Mellow Mellow FM Radio: West Coast, Jazz-Funk & Seventies Pop
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Smokie was originally called Smokey, just like the first name of singer Smokey Robinson, but they were forced by the vice-president of Motown to change their name. The band found success at home and abroad after teaming up with hugely successful producers and songwriters Mike Chapman and Nicky Chinn (Suzi Quatro, Mud, The Sweet). They have had a number of line-up changes and even continued after singer Chris Norman had left the band in the 1980s. Their most popular hit single, Living Next Door to Alice, peaked at #1 on the Dutch pop chart, #3 on the UK singles chart and, in March 1977, reached #25 on the Billboard Hot 100. Other hit singles were If You Think You Know How to Love Me, Oh Carol, Lay Back in the Arms of Someone, and, my personal favourite, I'll Meet You at Midnight.
I Go Crazy by American singer-songwriter Paul Davis was the first single he released from his 1977 album Singer of Songs: Teller of Tales, and his second-highest peaking pop hit, peaking at #7 on the Billboard chart in 1978. The song entered the Billboard Hot 100 pop singles chart on 27 August 1977 and began slowly climbing, peaking in March and April 1978, before dropping off the chart the week after 27 May 1978. Overall, it spent 40 weeks (nine months and one week) on the Billboard Hot 100 charts, setting what was then the record for the longest run on that chart, of consecutive weeks or not. During the March 4, 1978 American Top 40 show, Casey Kasem said that Davis begged his studio to have the song presented to Lou Rawls, whom he thought would make it a huge success. But when the studio saw how much faith he had in the chances of the song's success, it instead decided to release a lightly edited version of Davis's own studio demo version.
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Tracklist:
Brothers Johnson – Sunlight (1981)
Steely Dan – Negative Girl (2000)
Kimiko Kasai – Nailed In The Pocket (1984)
Earth, Wind & Fire – Brazilian Rhyme [Danny Krivit Re-Edit] (2004)
Herbie Hancock – You Bet Your Love (1979)
Classixx Feat. Roosevelt – One More Song (2020)
Steve Winwood – Arc Of A Diver (1980)
Ned Doheny – Get It Up For Love (1976)
Ian Matthews – Stealin’ Home (1975)
Vapour Trails – Do The Bossa Nova (1979)
Jim Messina – Waitin’ On You (1979)
The Guess Who – Clap For The Wolfman (1974)
Toto – Georgy Porgy (1979)
Michael Franks – Jealousy [Geyster Remix] (2020)
Gino Cunico – Fanny (Be Tender With My Love) (1975)
Denne & Gold – Let's Put Our Love Back Together (1977)
Denise LaSalle – Hung Up, Strung Out (1975)
Smokie – I’ll Meet You At Midnight (1976)
Linda Rondstadt – Hurt So Bad (1980)
Paul Davis – I Go Crazy (1977)
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