Pick Your Favorite Song by a Group/Artist

[CL82]

Al Stewart, Year of the Cat:
"On a morning from a Bogart movie, in a country where they turn back time, you go strolling through the crowd like Peter Lorre contemplating a crime"

I've heard that line probably 1000 times and never thought about it. It's great.

 

[Scud49]

I've heard that line probably 1000 times and never thought about it. It's great.

Yea, love lyrics like that. A song with similar lyrics and a similar mood is Michael Frank's "Just Like Key Largo"

"It's just like Key Largo, Melvin, Douglas, and Garbo
Bogey and Lauren BaCall, you try to be cool but dance like two fools at the ball"

"Me with my jive and you with your Chanel #5, don't we just make the cat meow, me and my pleats like Fred Astaire, you and your curls like Claudette Colbert, ain't we bout as cool as Iceland baby and how"

 

[Bigboote]

Renaissance is the only group I can think of that went through a 100% lineup change between albums. They kind of arose from the ashes of the Yardbirds. This is the first cut from the first album:

 

[RockyMTblue2]

I can't believe it but the search engine says no one has stcuk this up here yet. A beautiful mournful fav of mine. R.E.M's Everybody Hurts:

 

[RockyMTblue2]

Ditto:

 

[RockyMTblue2]

Last in a trilogy of songs you guys forgot!!

 

[Cedar]

Sniff ‘n’ the Tears – Driver’s Seat
A one-hit wonder. This was the band’s hit in 1979.

 

[Cedar]

The Verve – Bitter Sweet Symphony

 

[Cedar]

Oasis – Don’t Look Back In Anger

 

[Scud49]

Sonny and Cher - heard "Baby Don't Go" this morning on Sirius sat radio. It tis' my favorite by them:

 

[RockyMTblue2]

Sonny and Cher - heard "Baby Don't Go" this morning on Sirius sat radio. It tis' my favorite by them:

I have no favorite Sonny & Cher's only Cher's part: "And when I'm sad you're a clown" I Got You babe. That's mine.

Her best for me: "If I Could Turn Back Time" at it's ironic best on a certain battleship:

Cher - If I Could Turn Back Time (Official Music Video)

 

[RockyMTblue2]

Then there is this modern young lady who does it so well:



Though I gotta say I'd rather have an artist's voice, true, without the studio boost everyone these days seems to get.

 

[RockyMTblue2]

Wanna see what I mean about her big hit - tell me if this, unaided, isn't better?



It's not perfect, like the studio, but it is human and somehow grander.

 

[Scud49]

The Crusaders, what a group, tough, very tough to just pick one:

 

[Bigboote]

From the Crusaders, I go with Free as the Wind. Larry’s guitar solo just makes me melt.

 

[Beemer]

Sonny and Cher - heard "Baby Don't Go" this morning on Sirius sat radio. It tis' my favorite by them:

This is very good but my favorite Sonny & Cher song is "All I Ever Need Is You".

 

[Scud49]

Joe Ely - country outlaw troubadour of sorts - he's had several tunes I've really liked over the years:

 

[Scud49]

Bo Diddley - wow - check all the kids in the audience. From about the 2:00 mark onward, that's Bo Diddley at his best:

 

[uconnfan68]

And the Outlaws.



Songs like these got me through the dregs of the disco era.

“Green Grass and High Tides” was the best live performance I’ve ever seen.

 

[bantamlaker]

Don’t recall seeing anything by Lou Christie who had several hits in the 60’s. Lightnin’ Strikes was probably his biggest hit reaching #1 in February 1966.

 

[Ozimoto]

A couple from the folk/college coffee house music movement of the 50's and 60's that I am fond of.

 

[Ozimoto]

And then there is this gem. A lot of people covered this song, but I particularly like this version.

 

[Scud49]

A couple from the folk/college coffee house music movement of the 50's and 60's that I am fond of.

Santa Catalina - 26 Miles - I was just there in March, still quite the nice little island.

 

[Scud49]

Steve Goodman- gone far too soon, a gem of a singer/songwriter - this song got a lot of airplay in the 70's:

 

[Scud49]

Bad to Me - Billy J Kramer & the Dakotas - written by John Lennon/Paul McCartney: