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| From | Hersh Forman <hiforman@yahoo.com> |
| Subject | Re: Favorites |
| Date | Fri, 4 Jun 2004 07:08:04 -0700 (PDT) |
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I remember some store in Buffalo (Cavages?) that had a
special deal where you got the #1 single of the week
(a 45) for 6 Canada Dry liners and 10 cents.
--- "Sager, Greg" <greg.sager@bankofamerica.com>
wrote:
> * 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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