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Discussion in 'Music Corner' started by Steve Hoffman, May 30, 2021.

  1. mwheelerk

    mwheelerk Sorry, I can't talk now, I'm listening to music...

    Location:
    Gilbert Arizona
    Love this album and others by Gabor
     
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  2. arthurprecarious

    arthurprecarious Forum Resident

    Location:
    North East England
    Gone but not forgotten (by me at least)

     
  3. team2

    team2 Forum Resident

    Location:
    TN (By Way of NY)
    "Hold You Back" by Quivers (2021). Excellent pop/rock track:

     
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  4. Combat Wombat

    Combat Wombat Well-Known Member

    Location:
    UK
    Screaming Mimi released one album (Leap into My Fervent Arms). Sadly, this Sheffield band split up a few years ago, but the album still gets regular plays at home.
     
  5. Wally Swift

    Wally Swift Yo-Yoing where I will...

    Location:
    Brooklyn New York
  6. 22 ziggies

    22 ziggies Forum Resident

    Location:
    Hamburg germany


    I believe that these guys are considered obscure even in the holy land. Enjoy
    HaBiluim with When Napoleon conquers Akko.
     
  7. RickH

    RickH Connoisseur of deep album cuts

    Location:
    Raleigh, NC
    Hudson Ford - a quite McCartney-esque tune here…

     
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  8. wadenits

    wadenits Forum Resident

    One of my favourite artists hardly known outside the Netherlands, Jett Rebel with the beautiful ‘Heaven's Got A Place For You’. All analogue recording, produced, engineered, written and performed completely solo by Jett


     
  9. Tom34772

    Tom34772 Forum Resident

    Location:
    St. Cloud FL
    Here's one that I love:

    Shadow Song - Kip Hanrahan

    Avant-Garde-Latin-Big Bad-Jazz, anyone?

    Not enough? How about Jack Bruce singing with nuance, instead of a roar?

    Check it out:

     
  10. Michael Hurley

     
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  11. Finch Platte

    Finch Platte Lettme Rundatt Bayou

    Location:
    NorCal
    I heart Gloritone:
     
  12. Finch Platte

    Finch Platte Lettme Rundatt Bayou

    Location:
    NorCal
    Sacramento's 77s (Seventy Sevens):
     
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  13. Talpa

    Talpa ourmaninthesouth

    Location:
    Tejas
    in mid-70s Dallas, Lightning (Rocky Athas on guitar) was pretty much the top draw. Athas was the inspiration for Thin Lizzy's song 'Rocky' when TL would post-gig hang out at Mother Blues club (where i'd seen them). Rocky was doing already doing fingerboard taps like Gibbons, as u can hear on the solo..always smiling that smile too. this was their regional hit - jammed it all summer '77 at the pool w/ my crazy hot ex g/f. =|

     
  14. Tim 2

    Tim 2 MORE MUSIC PLEASE

    Location:
    Alberta Canada
    Good one, thanks for the link :righton:
     
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  15. keef285

    keef285 Forum Resident

    Location:
    U.K.
    On a good night these guys would blow almost anyone off the stage , saw them many times in the 60's early 70's. Bad management killed them off , they were managed by the owners of Middle Earth club in London there could have been a US deal for them but the management insisted that the US label take all their acts.....it was a no go.
     
  16. Fotografo del cielo

    Fotografo del cielo Well-Known Member

    Location:
    Oviedo, Spain
    The Boys With The Perpetual Nervousness - Nervous Man.
    An scottish-spanish power pop band, in the ways of Teenage Fanclub.

     
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  17. The Snout

    The Snout Forum Resident

    Location:
    Cleveland, OH
    Unfortunately, Rebo Flordigan is so obscure a singer there aren't even any videos I could find to link here, but her song "Your Beautiful Orange Hair" is a stately piano blues about loving an alcoholic that is one of the saddest and most poignant things you'll ever hear and would reward whatever price you paid for the CD ("February") however you could track it down.
     
  18. dance_hall_keeper

    dance_hall_keeper Forum Resident

    I heard this song on WJJL 1440 Niagara Falls NY some time ago
    and I’d never heard it before that. It took a lot of “Googling” but
    I did find out the story behind it.

    A true example of a “regional hit”. How this song avoided
    becoming a massive hit is beyond me.

    last fm dot com provides the following:

    Bertha Louise Tillman was a 1960s pop singer, born 28 June
    1942 in Texas. She died in San Diego, Ca., on 31 May 1993,
    aged 50. Her best known tune is Oh My Angel, the first of
    two 45s released by her on Bob Shad's New York-based
    Brent label. The other, I Wish, was released as Bertha
    Tillman & The Killers.

    Bertha Tillman was working as a shop assistant in San
    Diego when she was discovered by Hank Blackman of
    J.J. Jackson and The Jackals. The group provided the
    background vocals for her evocative rendition of
    ‘Oh My Angel', a song written by the lead singer of
    The Jackals, June Jackson. Starting the second week
    in March, the record (Brent 7029) got a lot of airplay
    in Seattle (as well as various cities in California) and
    went to #4 on the KAYO (Seattle-Tacoma, 1150 AM)
    survey for the week of 30 April 1962. Billboard does
    not appear to have noticed the record when it was
    released, but it entered the Hot 100 at #95 on the
    week of 5 May, and reached #61 on the week of 9 June.

    Inexplicably, the record did not make the Billboard
    R&B charts, and received little airplay in the East.
    After cutting one more record for Brent, Tillman
    went back to San Diego; she died in May of 1993.

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    “Oh My Angel” - Bertha Tillman.
     
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  19. rjp

    rjp Senior Member

    Location:
    Ohio
    dane donohue

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  20. SteveMac

    SteveMac Forum Resident

    This is the first of 2 videos for the band Venice, because it has 2 lead singers who are each worthy of being highlighted.

    Quick background: The "front line" is 2 sets of 2 brothers (so, cousins), all of whom are the youngest siblings of The Lennon Sisters (yes, from way back -- there were something 13 kids in one family and 15 in the other, I believe). Anyway, Venice has been heralded by Jackson Browne, David Crosby, and many others, and Roger Waters hired 3 of them as the backing vocals for The Wall tour. These guys are simply amazing vocal-wise, harmonies, and songwriting.

    First up is Mark Lennon singing Think Again.
     
  21. SteveMac

    SteveMac Forum Resident

    Venice, part 2: Kipp Lennon (Mark's cousin) shows the range of this band, doing a vamped up original -- Charm You.

     
  22. SteveMac

    SteveMac Forum Resident

    I lied about only 2 "Venice" videos -- 3 of the brothers/cousins have a covers band called the Pine Mountain Logs; incredible work.

     
  23. bullygoat

    bullygoat Forum Resident

    Two Toronto bands that should have gotten bigger: Goddo (try “Lighve”) and Max Webster (try “High Class in Borrowed Shoes”). Sorry pics didn’t work
     
  24. CaptainFeedback1

    CaptainFeedback1 It's nothing personal.

    Location:
    Oxfordshire, UK


    I will never forget the first time I heard this, late at night on the radio. It drew me in and held me rapt for its duration. I maybe only listen to it once every 2 or 3 years but when I do it still blows me away.
     
  25. The Starclipse

    The Starclipse Forum Resident

    Location:
    Lleida
    I' don't know if Klaatu are that obscure but they are definetely underrated if you haven't heard of them take a listen you won't regret!
     

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