Long lost songs
Grew up in Central NJ. Somerville until Bridgewater got a post office. I take it you are talking satellite and not production work on the single! I remember my pop taking me outside at night and trying to help me spot the thing. Supposedly visible...a little moving dot of light (or so I seem to recall). Not sure I ever really saw it. re ELH's band...well, yeah! aka The Hot Band. |
Glad to help w/Water's Edge. I have the American Standard cd. My own lost song story goes back to college days at Cal Poly. I used to hear this looong song late at night on the campus FM station. For 30 years I wondered about that song until one day on this forum someone started a thread about songs with long lyrics. One of the posters mentioned The Legend of the U.S.S. Titanic. I hunted it down (by Jaime Brockett) and it has brought back some great memories. I still can't imagine remembering that long of a song for a live performance. Bill |
@wbs I bought That Jaime Brockett album when I was at George Washington in DC. We used to alter our neurologic conditions and try to sing along. I put it on the table a few months back and realized that there is some good songwriting and musicianship on that LP. @ghosthouse I works at Somerset Medical Center for 6 years. Geeze, guys. It seems we all have a lot in common. I wish we had a bigger following. |
Too funny, 2channel - Was born there and worked part time in the lab there during the ’70s. BTW - I think I had my satellites confused. That was probably Echo 1 that would have been visible to the naked eye. Anyone here know Crabby Appleton? I remember hearing a killer song by them in 1970/71. It possibly got some airplay on WMMR but I can’t seem to find it (or at least, recognize it) in the CA tracks that are on You Tube. Ring any bells for anyone? Does that Titanic song have any relation to the Titanic-themed song Dylan included on Tempest? |
Great idea for a post. I have chased songs for months or years myself. Today, with the internet and the various music services, It is much easier to find things. A couple of mine: When I was in H.S. in 1961, I heard a brassy, uptempo version of Pomp and Circumstance on the radio. It was by "Adrian Kimberly". I had to order it from the nearest record store, because they didn't carry it. I still have the 45 and only recently learned Kimberly was actually Don Everly. In the 1990's I heard a song as background on a PBS station. I was obsessed with it and called the station to get the name. They were no help. It was a very sweeping, emotional tune and it then showed up as the music constantly used as the theme for the TV broadcast of the Olympic Games. It was also used as background music for several movie trailers. I finally was able to determine that it was a song called "The Dragon's Heart" from the movie Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story. Soundtrack by Randy Edelman. |
@ghosthouse by doing a Duck Duck Goose search rather than a Youtube search I am coming up with plenty of Crabby Appleton songs, all of the ones I've sampled are pretty good. Never heard of them before. Thanks for the tip. Can you be more specific about the ones you've ruled out? https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Crabby+Appleton&atb=v109-5_y&ia=videos&iax=videos Here's a link to the Brokett piece, no relation to Dylan. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XFYMjkFYPg @rwisen I've been thinking I need some Everly Brothers in my collection ever since I got Raising Sand (Gone, gone gone.) |
Hey 2channel8 - I knew nothing of Duck Duck Goose as a search engine, so thank you for that tip. Now I do feel kind of foolish because the first video in what you linked to with CA playing Go Back (Dick Clark Am Bandstand appearance) seems like it could very well be the song I was thinking of. The year is certainly right (1970) and, after all, it was just THE hit single off their (first?) album - Track #1! I remember the tune being hooky with interesting changes; something you just wanted to put on repeat. So that matches up to Go Back too (at least for me). Not sure why I didn’t recognize it or how I managed to overlook it previously. But I think that was the song! THANKS. |
It must have been 1974 when I heard She's Gone ( @ghosthouse how do you get italics?) on WNEW late one night. I never heard it again and couldn't find it in the record stores. That's the way we searched back then. About 2 years later Hall & Oates original was a hit nationally, as it had been in the Philadelphia market. I was happy I could hear the song anytime I wanted now; but it didn't quite sound the same as my memory. Last year I cam across Tavares' version, also released in 1974 when they were a much better known group than Hall & Oats. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zP20RxVPUCk Is that what I heard in 1974? Who the F can tell at this point? Or maybe it was the rarely heard 5 minute Hall & Oats cut: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3CdDwBf4kc |
Here’s the wikipedia entry for Abandoned Luncheonette - H&O album with that great, great song. Lots of interesting background provided. In addition to Tavares, looks like Lou Rawls did a cover too. Write She's Gone, then Sara Smile, then retire! That woulda been my plan. Unfortunately just a couple of things lacking :-) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abandoned_Luncheonette |
Sorry 2channel8. No plans to be there. Live too far away now. Have fun. Give a report on anything noteworthy that you find. Did you get a chance to try the italicizing instructions? Here's another too quickly gone/seldom heard treasure. Talking "Art in America" released in the early '80s. Heard it some time before '84. Liked it but never owned it until finding it, probably 20 years later, in a neat record shop in Berlin Germany of all places. Here are some links for anyone interested: Their "hit" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9d6ek3KDRI The Wikipedia entry https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_in_America_(band) |
We had a great time. About 6 systems on display. I brought a pair of Boston Acoustics T-830 speakers and my Primare I32 integrated, as well as 3 pairs of Stax headphones. I swear the T-830s sounded better than I remember. I got a lot of compliments. Must have been about 30 audiophiles wandering around. I listened to some Maggies and Dayton speakers. My Win 10 software doesn't have fonts in the drop down. Thanks for the links. You don't see too many rock bands with harps. One of the guys mentioned a jazz harp player yesterday. |
It's mostly a show-off meet with some swapping and selling on the side. The Stax cans I have are all vintage round "earspeakers" as Stax calls them. I love them because they are so detailed and balanced; but with the need to drive them off speaker terminals (not all newer models) and use a driver box, they are a bit of a PIA. I'd like to hear some planar designs to compare. I don't think there are any dynamic drivers that can match their speed. |
I just remembered another one; the oldest, I think. It was between 1967 and 1970. I was at a high school dance and a local band named Grisby's Clan was playing. Mostly, if not all covers. They did one I've never heard before or since. What I remember is: Shake me Wake me Don't let me sleep too long I gotta make it in due time before............... It wasn't R&B like the Four Tops hit. Definitely rock. Ring any bells? |
No. Sorry. Doesn't ring any bells. Maybe if you could whistle a few bars? :-) I'm guessing you tried Googling some of those lines. How about this on by the Myddle Class? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAK5YiHKuoE |
There's a version by the Blues Project (Al Kooper). Some controversy about The Myddle Class stealing the song from Blues Project. Another candidate for your consideration. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSr5SdukpQ4 |
Pleased to return the favor on the Crabby Appleton tune, 2channel8. Note the different titles here, I searched on "Don't Let Me Sleep Too Long" which happens to be the title of the version by The Myddle Class. Info about the Blues Project connection (and different title) came from one of the comments (see that by Al Riggi) about the Myddle Class single. |
2channel - No clue the Myddle Class were from NJ. The most I can claim about them is a vague recollection of seeing their name at some point. At least the spelling looks familiar - though I’m not sure where I would have seen it in print. Yeah, Y instead of I. Things were very HEAVY back then. Seems to me, given the age of these guys, it would be entirely possible they were the band you remember at that dance. Guess there's no "student council" to contact for info.... |
Ever listen to these guys out of Long Island? Not exactly lost, but long ago. Kinda fits the spirit of this thread (I think). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJNQg3lh_Y8 They were still working until not that many years ago. |
