I need more AM GOLD

Oh yeah, and a Zombies record.

The Association, "Cherish"
Poppy Family, "Which Way You Goin' Billy?"
The Bells, "Stay Awhile"
Bobbie Gentry, "Ode To Billy Joe"

Chicago - Colour My World
Gordon Lightfoot - If You Could Read My Mind
James Taylor - Fire and Rain
Nitty Gritty Dirt Band - Mr. Bojangles
Brewer and Shipley - One Toke Over the Line
Elton John - Daniel
Jackson Browne - Doctor My Eyes
Jim Croce - Time In a Bottle
Seals & Crofts - Summer Breeze
Todd Rundgren - Hello It's Me
Albert Hammond - It Never Rains in Southern California
Carly Simon - You're So Vain
Chicago - Just You 'N' Me
Jim Croce - I'll Have to Say I Love You
Chicago - (I've Been) Searchin' So Long
Chicago - Call on Me
Chicago - Wishing You Were Here
Gordon Lightfoot - Sundown
Terry Jacks - Seasons in the Sun
Al Stewart - Year of the Cat
Ozark Mountain Daredevils - Jackie Blue
Sammy Johns - Chevy Van
Boz Scaggs - Low Down
Dr. Hook - When You're In Love With A Beautiful Woman
Gary Wright - Dream Weaver
Seals and Crofts - Get Closer
Starland Vocal Band - Afternoon Delight
10cc - The Things We Do For Love
Chuck Mangione - Feels So Good
Paul Davis - I Go Crazy
Al Stewart - Time Passages
Gerry Rafferty - Baker Street
Gerry Rafferty - Right Down the Line
Kenny Loggins - Whenever I Call You Friend
Little River Band - Reminiscing
Player - Baby Come Back
Cliff Richard - We Don't Talk Anymore
Herb Alpert - Rise
Quincy Jones & James Ingram - One Hundred Ways
Robbie Dupree - Steal Away
Rupert Holmes - Escape (The Pina Colada Song)
Al Jarreau - We're in This Love Together
Paul Davis - Cool Night
Al Jarreau - Mornin'

S'like Time-Life's doctor's office collection. Hell, that Carley Simon track opens with a line about a yacht.

-- PappaWheelie 2 (evieandjo...), June 20th, 2006

In addition, here're some hits I own that might make the cut:

(1972) Main Ingredient - Everybody Plays the Fool
(1971) Three Dog Night - An Old-Fashioned Love Song
(1970) Three Dog Night - Out in the Country
(1970) Mungo Jerry - In The Summertime
(1970) Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - Our House
(1969) Young Holt Unlimited - Soulful Strut
(1969) Vanity Fare - Hitchin' A Ride
(1969) Tommy James & the Shondells - Crystal Blue Persuasion
(1969) The Friends of Distinction - Grazing In The Grass
(1969) The 5th Dimension - Wedding Bell Blues
(1969) The 5th Dimension - Aquarius-Let the Sunshine In
(1969) Steam - Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye
(1969) Spiral Staircase - More Today Than Yesterday
(1969) Sly and The Family Stone - Hot Fun in the Summertime
(1969) Mel & Tim - Backfield in Motion
(1969) Harry Nilsson - Everybody's Talkin'
(1969) Crosby, Stills & Nash - Marrakesh Express
(1968) Tommy James & the Shondells - Crimson & Clover
(1968) The Turtles - Elenore
(1968) The Okaysions - Girl Watcher
(1968) The Love Affair - Everlasting Love
(1968) The (Young) Rascals - It's a Beautiful Morning
(1968) Spanky & Our Gang - Like to Get to Know You
(1968) Mason Williams & Mike Post - Classical Gas
(1968) John Fred & His Playboy Band - Judy in Disguise
(1968) Hugh Masekela - Grazing In The Grass
(1968) Dionn Warwick - Do You Know the Way to San Jose
(1967) The Tremeloes - Here Comes My Baby
(1967) The Five Americans - Western Union
(1967) The Cowsills - The Rain, the Park, and Other Things
(1967) The Buckinghams - Kind of a Drag
(1967) The Buckinghams - Don't You Care
(1967) The Association - Windy
(1967) The Association - Never My Love
(1967) The 5th Dimension - Up, Up and Away
(1967) Spanky & Our Gang - Sunday Will Never Be the Same
(1967) Herman's Hermits - There's A Kind Of Hush All Over The World
(1967) Brenton Wood - Gimme Little Sign
(1966) The Seekers - Georgy Girl
(1966) The Lovin' Spoonful - What A Day For A Daydream
(1966) The Chiffons - Sweet Talking Guy
(1966) The Association - Cherish
(1966) The Association - Along Comes Mary
(1966) Peter & Gordon - Lady Godiva
(1966) Gary Lewis & The Playboys - She's Just My Style
(1965) The Zombies - Tell Her No
(1965) The Vogues - Five O'clock World
(1965) The Lovin' Spoonful - You Didn't Have To Be So Nice
(1965) The Lovin' Spoonful - Do You Believe in Magic
(1965) The Dave Clark Five - Catch Us If You Can
(1965) Leslie Gore - Sunshine, Lollipops, and Rainbows
(1965) Len Barry - 1,2,3
(1965) Herman's Hermits - Mrs. Brown You've Got a Lovely Daughter
(1965) Gary Lewis & The Playboys - Count Me In
(1965) Bobby Hebb - Sunny
(1964) The Reflections - (Just Like) Romeo and Juliet
(1964) The Four Seasons - Dawn
(1964) The Dave Clark Five - Glad All Over
(1964) Ronny & the Daytonas - Little G.T.O.
(1964) Petula Clark - Downtown
(1964) Little Anthony & the Imperials - Goin' Out of My Head
(1964) Herman's Hermits - I'm Into Something Good
(1964) Dusty Springfield - Wishin' and Hopin'
(1964) Chad & Jeremy - A Summer Song
(1963) Ruby & the Romantics - Our Day Will Come
(1963) Jimmy Gilmer & The Fireballs - Sugar Shack
(1963) Barbara Lewis - Hello Stranger

My Sunshine pop (et al) collection really eclipses this, but much of it was never on AM radio

(x-post, of course)

I'm going through my old vinyl looking for these too. "Wildfire" by Michael Martin Murphy.

• firefall, just remember (i love you)
• walter egan, magnet & steel
• exile, kiss you all over
• john stewart, gold
• al stewart, time passages

Christopher Cross - Think of Laura
Helen Reddy - Angie Baby
Mary McGregor - Torn Between Two Lovers
Orleans - Dance With Me
Wayne Newton - Daddy Don't You Walk So Fast
Melissa Manchester - Midnight Blue

Lately I have gotten into crap country / rock which I used to hate.

Willis Alan Ramsey- Muskrat Love

I've asked this before but can someone please make available the Rhino 7-CD Have a Nice Decade? It's not anywhere and I would be sooo grateful. It's the locus classicus of 70s AM Gold

You can still get them used, there are more than twenty of them out there. Have fun getting mp3s many of them are re-recordings.

Lately I have been enjoying Neil Sedaka's Laughter in the Rain.

bad blood pwns laughter in the rain.

I always get these 2 bands confused due to their very long and complicated names...

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ogkwp3OMH4

Dudes, Time-Life AM Gold is where it's at.

Henry Gross "Shannon" - hands up who knew this song was about a dog.

another hamilton, joe frank & reynold's track. this one the sample source to drake's 'best i ever had'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ap4WjizDpx4

Hey, you're right.. I didn't know that was them.

I also got confused cos I thought Joe and Frank were 2 different guys.

I used to think it was four guys too. "Fallin in Love" is great, "Don't Pull Your Love Out" kind of lame.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BB-WIamLS-s

A little early, I know, but I think it fits. I realized, upon a recent scouring of the Billboard top 100 lists from the last 50 years, that '70s AM pop as I think of it (the sound, the mood, the ambience) basically started around '67 or '68 and stretched on several years into the '80s. And I love it dearly. As a genre/subset of pop music, it's just below '60s girl groups in my esteem.

"Wildfire" by Michael Martin Murphy.

I just heard this on the radio this morning! I love the part about the hoot owl hootin.

ps that critters song is great

Best of Bread Side 1

omg critters song sounds like roots of pernice bros

Here you go, take your pick from this cry-fest:

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

Very good Deric.

Digging this song so hard right now:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WblfLj23Qb0

love love love love love love love love love love love love love love love this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yE79UxDu7Xc

oh shit i never knew the title of that steve forbert tune!

i associate that song with Thunder Island by Jay Ferguson

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQ9-rmal9r0&feature=related

oh yeah! love that song, too, and i'd totally forgotten it.

our local classic rock station sometimes does "A-Z Weekends" where they play everything in the catalog and a lot of songs like that pop up, it's heaven

if they have an internet archive, please link to it.

tbh, i love these songs but i'd have to think long-and-hard before spending oh-so-precious digital space to store them (i urgently need that space for a grime remix of kajagoogoo).

yeah i don't think they archive it, it's called KQRS, i will try to bump this thread next time they are doing it, usually labor day weekend i think? takes forever obv to get thru everything

this is the station, yes? doesn't appear to have playlists.

the one and only, minnesota's home of classic rock fo sho.

their website looks p shitty for how big that station is.

hey jethro tull is coming! that's kinda tempting.

the tull is totally touring this summer. wonder what that show would be like.

lol. avoid the tull. now if steve forbert is touring . . .

do people call jethro "the tull"? or "jethro"?

burnouts i went to college with call them "the tull."

i guess there are probably satellite stations that are better, but the classic rock radio stations around my area are sooooo bad. it's too bad, because i love classic rock.

i want a dedicated AM Gold/Yacht Rock station.

there *is* actually a station around here that leans in that direction, kinda lite disco hits + christopher cross.

I simply called them "Tull".

what's the station?

the legendary kool 105 www.kool105.com

my wife just said she prefers stairway to heaven to romeo's tune, which seems like crazy talk to me.

in retospect i realize how rediculous that sounds.

Once you get past the smarmy Helen Reddy intro, you can dig into some prime 1977 one-hit wonder AM gold.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xy8ba2eL7cI

Rhinestone Cowboy!

This thread has tons of goodness:

Soft Rock Hits of the 70s

totally just dl'd the kool 105 app. will i be let down?

wow 2 songs in and theyre already playing michael mcdonald. that didn't take long.

i was anticipating occasional hits that were less huge. these are pretty much all huge hits.

I just heard The Bells 'Stay Awhile' for the first time

waves upon waves of simultaneous lols & revulsion.

That song always skeeved me out a little on the radio as a kid.

the whispering is soooooo creepy.

Have been slowly building up a playlist of this stuff, thanks muchly to this thread for some key additions: http://open.spotify.com/user/doctorcasino/playlist/6WzifvQ5j3RMO9gB1iTs12

Gets tough to draw the line between smooth AM gold and late-60s bubblegum of the post-Mamas-and-Papas, Lovin Spoonful variety. Some of that's snuck here in but generally I've stuck with things with a very airy, bump-free surface. Music to be sensitive to as the sun sets over the desert, unrolling the sleeping bag, as you reminisce about the days when you belonged to a 'movement.' The really rough-and-ready rockin' stuff is here: http://open.spotify.com/user/doctorcasino/playlist/129xjvBaWLxCsGnhn8HMd3

I am all about this. Here are some recent faves.

The Archies Sugar Sugar
Tony Orlando & Dawn Knock Three Times
The Foundations Build Me Up Buttercup
The Turtles She'd Rather Be With Me
Vanity Fare Hitchin' A Ride
Tony Christie (Is This The Way To) Amarillo ?
David Dundas Jeans On
B.J. Thomas (Hey Won't You Play) Another Somebody Done Somebody Wrong Song
Mary McGregor Torn Between Two Lovers
Captain And Tennille Love Will Keep Us Together
Albert Hammond It Never Rains In Southern California

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_cHUGUppk0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1NVm1E_5ok

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NsMqb9RQWGE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pm6TsYypBpY