodstock happened until months later. I hadn't bought singles since the Castaways Liar Liar when I was about 15. I was only suggesting a way of grouping singles into a more memorable way because the OP posts pertain to singles or hits of the days.

I had 4,000 albums when I moved to TV in 2011. I sold or gave them all away. When DVD's got popular in 2003 I started collecting concerts DVD's and I got up to about 350 of them. Then in 2012 I bought my first smart TV and paired it with youtube.

Now I have over 6,500 live concert videos saved into 45 music files on youtube. Every week I go in and find more new ones, and every Friday night my wife and me watch live music concerts for about 3 hours. I use different themes for the files and now with a 75" TV and a 5.1 Sony amp and my speakers, it's like alive concert at home every week.

Here's a link to my youtube library, scroll down to 'playlists' and then click on show more.

- YouTube

"Playlists" is not a live link for me. Couldn't see anything. John, are you the one who used to have a Heath Ledger Joker image? If so, you're the one that recommended the Spazmatics so I checked them out. Thought they were great, but still pandering to the lowest common denominator. That's alright, I have to expect that in TV. They did surprisingly pull out T.Rex's 20th Century Boy, so I now count myself as a fan.

Yes, I use to use the Joker avatar. Maybe you have to login with youtube to see selections and accounts. It's not hard to do because google bought youtube and actually if you're using Chrome, you're sort of logged in already. Just sign and log in with google, or worse case, make an account.

To me it's well worth it, there are thousands of dollars in DVD's that are now free, anyone can download just about any music video. Also a lot of concert video shot by fans that isn't available nowhere. Once in awhile they'll get blocked, usually by the label. I found it's very hard to find live Eagles or Don Henley for instance. There is some Japanese Laser video available on Henley and since his label didn't own that, they couldn't block it. There more than enough video to keep someone busy. As far as the squares, it's all top 40 radio.

05-01-20 Only The Strong Survive, Jerry Butler

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Only_the_Strong_Survive