Here are my votes: (top 5)

1. Soul and Inspiration - by the Righteous Brothers
2. 25 or 6 to 4 - by Chicago
3. Nights in White Satin - by the Moody Blues
4. I Wish - by Stevie Wonder
5. Pinball Wizard - by The Who

In no particular order...

Layla by Derek and the Dominoes.
What's Going On by Marvin Gaye.
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band by the Beatles.
California Dreaming by the Mamas and the Papas.
Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen.
Hotel California by the Eagles.

I saw VH1's 100 Greatest Songs of Rock and Roll today and it brought back a lot of good memories for me. This is by no means a complete list of my favs, just the ones that come easily to mind. :-)

Tuesday Afternoon by Moody Blues
Paperback Writer by The Beatles
Iron Man by Black Sabbath
Monday Morning by Fleetwood Mac
Eight Miles High by The Byrds

American Pie by Don MacLean (not the Madonna Remake)
Satisfaction by the Stones (not the awful Britney remake)

And, a personal favorite because I happened to hear it at just the right time...

You Can't Always Get What You Want (Stones)

"Bat Out Of Hell" by Meat Loaf
"Stairway To Heaven" by Led Zeppelin
"A Day In The Life" by The Beatles
"Space Oddity" by David Bowie
"Brown Sugar" by the Stones
"Days" by The Kinks

plus many others that don't immediately spring to mind.

Speaking of Meat Loaf -
1. Paradise By the Dashboard Light
2. Two Out of Three Ain't Bad

Bad Moon Rising - CCR
China Girl - David Bowie
Land of a Thousand Dances - Wilson Pickett
ANYTHING done by Pink Floyd
Godzilla - Blue Oyster
... and the list goes on.
and if anyone wants these songs, with Napster mostly gone, we can get them from Bearshare.com

Oh yeah, forgot to include "Hot Love" by T-Rex...

Paradise By the Dashboard Light

When I used to go to midnight showing of Rocky Horror in St. Louis in the early '80s, they always ran three music clips first...

Tim Curry: Paradise Garage
Tim Curry: I do the Rock!
Meatloaf: Paradise by the Dashboard Light

Great songs, all three.

I'm re-posting my list of top forty all-time bands, originally on the RM board. I also list my choice for that band's best album, although nearly all the bands here get on the list because of their overall body of work. An exception is a couple of bands who make the list almost soely on the strength of one exceptional album (such as AC/DC with BIB, or Iron Butterfly with S&S). Anyway, these are my fave all-time bands as of now.

AC/DC: Back In Black
ASIA: Aqua
BAD COMPANY: Straight Shooter
THE BEATLES: Let It Be
BLACK SABBATH: Paranoid
BLUE OYSTER CULT: Mirrors
ALICE COOPER: Alice Cooper Goes To Hell
CAPTAIN BEYOND: Dawn Explosion
JIM CROCE: Bad Bad Leroy Brown
CROSBY, STILLS AND NASH: Daylight Again
DEEP PURPLE: Fireball
THE DOORS: Untitled First Album
THE EAGLES: Hotel California
ELECTRIC LIGHT ORCHESTRA: Out Of The Blue
FREE: Free At Last
GRAND FUNK RAILROAD: We're An American Band
HUMBLE PIE: Rock On
IRON BUTTERFLY: Sun And Steel
JETHRO TULL: Aqualung
JOURNEY: Frontiers
KANSAS: Leftoverture
LED ZEPPELIN: Untitled Fourth Album
THE MC5: High Time
MOBY GRAPE: Wow
THE MONKEES: Headquarters
THE MOODY BLUES: Seventh Sojurn
MOUNTAIN: Climbing
NEKTAR: Sounds Like This
PINK FLOYD: The Wall
THE ROLLING STONES: Exile On Main Street
RUSH: Permanent Waves
SIMON AND GARFUNKEL: The Sounds Of Silence
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN: Born In The U.S.A.
STYX: Cornerstone
JAMES TAYLOR: Sweet Baby James
URIAH HEEP: Demons and Wizards
THE WHO: Who's Next
YES: The Yes Album
NEIL YOUNG: After The Gold Rush
WARREN ZEVON: Excitable Boy

Here's some I don't seem to get tired of no matter how often I hear them

When a Man Loves a Woman/Percy Sledge
Think/Aretha Franklin(I think the version from the Blues Brothers movie is better than the first)
Good Vibrations/The Beach Boys
Hard Days Night/The Beatles
Romeo and Juliet/The Reflections
But It's Alright/J. J. Jackson

There are literally hundreds of songs I love and consider classics. I once tried to put together a list of my 100 hundred favorite songs. It was a miserable experiment. I just could not figure out what my all-time favorite song was, much less the top five.

The best I can do is comment on the songs and/or acts that have been mentioned.

Chicago - "25 or 6 to 4" is good (someone has suggested it's about an acid trip), but my favorite Chicago songs are "Saturday In the Park", "If You Leave Me Now" and "Hard to Say I'm Sorry".

The Moody Blues - "Nights In White Satin" and "Forever Afternoon (Tuesday?)" aka "Tuesday Afternoon" are great. So's "Gemini Dream" and "Talkin Out of Turn".

Stevie Wonder - add "Sir Duke" and "Master Blaster".

Snickerdoodle's list is good. But my favorite Beatles track is "I Am the Walrus". "Nowhere Man", "Day Tripper", "Paperback Writer", "Hey Jude", "A Day In the Life", "You've Got to Hide Your Love Away" and "Strawberry Fields Forever" are the runners-up. I tend towards John's songs more than Paul's.

Sabbath - "Iron Man" and "Paranoid"

Fleetwood Mac - "Rhiannon (Will You Ever Win)" and "Angel" are my favorites.

The Byrds - "My Back Pages". I love that chorus. "I was so much older then/I'm younger than that now."

"American Pie" is a classic. I saw Don McLean out in Richardson last year in an outdoor concert. It started to rain during "American Pie". A lot of people started to run for shelter. I stayed and a few others did, too. McLean pointed out a rainbow behind us during the song, though it was still raining. The rain began to stop when he got to the line "I met a girl who sang the blues". It was really weird that it rained only for the duration of that song. I think of it as one of the best concert experiences I've ever had.

The Stones - "Wild Horses", "Paint It Black", "Gimme Shelter" and "Sympathy For the Devil".

Meatloaf - "Whatever Happened to Saturday Night?" aka "Hot Patootie", and "Paradise By the Dashboard Light".

Zeppelin - "Kashmir", "Stairway...", "The Immigrant Song"

Bowie - "'Heroes'" and "Ashes to Ashes" and "China Girl" (Stevie Ray plays some great guitar on that one!)

The Kinks - "A Rock and Roll Fantasy", "Celluloid Heroes", "Do It Again", "Living On a Thin Line", "Death of a Clown", "Muswell Hillbilly", "Around the Dial", "Noise", "Destroyer", "Catch Me Now I'm Falling", "Don't Forget to Dance" and, "(Wish I Could Fly Like) Superman".

CCR - "Fortunate Son", "Cotton Fields", "Down On the Corner", "Effigy", "Proud Mary" and "Who'll stop the Rain"

Pink Floyd - "Not Now John", "Comfortably Numb", "What Shall We Do Now", "One of These Days" and "Echoes".

Blue Oyster Cult - "Dominance and Submission", "Shooting Shark", "Then Came the Last of May", "The Golden Age of Leather", "Flaming Telepaths", "Stairway to the Stars", "Unknown Tongue", "The Great Sun Jester", "Joan Crawford", "Vengeance (The Pact)" and too many others to list. But those are the main ones.

"I Do the Rock". A lost classic! I love it!

I've already commented on Todd's list on RM, and don't feel like doing so again. At least not now.

Sorry to take up so much space and bore everyone.

Any act or song I don't comment on, is either one I'm not familiar with, or have no opinion about it.

You ain't boring me, Benn. There is so much great stuff out there that I don't know where to begin.
Righteous Brothers:"You've Lost that Lovin' Feeling"

? and the Mysterians (aka Rudy Martinez): "96 Tears"-A classic, extremely vicious song.

Deep Purple: "Hush"

Great Beatles Track:"When I'm 64", probably because I'm only 17 1/2 years from that age. Why limit myself? Entire "Sgt Pepper" album.

Zep: "Kashmir", "In The Evening", "Whole Lotta Love."

Doors" "The End", "Touch Me."

Stones: Entire "Some Girls" album, "Sympathy for the Devil," "Paint It Black"

Fleetwood Mac: "You Make Loving Fun," "Gold Dust Woman," "Rhiannon"

Beach Boys: "Don't Worry Baby," "Heroes and Villians."

Kinks: "Celluloid Heroes," "Tired of Waiting For You."

Procul Harum: "Conquistador."

ELO: "Fire on High" (This mostly instrumental cut was used as background music on a "Star Trek The Motion Picture" display set up in train stations in 1979.)

Moody Blues: Entire "Days of Future Passed" album.

Van Halen: "Dance the Night Away", "Hot for Teacher."

I've gotta go now, or I won't stop. Set a course...for home.

Gee, thanks Adam.

"96 Tears" is great. Simple, but effective the way all great rock songs should be.

"Huh" is okay, but I prefer "Perfect Stranger" and "Smoke On the Water", one of the greatest rock riffs of all. According to Gavin Edwards' 'Scuse Me While I Kiss This Guy, some people hear rge chorus of "Smoke..." as "Slow motion Walter, the fire engine guy".

"The End" is the definitive Doors song to me.

Yeah I like the Some Girls album, too. Where the Beatles are concerned, I prefer "The White Album".

"Gold Dust Woman" is good. (So's "The Chain".)

"Tired of Waiting For You" is a good Kinks. Glad to see there's some else who knows "Celluloid Heroes". "Dedicated Follower of Fashion" and "Sunny Afternoon" are also great early Kinks.

"Don't Worry Baby", yeah, I like that one. What else? "Sloop John B", "Good Vibrations", "Wouldn't It Be Nice" and "God Only Knows".

"Whiter Shade of Pale" is the Procol Harum song I prefer. "Conquistador" is good. (Like there's a whole lot of choices where the Harum is concerned.)

Sounds like you might remember this Adam, "Fire On High" was used as the theme for The CBS Sports Spectacular. "The agony of defeat"? There are two edits of this song. The 45 version, used as the flipside to "Sweet Talkin' Woman", did not have the backmasked intro. Yes, it is a legitimate backmasking example. For the record, when you play it in reverse it says, "The music is reversible, but time is not. Turn back! Turn back! Turn back!"
Back in the 70's, a DJ on KZEW here in Dallas, played it in reverse.

As for my favorite E.L.O. songs? "Don't Bring Me Down", "Livin' Thing", "Illusions in G Major", "Do Ya", "Roll Over Beethoven", "Here Is the News", "Buildings Have Eyes", "Stranger", "Dreaming of 4000", "Daybreaker" and much, much more.

Van Halen. "Hot For Teacher", oh yeah. Uh, oh yeah, "Little Guitar". Great song! "And the Cradle Will Rock" (I swear when I first it, I thought Diamond Dave sang, "Have you seen Junior's grave?"), "Mean Street" and, "Unchained",

"Smoke On The Water" was written about a concert festival Deep Purple played in Montreaux with Frank Zappa. During one of the sets, a spectator shot off a flaregun inside the indoor arena and wound up burning it down. the title of the song refers to the image of the smoke from that fire hanging over Lake Geneva.

J. J. Jackson? Wasn't he one of the original MTV VJs?

Chicago. Pfft! Hate 'em. Well, not hate so much as just tired of them. Their 70s stuff sounds too much the same, but I did start liking some of their 80s stuff, starting with the theme to the movie, "Summer Lovers".

"Whiter Shade of Pale". Ugh! I hate this song tremendously.

"And the Cradle Will Rock" (I swear when I first it, I thought Diamond Dave sang, "Have you seen Junior's grave?")
So did I! And for the longest time! It's good to know that I'm not the only one who ever thought that, either.
Does anyone like the Motor City Madman himself, Ted Nugent? I usually only see him on Politically Incorrect now and then and he's quite an ass-hole (although I hate to admit it but I sort of agree with him on some things), but I got his Great Gonzo greatest hits and it's not too bad. I got that, Rick Derringer and Kris Kristofferson's greatest hits for $8 each on sale at Tower Records. That's the order that they're good, Ted, Rick and Kris, whose CD almost completely sucked.

Where the Nuge is concerned, I have to separate the man from the music. His music is pretty good. He's due to play Dallas, opening for Deep Purple and Lynyrd Skynyrd (or what's trying to pass themselves off as Skynyrd.), on July 6th.

The only solo Kristofferson songs I remember hearing are "Me and Bobby McGee" (gimme Janis' version!), "Why Me" and "Help Me, Lord". Hadn't heard them in years and I ain't waiting around to, either!

Rick Derringer had a minor hit in the Eighties that's long forgotten; "Party At the Hotel". "We'll get drunk and raise hell/We'll party at the hotel". It's a dopey rocker, but I like it. He was also, I seem to recall, in a band called DNA, in the early 80's. Their hit was "Doctors of the Universe" ("We are the doctors of the universe/We twist your DNA/We like our work"). Carmen Appice was their drummer.

I know too many obscure songs.

>>The only solo Kristofferson songs I remember hearing are "Me and Bobby McGee", "Why Me" and "Help Me, Lord". Hadn't heard them in years and I ain't waiting around to, either!<<

You forget the TREMENDOUSLY fabulous country/western hit "Sunday Morning Coming Down" that was a marginally "OK" tune for Kris. The reason it's not associated with Kristofferson is that the country artist that made it hugely popular was Johnny Cash.

I didn't forget it, Derf. I never heard Kristofferson's version. I was just talking about what songs of his I'd heard him do. But yeah, "Sunday Morning Coming Down" is a great song, don't get me wrong. I've just never Kris' version of it.

I've never heard it, either. (come to think of it) I guess he just wrote it for Johnny. My boo-boo, Benn.

However, he DID write alot of the music for the movie remake of "A Star Is Born" ... and the song "Hellacious Acres" is great!!

I'm sure he recorded it. Hold on. Let me check something here. Sorry. I thought I could find a quick reference Johnny Cash's second autobiography, Cash, but I can't. It seems like Johnny does say that Kristofferson did record the song also. Now I'll have to research elsewhere... Hold on. No. The Rolling Stone Album Guide doesn't say anything. Now I'll do research on this.

Okay. I just checked. Kris Krisstoferson did record "Sunday Morning Coming Down" on his first album in 1970. It also has "Me and Bobby McGee" and "Help Me Make It Through the Night" (a great song. Wonder what he did about the line, "Take the ribbon from my hair"?)

M'Kay ... (Only Johnny or other "well known" artists can make a Kris tune great) but what about the "sensuously delicious" pairing of Kristofferson and Streisand for the "A Star Is Born" soundtrack? Perhaps the "Evergreen" tune wasn't quite Kris (and MORE Barbara), but the "Hellacious Acres" was ALL Kristofferson!!

I'm partial to the opening track to "Paradise Theatre" by Styx

"Tonight's the night that we'll make history..."

Streisand?! Oh god, don't get me started! Ugh! I blame her for the high costs of concert tickets. That alone is enough for me to wish her eternal damnation. (No insult to your tastes are intended Derf. But I think I'd rather listen to Britney Spears, than Barbra. I'm weird that way.) (Actually, jailbait though she is, Britney is much better looking than Barbra.)

Just the opening track, Scott? That whole album is great.

I only mentioned the "B-word" to point out that the Kristofferson tune I was speaking about is probably only available on the movie soundtrack. Sorry for the sour taste it left.

S'Kay. I don't mind if you like her or anything. Won't change my opinion of you.

I believe Kristofferson has a box set. It might be on that.

My bad. I didn't get Kris Kristofferson's greatest hits, but his 1970 debut album, remastered, with 4 bonus tracks, for 16 total. We used to have Kris' album with "Why Me" and "Jesus Was a Capricorn". I guess "Help Me, Lord" was on it, too, right? I don't remember. Anyway, I just now relistened to "Sunday Morning Coming Down", and yes, it is pretty good.

Benn, Britney's legal now, She's 19, and I just saw on some dumb new pathetic Entertainment Tonight wannabe called "Uncovered" that quoted her as saying she intends to not have sex till she gets married "but it's very hard." Yeah, right. Like with her looks she couldn't get practically any guy to do her. Any straight guys, at least.

"...but it's very hard." Is it just my perverted mind, or does that sound like a double entendre?

I went to CDWorld yesterday. They had a used copy of Kristofferson's first album. I played "Bobby McGee", but got only as far as the line, "We sang every song that driver knew" before skipping to "Help Me Make It Through the Night". I got up to the second verse and hit skip again. I went to his version of "For the Good Times". Played a couple of verses and skipped to "Sunday Morning Coming Down". I played half of it before taking it out of their CD player and putting back on the rack. "Sunday Morning" was definitely the best of the lot. Personally, I think the problem wasn't as much Kris as it was the arrangements he used on the songs that killed them.

Britney's 19, eh? I dunno. I'd feel weird have any kind of sexual/romantic (one or the other) relationship with someone that much younger than me. I'd imagine any girl that young would be kind of grossed out about having such a relationship with someone my age. Unless they were Celine Dion.

Hey Derf, it finally sunk in. Over at RM you said you prefered Elton's version of "Pinball Wizard". Here you have The Who's version. Whassup wit' dat?

>>Here you have The Who's version. Whassup wit' dat?<<

It was shown to me by my younger and smarter fellows that The Who's version is the original, not Elton's version. (albeit I enjoy Elton's rendition better) Therefore, when listing the song, I gave deference to the creators.

I know I mentioned that The Who's the original version over at RM. I'm not sure I'm younger or necessarily smarter than you.

I may know The Move recorded "Do Ya" before E.L.O. did, but that doesn't mean I prefer the original version. Uh, actually, that's a really bad example. E.L.O. used to be The Move.

Anyway, if you like Elton's version, then I think you should say so. No stigma involved.

Okay, I LIKE ELTON'S VERSION OF "PINBALL WIZARD"!! (ow! ... I feel good!)

" (ow! ... I feel good!)" - Derf

Who do you think you are? James Brown?

That's me ... jus Livin' in America!

Lesse...where to start...In no particular order:

"For Pete's Sake" The Monkees
"Purple Haze" Jimi Hendrix
"Arnold Layne" Pink Floyd
"Wishful Sinful" The Doors
"Incense and Pepermints" The Strawbery Alarmclock
"Not to Touch the Earth" The Doors
"Carry On" CSNY
"Eight Miles High" The Byrds
"House of the Rising Sun" The Animals
"19th Nervous Breakdown" The Rolling Stones
"The Bells of Rimney" The Byrds (er...is that how you spell it?)
"She's A Rainbow" The Rolling Stones
"1983" Jimi Hendrix
"Pleasant Valley Sunday" The Monkees
"Cinnimon Girl" Neil Young
"Woodstock" CSNY
"Circle Sky (live)" The Monkees
"The Time Has Come Today (full version)" The Chambers Brothers
"The End" The Doors

And I'm sure I forgot 50 million more...

I have been checking out some "Greatest Hits" collections on CD. What is almost a universal constant is that they seem to leave out at least one major song. A Deep Purple complation is missing "Hush", a Zep collection is minus "Going to California." The most infamous one to me is the omission of "Hot For Teacher" on the Van Halen Greatest Hits CD.

I also like a lot of Frank Sinatra. My fave cuts of his are "I've Got You Under My Skin" and "Summer Wind". Frank was at his best when he was in sheer, depressing, abject misery, especially after his breakup with Ava Gardner. He poured his soul into his music then. I may have gone a bit off topic there, but...

Imagine by Lennon deserves to be here somewhere.

Oh dear.... Im starting to feel very young. Am I the youngest here at 20?

Rock and Roll Fantasy -- Bad Company
Do it Again -- Steely Dan

"...but it's very hard." Is it just my perverted mind, or does that sound like a double entendre?
Yeah, that's kinda what "Uncovered" overeager reporter dude said.

I'd imagine any girl that young would be kind of grossed out about having such a relationship with someone my age. Unless they were Celine Dion.
Or Catherine Zeta-Jones-Douglas.

Wednesday and Thursday at work I played Discs 1 and 2, respectively, of Rhino's Monkees Anthology; "For Pete's Sake" is track 23 on Disc 1 and "Pleasant Valley Sunday" is the first track on Disc 2. What's also kinda funny, to me, at least, is that we have a high school here named Pleasant Valley, so whenever I hear one I think of the other.

Adam, hate to disagree with ya but I hate, loathe, detest, abhor (pick any adjective or use your own) Sinatra. I never thought he was even marginally a gifted singer (let alone actor), even in his young, skinny days, and the fact that he had very strong Mob connections (yes, he did, people! Don't anyone deny it!) never really endeared him to me, either. Don't get me wrong. I'm not arguing your feelings for him. I just don't think he was ever talented in the least. Nancy was a little better, plus she was pretty good looking in the 1960's but not now that she's in her 60's.

First of all, Blitz, you did spell the name of Roger McGuinn's band right. It is "The Byrds".

Interesting song choices. "Pleasant Valley Sunday" is possibly the best thing the Monkees did. Mike Nesmith is alleged to have said so himself. My other favorites by them would include "The Door Into Summer", "Shades of Gray", "Sweet Young Thing", "The Purpoise Song", "As We Go Along", "Long Title: Do I Have to Do This All Over Again", "I'm A Believer", "Auntie's Municipal Court", "Sometime In the Morning", "Early Morning Blues and Greens" and a half a dozen more.

My Jimi Hendrix faves include "Voodoo Child", "Long Hot Summer", "Manic Depression", "Power of Love" and several more also.

My favorite Byrds is "My Back Pages".

The Doors, "The End".

Neil Young, "After the Goldrush", "My My Hey Hey (Into the Black)", "Rockin' In the Free World", "From Hank to Hendrix", "Harvest Moon" and "Like a Hurricane", either the live version off Weld or Unplugged.

Steely Dan, "Rikki Don't Lose That Number".

I'm not much of a fan of Ol' Blue Eyes either. His stuff just leaves me cold for some reason.

Mark, over on RM, you wondered about why the E.L.O. box set Flashback has an alternate version of "Xanadu" on it. For some reason I thought of that last night at work. There's two things to consider. First, "Xanadu" (as well the entire soundtrack [which has E.L.O.'s worst material on it if you ask me. Lifeless.]) was released on MCA records. E.L.O.'s own albums have come out on the Jet/Columbia/Epic labels. Also, Jeff Lynne is not the lead vocalist on the song (Duh!). Oblivious Neutron Bomb is. (Thank you Dr. Johnny Fever, or rather Rip Tide.) (A No Prize to anyone who catches those references.) It may have been a matter of not being able to get the license for the original version.

>I have been checking out some "Greatest Hits" >collections on CD. What is almost a universal >constant is that they seem to leave out at least >one major song.

About ten years ago, a T-Rex multi-CD box set was released . . . and it didn't even have "Bang A Gong" on it!

Quiz: Name the Artist who sang these songs:

1. Woman, Woman
2. Young Girl
3. Lady Willpower
4. Over You
5. This Girl Is A Woman Now

Extra points for naming the band that played with the artist.

Merat: I gotcha beat. I'm 17.

Benn: I know that's how you spell "The Byrds", I was talking about the SONG TITLE. Is it "Rinmey" or what? I've got the CD, but it's all the way UPSTAIRS and I don't wanna go all the way up THERE to get it!

Quiz answer: Gary Puckett and the Union Gap?

Blitz gets the cookie ... the "extra" points are the chocolate chips.

Oh. Sorry Blitz. I misinterpreted your post. I'm not familir with that song by the Byrds, so I couldn't tell you if your right or not.

*speaks with mouth full of cookie*
s'all right, I took that LOOOOOONG trip upstairs and it turns out it's "Rhymney"
*sing with mouth full of cookie, spitting crumbs everywhere*
"'Oh what will you give me?' say the sad bells of Rhymney..."

Oblivious Neutron Bomb is. (Thank you Dr. Johnny Fever, or rather Rip Tide.) (A No
Prize to anyone who catches those references.)
Olivia Newton-John, Howard Hesseman's DJ character on WKRP In Cincinnati, and an imbecilic crime drama with the worst looking robot since Twikki (the little peckerhead, literally) on Buck Rogers. Speaking of Olivia, she's got an older greatest hits album with Xanadu on it, but I neither have it nor plan to. And the No Prize is an old idea of Stan "The Man" Lee from back in Marvel Comics 1960s heyday. I forget exactly why he gave it out. Wasn't it for people who found nits in Marvel comic books or had strange ideas for characters or what?

Survey: How many songs by The Rolling Stones can you think of that were performed in a minor key?

1. For those that are unfamiliar with the term "minor key" ... here's a gimme:
Angie ... Aiiiiiingeh ...

Um, I'll give you half a No-Prize, Mark. Rip Tide was also Howard Hesseman on WKRP. There was an episode in which John Caravella, aka Dr. Johnny Fever, was hired to host a music show in Cincinatti. Turns out the music they wanted him to play was Disco. Rather than sell-out, Fever created a new alter-ego: Rip Tide. It was the Ripster who, as he was about to play Olivia's "Physical", called her Oblivious Neutron Bomb. It's stuck with me through all these years.

Stan the Man may have initiated the No-Prize, but it was a practice that was kept well into the Eighties. It was originally given for spotting nits in Marvel Comics. Later, it was amended as a reward to those who spotted the nits, and explained them away. They occassionally gave them away for other reasons, too. From what I've heard, if you got a No-Prize, all you got was a letter saying, "This Is Your No-Prize". Back in the Eighties, they put out a one-shot comic filled with various errors in different Marvel Comics. It was called The Official Marvel No-Prize Book. If you can find it, it's worth having.

Me and a buddy have wound up singing "Angie" as "Aunt Bea/Aunt Bea/They can't say Barney never tried."

>Survey: How many songs by The Rolling Stones can >you think of that were performed in a minor key?

Geez, there's probably a hundred of 'em!

Any list of Stones songs is a daunting concept...

Alright'en ... he're a STUMPER:

Name the Artist:

1. Town Without Pity
2. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
3. Backstage
4. I'm Gonna Be Strong
5. Half Heaven, Half Heartache

Gene Pitney

DERN!!! ..they can name ANY artist, but CAN'T name the songs the Rolling Stones sang in a minor key. (BTW - Butch ... you're prize is a lifetime supply of nits ... courtesy of Nitcentral.com)

Thanks Derf, just what I always wanted, I'm overcome. (starts crying softly)

OK, who knows who did these songs?

1. When
2. Don't You Know
3. Goodbye, My Friends
4. I Need Love
5. Don't Be Taken In

OK, I deliberately chose obscure ones, but the well known songs are just too well known and the question wouldn't have been hard.

Dave Clark Five!

In no particular order, and by No means complete:

Devil With a Blue Dress On by Mitch Ryder
Pretty Woman by Roy Orbison
Secret Agent Man by Johnny Rivers
Play That Funky Music by Wild Cherry
Don't Worry Baby by the Beach Boys
Green-Eyed Lady by ????
Its Not Unusal by Tom Jones

I swear when I first it, I thought Diamond Dave sang, "Have you seen Junior's grave?")

---and---
So did I! And for the longest time! It's good to know that I'm not the only one who ever thought that, either.


You mean he DOESN'T say that? Then what DOES he say?

"Have you seen Junior's grades?" Roth slurs it badly.

"Green-Eyed Lady" is by Sugarloaf.

I'm with "No Way" on three of those songs. "Secret Agent Man", "Don't Worry Baby" and "Pretty Woman".

How about:

1. "All Along The Watchtower"? The Jimi Hendrix version, that is.
2. "Indian Reservation" by Paul Revere and the Raiders.
3. "Riders On The Storm" by the Doors
4. "Spooky" by Classics IV
5. "Voodoo Child" by Jimi Hendrix (The Stevie Ray Vaughn version is pretty good, too)


Incidentally, I was burned out on "Voodoo Child" for a while because WCW was using it as Hollywood Hogan's entrance music back when the nWo was around.

Um, actually, "Indian Reservation" is by simply "The Raiders" (hey, this is a site for nitpickers)

P.S. Snickerdoodle ACED my little quiz. As a prize, you get ONE MILLION DOLLARS! Now let's just take out the taxes and such...
*takes out taxes and such*
...gift tax...internet tax...living tax...dieing tax...collecting of taxex tax...Oh, dear! There seems to be nothing left! Sorry 'bout that...

Wait!

picks up something shiny

There's a quarter left! Thanks, I'll buy a gumball.

If it's oldies, that's my forte. Another quiz?

BTW, I'm going to a concert to see the Turtles, Tommy James and the Shondells, Gary Puckett, the Buckinghams, and Herman's Hermits!

This may be a difficult one, can anyone identify the band that did these songs?

1. "Cheese and Onions"
2. "Piggy In the Middle"
3. "Ouch!"
4. "Doubleback Alley"
5. "Get Up and Go"
6. "Blue Suede Schubert"

Good luck!

Snicker, I've seen Gary Puckett and Peter Noone a few years back. They opened for Chuck Berry. That was the hundredth concert I've been to. Next one will probably be The Charlie Daniels Band.

Sure Benn,

It was the Rutles. Thanks for reminding me.

On a related topic, favorite Spinal Tap songs???

I gotta say "Stonehenge"..."oh, how they danced..."

Don't forget "All You Need is Cash", or was that just the title of the mockumentary?

"I buried Stig" is what Rutles listeners heard, when what they actually said was "Hay buri stigwrot" which is [insert language here] for "Have you any water buffalo?"

Should've known you'd guess it, Miko. I knew Scott would. I should've picked songs from the Archaeology disc instead.

All You Need Is Cash was the mockumentary. It's been recently released on DVD by Rhino Records. Is it just me, or does Mick Jagger look like he's fried out of mind in his segments? Dan Akroyd's segment is great. I love it when Eric Idle asks him, "So, how does it feel to be an a-hole?" Dan nearly chokes when he hears that.

"Stonehenge" is a great Spinal Tap song. Other good ones include "Rock and Roll Creation", "Christmas With the Devil", "Hell Hole" (great video), and "The Majesty of Rock". Best line in any Tap song is definitely "How could I leave this behind?" from "Big Bottom".

I really love the Rutles, and was thrilled when the DVD came out, but I have one problem with it. It's not un-cut. It does have some deleted scenes, but some of the broadcast materiel was cut!! Bummer!! For instance, the Dan Acroyd scene was originaly much longer. The interviewer insults him for awhile, then Akroyd goes offscreen and shots himself! Very funny scene, but cut.

Wha..? I didn't know that, or I didn't remember it. One or the other. Is it on video tape uncut?

Spinal Tap songs!!! The all-time classic has to be "Big Bottom". I like "The Sun Never Sweats". "Stonehenge" is way cool too - I think this is supposed to be a parody of sorts of Uriah Heep's "Salisbury" - as well as the mysticism of the mid-period Led Zeppelin albums.

Yeah, but you can only play them if your volume goes up to 11.

Speaking of Spinal Tap, let's see, Nigel is very obviously meant to be Jeff Beck. It look like David is a parody of David Coverdale, and Derek is supposed to be Lemmy from Motorhead.

By the way, if my volume goes to 13, can I still play them?

Benn,

13, hmmmm....that would be 3 louder. WOW!

Pardon me, Miko? What did you say? I can't hear you! I've got the stereo on!

Quiz: Name the Artist

1. You’re A Big Girl Now
2. Idiot Wind
3. Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts
4. Shelter From The Storm

extra points if you can name the album …
bonus points if you can name the HUGE hit from that album

Bob Dylan. Blood On the Tracks, isn't it? "Tangled Up In Blue" was the big hit from that album, if I've got the artist and album right.

Congratulations, Benn ... your prize is a life-size stand-up poster of Dolly Parton. The extra and bonus points are a paper business suit and briefcase for her (to play 9 to 5 with).

Gee, how...appropriate. I'm so underwhelmed, uh I mean, overwhelmed. Yeah, that's the ticket. So when do I collect? (Do I have to go all the way out to North Richland Hills to get it?)

A poster of Dolly Parton? Is that in 3-D?

Now let's see how soon someone can identify who does these songs:

1. "Daydream Believer"
2. "Midnight Wind"
3. "Gold"
4. "California Bloodlines"
5. "July, You're a Woman".

John Stewart??? (although #1 is the Monkees, and #3 is either Spandau Ballet or the MC5)

Isn't "Daydream Believer" by The Monkees?

Hmm. 42 minutes.

Anne Murray has also covered "Daydream Believer. However Todd's right. It is John Stewart. He wrote "Daydream Believer".(I've got a live disc of his where he and a bass player perform the song acoustically.) "Gold" is the one with the lyrics "When the lights go down/In the California town/People are in for the evening/I jump into my car/And throw in my guitar/My heart beating time/With my breathing/Drivin' over Canaan/Singin' to my soul/People out there/Are turnin' music into gold." A big hit back in `79. Stevie Nicks and Lyndsay Buckingham are also on the song.

Derf, pass the Dolly Parton over to Todd. It's his now.

Quiz: Which group sang these words in a popular song other than the Beatles? (and NOT in a remake of the song “I Am The Walrus”)
Note: In the event there is more than one correct answer, the winners will split the prize)
... extra points if you can name the song.

I am he as you are he
As you are me and we are all together.

I have NO clue...

hint ... the ANSWER is in one of MY posts over the last 24 hours ...

Chicago - "Southern California Purples"

Todd Pence wins the cupie doll ...

(however, if I wanna get NITpicky, the bands name for this album is The Chicago Transit Authority)

(rolling his Dolly Parton poster up and tucking it under his arm so he can hold his doll)

Quiz: Name the Artist

1. Spiders and Snakes
2. My Girl Bill
3. Wildwood Weed
4. Swamp Witch

extra points if you can name what this artist has in common with Tom Jones, Mac Davis and Sonny & Cher.

Jim Stafford.

And the extra credit is...he has a place in Branson, Missouri?

Nope ... the extra credit IS ...
Jim Stafford had a prime-time TV show just like the other artists mentioned ...

However, Snickerdoodle ... since your name begins with MY chihuahua's name (snickers) I'll give you the extra points anyway ... your prize is a weeks vacation inside the D.A.R.Y.L.'s characters head ... the extra points include a tour of his cyber-guts ... enjoy!!

Benn, thanks for the half a No-Prize (sorry for taking so long; I haven't been to this board for awhile now). I remember something about that now, though not in as great details as you related. Most of those eps I've only seen once so they haven't stuck with me at all, although I could never forget how great Loni and Jan looked.

Thanks also for the No-Prize info. I knew it was something like that. I did have The Official Marvel No-Prize Book once upon a time but if it wasn't in a b&b then I probably gave it to my nephews, as most of my comics were just stacked in boxes with absolutely no care as to their condition cuz I never thought about saving them for possibly selling them years later. I do have a few hundred or so in b&b ("Death of Superman" comes to mind) in 7 long white boxes but I don't think that's one of them.

One nit that stuck with me that I noticed way back as a kid when I read it (this after going to the dump with my dad and brother and watching a dumptruck dump a whole sh*tload of comic books without their covers and taking as many home as I could, which wasn't a whole lot) is from that one Spidey story where he and Torch fight the Lizard ("Day of the Lizard" perhaps?) and in one frame Spidey snags Torch with asbestos webbing (Torch: "Oh, no! Asbestos webbing!" or something like that), shown from the back of Spidey's left hand (a shot I later copied in a Spiderbird cartoon I used to do), but instead of starting out as a thin webbing and spreading out towards Torch, it was wide from Spidey's hand and narrowed as it neared Torch. Think of it this way: an isosceles triangle with the narrow end originating at Spidey's hand.

Snickerdoodle, back in 1992 Davey Jones opened for Peter Noone of Herman's Hermits at the local fair. Davey's show wasn't very good, but Peter's sure was, even getting the audience involved in it, like taking someone's camcorder and taping the audience.

Ok, so ya wants to do some trivia, eh? Ok, fine. I'll give it another try. Here goes. Who sang:

The Look of Love
Guess Who?
Little By Little
Haunted
Some of Your Lovin'

Hint: This person shares the same last name with another singer of the opposite sex (who didn't have a very long singing career) but with whom there's no relation.

Dusty Springfield!

Thanks for the prize, Derf, I think.

Very good, Snickerdoodle! How'd ya know that? I was just choosing random songs off of the new 3CD disk set I have of hers in hopes that none of them were recognizable as being hers. Ok, now I'll have to come up with a really hard one.

Ha ha! You're not the only one with a box set, Mark. :-)

Oh, well, I didn't exactly think I was, either. I listened to the first two disks and just started the third one now. I must say this set is better than I thought it might be. I've bought lots of box sets when I only knew some of the songs on them so it was a big risk but it usually paid off very well. This is one of them. Others are Nuggets, The Doobie Bros, Loud, Fast and Out of Control (50s rock n roll) and Cowabunga (surf music), all by Rhino, who's great about putting together greatest hits box sets. I wanna get their entire 70s collection, Have a Nice Day.

Then there's Time Traveller, Johnny Mathis, 2 5-CD Elvis sets (one each of the 50s and 60s), Linda Ronstadt, The Ramones (2-CDs), Pat Benatar, EmmyLou Harris and many others. Haven't finished listening to my Perry Como and Sammy Davis, Jr. sets yet.

Okay … next quiz. This one is on a “no-fault” basis, since I have no idea if this album is an original release, or one that is a “greatest hits” compilation.

Quiz: Name the Artist

1. Tracks
2. Observer
3. Conversation
4. __________
5. Engineers

extra points if you can name the album (above “no-fault” reference) these songs are from.
Bonus points if you can fill-in-the-blank (BIG hit song for this artist).

Hint: The "BIG" hit was mentioned on the music thread "Name songs about automobiles" ...

My guess would be that it's either Gary Numan or Kraftwerk. If Numan, the big hit is "Cars". If Kraftwerk, the hit is "Autobahn". "Cars" was originally on The Pleasure Principle album, while "Autobahn" was, I believe, the title cut to the album it was on.

Benn has already received the "booby" prize, (see "Blood on the Tracks" quiz above) so I'll defer to the standard lifetime supply of nits from Nitcentral.com ... (you can sell them to nitpickers at a profit ... honest!)

BTW - Benn ... a nit is the egg of a louse, but us nitpickers don't know that yet! (we're also the same people that will strain at a gnat, but swallow a camel)

Oh ... I SHOULD mention that Gary Numan was the correct answer. But kudos to Benn for thinking up a viable second answer.

Actually Derf, I passed the booby prize over to Todd after he correctly answered a trivia question I proposed.

Um, thanks for the nits. I'll, uh, pick them in good health, or something like that...

Aright'en Benn ... I just today tuned into the Dallas "Classic Rock" station and found that Bo and Jim were extinct and replaced with a program called "The Tom and Bob Show" (or something like that) with a Howard Stern sorta format ... i.e., NO music in the AM until 9:00, but filled with sexual slams and fart jokes. You wouldn't have gotten wind of what happened to their morning show?

Yep, Bo and Jim got fired - again. This happened last Monday, and once again, neither Bo or Jim knew it was their last show, so they couldn't say goodbye to their fans. According to the article I read in last Wednesday's Dallas Morning Snooze, Clear Communications, which owns Kay-Zips fired Bo and Jim, despite generally excellent ratings, without hardly any advertising support from Kay-Zips,because they could not "take the station to the next level" in ratings, and they weren't "topical" enough. So they hire some bozos from out of town. I haven't listened to the new show, and don't plan to. Somebody should mention to TPTB at Kay-Zips the Lexx and Terry show again. They apparently need a reminder.

Of course after Bo and Jim were fired from "the Dump" (Q102), "the Dump" ceased to exist. Kay-Zips should keep that in mind, too.

All I can say is, good luck to Bo and Jim, hope to hear from y'all soon.

Radio sucks! (Cues The Kinks' "Around the Dial")

Actually, it's "The Bob and Tom Show". It plays on the local crappy rock station here as well (it used to be good, playing the good classic rock but not anymore; now it's newer stuff, rap rock and the like, with only a very few classics). It's on too early for me to listen to but from the snippets I've heard of it one of the duo (I dunno which it is) always seems to pull an Ed McMahon, laughing at practically everything his partner, or their guests, says, which is most often not funny. Not only that but the laughing dude doesn't even have a sincere sounding one at that. It sounds very forced. I could be wrong, but that's how it sounds to me.

Derf, I forgot to mention Bo Roberts' theory on why he and his partner-in-crime, Long Jim White, were fired. It seems their contracts were up for renewal in August. So, rather than give them a raise, Kay-Zips let 'em go.

And as the character Berretta would say, "Dats da name-a dat tune" ...

>>Survey: How many songs by The Rolling Stones can you think of that were performed in a minor key?<<

Here's my list to date:

1. Angie
2. Paint it Black
3. Can't Get No Satisfaction
4. Jumpin' Jack Flash
5. Goodbye Ruby Tuesday

(just a scratch in the sand ... there's GOBS more to find)

Quiz: Name the Album

1. Village Ghetto land
2. Pastime Paradise
3. Joy Inside My Tears

extra points for naming the artist (of course)
bonus points for naming each of the THREE big hits from this album

Stevie Wonder, Songs In The Key Of Life, and the hits...."Isn't She Lovely", "Sir Duke" and "I Wish".

Isn't "Wild Horses" also in a minor key? Look, I'm not a musician, so I wouldn't really know. I do know, Derf, that the song is "Ruby Tuesday", not "Goodbye Ruby Tuesday".

Snickerdoodle wins the prize ...
Your prize is a weeks vacation inside Brittany Spears' refrigerator ... with instructions to receive a dollar every time she opens it.

Benn, I know the correct title is just plain Ruby Tuesday, but I can never say it myself without adding the Goodbye part. (sorry dude)

Really, I think at least half of the Stones' 300+ songs can qualify as being in a minor key.

Mick likes that "dark quality" that a minor key affords, I suppose ... or else the major 5th key on the piano is stuck.

I'm not musically inclined in the least, and hardly know anything about music cuz I can't tell a minor from a major key, A from B from C and so on, let alone read the notes. I can't even play guitar, but then again I never really fret over it, either.

Okay, a semi-stumper ...

Quiz: Name the Artist

1. Little Egypt
2. Hard Knocks
3. Big Love, Big Heartache
4. Wheels on My Heels

extra points if you can name the album

I'm pretty sure it's The Coasters. "Little Egypt (Yin Yang)" is one of my favorite songs. As for album... I haven't got the foggiest notion.

Hint: This "album" was also a movie starring the artist ...

QUIZ:

Name the album these songs are from:

1. Andmoreagain
2. The Red Telephone
3. The Good Humor Man He Sees Everything Like This
4. Bummer In The Summer

Hint #2: This movie/album was released in the mid '60's when the artist was considered a "teen idol".

Well, then, it sure as hell ain't the Coasters! Elvis?

It WAS Elvis ... he sang Little Egypt and the others in the movie Roustabout. (My sister collected these albums as a teen, and I persuaded her to let me hear them now and again.)

While you're working on Todd Pence's quiz (see post above) - try this one too ...

Quiz: Name the Group

1. Pick Up The Pieces
2. School Boy Crush
3. If I Ever Lose This Heaven
4. Queen Of My Soul

Well, it certainly isn't Candy Dulfer. (She's covered "Pick Up the Pieces".) That leaves The Average White Band.

I'm almost tempted to say Frank Zappa is the answer to Todd's question.

No. Hint: It's a band featured on the Nuggets boxed set . . . although the song on that selection is not one from the album in question.

Yep Benn ... Average White Band. (admit it, though ... without me listing Pick Up The Pieces, you'da never got it)

Ya got me there, pardner!

You and that Nuggets boxed set, Todd! I looked at it some today at Best Buy. Still don't have any idea to whom you refer.

Hey, Benn, I got that box set too, remember. It's fantastic! I can't wait to get Nuggets II: Original Artyfacts From The British Empire & Beyond. You can check it out at Rhino.com.

Could check it out the next time I go to Best Buy, too. It's just that Todd keeps askin' all these high-falutin' question based on ownin' it and...

Rhino's Handmade division will be hearing from me Saturday. They've got this limited edition live Monkees four-disc set I want. I've already got a copy of The Monkees Headquarters Sessions limited edition CD set. And the limited edition Satlk-Forrest Group disc.

Todd,

Forever Changes? I don't have it, but would LOVE to hear it someday.

Good going, Cazbob!

Here's my next quiz - which album contains the following tracks:

"Sounds Great When You're Dead"
"Mellow Together"
"The Bones In The Ground"
"Autumn Is Your Last Chance"

Robyn Hitchcock, I Often Dream of Trains.

Okay, that one was too easy.

And it's not technically "Oldies", is it?

Only relatively speaking . . . okay, let's see who can get this album:

"Cripple Creek"
"Weighted Down (The Prison Song)"
"Books Of Moses"
"Lawrence Of Euphoria"

Oh, that's Skip Spence's solo album... Oar, I think. Am I right? Now that's an oldie. :-)

Looks as if I'm going to have to pass my prizes on to Snickerdoodle . . . okay, here's the next album quiz.

"Fresh Garbage"
"Girl In Your Eye"
"Gramaphone Man"
"Great Canyon Fire In General"

Here is the current debate raging between me and my newly aquired "nephew-in-law" (a radio DJ) ...

What is the difference between an "oldie" and a "classic" ...?

I would not taint anyone's opinion by posting mine or my nephew's ... but it would be an interesting exercise to ferret out the "truth" through genuine confab ...

What'ya think?

I'm a 17-year-old and absolutely in love with classic rock. In fact, I just bought "The Best of the Doors," double CD, for $18.

Here are the ones that immediately spring to mind:

Proud Mary; Center Field; Suzy Q; Lodi; Travelin’ Band -Creedence Clearwater Revival

Stairway to Heaven; You Shook Me; Kashmir; Babe I'm Gonna Leave You; Black Dog; Immigrant’s Song; All My Love; basically everything- Led Zeppelin

Closer; Heresy -Nine Inch Nails (why do I have them on this board, I wonder...)

Breathe; Time; Money; Us and Them- Pink Floyd

Pink; Jaded; Dream On; Don't Wanna Miss a Thing; Love In An Elevator -Aerosmith

Jack and Diane; Small town, USA; Hurts So Good-John Mellencamp

Riding With the King; Layla; Tears In Heaven; Cocaine-Eric Clapton

Fields of Gold; Every Breath You Take; Don’t Stand So Close to Me; Brand New Day; Roxanne; Fragile—Sting

Dope Show; Beautiful People; Fight Song-Marilyn Manson (why am I posting this here?)

Light My Fire; Love Me Two Times; LA Woman; Cars Hiss by My Window; Riders on the Storm; Break on Through; Roadhouse Blues—The Doors

Jump; Hot for Teacher; (other ones I can’t think of)—Van Halen

This was a cut-and-paste job from a survey I did, and still the only ones that immediately leap to mind.

As far as nine inch nails goes, my favorite tracks are "Head Like a Hole", "Happiness in Slavery", "Physical (You're Too)", "Mr. Self Destruct", "Heresy", "March of the Pigs", "Closer", "Hurt", and "Starf***ers, Inc.".

By Marylin Manson, my favorites are "Cake and Sodomy", "Lunchbox", "Dope Hat", "Get Your Gunn", "My Monkey", "Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)", "The Beautiful People", "The Dope Show", "Rock Is Dead", "I Don't Like the Drugs (But the Drugs Like Me)", "New Model no. 15", "The Fight Song" and "Disposable Teens".

CCR - "Fortunate Son", "Down On the Corner", "Effigy".. I think I've already listed these.

Zeppelin - "The Immigrant Song", "Fool In the Rain", "Kashmir", "Stairway to Heaven", "Living Loving Maid (She's Just a Woman)", "Down By the Seaside", "All My Love".

Pink Floyd - ""Astronomy Domine", "Bike", "One of These Days", "Echoes", "Time", "Us and Them", "Brain Damage/Eclipse", "Dogs", "Welcome to the Machine", "Another Brick In the Wall Pt. 1/The Happiest Days of Our Lives/Another Brick In the Wall pt. 2", "Young Lust", "What Shall We Use Now", "Comfortably Numb", "Run Like Hell", "When the Tigers Broke Free", "Not Now John", "One Slip".

Aerosmith - "Dream On", "Kings and Queens", "The Last Child", "Walk This Way", "Sweet Emotion", "Toys In the Attic", "No More, No More", "Jailbait", "Lightnin' Strikes", "Falling In Love (Is Hard on the Knees)", "Jaded".

John (Cougar) Mellencamp - "This Time", "Ain't Even Done With the Night", "Jack and Diane", "Play Guitar", "Serious Business", "Rain On the Scarecrow", "You've Got to Stand For Something", "Check It Out", "Cherry Bomb", "Mansions In Heaven", "Jackie Brown" (I think the USA song you refer to is "R.O.C.K. In the U.S.A.".)

Van Halen - "Runnin' With the Devil", "Jamie's Crying", "And the Cradle Will Rock...", "Mean Street", "Unchained", "Where Have All the Good Times Gone?", "Little Guitars", "Happy Trails", "Jump", "Hot For Teacher", "Humans Being", "Dreams", "Love Walks In".

Oh. And Cyn, if you wanna try out another good industrial band, I recommend Ministry. Especially their Psalm 69... album.

Oh, I forgot "Fortunate Son"--thanks

CC - you ever listened to Warren Zevon? The "Excitable Boy" album has some great tracks... Excitable Boy, Werewolves of London...

Derf, this thread is up to 146k. I think it's time for pt. 2.

Yeah, Warren Zevon is great, get the 2CD set I'll Sleep When I'm Dead.

I LOOVE "Led Zeppelin" greatest hits (two separate cds--Early Days, Latter Days) and "Best of the Doors"

Herman's Hermits:Ferry Cross The Mersey

The Beach Boys:Barbara Ann

The Monkees:Believer

The Mamas And The Papas:California Dreamin'

The Archies:Sugar,Sugar

The Captain And Tennille:Muskrat Love

The Eberly Brothers:Wake Up Little Suzie!

The Rolling Stones:Get Off My Cloud(just 'cause
it keeps getting played in my head a lot!)

The Kingston Trio:Tom Dooley

Credence Clearwater Revival:Proud Mary

Debbie Boone:You Light Up My Life

Peter,Paul And Mary:Puff,The Magic Dragon

The Irish Rovers:The Unicorn Song

The Beatles:Yesterday
Hey Jude

Johnny Cash:A Boy Named Sue
I Walk The Line
Ring Of Fire

"The Monkees:Believer" - Scott McClenny

Uh, which "Believer"? The "Daydream Believer" or "I'm A Believer"?

(I'd correct you about the Everly Brothers, but I assume it's a typo.)

Actually, Ferry Cross The Mersey was done by Gerry & The Pacemakers. Herman's Hermits also had lots of great songs. Nine years ago Peter Noone did a concert here at the annual local fair and thankfully he put on a hell of a good show cuz Davy Jones opened for him and just plain sucked. Noone got the audience really involved in his show.

D'oh! Silly me. I forgot that I'd already mentioned about Noone and Jones appearing at the local fair here. Well, it has been 6 months since I last posted here.

Mark, how do you know Scott doesn't mean Herman's Hermits' version of the song? (Assuming they covered it.)

I need HELP!! I've just recently purchased the "Tommy James and the Shondells" Anthology CD. I was expecting the song Crimson and Clover to be the original release, BUT! ... (d*mnit!) its the "cut-up" version they play on the oldies stations!! Can anyone tell me on which album the song Crimson and Clover first appeared on? If I buy THAT one, maybe it'll be the original. (i.e., MORE that 3:19 long, and STILL contains the extended guitar solo in the middle) Thanks in advance for your help.

On http://www.cdnow.com/cgi-bin/mserver/SID=721004077/pagename=/RP/CDN/FIND/album.html/artistid=JAMES*TOMMY+&+SHONDELLS/itemid=17197 you'll find a listing for a 2-on-1 CD featuring the albums Crimson and Clover/Cellophane Symphony. Unfortunately, it doesn't list how long the song is. But I would assume it is the original album. Hope that helps, bro.