And The Stiffs Just Keep On Comin'

[BobOnTheJob]

A couple other WNCI stiffs (I have 45's of both)...Frost - Rock and Roll Music at #105 and Freedom - Nobody which didn't even bubble under. 1970 or so on both.

[chas108]

A couple other WNCI stiffs (I have 45's of both)...Frost - Rock and Roll Music at #105 and Freedom - Nobody which didn't even bubble under. 1970 or so on both.

Still seems wrong those calls don't belong to Nationwide anymore...

OK. Here's one by Bobby Sherman that peaked at #29 in 1971..."The Drum".

And for the truly obscure...here's Ozone's "You Don't Want My Love" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQEeaFtnC6M It can be heard from 1:00 to 2:00 of the attached eight-minute clip. They were signed to Motown.

[Jeff Michaels]

Iwas surprised that not one release (of many) by Climax charted after Precious & Few. Several were pretty good too:

Life & Breath (Peaked at #52)
Caroline This Time
Rock N Roll Heaven (Original version written by Climax)

Others were: Its Gonna Get Better & Walking In The Georgia Rain. Neither were all that great.

They also had 5-8 songs never released which were quite good. Bad Promotions people?

Everything they did was the sound of that timeframe...

[SirRoxalot]

Climax emerged from the Cleveland band The Outsiders ("Time Won't Let Me). There were a lot of twists and turns that led them astray. It's an interesting journey from Top 5 to obscurity that you can follow here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climax_(band)

BTW, Buffalo played a big part in breaking "Precious and Few".

[chas108]

Climax emerged from the Cleveland band The Outsiders ("Time Won't Let Me). There were a lot of twists and turns that led them astray. It's an interesting journey from Top 5 to obscurity that you can follow here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climax_(band)

BTW, Buffalo played a big part in breaking "Precious and Few".

October '71...months before it went national. #1 for a month after "Maggie May" spent six weeks there. I remember Jack Armstrong and DB talking how the song had hit first in Hawaii.

The promo ad for "Rock & Roll Heaven" referenced "first Hawaii, then Buffalo" as their prediction that the song would break like "Precious And Few"...only much quicker.

I only learned about the reason they didn't continue calling themselves The Outsiders a couple weeks ago, over on Forgotten Hits.

[BobOnTheJob]

A couple other WNCI stiffs (I have 45's of both)...Frost - Rock and Roll Music at #105 and Freedom - Nobody which didn't even bubble under. 1970 or so on both.

Still seems wrong those calls don't belong to Nationwide anymore...

OK. Here's one by Bobby Sherman that peaked at #29 in 1971..."The Drum".

And for the truly obscure...here's Ozone's "You Don't Want My Love" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQEeaFtnC6M It can be heard from 1:00 to 2:00 of the attached eight-minute clip. They were signed to Motown.

Nationwide Communications Incorporated...WNCI. 185KW in the middle of downtown...so much for being able to listen to anything else there.

#54 was all that Booby Sherman could muster with Waiting At The Bus Stop in 1971. And I do remember The Drum!

[Jeff Michaels]

I actually wrote much of the Wikipedia article on them after interviewing Mr. Geraci, as I am a big fan of Sonny. Yep, Tom King put a halt to them calling themselves The Outsiders. One release under that name that I liked was called "Changes". GREAT TUNE!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIrFty9ICyU

[BobOnTheJob]

Rotary Connection - Ruby Tuesday...1968 on WSAI...still have my 45 of this one. Uncharted. Amazing what all can be found on YouTube : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBLzqzCAjvo

[chas108]

Rotary Connection - Ruby Tuesday...1968 on WSAI...still have my 45 of this one. Uncharted. Amazing what all can be found on YouTube : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBLzqzCAjvo

Melanie Safka's cover didn't exactly set the world on fire either...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9alAuYr2g_8

[BobOnTheJob]

Someone mentioned the Doors - Runnin' Blue. They had another stiff in that same era called Wishful Sinful at #44 in 1969.