King Harvest vs. Starbuck

(Sorry, Chuck.)

Next:

"Amy" by Pure Prairie League vs. "Jackie Blue" by Ozark Mountain Daredevils!

I have no idea what genre people in the '70s would've figured the moonlight songs belonged to. "Soft rock", I guess. But probably as much Doobies-soft as Eagles-soft when you get down to it; it's not inconceivable that both hits may have been played in discos at sometime or other. The King Harvest guys look like rough and tough bikers on their CD cover, which surprised me. My daugher Cordelia, 16, who recognized "Dancing in the Moonlight" the second I put it on ("this is the song where they go 'they don't bark and they don't bite,' right?"), said she always figured the guy singing the song was black. He isn't (and neither is the Starbuck guy. If anything, Starbuck are more disco, I think.)

-- hstencil (hstenc!...), September 30th, 2005.

"Amy" by Pure Prairie League vs. "Jackie Blue" by Ozark Mountain Daredevils!

Didn't we do that one already?

Alternatively, I propose "Jackie Blue" vs "Brother Louie" by Stories.

King Harvest and Looking Glass (of "Brandy" fame) always sound like the same band to me. Heck, it's all Moustache Rock to me.

Oh, how about "Sweet City Woman" by The Stampeders vs. "Signs" by Five Man Electrical Band...or failing that, put it up against Mungo Jerry "In The Summertime"

Both "Moonlight" songs evoke '70s cocaine-infested wife-swapping parties when I listen to 'em now - the leery vocals, the smarmy come-on lyrics.

So true, particularly as regards the Starbuck song. And sonically, that song kills me...must be something in the keyboard and xylophone parts, as noted above.

A country-rock band vs. a sorta glammish power-pop group - not a good match. Stick with the Pure Prarie League; "Amie" is way more compatible with "Jackie Blue."

But "Jackie Blue" (which I guess was a bit of an anomaly for them?) is way more Todd Rundgren than it is country. I agree with the Good Doctor that it slays everything in this thread, although "Moonlight Feels Right" is close!

Hot Chocolate "Brother Louie" vs Janis Ian "Society's Child"

All versions of "Brother Louie" vs All versions of "Louie Louie"

Hmm. Both have the same weird lead-in on the skin color -- "she was black as the night" / "your face is clean and shining black as night" -- but I'll take Ms. Ian just for the weird baroque and Wurlitzer pieces that are jammed in.

P.S. Chuck, have you ever heard Hot Chocolate's version of "Give Peace a Chance"?

Nope!

>Chuck, did Earthquake cover "Emma"?<

Yup! (So did Sisters of Mercy, I think.)

(The AristoCATS. Not the documentary with Bob Saget in it.)

moonlight feels right now one of my total fave 70's calypso synth-pop albums. its so great!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r73DHkY0s0A&feature=related

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Q4oF-myFIM&feature=relmfu

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IaWg4klMLTM

the masters. your beardodisco better be PRETTY good to match this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gzWAq-H4J8

your electro marimba disco better be PRETTY good to mess with this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aj5sjcLm2ig

some tastee pickin' in that first one...

Stamford Symphony Principal Percussionist Dan Haskins Tribute to Bo Wagner (1945 -2017)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sp628Vi_B58

Oh my god, I was sincerely intending to make a 'Dancing in the Moonlight' vs. 'Moonlight Feels Right' poll a while back. Two of the most sublime radio rock hits of the '70s.