![]() ![]() While it peaked only at number twenty-six on the American Billboard Hot 100, it did top the Billboard Easy Listening Singles chart (the top hit of 1976 on that chart) and made number thirty-three on the Hot Country Singles. It was the title track of their fifth album, and was a worldwide hit, topping the charts in many countries. “Paloma Blanca,” (Spanish for white dove, and also called “Una Paloma Blanca”), was written by Dutch musician George Baker, under his real name, Johannes Bouwens, and recorded, and released by his band, George Baker Selection in 1975. “ Paloma Blanca“ by George Baker Selection The Spanish flavored “Conquistador,” which originally appeared on their self-titled debut album, was released in 1972 as a single from the live album, Procol Harem Live: In Concert With The Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, and was their third top-40 hit on the US Billboard Hot 100. One unusual thing about the song is that Gary Brooker wrote the music not only before the lyrics were written, but before the band had even official formed. Keith Reid later wrote the words, which was the opposite of how they normally did things. Procol Harum is an English rock band formed in 1967 (their name comes from the Latin and means Beyond These Things). They began as a psychedelic band and evolved more toward prog rock. Their best known single was the monster hit “Whiter Shade of Pale,” which sold over ten million copies, and is still a staple on oldies stations. ” He hit the big time with his crossover hit “Baby Don’t Get Hooked On Me” in 1972, which led to his own variety show. 1976’s “Forever Lovers” was one of his lesser know songs, only making number sixty-seven on the Hot 100, and number seventeen on the country charts, but was a haunting ballad about a woman whose husband dies on their honeymoon before they can consummate their marriage. She returns to the hotel decades later, dons the now faded negligee, and waits to join her husband in death. ![]() Morris ‘Mac’ Davis was an American country music singer, songwriter, and actor from Lubbock, Texas, who got his start writing songs for Elvis Presley, including “In The Ghetto. ![]() And for fifty cents, brokenhearted lovers could step right up, and get a ticket to the show. When the chorus hooked you with, “So let the sideshow begin, Hurry, hurry, step right on in, Can’t afford to pass it by, Guaranteed to make you cry…” what was guaranteed was an earworm that would, like a lovely stranger coming into your life, remain in the back of your mind long after most other songs had faded. Let’s do that, recall ten of those old, mostly forgotten songs from days of yore that are well worth revisiting.ĭavid Goldstein, better known as Rupert Holmes, was a successful songwriter for years before he scored his one and only number one hit with “Escape (The Pina Colada Song),” from 1979’s album Partners In Crime. Holmes would return to the top ten one more time with his follow-up single “Him,” which peaked at number four. The third and final single from the album was “Answering Machine,” which was actually released in 1980, and only made it to number thirty-two on the Hot 100 chart, but it was another cleverly written little gem that left the listener guessing on what the answer to the most important question of all would be before the beep interrupted.Įlvis Presley gave broken hearts a place to go with “Heartbreak Hotel,” and Johnny Cash gave them “Home of the Blues.” In 1976, Blue Magic, an American R&B and soul band formed in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1972 gave broken hearts another place to go - to the “Sideshow” via this smooth, poignant ballad. Now, thanks to modern technology like Google and YouTube, we need only to recall a title or a line to bring them back into our lives. In fact, just as it can be with family, we sometimes get so tired of hearing them that we think we’ll never listen to them again. Other songs come and go, like new acquaintances, whose company we enjoy for a time before they drift from our lives, and fade into the background, soon to be mostly forgotten, consigned to the periphery of our memories.Īs the years go by we think of them occasionally and wonder if we’ll ever hear them again. We purchase singles and albums and get to know them intimately, and soon, they are familiarly and comfortably ensconced in our lives, like family. Songs are a lot like people some enter our lives and take up residence there. Collecting Vintage Vinyl Records: The Joy of Analog Music
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