901 I Just Want to Celebrate Rare Earth
902 Unwell Third Eye Blind
903 The Boys of Summer Don Henley
904 No Matter What Badfinger
905 Lowdown Chicago
906 Pay to the Piper Chairman of the Board
907 A Groove Will Make You Move Jimmy Castor Bunch
908 Last Train to Clarksville Monkees
909 Dreams Fleetwood Mac
910 Breakfast at Tiffanys Deep Blue Something
911 Gey Outa My Dreams, Get Into My Car Billy Ocean
912 Bang a Gong T Rex
913 She'd Rather Be With Me Turtles
914 Mustang Sally Wilson Pickett
915 You Wear It Well Rod Stewart
916 Century's End Steely Dan
917 I've Got to Use My Imagination Gladys Knight and the Pips
918 Me and You and a Dog Naled Boo Lobo
919 Bullet with Butterfly Wings Smashing Pumpkins
920 Satisfaction Rolling Stones
921 Good Thing Fine Young Cannibals
922 Rock Me Gently Andy Kim
923 To Sir With Love Lulu
924 What Does It Take to Win Your Love Jr Walker & the All Stars
925 Tha Rain, the Park and Other Things Cowsills
Roland LaVoie or Lobo was one of my favorite singers of the 1970s--not so much this song which peaked at #5 but I'd Love You to Want Me(#2), Don't Expect Me to be Your Friend(#8) and How Can I Tell Her?(22) which are all higher on the charts. Lobo had 16 Top 100 hits in the 1970s and is currently semi-retired and lives in Florida. Last summer I walked into the Crimson Moon Cafe in Dahlonega, Georgia and talked about the red Georgia clay on my feet. Tom and Julie then started their first set with Me and You and a Dog Named Boo.
Badfinger was a UK band most popular 1969-72. They had 4 big hits and hit the Top 100 7 times. There was a close affiliation with the Beatles as Paul McCartney wrote their #7 hit Come and Get It and George Harrison played guitar on and produced their biggest hit--the #4 smash Day After Day. Also during this time singer-guitarist Pete Ham wrote the #1 hit Without You for Harry Nilsson. Sadly, Ham committed suicide in 1975 and Bassist Tony Evans did the same in 1983.
Who can forget the lyrics "You're dirty sweet and you're my girl"? T. Rex was founded by singer and guitarist Marc Bolan in 1967. Bang a Gong was their only big hit which peaked at #10 in 1972. The two singers for the Turtles sang background on this song.They had 3 other minor hits. The band dissolved after Bolan was killed in a car accident in 1977. Ironically another member of the band was also killed in a separate car accident in 1981.
Rare Earth formed as the Sunliners in 1960 and changed their name to Rare Earth in 1968 after signed by Motown's Rare Earth division. The band jokingly suggested the band change its name to Rare Earth and Motown agreed! While this is the only Rare Earth song on my survey they had big hits covering two Temptations songs--Get Ready(#4) and I Know I'm Losing You(#7). In total they had 9 Top 100 hits. They also lost a number of their members at an early age.
Chairmen of the Board was a soul band who had six Top 100 hits in the early 1970s including Pay to the Piper(peaked at #13) and their #3 smash Give Me Just a Little More Time which is further up my survey. The band was led by lead singer General Norman Johnson who recently passed away at age 57.
unwell is by matchbox 20?
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