Fall: The Perfect Time to Enjoy Blasts From the Past

Our calendars tell us Fall has arrived!  It’s the perfect time to take a step back in time with these blasts from the past.  All are guaranteed to be easy, breezy and sometimes even snappy — just like FALL!

See IF you remember all the songs below — even those “lost hits” you rarely hear on the oldies stations.  Songs like Alan O’Day’s only hit “Undercover Angel.”  While that was the only hit under “his” name — he also wrote Helen Reddy’s “Angie Baby” and the Righteous Brothers “Rock and Roll Heaven.”

Do you remember the song “Chicago” by Graham Nash going solo in ’71?  Or how about in ’69, “Mind, Body and Soul” by The Flaming Ember (a soul/rock group from Detroit)?  These and other great songs “seem lost” with very little air-play.

But now it’s time to test your memory through the decades with these oldies but goodies.  Perhaps some of these will bring back some great memories:

The Stroll – The Diamonds  ’58

Green Onions – Booker T & the MG’s  ’62

I Want to Hold Your Hand – The Beatles  ’64

King of the Road – Roger Miller  ’65

Let’s Hang On – The 4 Seasons  ’65

Wouldn’t It Be Nice – The Beach Boys  ’66

See You In September – The Tempos ’59    and  The Happenings in ’66

The Happening – The Supremes (from the movie “The Happening”)  ’67

Gimme a Little Sign – Brenton Wood  ’67

There’s A Kind of Hush – Herman’s Hermits  ’67

Groovin’ – The Rascals  ’67

Up Up and Away – the 5th Dimension  ’67

For Once In My Life – Stevie Wonder  ’68

Make Your Own Kind of Music – Mama Cass Elliot  ’69

Mind, Body and Soul – The Flaming Ember  ’69

It’s Your Thing – Isley Brothers  ’69

I Can’t Get Next To You – The Temptations  ’69

Want Ads – Honeycomb  ’71

Chicago – Graham Nash  ’71

Spirit in the Sky – Norman Greenbaum  ’72

Bad Bad Leroy Brown – Jim Croce  ’73

Love Train – The O’Jays  ’73

Midnight at the Oasis – Maria Muldaur  ’74

Rock & Roll Heaven – The Righteous Brothers  ’74

Fallin’ In Love Again – Hamilton, Joe Frank & Reynolds  ’75

Play That Funky Music – Wild Cherry ’76

The Things We Do For Love – 10CC  ’77

Undercover Angel – Alan O’Day  ’77

Boogie Oogie Oogie – A Taste of Honey  ’78

Take the Long Way Home – Supertramp  ’79

Do Ya Think I’m Sexy? – Rod Stewart  ’79

Good Times – Chic  ’79

Bad Case of Lovin’ You – Robert Palmer  ’79

Give Me The Night – George Benson  ’80

I’m Alright – Kenny Loggins (from the movie Caddyshack)  ’80

Call Me – Blondie (from the movie American Gigolo)  ’80

Gemini Dream – The Moody Blues  ’81

Uptown Girl – Billy Joel  ’83

Twilight Zone – Golden Earring  ’83

Swept Away – Diana Ross  ’84

If This is It – Huey Lewis & the News  ’84

The Power of Love – Huey Lewis & the News  ’85

Sentimental Street – Night Ranger  ’85

Kiss – Prince  ’86

Rock Steady – The Whispers  ’87

Season’s Change – Expose  ’88

Watch these classic oldies on YouTube or load them into your favorite listening devices to enjoy at home, while hiking, traveling, working out or just plain “Strollin.”

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