Much maligned British rock group noted for never finding the fourth chord (or whatever it was, might have been the third), anyway, they have a huge fanbase and I bet there are a couple of tunes that go down well here so as the day is full of Rain what I'm Proposing is a poll for anyone not Living On An Island of their songs that made the UK Top 20. As a kid I loved Rain and Mystery Song but that was about as good as it got for me. Down Down was their only UK number one single, discounting the Come On You Reds collaboration.
Oh you're right, I wrongly assumed it made the top 20, let's see where it did get (flicks pages), how close! Highest position, 21! Hard to vote for something that isn't there. sFun_duh2
Think someone may have been pulling your leg Tinks.
From Wiki:
Francis Dominic Nicholas Michael Rossi[1] was born on 29 May 1949 in Forest Hill, London. His father's side of the family were Italian ice cream merchants of the Rossi Ice Cream fame, and his mother was a Northern Irish Roman Catholic from Liverpool.[2][3] Rossi grew up in a household with his parents, grandmother, and "lots of aunts and uncles", and was given a Roman Catholic upbringing, having been named after Saint Francis of Assisi.[4] He attended Our Lady and St Philip Neri Roman Catholic Primary School in Sydenham, and Sedgehill Comprehensive School for high school, from which he was expelled on his last day.[5] It was at Sedgehill where Rossi met Alan Lancaster, with whom he formed the band "The Scorpions" - a predecessor to Status Quo.[6] As a teenager, Rossi was involved in the family business, helping his father and grandfather sell their ice cream from ice cream vans around London.[7] Rossi's desire to become a musician began after seeing The Everly Brothers live on television at a young age, after which he asked his parents to buy him a guitar for Christmas.[4]
Don't ask me what I think of you, I might not give the answer that you want me to.
I just listened to that right through. I loved that when it was out. I had it on twelve inch white vinyl. So rare to hear whistling in a song too. Another one I really like is REO Speedwagon's "Can't Fight This Feeling" but I'm turning into Soft Metal Street - back on topic, this one's from Blue For You...
Such great hooks in that, it still sounds great to me and anything that rolls back the years is good, that was the single edit though and so ended sooner than I expected. When I listen to one song more often than not something in it will remind me of something else. That last one made me think of this, came out a few years later.
In 1979 I remember having this single and not sure if I ever liked it and think it's awful rubbish now. Maybe I bought it because it was high in the charts and I wanted my collection to look good or was I drawn to it by those cute penguins on the cover?
What were they thinking? It was like a rock group all of a sudden churning out some soft American drive-in country rock tune , that's my take on it anyway. In a similar vein, what on earth was the great Stevie Wonder thinking of when he decided upon this piece of claptrap that somehow got to the top of the charts? It even signs off with a 'cha-cha-cha' surely this was a musical misdemeanour of the highest order. I swear the first three notes of this are guaranteed to make me throw the radio into the washing up bowl.