This is a collection of rock classics that didn’t make our one-hit wonders lists, didn’t make our number one hit lists, and didn’t make our specialized lists…but we have played them on Blip and feel they ought to be on a list…
this is a work in progress as we back-track through our Blips…as said, every one of these songs we have Blipped…if we haven’t Blipped them before they won’t be on this list…
this list may or may not contain ‘ all ‘ the songs we’ve Blipped that are not on our other lists…we’ve Blipped a lot of songs…far too many ( even eliminating the songs on other lists ) for this page alone…if necessary we will add additional pages as we don’t like to have more than 100 songs on a page…
most of these songs were very popular at one time or another, and you should be able to remember most of them…even if you are very young you’ve probably heard them played someplace at sometime…
these songs are random and do not reflect any specific time period…this will be, for all intents and purposes, our most disorganized and chaotic list…
in other words, our garbage list…without the garbage…
Note: a couple of these may not be considered ‘ classics ‘ yet…but they were included because we did Blip them, and they certainly will be classics.
We try not to duplicate songs…but as we add songs there may be some songs on more than one list.
Rock Classics: Remembering the Classics…songs that never made our other lists
King Harvest – Dancing in the Moonlight
Just Us – I Can’t Grow Peaches On A Cherry Tree – a unique cover of Ian and Sylvia’s Four Strong Winds
The 5 Stairsteps – OOH Child – also known just as The Stairsteps
The Doobie Brothers – Black Water
Emerson, Lake & Palmer – Lucky Man
Ohio Express – Yummy Yummy Yummy
Gary U.S. Bonds – Quarter To Three
Dusty Springfield – Son of a preacher man
Little Anthony & The Imperials – Going Out Of My Head
Mungo Jerry – In The Summertime
J. Frank Wilson And The Cavaliers – Last Kiss – You’ll probably remember the remake by the group Wednesday in 74′ or the cover by Pearl Jam…but the original excels
The Marathons – Peanut Butter – Actually done by the Vibrations pretending to be a group called The Marathons…as it was recorded by a different record label than they were under contract with
Daniel Boone – Beautiful Sunday
Nazareth – Bad Bad Boy
Uriah Heep—Easy Livin
Warren Zevon – Werewolves Of London
Great White – Once Bitten twice Shy
Melanie Safka – Brand New Key
Edison Lighthouse – Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes)
Ides of March – Vehicle – Written by member Jim Peterik who wrote the song to/about his girlfriend ( who he eventually did marry ) who, when they were dating, would refuse to see him unless she needed a ride to go someplace
Terry Jacks – Seasons In The Sun – it was originally done by the The Kingston Trio – The Fortunes and Pearl Before Swine also did it previous to Terry’s release
Carl Douglas – Kung fu fighting
Steve Forbert – Romeo’s Tune
The Ozark Mountain Daredevils – Jackie Blue
Alan O’Day – Undercover Angel
Country Joe McDonald and the Fish – Fixin’ to Die Rag
Miguel Rios – A Song Of Joy (Himno A La Alegria)
Maurice Williams & the Zodiacs – Stay
Shep and the Limelites – Daddys Home
The Contours – Do you love me (Now that I can dance)
Reunion – Life Is a Rock But the Radio Rolled Me
Point Blank – Nicole
GTR – When The Heart Rules The Mind
Georgia Satellites – Keep your hands to yourself
Divinyls – I Touch Myself
Shana – I Want You
Sheriff – When I’m With You
RTZ – Until Your Love Comes Back Around
Gowan – Criminal Mind
Steppenwolf – The Pusher
Van Morrison – Into The Mystic
Carla Thomas – B-A-B-Y
Ted Nugent and The Amboy Dukes – Journey to the Center of Your Mind
Steve Winwood – Back In The High Life Again
Jethro Tull – Bungle In The Jungle – Jethro Tull was a name suggested by their manager, after the name of a British barrister and farmer who, in the mid-1700s, invented a device called the seed drill
Fleetwood Mac – Black Magic Woman – most people associate this song with Santana who covered it about a year after Fleetwood did
Carlos Santana – Black Magic Woman – originally done by Fleetwood Mac, but an excellent cover
Them – Gloria – the group was headed by Van Morrison
Jimi Hendrix – Gloria – Jimi did this cover of Gloria by Them, the 45 release had no B side at all, it was just blank
Crowded House – Something so Strong
EMF – You’re Unbelievable
Procol Harum – Conquistador
5 Man Electrical Band – Absolutely Right
CCR – Midnight Special
Traffic – Dear Mr. Fantasy
Jay and the Americans – There goes my Baby
Fludd – Brother and Me
UB40 – Kingston Town
Styx – Renegade
Jefferson Airplane – White Rabbit – When Jerry Garcia heard the finished tape of JA’s newest album, he remarked “Sounds like a surrealistic pillow,” and the album’s name was born
Led Zeppelin – Heartbreaker – Led Zeppelin is the only band to have every one of their albums reach the Billboard Top Ten
Eric Burdon & The Animals – San Franciscan Nights
Simple Minds – Don’t you (forget about me)
Moody Blues – Your Wildest Dreams
Dion & The Belmonts – I Wonder Why
The Byrds – Turn! Turn! Turn!
Phil Collins – Another Day in Paradise
Kansas – Carry On Wayward Son
Foreigner – I Want to Know What Love Is
Fleetwood Mac – Go Your Own Way
John Mellencamp – Little Pink Houses
Billy Preston & Syreeta Wright – With You I’m Born Again
Scott McKenzie – If You’re Going To San Francisco – This song was written by John Philips of the Mama’s and Papa’s
Carly Simon – Thats The Way I’ve Always Heard It Should Be
The Raspberries – Go All The Way/I Wanna Be With You
Bowling For Soup – 1985
Janis Ian – Society’s Child
Heart – Barracuda
Martha Reeves & The Vandellas – (Love Is Like A) Heat Wave
George Michael – Faith
Cyndi Lauper – Time After Time
Queen – Another One Bites The Dust
C & C Music Factory Freedom Williams- Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now)
Robert Palmer – Bad Case Of Loving You (Doctor, Doctor)
Percy Sledge – When a Man Loves a Woman
Peter Frampton – Show Me The Way
Pink Floyd – Comfortably Numb
Long John Baldry – Let The Heartache Begin – this blues singer’s band at one time included several big names like Rod Stewart, Elton John ( the John is taken from Baldry ), and Mick Jagger before they made a name for themselves
The Sunrays – I Live For The Sun
The Dixiebelles – Down At Papa Joes
Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band – Urban Spaceman
Clocks – She looks a lot like you
Harlequin – Innocence
Face To Face – 10-9-8
Bobby Day – Rockin Robin
Cat Stevens – Moonshadow
Nazereth – Love Hurts
Billy Paul – Me And Mrs Jones
Gene McDaniels – Tower of Strength
Rick Dees – Disco Duck
There are 100 songs on this list.
You might want to check out our one-hit wonder collection lists:
One-Hit Wonders: Popular and Rare
One-Hit Wonders of the 60’s: Popular and Rare
Top Twenty One-Hit Wonders in the UK: 1960-1999
Top Ten One-Hit Wonders of the 90’s
Top Ten One-Hit Wonders of the 80’s
Top Ten One-Hit Wonders of the 70’s
Top Ten One-Hit Wonders of the 60’s
also our number-one hit collections:
Number One Hits in the UK: 1960s
Number One Hits in the UK: 1970s
Number One Hits in the UK: 1980s
Number One Hits in the UK: 1990s
also our hit collections:
100 Greatest Rock Classics: 1960-1999
Rock Classics: Remembering the Classics…songs that never made our other lists
Rock Classics: that almost never get played anymore
Rock Classics: that almost never get played anymore: Part Two
Rock Classics: that almost never get played anymore: Part Three
Weird and Wacky Rock Classics: sometimes NSFW
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Well…couldn’t really list all the songs 😛 But you’re welcome to post your own list 😀
You haz some splainin’ to do. I’ve hunted your lists and didn’t find:
The Letter – The Boxtops
Twilight Zone – Golden Earrings
Bad Company – Bad Company
Life’s Been Good To Me – Joe Walsh
Hey Joe – Jimi Hendrix
Foxy Lady – Jimi Hendrix
Tush – ZZtop OK, I forgot about the NSFW list, haven’t been there yet, but really!
The Stroke – Billy Squiers
And I could go on with Styx, Damn Yankees, Foghat, Marshall-Tucker Band, Allmann Bros. Lynyrd Skynyrd, etc. You BAD! LOL