The Quest for Silver with Chris Tuffer Episode 46

Hi folks Chris Tuffer here with another episode of the Quest for Silver and we start this hour with The Edwin Starr song Twenty five Miles and the second secondary song is Glen Campbell with Galveston.  Next is a one hit wonder by Mercy entitled Love can make you happy.  The Edwin Hawkin Singers do our next instalment O Happy Day.  The Friends of Distinction do this one called Grazin' in the grass.  There is more for you as you listen.

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

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My feet are hurting my deep face. I've been walking every day. You know that I'm fighting man But I got a woman waiting for me That's gonna make this trip worth a while Your teachers got the candle open and I'll get it I'll make a make him post all wild So I can don't keep on walking I got to walk off so I just faster I can fifty fast the phone now I can hear my baby calling my name If that's it oh I'm standing at a photo I can hear that all over Now I'll be stuffing to see my baby And holding in my arms one more time That will I can tell I'll turn up that gold of fill and I'll put it up I speed the mass I took for walking to Papa I see the Fast of Feu folks just in case you came here by accident this is lifestyles 55 and the quest for silver with me Christopher but you can call me Mr.

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T We're all about the songs that did not garner to my virtue of the chart what do people think is when it comes to popularity run around sometimes when we look back at the song that we used to listen to somehow got lost due to the overplay of the number one honor of this reality we play number two like the walk of Edwin Starr on his 40th track to see his girl it's actually originally 25 miles but I don't want a visit from the Metric police so let's shift it into second gear for Mr.

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Glenn Campbell and his visit to the perimeter of the pinnacle of success with his number two Galveston Galveston oh Galveston I still hear your sea winds blowin' I still see her dark eyes glowing she was twenty one when I left Galveston Galveston of Galveston I still hear your sea waves flashing while I watch the cannons flashing I clean my guns and dream of Galveston I still see her standing by the water standing there looking out to see as if she was in the for me on the beach where we used to run the stand for the stun I am so afraid of dies before I drive the tears she scries before I watch you see birds fly in your song at Yellowstones Our first quarter of our show will conclude with a one-hit wonder as we wander through the late sixties looking for silver songs like We Need Mercy.

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Yes they were from the sunshine state back in the mid-20th century and came up with a rather mild but target blaster because it was as close to them as it is wearing with love can make you happy check out the lyric love can make you happy if you find someone who cares to give a lifetime to you and has a love to share. We are L fifty five from the Q for S with me, Mr.

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Twitter and the sun shines make you happy if you find someone a life time to you and you have a make you happy if you can make you happy can make you happy when you go back to the sixties it's a time that transcends time and if you've lived through those years especially as a teenager you will concur.

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The Edwin Hawkins singers put together an international hit in 1969 reaching number two on the Canadian singles chart and also on the UK singles chart and the Irish singles chart it has since become a gothical music standard selling over seven million copies worldwide making it the second best selling gossip song of all time how about this entertainment factoid George Harrison said that the song was a primary inspiration in the writing of his nineteen seventy international hit My Sweet Lord Happy Dappy Dappy does the wall when you walk when you do the war the way when Jesus won't Jesus Since music has no season when we love a particular song or melody like this one by The Friends of Distinction, we don't care what kind of weather is happening outside because this song had a major impact on the music scene of the sixties entitled Grazen in the Grass. Before this vocal rendition, Razin in the Grass was an instrumental composed by Philoman Who and first recorded by the South African trumpeter Hugh Masekella. The vocal version by The Friends of Distinction with lyrics by band member Harry Elston was a chart hit in 1969.

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As a matter of fact, it's a song that has been covered by many other musicians showing us you gave one shrimp just watching as the world goes the bass is a bad so many buttons in the reds back in the sounds of galls on the boss is a ball started Dion was not the first choice of the author of our next installment of our so-called silver collection Abraham Martin and John was the title of the song but of course it also mentioned Bobby who was also slain for political views but was not like the other three in one fashion or another.

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Anyway, Dick Holler was thinking a well known voice and when they recruited they knew that he was just the right man for the job and the public agreed it was and for all intents and purposes it is with people who empathize with tragedy justice and truth L fifty five from the Q for S with me and Mr Tnybody see my old friend everyone can you tell me where he's gone

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You know I just looked around and he's anybody here see my old friend John Can you tell me where he's gone? He pretty lot of people see the dialogue. I just look for my old friend. Can you tell me where he's gone? Some days is gonna be one day.

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However, their popularity was waning after a few years, and so their demise was, as they say, largely written on the proverbial wall. In April 1968, band leader Rod Argent explained the reason for the band breaking up, saying, We don't want to end up playing for twenty pounds a night in third-class ballrooms. We are still big in demand on the university circuit and are getting a lot of work. We want to quit while the going's good. They had a few big hits, like she's not there, tell her no, she's coming home, and this one.

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When love runs high, in this time, give it to me easy, and let me try with pleasured hands to take you in the sound to promised land, to show you everyone is the time of the season for love. What's your name? Who's your daddy? Who's your daddy? Is he rich like me? Has he taken any time? To show you what you need to live. Tell me to me slowly, tell you why. I really want to know it's the time of the season for love. What's your name? What's your change? Who's your daddy? Who's your daddy? Is he which like me? As he take up, as he takes any time, any time to show. Show you why we need to live. Tell me to be slowly, tell you why. I really want to know. It's the time of the season for love.

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However, in the ghetto, originally entitled The Vicious Circle, is a 1969 song written by Mac Davis and recorded by Elvis. It was a major hit released in 1969 as a part of Presley's comeback album, and was also available on the single release of Any Day Now on the flip side. We are L55 in the Q for S with me, Mr. T.

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Chicago, on a pool, little baby child again.

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People don't you want to stay?

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Are we too much? Do we still boy with the wrong nose plays in the street with the cold window? And his hunger bones. So he starts to roll on the streets at night, and he learns how to steal, and he learns how to fight and go to. And as your young man, raised God and the name.

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It is known for its opening line, One is the loneliest number that you'll ever do. Nilsen wrote the song after calling someone and getting a busy signal. He stayed on the line listening to the beat while writing the song. The busy signal became the opening note.

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It's the loneliest number since the number one. Yes, it's the saddest experience you'll ever know.

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One is the loneliest number one too. It's just no good anymore since you went away. Now I spend my time just making rhymes yesterday.

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We'll begin with A Soul Full of Strap by the Young Holt Unlimited. The year is 1968, and people heard of the song. Am I the Same Girl? A popular song written by Eugene Record and Sonny Saunders first recorded by Barbara Ackland. Am I the same girl charted most successfully in the US? As a 1992 release by Swing Out Sister. However, the song had its greatest impact as a 1969 instrumental hit by The Young Old Unlimited under the title Soulful Strategia. What a sound they produced, and what a huge effect they had on the music scene throughout the years they recorded together, as well as separately. But my fond memories are like this next song on our silver quest, The Boxer, a song written by Paul Simon and recorded by the American music duo Simon and Garfunkel from their fifth and final studio album, Hundred Over Troubled Water. The original recording of the song is one of the duos most highly produced, and it took over 100 hours to record. The recording was performed at multiple locations, including St. Paul's Chapel, Columbia University in New York City, and Columbia Studios in Nashville, on a sixteen-track recorder. The lyrics are largely autobiographical and partially inspired by the Bible, and were written during a time where Simon Velty was being unfairly criticized.

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I am just a poor boy, though my story seldom told the lies on my resistance, poor a pocket full among such a promises. All lies and chests, still the man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest. Asking only a workman's wages, I come looking for a job, but I get no offers Just to come home from the wars on Seventh Avenue. I do declare there were times when I was so lonesome, I took some comfort there. And he carries the reminders of every glow that laid him down or cut him till he cried out In his anger and his shame. I am leaving, I am leaving, but the finding still remains.

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Just ahead is another one of my famous twin spins. This time it's a group that came perilously close to being a one-hit wonder group. They struck a day with their inaugural composition about Tracy, and followed it up with a modest comeback song entitled When Julie Comes Around. 1969 was a tough year to break the center barrier, but one or two hits is better than none. The cufflings, for all intents and purposes, were a fictitious group, but almost always with lead singer Ron Dante. His vocals were Tracy were recorded in just hours. He recalled I Put On a Lead Voice, doubled it a few times, and then put about seventeen or eighteen backgrounds. Tracy spent twelve weeks in the U.S. chart, and subsequently sold over one million copies and being awarded a gold record. Dante had promised Vans and Hawkers that if the song was a hit, he would record an entire coven's album. And when it started, Vans and Hawkers quickly delved through their catalog to produce more songs. It was the quickest album I'd ever done, Dante remarked. I think I did the entire background vocals and leads in a day and a half for the entire album. I remember doing at least four or five songs in one day. And included the second hit When Julie Comes Around.

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Just drifting on the water. Whenever she's gone.

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But I go on Wait till Julie comes around and sings a happy song And lifts my spirit up and fills my foolish mind with She smiles a gentle smile And suddenly I get that feeling And then I'm inside I went up Cause Julies come around again She's just like She follows the sun She spreads out her wings And once again she leaves me It's always the same I'm broken in two Butterwild I always love Julie's coming around Yeah When Julie comes around and sings a happy song of the sun And lifts my spirit up and fills my foolish mind with wonder Twin twins Tracy when I'm with you something you do Bounces me off the ceiling Tracy day after day When you're this way I get a love and feelin' Come with me Don't say no Hold me close Tracy never let go Tracy I'm gonna be happy with you I'll build a world around you filled with love every way And when you're there you'll be so glad I found you come with me Don't stay no be close Tracy never never ever let me let me don't say no be close chasing never never ever let me go Chase never let me go Chasey never let me go time is tight and what a segue Booker T and the MGs will round out this hour of silver songs on lifestyle fifty five with my sincere gratitude for your including us in your day as a request for silver with the songs from the previous century So for now until the next time we meet be cool and stay warm.