Seventies Songs You Never Hear Anymore

[Trickyvee]

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Tweedledee Tweedledum by Middle of the Road. I heard it the other day as part of a radio jingle and it was on one of my Top of the Tots records but I had forgotten about it. They were a naff group but it's quite a catchy little tune.

[xmark1234]

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rat trap - boomtown rats
only reason why i remember this is because it was on totps on tv the other night

[DemonEyeX]

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Well, strangely enough, a tune popped into my head last week.
I hadn't thought of it for a long long time.
Then the next day it popped up in the afternoon on a local radio station.
Definitely one of the weirdest of tracks to be the first hit for an artist who went on to a rather mainstream career.
Not that i'm saying anything bad about Paul Young, I always liked his voice.
But this particular track is often dismissed as a silly "novelty" song, but I actually think that it's awesome.
Anyway, here it is.

[mikey]

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One Armed Bandit - (instrumental) by Judge Dread I think?

[amethyst]

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Didn't Limmie And Family Cooking have a hit with it in the summer of 1973?

Thank you it was

[Wirral Writer]

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Heard you can do magic from 1970 but the presenter didnt say who the artist was which is annoying

Didn't Limmie And Family Cooking have a hit with it in the summer of 1973?

[amethyst]

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Heard you can do magic from 1970 but the presenter didnt say who the artist was which is annoying

[Wirral Writer]

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Hows that-Sherbert heard this on the radio

Yeah, I hear Sherbert's Howzat quite a lot on the radio too. That is one of the songs that just OOZES memories of the autumn of 1976, a year which I will always regard as ABBA's main year, as they seemed to dominate the charts back then. And, boy, was I in love with Agnetha!

[Richard1978]

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Smooth sometimes turns up an interesting oldie, or otherwise finds one & plays it at least once a day for a week before never playing it again.

They did that with Herbie Hancock's I Thought It Was You. That robot voice gets annoying after the 3rd play.

[TheBobMedley]

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Off the top of my head.....

I Will Return- Springwater
Free Electric Band - Albert Hammond
Lay Down -The Strawbs
All I Want Is You - Roxy Music
Hold Your Head Up -Argent
Dream Are Ten A Penny - Kincade
Little Does She Know - Kursaal Flyers
Costafine Town - Splinter
Calendar Song - Trinidad Oil Company
Feels Like Heaven - Fiction Factory
He's Gonna Step On You Again - John Kongos

Of course if you ever listen to Magic FM or Absolute Radio I guess there is an outside chance of hearing one of these......although in the case of Magic you will note that they struggle to go much more than about an hour before playing either Broken Wings by Mr Mister or a Hard Habit To Break by Chicago or similar.....

[xmark1234]

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i watchedf top of the pops the other night and it was all from 70s there was some on there i never heard off but few i dont hear much now rat trap boomtown rats was one on there when heard it i thought i aint heard that for ages

[amethyst]

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Hows that-Sherbert heard this on the radio

[DanTanna_Investigations]

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Paper Lace -- The Night Chicago Died (1974)
-- Used to hear this one all the time as a little lad.

Did I ever mention the time when they appeared at Stockport's Merseyway shopping precinct in 1974 to mime this for a tv show called '45', presented by Kid Jensen?

Also on the bill were Mouth and MacNeal doing 'I see a Star' and Sacha Distel. My mum took me when I was four, I still remember the big fellah with the furry boots in Mouth and MacNeal.

Sadly, it's been lost from Granada TV archives, I keep meaning to write to the Paper Lace guys and Maggie MacNeal to see if either remember it and, a very long shot, if either has a tape.

[Trickyvee]

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Not a 70's song but only rediscovered this one on reading the man's autobiography. 'Me and my girl nightclubbing' by David Essex. A weird quirky song that I distinctly remember warbling along to when I was five. Didn't know it was David Essex. Of course at that age I had no idea who he was.

[victorbrunswick]

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Tony DeFranco the Justin Bieber of his day. And like Bieber he was also Canadian. Coincidence? lol