chuckthewriter's jams
Here are all of chuckthewriter's jams.
West Coast Summer Nights
by Tony Carey
After three years of posting a weekly jam through this site, the "This Is My Jam" website will be archived. So this is my last "jam" with the company. Fine by me, I'm riding off to the sunset.
Jammed: 25th Sep 2015
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Let Me Go
by Heaven 17
One of my favorite songs from Heaven 17 - the only band I know who was successfully predicted as being a top group by Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange movie.
Jammed: 19th Sep 2015
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Girl Of My Dreams
by Bram Tchaikovsky
This may be the only Top 40 hit of the 1970's about a mail-order sex doll. Not kidding.
Jammed: 12th Sep 2015
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American City Suite (Album Version)
by Cashman & West
With only a few weeks left until "This Is My Jam" closes up shop, I thought I'd add this three-part elegy to 1950's - 1960's - 1970's New York City.
Jammed: 6th Sep 2015
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More Than A Feeling
by Boston
With only a few weeks to go until "This Is My Jam" is shuttered forever, this might be the last song I play on this service. If so, it's the best rock song of the 1970's. Bar none.
The Adventures Of Grandmaster Flash On The Wheels Of Steel
by Grandmaster Flash
With only a couple of weeks left before "This Is My Jam" shuts down for good, I could not resist blasting one of my all-time favorite high school jams. #grandmasterflash #legendofhiphop
Get The Adventures Of Grandmaster Flash On The Wheels Of Steel at Amazon
Jammed: 25th Aug 2015
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Rain
by Dragon
Since the "This is My Jam" portal is shutting down in a few weeks, I'm posting some of my all-time favorites to the site before it ceases existence. Like this track, 'frinstance.
Jammed: 19th Aug 2015
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Sinfonia to Cantata 29
by Wendy Carlos
Since the "This Is My Jam" project will end in September 2015, I'm going to cram in some of my all-time favorite pieces before the website archives itself. Including this, one of my all-time favorite synth classics.
Jammed: 13th Aug 2015
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Obsession
by Animotion
Heard this song on the radio the other day... and was singing it for days and days after that.
Jammed: 7th Aug 2015
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Run, Run, Run
by The Third Rail
The lead vocalist for this one-hit-wonder was Joey Levine, who went on to sing lead on the Ohio Express' "Yummy, Yummy, Yummy" and Reunion's "Life Is A Rock (But the Radio Rolled Me)." He also did lead on the Banana Splits' song "I Enjoy Being a Boy (In Love With You)."
Jammed: 1st Aug 2015
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You Gave Me Somebody To Love
by The Dreamlovers
Some classic Philly soul with the Dreamlovers, this song bounced around afterwards to artists like Manfred Mann and the Purple Reign.
Jammed: 26th Jul 2015
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Jammed: 19th Jul 2015
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Jammed: 13th Jul 2015
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Jammed: 7th Jul 2015
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Jammed: 1st Jul 2015
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Ciao Baby
by Lynne Randell
Lynne Randall's biggest hit was a "play-on-the-turntable-and-cry" staple for millions of broken-hearted teenagers.
Jammed: 25th Jun 2015
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Sweet Lullaby
by Deep Forest
How the heck did this collage of sounds and chants and songs turn into a worldwide pop hit? Don't know. Not complaining about it, either.
Jammed: 19th Jun 2015
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MoneyGrabber
by Fitz and the Tantrums
Every time I hear this song, it just reminds me of some great classic Northern Soul hits with a Motown percussion and some excellent "Look of Love" ABC vibes.
Jammed: 8th Jun 2015
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Here Comes The Sun
by Fat Larry's Band
"Don't let nothing hold you back // you can do it, get into your act // if we try, we can make it // don't give up, don't you fake it... SHINE!
Jammed: 2nd Jun 2015
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I Got You
by Split Enz
Sing along with me. "I don't know why sometimes I get frightened..." Good stuff.
Jammed: 27th May 2015
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The Breaks
by Kurtis Blow
One of the great anchors of original hip hop music. The legendary Kurtis Blow, my brothers...
Jammed: 21st May 2015
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Jim Dandy
by Black Oak Arkansas
This is one of those classic rock songs where you just roll down the car window and blast the radio until the cars three lengths back can hear it too.
Jammed: 15th May 2015
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Bok to Bach
by Father's Angels
A delicious piece of Northern Soul music, this instrumental kept all the people dancing from Stoke to Wigan.
Lizzie And The Rainman
by Tanya Tucker
This is an early hit for a teenaged Tanya Tucker. Kind of a novelty song, but it did help propel her career...
Jammed: 3rd May 2015
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Hard Times
by Fresh Bush and the Invisible Man
This is what happens when someone gets a hold of your Presidential speeches and edits them into a dance record. #hahahahaha
Jammed: 26th Apr 2015
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The Adventures Of Grandmaster Flash On The Wheels Of Steel (Long Version)
by Grandmaster Flash
I look at it this way. Only one man could take Blondie, Queen, Spoonie Gee and the Sugarhill Gang, and create this masterpiece. Only one man.
Get The Adventures Of Grandmaster Flash On The Wheels Of Steel (Long Version) at Amazon
Jammed: 20th Apr 2015
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You're the One for Me
by "D" Train
This was the best of disco and early hip-hop; and this version even has the soulful intro from the original LP.
Jammed: 14th Apr 2015
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Jammed: 7th Apr 2015
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Take the Skinheads Bowling
by Camper Van Beethoven
Since I'm doing something specific that references something in the title of this track this weekend...
Ugly Man With Money
by Ruth Wallis
After the actions of this week's blog drama, I figured this would be a nice appropriate song. #hahahahaha
Jammed: 26th Mar 2015
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Last Night a DJ Saved My Life
by Indeep
Classic R&B dance music from the early 1980's. They may have been "one-hit wonders," but that one hit was definitely wonderful.
Jammed: 20th Mar 2015
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I'll Drink To You
by Duke Jupiter
This New York rock group had a couple of regional hits, this one actually got close to being a Top 40 national track.
Jammed: 14th Mar 2015
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Star Trekkin'
by The Firm
Figured this would make everyone smile this week, in honor of Leonard Nimoy, this is my favorite Star Trek parody song.
Jammed: 2nd Mar 2015
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Can't Get Him Off My Mind
by Dawn
This is not Tony Orlando and Dawn; this "Dawn" was a girl group from the 1960's who should have had a bigger hit with this track.
Jammed: 24th Feb 2015
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On My Own
by Peach Union
One of those cool early 90's songs that got played for about a few weeks and then disappeared. Now it's back.
Jammed: 18th Feb 2015
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Crack the Whip
by New York Flyers
Ah, the wonderful world of Central New York rock and roll. I always heard about five seconds of this song in radio commercials when they played at Sylvan Beach or the Casabogie or some other club in the Syracuse-Utica area.
Jammed: 12th Feb 2015
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Everyone Else Has Had More Sex Than Me
by TISM
While most of TISM's songs are sarcastic and cynical and satirical, this one - one of their last hits - is more wistful and thoughtful.
Jammed: 6th Feb 2015
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She (Didn't Even Remember My Name)
by Osmosis
What can you say about a mystery South African studio group that had an international hit with this song? Not much, because nobody really knows who recorded the song. Intriguing...
Jammed: 31st Jan 2015
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The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
by Gil Scott-Heron
Whoever edited this video is a bit behind the times, not knowing that "Julia" was a reference to Diahann Carroll's sitcom; or that it was "Willie Mae" pushing a shopping cart, not Willie Mays. Probably best to enjoy the song without the video...
Jammed: 25th Jan 2015
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I Am Pegasus
by Ross Ryan
I really dig singer-songwriters, and this track just hypnotized me from the first time it caught my ears.
Jammed: 19th Jan 2015
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You Could Take My Heart Away
by Silver Condor
Summer of 1981. This song was poised to be a Top 10 hit. And then it just disappeared off the radio airwaves. Almost as if it never existed. Shame.
Jammed: 13th Jan 2015
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Sky High
by Jigsaw
Great song from 1975, it was also used as the theme song for the film The Man From Hong Kong, also known as George Lazenby's OTHER film.
Jammed: 7th Jan 2015
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Convoy
by C.W. McCall
If I was to tell you this was one of the earliest "rap" records ever recorded, you would have thought I had lost my mind. And yet this record sold a million copies and is still beloved nearly 40 years later.
Jammed: 1st Jan 2015
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Resist Her
by Comateens
A song that received lots of airplay on college radio in the 1980's, it was good for what it was worth...
Jammed: 25th Dec 2014
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Arabesque No. 1 (Debussy)
by Isao Tomita
In memory of Kenneth White, a boy whose chance at life was stolen away for reasons that none of us will ever understand, accept or comprehend. God bless you, little angel.
Jammed: 19th Dec 2014
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Big in Vegas
by Buck Owens
If you've only known Buck Owens from hosting Hee Haw, you've missed out on some of his most tender and heartfelt recordings. Including this one.
Jammed: 13th Dec 2014
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Up The Ladder To The Roof
by The Supremes
Just because Diana Ross left the Supremes, didn't mean that they stopped having hits. They were still cracking the Top 10 with tracks like this one, with Jean Terrell as the lead singer.
Radio Free Europe (Hib-Tone edition)
by R.E.M.
One of the records that made it to the cover of my first record collector's guide. Plus, I dig R.E.M. So there.
Jammed: 30th Nov 2014
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Please Stay
by The Cryin' Shames
Joe Meek was an underappreciated music producer, we know him in America from "Telstar" or "Have I The Right," and here's a really solid track from one of his bands, the Cryin' Shames.
Jammed: 24th Nov 2014
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Since You Changed Your Mind
by Dragon
A classic album track from the 1970's iteration of Dragon. Marc Hunter had a way with ballads. He always did.
Jammed: 18th Nov 2014
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Jammed: 12th Nov 2014
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So You Ran
by Orion the Hunter
Nothing like a little 1980's AOR rock and roll to get through the morning.
Jammed: 6th Nov 2014
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Jammed: 31st Oct 2014
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Nothing You can Do About It
by The Manhattan Transfer
In memory of Tim Hauser, this is my jam for the week.
Jammed: 24th Oct 2014
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Here Comes The Sun
by Fat Larry's Band
A peppy little disco track from 1981, still brings back great memories in high school.
Jammed: 18th Oct 2014
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Do What You Wanna Do
by Five Flights Up
This one-hit wonder from 1970 was a five-man vocal harmony R&B group from Los Angeles. Great song, should have been a much bigger hit.
Jammed: 12th Oct 2014
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Here Am I
by Wendy Matthews
From the Marc Hunter tribute concert so many years ago, Australian singer Wendy Matthews takesa turn with the Dragon classic "Here Am I." Great interpretation.
Jammed: 6th Oct 2014
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Jammed: 30th Sep 2014
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