Super Hits of The 70s: Have A Nice Day, Vol. 20

Had a former colleague who had a tic-like tendency to break into "Ariel" often, confusing pretty much everyone within earshot.

i'm normally an automatic vote for "ariel," but "smoke from a distant fire" is such an earworm. if it had that extra touch of polish that hall & oates would have given it....

I think you're making some of these artists and songs up. Think I'll give this one a pass.

I don't think I've ever seen Peter McCann, or at least not Peter McCann IN ACTION!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ailu5CdWgas

And I've never heard "Judy Mae."

I'm tempted to vote "Devil Woman."

Lots of junk on this one.

That David Geddes song is one of the worst popular songs in history.

Peter McCann=Stupid Sexy Flanders

christ, that Peter McCann clip is brutal

He was 28 or 29 there btw.

Not their strongest volume. Smoke From A Distant Fire is only choice for me.

Yeah, this volume particularly poor. Only Pete McCann I know is the jazz guitarist.

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/user/cryptosicko/playlist/3hn7GrE4EfiMdgm1spaeRZ?si=WoE9pvQrTgaFg-YXSXdnJA

(David Geddes, Boomer Castleman, Rick Dees and Hot all missing, and McCann probably a re-record)

Get Closer here

baby dont get hooked on me

Everyone under 50 only knows that Alice song from the Who The Fuck Is Alice version, but what always amused me about the lyrics is that in Australia people apparently move house in a limousine.

I'm guessing this Engelbert song doesn't find him jumping on the disco bandwagon.

That Englebert song is some kinda Grade A smarm.

I think I'm going with "Angel in Your Arms", but only because I remember Millie Jackson's version.

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Smokie are English! and she wasn’t moving house in a limousine lol - she was leaving to go be famous imo

#Alicesplaining

peter mccann is so lol

DO YA WANNA MAKE LUUURVE

Flipping coin between Options 1 and 12

Seals & Townsend & Their Cast of Idiots. I got no vote here.

Didn't think I would, but ended up voting "Get Closer," which is by far the 3rd best of Seals & Crofts' 3 biggest hits.

I really like "Ariel" but I wouldn't want anyone to catch me listening to it.

Behind in my duty, here are the non-Spotify tracks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpQ3ANdVFeU

David Geddes: "The Last Game of The Season..."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4sD-gzHm5Q

Boomer Castleman: "Judy Mae"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asQxeXYFYgg

Rick Dees: "Disco Duck"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bku5VetnNvc

Hot: "Angel In Your Arms"

...and because I hate you, here's Rick Dees on The Midnight Special

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgPgavmY99U

So for twenty four years I’ve been totally wrong, about Alice.

Now I’ve got to get uaed to knowing the truth about Alice.

24 years just waiting for the chance for someone to explain me all about this British band.

Either I have a trace memory of "Ariel" from I know not when or where (it didn't trouble the UK charts) or the hook sounds very much like some other song. The best I can come up with so far though is that it's the bastard child of The 4 Seasons "Sherry" and F.Mac's "Rhiannon".

Now for a Dean Friedman splurge on Spotify...

His "Lucky Stars" is okay if cloying - prob could have been a hit in the right hands.

We're really scraping the bottom of the 70s barrel here. I mean, there's schlock and then there's whatever "The Last Game Of The Season," "Judy Mae" and "Disco Duck" are.

The only one I know is "Disco Duck."
Fuck "Disco Duck."

I don't know if I'd ever heard the whole thing until today. How did Disney not sue?

Wait I wasn't mistaken - Alice *is* originally Australian, the Smokie version was a cover!

whoa!

hmm... original is pretty good! Seems like Smokie just kinda perfected it slightly
https://youtu.be/os3mzI8LKBQ

Chris Norman has one of my favorite singing voices tho, so I may be biased...hence why i would ever betray my Aus roots lol

Either I have a trace memory of "Ariel" from I know not when or where (it didn't trouble the UK charts) or the hook sounds very much like some other song.

The rhumba rhythm reminds me of "Third Rate Romance" by The Amazing Rhythm Aces. Or "Margaritaville." And yeah "Sherry."

i just looked up the lyrics to 'the last game of the season' and yikes

voted 'smoke from a distant fire'

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Sadface Stupid Sexy Flanders

HAND #21 is much better than this one.

who the fuck voted for Disco Duck

I WANT NAMES

kinda regretting not voting for "ariel" since SFADF didn't really need the help. friedman's delivery is dorky and occasionally feels forced-quirky and a lot of the lyrics are dumb but the chorus mostly nails genuine homemade low-budget love song. if it'd come out on an indie label in 1999 it'd be part of the dork prom canon.

rick dees: university of north carolina product

war criminal imo

This is definitely the worst volume, it's uphill from here on out. Think this is relevant to the thread:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUGpetfr9HE

i’m just biding my time til Roger Voudouris & Shaun Cassidy get here : D

For all its success, "Disco Duck" was shunned by radio stations where Dees was living in Memphis, including WMPS-AM, the station Dees worked for at the time. Station management forbade Dees from playing the song on his own show and rival stations in the city refused to play it for fear of promoting the competition. When Dees talked about (but did not play) the song on his show one morning, his boss fired him citing conflict of interest. After a brief mandatory hiatus, Dees was hired by station WHBQ-AM, WMPS's primary competition in Memphis.