I've likely posted this before, but Borstal Boys is just a balls out rocker...
Anybody got any favorite "one hit wonders"? I guess this qualifies, though in all honesty I never really considered it as a hit, much less as a singular work.
When Orbison passed the Wilburys were going to approach him about joining.
There's so many of my favorite "one hit" wonders because I'm a "fossil."😥 This one comes to mind because it was among one of the best concerts I ever attended. "Mountain" performed with "King Crimson" at the old ISU Arena in Terre Haute (1971). That basketball facility only seated 5,000, but the acoustics were good, in my opinion. It was extremely loud that evening and my ears rang for days🤣 Funny story! I got fixed up with a blind date that evening and when I took her back to her apartment, I asked how she liked the concert and commented about drummer Corky Laing firing his sticks one after another into the audience like missiles and she shouted back as loud as she could, "DON'T EVER CALL ME AGAIN!!"🤣 Bad date, to say the least, but she was easy on the eyes😉Ah, but it was a great concert! And those were memorable times filled with outstanding music.
I may have seen the same tour, as I saw Mountain in either '71 or '72 at the Sherwood Country Club, which I seem to remember being in or near Beech Grove. They played Woodstock and they were a band I tried to love (because I felt I should) but I never got into too many deep cuts.
On the 2nd anniversary of my brother's death, a couple of songs from two of his favorite artists. I actually enjoyed early Todd, and this may actually be my favorite Todd song...
He had 8 songs in billboard top 40, 17 in billboard top 100, and 3 in top 10, plus 1 top place with Runaway...
That’s largely the report I hear from everyone I know who knows him. Given our mutual friends, it’s almost weird that I don’t know him. We did go to different high schools - maybe that’s why our paths never crossed.
I think I may have only had one of Mountain's albums (Nantucket Sleighride) and it was an 8 track🤣 One of many 8 tracks back in the day that fell victim to wear and tear and extremely humid conditions inside our cars with no air condition to the point of having to sadly watch them unravel from the player onto the floorboard. I must have purchased at least 3 Led Zeppelin II 8 tracks from playing them non-stop. One concert that I thoroughly enjoyed around the same time was at Robert's Memorial Stadium in Evansville...."Deep Purple" with "Billy Preston"😮 An odd pairing, but quite entertaining.
My personal criteria for defining "one hit wonder" is far different. To be honest I have no concept of where a song "charted". But rather for me "OHW" is defined as a song that got major airplay, that I heard daily on the radio and then at some point the band/artist who recorded it simply disappeared and were never heard from again...
It's Sept 23- Magic time...
