Songs you remember fondly that aren't mentioned much anymore

The Streak - Ray Stevens. Also love his "Everything Is Beautiful".

"I'm Stone in Love with You" - The Stylistics

Out in the Country by Three Dog Night

Dolly Parton, Emmylou Harris & Linda Ronstadt - Hobo's Meditation

Honey, that thing at R4 wasn't mentioned much when it was released.

Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band - "Cherchez La Femme" Hadn't heard or seen this in years!

The Telephone Man

Precious and Few - Climax

From 1973, but I played this a lot in the 80s and 90s as friends passed away.

"Friends With You" - John Denver

What a friend we have in time. Gives us children, makes us wine. Tells us what to take or leave behind. And the gifts of growing old, all the stories to be told of the feelings more precious than gold.

Friends I will remember you, think of you, pray for you. And when another day is through, I’ll still be friends with you.

Baby’s days are never long. Mother’s laugh is baby’s song. Gives us all the hope to carry on.

Friends I will remember you, think of you, pray for you. And when another day is through, I’ll still be friends with you. Friends I will remember you, think of you, pray for you. And when another day is through, I’ll still be friends with you. My friends, I will remember you, think of you, pray for you. And when another day is through, I’ll still be friends with you.

Cherish by The Association

"Dream a Little Dream of Me" - Mama Cass

Classical Gas - Mason Williams - a hit instrumental

Pillow Talk was a huge hit in Chicago in 1973. Not many people seem to remember it.

It was pretty hot in NY as well.

"Sunshine" - Jonathan Edwards

"Do You Know What I Mean" - Lee Michaels

"Pieces of April" - Three Dog Night

"Peaceful" - Helen Reddy

Some great blasts from the past. How about Mellow Yellow from Donovan? Reminds me of being 16 on a hot summer day--I didn't know it was about drugs. I didn't know WHAT it was about, just liked it. Does this song have the lyric "I'm just wild about 14?" (Matt Goetz territory?)

"I remember skies, reflected in your eyes..."

"Express Way to Your Heart"

"New Orleans Ladies" - Le Roux

"Someday Soon", "Who Knows Where The Time Goes?" - Judy Collins

"Atlantic" - Donovan

"Oh Very Young" - Cat Stevens

"Nice To Be With You".... Gallery

"Friends"...Elton John

"Thanks For Saving My Life"...Billy Paul

"Easy To Be Hard"...Three Dog Night

and (bubblegum, but I love it) "Easy Come, Easy Go"...Bobby Sherman

Hot sticky summer nights in the Midwest,. A bunch of us teenagers driving the country highways late wt night in a big old beat up American car. This song captured that essence so perfectly.

I miss the 90s.

Birdhouse In Your Soul

The instrumentals from the 70s and 80s. Would they even play an instrumental on the radio anymore?

Music Box Dancer

Nadia’s Theme

The Entertainer

Hooked On Classics series (the classics meet disco)

R24 Chuck Mangione “Feels So Good”

Mason Williams “Classical Gas”

Kenny G “Songbird”

Great instrumentals:

"Sleepwalk" - Johnny and Santo

Theme from "A Summer Place" - Percy Faith

"Love Is Blue" - Paul Mauriat

"Tequila" - The Champs

"Cast Your Fate To The Wind" - Vince Guaraldi

The Name Game - Shirley Ellis, a silly but fun novelty number

Chuck, chuck, bo buck, banananana...

Love Is a Many Splendored Thing

Where or When

Happy Together

Another great instrumental: "Sukiyaki."

Also the "Lolita Ya-Ya," the theme from Lolita. Not technically an instrumental but functions as one. And how weird (but right) it was to have the "ya-ya" singers not be seductive girls, but bored-sounding teenage boys.

This was a decent-sized hit in 1978, it reached #21 on the Billboard Hot 100, #11 on the dance chart, and #8 on the R&B chart.

Seems to be completely, totally forgotten by everybody but me.

"Don't Hold Back" by Chanson

Another great instrumental is Kool and the Gang’s Summer Madness:

Kelly Marie - Feels like I'm in love.

She looks like a drag queen interpretation of Gillian Anderson.

Love the song though!

Hold the Line by Toto,

Sweet Sixteen

Club Hit from the 70s - "Think (About It)" by Lynn Collins.

"Nathan Jones" - The Supremes -- post Diana

"Tired of Toein' the Line" by Rocky Burnette, among many others.

This song was a big hit and a radio staple in the 70's.

Since then, it seems to have disappeared down the memory hole. It doesn't seem to be included in the canon of great 70's classics. Even when 70's one-hit wonders are discussed, this one rarely gets a mention, if ever. Weird, because it seemed destined to become such a classic. Everybody and their mother did a cover version back then.

"Good Time Charlie's Got the Blues" by Danny O'Keefe

"Me and Mrs. Jones" - Billy Paul -- Kind of cool to hear a song about a sexy illicit affair

Doris Day's version of Pillow Talk.

The Traveling Wilburys - Handle With Care

Itchicoo Park - "It's All Too Beautiful," kind of a fun song and emblematic of the '60s for me.

"Afternoon Delight". Maybe there is a reason it isn't mentioned much anymore.

Tenting Tonight

Disco Tex & The Sex-O-Lettes. - Get Dancin'

Hurricane Smith - Oh Babe What Would You Say. It was very popular & then forgotten.

The Nitty Gritty. Another, better, Shirley Ellis offering.

This song graced the airwaves for a month or two back in '77, never to be heard of again, except in my head

In that photo, Leo Sayer looks like a prettier Richard Simmons!

Angie by The Rolling Stones was a huge hit in 73/74. Barely acknowledged nowadays.

Heartbeat - It's A Lovebeat. It was a great hit when it came out in the early 70s. People remember the Jackson 5, and The Osmonds, but not the DeFranco Family.

The Name Game

(Shirley Shirly Bo Pirly, Banana Fanana Fo Firly, Fe Fi Fo Shirley, Shirley)

Forgot the link above

Linken Lincoln Bo Binken, Banana Fana Fo Finken. Fe Fi Fo, Finken, Lincoln.

OP, the version used in Carlito's Way is better

"Que sera, sera" Doris Day.

R52/53, please see R27.

The Replacements - known for their drunken and raw chaos in much of their post-punk music, had a real tenderness at their core.

Tired of partying, hungry for consolation, lonely and reaching out... Swingin' Party, one of the best songs of its era, completely unknown now.

Joss Stone did a nice cover of Pillow Talk

"Jackie Blue," Ozark Mountain Daredevils. When I listened to this as a kid, I thought the lead singer was a woman.

Clout's "Substitute"

Cooler than Me......2010.....Mike Posner

Every dance floor in 1988....Kon Kan = I beg your pardon....

I'm Losing You.....Uptown

“I Love You More than I Can Say” by Leo Sayer

"Floy Joy" on Motown Records, by The Supremes.

Pickaninny Heaven by Kate Smith

Me So Horny by 2 Live Crew

Fucky sucky fucky fucky sucky me love you long time

Soul II Soul “Keep on Movin’” Tara Kemp “Hold You Tight” and “Piece of my Heart”

I LOVED Tara Kemp! "Hold You Tight" was my jam in 7th grade.

My sister took dance lessons as a kid at the local dance studio.

They had to do a routine to this song, so my parents went out and bought the 45 so she could practice. It was the first record that was "ours", and we played it over and over again. Catchy little tune, but seems to have been completely forgotten nowadays.

(BTW, my sister was fat, so she always got stuck in the back row of those dance recitals! We'd go to watch her dance, and we couldn't even see her! LOL)

R59, me too! I like their Watermill.

The lyrics of this song always made everyone in the family think of one of my cousins. Admittedly, "Little Dwayne" isn't as catchy as "Little Willy".

"We'll Meet Again" Vera Lynn.

Thank you ALL.

I had never heard many of these. What a great musical history lesson.

In junior high (‘77-‘79) I can still remember this song playing at dances in the gym.

So long ago it seems. It’s still one of my favourites.

This makes me feel incredibly melancholy.

The comments are funny...it appears a lot of straight boys thought Taylor was a girl.

The Alley Cat -- didn't realize this had words. Just remember dancing to it at bar mitzvahs and weddings. Do they still dance to it?

r67: I have always wanted a gay version of that!

This would-be weepie was a HUGE hit, and it's completely forgotten.

“Green Onions,” Booker T. & The MG’s. Laid back chill before laid back chill was a thing.

Thanks, r74.

I had this 45 when I was 8 or 9 years old. The chorus was an irresistible earworm to a little kid, and it was a big hit at the time. But like most novelty tunes, it now falls into the "lost classic" category: never heard or played anywhere.

As a perpetually horny little bastard, I also found the lyrics really intriguing: guy dreams about a hot bikini-clad chick, goes chasing after her, finds her bikini top behind one door, her bikini bottom behind another door, and the hot chick (now presumably naked!!!) behind a third door.

Daddy Dewdrop - Chick-a-Boom (Don't Ya Jes' Love It)

Ken Lazslo Don't Cry. Very catchy dance song, very 80s.

Live is Life by Opus. Makes me think about life pre Covid.

R82, Yes that was a big hit at the time. Nobody my age seems to remember it.

Can't decide if I prefer this or the original more. They're both forgotten these days. R&B music from the 90s was some of the best ever.

The whole Waiting to Exhale soundtrack ranks up there but you hardly hear any of the songs these days, not even after Whitney died.

Stool Pigeon Kid Creole & the Coconuts.

His life story would be a movie and a half. I have no idea why this came into my head the other day after decades.

This alone with Chris Isaak's Wicked Game had such beautiful photography that was perfectly married to the music. Perfect nighttime music. I miss songs like these.

God, most of this stuff was dreadful.

Handle With Care

This is a GROOVE.

Never Surrender

R79, I think one of the reasons that Goldsboro's music is almost never played nowadays is because it came out sometime in the early 80s that he had a collection of kiddy porn. Also, one of his teenaged daughters accused him of being pervy with her and some of her friends.

Possession of kiddy porn hadn't been outlawed yet, so he didn't face charges, but it made the news during his divorce and custody battle.

Player (Ridge from Bold and the Beautiful)

Stranger On the Shore

I loved this song as a kid

OOPS better video

Fucker come back

Do you wanna make love (or do you just wanna fool around?) This guy was in his 30's at the time...

I loved the quirkiness of this song “Paranoimia” by The Art of Sound with Max Headroom, released in 1986.

LOVE PAINS