J. Geils Band – Angel In Blue

The song is from their 1981 album Freeze Frame. The song was written by keyboard player Seth Justman. It was released as a single in 1982 and it peaked at #40 on Billboards Hot 100 chart. Backing up Peter Wolf would be Sissy Houston (Whitney’s mom) and Luther Vandross.

From Wikipedia.

It reached #55 in the UK. The song also made the Billboard Singles Radio Action chart in a number of regions, including Buffalo, New York, Annapolis, Maryland, Nashville, Tennessee and Jacksonville, Florida. “Angel in Blue” was also released on a number of J. Geils Band compilation albums, including Centerfold, The Very Best J. Geils Band Album Ever and Best of The J. Geils Band, as well as several multi-artist compilation albums.

Angel In Blue

We met in a bar
Out on Chesapeake Bay
With her white patent boots
And her blouse red lame

A table top dancer
She would smile on cue
Oh those lips of an angel
Angel in blue

She’d been dancin for ages
Through cities of bars
She was kickin’ the habit
Of scoring in cars

She’d been drained of her spirit
All caged up in this zoo
A wild cat angel
Angel in blue

And as she stared out into nowhere
I thought yes I thought she might break down and cry
Oh when I whispered I thought I could love her

She just said, “Baby don’t even bother to try”
And I watched as she spoke
Her words chilled my bones
All her friends did her favors

That were really just loans
And she never had dreams
So they never came true
Oh the palest of angels
Angel in blue

And the bees they had stung her
The birds they had flown
There were guys she could number
But none had she known

And she never had dreams
So they never came true
Oh my fade away angel

Angel in blue
Angel in blue
Angel in blue
Angel in blue

Loggins and Messina – Your Mama Don’t Dance

The song reached number 4 on Billboards Pop Charts in 1973. This is the first rock/pop song I remember hearing and really liked. I was around 9 years old. I remember watching them on a TV show at the time. It could have been the Grammy’s but I’m not sure.

From Songfacts.

This song is a homage to the teenage rebellion songs of the ’50s. It’s about a kid whose parents are on the conservative side, much to his dismay (that 10 p.m. curfew is pretty tight). One night, he parks in the shadows at the drive-in movie with his date, but gets a visit from a cop, who takes him in. Seems he’s doomed to be home at night when everyone else is out having fun, and it’s all because his mama don’t dance and his daddy don’t rock and roll.

This was influenced by a 1963 song by The Rooftop Singers called “Mama Don’t Allow,” which is about a kid whose mama won’t tolerate guitar playing. It reached #55 in the US that year.

Kenny Loggins and Jim Messina wrote this song early on in their partnership, writing it in the studio one day while they were waiting for their band to arrive. They didn’t think much of it, but when they recorded it about eight months later, it became a huge hit in America, climbing to #4. Much to their dismay, it endured as their best-known song, which was frustrating because it was sort of a throwaway and didn’t represent their sound. Loggins and Messina were both accomplished songwriters and musicians, who along with their top-notch band, made music that was far more complex in both music and lyrics. Tracks like “Angry Eyes” and “Till The Ends Meet” are what they considered far more substantial, but for many listeners, Loggins and Messina are most associated with “Your Mama Don’t Dance

Your Mama Don’t Dance

Your mama don’t dance and your daddy don’t rock and roll
Your mama don’t dance and your daddy don’t rock and roll
When evening rolls around and it’s time to go to town, where do you go?
To rock and roll

The old folks say that ya gotta end your date by ten
If you’re out on a date and you bring it home late it’s a sin
There just ain’t no excusin’, you know you’re gonna lose and never win
I’ll say it again

And it’s all because your mama don’t dance and your daddy don’t rock and roll
Your mama don’t dance and your daddy don’t rock and roll
When evening rolls around and it’s time to go to town, where do you go?
To rock and roll

You pull into a drive-in and find a place to park
You hop into the backseat where you know it’s nice and dark
You’re just about to move in, thinkin’ it’s a breeze
There’s a light in your eye and then a guy says “out of the car, Longhair!”
“Louise, you’re comin’ with me and no more movies”

Songwriters: Jim Messina / Kenneth Clark Loggins

Katrina And The Waves – Do You Want Crying

The song reached number 37 on Billboards Hot 100 charts in 1985. From the album “Katrina and The Waves 2”. The song was written by bass player Vince de la Cruz.

Do You Want Crying

So long now – since you walked and left me.
Why did your love grow cold ? Don’t you think you need me ?
I see that smile
It’s your face. I feel you holding on and on.
I hear your voice
It’s saying: bye bye love.
I count my teardrops as they fall.
Do you want crying? Look
I’m crying.
Do you want crying? Oh
Oh
Oh
Oh.
You’ve got me crying
You’ve got me crying.
Don’t you want crying?
So long now – since you walked and left me.
Why did your love grow cold ? Don’t you think you need me ?
Don’t you want crying ? Look
I’m crying…
Do you want crying? You’ve got me crying…
Do you want crying?
Do you want crying? Look
I’m crying…
Do you want crying? Look
I’m crying.
Do you want crying? Look
Oh
Oh
Oh
Oh.

Songwriters: Vince De La Cruz / Vincent De La Cruz

Dobie Gray – Drift Away

The song reached number 5 in 1973 on Billboards Hot 100 charts and certified gold by the RIAA. It would be Dobie Gray’s biggest hit. It was written by Mentor Williams he was the younger brother of songwriter Paul Williams. It was originally recorded by John Henry Kurtz in 1972. Recorded at Quadraphonic studios in Nashville.

Dorothy – Flawless

The band was formed in 2014 and took the first name of the lead singer Dorothy Martin as the band’s name. Flawless peaked at number 8 in July of 2018 on Billboards Mainstream Rock chart. Flawless came from their album “28 Days in The Valley” produced by former 4 Non-Blondes lead singer Linda Perry.

Flawless

You said you loved me but you threw me out in the garbage
Now I’m starting to stink but everyone thinks I’m flawless
Listen to me, I can’t be what you want me to
I just came like this, I’m already black and blue

You said you loved me but you put my shit on the sidewalk
You like it when I fall and you laugh when I run into a wall
You gave nothing, I put my heart out on the table
I wasn’t always willing but baby I was always able, yeah

I’m slipping into some kinda feeling
Got me believing
I’m coming out of all of the darkness
Now that I’m flawless

You said I was the one but you married someone half your age
She’s a groupie ex-girlfriend with a plastic face
And you said you’d never go back to an old flame
Well it’s gonna make you sick when everybody hears my pain
Yeah, yeah, oh

I’m slipping into some kinda feeling
Got me believing, baby
I’m coming out of all of the darkness
Now that I’m flawless
Now that I’m

Can you feel it?
Can you feel it, yeah?
Can you feel it?
Can you feel it, yeah?
Can you feel it?
Can you feel it, yeah?
Can you feel it?
Baby, can you feel it, yeah?

I’m slipping into some kinda feeling
Got me believing, baby, yeah
I’m coming out of all of the darkness
Now that I’m flawless

Now that I’m
Can you feel it baby?
Now that I’m
Oh can you feel it baby?
Can you feel it, yeah?
Can you feel it, yeah?
Can you feel it?
Oh, now that I’m flawless

Songwriters: Dorothy Martin / Linda Perry

Joe Walsh – Meadows

From his 1973 album “The Smoker You Drink, The Player You get”. The song never charted but the guitar riff sounds a lot like “My Woman From Tokyo” by Deep Purple but Joe had been working on this song since before he left the James Gang. It seems to be the case that Both Joe Walsh and Deep Purple came up with the same guitar riff on their own.

Meadows

Can’t think of any reason
Don’t know exactly why
Must be it’s out of season
Give it another try

I’m out here in the meadow
Part of an old stone wall
Stand here because he said so
Waitin’ around to fall

Some things are left unspoken
Some things are hand me down
The circle stands unbroken
Sendin’ it back around

I’ve seen you roll in clover
Dressed for a scarecrow wall
Too bad the dance is over
Nothin’ to show at all

Can’t help but feel uncertain
Knowing which way to turn
They want to raise the curtain
And you’re holdin’ the words to learn

I’m out here in the meadow
Part of an old stone wall
Stand here because he said so
Waitin’ around to fall

Songwriters: Joseph Fidler Walsh / Patrick Cullie

The Kings – This Beat Goes On/Switchin’ to Glide

The Kings were a Candian rock band formed in 1977 in Oakville Ontario. They had their one and only hit with “This Beat Goes On” and “Switchin’ To Glide” in 1980. It reached number 43 on the Billboard Hot 100 charts. It was different because it was a two song mashup. Bob Ezrin produced the song.

Love American Style

The sitcom premiered in 1969 and ran from 1969-1974. 108 episodes were made. It was a different show every week with different actors and actresses always having to do with relationships in one way or another. The actual first show of Happy Days was part of Love American Style and it is now considered to be the pilot episode. The first season the shows theme song was performed by the Cowsills. At the start of the second season the same song was sung by the Ron Hicklin Singers they were also the backing vocals for the Partridge Family.

From Wikipedia.

This second version of the theme was carried on for the remainder of the series, as well as on most episodes prepared for syndication. The title is loosely derived from a 1961 Italian comedy film called Divorzio all’italiana (Divorce, Italian Style), which received Academy Award nominations in 1962 for Best Director for Pietro Germi and for Best Actor for star Marcello Mastroianni. The film was later spoofed in 1967 by Divorce, American Style, starring Dick Van Dyke. The snowclone “(xxx), (nationality) Style” became a minor cultural catch-phrase as the 1960s progressed.
The original series was also known for its 10- to 20-second drop-in silent movie-style “joke clips” between the featured segments. This regular troupe featured future Rockford Files cast member Stuart Margolin, future Vega$ leading lady Phyllis Davis and a young character actor, James Hampton, who was known to television audiences of the era as Private Dobbs from the TV series F-Troop. These clips allowed the show to be padded to the required length without adding to the main segments. They generally consisted of then-risque, burlesque-style comedy of manners visual jokes.
During its first four years on ABC, Love, American Style was popular with viewers and received decent ratings, although it never ranked among the top 30 shows in the Nielsens. For a few seasons, it was part of a powerhouse lineup of ABC Friday night programs that included The Brady Bunch, The Partridge Family, Room 222 and The Odd Couple.
Some of the show’s segments also served as pilots for proposed television series, either as an actual pilot that also served as segment, or as a segment that would be repurposed as a pilot after the fact. Many never made it beyond the pilot stage, but two resulted in a series:
On February 25, 1972, the show aired an episode with a segment titled “Love and the Television Set”, a story about Richie Cunningham, his family, and friends. The premise and characters would later be used for the television series Happy Days, and the episode would later be recognized as a de facto pilot for the series (it had originally been produced as a pilot for New Family in Town, which had not been picked up). For syndication, the segment was retitled “Love and the Happy Days”.[1] Happy Days, in turn, launched an extensive franchise of spinoffs into the 1980s.
Two weeks earlier, on February 11, 1972, the show presented an animated segment, “Love and the Old-Fashioned Father”. This would become the pilot to a first-run syndicated animated series by Hanna-Barbera, Wait Till Your Father Gets Home, which debuted that fall. Incidentally, Tom Bosley portrayed the father characters both on this show and the aforementioned Happy Days.
At the start of the 1973–1974 fall season, the ratings for Love, American Style and Room 222 had plummeted. As a result, both shows were canceled at mid-season. The series received several Emmy nominations, including two for Best Comedy Series for 1969–70 and 1970–71. The show subsequently became a daytime standard in syndication, since it was readily edited down to a half-hour by the proper interweaving of the clips with a main segment, effectively making nine seasons out of five. This allowed for heavy stripping.

Robert Palmer – Bad Case Of Loving You (Doctor Doctor)

From his 1979 album, Secrets. The song reached #14 on Billboards Hot 100 Chart on September 29, 1979, and reached #61 on the UK singles chart. Originally written and recorded by Moon Martin in 1978.

From Songfacts.

This song was written by Moon Martin (John David Martin – he got the name Moon because he often used it in his lyrics), who released the original version on his 1978 album Shots From a Cold Nightmare. Martin is a singer/guitarist/songwriter from Oklahoma who made his way to California in the late ’60s with his band Southwind. When the group broke up in 1971, Martin took on studio work. He took up with Linda Ronstadt, and played on her self-titled album (they lived together at her farm house in Topanga Canyon for a while). He nearly joined some of Ronstadt’s other backing musicians in a little band called the Eagles, but ended up a solo artist and signed a deal with Capitol Records.

Robert Palmer heard the song when he was being driven to one of his shows by a rep from his label, who played it for him. Palmer included it in his set and got a great response, so he recorded it for his Secrets album.

Bad Case Of Loving You (Doctor Doctor)

Whoa
A hot summer night, fell like a net
I’ve gotta find my baby yet
I need you, to soothe my head
And turn my blue heart to red
Doctor Doctor, gimme the news
I got a bad case of lovin’ you
No pill’s gonna cure my ill
I got a bad case of lovin’ you
A pretty face don’t make no pretty heart
I learned that buddy from the start
You think I’m cute, a little bit shy
Mama, I ain’t that kind of guy
Doctor Doctor, gimme the news
I got a bad case of lovin’ you
No pill’s gonna cure my ill
I got a bad case of lovin’ you
I know you like it, you like it on top
Tell me mamma, are you gonna stop?
You had me down twenty-one to zip
Smile of Judas on your lip
Shake my fist, knock on wood
I got it bad, and I got it good
Doctor Doctor, gimme the news
I got a bad case of lovin’ you
No pill’s gonna cure my ill
I got a bad case of lovin’ you
Songwriters: John Moon Martin

Geordie – Little Boy

Geordie was a glam rock band formed in 1971 from New Castle England. it featured Brian Johnson on lead vocals he would later take over as lead singer for AC/DC after Bon Scott’s death. The song Little Boy is off of their second album “Don’t Be Fooled by the Name”. The song did not chart. Geordie never had a big hit and finally disbanded in the late 70’s. They did get back together in the early 80’s but without Johnson as lead singer.

From Wikipedia.

The original (from February 1972) Geordie line-up included: Vic Malcolm (lead guitar), Tom Hill (bass guitar), Brian Gibson (drums) and Brian Johnson (lead vocals). Their first single, “Don’t Do That” broke into the UK Top 40 in December 1972. In March 1973, Geordie released their debut album, Hope You Like It on EMI label. Trying to compete with such British glam rock outfits as Slade and Sweet (Geordie supported the former on a UK tour, as well as the latter at a concert at the Rainbow Club, London in March 1973), they achieved UK Top 10 status with “All Because of You” (April 1973) and had a UK Top 20 hit with “Can You Do It” (July 1973). They also had several appearances on BBC Television including 15 appearances on Top of the Pops, one of which was in November 1972.

In the early 1970s Geordie toured Australia regularly and gained a solid following in Newcastle, New South Wales, due to the “Newcastle” connection and the song “Geordie’s Lost his Liggie” gained popularity and airplay in Newcastle. They were one of the regular touring bands to play at the “art deco” Savoy Theatre in Lambton. Their second album, Don’t Be Fooled By The Name (1974), including a cover of traditional “House of the Rising Sun“, failed to yield a hit.

After their 1976 album Save the World, frontman Johnson left for a solo project. The band’s final album, No Good Woman, in 1978 consisted of three unreleased tracks with Johnson and new material recorded by Malcolm with future Dire Straits keyboardist Alan Clark, vocalist Dave Ditchburn, bassist Frank Gibbon, and drummer George Defty. Johnson had meanwhile begun to perform as Geordie in a new line-up, sometimes also called Geordie II, in which he was the only original member. The band signed a recording contract in 1980, but finally folded that spring when Johnson replaced the late Bon Scott in AC/DC.

Little Boy

Hey come here let me look at you
You virgin eyes they are so blue
Doesn’t anyone take care of you little boy?

Where’s your mommy is she out again?
No doubt she’s got a pen
Crossing numbers of a card

This world has got no hero’s
Where it’s going nobody knows
This world is such a cruel place.

And your Daddy’s workin’ down a mine
He never seems to have the time
For a little boy like you, little boy
Shouldn’t you, you be at school,
Teacher finds out, you’ll get the rule
But it’s your mommy who is the fool
She is a fool

This world has got no hero’s
Where it’s going nobody knows
This world is such a cruel place.

You’ll leave home one day it’s true
Then their gonna want you
But it’s too late, you’ve gone

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