Ronco Presents: Get It On! (1974)

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I don't know how I inherited this but it was one of two adult albums (along with the Beach Boys' Love You) that I had in my record collection from a very young age. Some duds, for sure, and totally schizophrenic as a collection but also some stone-cold classics and a pretty decent accidental introduction to popular music overall.

Poll Results

Option	Votes
The O'Jays - 'Love Train'	10
Dobie Gray - 'Drift Away'	5
The Four Tops - 'Ain't No Woman (Like The One I've Got)'	3
Deodato - 'Also Sprach Zarathustra'	1
The Pointer Sisters - 'Yes We Can Can'	1
Brownsville Station - 'Smokin' In The Boys Room'	1
Jerry Lee Lewis - 'Drinkin' Wine'	1
Jim Stafford - 'Spiders And Snakes'	1
The Ohio Players - 'Funky Worm'	1
Donna Fargo - 'The Happiest Girl In The Whole U.S.A.'	0
Billy Paul - 'Me & Mrs. Jones'	0
Lobo - 'I'd Love You To Want Me'	0
The Stylistics - 'You'll Never Get To Heaven'	0
Dr. Hook And The Medicine Show - 'Cover Of The "Rolling Stone"'	0
Clint Holmes - 'Playground In My Mind'	0
Maureen McGovern - 'The Morning After (Song From "The Poseidon Adventure")'	0
B.B. King - 'To Know You Is To Love You'	0
Barry White - 'I'm Gonna Love You Just A Little More, Baby'	0
Johnny Nash - 'Stir It Up'	0
Ian Thomas - 'Painted Ladies'	0

― Manspread Mann (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 22 June 2016 14:11 (seven years ago) link

And the sleeve is fucking amazing, obviously.

― Manspread Mann (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 22 June 2016 14:11 (seven years ago) link

Yeah that's a crazy eclectic compilation. Wonder what version of "Drinkin' Wine" that is, maybe from The Session? I didn't realize that was ever a single. Voting for that one.

― Dan is a ‪#‎VegetablePuppet‬, he is NOT REAL. ‪#‎flatearth (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 22 June 2016 15:44 (seven years ago) link

"Love Train," no question.

― rhymes with "blondie blast" (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 22 June 2016 15:44 (seven years ago) link

^ Yep. "Yes We Can Can" is a longtime favorite also.

Ian Thomas is the brother of Dave Thomas of SCTV fame

― Josefa, Wednesday, 22 June 2016 15:53 (seven years ago) link

ain't no woman like the one-eyed god

― hypnic jerk (rushomancy), Wednesday, 22 June 2016 15:58 (seven years ago) link

I remember that tidbit about Ian Thomas coming up in another thread here! Had no idea. It's a pretty good fake Neil Young song.

The R&B featured on this comp is just off the charts. 'Yes We Can Can' is probably my favorite, but all of the rest are amazing. 'Funky Worm' has to be one of the weirdest singles ever.

I don't know that these particular tracks are precisely representative of my belief that 1973 or 1974 might be the high water mark of popular music but I'm sure they helped to inform that belief.

― Manspread Mann (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 22 June 2016 16:19 (seven years ago) link

Is Deodato's "Also Sprach Zarathustra" the one that appeared in Being There? Cause if so, yeeeeuuuuccck!

― rhymes with "blondie blast" (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 22 June 2016 16:21 (seven years ago) link

Yes it is, and that's exactly what I think of every time I hear it.

― Manspread Mann (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 22 June 2016 16:26 (seven years ago) link

1973 or 1974 might be the high water mark of popular music

Not exactly sure I'd make that claim, but the top 40 radio of my youth, which made room for Brownsville Station, Ohio Players and Jim Stafford, was indeed an amazing era. Happy to have been a kid during it.

― Dan is a ‪#‎VegetablePuppet‬, he is NOT REAL. ‪#‎flatearth (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 22 June 2016 17:01 (seven years ago) link

from the ones i know 'Ain't No Woman (Like The One I've Got)'

― Bee OK, Thursday, 23 June 2016 01:01 (seven years ago) link

one month passes...

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

― System, Sunday, 31 July 2016 00:01 (seven years ago) link

ain't no woman like the one-eyed god
― hypnic jerk (rushomancy), Wednesday, June 22, 2016 11:58 AM (1 month ago)

lol'd so hard I woke my wife on the other end of the house.

I hate to be boring and vote for "Love Train," but really, how could you not? It overshadows five or six nostalgia votes (Jim Stafford, Johnny Nash, Clint Holmes, Dr Hook, Lobo). My parents had this when I was a child but it was left at our summer cabin so I could only listen to it for two or three months of the year.

― Tom Violence, Sunday, 31 July 2016 04:06 (seven years ago) link

Stylistics in a heartbeat, an incredible tune.

― piscesx, Sunday, 31 July 2016 16:54 (seven years ago) link

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

― System, Monday, 1 August 2016 00:01 (seven years ago) link

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