AM GOLD MUSIC OF THE 60s & 70s

Post by **noreply66** » Sat Oct 06, 2007 8:20 am

1971

Paul Revere and the Raiders now basically a studio group (with original lead singer Mark Lindsay functioning instead as producer), they went to N0.1 for the first time ever with Indian Reservation (The Lament of the Cherokee Reservation Indian)---Written by Nashville's John D. Loudermilk,the tune had gone American top 20 for Englishman Don Fardon in 1968;in 1970,as the same version began climbing British charts,Lindsay decided to cover it using Freddy Weller on lead.Weller ran up a string of couintry hits later in the 1970s.

Post by **noreply66** » Mon Oct 08, 2007 8:55 am

1971

The Grass Roots started, at least, with an equally flexible line-up. The name was first used in 1966 when writers P.F. Sloan and Steve Barri used studio musicians as a band on their Where were you when I needed you. When that song hit the charts,Sloan and Barri recruited a local club band called the 13th Floor to tour as the Grass Roots,and this group recorded the subsequent collection of songs that included hits such as Temptation Eyes

Post by **noreply66** » Wed Oct 10, 2007 8:31 am

1971

Bread rose out of L.A. studio scene and was first known as Pleasure Faire.Nurtured largely by Leon Russell,leader David Gates's fellow Oklahoma transplant. Bread topped the charts on its first try,with 1970s Make it With You, but Baby I'm A Want You proved the second biggest hit of the group's four-year run.

mustang_lvr · Post by **mustang_lvr** » Thu Oct 11, 2007 9:06 pm

Have you seen her

Post by **noreply66** » Sun Oct 14, 2007 10:35 pm

1971

An east Coast studio was the birthplace of Dawn. Producers Hank Medress and Dave Appeal coaxsed their old friend Tony Orlando into singing lead over a demo they had received from a pair of backup singers. Orlando, who had cut a pair of top 40 hits in 1961,was now working in publishing and had no taste for the performer's life. But he did overdub leads on Candida,and when that took off, he did the same for Knock Three Times.

Post by **noreply66** » Wed Oct 17, 2007 9:16 am

1971

Welshman Tom Jones sold a grittier,more overly sexual brand of love song to roughly the same audience. Though he had just lost his network TV show when he cut She's a Lady, his career was still peaking,and the Paul Anka song gave him his best-selling hit yet.

Post by **noreply66** » Fri Oct 19, 2007 12:18 pm

1971

How can You Mend A Broken Heart originally written for,and rejected by Andy Williams--resolved a career crisis for the Bee Bees. In 1969, the nonbrother member of the Australian harmony group had quit on Barry,Robin and Maurice Gibb, and after flailing directionless for a while,the Bee Gees broke up. Barry and Robin wrote this #1 hit as part of the reconciliation process.

mustang_lvr · Post by **mustang_lvr** » Mon Oct 22, 2007 9:35 pm

If I Were Your Woman

Post by **noreply66** » Wed Oct 24, 2007 1:52 pm

Three Dog Night's well-crafted harmonies took Paul Williams' An Old Fashion Love Song high on the charts in 1971

Post by **noreply66** » Sat Oct 27, 2007 9:00 pm

1971

Aretha Franklin continued to show'em why she was known as the Queen of Soul with a new take on Spanish Harlim, the Jerry Leiber-Phil Spector song that gave Ben E. King his frst solo hit (in 1961) after he left the Drifters.

Post by **noreply66** » Mon Oct 29, 2007 9:30 am

1971

The Chi-Lites, who had changed their name from Hi-Lites to pay homage to their hometown Chicago, were still refining the new baroque soul sound with Have You Seen Her, written by lead singer Eugene Records and his Brunswick labelmate Barbara Ackin.

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Tue Oct 30, 2007 8:49 pm

The Jelly Beans................... I Wanna Love Him So Bad

Post by **noreply66** » Thu Nov 01, 2007 1:27 pm

Not too far north of the Windy City, the Jackson Five was continuing its fabulous streak for Motown with Never Can Say Goodbye

1971

mustang_lvr · Post by **mustang_lvr** » Fri Nov 02, 2007 9:42 pm

Baby I'm a want you

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Sun Nov 04, 2007 7:45 pm

Arthur Alexander...................... You Better Move On

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Mon Nov 05, 2007 9:52 pm

Horst Jankowski............... A Walk In The Black Forest

mustang_lvr · Post by **mustang_lvr** » Wed Nov 07, 2007 9:17 pm

Spanish Harlem

Post by **noreply66** » Fri Nov 09, 2007 9:36 pm

Gladys Knight and the Pips were giving birth to "middle-of-the-road soul" with smoldering ballads like If I Were Your Woman

1971

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Sat Nov 10, 2007 5:40 am

Bob Kuban and the In-Men................. The Cheater

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Sat Nov 10, 2007 4:25 pm

BEATLES, The.............. The Long And Winding Road