These songs were playing around Chicagoland on WLS and WCFL, both AM stations back 40 years ago.
RIDE CAPTAIN RIDE-- BLUES IMAGE-- one-hit wonder. (Takes me back to the beach at Honey Hill (where the Blues Brothers' Bluesmobile cruised on the beach in that great movie from ten years later.)
MY BABY LOVES LOVIN'-- WHITE PLAINS-- one-hit wonder as well. A studio group out of the UK. (Reminds me of the Tune Room at NIU.)
AMERICAN WOMAN-- GUESS WHO-- title track from their third album. (Leave this one to the Canadians.)
TO CRY YOU A SONG-- JETHRO TULL-- a wicked riff that will burrow itself right into your brain and you'll have a hard time getting it out of your head when you go to bed tonight (Stroud then hummed it.) From their new album, "Benefit," album number three. (And these guys went on to win the very first Grammy for Heavy metal Music. I'm so proud of them. They didn't even know or think they were that heavy.)
GET READY-- RARE EARTH-- out of Motown. Their version of a Temptations classic. (And, surprisingly, they were a White group.)
THE LETTER-- JOE COCKER-- a 45 release in the Top Ten. (Wow, Old Joe covering somebody else's song. Who'd a Thunk It.)
Carrying Me Back to Those Good Old Days. --RoadDog
Remember When: It took three minutes for a TV to warm up?
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Listen to this man. Seven years of college, you know. Trying to reason with 2020 and, now, 2022.
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