Forgotten Tracks – Week of Jan 22

Weekly look back at the tracks that charted on the top 100 but you probably don’t remember….

20 Years Ago – Merril Bainbridge “Mouth”

Merril was a lot bigger in her native Australia with almost 10 songs charting down under but his was her only song to reach the hot 100 in the US.  “Mouth” went to number five and charted in 6 countries.

25 Years Ago – Natural Selection “Hearts Don’t Think (They Feel)”

One album released in 1991 that had two hits – the first single going all the way to number 2…then they disappeared.  No follow up LP or singles.  “Hearts Don’t Think” spent 3 months on the charts – peaked at 28.

30 Years Ago – Chico Debarge “Talk To Me”

I feel  like this is a decent track and I am kinda into it.  Soon after this track hit the Hot 100 Chico’s career was sidetracked when he got pinched by the Feds trying to move a kilo of blow from LA  to Michigan and ended up in federal prison. “Talk to me”spent 4 months on the Hot 100 and peaked at 28.

35 Years Ago –  Little River Band “Take it Easy on Me”

2nd Australian group in this weeks wrap up.  Little River Band…80s soft rock – love it.  Interesting factoid, this song was produced by “Fifth Beatle” Sir George Martin.  5 Months on the hot 100, peaked at number 10.

 

40 Years Ago – Mary MacGregor “Torn Between Two Lovers”

Weird track…when you listen to the lyrics of this song she is essentially saying, “look, I am kinda cheating on you and you need to deal with it because this dude is doing me in a way you cant”….and this track madeit all the way to number 1 in’72.

45 Years Ago – Think – “Once You Understand”

This track is a little insane…doesn’t really hold up and seems a little dated now, but I guess I kind of get that this is what was happening at the time.  I really cant imagine people wanting to listen to this more than once or twice but it spent two months on the Hot 100.

 

50 Years Ago – Peter & Gordon “Knight in Rusty Armor”

Largely forgotten British Invasion Duo, this was P&G’s last US hit. Peter’s sister dated Paul McCartney in the 60’s and Sir Paul wrote a bunch of songs for them including their biggest hit “A World Without Love”.  Peter later went on to be the head of  A&R for Apple Records for Decades and his daughter is currently in Cobra Starship.