Monday...

Today's Forgotten Oldie...

"Lonely Days Lonely Nights" reached #3 on the Billboard Hot 100 in November 1970. It reached #1 on both Cashbox and Record World, and was the highest charting single to date for the Bee Gees.  With strings, piano, guitars and a tempo that builds and softens repeatedly (much like a couple of songs on the Beatles' Abbey Road album) Lonely Days established the Bee Gees as pop stylists and made them worldwide stars.  And yet today, it's rare to hear it on the radio.  Weird!

Today's Forgotten Oldie...

Runt was the self-titled debut album of a 3-piece band named Runt, that featured Todd Rundgren on guitar and vocals.  Incorrectly called Todd's debut by many rock historians, probably because the follow-up album was titled Runt, the ballad of Todd Rundgren. The album produced a single in 1970, "We Gotta Get You a Woman" that climbed to #20 in both the USA and Canada.  It's a cool song that's pretty much forgotten today.

This was me!!!!

Spring!

Yes, we finally had a nice weekend! And it's continuing most of the week too.  Pretty soon we'll be in summer mode (I hope!).  Just to get you out of the cold mindset and into warm weather mode for once and for all, here's a couple of iconic bathing suit pictures from stars of yesteryear... today, it's Liz Taylor and Farrah Fawcett!

Is this the weekend??

How many times in the past four months have we said "is this when we turn the corner?  Are our days and temperatures finally going to be normal?"  Okay, looking at the forecast it looks (knock on wood) like tomorrow could be the start of the return to normalcy.  I hope so.  The poor birds have been too cold to sing, so they've been getting together and playing little tiny instruments...

Today's Forgotten Oldie...

The band War had a huge hit in 1972 with "The Cisco Kid" from the album The World Is A Ghetto.  The song went to #2 on the Billboard Hot 100. The song is of course about O. Henry's well known fictional "Robin Hood of the West" and has been featured in a 1994 TV Movie starring Jimmy Smits and Cheech Marin, and even covered by people like Willie Nelson.  How does a #2 hit record become a forgotten oldie?  Another rock and roll mystery!