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I didn't know it was a contest!
It’s not and never should have been. Apples and oranges. Or rather Apple Pie and a Bloody Mary
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I didn't know it was a contest!
Once I heard, Love Makin Love To You, I fell in love with it. I wish it had made it on the album and had been the first single. It would have been great to have heard it on the tv special she did with Olivia, Tina Turner, et all!
This song's forever etched in both mind and heart because I worked as an usher when Good Will Hunting came out and this song closes that film. I'd be sweeping popcorn 3 times a day in that cinema and singing along with my fellow ushers. Even made me buy the song back in "97.[/URL]
From BILLBOARD's Readers' Poll 10 Worst Songs of the 70s:
2. Starland Vocal Band - 'Afternoon Delight'
It's hard to hate on a song about the joys of mid-day sex, but the Starland Vocal Band make it easy. The group was composed of two real-life couples that probably enjoyed some afternoon delights around the time of the song's release in 1976, though both couples have long-since divorced. The song hit Number One in the summer of 1976 and actually got the group a brief variety series on CBS the next year. They also won a Grammy for Best New Artist – as opposed to, say, the Ramones or Tom Petty and the Hearbreakers or the many other great bands that started that year. The song got renewed attention when it was featured on Glee recently with guest star John Stamos.
This song's forever etched in both mind and heart because I worked as an usher when Good Will Hunting came out and this song closes that film. I'd be sweeping popcorn 3 times a day in that cinema and singing along with my fellow ushers. Even made me buy the song back in "97.
I thought it was an interesting comparison. Two different producers, one artist. Two different albums with two different styles and outcomes, but the same record company.I didn't know it was a contest!
Rupert Holmes last charted Billboard Adult Contemporary song was indeed "The End" in 1982.
But doesn't Holmes write for other artists? I know he wrote for Broadway (The Mystery of Edwin Drood). I always considered him to be a clever writer -- I'm influenced by the humor in Answering Machine, Escape, and In You I Trust. I kind of group him and Randy Newman together as fun songwriters.
Now, BRING IT!!!
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From BILLBOARD's Readers' Poll 10 Worst Songs of the 70s:
2. Starland Vocal Band - 'Afternoon Delight'
It's hard to hate on a song about the joys of mid-day sex, but the Starland Vocal Band make it easy. The group was composed of two real-life couples that probably enjoyed some afternoon delights around the time of the song's release in 1976, though both couples have long-since divorced. The song hit Number One in the summer of 1976 and actually got the group a brief variety series on CBS the next year. They also won a Grammy for Best New Artist – as opposed to, say, the Ramones or Tom Petty and the Hearbreakers or the many other great bands that started that year. The song got renewed attention when it was featured on Glee recently with guest star John Stamos.
FYI:
"Karen Carpenter" entered the Japanese charts 24 years ago today. It charted for 6 weeks and peaked at #19. I have Japan sales at 54,000. (It also spent 1 week in the UK top 200 at #174)
After just hearing Dionne Warwick's version of Our Day Will Come, produced by Barry Gibb, I am sure the combination of Karen and Barry would have been magic!
I have a picture on my phone that I would like to share in response to this. Does anyone know how to do that here on this forum?Barry Gibb is a genius in his own right. The more I think about the music he has composed and orchestrated, the more I am impressed. He WAS the driving force behind the BeeGees and he launched the career of his younger brother Andy. I hope his work will somehow be respected and acknowledged in the future...And yes, a Karen/Barry duet would've been awesome beyond belief!
In the U.K. the only bit of promotion that I can remember when the solo album was finally released, came from DJ Ken Bruce on BBC Radio 2. Ken chose the album as his Album of the Week and played a different track each day during his Monday to Friday show.That and the US Adult Contemporary chart placing of #18 for "If I Had You" is the only solo album and single success we have to talk about other than hypotheticals. Very little promotion on these but it would have done better in 1980 if A&M were behind it. I personally feel they it was owed to Karen that A&M released it in 1980. She was paying their bills.
In the U.K. the only bit of promotion that I can remember when the solo album was finally released, came from DJ Ken Bruce on BBC Radio 2. Ken chose the album as his Album of the Week and played a different track each day during his Monday to Friday show.
A Barry produced Karen Solo album would have been amazing.Barry Gibb is a genius in his own right. The more I think about the music he has composed and orchestrated, the more I am impressed. He WAS the driving force behind the BeeGees and he launched the career of his younger brother Andy. I hope his work will somehow be respected and acknowledged in the future...And yes, a Karen/Barry duet would've been awesome beyond belief!
A Barry produced Karen Solo album would have been amazing.