Today let me walk you down memory lane for a little one hit wonder action – 1970’s style, baby!  I have often referenced the AM Radio Top 40 format in my past music posts, and so these songs are songs that made the charts and therfore received play time on AM radio in the 70’s.  Now, just because these songs were on the charts doesn’t mean they were good.  I’m conviced that a couple of these made the charts simply because they sounded very much like popular bands of the day.  Everybody in?  Seatbelts on?  Please keep your hand and feet inside the vehicle…here we go.

OK, just so I don’t piss you off immediately, the first song is actually a good song, and you may still hear it on the radio if you listen to a classic rock station.  It is What You Won’t do For Love by  early “Blue Eyed Soul” artist Bobby Caldwell.

That is one Mellow Groove.  Next up is an American group called “The Ides of March”.  They must have been Shakespeare fans (they were).  Anyhoo…this song is titled simply Vehicle.  You may recognize it – you also may recognize that it sounds very much like “Blood Sweat and Tears” who were very a popular band at this time with several hit records of their own.  It’s possible that was the formula – pick a popular band and imitate their sound as closely as possible.  Here’s Vehicle:

Not bad…and yep.  A lot like Blood Sweat and Tears.  OK, I saved the worst for last.  I’m not kidding.  I can’t exactly tell you not to listen to this song since I’m the one who posted it, but you probably won’t make it all the way through, I’ll bet.  I’m pretty sure these guys were trying to cash in on sounding very much like the Bee Gees – the band is Tin Tin and the song is Toast and Marmalade for Tea

That is horrible.  I don’t know how it charted.  I had initially thought of doing this entire post with bad songs like that.  God knows there were plenty of them!  Now I’m glad I didn’t.  Please forgive me for that one.  But if you can remember any stinkers and wish to relive the trauma, leave them in the comments and maybe I’ll treat..I mean punish everyone with them in a future post.

Boys and Girls, please remain in the car until it comes to a complete stop….and thank you for visiting!  Please come again and have a great day!