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| From | Michael Myers <mmyers1446@yahoo.com> |
| Subject | Re: An audacious challenge - part 2 - the hard part |
| Date | Wed, 15 Jul 2009 13:02:23 -0700 (PDT) |
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don't get me wrong, I'm not saying Badfinger was as big as say the Beatles lol but groups like them and the Raspberries were on the radio a lot in that era... I remember the days when WNEW was the biggest NYC FM station in terms of market share and when they broadcasted a live Badfinger concert there was a huge buzz at my college, we all taped it off the air.... and of course they did other cool things like appear at the Concert for Bangladesh, of which I still proudly hold my ticket stub... songs like Baby Blue still get played a lot on the oldies stations in the NYC area, I just heard it 2 days ago
--- On Wed, 7/15/09, synthhtnys@comcast.net <synthhtnys@comcast.net> wrote:
From: synthhtnys@comcast.net <synthhtnys@comcast.net>
Subject: Re: An audacious challenge - part 2 - the hard part
To: "Stewart Mason" <craigtorso@verizon.net>, audities@smoe.org
Date: Wednesday, July 15, 2009, 2:50 PM
According to my handy Whitburn, Badfinger had four hit singles. So as
a commercial hitmaking force, they were roughly as big as, say,
Bananarama. Don't get me wrong, I love Badfinger (for that matter, I
love Bananarama), but particularly after 1972, they were not a
particularly huge band.
*I think this is a good point. Power Pop has very, very rarely been all that big
a force in music sales. Most of the classic bands we love have gained in stature over time
and I think this distorts how we perceive them.
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