1969 is a year I have not featured much of late, at least regarding Top 40 hits, and I don't know why as it was probably one of my favorite 60's years. The last music videos I did of HIT SONGS from 1969 was "This Magic Moment" by Jay & The Americans and "My Cherie Amour" by Stevie Wonder. All the more curious this choice as technically, it and the album it appeared on, were actually recorded in 1967. Highly confused was I at age 15 when "Time Of The Season" by The Zombies became a major hit here in the United States and I purchased the LP, Odessey And Oracle. The year stamped on the album, 1967, I took to be a misprint. How surprising to discover this gem among record albums, one of the most perfect non-Beatles albums ever made, was a sleeper and actually released in the UK in early 1968. It was not often at that time for a nearly two-year-old song to climb to #1 on Top 40 radio (#1 on Cash Box, #3 on Billboard, March 29, 1969). But that was not the only quirky thing about UK albums: most of the Beatles' songs were out of sequence, missing, or on the wrong albums when released in the US by Capitol Records.
So, from our perspective here in America, "Time Of The Season" was a 1969 song ... which is why that is the year I have next to the title. As far as Zombies songs go, this one really lived up to their image. The jungle voodoo beat was absolutely perfect for a song by a group called The Zombies. And images of drums, tropical settings at night, dancing around a fire, voluptuous women, full moons, and the like were hardwired right into my brain whenever I heard this most cool song. It is little wonder, then, the kind of film footages I used for this music video of "Time Of The Season." It is well -choreographed and I hope you enjoy it.
Zombies - Time Of The Season (1968)
"Time of the Season" is a song by The Zombies, featured on their 1968 album Odessey and Oracle. It was written by keyboard player Rod Argent and recorded at Abbey Road Studios in August 1967.
This was actually performed by THE TRIADS, so before some music nerd pipes up about HAMBONE HUNTER, yes, I know that's not who really did that song, but that's what was written on the WAVY GRAVY LP, so that's the way it's gonna stay...
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Randy Vanwarmer - Just When I Needed You Most (1979)
1979.
Randy Vanwarmer reached the peak of his short lived career with a most beautiful ballad he wrote in 1979, "Just When I Needed You Most". It reached No. 8 on the UK Singles Chart in September 1979 after peaking at No. 4 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and No. 1 on the Billboard Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks chart earlier that year.There are several cover versions of this song, including those by Dolly Parton and Smokie Robinson. Randy Vanwarmer died of Leukemia in 2004.
Kirsty Anna MacColl (1959 –2000) was an English singer-songwriter who wrote and recorded several pop hits between the early 1980s and the 1990s. She came to notice when Chiswick Records released an EP by local punk rock band the Drug Addix with MacColl on backing vocals under the pseudonym Mandy Doubt (1978). Stiff Records executives were not impressed with the band, but liked her and subsequently signed her to a solo deal.
Her debut solo single "They Don't Know", released in 1979, peaked at number two on the Music Week airplay chart. However, a distributors' strike prevented copies of the single getting into record stores, and the single consequently failed to appear on the UK Singles Chart. MacColl featured regularly in the third series of the French and Saunders Show, a comedy show on the BBC. She also sang on hit recordings produced by her then-husband Steve Lillywhite, notably on tracks by The Smiths and "Fairytale of New York" by The Pogues. MacColl was killed by a power boat while swimming with her children at Cozumel, Mexico. The boat involved in the accident was owned by Mexican supermarket millionaire Guillermo González Nova, who found a willing employee to take the blame for him.
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Posted - 06/09/2017 : 10:49:27
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