What do you do when you are a band from Edinburgh, Scotland but want to appear that you are from the US? You throw a dart at a map of the US. That’s how the band became the Bay City Rollers. Before they became known in the US they had two hits in 1975 in …
I don’t remember this song at all even though it was popular. It was “Let’s Do It Again” by The Staple Singers. It was the title song for a movie by the same name that starred Sidney Poitier and Bill Cosby. The film was directed by Sidney Poitier. The song was written by Curtis Mayfield. …
The second hit song by KC and the Sunshine Band in 1975 was “That’s the Way (I Like It).” The song was written by Harry Wayne Casey (KC) and Richard Finch the group’s bass player. It was on the top of the Cash Box chart for three weeks (Nov. 23 – Dec. 13. On the Billboard chart …
We are in full disco mode so get your dancing shoes on. The song “Fly, Robin, Fly” was originally called “Run, Rabbit, Run” when composers Sylvester Levay (from Yugoslavia) and Michael Kunze (from Germany) wrote the song. They also produced the song that is mostly instrumental. In fact there are only 6 words in the …