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Title: K-Tel Presents
Source:
AceOfSpades
URL Source: http://acecomments.mu.nu/?blog=86&post=373354
Published: Jan 11, 2018
Author: WeirdDave
Post Date: 2018-01-12 00:06:02 by Tooconservative
Keywords: None
Views: 1796
Comments: 19
Daddy Dewdrop! Bo Donaldson and The Heywoods! Paper Lace! The Original Caste! The Royal Guardsmen! Rick Dees! The Captain and Tennille! And many more! All together you get 25 original hits by the original artists on two jam-packed LPs or one long playing 8-track! Act now, send your entire wallet to PO Box 5170, Grand Michids, Rapigan. 90051! ORDER TODAY! ... The Yahoo Group knows that this may read like a parody, but K-tel actually put out loads of albums filled with bad music just like this, and even advertised them as such. Poster Comment: Also at AoS yesterday: 
Stupid Hits of the 70s! Announcing a new collection of all of the songs that you knew and loved, yet can't quite believe were hits! You'll get The Bouys!
That's right, this album contains songs so bad, they're good! "How on earth did these songs become hits?" you'll ask yourself. We don't know, but we do know you remember Zager and Evans!
(1 image)January 10, 1976, CW McCall went to No.1 on the US singles chart with 'Convoy', it made No.2 in the UK. CW McCall was in fact an advertising agent whose real name was Bill Fries. via thisdayinmusic.com
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#5. To: Tooconservative (#0)
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Timothy - a feel-good song about some guys trapped in a mine who eat their buddy to survive. Some of these songs came out in the late sixties - In The Year 2525 (actually a pretty cool song) and the Snoopy song. That one I was in 7th or eighth grade when it came out. The band America did Muskrat Love - the C&T version came later. I think One Tin Soldier was in one of the Billy Jack movies. CW McCall (Bill Fries) was a jingle writer most notably for Old Home Bread (Old Home Filler-Up An' Keep On A-Truckin' Cafe) in Omaha when I was stationed there at Offutt AFB - in fact I took some classes at the studio where Convoy was recorded. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9OCgem4a_k
Well, not exactly a feel-good song. More a lament that when they were rescued, the singer had a full belly of Timothy. It raises the question of whether there was any need to (possibly kill and) eat their co-worker. I do like songs that tell a story.
#7. To: Tooconservative (#6)
Overcoming insurmountable odds to survive and relying on the overwhelming will to live, the two buddies did whatever it took to make it home alive - what's not to feel good about that? Yeah - I was being somewhat sarcastic in my original post. More a lament that when they were rescued, the singer had a full belly of Timothy. I read somewhere that "Timothy" may have been a mule or other pack animal - but that doesn't make sense. BTW, did you know that the song was written by Rupert Holmes who also did "Escape (The Piña Colada Song)"?
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#6. To: Deckard (#5)
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Timothy - a feel-good song about some guys trapped in a mine who eat their buddy to survive.
Replies to Comment # 6. Well, not exactly a feel-good song.
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