Songs you like!

In my opinion, one of the most enjoyable songs EVER recorded.

From that same era, The Cowsills.  They were a family band - brothers, sister, mom - who were the real-life inspiration for the show The Partridge Family.

Rob, how about their version of "Hair"?





I will admit that I have always really liked "The Rain, The Park and Other Things", though.

It's funny.  "Hair" was the first song of theirs that I remember, so for many years I thought the Cowsills were a hippie band.  When I read that they were the model for the Partridge Family, I thought, "Huh??"  

This is much more Partridgey.

One of my favorite Simon & Garfunkel songs...

Yes, that one is much more Partidgey than "Hair".  


Good Simon & Garfunkel song!   This has always been my favorite of theirs.  I love this one. I love the beat.

Good one!

Here's a song from 1982 that people either loved or hated.  Either way, it shook things up.  "I've Never Been to Me," by Charlene.

WOW Rob, thanks for that memory!! Holy cow, I haven't heard that since I was a kid! And I sat here and sang almost every single word all the way through. It all came RIGHT back to me! Guess this is one I listened to over and over back in the day! I even remembered the cheesy spoken part. I like her voice---nothing really ever came of her, did it?

Charlene's Wiki entry says that she recorded this song in 1976, and it barely cracked the Top 100.  Her record company dropped her and she quit music and moved to England.  Then in '82, a Miami deejay started playing it, and it got so much listener attention that the company re-released it.  It went to #3 in the US and #1 in the UK.  Timing is everything!

She's still recording.  But yeah... pretty much a one-hit wonder. 

Another '70s one-hit wonder!

I love this song. Maybe because I've spent my life in a northern town.

Rob wrote:

Charlene's Wiki entry says that she recorded this song in 1976, and it barely cracked the Top 100.  Her record company dropped her and she quit music and moved to England.  Then in '82, a Miami deejay started playing it, and it got so much listener attention that the company re-released it.  It went to #3 in the US and #1 in the UK.  Timing is everything!

She's still recording.  But yeah... pretty much a one-hit wonder. 

Interesting!  Wow, can't quite imagine how she felt 8 years after giving up music and then hearing her song suddenly becoming a smash hit!  Yep, 1982...I would have been about 12 and that sounds about right.  And I'm sure I had NO idea what half those lyrics meant, either.


I've never heard the other song....


But Life in a Northern Town----that brings back good memories too.  We sang that in my Madrigal group my junior of highschool...it was a select singing group of 10 girls and 10 guys, and at the end of the year we put on a show of pop music and choreography and this was one of the songs. Good times!

I love to hear some great Jim Croce music.  This is my favorite of his.

Very nice Croce song.  

Amy wrote:

Yep, 1982...I would have been about 12 and that sounds about right.  And I'm sure I had NO idea what half those lyrics meant, either.

 I remember reading about a deejay who said that a lot of women called in to request that song.  Many of them didn't know the title, but they remembered key phrases:  "Would you play that song that talks about whoring and being undressed by kings?"

Simply one of the best Beatles songs.  It is in my top 10 favorites of theirs.  I am always so disappointed that it is so short.  But that Paul McCartney......

Here's my favorite of Barbra's (been in the mood for it lately):

Brings back memories.  One of my high school friends was a big Streisand fan, and she was always singing Stoney End.

Here's a song that screams "Mid-'80s!" Katrina looks so happy and the Waves look so depressed.

One of those "Awwww!" songs from the early '70s. Gilbert O'Sullivan's "Clair."

Rob wrote:

One of those "Awwww!" songs from the early '70s.  Gilbert O'Sullivan's "Clair."

I haven't heard this in YEARS.  I almost forgot it.  It is a good one.

Rob wrote:

Here's a song that screams "Mid-'80s!"  Katrina looks so happy and the Waves look so depressed.  

I always like how they look at her kind of like they resent the fact that she is so happy.     But she wins them over in the end.  

You want to see something that REALLY screams "mid-80s"?  Look at this:

Big hair, big smiles, shoulder pads, bright colors (although this video off of youtube seems to have given it a bit of dullness for some reason), a bunch of people in choreographed dance segments and men wearing cropped shirts and pants (although they kind of look like leggings, I guess   ). Plus, it is an upbeat song. Very mid-80s.

Wow! You guys are playing good ones! That Charlene song really brought me back! And The Dream Academy...wow! My favorite part of the song is the 'Beatles' reference.

I remember even at age 12 thinking that Charlene song was pretty intense!

Here's another one from way back when...I loved this one...I was 11 at the time this was released and it's one of the MANY songs I lip-synched in front of a mirror to (yes, hair brush for a microphone!).

Who remembers this one?!? 1982...I sang to the mirror (aka fake audience) too many times...

Here's another one I used to sing to the mirror with. I used to love Laura Branigan. What a voice! I miss her...she was too young...sigh...R.I.P.

Last one for tonight.  This is especially dedicated to all the ladies here who were growing up in the 70's/80's like I was.  Shaun Cassidy is featured the most in here (and is the one singing), but these magazines should bring back great memories!  I'm crushing on  Shaun again btw...he is now executive producer for a new show called "Hysteria!" Enjoy!  (and sorry a lot of this is blurry).