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(1666 views)Most of us, I suspect, can think of several songs we love that were never the big hits we felt they should have been. What are the ones you felt got away? Here are 30 songs that in my view should have at least made the Top 20 UK singles chart, but didn’t. There are almost certainly loads more that I’ve forgotten about!
Some of these were monster hits in the US – Jefferson Starship’s Miracles, for instance, reached No. 3 there while totally stiffing here. Others – Squeeze’s Tempted, for instance – are played quite a lot on the radio today, so that it’s quite hard to believe that they weren’t bigger hits at the time. And some – e.g. Eddie Howell’s Man From Manhattan – got a lot of radio play at the time ("turntable hits"), but for one reason or other failed to make the grade.
Anyone interested in hearing particular tracks – PM me and I’ll email them to you.
1. Hall & Oates - She’s Gone (only reached No. 42)
2. Elkie Brooks - Since You Went Away (didn’t chart)
3. Squeeze – Pulling Mussels (From The Shell) (only reached No. 44)
4. Squeeze – Tempted (only reached No. 41)
5. Joan Armatrading – Willow (didn't chart)
6. Foreigner – Feels Like The First Time (only reached No. 39)
7. Foreigner – Cold As Ice (only reached No. 24)
8. Foreigner - Juke Box Hero (only reached No. 48)
9. Eddie Howell – Man From Manhattan [produced and played by Queen] (didn’t chart)
10. Pilot – Just A Smile (only reached No. 31)
11. Nils Lofgren – I Came To Dance (didn’t chart)
12. Supertramp – My Kind Of Lady (didn’t chart)
13. ELO – Can’t Get It Out Of My Head (didn’t chart)
14. ELO – Getting To The Point (didn’t chart)
15. Diana Ross – Getting’ Ready For Love (only reached No. 23)
16. Cheap Trick – If You Want My Love (only reached No. 57)
17. Cheap Trick – Way Of The World (only reached No. 73)
18. Cheap Trick – Everything Works If You Let It (didn’t chart)
19. Eric Clapton – Edge Of Darkness (only reached No. 65)
20. Boston – More Than A Feeling (only reached No. 22)
21. Bob Seger – Hollywood Nights (only reached No. 42)
22. Andrew Gold – That’s Why I Love You (didn’t chart)
23. Steely Dan – FM (No Static At All) (only reached No. 49)
24. Steely Dan – Reelin’ In The Years (didn’t chart)
25. Jefferson Starship – Miracles (didn’t chart)
26. Kiki Dee – First Thing In The Morning (only reached No. 32)
27. Doobie Brothers – Listen To The Music (only reached No. 29)
28. Doobie Brothers – What A Fool Believes (only reached No. 31)
29. Neil Diamond – If You Know What I Mean (only reached No. 35)
30. Starbuck – Moonlight Feels Right (didn’t chart)
Tags: Eric Clapton Squeeze Joan Armatrading Supertramp ELO Steely Dan Foreigner Diana Ross Elkie Brooks Hall and Oates Cheap Trick Andrew Gold Nils Lofgren Jefferson Starship Bob Seger Neil Diamond
(605 views)Bob Seger is the best artist not on the Virgin Radio Top 500. No sensible argument can be made otherwsie, I won't hear, don't have to, a counter-argument would collapse until it's own futility.
Bob suffers from being considered a regional act. It's too bad. It took him seven album to get a big chart hit in the US with "Night Moves". He had one going up the chart with "Heavy Music" I believe and the record company folded the week after it was on the Billboard 500 with a bullet.
Just got tickets for Bob at Cobo Hall. Cobo used to be the big place for rock shows around Detroit, holding (get this) 6,000. Now we get shows in the Joe Louis Arena (15,000?), the Palace of Auburn Hills (18,000?), and the Pontiac Silverdome (60,000+).
Bob had been out of the business for the last 10 years of so. Released a new album Face The Promise which even has duet with Kid Rock.
Back to Cobo. Back 25 years ago or so, there had been more live albums recorded at Cobo than any other venue, period. Bob Seger's Live Bullet, J. Geils Full House Live, Kiss Alive! and many others that escape my fading memory.
Anyway, got the tickets and I'm looking forward to taking Mrs. Wesley to see Bob on St. Patrick's Day and watching from the main floor of Cobo Hall.
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Bob Seger biography
Robert Clark "Bob" Seger (born May 6, 1945) is an American rock musician and singer-songwriter.
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