"Get Dancin'" by Disco Tex & The Sex-o-lettes.

The main voice of the Moodies, Justin Hayward, released a solid single in 2022 called 'Living For Love'. I saw him in concert the following year at a relatively small venue, where he performed all the hits and gave the back stories about some of the songs. He and his band were spot on vocally and musically.

Lorne's post about there being two incarnations of the band got me digging a bit. I really liked the vocalist on "United We Stand", Sunny Leslie, and her sister Sue Glover was also in the line-up. Sunny went on to be a backing vocalist of some note, particularly on Joe Cocker's "With a Little Help From My Friends" (although she went by her birth name Sunny Wheetman). She also had a single and solo album in 1974 called "Doctor's Orders", which didn't do much; Carol Douglas scored a hit with the single Stateside. In 2008, The Brotherhood of Man's debut album "United We Stand" was re-released with several bonus non-album singles and a few tracks released by the duo Sue & Sunny, after they split from the BOM. I downloaded the album and it's far too saccharine for my taste, but the singles by Sue & Sunny are good, as they have more of an R&B vibe.

One other obscure example came to my mind. A couple of years back a buddy of mine produced a Pennsylvania reunion concert for the The Buoys, who were a one-hit wonder with the song "Timothy". Three of the four original members performed. The other may have been eaten.

Lorne wrote:

Roman wrote:

Re: The Rinky Dinks, I take it these aren't the same Rinky Dinks that backed Johnny Bower on "Honky The Christmas Goose". I thought that was a pretty clever name for his back-up group.

It was, and it's entirely possible that those involved with the record didn't know of the use of this name for the Darin record as it never made the CHUM chart (CHUM played Buddy Holly's cover of "Early In The Morning" instead). Interestingly, in 1959 a different Rinky Dinks group did make the CHUM chart with "Catch A Little Moonbeam", but that record only got to #43 in a two-week run and so I doubt they would have known of that one either. And so what this also means is that of the three Rinky Dinks records, Bower's was actually the most successful in Toronto.

But Johnny still hasn't cracked Spotify, although some guy named Edward Tobin is there with a cover of Honky.
 

I never noticed it before, but the opening guitar licks to both songs are quite similar.

According to Tom Jones' autobiography "Over The Top & Back", their feud had nothing to do with chart competition or Engelbert flirting with Tom's girlfriend. They were both managed by Gordon Mills, who successfully launched their careers, and when Engelbert split from Mills in the 70's, Jones considered this to be a betrayal and he and Engelbert fell out as friends.

"Time" is one of rock's classics, and The Chambers Brothers were the first predominantly Black band to go psychedelic.  One thing I found curious is that the author of the piece said the song was a 1967 single, but I remember it hitting the charts in Toronto in the latter part of '68. I guess we were a little slow on the uptake.

I'd call them overdubs. For example, Phil Spector overdubbed strings onto The Beatles' "Long & Winding Road" (which songwriter Paul McCartney hated).

Here's a link to the album and its tracks. Limelight and Terry's Theme are not on this record.https://www.discogs.com/pt_BR/release/15340039-The-Tony-Mansell-Singers-Sing-Charles-Chaplin-Favourites

Based on his comments, I'm guessing Burton covers Lightfoot's "Beautiful". Many years ago I saw him at Massey Hall doing an amazing impression of Lightfoot singing Rod Stewart. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1VVMcxNHblB04bNqzS5gKqj5pwghufDrs/view?usp=sharing

I would have given anything to see that, but at least they captured it for YouTube. Irma still has great pipes.

 

I first heard "Ain't Got No Home" through a wonderful cover by The Band on their Moondog Matinee album. Levon Helm didn't feel comfortable singing the line about being a 'lonely girl', so he stuck with the 'lonely frog' reference throughout.

Did George Oliver sing that one? I thought he had left the band by then and was replaced on vocals by Roy Kenner.

A publicly funded educational channel in Toronto called TVO, tends to air some British shows in the evening. One of these, an old series called Heartbeat, has me absolutely hooked. Set in the 60's-early 70's, not only does it have great story lines and characters, but the music used in the episodes is to die for. Jethro Tull, The Who, Cat Stevens and Free are regulars, but they also sneak in a few one-hit wonders and last night they went above and beyond with A Question Of Temperature by The Balloon Farm, which I'm sure I haven't heard since '67. The cast also gets involved as one of the actors on the show sings the series theme, Heartbeat, the Buddy Holly nugget.