Warning: May trigger PTSD in '70s survivors

too larry said:
I saw this on the Newhour the other day. These guys have old master copies of lots of R&B groups from the 60's and 70's. They put together a previously unreleased album and it's selling pretty well.

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I haven't even scratched the surface of the Philly songs. And I had totally forgotten about the Stylistics until "Stone in Love" just popped into my mind for some reason this morning.
 
ltecato said:
No collection of nightmarishly nostalgic '70s songs would be complete without this.

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Funny story. My great uncle lived down in West Palm Beach. Once when we went to visit his grandkids were there. The women was an actress who played across from Jerry Lewis in A Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, and one of the brothers was a folk singer, and the other brother was a doctor. Mamma ask the folk singer if he would do the Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald. He said he had a record out and he would love to sing something off it. And that he was a much better singer than Gordan Lightfoot and the only reason he was so popular was because of the content of the song. Mamma said, I still like it.

On a related note, Mamma's brother was on the Edmund Fitzgerald for several years. He worked his way up to assistant engineer and he had to leave to get the head engineer job on another ship. When she sank everyone went on about how lucky he was. A couple three years later he died of lung cancer. So you never know about luck.
 
too larry said:
Funny story. My great uncle lived down in West Palm Beach. Once when we went to visit his grandkids were there. The women was an actress who played across from Jerry Lewis in A Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, and one of the brothers was a folk singer, and the other brother was a doctor. Mamma ask the folk singer if he would do the Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald. He said he had a record out and he would love to sing something off it. And that he was a much better singer than Gordan Lightfoot and the only reason he was so popular was because of the content of the song. Mamma said, I still like it.

On a related note, Mamma's brother was on the Edmund Fitzgerald for several years. He worked his way up to assistant engineer and he had to leave to get the head engineer job on another ship. When she sank everyone went on about how lucky he was. A couple three years later he died of lung cancer. So you never know about luck.
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Now that reminds me that my girlfriend c. 1976 was a certifiable schizophrenic who thought she might have a future career as a singer-songwriter and I accompanied her to meet with an agent-publicist in Orange County who was attending a performance by one of his clients who sang cover songs of Gordon Lightfoot and Charlie Rich and similar popular artists of the era. He was singing this song and I could have sworn that he was deliberately altering the lyrics to make them outrageously obscene because he wanted to determine if the audience in the bar-restaurant was actually listening. Most of them probably were not. It is one of my most depressing memories of adolescence.

 
I bet you are of sufficient vintage to "get" this once-topical humor:
Q: What did Capt. Hazelwood yell at the first mate on the Exxon Valdez?
A: "I said, 'Tanqueray on the rocks, not tanker on the rocks!' "
 
Here’s a fairly rare one, methinks. I kept this 45 and Black Sabbath’s Paranoid (both my Dad’s) in constant rotation when I was a wee one. To this day, it still manages to creep me out...though in a fun, nostalgic sort of way now.

 
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