I started this thread over on Greasy Lake and it's one I really enjoyed so I'll revive it here. I have a very soft spot for all those great 70s and early 80s AM radio hits; the songs we used to hear on the radio on weekend drives, the music that dominated my radio listening during my childhood. Every once in a while, I get nostalgic and spend a morning or evening just listening to a lot of old AM God, many of them one-hit wonders. For this thread, I'll try to post something about the song that I never knew before.
This was a huge backseat favorite on our weekend drives and my brothers and I always sang along. I have all of Spirit's records, but this is the only Jay Ferguson album I've got. I didn't know until today that Joe Walsh played guitar on the record.
Listening to Billboards top 100 of 1970 ... only took me 51 years to really hear this ....Organ and Handclaps ...i'm in
Not their biggest hit ... But i still enjoy this one
This may or may not actually qualify... I can only assume a I first heard this on AM radio in the early eighties...
A real unknown one hit wonder...always loved this one
I'll take the early 70's for 500 Alex
How what I believe is alternately an Irish or Australian folk ballad came to the attention of a soft rock American band could well be worth it's own thread. Nevertheless, this was big on AM radio here in the day. (Actually, it was big full stop and charted fairly high from what I recall).
Ray Sawyer looks like he may have gone a bit wild and colonial before filming this clip, TBH.
I had a teacher who used to play them in the classroom on rainy days when we ate lunch inside.