Rock Classics: Remembering the Classics…songs that never made our other lists
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.
Rock Classics: Remembering the Classics…songs that never made our other lists
The Cowsills – The Rain, the Park, and Other Things – their most popular hit was ‘ Hair ‘ from the movie of the same name…and was the family group that the TV Show ‘ The Partridge Family ‘ was designed after…this song is also often mis-called Flower Girl
The Guess Who – Albert Flasher
The Four Tops – Sugar Pie Honey Bunch
Animals – We Gotta Get Outta This Place
Bobby Hebb – Sunny
Clarence Carter – Patches
Sugarloaf – Green Eyed Lady
Gilbert O’Sullivan – Clair
Paul Revere & The Raiders – Indian Reservation – there was a rumor that Mark Lindsay was slated to play John Lennon in the movie about his murder but fell from consideration when it was discovered that Mark’s full name was Mark Lindsay Chapman…but this was probably confused with the British actor Mark Lindsay Chapman…the person who killed John was Mark ‘ David ‘ Chapman
Motherlode – When I Die
Diane Renay – Navy Blue
The Sweet – Ballroom Blitz
Dion – Abraham, Martin and John
T-Rex – Bang a Gong (Get It On)
R. Dean Taylor – Indiana Wants Me
Boomtown Rats – I Don’t Like Mondays
The Cars – Just What I Needed
Blood, Sweat & Tears – And When I Die
Joe Cocker – You Can Leave Your Hat On
The Tragically Hip – Poets
Trooper – Say Goodnight
Mocedades – Eres Tu
Malo – Suavecito – This was actually by Santanas brother Jorge Santana who was also a guitarist
Marmalade – Reflections Of My Life
Johnny Rivers – Secret Agent Man
Ray Stevens – Mr Businessman – best known for his fun songs like Gitarzan and Ahab the Arab
Jim Croce – I Got a Name
Bill Withers – Ain’t No Sunshine – this song was never completed, the repetitive ‘ I Know ‘ was filler that was supposed to be replaced with lyrics
Small Faces – Itchycoo Park
Nazareth – Hair of the Dog
The Vogues – Five o’clock World
Hot Butter – Popcorn
Gowan – Strange Animal
Electric Light Orchestra – Hold on Tight
Herman’s Hermits – No milk today
Moody Blues – The Story in Your Eyes
Bob Dylan – Positively 4th Street
Lulu – To Sir With Love
Marvin Gaye – Hitch Hike
Cheap Trick – I Want You To Want Me
Boston – Rock and Roll Band
Brownsville Station – Smokin’ In The Boys Room
Warrant – Cherry Pie
Steve Martin – King Tut
Daddy Dewdrop – Chick-A-Boom
War – Low Rider
Mac & Katie Kissoon – Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep
The Original Caste – One Tin Soldier
Nancy Sinatra – Bang Bang
Myles & Lenny – Can You Give It All To Me
Deep purple – Child in time
AC/DC – Highway to Hell
Whitesnake – Here I Go Again
Badfinger – No Matter What
Queen – Crazy Little Thing Called Love
Looking Glass – Brandy(You’re A Fine Girl)
Bob Seger – Turn the Page
Tommy James & The Shondells – I Think We’re Alone Now
Creedence Clearwater Revival – Who’ll Stop The Rain
Shooter – Train
Christie – Yellow River
Bread – If
Meatloaf – Bat out of Hell
Meatloaf – Paradise by the dashboard light
The Tymes – So Much In Love
Myles & Lenny – Can You Give It All To Me
Ray Materick – Linda Put The Coffee On
Loverboy – Lovin’ Every Minute Of It
The Blues Magoos – (We Ain’t Got) Nothin’ Yet
The Temptations – My Girl
A Passing Fancy – Island
The Chi-Lites – Oh Girl
Hombres – Let It Out (Let It All Hang Out)
Simon and Garfunkel – Bridge Over Troubled Water
Michael Martin Murphey – Wildfire
Chicago – 25 or 6 to 4
The First Class – Beach Baby
Crash Test Dummies – The Ballad of Peter Pumkinhead
The Romantics – What I Like About You
Blue Swede – Hooked On A Feeling
The Clash – Should I stay or should I go
Bellamy Brothers – Let Your Love Flow
The Zombies – Time Of The Season
B.W. Stevenson – My Maria
Santana – Smooth (feat. Rob Thomas)
Syndicate of Sound – Little Girl
George Thorogood – Bad to The Bone
The Shangri-Las – Remember (Walkin’ in the Sand)
Roy Orbison – Oh, Pretty Woman
Gallery – It’s So Nice To Be With You
Donovan – Wear Your Love Like Heaven
Sanford / Townsend Band – Smoke From A Distant Fire
Electric Prunes – I Had Too Much To Dream (Last Night)
Thunderclap Newman – Something In The Air – Thunderclap Newman was originally formed as a side project by Pete Townshend of The Who
Sir Douglas Quintet – The Rains Came
Rednex – Cotton Eye Joe
Jane Birkin & Serge Gainsbourg – Je T’aime… Moi Non Plus
Classics IV – Stormy
The Association – Along Comes Mary
White Plains – My Baby Loves Lovin’
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 : Part Two
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
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