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"Don't You Care" (The Buckinghams, on "The Smothers Brothers" tv series, 1967)
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Apr 27, 2014, 5:19:35 AM4/27/14
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63y_nc1rfS0
"Don't You Care" (#6, 1967), on "The Smothers Brothers" tv show
(not the best audio, but a great video recording on the styles in that
bygone era, plus showing Tom and Dick Smothers)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rayzU4EOvSo
better (stereo) version
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2nd of their 5 great Top 40 hits in that special year.
"Mercy, Mercy, Mercy" #5
"Hey Baby (They're Playing Our Song)" #12
"Susan" #11
Then they disappeared from the Top 40 after '67.
"But for that one year The Buckinghams got so much airplay they were named
by Billboard magazine as "The Most Listened to Band in America". Whether
they were or not can surely be debated when you consider the competition for
that year (Beatles, Stones, Supremes, Monkees, Paul Revere & The Raiders,
Turtles, and on and on), but it's for sure that someone was listening to
"Don't You Care" as it spent 14 weeks on the charts and ended up in the #39
spot for the year."
What an incredible year, and number of great bands and sounds in '67!
May have been the best year ever in modern pop music!
The author didn't mention in addition to the above roster of great
artists and songs in that amazing year:
Otis Redding (before his shocking death in Oct.) and the Bar-Kays big
hit, "Soulfinger!"
The Cowsills ("The Rain, The Park, and Other Things")
Strawberry Alarm Clock ("Incense and Peppermints")
Tommy James and The Shondells ("I Think We're Alone Now")
Buffalo Springfield ("For What It's Worth")
The Association ("Windy")
The Doors ("Light My Fire")
Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons ("I've Got You Under My Skin",
"C'mon Marianne",many others in their '67 album "2nd Greatest Hits")
Frankie Valli ("Can't Take My Eyes Off You")
The Young Rascals ("Groovin [on a Sunday afternoon...]")
Nancy Sinatra ("Sugartown", #1 for 4 wks "Somethin' Stupid" w/Frank)
etc.
"Don't You Care" (#6, 1967), on "The Smothers Brothers" tv show
(not the best audio, but a great video recording on the styles in that
bygone era, plus showing Tom and Dick Smothers)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rayzU4EOvSo
better (stereo) version
---
2nd of their 5 great Top 40 hits in that special year.
"Mercy, Mercy, Mercy" #5
"Hey Baby (They're Playing Our Song)" #12
"Susan" #11
Then they disappeared from the Top 40 after '67.
"But for that one year The Buckinghams got so much airplay they were named
by Billboard magazine as "The Most Listened to Band in America". Whether
they were or not can surely be debated when you consider the competition for
that year (Beatles, Stones, Supremes, Monkees, Paul Revere & The Raiders,
Turtles, and on and on), but it's for sure that someone was listening to
"Don't You Care" as it spent 14 weeks on the charts and ended up in the #39
spot for the year."
What an incredible year, and number of great bands and sounds in '67!
May have been the best year ever in modern pop music!
The author didn't mention in addition to the above roster of great
artists and songs in that amazing year:
Otis Redding (before his shocking death in Oct.) and the Bar-Kays big
hit, "Soulfinger!"
The Cowsills ("The Rain, The Park, and Other Things")
Strawberry Alarm Clock ("Incense and Peppermints")
Tommy James and The Shondells ("I Think We're Alone Now")
Buffalo Springfield ("For What It's Worth")
The Association ("Windy")
The Doors ("Light My Fire")
Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons ("I've Got You Under My Skin",
"C'mon Marianne",many others in their '67 album "2nd Greatest Hits")
Frankie Valli ("Can't Take My Eyes Off You")
The Young Rascals ("Groovin [on a Sunday afternoon...]")
Nancy Sinatra ("Sugartown", #1 for 4 wks "Somethin' Stupid" w/Frank)
etc.
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Jan Dean
May 14, 2014, 10:07:25 PM5/14/14
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super70s wrote:
> They needed some better songwriters in the band or (a la The Monkees) at
> least cover some better material, Jim Holvay who wasn't even in the band
> wrote most of the hits.
Charles Ives wrote part of "Susan."
How can you go wrong with Charles Ives?
(And he wasn't even credited.)
> They needed some better songwriters in the band or (a la The Monkees) at
> least cover some better material, Jim Holvay who wasn't even in the band
> wrote most of the hits.
Charles Ives wrote part of "Susan."
How can you go wrong with Charles Ives?
(And he wasn't even credited.)
Michael Black
May 15, 2014, 9:35:02 AM5/15/14
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Michael
Jan Dean
May 15, 2014, 9:59:07 PM5/15/14
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May 16, 2014, 3:50:47 AM5/16/14
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"Michael Black" <et...@ncf.ca> wrote in message
news:alpine.LNX.2.02.1...@darkstar.example.org...
Who was Charles Ives, and did he write any other memorable
song for anyone, or not?
news:alpine.LNX.2.02.1...@darkstar.example.org...
song for anyone, or not?
BobbyM
May 16, 2014, 8:00:29 AM5/16/14
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with anything he wrote. During the "psychedelic" break in "Susan" they
inserted a section of a song he'd written. Here's one version of that
song; if you don't want to wade thru the entire thing, start somewhere
around 6:30 & wait for it.
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