An album track or obscure song from the past that takes you right back.. Bee Gees "Please Read Me."

I don't know how obscure any of the songs are (especially 'round here), but so many of the tracks on the first few volumes of Rhino's "Have a Nice Day" series ALWAYS bring me back to late 1970- early '71. It was when, as a ten year old, I started seriously listening to the radio (WABC!) and wanted to know more and more about "my" music and the people who created it. "I'll Be There" by the Jackson 5 was climbing to # 1 at the time (followed - or following - Diana Ross's "Ain't No Mountain High Enough" ) and whenever I hear those I can envision getting ready for fifth grade, walking to school, my neighborhood, my little brother, my buddies, a girl whom I had a crush on, thinking about what was on TV that night... It's amazing what it all brings back.

 

Hits, yes, but not album tracks and obscure cuts.

 

I am getting some Beach Boys Pet Sounds vibe from this.....more than Beatles.

 

For me? I am a Rock by Simon & Garfunkel. Not so obscure but I randomly heard it the other day and I instantly had a flashback to 68(?) playing with my Hot Wheels cars while this tune came out of a AM radio. Weird

 

Thousands of songs, but in this category, I nominate :

Young Rascals - It's Wonderful

The Cyrkle - Turn Down Day

Youngbloods- Sunlight

Creedence - Tombstone Shadow

 

One of my fave Brothers Gibb songs, Nina Simone does a nice version of it too.

 

Two guilty pleasures...

Wildfire by Michael Murphy & How long by Ace.

 

This was used as the theme song to the TV show 'Follyfoot' in the early 70s. I'm not 100% sure, but I think it made the charts, too. I heard the song recently and it took me back to racing home from school to catch the show. It was one of those lovely, gentle series that seemed quite common back then. 'Follyfoot' was definitely a 'girl's' show, but I didn't care about that!

The song is so catchy!

 

"Susan's Tuba" Freddie and the Dreamers

 

You're Sixteen by Johnny Burnette. Takes me instantly back to high school and making pizza (out of a box) on evening babysitting dates with my steady girl of those days (yes, she was sixteen). I taped it off my folks radio onto a reel-to-reel, to have my own copy.

 

Del Shannons "Handy Man" makes me eleven again. The album belonged to friends of my parents and sometimes when we visited it was on. Found a copy a while ago and when I listened fifty years just disappeared

 

Since we're including hits now, Curtis Mayfield's "Freddie's Dead" reminds me of eating Royal Castle burgers as a kid. Seems like they were always playing that song when I went there. Man, I miss those burgers!

 

Lazy Day off of On The Threshold Of A Dream by The Moody Blues. I heard this the other day in the car and was taken back to the spring of 1970. I was 16 so I won't comment on the activities, but gettin high was a huge part of it.

 

That's my favorite song on that album. The wordless middle section with the layered harmonies takes me to another planet every time!

 

Comin' Home - DC5

Takes me immediately back to being 14, hanging with a pal and his g/f in the next town over, thinking how Beatley it sounded, and I just like the song as well.

 

I'm confused...according to this thread you weren't able to get your hands on the Bee Gees material when with DCC.

http://forums.stevehoffman.tv/threa...-dcc-double-gold-almost-track-listing.101064/

"I tried to get a DCC Gold double CD of Bee Gees hits but the licensing was a nightmare plus finding a good quality tape on everything would have taken years unless we had hired Bill Inglot. Even then it might have taken years."

Did you get your hands on their tapes sometime after 2006?

 

My oldest brother was a huge music fan with a sweet soul.Even though there was a big age difference between us we were really close and I learned all of the 60s bands through him.He had them all.Moby Grape,Quicksilver Messenger Service,Canned Heat,BS&T,Ten Tears After, Jesse Colin Young etc.I can remember loaning him money to buy 'Disraeli Gears' at Garnicks in Lowell,Ma.when it came out(they used to call me Milburn Drysdale).We had a garage with a stereo and pool table where the neighborhood would hang out.Yes,we were that family.I honestly do not remember when there wasn't music playing when I was growing up.
When my brother got very sick a few years ago,we were sitting on his porch one night when I finally came clean. With my tail between my legs I said "you know that was me who scratched and got fingerprints all over your albums?"He said "aww jerry,its alright".The way he said...it still raises the hair on my back when I think about it today.
I picked up a used cd last week called 'Golden Age Of Underground Radio'.It has a lot of those great bands on it.When 'Darkness,Darkness' by the Youngbloods came on,followed by Ten Years After and Canned Heat jumping out of the speakers,it brought me right back to the old garage playing his albums again.
By the way,nice job on that Steve.

 

I agree! I remember "Follyfoot" being shown on Norwegian TV in the 70s, and though I was not that much of a fan, it was pretty much compulsory viewing back then. I did not recognize the song, but I liked it. I tried to find a CD including this track, but I drew a blank. Do you, Sir Bobby, happen to know whether it was ever released on CD?

 

I've no idea if it's on CD. It's on Spotify, if that helps? I used to love shows like this. Catweazle was another. The Kids From 47A. Here Come The Double Deckers. Great early 70s kids shows.

EDIT. Had a look on Amazon UK. Can't see a CD version. It's available as a download, though.

 

Thanks.

 

"That's Heaven To Me" Bobby Womack. For some reason when I hear this I remember my mother and grandmother riding around looking for presents for my grandfather's birthday. I was about 7 or 8, for some reason my grandmother and grandfather were getting along and we all cared enough to get him presents. This had to be 1976 or so...

Anyway we were going to the local shops and hearing that song (or thinking about it) I can see how everything looked then in the area before it became a place for tourists. And just thinking about this I remember someone was having a bake sale in front of the old drug store. Weird that I would remember that but a few years later, everything "changed" in the area. In a way a lot did, I never remembered my grandfather's birthday being such a big occasion again and sadly we drifted a little year by year...

 

Two songs from 1966:
God Only Knows & Sunny Afternoon

The memory of listening to WQXI-AM in Atlanta while my Dad drove us home after an Atlanta Braves baseball game (I was 14). Good times!

 

"Summer In The City" does it for me, takes me right back to summer 1966.

 

Unissued Bee Gees DCC comp! Are you kidding me???????????????????
BTW, Jimi Hendrix was a big fan of Bee Gees 1st too.

Different Gibb era but my nine year old was singing along to the SNF songs while playing legos a couple weeks ago!

Recently heard MJ's "The Lady In My Life", one of the few non-hits off Thriller, and it really took me back.