I prefer to post long-forgotten rock/pop classics here instead of the ones we still hear all the time. That's because I rediscovered tons of amazing songs during my music-research phase 10-12 years ago that I had not heard in decades and, as a result, had long since forgotten. There were many others that I had never heard (at least that I can recall), and I wondered why not, because they are way better than the thousands of truly horrendous songs that littered the music charts from the 1940s to the 2000s (I think that for every good song there were at least 50 horrible ones). Every time I stumbled onto yet another long-forgotten oldie for the first time in decades (thanks to the internet), the pleasant surprise (happy memory) made enduring those thousands of truly horrendous songs (or at least the first few seconds of them) worth it. For example, the first song I posted in this thread last July (here) is one that I couldn't clearly remember until I heard its chorus line -- 50 seconds into the song. At that point I immediately remembered having loved it way back when. I had forgotten it because I never heard it again after about 1980 (it's a 1979 song).
My point in all of the above is that I was initially only going to post "Tell Me Why," a long-forgotten oldie by Matthews Southern Comfort. They are most famous for their hit song "Woodstock." Since "Woodstock" is definitely not obscure, I wasn't going to include it here, EXCEPT as a link in this paragraph. But, dang it, I just now listened to it again, and it is such beautiful song that I can't help but post it too.
"Woodstock" entered the charts at No. 98 on March 6, 1971, and peaked at No. 17 on May 29, 1971.
"Tell Me Why" entered the charts at No. 99 on October 16, 1971, and peaked one week later at No. 98. Then it was gone. I think it deserved better. There are times when it sounds familiar to me, almost as if I can remember having heard it in 1973 or afterward (I didn't intentionally, regularly start listening to music until 1973, when I was 12).
Matthews Southern Comfort - Woodstock (1971)
Matthews Southern Comfort - Tell Me Why (1971)
My point in all of the above is that I was initially only going to post "Tell Me Why," a long-forgotten oldie by Matthews Southern Comfort. They are most famous for their hit song "Woodstock." Since "Woodstock" is definitely not obscure, I wasn't going to include it here, EXCEPT as a link in this paragraph. But, dang it, I just now listened to it again, and it is such beautiful song that I can't help but post it too.
"Woodstock" entered the charts at No. 98 on March 6, 1971, and peaked at No. 17 on May 29, 1971.
"Tell Me Why" entered the charts at No. 99 on October 16, 1971, and peaked one week later at No. 98. Then it was gone. I think it deserved better. There are times when it sounds familiar to me, almost as if I can remember having heard it in 1973 or afterward (I didn't intentionally, regularly start listening to music until 1973, when I was 12).
Matthews Southern Comfort - Woodstock (1971)
Matthews Southern Comfort - Tell Me Why (1971)
