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The Songfactor's Top 10 #384

This week there is 6(six) songs needing facts.

The Songfactor's Choice Top 10 #384

1. Girl's Got Rhythm – AC/DC (1979)

If you have any info on any of the songs mentioned anywhere in this thread, please feel free to post your knowledge here. Submissions on songs will be collated and sent to the main site and you will receive credit for your contribution.

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Issued in the UK on Atlantic, in November 1979, backed with Get It Hot (both tracks being from their Highway To Hell album) - did not chart.

Later featured and an EP (with If You Want Blood (You've Got It), from the same album but not from the album of the same name!, plus live versions of Hell Ain't A Bad Place To Be and Rock 'n' Roll Damnation) - also failed to chart :rock:

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"Blind Eye"

Uriah Heep

Written by Ken Hensley.

A track from their 1972 album, "The Magician's Birthday".

It was also released as the first single with "Sweet Lorraine" as the B-side.

It made #97 in the US.

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The Songfactor's Top 10 #385

This week there is 6(six) songs needing facts.

The Songfactor's Choice Top 10 #385

1. Needles And Pins – Ramones (1978)

2. Dance Little Sister – The Rolling Stones (1974)

3. California Man – Cheap Trick (1978)

4. Don't Ask Me Why – Billy Joel (1980)

5. Sick Of Myself – Matthew Sweet (1995)

6. Can't Stop Lovin' – George Thorogood (1977)

If you have any info on any of the songs mentioned anywhere in this thread, please feel free to post your knowledge here. Submissions on songs will be collated and sent to the main site and you will receive credit for your contribution.

As always the Songfish thanks you

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"Dance Little Sister"

The Rolling Stones

Written by Jagger-Richards

A track from their 1974 album "It's Only Rock'n Roll"-

Released as the B-side of the second single from the album,"Ain't Too proud To Beg", it only charted in France (#19)

Mick Taylor played congas.

The whole album was produced by Jagger&Rchards as The Glimmer Twins for the first time.

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"Sick Of Myself" - Matthew Sweet

This song has been covered by such acts as Bowling For Soup and Death Cab For Cutie.

Reached #2 on the Billboard Modern Rock chart and #58 on the regular US chart in the summer of 1995.

Lou Reed's former guitarist Robert Quine played guitar on this track and most of it's album "100% Fun".

This song is about being infatuated with someone to the point of becoming self-effacingly disoriented.

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"California Man" - Cheap Trick

Song is a cover version, released on their 1978 studio album, Heaven Tonight. It did not chart in any country.

It was originally a song by the British band, The Move and written by Roy Wood.

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"Don't Ask Me Why"

Billy Joel

Written by Billy Joel

A track from his 1980 album "Glass Houses"

Released as a single on July 24th, B-sided by "Through the Long Night", it made #1 on Billboard Adult Contemporary and #19 on Billboard Hot 100.

...about the oddities of life that have become obvious over time. It is more characteristic of a track that would have appeared on Joel's earlier albums in that it has a lighter folk sound as compared to the harder, more rock oriented tracks found throughout the album. The background track contains all acoustic and Latin percussion instruments performing in an Afro-Cuban rhythmic style. An eclectic, instrumental "Latin Ballroom" piano solo, played over the bridge section after the second verse, is also featured in part of the song.

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The Songfactor's Choice Top 10 #386

This week there is 4 (four) songs needing facts.

The Songfactor's Choice Top 10 #386

1. Shout It Out Loud – Kiss (1976) 31

2. Way I Walk, The – Robert Gordon and Link Wray (1977)

3. Love Is A Rose – Neil Young (1974)

4. Baby Boomerang – T. Rex (1972)

If you have any info on any of the songs mentioned anywhere in this thread, please feel free to post your knowledge here. Submissions on songs will be collated and sent to the main site and you will receive credit for your contribution.

As always the Songfish thanks you

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"Shout It Out Loud" - Kiss

A track from their 1976 studio album, Destroyer.

Written by Paul Stanley, Gene Simmons and Bob Ezrin.

Both Paul Stanley and Gene Simmons share lead vocals on this song.

It peaked at #31 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart.

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" Way I Walk, The"

Robert Gordon and Link Wray

Written by Jack Scott.

From their album "Robert Gordon with Link Wray: A Fresh ish Special"

Released in 1978 as a single B-sided by "Sea Cruise".

Gordon's stunning re-working of The Way I Walk - complete with crashing guitar work from the Linkster - became an instant 'radio' hit in the summer of '78 but failed to bother the charts.
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"Love Is A Rose"

Neil Young

Written by Neil Young.

It was supposed to be included in "Homegrown" in 1974 but the album was never released.

later it was released as a track in his compliation "Decade", in 1977.

The melody for "Love Is a Rose" was taken from yet another unreleased song "Dance Dance Dance," which finally saw release on Live at Massey Hall 1971 in 2007.
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" Way I Walk, The"

Robert Gordon and Link Wray

Written by Jack Scott.

From their album "Robert Gordon with Link Wray: A Fresh ish Special"

Released in 1978 as a single B-sided by "Sea Cruise".

Is this the song with the same title covered by The Cramps (I think!!!)? :cool:

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