My Top Songs of All Time 801-825

Sorry for the delay between posts but here is the next group:

801 Sweet Child of Mine                                             Guns and Roses
802 I'm Every Woman                                                 Chaka Khan
803 Tired of Waiting for You                                       Kinks
804 Hey Baby, They're Playing Our Song                    Buckinghams
805 Want Ads                                                             Honeycone
806 Philadelphia Freedom                                           Elton John
807 War                                                                      Edwin Starr
808 Montego Bay                                                        Bobby Bloom
809 Spooky                                                                Classics IV
810 Rainy Day Women 12 & 35                                  Bob Dylan
811 Seven Rooms of Gloom                                        Four Tops
812 All Out of Love                                                    Air Supply
813 All the Things She Said                                         Simple Minds
814 Sock It to Me Baby                                             Mitch Ryder & the Detroit Wheels
815 Turn Turn Turn                                                     Byrds
816 Cherry Cherry                                                     Neal Diamond
817 Peace Train                                                         Cat Stevens
818 Get Dancin'                                                          Disco Tex & the Sex-O-Lettes
819 Truckin                                                                Grateful Dead
820 Keep On Lovin' You                                            REO Speedwagon
821 Keep On Rockin' in the Free World                     Neil Young
822 Tumblin' Dice                                                       Rolling Stones
823 Dancin' in the Dark                                              Bruce Springsteen
824 Alone Again Naturally                                          Gilbert O'Sullivan
825 Dream On                                                           Aerosmith

The Classics IV had 5 Top 40 hits from 1968-73 of which Spooky was the second biggest(after Traces). It is the first of 3 Classivs IV songs on my survey. The band was fronted by Dennis Yost who many credit with being the originator of southern soft rock. Yost suffered a brain tumor in 2006 and died in 2008. The band seems to have a vey limited tour schedule today.

Edwin Starr had 4 Top 4 hits of which the anti-Vietnam anthem War was the biggest--hitting #1 for three weeks in 1970.  Others include Agent Double-O-Soul, 25 Miles and Stop the War Now. The song was originally an album track by the Temptations. It is the first of two Edwin Starr songs on my survey. Starr moved to England in 1973 and mpassed away in 2003.

Mitch Ryder(born William Levise) and the Detroit Wheels burst onto the charts in 1966 and had six top 40 hits in 1966-67. Taking some dubious advice from producer Bob Crewe he left the Detroit Wheels at the end of 1967 and never charted again. Sock It to Me Baby which peaked at #6 was banned from some radio stations for sexually suggestive lyrics. Devil with a Blue Dress On was their biggest hit and their first hit, Jenny Take a Ride was released as a single on the advice of  Keith Richard and Brian Jones. Mitch tried touring for some time but I cannot find a record of him touring today.

Gilbert  O'Sullivan had 5 Topt 40 hits including the Blockbuster #1 hit Alone Again Naturally which spend 6 weeks ay #1 in 1972. It is his only song on my survey. Gilbert just released an album in 2011 and has an active international touring schedule.

Disco-Tex and the Sex-O-Lettes was a band fronted by Sir Monti Rock III (Joseph Montanez) who prior to this was a talk show regular. The disco hit peaked at #10 in 1974. It was one of two hits by the band and the only one to zappear in my survey.


 

Two T205s

Two of my favorite 205s--the best 2nd baseman in history and one of the best center fielders