AM GOLD MUSIC OF THE 60s & 70s

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Call me

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Don't Let Me Be lonely Tonight

James Taylor

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1973

A brush with fame in 1961 had left Tony Orlando with a preference for the business side of the music industry. By 1970 he had abandoned performing except for uncredited studio work. However, the massive popularity of Candida and Knock Three Times forced him to go back on the road and accept featured billing with Dawn.

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Until you come back to me

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Tony Orlando and Dawn's Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree, was covered more times than any rock song except the Beatles Yesterday. It led to a network TV variety show for the trio, and it eventually fostered a patriotic custom of displaying yellow ribbons

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1973

Veteran British singer-songwriters Gerry Rafferty and Joe Egan were virtually unknown in the United States when they hit with Stuck in the Middle with you under the name Stealers Wheel.

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1973

Rafferty and Egan success was due in part to producers Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, whose expertise went all the way back to Hound Dog. Stealers Wheel broke up after one more hit,Star, but Gerry Rafferty reemerged five years later with Baker Street.

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Todd Rundgren's Hello It's Me was the work of one of the decade's best-know producers: himself,in 1969,dissatisfied with the mix of an earlier recording of the song by his group Nazz, Rundgren became involved in the production side of the business. He later did the honors for acts as diverse as the Band, Badfinger, the New York Dolls and Meat Loaf.

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You're so vain

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CROCE, JIM ........... Bad, Bad Leroy Brown

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1973

Skylark was formed in Vancouver by Ronnie Hawkins' Hawks alumni Bonnie Jean Cook and David Foster. The group did not survive Wildflower, which entered the U.S. charts via Detroit from Windsor, Ontario. Bonnie and David married, and he moved on to playing with and producing a who's who of rockdom, including the Average White band, Chicago, Hall and Oates, Peter Allen, George Harrison and Ringo Starr.

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After nine top-10-hits in four years, Three Dog Night was coming unraveled. Bassist Joe Schemie was leaving the group, and their label, Dunhill, was suing them for not delivering their albums on time.

1973

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Hello it's me--Tod Rundgren

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The Morning after

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1973

An unknown Texas singer, B.W. Stevenson, recorded "Shambala," penned by ABC/Dunhil staff writer Daniel Moore.

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Ain't no woman (like the one I got)

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1973

B.W. Stevenson and Daniel Moore co-wrote the hit "My Maria."

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1973

Delta Dawn bounced back and forth between country and pop twice before it clicked. it was written by rockabilly pioneer Larry Collins of the Collins kids and country "outlaw" Alexander Harvey, who recorded it for his debut LP in 1972.

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Stuck in the Middle with you

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1973

Carly Simon generated both sales and speculation with "You're So Vain." leading candidates for the song's possible subject included her friends Warren Beatty and Kris Kristofferson, backing vocalist Mick Jagger, and her husband, James Taylor.(Simon claimed it was a composite.) What ever his foibles, Taylor was never publicly more humble than he was in "Don't Let Me Be Lonely Tonight.