'60s Songs You Don't Hear Anymore for Obvious Reasons...

[Jay F]

Honestly don't know why the Benny Mardones song was a hit once let alone twice. Different strokes.......

With me, it was a nostalgia thing.  I wasn't really taken with it the first time around, but by the time it was reissued in 1989, I was 25, and that one just sort of "took me back."  I was curious, however, why that one was rereleased, given that it had nearly made the top ten the first time.  Most of those other late '80s reissues of early '80s "misfires" were of tunes that, for whatever reason, really just never had a chance to become a hit the first time.  (Maybe it was because some of them didn't have music videos!)  I started a thread on the '80s board "the late '80s rerelease craze," about this very issue.  It is probably still there if you want to check it out.

M favorite of the 1989 re-issue craze was Q-Feel "Dancing In Heaven". I wasn't familiar with it as a current in 1981 where it was only a hit in selected markets such as Minneapolis. That song must have sounded so futuristic in 1981.

[firepoint525]

Honestly don't know why the Benny Mardones song was a hit once let alone twice. Different strokes.......

With me, it was a nostalgia thing.  I wasn't really taken with it the first time around, but by the time it was reissued in 1989, I was 25, and that one just sort of "took me back."  I was curious, however, why that one was rereleased, given that it had nearly made the top ten the first time.  Most of those other late '80s reissues of early '80s "misfires" were of tunes that, for whatever reason, really just never had a chance to become a hit the first time.  (Maybe it was because some of them didn't have music videos!)  I started a thread on the '80s board "the late '80s rerelease craze," about this very issue.  It is probably still there if you want to check it out.

My favorite of the 1989 re-issue craze was Q-Feel "Dancing In Heaven". I wasn't familiar with it as a current in 1981 where it was only a hit in selected markets such as Minneapolis. That song must have sounded so futuristic in 1981.

I didn't realize that it was that old, or that it resurfaced during the re-issue craze.  (But it's worth pointing out that the reissue craze itself eventually ran its course, and some of those last reissues fizzled the second time, as well.  Case in point:  "What About Me".)  My only familiarity with "Dancing in Heaven" was when some couples on Dance Fever danced to it around 1982-1983.  So I'll always associate "Dancing in Heaven" with Dance Fever.

[DoubleC]

Tune into Oldies radio Cool 107.5 in Albuquerque online at www.cool1075.com  and be surprised on what you will hear as we get closer and closer to top 10

[JohnnyOhJohnny]

Shake it--Ian Matthews

65 love affair

what do all the people know---Monroes

D.O.A. BloodRock

these songs are never played anymore.

[deltas69]

well..they are..but not on OTA radio.....all are in my playlist..

[jfrancispastirchak]

"Leaning On A Lampost", "No Milk Today", both by Herman's Hermits, circa 1966...

[Jay F]

well..they are..but not on OTA radio.....all are in my playlist..

I recently heard one of those songs "Shake It" on internet radio. Talk about "oh wow" I totally forgot about that song. It sounded great, Is it just me or does Ian Matthews kind of sound like Rita Coolidge?

I think there are two discussions going on this thread. Songs not played today for politically correct reasons and songs simply not played anymore...there are zillions of songs like that on OTA radio.

[deltas69]

politically correct...this is NOT in my playlist..

[radioman148]

Probably won't hear

Barry Sadlers "Ballad Of The Green Berets"
Johnny Preston's "Running Bear"
Tex Ritter's "Smoke Smoke Smoke"

I hear most of these songs all the time including "Watch The Flowers Grow" and "Wild Honey". I don't hear the Tex Ritter song.

[Hibby]

New technology has outdated Paul Simon's "Kodachrome", but it's still a great song.  Some stations used to cut the "crap" out of it.  Are any stations that are playing it today still doing the edit?