Voice recording #190, Dec. 15.
Nicolette Larson, "Lotta Love", some year in the '70s. 3,400.
Styx, "Come Sail Away", '77. The song starts as a sappy ballad, and all of a sudden turns to rock, much to the chagrin of Sam Weir in "Freaks and Geeks" when he had his first chance to dance with hottie Cindy Sanders. Also, his sister, Lindsay, danced with her date, a mentally handicapped kid. 2,400.
Daddy Dew Drop, "Chick-A-Boom", '71. 4,750.
Hues Corporation, "Rock the Boat", '74. This must be on the top of the rotation at Sirius Channel 7. This is the first time I've heard it. I think I've given it about 2,300.
Edgar Winter Group, "Frankenstein", who was known as Fronckenschtein in his younger days, '73. It's instrumental and 4,600.
Stampeders, "Sweet City Woman", I think about '73. 3,700.
Eagles, "Already Gone", '74. I'm not sure whether I've done this one. If I have it was probably in the 2,100 or 2,220 range. I'll say 2,100. I like the lyric about, "So often times it happens that we live our life in chains, and we never even know we have the key." That tells a lot about how we live our lives and hold ourselves back.
Rickie Lee Jones, "Chuck E.'s in Love", '79. I'm pretty sure it's the greatest scat love song ever. Rickie Lee didn't have much of a career, but it certainly got a good start with this one. 2,600.
10 cc, "I'm Not in Love", didn't record the year. I'm not sure whether I've done this not-in-love song. It's a denial song, maybe. I'll say 3,500, which is where I think it would have been another time.
Gloria Gayner, "I Will Survive" from '79. Her driving rhythm and almost shouting the song go along with her positive message that she will survive. 2,400.
Gun Hill Road, "Back When My Hair Was Short", from '73. I do not remember this song from back when my hair was long, or back before I was bald. 4,700.
Bee Gees, "How Deep Is Your Love", '74 maybe. 1,800.
Herb Alpert, "Rise", '79. 4,650.
Elton John, "Saturday Night's All Right", '73. Pretty rocky for Elton. 2,300.
Starbuck, "Moonlight Feels Right", '76. 4,500.
ABBA, "Knowing Me, Knowing You", '76. Ah-ha. ABBA must win the crowd for the best English singing by non-English speakers, beating out Los Lobos. 3,800.
Rare Earth, I think the title is "I Just Want to Celebrate", not sure of the year. I kind of tuned it out. 4,300.
Billy Joel, "Only the Good Die Young", '78. 3,600.
Rick Nelson, "Garden Party", '72? I'm not sure whether this was his last hit. Just checked. It was his last Top 40 hit, but he kept performing until his plane crashed Dec. 31, 1985. Also, Eric Nelson changed his professional name from Ricky to Rick on his 21st birthday in 1961. It's a good song. It has a little country in it, and references to other pop-culture music. There was some good advice. "You can't please everyone, so you've got to please yourself." 3,100.
David Bowie, "Changes", I'd say mid-70s. It's another stuttering song, "Ch-ch-ch-changes." I'd say the lower third of the list, but I'll give it 3,300.
Earth, Wind & Fire, "Fantasy", '78. 4,600.
Carpenters, "Rainy Days and Mondays", '71. Karen sings that rainy days and Mondays always bring her down. I think they were from the northern part of the U.S., where it rains frequently. I don't like rainy days, except for an occasional Sunday when it rains all day and I can stay in bed to keep warm. M-Tex, a lifelong Texan, isn't used to seeing rain several times a week, so she likes any rainy day. 3,950. I checked. They were born in Connecticut, and moved to California when Richard was 16 and Karen was 13. She and I share a birthday, but I was born 2 years earlier.
Boston, "Foreplay Long Time", '77, I believe. 2,100.
Al Green, "Let's Stay Together, "71. 2,400.
Gary Glitter, "Rock and Roll Part 2", '72. I remember this song from hearing it so often at ballparks. Hey! 3,900.
Elton John, "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road", '73. Not sure whether I've done this one because there was a lot of Elton John music in the '70s! 2,400.
Jefferson Starship, "Runaway", '78. 4,550.
Jackson 5, "The Love You Save", 1970. 4,500.
Electric Light Orchestra, "Livin' Thing", 1976. I might have done this one before. 3,100.
Disco Tex and the Sex-O-Lettes, "Get Dancing", '74. 4,900 at best.
Earth, Wind & Fire, "That's the Way of the World", I think '75. 4,450.
John Denver, "Rocky Mountain High", 1973. 3,800.
Paul McCartney and Wings, "Helen Wheels", '73. 4,100.
Chicago, "Saturday in the Park", '72. I have a theory, to some extent a generalization, that songs with "park" in the title are generally bad: "MacArthur Park", "Ichycoo Park". This song isn't one of the terrible ones; it's OK. 4,050.
Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band, "Main Street", 1977. This is a song people might have heard in the '70s at a strip club near closing time when the dancers were all tired and couldn't dance very fast. It's Bob Seger, so it's 2,300.
Starting again with voice recording #196, Dec. 17.
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