Diana Ross & The Supremes

Flashback Friday


Every week, Scrivener on his Facebook page asks us to rate our favorite songs by different rock and pop artists. I answer those every week and decided to share and preserve these answers on my blog. So first up, we have Diana Ross with and without her group The Supremes. Here goes:

TOP 5 + 5 by Diana Ross

Diana Ross & The Supremes 1960s

1. Stop in the Name of Love
2. Reflections
3. Love Child
4. You Can't Hurry Love
5. Someday We'll Be Together
6. I Hear a Symphony
7. Baby Love
8. You Keep Me Hanging On
9. The Happening
10. My World is Empty Without You

Diana Ross 1970 onward

1. Upside Down
2. Touch Me in the Morning
3. Ain't No Mountain High Enough
4. Theme From Mahogony
5. Love Hangover

Worst - Endless Love with Lionel Richie - too sappy.

So what do you think. Leave me your list of a comment about your favorite and least favorite Diana Ross song.

Flashback Friday: Singer Joey Heatherton "Gone"

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Any kid who grew up in the 1970s who watched TV most certainly caught those "Perfect Sleeper" commercials for Serta by actress and singer Joey Heatherton. She was a blonde bombshell who probably sold many beds for Serta singing about the "Perfect Sleeper".... She was hot, blonde and always dressed for a good night's sleep.

In 1972 she had a hit single with the Ferlin Husky penned tune called "Gone". The record hit the Billboard Hot 100 on MGM Records and peaked at #24. I bought the record and the B-side was the track "The Road I Took to You (Pieces)" which is featured in the video below. Ms. Heatherton also released an album that featured the tracks, but the disc did not sell very well.

She has since been relegated to chart history as a "one hit wonder".





Here is one of the "Perfect Sleeper" commercials she did for SERTA.

Flashback Friday: Magneto and Titanium Man

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We flash back to 1975 and the release of Paul McCartney and Wings follow-up album to 1973's "Band on the Run". This release is called "Venus and Mars" and features a number of memorable tracks including the title song medley and "Rock Show" plus the number 1 hit "Listen to What the Man Said". However one of my favorite tracks on the album is "Magneto and Titanium Man", a song that surely I thought, would be a follow-up single to "Listen". The track was never issued as a lead single but instead showed up as a B-side to I think "Letting Go" which was not a very big hit for Wings.

Nevertheless "Magneto and Titanium Man" remains one of my favorites. The included video with this post was issued a few years ago and is independently made consisting of clips from various Marvel Comics animated programs. Take a look and give the song a listen!

Flashback Friday: The Hollies

FLASHBACK FRIDAY - The Hollies
The Air That I Breathe & more

This week our Flashback Friday spotlight is on The Hollies, a British group that has entertained the public since the mid 1960s. They were part of the original British Invasion of music groups that burned up the charts in the mid 60s along with The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Dave Clark Five and others.

The Hollies are well known for several chart hits, of which the top 10 I have posted here. My favorite Hollies song of all time is "The Air That I Breathe", a 4 minute long opus written by singer / songwriter Albert Hammond who had his own hits in the early 1970s (It Never Rains in Southern California).

"The Air That I Breathe" was a top 10 Billboard Hot 100 hit, peaking at #6 in the summer of 1974.

My 10 top tracks by The Hollies follow:

1. The Air That I Breathe (1974)
2. Long Cool Woman [in a Black Dress] (1972)
3. Bus Stop (1966)
4. Carrie Anne (1967)
5. Jennifer Eccles (1968)
6. He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother (1970)
7. Look Through Any Window (1965)
8. On a Carousel (1967)
9. Stop Stop Stop (1966)
10. Magic Woman Touch (1973)

Flashback Friday: The Bobby Fuller Four - I Fought the Law (and the Law Won)

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One of my favorite rock n roll songs of the sixties belong to The Bobby Fuller Four. Released as a single in December 1965, "I Fought the Law" climbed to #9 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1966. The song is a cover recorded by Bobby Fuller of a song first published by The Crickets, Buddy Holly's old group, in 1958 shortly after Holly died.

"I Fought the Law" was the biggest hit the Bobby Fuller Four ever had because a few months later Bobby Fuller himself was found dead in a garage after an apparent suicide.

The song has been covered many times, most famously by The Clash in 1978.



More Covers

The Big Dirty Band



Bryan Adams (1988)



Larry L

Flashback Friday: Bruddah IZ "Somewhere Over the Rainbow / What a Wonderful World"

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One of the most beautiful songs to ever come out of Hawaii, this is Israel Kamakawiwoʻole's (Bruddah IZ) is a medley of the classic Judy Garland track "Over the Rainbow" and Louis Armstrong's "What a Wonderful World."

According to the Wikipedia this song was recorded in one take in 1988 and was included in IZ's album Facing Future that was released in 1993. The song eventually received international acclaim, airplay and recognition after being featured in several movies including Meet Joe Black, Finding Forrester and 50 First Dates.

IZ died in 1997 and unfortunately never saw this recording reach the stellar heights it has received over the past decades. The song is a consistent best seller in the digital music space at services such as Amazon.com and iTunes.

Today in honor of "Somwhere Over the Rainbow/What a Wonderful World", we make it the Flashback Friday feature track on this blog.



Judy Garland's original version of "Over the Rainbow" from The Wizard of Oz (1939).



Louis Armstrong's recording of "What a Wonderful World"

Flashback Friday: For What It's Worth

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Surely anyone and everyone who grew up in the mid to late 1960s have heard this song. It probably is Stephen Stills' most famous music composition.

"For What It's Worth" was a song written in reaction to a curfew set by Los Angeles residents and business owners to against young people who were late night club goers. The song drew about a thousand demonstrators at one local nightclub after an L.A. radio station publicized the event and played the song.

From that time on, the song has become a synonymous as a protest anthem, mostly against the war in Vietnam during the late 1960s and early 1970s.

"For What It's Worth" was recorded and released as a single by Stephen Stills' band at the time, Buffalo Springfield. Neil Young as also a member of the band. He and Stills would later form Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young.


Studio mix

Flashback Friday: The Beatles - The Night That Changed America

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50 Years ago this weekend The Beatles made their U.S. Debut on CBS TV's "The Ed Sullivan Show". They sang 4 songs on that first show including "All My Loving," "She Loves You" and "I Want to Hold Your Hand" the latter being the #1 single in the U.S. at that time.

I was a kid when The Beatles debut on "Ed Sullivan". I remember watching with glee as they sang their songs, shook their heads and got the audience filled with screaming girls all fired up. It was something. They sounded great on our console style, Zenith black and white TV. My Dad shook his head in mild disapproval over their hair style.

I remember watching The Beatles subsequent appearances on "Ed Sullivan" several more times (I was a young fan now), and still my Dad never liked them. I remember him telling me, "I don't like them because they were not Americans". So what? The music was great.

My Dad was not a big fan of rock n roll music and preferred big band, jazz and Hawaiian music. Funny thing is a few years later I remember watching a TV concert featuring Creedence Clearwater Revival and he liked them. My Dad also liked Elvis when he was doing the Las Vegas thing in his later years.

One thing for certain. After seeing The Beatles on TV for that first time many years ago, I became a fan and have listened to their music continuously for many years now.

This weekend CBS will be doing a Beatles retrospective commemorating their first appearance on "Ed Sullivan" on a special this Sunday night called "A Night That Changed America: A Grammy Salute". The show will feature contemporary artists covering a range of Beatles songs including Stevie Wonder, Maroon 5, Alicia Keys and Keith Urban. The two surviving Beatles, Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr will also appear on the program.

It will certainly be a show that Beatles fans will watch and reflect on 50 years of history. Should be great.





The original audio on this clip was overdubbed with the studio version of the track.

Flashback Friday: Circus "Stop Wait & Listen"

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I have this single on Metromedia Records from 1973. From WIXY 1260 Music Mike introduces CIRCUS and "Stop Wait & Listen".

Flashback Friday: Eumir Deodato and Friends

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This week on Flashback Friday I invite you to sit back, kick up your heals and listen to the jazz sounds of Eumir Deoato recorded at the 2010 Estival Jazz Lugano. The video is nearly an hour long and contains many of his most well known tracks.

Deodato was one of the first live concerts I saw back in 1974 in Hilo, Hawaii. Right around that time he was coming off the success of his biggest hit, "Also Sprach Zarathustra" commonly known as the "Theme from 2001: A Space Odyssey." His first album on CTI is an elusive classic and contains instrumental jazz tracks such as "Baubles, Bangles and Beads," "Spirit of Summer" and "Prelude to Afternoon of a Faun", a piece originally published by Claude Debussy.

By the late 1970s Deodato had hopped on the disco wave and released dance inspired albums such as "Love Island", "Knights of Fantasy" and "Night Cruiser". He also produced records for artists such as Frank Sinatra, Kool & the Gang and Dexy's Midnight Runners.

Flashback Friday: Christine McVie & Fleetwood Mac

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Big news breaking this week was notification that longtime Fleetwood Mac vocalist Christine McVie is re-joining the band after a long hiatus. The news broke in Billboard Magazine this week: "The band's publicist, Liz Rosenberg, has confirmed to Billboard that McVie has rejoined the band after departing the group in 1998."

McVie who joined the band in the early 1970s has been responsible for singing and writing some of the band's most well known hits including "Don't Stop", "Songbird", "Say You Love Me", "Over My Head", "You Make Loving Fun", "Little Lies", "Everywhere" and "As Long As You Follow" to name some here. She pre-dates the band's most well known line-up by a few years when she used to share vocal duties with former bandmates Bob Welch and Danny Kirwin.

Today, McVie joins the band's most well known line-up which also includes her ex, John McVie; singer-songwriters Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham and percussionist - drummer Mick Fleetwood.

Fans are hoping that Fleetwood Mac goes on tour this year with the revived line-up and even work on and release a new album.

Fleetwood Mac is the only band that I have seen in concert twice, once in 1977 and again in 1980. Mick Fleetwood is a part time Hawaii resident and put in an appearance at the Hawaii State Legislature last year lobbying for a privacy bill with fellow rocker Steven Tyler of the band Aerosmith.

Flashback Friday: The Beatles - 50 Years Ago

FLASHBACK FRIDAY: The Beatles "I Want To Hold Your Hand"

A day late but not a dollar short, the Flashback Friday track for today takes us 50 years into the past and the release and charting of the first American hit for The Beatles. Yes, "I Want to Hold Your Hand" a single penned by Lennon and McCartney and vocalized mainly by John Lennon became the first big hit in America by the Fab Four. It entered the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart on January 18, 1964 and by early February was a #1 hit single. It held on to the #1 spot for 5 weeks and established The Beatles as a bonafide hit making rock n roll group.

They would invade America a few weeks later by showing up for their famous live performances on CBS TV's "Ed Sullivan Show". The rest as they say, is history!




Original Capitol Records issue 45 rpm.


My CD3 version of "I Want To Hold Your Hand"

50 Years ago I was only a kid when I first heard the song. From the time I heard it on the radio or somewhere unknown, I was hooked. The Beatles became my favorite rock n roll group of all time... the gold standard to all other rock acts that followed. To me "I Want To Hold Your Hand" is the first signature song among many that was recorded by The Beatles until their break-up in 1970.

I never owned the original 45 but have many reissues of the song on various Beatles singles and albums on different types of media.

Flashback Friday: The Everly Brothers

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Word out today is that Phil Everly, one of the two Everly Brothers died today at the age of 74. The Everly Brothers consisting of brothers Phil and Don enjoyed huge chart success in the late 1950s and early 1960s with hits such as "Wake Up Little Susie", "Bye Bye Love", "Til I Kissed You", and "Let It Be Me". In the above clip they perform two of their most well known hits: "All I Have to Do Is Dream" and "Cathy's Clown".

The Everly Brothers were influenced the sound of many rock artists to follow, most notably The Beatles, Simon & Garfunkel and many others. Paul McCartney paid tribute to them in his Wings hit, "Let Em In" which mentions Phil and Don in one of the song's verses.

Link: The Everly Brothers (Wikipedia) | Discography

The Top 100 Hits of 2013

TOP VIDEO HITS OF 2013



FLASHBACK FRIDAY: THE TOP 100 HITS OF 2013

We take a last look at 2013 with this mega chart of 100 top hits as compiled from the performance from the last 52 weeks of Mel's Weekly Top 20 music charts.

Rank	Title	Artist	Peak Pos	TAP	Total Weeks
1	Get Lucky (Radio Edit)	Daft Punk featuring Pharrell Williams	1	8	26
2	Change	Churchill	1	7	21
3	Roar	Katy Perry	1	4	18
4	Royals	Lorde	1	4	12
5	Carry On	Fun	1	3	20
6	Tangled Up	Caro Emerald	1	3	17
7	Blurred Lines [feat. T.I., Pharrell]	Robin Thicke	1	3	16
8	Treasure	Bruno Mars	1	3	11
9	The Walker	Fitz & The Tantrums	1	3	10
10	Daylight	Maroon 5	1	2	23
11	Wake Me Up	Avicii	1	2	19
12	Waves	Blondfire	1	2	19
13	When I Was Your Man	Bruno Mars	1	2	17
14	Safe and Sound	Capital Cities	1	2	16
15	Anything Could Happen	Ellie Goulding	1	2	15
16	The Fox (What Does the Fox Say?)	Ylvis	1	2	11
17	Little Talks	Of Monsters And Men	2	4	25
18	Unconditionally	Katy Perry	2	3	7
19	Burn	Ellie Goulding	2	2	12
20	Summertime Sadness (Alternative Radio Mix)	Lana Del Rey	2	2	12
21	Best Song Ever	One Direction	2	2	9
22	I Knew You Were Trouble	Taylor Swift	2	2	8
23	I Will Wait	Mumford & Sons	2	1	12
24	Running for Cover	Ivan & Alyosha	3	4	13
25	Just Give Me A Reason	P!nk featuring Nate Ruess	3	3	10
26	22	Taylor Swift	3	2	11
27	Sweeter Than Fiction	Taylor Swift	3	2	9
28	Now Is the Start	A Fine Frenzy	3	1	18
29	Home Again	Elton John	3	1	14
30	Locked Out Of Heaven	Bruno Mars	3	1	13
31	Between The Raindrops	Lifehouse	3	1	11
32	Wagon Wheel	Darius Rucker	3	1	11
33	Come & Get It	Selena Gomez	4	2	13
34	Pompeii	Bastille	4	2	12
35	Devil's Got a Gun	Whitehorse	4	2	9
36	Mermaid	Train	4	1	16
37	Sad Angel	Fleetwood Mac	4	1	12
38	Wasting All These Tears	Cassadee Pope	4	1	12
39	Almost Home	Mariah Carey	4	1	11
40	Because We Can	Bon Jovi	4	1	10
41	Love Me Again	John Newman	4	1	9
42	Let Her Go	Passenger	5	2	14
43	Things We Lost In the Fire	Bastille	5	2	14
44	Brave	Sara Bareilles	5	2	10
45	Applause	Lady Gaga	5	1	11
46	Liquid Lunch	Caro Emerald	5	1	10
47	Hero	Family of the Year	6	2	14
48	There Will Come A Time	Noah & The Whale	6	1	10
49	Boomerang	Barenaked Ladies	6	1	9
50	Underneath the Tree	Kelly Clarkson	6	1	2
51	Out Of My League	Fitz and The Tantrums	7	3	15
52	Tornado	Little Big Town	7	2	10
53	Clouds	Zach Sobiech	7	2	8
54	Sail	AWOLNATION	7	1	10
55	Get To Me	Lady Antebellum	7	1	9
56	Everything Has Changed	Taylor Swift Feat. Ed Sheeran	7	1	7
57	Rock & Roll Love Affair	Prince	7	1	6
58	That's My Kind Of Night	Luke Bryan	7	1	4
59	Little Games	The Colourist	8	2	12
60	Put the Gun Down	ZZ Ward	8	2	8
61	Why Am I the One	Fun	8	2	8
62	Downtown	Lady Antebellum	8	2	7
63	Diamonds	Rihanna	8	1	13
64	See You Again	Carrie Underwood	8	1	9
65	Stubborn Love	The Lumineers	8	1	7
66	Ho Hey	The Lumineers	9	2	28
67	The Wire	HAIM	9	2	9
68	New	Paul McCartney	9	2	8
69	One Day (Radio Edit)	Caro Emerald	9	2	7
70	Heart Attack	Demi Lovato	9	1	8
71	That's My Jam (feat. Owl City)	Relient K	9	1	8
72	Callin' Me When I'm Lonely	Sheryl Crow	9	1	7
73	Two Black Cadillacs	Carrie Underwood	9	1	7
74	Just Another Girl	The Killers	9	1	6
75	Atlas	Coldplay	10	2	7
76	Heartbeat	Jjamz	10	1	11
77	State Of Grace	Taylor Swift	10	1	9
78	The Clock (Radio Edit)	The View	10	1	8
79	The War Within	Churchill	10	1	8
80	Bad Blood	Bastille	10	1	7
81	Big Blue Wave	Hey Ocean!	10	1	6
82	Lose Yourself To Dance	Daft Punk Feat. Pharrell Williams	10	1	6
83	Light of Christmas (feat. tobyMac)	Owl City	10	1	5
84	Ready or Not	Bridgit Mendler	11	2	5
85	Ark In A Flood	Churchill	11	1	11
86	Love Somebody	Maroon 5	11	1	11
87	There's No Going Back	Sick Puppies	11	1	7
88	What About Now	Bon Jovi	11	1	7
89	Christmas In The Sand	Colbie Caillat	11	1	6
90	Closer	Tegan and Sara	11	1	6
91	Easy	Sheryl Crow	12	2	6
92	Gentleman	Psy	12	1	6
93	Compass	Lady Antebellum	13	2	6
94	The Mother We Share	Chvrches	13	1	8
95	I Got You	Jack Johnson	13	1	6
96	Mr. Mellow	Anuhea	13	1	6
97	We Both Know	Colbie Caillat	13	1	6
98	Cups (Pitch Perfect's "When I'm Gone")	Anna Kendrick	13	1	4
99	We Can't Stop	Scott Bradlee & Postmodern Jukebox	14	2	5
100	The Monster (feat. Rihanna)	Eminem	14	1	5

You can also visit the official TOP 100 OF 2013 hits page.

CHART NOTES

Rank - The numercial rank on this chart.
Peak Position = Highest position song held on Top 20
TAP = Length of stay at peak position = "total weeks at peak"
TW = Total weeks spent on Mel's Weekly Top 20

Some songs are listed in both the 2012 chart as well as the 2013 chart since their chart runs ran from the end of one year and into the next.

SONGS THAT WENT TO #1 IN 2013

The Walker - Fitz & the Tantrums (3)
The Fox (What Does The Fox Say?) - Ylvis (2)
Royals - Lorde (4)
Wake Me Up - Avicii (2)
Safe and Sound - Capital Cities (2)
Roar - Katy Perry (4)
Get Lucky - Daft Punk featuring Pharrell Williams (2)
Treasure - Bruno Mars (3)
Waves - Blondfire (2)
Blurred Lines [feat. T.I., Pharrell] - Robin Thicke (3)
Get Lucky - Daft Punk featuring Pharrell Williams (6)
Tangled Up - Caro Emerald (3)
When I Was Your Man - Bruno Mars (2)
Change - Churchill (7)
Daylight - Maroon 5 (2)
Carry On - Fun (3)
Anything Could Happen - Ellie Goulding (2)

(x) = Total weeks @ #1

Flashback Friday: Top 20 Classic Christmas Tracks

FLASHBACK FRIDAY: Top 20 Classic Christmas Tracks

This week's Friday Flashback I offer a chart of my current favorite Classic Christmas tracks. There are a few videos with this. Enjoy.

Rank	Title	Artist	Year
1	Happy Xmas (War is Over)	John Lennon	1971
2	Merry Christmas Darling	The Carpenters	1977
3	The Christmas Song	Nat King Cole	1961
4	Winter Wonderland	Eurythmics	1987
5	Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)	U2	1987
6	Jingle Bell Rock	Daryl Hall & John Oates	1983
7	Christmas In The Sand	Colbie Caillat	2012
8	You're All I Want For Christmas	Caro Emerald & Brook Benton	2011
9	A Holly Jolly Christmas	Burl Ives	1965
10	Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree	Brenda Lee	1959
11	All I Want For Christmas Is You	Mariah Carey	1993
12	Feliz Navidad	José Feliciano	1970
13	Santa Baby	Madonna	1987
14	Please Come Home for Christmas	The Eagles	1978
15	Dominick the Donkey	Lou Monte	1960
16	Last Christmas (Single Version)	Wham!	1984
17	Step Into Christmas	Elton John	1973
18	Hark! The Herald Angels Sing	Rebecca St. James	2005
19	Oíche Chiún (Silent Night)	Enya	2001
20	Christmas Canon	Trans-Siberian Orchestra	1998

MORE CLASSIC CHRISTMAS TRACKS

Please note that all tracks are subject to unannounced removal at a future date. Some tracks require direct viewing at YouTube.com.

Flashback Friday: All I Want For Christmas....

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You've heard it many times during the holiday season for almost 20 years. "All I Want For Christmas is You" was released on Mariah Carey's 4th studio album in 1994. Since then the song has become a perennial holiday classic. It has been covered by many artists over the years with the original by Mariah remaining the best. Click on the music video.  Enjoy!

Flashback Friday: ¿Dónde Está Santa Claus?

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We zoom back to 1959 and this Christmas novelty song sung by 12-year old Augie Rios. My only memory of this song was when it was performed in a holiday skit with my sister Esther being the "Mamasita" during an elementary school presentation when she was in about the 2nd or 3rd grade. She was cute and memorable.

About the record itself, from the Wikipedia it reads:

Dnde Est Santa Claus? (Spanish for Where is Santa Claus?) is a novelty Christmas song. 12-year-old Augie Rios had a hit with the song in 1959 which featured the Mark Jeffrey Orchestra.[1] The 45 record single was backed with the song "Ol' Fatso (I Don't Care Who You Are Old Fatso, Get Those Reindeer Off My Roof)."

Written by George Scheck, Rod Parker, and Al Greiner, and copyrighted in 1958, the copyright was renewed and is owned by Ragtime Music. The song "Dnde Est Santa Claus?" has now been immortalized in a toy called "Animated & Musical Singing Puppy", made in Hong Kong, China, and distributed in the U.S. in 2011. The song was originally released on MGM Records' Metro label. It can now be found on various YouTube videos.

Below is one of the most touching YouTube videos made with this song. Read the caption below the video screen for more information:



"On April 21st 2007 my son Jason and My wife Elizabeth lost their lives in a car fire. Although she was able to free herself she was unable to free my unconscious son. As a result they both perished that day. Thank you to all of you who have enjoyed this video of our little boy who even after death continues to make me so very proud. Thank you for making my little Christmas miracle part of your lives. God Bless You All."

The video has been online for a number of years now.

Flashback Friday: Steely Dan - Black Friday

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Well this is the song for the day. "Black Friday" by Steely Dan. Appropriate song for today since it kicks off the official start of the holiday season with of all things, Black Friday Sales.

Black Friday is a traditional shoppers holiday that comes on the day after Thanksgiving for consumers and retailers all over the United States. Thousands of people flock to the malls, stores and online destinations in their first attempts to meet the oncoming Christmas Day deadline of December 25. Bargains galore lead shoppers to the malls only to find that the advertised deals are long gone to the people who came earlier than you. What the stores love is that you stay and buy higher priced items. Yes!

Do you fall into that trap? I don't. I avoid the malls and stores on Black Friday. I rather stay home and eat leftover Thanksgiving turkey and listen to some great music by Steely Dan. I will do that today.

"Black Friday" was issued as a single on ABC Records in 1975. It made it to the Billboard Hot 100 and peaked at #37. The track is off the album Katy Lied, the 4th for the group.

Flashback Friday - The Marmalade Cover of The Beatles' "Ob La Di, Ob La Da"

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Most people in the United States have not heard much about the band The Marmalade even though they had 2 hit singles in the U.S. Their most well known track is "Reflections of My Life" which hit the top 40 in 1969 and peaked at #10.

After that the band did not enjoy much chart success until 1976 when another single made it to the Hot 100. That song was "Falling Apart at the Seams" which peaked at #49.

Despite not being too popular in America, The Marmalade did enjoy a long string of hit singles in the U.K. One of their most well known there is this cover of The Beatles classic "Ob La Di, Ob La Da" which in 1968 went all the way to #1 on the British charts. This is a good cover which should have become a hit in the U.S.

The song missed the mark in the U.S., but now through the wonder of YouTube, you can now listen to and watch The Marmalade cover this top hit song.