Rock Classics: Remembering the Classics…songs that never made our other lists : Part Two

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:

Canadian Rock Classics

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