Singles Released This Week Years Ago

 

Another Wednesday and another journey through music history with songs that were famous at the time or that were simply part of my musical development.

1974: Golden Earring

1977: Boz Scaggs

1971: Carole King

1982: Africa Bambaataa & Soul Sonic Force

1983: Tears For Fears

1965: Otis Redding

1969: Creedence Clearwater Revival - I prefer the version by The Blue Aeroplanes from 1995

1966: The Troggs

1967: Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell

1970: Neil Young & Crazy Horse

1962: Dick Dale and the Deltones

Singles Released This Week Years Ago

 

A broad review of notable publications without a contextual link.

1967 - Buffalo Springfield released their only chart success. For What It's Worth became an anthem of the opponents of the Vietnam war.

1977 - Boz Scaggs is an musician which has never been mentioned in this blog before. He is well known in America but he was never the big thing with his honest rhythm & blues. His album Silk Degrees reached the top ten at the time, was pleasant to listen to and very similar to the sound of Graham Parker.

1986 - Simply one of the best pop songs from this year and one that made The Bangles everybody's darlings.

1978 - American Girl was the last song on Tom Petty's debut album and shows his ability to write catchy songs that have lost none of their class even after decades.

1965 - Martha Reeves & the Vandellas are one example, why you should dive into 60's soul from time to time.

1982 - ABC released their their debut album The Lexicon Of Love. One that you can either hate or love, because their completely arranged songs are very close to kitsch. But there are some damn good songs on the album.

1956 - Hard to believe that this song by Gene Vincent and his Blue Caps is almost 70 years old. For me is this song more rock and roll than from other artists of this era.

1981 - The Jam. Just another great song from them.

Twanging Tuesday # 33

Today's twanging track is from another musician who celebrated his 70th birthday a few weeks ago. Boz Scaggs is an American singer, songwriter and guitarist playing for a long time in the band of his class mate Steve Miller. In 1976 he released his most successful solo record Silk Degrees. It's still a great record after all this year with a couple of great songs on it. One of my favorite is It's over - not only for the lyrics. A few members of his backing band on this record moved after finishing the records to this album to form Toto. As far as I know Steve Porcaro plays guitar on Lido Shuffle. And by the way: the cover of this record is superb.

Boz Scaggs - Lido Shuffle