Because some, body might get there witle felings hurt!

Because it's 50 years later, and there aren't enough talented and artistic musicians around to fill an hour long show.

Because all the "Top 40" lyrics are nothing but filth, thanks to a certain "culture"...

Infomercials

Great to hear their harmonies live.

@@JamieAndersonMusicCame here for Slade but wonderful to hear The Statler Brothers

Truly shows the variety of music that audiences were exposed to, and very much accepted. AM radio could and did play Alice Cooper next to Charlie Rich...narrowcasting took all of that away...

Thank you @floydthebarber9956 that means a lot to me! :)

@@sidoniejordan5993 If this is you Sydney I would love to know what happened to you. I googled you expecting to see something and found nothing. Such a great song and your delivery and band nailed it I literally watched it ten times and tried to learn it on guitar. Were you part of a Paul Williams show? Paul is another one I wish was perfroming now and then. He could easily do a show telling stories and singing songs from his acting and performing days. Please tell us about your life from then until now.

@@floydthebarber9956 Thank you so very much! I really appreciate it. Because I changed my name so much I flew under the radar for my entire career. Which suited me as I was not equipped for the kind of success my contemporaries had. You can find me by searching Sidonie Jordan or Sydney Fox. I never performed with Paul W except on this show. We were both songwriters signed to A&M Records in the early 70's and good friends. Not long after this show which I did as a showcase for a record deal with A&M, I met Peter Banks and we worked in a band together we called EMPIRE from 74-80. We recorded three albums and were signed to three deals through the years. Those are available on Cherry Red Records and thankfully have been remastered. I fell in love with Music Production and spent many years producing and writing for artists with a talented producer/engineer named Jez Larder from Skyline Studios in the UK. I retired just last year. I love that you played my song on the guitar!! It was covered by Francis Gilvrey and another artist named Alison MacCallum and its name was changed to 'Hear My Voice on the Radio'. We also covered it in Empire kzfaq.info/get/bejne/g72anM-SsauwgIU.html&ab_channel=EMPIRE-Topic. Please friend me on FB! Cheers, Sid :) Thank you again :)

Born in '63, I agree, and I really miss the 70s.

Class of ‘6️⃣0️⃣

Well, I thought he was a music writer but writing lyrics is as difficult. I certainly couldn't do it.

@@gregoryduncan3067 It is! He's written lots of stuff, not just for The Carpenters. He wrote Old Fashioned Love Song recorded by Three Dog Night, Evergreen by Barbra Streisand, and some others. I don't know all of them. Somebody mentioned the Muppets song earlier.

@@ExpediteMMCXII I don't get it. Who's that?

@@ExpediteMMCXII hahaha, okay. It’s been too many years since I saw that movie. I do remember he was in it, though. ✌️

He probably was in it but it's so long ago, I needed someone to remind me of it.

I think you might just be right 0n that ! heard that many times over the years, Great band for sure !

Lip synch

Whats an OG?

​​​​​@@2_thumbs_up_baby Someone who is an expert at something. Someone who's incredibly exceptional, authentic, or "old school". Someone or something that is an original or originater.

@@cynthiaquinn590 thanks. Kinda what i thought

@@2_thumbs_up_baby It is a tiny bopper euphemism for original gangster commonly used by short haired followers.

​@@2_thumbs_up_babyOG=Original Gangster

I believe Paul lived in that area in the hills just above Sunset Blvd. (above Sunset strip) and down the street from Robert Mitchum

they were so successful in the UK in the early 70's - they moved to the U.S. in mid 70's - but trends were changing by then - so they didn't really make it big here - but by early 80's they did much better - thanks mostly to MTV ..

That's not costumes. That's 1973

Kiss started in 1973 so there you go.

It’s so funny, in England we were used to seeing Slade but seeing them in this context in the US makes their clothes even more ridiculous. 😂 Great songs though and Noddy is a legend.

​@@superhillsiderhe was part of " Band Aid" , right ?

Bad weed back then no strain developed yet

Ditto’ !!! 🎈🎭🎼🎤🎥🎬🤓

In America they may have that vision, but in the UK all the music of '73 was like that.

So you can see what it was like in the UK, the day this was broadcast, in the UK the number 1 song was "See My Baby Jive" by Wizzard, for the third consecutive week, in the top 5 were Suzi Quatro and Sweet, in the albums, the number 1 was "Aladdin Sane" by David Bowie, for the fifth consecutive week. Just 3 weeks after the broadcast of this program, Slade debuted number 1 with the single "Skweeze Me, Pleeze Me".

Yes Paul Williams is a genius! :)

Mine too. I lived in Kansas at the time, and loved that song. Got the 45 in 1973 for .77 at T G and Y, and still have it to this day. Such a rare video to see the band performing live.

@@Edgeofnight80s - I bought my single at K-Mart in 1973 for .67. Always could count on the K to save me a few cents. 🙂

I’m guessing mine came from K-Mart as well. Was it just a Midwest hit?

@@jiggler2004 - Not sure, but I read somewhere that it was in the top 10 in more markets at different times in 1973 than any other song that year. Might explain why it only reached #40 in Billboard but all of us bought the single (probably at different times) throughout 73.

@@Jukebox45s It was huge in Buffalo on WKBW

This is the only time during the seventies that's laid would appear on American television 📺

Slade were miming here. Holder singing along.

@@TiedoGroeneveld yeah I was wondering about that. Everybody on the midnight special usually is live. I know Slade is a good enough group to where they didn't need them I'm over some reason they did. They are still one of the greatest bands ever 🙏

@@chriskroll4166 Yes, they were a good live band, I’ve seen some footage. But they were also a commercial pop group depending very much on sounds achieved in the studio. A studio sound that couldn’t be reproduced during concerts back then.

Back when musicians could really play. Take away computers and half the "artists" these days would be lost.

That's what they call a "Lost 45' ®️( the Lost 45's -hosted by Barry Scott) There was actually alot of them lol 😹😂😹

@@ronaldolaquidara64 I do have the 2 CD's of "The Lost 45's Of The 70s & 80s" on Varese!!!

@@matthewclark9652 yeah that sounds cool... Yeah the guy I mentioned Barry Scott he used to have a Live Show on Sunday nights it was called the Lost 45's he started around 1984 on WZLX- BOSTON ..He was there a few years then went to another radio station but actually he ended up playing a few others radio stations through the years..😂 he'd also play old commercials and he'd also do short interviews with the Singers from the bands . eventually his show went syndicated through the U.S. Idk if he still does Live shows?? ✌🏼

I was impressed as I never heard her before. Good voice and song.

@@shyman99 Thank you so much! :)

Indeed! Same with Three Dog Night. Paul Williams is a song writing genius. I put him right up there with Paul Simon, Burt Bacharach (w/ Hal David), Lennon & McCartney, and Frey & Henley, etc...

Oscar Oscar Oscar.

Me too!

Uncle Andrew, good to see you buddy!🥸

Your take on Slade is spot on.

I remember seeing an interview with Noddy and he said he wasn't a big fan of Quiet Riot's cover,until he started seeing the royalty checks,then he started to appreciate it.

Sidonie was in Empire with her husband Peter Banks of Yes... she also was an "Ikette" singing backup for Tina Turner

Good comments esp. on Argent but just look at the alumni from the group: Rod Argent was originally in The Zombies and the guy with the glasses, Russ Ballard has written half a dozen classics at least for other people: So You Win Again for Hot Chocolate and Rainbow’s Since You’ve Been Gone are just two of them.

When The Zombies broke during the British Invasion, Rod Argent was at the forefront of the new wave of keyboard greats. Flying in the face of the eras guitar prominence, his jazz inspired work foreshadowed the prog jazz-rock to come. An overlooked giant of the genre.

@@stephengriffin9992 And the tiny bassist in the middle is Rod's cousin, Jim Rodford, who went over to The Kinks after Argent split and stayed with them for 20+ years until they split. That's him on "(Wish I Could Fly Like) Superman","Destroyer", "Come Dancing" and all the later Kinks songs.

Agreed on both counts. I really respect Paul Williams but his banter in this episode was pretty lame. He was still in his drinking phase of his life here-he sobered up and has done so much to help musicians sober up. I really respect the guy. He's still out there helping people. On another note it doesn't get much better than the Stylistics. Class act all the way around. God were they talented.

Agreed. I didn't know Williams had a problem with alcohol. Great that he got sober and is helping others now. @@JQ127-c4e

I never knew they were covers. Very cool to see the original versions.

The originals are way way better than the overblown covers in my opinion.

@@JQ127-c4e I agree 👍

Close. It's "let them burn their eyes on you moving."

and used so perfectly in Black Mirror