O/T: Singers that sound like ..

Redeye - Games (1971) Sounds like Crosby, Stills & Nash.

vanmeter wrote: And not a hit, but Firefall's "Sweet and Sour" might be my favorite CSN song, and they're not anywhere near it.

Yes! but the cut before it on the album 'Elan'
("Strange Way") was published by Stephen Stills Music so
Stills' presence is closer than we think...

"Sweet And Sour" is a great song by the way.

Andy

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Yah Shure wrote: I was expecting an entire album's worth of "Wham Bam" when promo copies of the self-titled Silver album on Arista arrived at the distributor I was working for in 1976. Was I in for a surprise when I popped it on the turntable for an audition!

I, too, was hoping the Silver album would have more songs that sounded like "Wham Bam Shang-a-Lang" and was sad that wasn't the case. I really do like the aforementioned "All I Wanna Do" and also the ballad "Memory". All 3 of these songs were the only 3 not written by the band but picked by the record company president Clive Davis. All the rest of the songs on the album were written by the band members. Which told me I really didn't like the band - just the songs that Clive chose for them. :) I mean, without those 3 songs, I really didn't like Silver at all. Maybe I shouldn't admit this in public but I think "Wham Bam Shang-a-Lang" was my #1 song of 1976!

And speaking of that song, there was a certain type of poppy sound in records that I liked from 1972 (the year I started listening) to 1976. And I really felt that "Wham Bam..." was literally the last hit song that fell into that style. After that, there were still many great uptempo pop songs but none that were like my favorites from 1972-1976. I can't really put into words what that "sound" was, but I just never heard that sound again afterwards.

I agree with all 3 of the songs that C J Brown mentions - all would fit in that style I was mentioning.