One of these days I’m going to order one of those customized radio jingles.
“You’re tuned to K-Chuck Radio, ten commercial free songs right here, so crank up your computer speakers and jam along with the best sounds of yesterday, today, and tomorrow. These are the oldies that the oldies stations aren’t playing any more. But you can get them right here… on K-Chuck Radio!”
And let’s start off today’s blast of ten tracks with this classic mid-70’s hit from the band SILVER. Granted, the song may take its title from a slang term for a quickie liaison, which is why the song has a parenthetical subtitle of “Wham Bam (Shang-a-Lang).”
This track from the U.K. band JIGSAW was used in a classic Ozploitation kung fu film, “The Man From Hong Kong,” featuring a former James Bond actor. Okay, so it’s George Lazenby, but he did play Bond at least once… Cue it up, here’s “Sky High.”
I know this was a big hit for the Animals in the 1960’s, but the disco-salsa group SANTA ESMERELDA really made this track their own. Here’s the classic disco groove, “Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood.” Right here, on K-Chuck.
What if I told you that the vocal harmony trio LADY FLASH had only one hit for their careers, this song called “Street Singin,'” but they sang backup for over two dozen hits by Barry Manilow?
Nothing like having your only hit be a 3-minute resume of who your vocalists are, what their tastes in women are, and their Zodiac signs? Here’s THE FLOATERS with their #1 hit “Float On.”
Laugh if you want, but this was probably the first time an adult film star actually sang lead vocals on a legitimate Top 10 pop hit. And this song has more cowbell than a Blue Öyster Cult track. It’s THE ANDREA TRUE CONNECTION with “More, More, More (Part 1)” here on K-Chuck Radio.
The first time I heard this track by GARY NUMAN, it was on an old TV show called Video Concert Hall, on an early cable channel called the Satellite Programming Network. Groove out to “Cars” right here on K-Chuck Radio!
How about a song that lasted longer than the TV show for which it provided the theme? It’s the studio group RHYTHM HERITAGE with their only hit, the “Theme From S.W.A.T.”
And here’s a cool-down song by the group PLAYER. It’s “Baby Come Back,” a laid back California cool song, on K-Chuck Radio.
And finally, let’s wrap this up with a Canadian one-hit wonder from the 70’s, it’s GARY AND DAVE, with a hit that should have been big in America, “Could You Ever Love Me Again?”
Yeah. I definitely need one of those customized jingles.
Chuck The Writer 
I’d listen to that because all of these songs are amazing!
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LOVE THE THEME FROM SWAT! (had to use upper case, sorry Chuck)
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The SWAT theme was MY theme song when I was a kid….I’d run around humming it when we would play cops…I guess it could’ve been worse..it could have been More,More,More…. 😉
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One neat fact about Player: Its members included Ronn Moss, who went on to a lengthy (and still going!) soap-opera career as Ridge on “The Bold and the Beautiful.”
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Oh, and Lazenby played Bond EXACTLY once (“On Her Majesty’s Secret Service,” 1969). He wasn’t getting along very well with the producers by the end of the shoot anyway, but the full, un-007-ish beard he grew — and refused to shave for the film’s Royal Premiere — sealed the end of the deal.
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