Hey! Look What I Found (and wish I hadn't)

A friend recently lent me an 11-volume CD collection he had bought earlier this year, titled HEY! LOOK WHAT I FOUND. The music is composed of singles that, for the most part, made the Billboard Hot 100 chart some time between the late 1950s and middle 1970s, but have disappeared into the mists of time. After having spent the last couple of days listening to those CDs, all I can say is that a good 90% of those songs *deserve* to be forgotten!

Suffice it to say, I could lead a perfectly contented life without ever having heard:

--Tab Hunter's "Red Sails in the Sunset"
--June Valli's "Apple Green"
--The Singing Belles' "Someone Loves You, Joe"
--The Sounds of Sunshine's "Love Means You Never Have To Say You're Sorry"
--Esther & Abi Ofarim's "Cinderella Rockefella"
--Everything Is Everything's "Witchi Tai To"
--Michael Parks' "Long, Lonesome Highway," and
--Telly Savalas' spoken-word rendition of Bread's "If"

If you ever get to feeling nostalgic about the so-called "Golden Age of Rock and Roll," let me play you some of the songs on those eleven CDs. It might just jog your memory a bit and help you keep things in perspective!

And Shatner screaming Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds? Shudder.

It should cure those Ecstasy urges really wellll . . .

That got a good bit of airplay back then on WBCN, back when it was free-form FM radio, not the corporate shit it is now (as is every other commercial radio station).

Jim Pepper and Everything Is Everything. If I remember correctly, he was a Native American.

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Personally, I hated it.

And I'll bet before today, you hadn't even thought of "Witchi Tai To" in 30 years or more! It's a truly "Forgotten 45."

to begin with. Was it a 45? I always thought it was just an album cut.

Actually, I did think of the song about 10 years ago when someone played it at a party; he and I started talking about how much we liked that song. It's got the vibe from the days when I was getting stoned all the time. I want to thank you for reminding me of it; I've been walking around singing it since you did. (Don't worry; nobody's around to hear me.) Think I'll go sing it in the shower now. :-)

...to fully appreciate the song, I mean. I was only three years old at the time! But you're welcome, in any case.

Long, Lonesome Highway......cool tune and a cool TV series. Parks' was so laid back, I think you needed to check his pulse to see if his heart was beating.

Had really forgotten about that series till you reminded me in this post...thanks. Wonder if that series is still in syndicate?