D-Sides, Orphans, and Oddities

Carpenters! From 1970-1981 or so, and every year at Christmas time, you simply cannot avoid those sultry tones, those wonderful arrangements, and those hit singles. They traveled from your ear to your heart to your lower GI and out. Only to return a few minutes later. This ”D-Sides, Orphans, and Oddities” gathers all the stuff I have. And not a minute more. Ok, I love that Suntory Pop jingle.

Carla Bley, Pink Floyd, The Move, and other sounds that Mrs. Neal simply will not sit through. D-Sides, Orphans, and Oddities. Let’s try a #hashtag.

The Killjoys - Naïve (1977) Featuring Kevin Rowland, later to be the lead singer of Dexys Midnight Runners who had a huge worldwide hit with "Come On Eileen".  Normally I'd frown on such trend-hopping (this was just the first of many image reinventions to come) but when lightning strikes, it strikes. But it almost never strikes twice in pop music. And it didn't for him. 

The Monkees - Head Radio Promo (1968) This is hilarious! Hearing Annette Funicello and a few members of the cast waxing about these "crazy" Monkees. Not The Monkees themselves, mind you. By the way, one of the shortest soundtrack albums I've ever seen. Each side clocks in at about 14 minutes with some incidental dialog. 

The Dave Clark Five - Last Train To Clarksville (1971?)  Dave Clark had been approached (according to an interview I read from 1967) for the group to do the TV show which became The Monkees. But he turned it down because he did not see his band acting on screen the way the four actors who formed the 'made for TV band' called The Monkees would be asked to do. This particular recording appears on an out-of-print collection called "Unreleased Tracks", as were the other DC5 tracks on this show. 

กุง กาดิน (Gunga Din) - ฉันจะร้องเพลง I Shall Sing) (196?) 

Alice Swoboda - Potter's Field (1972) B-side of her second single. She released two. 

Archie Bell & The Drells - Let's Groove (1975)

Doc Severinsen - Bond Street (1968)

Enoch Light - Bond Street (1969)

Fórmula 7 - Bond Street (1968) 

Hager Twins - Pizza Man (1979) Written by Eddie Rabbitt.

Peoples Temple Choir - Welcome (1973) 

Lafayette - Bond Street (1967) 

Lazaro Salazar - Artuditu (1978)

Men Without Hats - Antarctica (1982)

Mouth and Macneal - ABC (1971)

The Folkswingers (featuring Harihar Rao) - Raga Rock (1966) 

Richard Simmons - Wake Up (1982)

Richard Simmons - You Can Do It (1982) 

The Styx - Soul Flow (1971) Not the Chicago prog band. 

The Body Shop Trailer (1972) 

The Colours - Cocaine (1968)

The Dave Clark Five - Get It On Now (197?)

The Dave Clark Five - Ruby Baby (197?)

This show features a DEEP dive into ’70s craziness of the musical variety. Hear 10CC in very early stages of fame OR very late stages of contractual obligation. It was like the Wild West back then. And a beautiful song by one of my favorite unheralded singers, Gayle Moran. D-Sides, Orphans, and Oddities!

I love prog. This D-Sides features some great progressive rock I‘ve never played on my show.

This episode of D-Sides, Orphans, and Oddities features The Moody Blues. They were unique, using poetry, slatherings of Mellotron, and philosophy not unlike that of early Chicago records. If you like what I do, would you please subscribe and maybe email [email protected] ? Pally?

This episode of D-Sides, Orphans, and Oddities features the great Chris Dedrick. Outside of his masterful work with The Free Design, he also worked with Brute Force, whose ”King Of Fuh” was a favorite of John Lennon and George Harrison. For a while. Maybe they were on the pot at the time.

I say: Freddie ”Boom Boom” Washington put out the most credible album of all the 70‘s TV stars. Prove me wrong. My funeral song and some of the best D-Sides songs.

The DAM Trio with David Bowie. Carlos Alomar, Dennis Davis, and George Murray were the most exciting, fresh band of the late ‘70s.

A hodge-podge of rarities on this week‘s ”D-Sides, Orphans, and Oddities”.