My friends from high school will tell you, I am not a Grateful Dead fan. But there’s no way to deny the beauty of Box of Rain from the American Beauty album of 1970. The vocal harmonies alone make it stand out, but it’s a great tune as well. I’m no deadhead, but I am Box of Rain sane.
Freda Payne’s 1970 hit was not a Motown song, but was released on the Invictus label. It was written by former songwriters at Motown.
Bill Conti is still alive, and the genius of his effort here has been lauded elsewhere, although somehow this lost to the tepid Evergreen by Barbara Streisand in the Academy Awards for best song that year.
This is the live version of Moon Tears. I bought the live Nils Lofgren album, Night After Night, after hearing it on KTIM AM, a fantastic radio station that used to broadcast in Marin County , California.
I really enjoy the early stuff by Steely Dan. Can’t Buy a Thrill, their debut, is still their best in my opinion. As they matured, I found their music less accessible to me. By the time they released Aja and Goucho, I was disinterested.
“Somebody” is a song that desperately should be THE SONG on a soundtrack of an Oscar awarded movie about some criminal activity.
Today’s youth probably don’t know much, if anything, about Humble Pie. Maybe 30 Days In The Hole.
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers’ second effort, “You’re Gonna Get It” was their first “gold” record, and had several hits, but my favorite cut is “Hurt”. Love when songs sound like they are almost a tuneup and fit perfectly into the song. Hurt does that.
I dunno, it’s been a good post Beatles career for McCartney, but the best music, in general, I think came from George Harrison.