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| From | "Sager, Greg" <greg.sager@bankofamerica.com> |
| Subject | Re: Favorites |
| Date | Fri, 04 Jun 2004 03:34:17 -0500 |
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* As a wee one, listening to WKBW (Danny Nevereth, Sandy Beach, etc.) in my
family's Ford station wagon in suburban Buffalo:
American Breed, "Bend Me, Shape Me"
The Beatles, "Hey Jude"
The Who, "I Can See For Miles"
Freda Payne, "Band Of Gold"
Diana Ross & the Supremes, "Love Child"
The Left Banke, "Walk Away Renee"
The Beatles, "Something"
Joe Jeffrey Group, "My Pledge Of Love"
The Lemon Pipers, "Green Tambourine"
The Rascals, "How Can I Be Sure?"
(the latter two are the first two 45s I ever owned; bought 'em at a flea
market years later as a teenager)
Favorite group? The Grass Roots. They never put out a single I didn't like.
* As a tweenie in suburban Syracuse:
Sweet, "Little Willy"
Shocking Blue, "Venus"
Alice Cooper, "School's Out"
Elton John, "Crocodile Rock"
Paul McCartney, "Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey"
Todd Rundgren, "Hello It's Me"
The Buoys, "Timothy"
Bullet, "White Lies, Blue Eyes"
Jethro Tull, "Living In the Past"
The Guess Who, "Rain Dance"
Favorite group? Three Dog Night. Now largely a forgotten chapter in American
pop music, they were omnipresent during the Nixon era.
* As a young teenager, still a pop kid at heart:
Ozark Mountain Daredevils, "Jackie Blue"
Linda Ronstadt, "You're No Good"
Carl Douglas, "Kung Fu Fighting"
10cc, "I'm Not In Love"
Crac, "Of the Lights" (a local hit by a Syracuse band; I'll bet Carl
Cafarelli and Bill Holmes remember this one)
War, "Why Can't We Be Friends"
Elton John, "Bennie and the Jets"
The Guess Who, "Star Baby"
John Lennon, "Number Nine Dream"
Dwight Twilley Band, "I'm On Fire"
Favorite artist? Probably Elton John. Favorite album? The Beach Boys,
*Endless Summer* -- the first album I ever bought.
* As a hard rocker, listening to 95X in Syracuse:
Aerosmith, "Same Old Song and Dance"
Blue Oyster Cult, "Don't Fear the Reaper"
Peter Frampton, "Show Me the Way"
Queen, "Tie Your Mother Down"
Sweet, "Love Is Like Oxygen"
Ram Jam, "Black Betty"
Blue Oyster Cult, "Harvester Of Eyes"
Kiss, "Detroit Rock City"
Boston, "More Than a Feeling"
The Babys, "Isn't It Time"
Favorite band? Blue Oyster Cult. Favorite album? Aerosmith, *Rocks*.
* Senior year of high school -- break out the skinny tie:
Cheap Trick, "Surrender"
The Boomtown Rats, "Rat Trap"
The Ramones, "Sheena Is a Punk Rocker"
The Flashcubes, "Christi Girl"
Blondie, "Dreaming"
The Knack, "My Sharona"
The Boomtown Rats, "She's So Modern"
The Cars, "Just What I Needed"
The Boomtown Rats, "I Never Loved Eva Braun"
The Police, "Roxanne"
Favorite band and album? The Boomtown Rats, *A Tonic For the Troops*. Huge
in the UK but close to unknown in the US at the time, they would eventually
prove to be something of a one-hit wonder stateside ("I Don't Like Mondays")
and may best be known here as the launching pad of Live Aid hero Bob Geldof.
But in 1978-79 they were my initiation into the ranks of the hipoisie, re:
loving a band none of your high-school friends had ever heard of.
I'll leave off there.
Gregory Sager
(owned no smiley faces and never said "Have a nice day!" to anyone as a kid)
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