Favorite "forgotten" pop song

What I mean by "forgotten" is a popular song that at one time was played regularly on the radio but is rarely heard anymore.

Mine is "Dancing in the Moonlight" by King Harvest. It came out in the early '70s when I was a kid living in southern California and it always vividly brings back memories of that time for me.

I think it was used in a commercial recently, but beyond that I don't hear it much. It's one of my favorite pop songs though.

We get it on most every night
When that moon is big and bright
It’s a supernatural delight
Everybody’s dancing in the moonlight

Everybody here is out of sight
They don’t bark and they don’t bite
They keep things loose they keep it tight
Everybody’s dancing in the moonlight

Dancing in the moonlight
Everybody’s feeling warm and bright
It’s such a fine and natural sight
Everybody’s dancing in the moonlight

We like our fun and we never fight
You can’t dance and stay uptight
It’s a supernatural delight
Everybody was dancing in the moonlight

Dancing in the moonlight
Everybody’s feeling warm and bright
It’s such a fine and natural sight
Everybody’s dancing in the moonlight

We get it on most every night
And when that moon is big and bright
It’s a supernatural delight
Everybody’s dancing in the moonlight

Dancing in the moonlight
Everybody’s feeling warm and bright
It’s such a fine and natural sight
Everybody’s dancing in the moonlight

i hear it every once in a while, i have often wondered who the artist was, so thanks for the info :)

did toploader have any other "hits" i might recognise?

I guess Toploader re-did it.

I LOVE that song.

"Tainted Love" by SoftCell is up there too

Toploader did a remake years later.

It not only reminded me what a great cover it was, but also what an underrated singer Robert Palmer really was.

Listen to the original by T-Rex sometime!

Meanwhile, I'm stiiiill thinkin'...

By a group from the Netherlands called Golden Earring, who actually had a good long career (they may still be playing Rotterdam's equivalent of The Station) but never scored another hit in the States.

I don't think that it was as big as Radar Love, but I seem to remember Twilight Zone getting a lot of radio (and MTV) play during the 80's.

But I could be wrong...


Tim

"When the bullet hits the bone."

I remember some guy in college telling me it was from Golden Earring's concept album about a guy being framed for an assassination or something. I never heard the album, so I can't confirm.

Apparently I slept through the '80s.

I did get the album they did after Moontan (the one with "Radar Love" on it), I forget its name, but there was a song on there about a punk rocker named Vic Timm who turned up dead. So maybe Golden Earring had an artistic fixation on violent death.

But I don't think there are any such songs on Moontan, which I remember being a pretty good record. There's one song with flute in it that's quite a good Jethro Tull imitation.

and You Light Up My Life

http://www.superseventies.com/sw_kungfufighting.html

I remember Bruce Lee was really big at the time and all of us used to do our "coolest" Kung Fu moves when the song came on. :eyes:

Grandpa Simpson "I used to get by on my looks, now they're gone, withered away like an old piece of fruit! (sobs)

Homer "Are you done?"

Grandpa Simpson "No, not yet."

:evilgrin:

5th grade, huh?

also one of my personal favorites.

by Spirit (I think)

That was my first thought when I saw the post title.

I love Dancing in the Moonlight, btw!

I think it's one of the most moving pop songs ever written, but it's pretty much been buried.

Of course, almost everything I like from the 60s and early 70s is, too.

by KC and Sunshine Band. I guess they've gone down the memory hole as a result of the disco backlash, but I love those two songs, especially "Get Down Tonight".

by the Primitive Radio Gods

The music was good, but the lyrics, to me at least, were extraordinary.

Am I alive or thoughts that drift away?
Does summer come for everyone?
Can humans do what prophets say?
And if I die before I learn to speak
Can money pay for all the days I lived awake
But half asleep?

http://www.primitiveradiogods.info/lyrics.htm

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:thumbsup:

also....

"Love Is Like Oxygen" by Sweet

North side, east side
Little Willy, Willy wears the crown, he's the king around town
Dancing, glancing
Willy drives them silly with his star shoe shimmy shuffle down
Way past one, and feeling alright
little Willy round they can last all night
Hey down, stay down, stay down down

'Cos little Willy, Willy won't go home
But you can't push Willy round
Willy won't go, try tellin' everybody but, oh no
Little Willy, Willy won't go home

Up town, down town
Little Willy really drives them wild with his run-around style
Inside, outside
Willy sends them silly with his star-shine shimmy shuffle smile
Mama done chase Willy down through the hall
But laugh, Willy laugh, he don't care at all
Hey down, stay down, stay down, down

'Cos little Willy, Willy won't go home
But you can't push Willy round
Willy won't go, try tellin' everybody but, oh no
Little Willy, Willy won't go home

Little Willy, Willy won't
Willy won't, Willy won't
Little Willy, Willy won't
Willy won't, Willy won't
Little Willy, Willy won't
Willy won't, Willy won't
Little Willy, Willy won't
Willy won't, Willy won't

Little Willy, Willy won't go home
But you can't push Willy round
Willy won't go, try tellin' everybody but, oh no
Little Willy, Willy won't go home

Little Willy, Willy won't go home
But you can't push Willy round
Willy won't go, try tellin' everybody but, oh no
Little Willy, Willy won't go home

For some reason, I thought it was a song from the Scooby Doo show, you know, the montage where the monster is chasing them around and they play a pop/rock song.

I have no idea why, but I thought it sounded like one of those songs.

Smoke from a Distant Fire (Sanford Townsend)
You Are the Woman (Firefall)
Reminiscing (Little River Band)
Don't Pull Your Love (Hamilton, Joe Frank, & Reynolds)

Although I prefer Shuggie Otis' original a whole lot better.

and Life in a Northern Town by the Dream Academy

also "You Were On My Mind" by Count Five (you do hear this sometimes).

I also loved the Raspberries' songs.

She was black as the night;
Louie was whiter than white,
Danger, danger when you taste brown sugar,
Louie fell in love overnight.
Nothing bad, it was good,
Louie had the best girl he could.
When she took him home
To meet her mama and papa;
Louie knew just where he stood.
Louie Louie Louie, Louie Louie Louie Lou I
Louie Louie Louie, Louie Louie you're gonna cry.
There he stood in the night
Knowing what's wrong from what's right.
He took her home to meet his mama and papa,
Man, he had a terrible fright.
Louie nearly caused a scene
Wishin' it was a dream.
Ain't no diff'rence between black and white,
Brothers, you know what I mean.
Louie Louie Louie