Super Hits of The 70s: Have A Nice Day, Vol. 25

gino v pretty easily for me.

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/user/cryptosicko/playlist/6BYQr4gtXU22cAWakEBYVm?si=Y2lkI0lzRhSMg8O5miWX7A

(Toby Beau is missing)

I know It's pretty much bog standard, corporate AOR, but 5,7,0,5 fucking rocks!! Funny clip on YouTube of

them playing this song on TOTP. Definitely worth 5 minutes of yr time.

I thought the US and UK charts resembled each other more as the decade wore on, but obviously not! Not only did most of these acts not get anywhere near the UK charts, most of them were/are complete unknowns in the UK (the three British acts obv. were known).

UK acts were Sweet and ?? Just wondering.

Sweet followed by Ambrosia followed by Ace.

(xp) City Boy and Iain Matthews.

Thank god they didn't put "You Light Up My Life" on any of these.

Wish I could find the Eugene Levy SCTV parody of Gino Vannelli in which Eugene-o's chest hair keeps growing more abundant as the song progresses.

I'll take Sweet here - the first I ever heard by them, so was surprised to hear the earlier glam stuff much later. Enjoy the Ace Frehley also, though that was an actual UK glam record before he did it.

re the US/UK charts I suspect the two were never so divergent as in the roughly 1978-1982 period when the New Wave was all over the UK charts but US radio was too restrictive to let any of it in aside from an occasional one-off ("Whip It" by Devo, "Rock Lobster" and that ilk).

Gino's like our national Rick Astley...I know I should know the Sweet and Ace Frehley songs, but "I Just Wanna Stop" is literally the only thing I'm familiar with here.

Re the Ace Frehley track, the original is a classic, never heard his version.

... OK it's almost exactly the same but 3 years too late.

The song was written by Russ Ballard but I'm assuming after having listened closely to Bohannon's "Insides Out" album.

Listening to Ambrosia’s “How Much I Feel” (I remember the title from Casey Kasem’s US Top 40 rundown on AFN Germany that I used to listen to as a teen, but I’d forgotten how the song actually went) and it’s giving me that innocent look, but I can see “It’s Too Late”’s tail still twitching in its mouth.

I quite like it, but not enough to vote for it.

That plot twist thing at the end of the song was a real 70s phenomenon, wasn’t it?

Here's Toby Beau:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5F3OtLJJH4

and as this particular Maxine Nightingale tune isn't on UK Spotify, try this instead:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dg0Epvs6dOg

this is the end? well for that i'm voting cheese like i did for most of this series. ""How Much I Feel"

There's a HAND section at the LA Amoeba and I CLEANED it out, spurred on in part by these threads.

Just checking in to say that I'll be able to run the bridesmaids and #1 showdown polls starting maybe next week.

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i'm spent