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Post by inger on Jun 8, 2023 21:19:54 GMT -5
"In the Year 2525" was the rock duo Zager and Evans' only hit during their music career. They released the song in 1968 and it rose to become No.1 on the Billboard Hot 100 for six weeks . it also made it to the No. 1 position on the UK Singles chart for three weeks in the same year.
Zager and Evans wrote the song in 1964 and released it on a small record label for the public in 1968. The duo remains the only group to ever top the charts in both the United States and the UK and never to have another chart single again.
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Post by inger on Jun 8, 2023 21:22:23 GMT -5
Released in 1964 and written by P.F. Sloan, "Eve of Destruction" is a protest song. However, the best-known recording was by Barry McGuire who recorded the track between July 12th and 15th in 1965. It was released under Dunhill Records with the backup of musicians such as P.F. Sloan, Hal Blaine, and Larry Knechtel.
Although the vocal track was a rough mix, it was leaked and was played by disc jockeys. Regardless, the song was an instant hit and the final version of the song was never even released. The song went on to hit No.1 on the Billboard Hot 100 and No. 3 on the UK Singles chart...
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Post by chiyankee on Jun 8, 2023 21:29:35 GMT -5
Released in 1964 and written by P.F. Sloan, "Eve of Destruction" is a protest song. However, the best-known recording was by Barry McGuire who recorded the track between July 12th and 15th in 1965. It was released under Dunhill Records with the backup of musicians such as P.F. Sloan, Hal Blaine, and Larry Knechtel. Although the vocal track was a rough mix, it was leaked and was played by disc jockeys. Regardless, the song was an instant hit and the final version of the song was never even released. The song went on to hit No.1 on the Billboard Hot 100 and No. 3 on the UK Singles chart... |
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Post by pippsheadache on Jun 9, 2023 10:39:34 GMT -5
Released in 1964 and written by P.F. Sloan, "Eve of Destruction" is a protest song. However, the best-known recording was by Barry McGuire who recorded the track between July 12th and 15th in 1965. It was released under Dunhill Records with the backup of musicians such as P.F. Sloan, Hal Blaine, and Larry Knechtel. Although the vocal track was a rough mix, it was leaked and was played by disc jockeys. Regardless, the song was an instant hit and the final version of the song was never even released. The song went on to hit No.1 on the Billboard Hot 100 and No. 3 on the UK Singles chart... Back in the USSR and trying to catch up here. When I first started reading this I thought Barry McGuire must have gone to meet his maker, but alas he is still among us, still on the Eve of Destruction. Among the folkie set, he was very well known several years before "Eve" hit the charts. He was one of the leaders of a quite profitable folk group The New Christy Minstrels and in fact co-wrote and sang lead on what I believe was their biggest hit, exactly 60 years ago, "Green Green." A few months after hitting it big with "Eve Of Destruction," he went to a very different corner of the musical universe with a song called "Cloudy Summer Afternoon." It was a mid-size hit about two people getting it on and smoking cigarettes while the rain comes down, but the very pop-Dixieland light-hearted arrangement sort of undermined his earnest angry young protestor image. Plus it sounded like an entirely different person singing it. It would have been kind of like if Bob Dylan, right after "The Times They Are A-Changin'" came out with a cover of "This Guy's In Love With You." That same year McGuire recorded the original version of John Philips' "California Dreamin'" with what would become The Mamas and the Papas doing backing vocals. But then Denny Doherty took a shot at it, and they replaced McGuire's vocals with Denny's while leaving the backing track intact. Including that wonderful guitar intro, which was provided by the aforementioned P.F. Sloan. Of course McGuire was later mentioned in the Mamas and Papas hit "Creeque Alley." In any event, by the early 1970s Barry had gone entirely Christian rock and as far as I can tell he stayed in that genre for the rest of his career. P.F. Sloan actually had a much more interesting musical history than Barry McGuire, but I can't imagine anybody here -- or almost anywhere -- would be interested in it so I will save some precious bandwidth by not going any further down that rabbit hole. A Philly-based group called The Spokesmen did a wretched answer song to "Eve Of Destruction" called "Dawn Of Correction." I thought it was only played in Philly, but I saw it actually made it into the Top 40 on Billboard's charts, so somebody elsewhere was buying it too. The two leaders of this group were Dave White and John Medora, whose first big hit was "At The Hop" by Danny and the Juniors. White was part of the group while Medora was involved with songwriting. These two also wrote later hits like "You Don't Own Me" by Lesley Gore and "1-2-3" by Len Barry (another Philly boy who previously was lead singer of The Dovells of "Bristol Stomp" fame. He went to the same high school as Wilt Chamberlain.) I won't be posting "Dawn Of Correction" and if somebody else does I won't listen to it. I last heard it in 1965 and I would like to leave it that way. |
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Post by inger on Jun 9, 2023 10:57:58 GMT -5
Released in 1964 and written by P.F. Sloan, "Eve of Destruction" is a protest song. However, the best-known recording was by Barry McGuire who recorded the track between July 12th and 15th in 1965. It was released under Dunhill Records with the backup of musicians such as P.F. Sloan, Hal Blaine, and Larry Knechtel. Although the vocal track was a rough mix, it was leaked and was played by disc jockeys. Regardless, the song was an instant hit and the final version of the song was never even released. The song went on to hit No.1 on the Billboard Hot 100 and No. 3 on the UK Singles chart... Back in the USSR and trying to catch up here. When I first started reading this I thought Barry McGuire must have gone to meet his maker, but alas he is still among us, still on the Eve of Destruction. Among the folkie set, he was very well known several years before "Eve" hit the charts. He was one of the leaders of a quite profitable folk group The New Christy Minstrels and in fact co-wrote and sang lead on what I believe was their biggest hit, exactly 60 years ago, "Green Green." A few months after hitting it big with "Eve Of Destruction," he went to a very different corner of the musical universe with a song called "Cloudy Summer Afternoon." It was a mid-size hit about two people getting it on and smoking cigarettes while the rain comes down, but the very pop-Dixieland light-hearted arrangement sort of undermined his earnest angry young protestor image. Plus it sounded like an entirely different person singing it. It would have been kind of like if Bob Dylan, right after "The Times They Are A-Changin'" came out with a cover of "This Guy's In Love With You." That same year McGuire recorded the original version of John Philips' "California Dreamin'" with what would become The Mamas and the Papas doing backing vocals. But then Denny Doherty took a shot at it, and they replaced McGuire's vocals with Denny's while leaving the backing track intact. Including that wonderful guitar intro, which was provided by the aforementioned P.F. Sloan. Of course McGuire was later mentioned in the Mamas and Papas hit "Creeque Alley." In any event, by the early 1970s Barry had gone entirely Christian rock and as far as I can tell he stayed in that genre for the rest of his career. P.F. Sloan actually had a much more interesting musical history than Barry McGuire, but I can't imagine anybody here -- or almost anywhere -- would be interested in it so I will save some precious bandwidth by not going any further down that rabbit hole. A Philly-based group called The Spokesmen did a wretched answer song to "Eve Of Destruction" called "Dawn Of Correction." I thought it was only played in Philly, but I saw it actually made it into the Top 40 on Billboard's charts, so somebody elsewhere was buying it too. The two leaders of this group were Dave White and John Medora, whose first big hit was "At The Hop" by Danny and the Juniors. White was part of the group while Medora was involved with songwriting. These two also wrote later hits like "You Don't Own Me" by Lesley Gore and "1-2-3" by Len Barry (another Philly boy who previously was lead singer of The Dovells of "Bristol Stomp" fame. He went to the same high school as Wilt Chamberlain.) I won't be posting "Dawn Of Correction" and if somebody else does I won't listen to it. I last heard it in 1965 and I would like to leave it that way. Probably the best recap of Barry McGuire’s career ever written. I wish he could read it, but alas, he is a part of 99.999999999768943% of America that doesn’t post here… |
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Post by rizzuto on Jun 9, 2023 11:05:55 GMT -5
Released in 1964 and written by P.F. Sloan, "Eve of Destruction" is a protest song. However, the best-known recording was by Barry McGuire who recorded the track between July 12th and 15th in 1965. It was released under Dunhill Records with the backup of musicians such as P.F. Sloan, Hal Blaine, and Larry Knechtel. Although the vocal track was a rough mix, it was leaked and was played by disc jockeys. Regardless, the song was an instant hit and the final version of the song was never even released. The song went on to hit No.1 on the Billboard Hot 100 and No. 3 on the UK Singles chart... Back in the USSR and trying to catch up here. When I first started reading this I thought Barry McGuire must have gone to meet his maker, but alas he is still among us, still on the Eve of Destruction. Among the folkie set, he was very well known several years before "Eve" hit the charts. He was one of the leaders of a quite profitable folk group The New Christy Minstrels and in fact co-wrote and sang lead on what I believe was their biggest hit, exactly 60 years ago, "Green Green." A few months after hitting it big with "Eve Of Destruction," he went to a very different corner of the musical universe with a song called "Cloudy Summer Afternoon." It was a mid-size hit about two people getting it on and smoking cigarettes while the rain comes down, but the very pop-Dixieland light-hearted arrangement sort of undermined his earnest angry young protestor image. Plus it sounded like an entirely different person singing it. It would have been kind of like if Bob Dylan, right after "The Times They Are A-Changin'" came out with a cover of "This Guy's In Love With You." That same year McGuire recorded the original version of John Philips' "California Dreamin'" with what would become The Mamas and the Papas doing backing vocals. But then Denny Doherty took a shot at it, and they replaced McGuire's vocals with Denny's while leaving the backing track intact. Including that wonderful guitar intro, which was provided by the aforementioned P.F. Sloan. Of course McGuire was later mentioned in the Mamas and Papas hit "Creeque Alley." In any event, by the early 1970s Barry had gone entirely Christian rock and as far as I can tell he stayed in that genre for the rest of his career. P.F. Sloan actually had a much more interesting musical history than Barry McGuire, but I can't imagine anybody here -- or almost anywhere -- would be interested in it so I will save some precious bandwidth by not going any further down that rabbit hole. A Philly-based group called The Spokesmen did a wretched answer song to "Eve Of Destruction" called "Dawn Of Correction." I thought it was only played in Philly, but I saw it actually made it into the Top 40 on Billboard's charts, so somebody elsewhere was buying it too. The two leaders of this group were Dave White and John Medora, whose first big hit was "At The Hop" by Danny and the Juniors. White was part of the group while Medora was involved with songwriting. These two also wrote later hits like "You Don't Own Me" by Lesley Gore and "1-2-3" by Len Barry (another Philly boy who previously was lead singer of The Dovells of "Bristol Stomp" fame. He went to the same high school as Wilt Chamberlain.) I won't be posting "Dawn Of Correction" and if somebody else does I won't listen to it. I last heard it in 1965 and I would like to leave it that way. Pipps, over and over again, your knowledge of music has proven unfathomable. Absolutely incredible the amount of facts you can conjure from just the mention of Barry McGuire. Good to hear you are back among your countrymen. We always feel safer when you're around, knowing the international crisis to which you responded has been averted. Here's to your safe return and hope to see you in the game threads!  |
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Post by pippsheadache on Jun 9, 2023 11:16:30 GMT -5
Back in the USSR and trying to catch up here. When I first started reading this I thought Barry McGuire must have gone to meet his maker, but alas he is still among us, still on the Eve of Destruction. Among the folkie set, he was very well known several years before "Eve" hit the charts. He was one of the leaders of a quite profitable folk group The New Christy Minstrels and in fact co-wrote and sang lead on what I believe was their biggest hit, exactly 60 years ago, "Green Green." A few months after hitting it big with "Eve Of Destruction," he went to a very different corner of the musical universe with a song called "Cloudy Summer Afternoon." It was a mid-size hit about two people getting it on and smoking cigarettes while the rain comes down, but the very pop-Dixieland light-hearted arrangement sort of undermined his earnest angry young protestor image. Plus it sounded like an entirely different person singing it. It would have been kind of like if Bob Dylan, right after "The Times They Are A-Changin'" came out with a cover of "This Guy's In Love With You." That same year McGuire recorded the original version of John Philips' "California Dreamin'" with what would become The Mamas and the Papas doing backing vocals. But then Denny Doherty took a shot at it, and they replaced McGuire's vocals with Denny's while leaving the backing track intact. Including that wonderful guitar intro, which was provided by the aforementioned P.F. Sloan. Of course McGuire was later mentioned in the Mamas and Papas hit "Creeque Alley." In any event, by the early 1970s Barry had gone entirely Christian rock and as far as I can tell he stayed in that genre for the rest of his career. P.F. Sloan actually had a much more interesting musical history than Barry McGuire, but I can't imagine anybody here -- or almost anywhere -- would be interested in it so I will save some precious bandwidth by not going any further down that rabbit hole. A Philly-based group called The Spokesmen did a wretched answer song to "Eve Of Destruction" called "Dawn Of Correction." I thought it was only played in Philly, but I saw it actually made it into the Top 40 on Billboard's charts, so somebody elsewhere was buying it too. The two leaders of this group were Dave White and John Medora, whose first big hit was "At The Hop" by Danny and the Juniors. White was part of the group while Medora was involved with songwriting. These two also wrote later hits like "You Don't Own Me" by Lesley Gore and "1-2-3" by Len Barry (another Philly boy who previously was lead singer of The Dovells of "Bristol Stomp" fame. He went to the same high school as Wilt Chamberlain.) I won't be posting "Dawn Of Correction" and if somebody else does I won't listen to it. I last heard it in 1965 and I would like to leave it that way. Probably the best recap of Barry McGuire’s career ever written. I wish he could read it, but alas, he is a part of 99.999999999768943% of America that doesn’t post here… We need to make more of an effort to reach out to him. Kaybli I'm looking at you. And Rocky Burnette too while we're at it. |
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Post by pippsheadache on Jun 9, 2023 11:20:06 GMT -5
Back in the USSR and trying to catch up here. When I first started reading this I thought Barry McGuire must have gone to meet his maker, but alas he is still among us, still on the Eve of Destruction. Among the folkie set, he was very well known several years before "Eve" hit the charts. He was one of the leaders of a quite profitable folk group The New Christy Minstrels and in fact co-wrote and sang lead on what I believe was their biggest hit, exactly 60 years ago, "Green Green." A few months after hitting it big with "Eve Of Destruction," he went to a very different corner of the musical universe with a song called "Cloudy Summer Afternoon." It was a mid-size hit about two people getting it on and smoking cigarettes while the rain comes down, but the very pop-Dixieland light-hearted arrangement sort of undermined his earnest angry young protestor image. Plus it sounded like an entirely different person singing it. It would have been kind of like if Bob Dylan, right after "The Times They Are A-Changin'" came out with a cover of "This Guy's In Love With You." That same year McGuire recorded the original version of John Philips' "California Dreamin'" with what would become The Mamas and the Papas doing backing vocals. But then Denny Doherty took a shot at it, and they replaced McGuire's vocals with Denny's while leaving the backing track intact. Including that wonderful guitar intro, which was provided by the aforementioned P.F. Sloan. Of course McGuire was later mentioned in the Mamas and Papas hit "Creeque Alley." In any event, by the early 1970s Barry had gone entirely Christian rock and as far as I can tell he stayed in that genre for the rest of his career. P.F. Sloan actually had a much more interesting musical history than Barry McGuire, but I can't imagine anybody here -- or almost anywhere -- would be interested in it so I will save some precious bandwidth by not going any further down that rabbit hole. A Philly-based group called The Spokesmen did a wretched answer song to "Eve Of Destruction" called "Dawn Of Correction." I thought it was only played in Philly, but I saw it actually made it into the Top 40 on Billboard's charts, so somebody elsewhere was buying it too. The two leaders of this group were Dave White and John Medora, whose first big hit was "At The Hop" by Danny and the Juniors. White was part of the group while Medora was involved with songwriting. These two also wrote later hits like "You Don't Own Me" by Lesley Gore and "1-2-3" by Len Barry (another Philly boy who previously was lead singer of The Dovells of "Bristol Stomp" fame. He went to the same high school as Wilt Chamberlain.) I won't be posting "Dawn Of Correction" and if somebody else does I won't listen to it. I last heard it in 1965 and I would like to leave it that way. Pipps, over and over again, your knowledge of music has proven unfathomable. Absolutely incredible the amount of facts you can conjure from just the mention of Barry McGuire. Good to hear you are back among your countrymen. We always feel safer when you're around, knowing the international crisis to which you responded has been averted. Here's to your safe return and hope to see you in the game threads! Unfathomable for sure as in "why would anybody bother?" It's a cry for help. And yes, for now the threat of war with Switzerland has been narrowly averted, meaning our supplies of Nestle's Quick and La Vache Qui Rit cheese wedges should continue to flow, and the Burger Kings in Geneva will continue to function normally. |
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Post by pippsheadache on Jun 9, 2023 11:32:13 GMT -5
"In the Year 2525" was the rock duo Zager and Evans' only hit during their music career. They released the song in 1968 and it rose to become No.1 on the Billboard Hot 100 for six weeks . it also made it to the No. 1 position on the UK Singles chart for three weeks in the same year. Zager and Evans wrote the song in 1964 and released it on a small record label for the public in 1968. The duo remains the only group to ever top the charts in both the United States and the UK and never to have another chart single again. That is an amazing factoid, Inger. Certainly nothing I ever knew. Just to be technical, as I am sure you know from the 45 you bought over 50 years ago, the full title was "In The Year 2525 (Exordium and Terminus)." Because, you know, we can never be too pretentious. What do you expect from two guys from Nebraska? I love Nebraska, but it's never been a hotbed of rock music. Not making this up, but I had (and I think still have) a copy of another song they made that I thought made the charts, but clearly did not, called "Caroline Javes." It's a typically goofy piece of love song fluff, far removed from the grim "if man is still alive" whining of 2525. |
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Post by inger on Jun 9, 2023 11:44:54 GMT -5
"In the Year 2525" was the rock duo Zager and Evans' only hit during their music career. They released the song in 1968 and it rose to become No.1 on the Billboard Hot 100 for six weeks . it also made it to the No. 1 position on the UK Singles chart for three weeks in the same year. Zager and Evans wrote the song in 1964 and released it on a small record label for the public in 1968. The duo remains the only group to ever top the charts in both the United States and the UK and never to have another chart single again. That is an amazing factoid, Inger. Certainly nothing I ever knew. Just to be technical, as I am sure you know from the 45 you bought over 50 years ago, the full title was "In The Year 2525 (Exordium and Terminus)." Because, you know, we can never be too pretentious. What do you expect from two guys from Nebraska? I love Nebraska, but it's never been a hotbed of rock music. Not making this up, but I had (and I think still have) a copy of another song they made that I thought made the charts, but clearly did not, called "Caroline Javes." It's a typically goofy piece of love song fluff, far removed from the grim "if man is still alive" whining of 2525. Could have sworn there was a list verse in “Back in the USSR” that went something like: “Nebraska girls really gross me out They don’t wipe they’re behinds And Georgia’s always always always always on my mind!”… 🤓 |
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Post by kaybli on Jun 9, 2023 14:51:06 GMT -5
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Post by inger on Jun 9, 2023 15:22:52 GMT -5
Could have sworn there was a list verse in “Back in the USSR” that went something like:
“Nebraska girls really gross me out
They don’t wipe they’re behinds
And Georgia’s always always always always on my mind!”…
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* I missed an always. I always do that …
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Post by Renfield on Jun 10, 2023 12:20:21 GMT -5
pipps and inger--great musical history lessons! Wasn't Kenny Rodger's also in the New Christie Minstrels with Barry McGuire? Zager now sells Zager EZ Play Guitars which are rated somewhere between a Martin and and an Esteban TV special, depending on who you ask.
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Post by pippsheadache on Jun 10, 2023 12:34:17 GMT -5
pipps and inger--great musical history lessons! Wasn't Kenny Rodger's also in the New Christie Minstrels with Barry McGuire? Zager now sells Zager EZ Play Guitars which are rated somewhere between a Martin and and an Esteban TV special, depending on who you ask. Hey Ren -- yes, Kenny Rogers was with them for a few years after McGuire left. Very unrecognizable playing standup bass without a beard and wearing a skinny tie with his blazer. Several other members of TNCM also later joined him in The First Edition. I've seen old clips of him playing bass in a jazz trio as well. A few more ex-Minstrels included Larry Ramos, later the Asian guy in The Association, Jerry Yester, who would later replace Zal Yanofsky as lead guitar for The Lovin' Spoonful, and Larraine Newman's sister. I'm sure there were others out there who later went on to other groups. They had a lot of moving parts. |
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Post by inger on Jun 10, 2023 12:36:32 GMT -5
The Lemon Pipers: 'Green Tambourine'
This psychedelic song featured lead singer Ivan Browne playing the title instrument, much to the delight of audiences. The pop band reached the top of the Billboard Hot 100 with this one-hit wonder in 1967. The Lemon Pipers went their separate ways in 1969.…
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