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Showing posts with label Nazareth. Show all posts

Sunday, April 18, 2021

FM Rock: August 1973

2 continuous hours of selections that would have been heard on US rock stations on the FM dial in the month of August, 1973. The ones that became mainstay classics and plenty of deeper cuts as well. Led Zeppelin, Mott The Hoople, Peter Banks, Nazareth, Lynyrd Skynyrd


Friday, January 1, 2021

Top 40+ Years Ago: November 1976

30 UK, US and European hits from November 1976: 1. It's A Long Way There 2. Do What You Want, Be What You Are 3. I'm Your Puppet 4. Help Wanted 5. Here Comes The Weekend 6. Under the Moon of Love 7. Love Hit Me 8. Still The One 9. Rock'n Me 10. You Don't Know Me At All 11. Don't Wanna Lose Your Love 12. Flip 13. Open Sesame 14. Peter Gunn 15. Mr. Melody 16. Keep Me Cryin' 17. Catfish 18. Midnight Love Affair 19. My Sweet Summer Suite 20. Stop Me (If You've Heard It All Before) 21. Say You Love Me 22. We Can Work It Out 23. (I Believe) Love's A Prima Donna 24. O Comilão 25. Do You Feel Like We Do 26. I Don't Want to Go On Without You 27. Nights Are Forever Without You 28. Love Ballad 29. Lines 30. Muskrat Love


Tuesday, April 14, 2020

In The 1970s Nazareth


This Scottish group were formed in 1968 and consisted of band members Dan McCafferty, Manny Charlton and Darrell Sweet who died in 1999.

There fist 1970s hit was in 1973 with Broken Down Angel from the album Razamamaz getting to No. 9 in the UK charts.This was followed the same year by Bad Bad Boy reaching No. 10. The last hit of that year came with This Flight Tonight which was originally a 1971 hit for Joni Mitchell.



There were no big chart hits in 1974, but the band came back kicking in 1975 with a cover of Love Hurts first a hit in the 1960s by the Everly Brothers. Nazareth got a gold single with their version.

Their next chart hit that year would be their last hit single in the 1970s.



This was a cover version of a 1967 song by Tomorrow,


Interview with Nazareth