This “Stand Out Single” was from the debut Nazz album.
The Nazz’s “Open My Eyes” / “Hello It’s Me” was the group’s debut single, released in 1968 on SGC Records at the beginning of the band’s brief but influential career. The Nazz were a Philadelphia-area rock group formed around Todd Rundgren, who was already emerging as the band’s principal songwriter, guitarist and studio-minded musical force.
This instrumental was number one in the United States, and Canada, in 1973.
“Frankenstein” is the signature instrumental by the Edgar Winter Group, written solely by Edgar Winter and first released on the 1972 album They Only Come Out at Night. At a time when rock radio was dominated by vocal hits, this powerful blend of hard rock, blues, jazz influences, and early synthesizer sounds became one of the most unusual chart-toppers in history,
A dark, hypnotic psychedelic-rock piece built around an insistent electric-guitar riff, bass, drums, keyboards and his understated vocal.
“Season of the Witch” was written by Scottish singer-songwriter Donovan and recorded in 1966 for his third studio album, Sunshine Superman. It marked a major change from the gentle acoustic
This “Stand Out Single” reached No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 for two weeks in October 1962, just in time for Halloween.
“Monster Mash” / “Monsters’ Mash Party” by Bobby “Boris” Pickett and the Crypt-Kickers is one of the most famous novelty singles of the 1960s and arguably the most enduring Halloween record ever made. “Monster Mash” was written by Bobby Pickett and Leonard Capizzi, with Gary S. Paxton producing, and was released on Paxton’s Garpax label in 1962.
Donald Fagan’s hit from the Nightfly album.
“I.G.Y. (What a Beautiful World)” is a song written and performed by Donald Fagen and released in 1982 as the opening track and first single from his debut solo album, The Nightfly, following the breakup of his creative partnership with Walter Becker in Steely Dan. The title is an abbreviation for International Geophysical Year, the worldwide scientific project held from July 1957 through December 1958,
This “Stand Out Single” became famous through the Warner Bros. musical film Gold Diggers of Broadway, in which guitarist and singer Nick Lucas performed the song.
Tiny Tim’s “Tip-Toe Thru’ the Tulips With Me” / “Fill Your Heart” was released by Reprise Records as single 0679 on April 3, 1968. It paired a revival of a 1929 popular song with a brand-new composition by Biff Rose and Paul Williams. Both recordings appeared on Tiny Tim’s debut album, God Bless Tiny Tim, which was also released in 1968 and was produced by Richard Perry.
These are songs that contain the word “Guitar” in their lyrics.
“Dear Mr. Fantasy” is a 1967 song by Traffic, written by Jim Capaldi, Steve Winwood, and Chris Wood, and it became one of the defining songs of the band’s psychedelic-rock period. It first appeared on Traffic’s debut album Mr. Fantasy in the United Kingdom, where it closes the original album’s first side, and on the American Heaven Is in Your Mind configuration.
This was the first Jethro Tull album that I owned.
Jethro Tull’s Living in the Past is a particularly unusual album because it was not a conventional studio album at all, but a double-LP compilation assembled in 1972 to bring together the band’s singles, non-album tracks, alternate mixes, outtakes, a few previously released album songs, and two live performances. It was released in the United Kingdom on June 23, 1972,
These are songs that contain the word “Stardust” in their lyrics.
“Ziggy Stardust” is a David Bowie song written solely by Bowie and recorded with the Spiders from Mars—Mick Ronson on guitar, Trevor Bolder on bass, and Mick Woodmansey on drums—at Trident Studios in London on November 11, 1971, for The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars, released June 16, 1972. The song tells the story of Ziggy, an androgynous,
Grand Funk has released 13 studio albums, 4 live albums, 8 compilation albums and 25 singles.
Grand Funk Railroad emerged from Flint, Michigan, in 1969 at a time when rock music was becoming louder, heavier, and increasingly dominated by power trios. The group was formed by guitarist and vocalist Mark Farner, drummer and vocalist Don Brewer, and bassist Mel Schacher, three musicians whose previous experience had prepared them for the stripped-down,
