I've got that album at home--love it!
My favorite 8-track car-listening memory was my dad playing John Denver's "Back Home Again" over and over, as well as Simon and Garfunkel's Greatest Hits.
Just keep walking, preacher-man.
River ,'Jaynestown'
Buffista Music 4: Needs More Cowbell!
There's a lady plays her fav'rite records/On the jukebox ev'ry day/All day long she plays the same old songs/And she believes the things that they say/She sings along with all the saddest songs/And she believes the stories are real/She lets the music dictate the way that she feels.
Kathy A - Jun 22, 2010 11:23:53 am PDT #3147 of 6436
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Kathy A - Jun 22, 2010 11:24:52 am PDT #3148 of 6436
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
I've got them totally depressing
Low down, mind messing
Workin' at the car wash blues
tommyrot - Jun 22, 2010 11:27:41 am PDT #3149 of 6436
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Back then, my uncle had a Galaxie 500. I have fond memories of hm playing Johny Cash's Greatest Hits on the 8-track wile driving down the highway at 100 mph in the Galaxie.
Ooh, Elton John's Greatest Hits was another 8-track we got from my Aunt. Always meant to reacquire that album.
beekaytee - Jun 22, 2010 11:28:33 am PDT #3150 of 6436
Compassionately intolerant
My favorite 8 track was ELO.
tommyrot - Jun 22, 2010 11:28:43 am PDT #3151 of 6436
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Poor Croce - he died before he achieved national prominence, right?
DavidS - Jun 22, 2010 11:31:08 am PDT #3152 of 6436
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I drove across the country with my best friend Alex (Boston to California) in '85 with an 8-track player in the car. We picked up Dick Clark's 25 Years of Rock and Roll in a thrift shop in Cheyenne, Wyoming and listened to "Tequila" all the way across the Rockies.
My biggest association with that 8-track player, though, would be Aerosmith. Toys in the Attic, bay-bee!
Also, Bachman-Turner Overdrive, a band that only makes sense on an 8-Track.
DavidS - Jun 22, 2010 11:31:36 am PDT #3153 of 6436
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Poor Croce - he died before he achieved national prominence, right?
Oh no! He had a shit ton of hits before he died, and had his own summer TV show and all that.
tommyrot - Jun 22, 2010 11:31:50 am PDT #3154 of 6436
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
You don't tug on Supermans's Cape
You don't speed into the wind
You don't pull the mask off an ol' Lone Ranger
And you don't mess around with Jim
DavidS - Jun 22, 2010 11:32:31 am PDT #3155 of 6436
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Right, plus "Operator" and "Don't Mess Around With Jim" and they released "Time in a Bottle" posthumously and it was huge hit.
tommyrot - Jun 22, 2010 11:33:53 am PDT #3156 of 6436
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Oh no! He had a shit ton of hits before he died, and had his own summer TV show and all that.
It looks like he had great success in '72 and died in '73. Huh.