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Turning over the toy box and jamming together the gloriously mismatched musical Lincoln Logs, Legos and Tinker Toys from Tin Pan Alley pluggers, pickled egg tavern weepers, lockstep soul ensembles, skinny-tie power poppers, Eurotrash ravers, moontanned art school rockers, drunken soccer anthems and anything else that seems like a good idea at the time. There are no guilty pleasures.

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Favoriting February 10, 2017: SPECIAL (chart singles of 1970): Where was I?
Today Uncle Michael digs into top-100-charting singles from that glorious year, 1970.


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Uncle Michael  Hinky Dinky Time Open   Favoriting   0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Pacific Gas & Electric  Are You Ready?   Favoriting single (b/w Staggolee) (Columbia - 1970)   0:02:24 (Pop-up)
Funkadelic  I Got A Thing, You Got A Thing, Everybody's Got A Thing   Favoriting single (b/w Fish, Chips And Sweat) (Westbound - 1970)   0:07:48 (Pop-up)
The Meters  Hand Clapping Song   Favoriting single (b/w Joog) (Josie - 1970)   0:11:35 (Pop-up)
Chairmen Of The Board  Pay To The Piper   Favoriting single (b/w Bless You) (Invictus - 1970)   0:14:25 (Pop-up)
Kool & The Gang  Funky Man   Favoriting single (b/w 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8) (De-Lite - 1970)   0:17:27 (Pop-up)
Charles Wright & The Watts 103rd Street  Express Yourself   Favoriting single (b/w Living On Borrowed Time) (Warner Bros. - 1970)   0:20:34 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
Afrolicious 

Do What You Got To   Favoriting

California Dreaming (Bandcamp - 2013)  

0:24:19 (Pop-up)
Sugarloaf  Green-Eyed Lady   Favoriting single (b/w West Of Tomorrow) (Liberty - 1970)   0:27:46 (Pop-up)
The Guess Who  No Sugar Tonight   Favoriting single (b-side to American Woman) (RCA - 1970)   0:31:18 (Pop-up)
Elton John  Border Song   Favoriting single (b/w Bad Side Of The Moon) (Congress - 1970)   0:36:03 (Pop-up)
The Sandpipers  Come Saturday Morning   Favoriting single (b/w To Put Up With You) (A&M - 1970)   0:39:19 (Pop-up)
Edison Lighthouse  Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes)   Favoriting single (b/w Every Lonely Day) (Bell - 1970)   0:42:13 (Pop-up)
Badfinger  No Matter What   Favoriting single (b/w Carry On Till Tomorrow) (Apple - 1970)   0:44:55 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
Ron Berry 

Sea of Tranquility   Favoriting

Where Dark Forces Meet (Flowmotion - 1982)
(From: Close to the Noise Floor: Formative UK Electronica 1975-1984)
 

0:47:50 (Pop-up)
Steve Miller Band  Going To The Country   Favoriting single (b/w Never Kill Another Man) (Capitol - 1970)   0:50:20 (Pop-up)
Elvis Presley  Kentucky Rain   Favoriting single (b/w My Little Friend) (RCA Victor - 1970)   0:53:56 (Pop-up)
George Jones  A Good Year For The Roses   Favoriting single (b/w Let A Little Loving Come In) (Musicor - 1970)   0:57:12 (Pop-up)
Charley Pride  Is Anybody Goin' To San Antone   Favoriting single (b/w Things Are Looking Up) (RCA Victor - 1970)   1:00:11 (Pop-up)
Buck Owens and the Buckaroos  I Wouldn't Live In New York City   Favoriting single (b/w No Milk And Honey In Baltimore) (Capitol - 1970)   1:02:30 (Pop-up)
Merle Haggard and the Strangers  Sidewalks Of Chicago   Favoriting single (b-side to I Can't Be Myself) (Capitol - 1970)   1:05:22 (Pop-up)
Brook Benton  Don't It Make You Want To Go Home   Favoriting single (b/w I've Gotta Be Me) (Cotillion - 1970)   1:07:48 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
Stanton Moore 

Prairie Sunset   Favoriting

Flyin' the Koop (Blue Thumb - 2002)  

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The Originals  The Bells   Favoriting single (b/w I'll Wait For You) (Soul - 1970)   1:15:07 (Pop-up)
The 5 Stairsteps  O-o-h Child   Favoriting single (b/w Who Do You Belong To) (Buddah - 1970)   1:17:52 (Pop-up)
Smokey Robinson & The Miracles  The Tears Of A Clown   Favoriting single (b/w Promise Me) (Tamla - 1970)   1:21:00 (Pop-up)
Bobby Bloom  Montego Bay   Favoriting single (b/w Try A Little Harder) (L&R - 1970)   1:23:56 (Pop-up)
The 5th Dimension  Puppet Man   Favoriting single (b/w A Love Like Ours) (Bell - 1970)   1:26:47 (Pop-up)
Gene Chandler  Groovy Situation   Favoriting single (b/w Not The Marrying Kind) (Mercury - 1970)   1:29:40 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
Mark Radice 

You Took The Words Right Out Of My Mouth   Favoriting

single (b/w Natural Morning) (Decca - 1968)  

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B.J. Thomas  Everybody's Out Of Town   Favoriting single (b/w Living Again) (Scepter - 1970)   1:36:55 (Pop-up)
Three Dog Night  Out In The Country   Favoriting single (b/w Good Time Living) (Dunhill - 1970)   1:39:28 (Pop-up)
Creedence Clearwater Revival  Up Around The Bend   Favoriting single (b-side to Run Through The Jungle) (Fantasy - 1970)   1:42:29 (Pop-up)
Neil Diamond  Cracklin' Rosie   Favoriting single (b/w Lordy) (Uni - 1970)   1:45:02 (Pop-up)
Brian Hyland  Gypsy Woman   Favoriting single (b/w You And Me (#2)) (Uni - 1970)   1:47:51 (Pop-up)
Blood, Sweat & Tears  Hi-De-Ho   Favoriting single (b/w The Battle) (Columbia - 1970)   1:50:18 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
 

Ronnie Laws Cold Duck  

Tribute To The Legendary Eddie Harris (Blue Note - 1997)  

1:51:53 (Pop-up)
Johnnie Taylor  Steal Away   Favoriting single (b/w Friday Night) (Stax - 1970)   1:55:14 (Pop-up)
Swamp Dogg  Mamas Baby Daddy's Maybe   Favoriting single (b/w Sal-A-Faster) (Canyon - 1970)   1:58:36 (Pop-up)
Buddy Miles and the Freedom Express  Them Changes   Favoriting single (b/w Spot On The Wall) (Mercury - 1970)  2:02:39 (Pop-up)
The Temptations  Ball Of Confusion (That's What The World Is Today)   Favoriting single (b/w It's Summer) (Gordy - 1970)   2:05:54 (Pop-up)
The Staple Singers  Heavy Makes You Happy (Sha-Na-Boom Boom)   Favoriting single (b-side to Love Is Plentiful) (Stax - 1970)   2:09:56 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
The Spy From Cairo 

Oud Funk   Favoriting

Secretly Famous (Wonderwheel Recoordings - 2009)  

2:12:57 (Pop-up)
Bee Gees  I.O.I.O.   Favoriting single (b/w Then You Left Me) (Atco - 1970)   2:15:37 (Pop-up)
Mark Lindsay  Silver Bird   Favoriting single (b/w So Hard To Leave You) (Columbia - 1970)   2:18:22 (Pop-up)
Crabby Appleton  Lucy   Favoriting single (b/w Some Madness) (Elektra - 1970)   2:21:19 (Pop-up)
The Who  The Seeker   Favoriting single (b/w Here For More) (Decca - 1970)   2:24:37 (Pop-up)
The James Gang  Funk #49   Favoriting single (b/w Thanks) (ABC - 1970)   2:27:55 (Pop-up)
Black Sabbath  Paranoid   Favoriting single (b/w The Wizard) (Warner Bros. - 1970)   2:31:41 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
Brian Eno 

Reflection   Favoriting

Reflection (Warp - 2017)  

2:34:26 (Pop-up)
Jackson 5  ABC   Favoriting single (b/w The Young Folks) (Motown - 1970)   2:38:27 (Pop-up)
Candi Staton  Stand By Your Man   Favoriting single (b/w How Can I Put Out The Flame (When You Keep The Fire Burning)) (Fame - 1970)   2:41:17 (Pop-up)
Johnny Cash  Sunday Morning Coming Down   Favoriting single (b/w I'm Gonna Try To Be That Way) (Columbia - 1970)   2:44:04 (Pop-up)
Grateful Dead  Uncle John's Band   Favoriting single (b/w New Speedway Boogie) (Warner Bros. - 1970)   2:48:09 (Pop-up)
Curtis Mayfield  (Don't Worry) If There's A Hell Below We're All Going To Go   Favoriting single (b/w The Makings Of You) (Curtom - 1970)   2:52:48 (Pop-up)
Marvin Gaye  The End Of Our Road   Favoriting single (b/w Me And My Lonely Room) (Tamla - 1970)   2:56:11 (Pop-up)
Fleetwood Mac  Albatross   Favoriting single (b/w Jigsaw Puzzle Blues) (Blue Horizon - 1968)   2:58:47 (Pop-up)


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Listener comments!

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Jeff Golick:

That is a well-edited gif.
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listener james from westwood:

Ah, our CEO (Cookie Eating Officer)! How do, UM and all yinz other Muppets?
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βrian:

I sense Elmo is about to issue an executive order ...
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Doug Schulkind:

I know what means! I know what he means!
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doctorjazz:

Hello, UM, Hinkers and Dinkers!
  12:04pm
davefromtoronto:

i'm excited for the show!
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listener jeff:

Sometimes I feel like one of those balls is my head - make it better UM
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Flash Strap:

Hi Uncle!
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23 Wolves:

Hola, Uncle! Can you maintain Doug's gravitas???
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annie:

this is going to be a great show
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Parq:

You and Doug both put up gifs that I could stare at all afternoon.
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Uncle Michael:

Jeff! James! Brian! Doug! Doc! Dave! JEFF! Flash! 23W! Annie!
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doctorjazz:

The BEST show!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:07pm
Uncle Michael:

FYI not exclusively single-edits...not exclusively a-sides.
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still b/p:

Yes, this gon' be good. We'll see how many age 11-12 associations will be summoned. I should just lie down and let 'em rise, roll, flow, poke, grip. grab and groove.
Avatar 🛒 Swag For Life Member 12:09pm
doctorjazz:

Funny, this "Are You Ready" hasn't hung around as much as one might have expected it to, not heard much (by me) since, great song, though, nice to hear it again.
Avatar 🛒 Swag For Life Member 12:09pm
Brian in UK:

Hello Uncle.
1970, the year I started work full time.
2017, the year I stopped work full time.
Seems like only yesterday.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:10pm
Uncle Michael:

I was turning 10 in 1970.
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annie:

i was 17, planning my escape from upstate NY... anything toi get outta dodge
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Kris Holmes:

I was -8
Avatar 🛒 Swag For Life Member 12:12pm
23 Wolves:

I was waiting to be born!
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Kris Holmes:

Hadn't heard PG&E for a while, great 45!
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Uncle Michael:

Kris!
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Uncle Michael:

BRIAN!
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Kris Holmes:

Hand Clapping Song, love it
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Lewis:

checking from deep in the flyovers (although not as deep as UM)
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northguineahills:

What Kris said....
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Uncle Michael:

Lewis! NGH!
  12:15pm
davefromtoronto:

i'm re-living my 6th year on the planet.

if only i could go back for good...
  12:15pm
V Priceless:

Hey Unc!
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Kris Holmes:

both Are You Ready & Hand Clapping Song got 45 releases in New Zealan, I have them both, one on a nice orange small hole CBS 45 & the other on a small hole white label London 45. The Struttin LP also got a NZ release on London but I've only seen that once & unfortunately it wasn't for sale :(
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Uncle Michael:

Parq! still b/p! VP!
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mauri:

Heyyyrrr Uncle Michael.
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Webhamster Henry:

I was 14, building oscillators, and putting out an underground newspaper at my summer camp.
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coelacanth∅:

Woo Hoo! i love this! i forgot about it.

Greetings Uncle M and Dinklettes
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Uncle Michael:

Mauri!
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Brian in UK:

@mauri great photographs from Doug's show.
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Uncle Michael:

Coel!
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Uncle Michael:

Henry!
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coelacanth∅:

i just listened to a chairmen of the board album last weekend too. i never knew how deep they got, beyond "give me just a little more time". (& piper, which i forgot about)
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JP from KC:

Salutations from the downtown business district, UM!
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Uncle Michael:

JP!
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still b/p:

To go on my new business card: "You want to come in partners with me? 'Cause I'm funky, baby!"
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mauri:

Brianinuk it sure was great.
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listener jeff:

I was 11 and probably listening to this stuff on Radio Shack gear - back then it was good stuff.
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βrian:

A triple espresso for me, thanks.
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listener jeff:

Dark room, lights low so you could really see the cool VU meters and the lights.
  12:26pm
whattawino:

Espresso-in' myself right now with the best reason to hang around on Fridays....Hinky Dinky Time!
Avatar 🛒 Swag For Life Member 12:27pm
doctorjazz:

I was 17 in 1970, getting ready for college (it was really "ready or not...")
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Alex In Illinois:

In 1970 I turned 6.
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coelacanth∅:

1970, almost smack in the middle of the pop/rock music renaissance.
  12:29pm
goyim in the am:

1 year old in '70 and checking in!
  12:30pm
goyim in the am:

The guitar god from PG&E is still active, still a guitar god, and a hateful religious lunatic.
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Brian in UK:

Was this the year of Close to You & Band of Gold?
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Uncle Michael:

Wino! Alex! Goyim!
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coelacanth∅:

band of gold was '70
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Parq:

Sorry I missed Express Yourself, a record I didn't grasp in 1970 but way-dig now. Glad I got to hear "Green", great IMO then and great IMO now.
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Webhamster Henry:

Here's the dawn of 1970 as recorded by me off the radio: www.echonyc.com...
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Uncle Michael:

Oof, weird mastering on this Guess Who...
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Brian in UK:

The Guess Who never found a home over here.
  12:35pm
goyim in the am:

My earliest memories are AM radio and church music, so if you throw in a few Bach cantatas, my regression will be complete.
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Parq:

If this Guess Who were dialed down just a little, it would have made a good Scooby song.
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Uncle Michael:

Amazing that you still have such an artifact, Henry. My childhood archives are rather wanting.
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Webhamster Henry:

5" reel-to-reel! I did some taping off the radio (yeah yeah, killing the music business..) but mostly recorded my own stuff or played commercial demo tapes my father gave me.
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Uncle Michael:

I had one. Nothing survives.
  12:41pm
goyim in the am:

This is close enough to Bach. Waaaaa!!! I'm a baby! WAAAAAAAHH!!!!
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Parq:

I can't believe you still have your 1970 reels, Harry. I can't even remember when I got rid of mine, but my player died ca. 1990 and there was no need to keep them after that.
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listener james from westwood:

I wasn't really conscious of radio until about 74 or 75 (born 69), but this radio show, especially this episode, has done me constant solids in creating the early-70s radio experience I wish I'd been old enough to select for myself.
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Brian in UK:

@Henry I can remember using my Dad's reel to reel and double tracking tunes from Sweetheart of the Radio, giving them a little echo. I thought it was so cool.
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coelacanth∅:

i still have almost all of my cassettes from my childhood. unfortunately i recorded over maybe a dozen of them at some point, but i still have a bunch.
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Webhamster Henry:

Geeky note: New year's Day 1970 (UTC) is the start of the Unix Time Epoch. 32-bit time runs out Jan 18, 2018.
  12:42pm
goyim in the am:

I lost track of our family's reels in the 90s, but I bet they still exist.
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Webhamster Henry:

I had a few reel to reel players - pretty junky ones - and a few spare recording heads ripped out of a busted Say-it-Play-It that I turned into an echo machine, also running it through my Lafayette Spring Reverb.
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Brian in UK:

Love Grows up my Rosemary's nose.
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coelacanth∅:

my brother pulled a reel-to-reel off someone's curb pile one "junk week". it spun but no sound. probably an easy fix but he chucked it. i still have the mics though.
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Parq:

Brian in the UK, I didn't know you used to listen to Dan Ingram!
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listener james from westwood:

@Brian in UK: When Rosemary asked for some herbage, she didn't have that in mind.
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βrian:

Since these are all 1970, shouldn't you be playing them on a Close N'Play?
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Uncle Michael:

I am!
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still b/p:

With these R-to-R recollections, let me take the opportunity to re-bitch about something weird I bitched about on Doug's show months ago -- this intro to a radio piece: "In the 1970s, Studs Terkel went around the country with a curious looking piece of equipment. It was a reel-to-reel tape recorder."
"Curious-looking" to whom in the 70s....?
  12:54pm
whattawino:

Steve Miller Number 5 is my fave and I thank you for this one, UM.
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Uncle Michael:

To the author in the 00's that was 25 and had never seen what was in the photograph before?
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annie:

is it true david hensley passed away?
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Parq:

Yeah, Still, those are the same feature writers who start pieces about Alejandro Escovedo or Bootsy Collins with "You've probably never heard of him, but ..."
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Andy in Etobicoke:

Soggy footwear triumphs!
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Uncle Michael:

Ignorance as a point of view. That's really caught on.
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Jeff Golick:

What does the Elvis flip sound like, @UM -- if you know?
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Uncle Michael:

Andy!
  12:59pm
βrian:

They were pretty exotic in our hood. Only the specialist doctor/audiophile could afford to have one, along with his McIntosh system.
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Uncle Michael:

I've probably heard it, Jeff...but can't place it in my mind just now.
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Andy in Etobicoke:

Jeesh, Michael, the feels are overflowing.
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still b/p:

Mebbe, UM, but I still want that author schooled and brought low by an editor -- crazy, I know -- about why that way of writing should be avoided almost always.
Parq -- I have an unnatural anger about any such line or intro that wants to tell us what we probably think, know, expect, imagine, associate, perceive or regard as unlikely.
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Andy in Etobicoke:

I surrender, alright, already.
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βrian:

Officer Friendly: "Please step away from the blue pencil."
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Alex In Illinois:

Maybe Studs Terkel grabbed a bunch of items like bottle caps and popsicle sticks and small dolls' heads and nose hair trimmers and glued them all to the sides of his reel-to-reel for decoration.
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Jeff Golick:

@UM: I'm pretty well versed in late 60s/early 70s Elvis, but do not recognize that tune.
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listener james from westwood:

@still b/p: This copy editor would have queried along the lines you suggest.
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Uncle Michael:

Jeff: www.youtube.com...
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Parq:

The thing is, this stuff isn't coming from traditional ignorami. It's what I call middlebrow syndrome, the belief among comfortable, convention-bound upper-middle class writers at the Good Grey, at NPR, etc., that, if they don't know about it, nobody does.
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Rich in Washington:

I was just thinking about this song the other day, UM!
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βrian:

Me either, Buck. Nobody lives there anymore anyway. It's too damn crowded.
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Uncle Michael:

There is that, Parq.

Rich!
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Parq:

And to those singing along with Buck here-- good. We don't want you here anyway. I fully agree with David Sedaris that New York's motto should be a Latin translation of "We don't like you, either."
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βrian:

I tend more toward unibrow publications.
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Brian in UK:

You get lazy music reviewers. If there are some harmonies, it becomes a Beach Boys influence.
At least we no longer have the new Beatles/Bob Dylan slackness.
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Rich in Washington:

I just learned that my town has an all female Merle Haggard tribute band called... Wait for it... Gerle Haggard.
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Uncle Michael:

Nice.
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Rich in Washington:

A writer friend coined the phrase 'between lowbrow and highbrow, lies unibrow'.
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Lane Gray:

Excellent, Rich.
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Lane Gray:

I wanna be Brook's steel man
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Uncle Michael:

Lane!
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Uncle Michael:

This record could use steel.
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Parq:

"No-brow", as per Rex's weekly drop-in.
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Brian in UK:

@Parq I generally assume that people know as much as I do and am surprised when they have not heard of say, Merzbow.
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Hey kids. Six most of '70. Just thinking other day how in the early 70s we would make fun of the Top40...well - I was a child...but in a way that involved actually liking a good amount of it - fully inhabited by the earworms...not my relation to the Pop40 now I can tell you...& in California: 'Welcome to California, Now Go Home'...
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still b/p:

I find it everywhere. They write these pat presumptive cliche lines with a maniacal repetition and seeming obliviousness to how many tens of thousands of times they're putting those same lines front of us. Reporters at smaller outfits see it/hear it all around, staple it to their brains as good and acceptable, apparently taking their cue from the bigger media gorillas.

I love the idea of a custom Terkelized recording rig! ...like a voodoo altar!
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Lane Gray:

A steel player attuned to the vibe can actually work with a LOT of soul.
And, a few weeks ago, I think I mentioned that the I-ii-V-I chord progression makes pretty melodies. That was another case in point.
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Brian in UK:

Hello Lane.
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Lane Gray:

Hey, Brian
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Lane Gray:

The argument dates back to 1924, when Opera singer Marion Slaughter became Vernon Dalhart and outsold Bradley Kincaid....
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Lane Gray:

I've worked for three Elvises, they all did Kentucky Rain. Wasn't that written by Eddie Rabbitt?
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Brian in UK:

Lane here is another silly comedy series set in Sweden written by an Englishman living there. You might enjoy, not as much fun as some others but an insight into the Swedes. (with ice hockey)
www.bbc.co.uk...
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Jeff Golick:

@Lane: Eddie Rabbitt, indeed! (I had to look it up.)
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Lane Gray:

Cold Swedish Winter! Already listening. I listen a LOT to 4 and 4Extra.
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still b/p:

Watched a clip recently of 5 Stairsteps singing (lip-syncing) that. Such youngsters!
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Uncle Michael:

Rev!
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Uncle Michael:

still b/p, there's a good clip of them on Youtube doing it absolutely live on some tv show.
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Parq:

Brian in the UK, interestingly, this came up in conversation last night. My kid and her fella went to see Neil Gaiman at Town Hall (a private venue, not to be confused with City Hall). It reminded me of when I saw him perform his "Hansel and Gretel" at Carnegie, and he and his string quartet encored with the off-mainstream country hit "Psycho". I was quite smug to note that Mrs. Parq and I were clearly part of a very small number of audience members already familiar with the song.
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...NewsMedia always been ignorant of MusicCulture? Serving a different master?: Appealing to 'credibility' whilst Musicians looking to get out & define themselves? I could say it's too bad everyone isn't listening to the same Radio more like it was when these were recorded - but it's narrowcasting that brings these to me now...
Lane: Do you kow if 4Extra has '7thDimension' the SciFi program currently? I listen to BBC6Music now & then...I subscribe to 4's podcasts 'FridayNightComedy' which has News parodies, & Newsjack...
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Uncle Michael:

Parq, did you yell "WOO, EDDIE NOACK!"
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

'Tears' not a 60s Hit?? Interesting...
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Lane Gray:

The 7th Dimension airs either Friday night, Saturday night, or both
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Uncle Michael:

I got cought by a 1970 reissue! DAMN YOU SMOKEY!
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Ok, 'Tears' wigkey: en.wikipedia.org...
Thx Lane! Easy search I'm sure...
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

5thDimension loomed large then...
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...but could go a while & not think of them now - which is a thing when you get old...
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Doug Schulkind:

I can dig it I can dig it I can dig it I can dig it.
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Sue P.:

I feel like we're in the opposite of a groovy situation these days.
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annie:

re: C&W songs. i listened to CW station out of albany(?) back in the mid-70s, when the music was really really good. i naively thought that it was a real treat to listen to men cry in their beer, so to speak, exhibiting feelings deeply buried. the DJs played a ton of old stuff, too, a nice mix.
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Uncle Michael:

Sue!
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Parq:

UM @ 1:27, only in my mind.
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Lane Gray:

I'd Google BBC 4Extra schedule. They're also currently reairing Old Harry's Game, with Andy Hamilton as Satan
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Webhamster Henry:

What Year Next?
www.wfmu.org...
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coelacanth∅:

sorry, UM i had to check out for the country pop and didn't get back in time to sing along with Smokey. i just listened to it a few weeks ago anyway.
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coelacanth∅:

3DN!
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Uncle Michael:

Henry, I'm sure I'd play something on that list because I LIKE IT.
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Sue P.:

Half Breed is on that list. So un-PC but I love that song.
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Cheers Lane.
1970 U.S. TV debuts: en.wikipedia.org...
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Uncle Michael:

Yeh, I have another one on that list I'd probably play.
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Lane Gray:

Speaking groovy things, the guy playing steel for Michael Murphey in the 70s said his phase shifter and the guitar player's were modified to have their LFOs (the sweep) in sync. I'd wondered how they did that...
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KevinfromBayRidge:

Howdy HDinkers.Actually holding off a few days before heading back to the NE ClusterF. A few more days at the pool shan't kill me!
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Brian in UK:

Yes, There had to be Neil.
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Uncle Michael:

Good plan, Kevin!
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JP from KC:

Ah, Cracklin' Rosie... Nothing like a song about drinking for a Friday.
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coelacanth∅:

Neil Diamond was a bonding tool for me and my mom.
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Uncle Michael:

Curtis Mayfield wrote this. Of course, he recorded it as well.
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coelacanth∅:

whoh i don't think i've ever heard this version.
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Way to go Neil - PurePop w/ just enuff subtext.
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davefromtoronto:

god, i feel like i'm going through re-birth therapy with these tunes!
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Uncle Michael:

Well this is a mislabeled track!
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coelacanth∅:

this isn't hi-de-ho
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coelacanth∅:

never mind.
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KevinfromBayRidge:

Nice concept today, UNC. I was 15 in '70 and listening to the nascent but short lived freeform commercial radio in the NY area. Avoided the Top 40 but there was a helluva lot of overlap.
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Doug Schulkind:

Swamp Dogg + Swamp Dogg = SSwwaammpp DDoogggg!
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goyim in the am:

Speaking of greatest basslines ever...
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Parq:

Ball O' Freaking Confusion!
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Paul announces quitting Beatles 10th April, Jimi dies Sept. 18th, Janis d. Oct. 4th.
What a damned song. My election night tune, it was.
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

(...before the results already...)
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23 Wolves:

My Gibbs!
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Dominick:

Is my Aunt Minnie in here?
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Uncle Michael:

Dominick!
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Matt in Nebraska:

1970 is the year of my birth. I believe "Venus" topped the charts at the time.
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Uncle Michael:

Matt!
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davefromtoronto:

didn't cat stevens make the top 100???
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Uncle Michael:

This isn't the top 100.
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23 Wolves:

Killin' it today Uncle. Crabby 2 the MAX!
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Parq:

Dave, the is is UM's selection from the pool of every record that cracked the 100 at any time during 1970.
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still b/p:

@ Dominick -- "Well, you can come in and prowl around if you want to. If she isn't in here you can probably find somebody just as good."
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davefromtoronto:

"Today Uncle Michael digs into top-100-charting singles from that glorious year, 1970"

???
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Uncle Michael:

"top-100-charting" is an adjective.
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...TheWh♂ struggling to get out from the shadow of their success w/ 'Tommy', which kind of threatened to eclipse them...remember that?
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Uncle Michael:

100 songs would mean I'd miss lunch.
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Lane Gray:

Every week, there was a fresh Hot 100. Many spent a week in the 90s, but would still be in "the top 100", if only for a week in 1970.
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Parq:

Hence, anything that was top-100 charting (ie, that charted in the top 100) during that year.
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Uncle Michael:

quite so
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Rich in Washington:

never realized how cool that drum break is before.
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johnk77:

best live show i attended 1970
the who, james taylor, the james gang;>
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annie:

well, who still has their Cousin Brucie post card, personally signed?
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...the boys who listened to Sabbath were *trouble*...
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Uncle Michael:

Well, they were.
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still b/p:

Someone from an earlier James Gang line-up went on to form the first band on today's playlist: PG&E. That's a fresh harvested trivia bit, not something I had any clue about.
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βrian:

Ah, Mr Neno. Lovely.
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johnk77:

@lane
are the sweeping motions
of a leslie speaker
top+bottom in sync?
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Uncle Michael:

wow, still b/p! didn't know.
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Parq:

This Jacksons is another example of something I didn't grasp the first time around that I now think is swell.
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Lane Gray:

I don't think so. In fact, I was under the impression that they counter rotate. And at different speeds. But that could be an Alternative Fact®
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βrian:

Makes you wanna play tether ball, no?
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Dominick:

@john77

Leslie speaker top & bottom are not in sync.
2 different motors
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Uncle Michael:

makes me wanna watch girls play hopscotch, Brian.
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still b/p:

I was going to offer a link to a "Win Mark Lindsay's Ponytail! site, but either it or my machine lets crapsites jump into the mix, so you can search it yourself if you really want that Mark moment in your day.
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Dominick:

@still b/p
Well, can I use your phone?
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johnk77:

@lane
correct on counter rotation
most nearly stock set-ups have
a 2 speed analog switch
some customs have vari-speed
mr. hammond said
don't ever use leslie speakers
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Uncle Michael:

mr. hammond can pound sand
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Dominick:

@UM Little boys playing baseball in the rain
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...apparently, the J5 cartoon was Fall 1971-2...I seem to remember everyone liking those rekkids...
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johnk77:

america about putting
things together you shouldn't?
great show @um
i got yr agricultural humor earlier:>
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Rich in Washington:

I remember first hearing this song when I was much younger and taken to enduring mornings at work with ungodly hangovers - and always thinking about that line about smelling someone cooking chicken and thinking Johnny missed an opportunity to write a line about puking, 'cuz that's exactly what I would've done if I smelled anything in that state.
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Uncle Michael:

thanks John.
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Rich in Washington:

..on a sunday morning sidewalk
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coelacanth∅:

gotta go. (fortunately i have a Johnny Cash cd in my car.)
Thanks Uncle M!
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Uncle Michael:

See ya Coel!
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annie:

ok, i'll let you play this..
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johnk77:

kris kristofferson wrote
sunday mornin...
the new riders were founded
in 1970
up the street from where i used
to live + have vw shop
this song made me think of that
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Brian in UK:

Uncle, I was going to ask you if The Dead were ever in the charts but kitchen duties took over.
This song turned my head. Like see The Band and raise you.

Great show. Have a good weekend everyone.
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Uncle Michael:

Thanks Brian!
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doctorjazz:

:)
Great show, thanks
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Uncle Michael:

two more songs!
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johnk77:

@brianuk
excellent linking this to the band
the band were incredible live 69->70
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

The guitar riff 2nd whole time thru here is the hook I wait all the way for. Anybody leaves it out...
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Neat segue.
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Brian in UK:

@john77 saw them at The Royal Albert Hall. Everyone swapping instruments.
Garth Hudson playing the in situ organ for Chest Fever ofcourse.
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...A.M. Gold & Nixon...
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Uncle Michael:

I think UJB and all the work they did on vocals for that album has as much to do with CSN as the music does with The Band.
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Lane Gray:

Speaking of bass lines, Phil is cool
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johnk77:

@brianUK garth was a stone gas
the few times i hung w/him
and michael been in the 80s
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βrian:

When 1970 is over and we wake up in 2017 — ugh, that's gonna hurt.
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Brian in UK:

Uncle, yes CSN on delivery but Band on content.
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

- cause - TheDead can't play, sing, write or record...everybody knows that...Like TheBand then, their stuff was true Folk Music the moment it was made...
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annie:

thx UM!!!!
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Doug Schulkind:

You have permission to continue until Noon tomorrow, Uncle Michael. If you need to dip into 1971, that would fine.
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...hard to think of it ever not existing - tho' I can remember not being aware of it yet I guess...
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βrian:

One very high classically trained musician at at Dead show: "Who is that playing, anyway? And why are they so out of tune?"
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davefromtoronto:

i just meant i checked the top 100 and didn't see CT on it.
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Parq:

Another winner, UM. Many thanks.
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listener james from westwood:

Dug the hell out of the show, UM! Many thanks!
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Rich in Washington:

Thanks for a great show, UM!
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...Tuning is for plastic sellouts, mahhhn!...
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Time Travel. Thx UM.
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Uncle Michael:

Thanks everyone!
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fxo:

dig, I finally listened your 2/10. Your singles rule!
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