The Quest for Silver with Chris Tuffer Episode 37

Whatever gets you through the night is the first of our number two songs this hour by the late John Lennon.  Next is Ozark Mountain Daredevils with Jackie Blue.  The NExt group is First Class and that is their handle not just a commentary called Beach Baby.  Olivia Newton John is here now with her number two song Have you never been mellow.  The rest of the show is waiting for you.

Transcript

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This is the Quest for Silver with Chris Tuffer on Lifestyles 55 Podcasts.

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Whatever gets you through the night, it's alright.

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It's alright. Don't jump on the light. It's all both.

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It's alright. Don't be the salty dropy flower. Oh no, oh no. Whatever gets you through your life. It's alright. It's alright. Do it right, do it right. Don't need to wash the sky.

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Oh no. Oh yeah, done.

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I want you to be a bow. Whatever gets you to the light.

unknown 1:56

It's all right.

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It's alright. I don't know who I'm side. Alright. Don't be the gun to go to the bottom.

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I want you to go home.

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Hi, folks, the quest for silver has begun. And today we have songs from the 1970s that did not make it yellow. Silver acquisition. Lifetime with me, Mr. T. Number one single in the U.S. number of the middle. With Jackie Blue, which is a track recorded for their album It'll Shine When It Shines, released in 1974, and subsequently released as a single in February 1975.

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You're not so down. Like your life in a free form style. What's a game, girl, if you never lose? I'm lost sometime. Don't try to tell me that you're not aware. You say it's easy, just a natural thing. Like playing music that you never see. Making wishes that never come true. Go in places where you've never been.

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Every day in your evening's eyes.

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I want to sensor, but I never see it rise. You take the world, but you won't take the time.

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And that is their handle. As well as a deserved accolade with the song Beach Baby from England. It was written by John Carter and his wife, Jill Shakespeare. The song became the band's only substantial hit. And the subject of the lyrics is not holiday love, but a broken love relationship between two high school students in LA in the 50s. Carter and Shakespeare wrote a beach baby in their home in East Green, Southwest London. And shortly afterward, Carter hired lead singer Tony Burroughs and session singer Jazz Mills to record it under the band name The First Class. Well, interesting note here is that Burroughs' attempts to sing the tune in an American accent was reflecting the song's California setting Do you remember Maggie O'Melle?

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Oh When everybody's over Chevrolet Oh Whatever happens to the boy next door sometimes creek and all American mail Remember this and the match Just like who went in the soda I never recognize with your next door beat up the sleep and the deal Bitch baby bitch baby give me a hand give me something give me Just like the ball we do on the shore Bitch baby bitch baby they're the same from July to the end of September September every day I never thought that it would endow everybody's brain who's waiting for a We can do a graduation But we're yet to win that we're flying Bitch baby beach baby baby sound Just like we all we go by the shop and beach baby beach baby they're on the same brother Circles run with the owl in the sun every day ONJ Those are the initials for Olivia Newton John and has a very melodic approach to her songs, even soft and gentle.

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Have you never been mellow is the title of this one from her fifth album in 1975. It was nominated for Best Pop Vocal Performance Female at the eighteenth annual Grammy Award, but lost to the Ganesians at seventeen.

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To find a comfort from you have you never been happy just to hear your song?

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Have you never let someone else be strong running around as you do with your head out in the clouds? I was like you never had time to lay back, kick your shoes up, she eyes. I was like you now you're not hard to understand to take your hand Have you never been alone?

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Have you never tried to find comfort and you never been happy? Just say he is never be strong.

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The song is inspired by the sunrise on Blackford Hill in Edinburgh. In a 2012 interview with Hot Days of Television, also stated that at the time his wife said she had never seen a daybreaker, which also inspired the song. And magic is the title of the song on L55 and the Q for S with me, Mr. T.

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Oh, ho, it's magic, you know, never believe it's that so it's magic, you know, never believe it's that soon a way ache, never seen a baby, leaning on my pillow in the morning, lazy day in bed, music in my head, crazy music playing in the morning the night. Oh, ho, it's magic, you know. Never believe it's that so it's magic, you know, never believe it's that so I love a sunny day, dream far away, dreaming on my pillow in the morning never been away, hey, never seen a day break. Weaning on my pillow in the morning.

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Oh, oh, oh, it's magic in the never been so it's magic.

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They had a string of hits in the 70s, and this one captured the second place, which is why I offer it as a participant on our request. It was written by band member Louis Bennell and produced by George Martin, who also plays a piano card on this recorded version. It is a very obscure lyrical. Great grammar. I was never dead. Nothing to the Tin Man. Well, I guess it's sort of like a poetic license. And just in case you missed the allegory, Tin Man was one of the characters of the movie back in 1939 called The Wizard of Oz.

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The shelf, but Oz never did give nothing to a ten man that he didn't didn't already have and cause never was a reason for evening for the topic of Sir Gallagher. So please believe in me when I say I'm spinning round, round, round, round, smoke-blasting like her. Image going down, down, down, down, so absurd green lighter. Oh, I never did give nothing to the tin man that he didn't, didn't already have and cause never was a reason for the evening for the traffic of Sir Gallagher. So please believe in me when I Sam Stin, round, round, round, round. So scream like up. No, I never did give nothing to the tin man that he didn't, didn't already have and the cause never was the reason for the evening for the traffic of Sir Gallagher. So please believe in me.

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Their style and sound span various music genres, such as jazz, RB, soul, funk, disco, pop, Latin, and Afro pop. Just slightly diverse, I'd say. They're among the best-selling music artists of all time with sales of over 90 million records worldwide. The roots of the band are found in Chicago in the final stages of the 60s. And they were not very well known as the salty peppers, even though I kinda like that name. But when success seemed to elude them, they analyzed things and found that they discovered that they have a connection to astrology and so involved the name Earth, Wind, and Fire leaving out the element of water. The song is entitled Sing a Song.

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How novel Will you build out it out? Sing a song, it'll make it dead, yeah, yeah. You will come to shout out.

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Sometimes it's hard to care. Smell it's so hard to get the soul give it care.

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Sing so make it out, yes.

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Occasionally I like using a particular lyrical style, which in this case lent itself naturally to telling the story of a guy who woos his woman with poetry. The title of the song is a reference to the nineteenth-century American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Diamond chose to reference Longfellow specifically after recalling an instance in which, while in his teens, Diamond had used one of the poets' words to successfully seduce a significantly older woman. We are Lifestyles 55, and I'm Christopher with you on a quest for silver.

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You know that I was born for a night like this, born by a stolen kiss, for I was lonely, and she was lonely. Right. Come on, baby, ride. Let me sing my song, let me make it war for you. I'll weave this weather time upon the summer night. We'll leave this world with time on its winged flight. And comfort as we live beside this sleepy glade There I will see to you my non fellow serenade. Such were the plans I'd made, but she was a lady as deep as the river. Through the night we stayed in my way. I loved her as none before. Loved her with words and more. But she was lonely, and I was lonely. We go wear the prime upon our summer night.

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Miracles appeared a wee bit shy of the bullseye, but was there for three weeks on the Billboard Hot 100, making it the highest charting single the band ever recorded under the name Jefferson Starship or in the previous Incarnation Jefferson Airplane. Miracles has a rocky history, especially with the critics. By the way, the song has been featured in the films The Fantasy Stone of O5, Crank the following year, and the TV series Supernatural season six, episode 19 in 2011.

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We can die to believe only to believe.

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Several successful recordings of the song were made in 1934. Later, there were chartered versions by the flamingos in nineteen fifty-nine and now let's hear Art Garfunkel, who did it in nineteen seventy-five. Still the one in nineteen seventy-six from the album Waking and Dreaming. In nineteen seventy-nine. Larry Holland and Wells Kelly. Later that year, the group expanded to include Larry's younger brother, Larry.

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The music is just starting, night is gone, and I am falling.

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I hope that you are willing to pick the beat up and kick your teeth and dance with me. Let it lift you after starry eyes and shovels all around us. I can take you where you want to go dance with me. I want to be a partner, can't you see? The music is discarding, I discold, and I am dance with me. I want to be a partner, can't you see? The music is just starting, I just fall in the falling dance with me.

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However, I would be remiss if I did not tell you this juicy bit of the backstory that just might grab some attention. If you recall Don Traconi of the Critters, he was on hand when the song was ready to record in the studio. And Warner Brothers said, Let us go ahead with Don as the leader on this. And we had it done. It was partly due to the fact that Frankie was away in Europe when he returned. He said he would not relinquish his leadership. And so they compromised and share the song. Thank you for listening. Until we return, we cool and stay warm.

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When you find your right and you can't find the way to make it happy when you're waiting.