Freddy Fender - "Wasted Days And Wasted Nights" (1975)

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[.44 Special]

Well, if yer goin honky-tonkin ya needs good honky-tonkin music, Pilgrim.

[V K Lee]

Before the Next Teardrop Falls

[V K Lee]

Checked to be certain and, yes, 'Do You Know Where You're Going To' was the theme song. Always enjoyed the recordings of Diana Ross, but this was certainly not a favorite. When she's hot, she's hot. When she's not, she's not.
Enjoyed her movie 'Lady Sings the Blues' far more than her efforts in 'Mahogany'.
IMHO it rates on the same level as Love Child,
another miscalculation.

[Gamecock]

Great stuff! Loved Freddy back in the mid 70s.

[Fiji Hill]

Roses Are Red (My Love)

A long, long time ago on Graduation Day.
You handed me your book, I signed this way:

Jane Fonda's red, my love, violets are blue.
Stalin is dead, my love, I wish that she were, too.

We dated through high school, and when the big day came,
I wrote into your book next to my name:

Jane Fonda's red, my love, violets are blue.
Stalin is dead, my love, I wish that she were, too.

Then I went far away and you found someone new.
I read your letter, dear, and I wrote back to you:

Jane Fonda's red, my love, violets are blue.
Stalin is dead, my love, I wish that you were, too.

Is that your little girl? She doesn't look at all like Jane.
Some day some boy will write next to her name:

Jane Fonda's red, my love, violets are blue.
Stalin is dead, my love, I'm glad that she is, too.

Stalin is dead!

[SamAdams76]

Music was good in the 1970s. Everybody likes to rag on 1970s music as "the worst time for music" just because of outliers like Barry Manilow and KC & The Sunshine Band (even even they had a few good songs) but overall it was a very good decade for music.

I put the 1980s slightly above but the 1970s was second best with 1960s being third. Sorry folks from the hippie generation. Lot of great music from the 1960s but even more from the subsequent two decades.

[Fiji Hill]

I have always interpreted Love Child being the story of a girl, probably from a "petty bourgeois" background, who grows up in Communist China during the Mao Tse-tung era and is treated as a "class enemy" by the Communists.

[Fiji Hill]

True story- My 1977 Panama City, FL HS class was asked to vote on a class song for graduation. Many of us voted for THIS one, and I think it wasn’t close The admin didn’t like that, so we were stuck with the Theme from Mahogany. If you’ve ever seen the movie Dazed and Confused, yeah, that was us. :)

I had to look up Theme from Mahogany. I don't think I've heard it since it was on the charts and had completely forgotten about it.

At first, I thought you were referring to this weird tune from the show "Mahagonny." That would, indeed, be a rather, let's say, unique choice for a class theme song had it gotten past the admin, which would have been highly unlikely.

The Alabama Song--Lotte Lenya & the Three Admirals (1930)

[dfwgator]

The Alabama Song--Lotte Lenya & the Three Admirals (1930)

Loved The Doors' version.

[Fiji Hill]

Everybody likes to rag on 1970s music as "the worst time for music" just because of outliers like Barry Manilow and KC & The Sunshine Band

Don't forget the Captain & Tennile, Bo Donaldson & the Heywoods or Maria Muldauer.

[Fiji Hill]

Loved The Doors' version.

I did, too.

[Drumbo]

“Doug Sham” aka Sam the Sham of the Pharaohs ... Mr. Woolly Bully!

[Drumbo]

“Doug Sham” aka Sam the Sham of the Pharaohs ... Mr. Woolly Bully! NOPE!!!!

Correction:
I misread ... it’s Doug Sahm aka Sir Douglas of the Quintet, lol ... Mr. She’s About A’Mover!

[V K Lee]

Not all is lost during that time.
We heard from Donna Summer, Gloria Gaynor, Blondie;
Styx, Cars, Foreigner, Pointer Sisters.
This crew is nothing to be sneezed at. :-)

[Fiji Hill]

Donna Summer sings about my old stomping grounds. I was a Sunset Person about the time this song came out--a Reagan activist in a deep-blue neighborhood--and just down the street was West Hollywood, which even then was still bluer.

Sunset People--Donna Summer (1979)

[V K Lee]

Did you enjoy living there? Party all night...? Those outside of California would hear Sunset and immediately remember '77 Sunset Strip'. In Texas, don't recall Sunset People being played nearly as often as HOT STUFF