TERRY HOKNES - MY FAVORITE SONGS OF ALL TIME !  hoknes@hotmail.com   

1961

JOE EGAN

NATURAL HIGH

1979

1962

BEATLES

WHILE MY GUITAR GENTLY WEEPS

1968

1963

KEN THORNE & GEORGE MARTIN

BITTER END / YOU CAN'T DO THAT

1965

1964

ABBA

HONEY HONEY

1974

1965

BEATLES

HOLD ME TIGHT

1963

1966

BARRY GRAY

DRAGON'S DOMAIN

1975

1967

MONKEES

FOR PETE'S SAKE

1967

1968

AMANDA MARSHALL

IF I DIDN'T HAVE YOU

1999

1969

SPIRIT

WE'VE GOT A LOT TO LEARN

1981

1970

CHRISTINA AGUILERA

CANDYMAN

2007

1971

AMERICA

DAISY JANE

1975

1972

AMERICA

THREE ROSES

1971

1973

JOEL GRUNDAHL BAND

ATTENTION SHOPPERS

1991

1974

YES

EVERYDAYS

1969

1975

BEATLES

TOMORROW NEVER KNOWS

1966

1976

YES

WE HAVE HEAVEN

1971

1977

ROBERT GOULET

I DON'T WANNA HURT YOU ANYMORE

1968

1978

SHANGRI LAS

REMEMBER (WALKING IN THE SAND)

1964

1979

BILLY BOB

BIDING MY TIME

1990

1980

SPIRIT

I'M TRUCKING

1969
    JOE EGAN - NATURAL HIGH (1979)

October 5th 1987 - my #2 favorite daily song for 4 days at age 16 in Grade 12.  I had picked this record up for 10 cents at the Frances  Morrison Public Library sale earlier in the year.

Joseph "Joe" Egan (born 18 October 1946), is a Scottish singer-songwriter.  Egan was born in Paisley, Scotland. In the 1960s, Egan, together with former St Mirin's Academy schoolmate Gerry Rafferty, played in various smaller British bands, such as The Sensors and The Mavericks, and worked as a session musician.

In 1972 he and Rafferty founded the folk / rock band Stealers Wheel. After two unsuccessful singles, their song "Stuck in the Middle With You"--which he had co-written with Rafferty--became a hit in 1973 and reached the Top Ten of both the UK Singles Chart and the US Billboard Hot 100 chart. Subsequently, the band had a few smaller successes, amongst others with the Egan-penned song "Star," but stagnating sales figures and artistic differences finally led to the band's break-up in 1975.

Egan eventually recorded his solo debut album Out of Nowhere, but this did not occur until 1979 as he and Rafferty were contractually obliged not to release any recordings for three years, when he registered a minor hit with his first single release "Back On The Road". That same year he released a second single titled "Out Of Nowhere".    As of 2005, Egan lives in Renfrewshire and runs a publishing company from home.
    THE BEATLES -WHILE MY GUITAR GENTLY WEEPS (1968)

Album:  The Beatles (White Album) (1968)

While My Guitar Gently Weeps" is a song by George Harrison, first recorded by The Beatles in 1968 for their eponymous double album (also known as The White Album). The song features lead guitar by Eric Clapton, although he was not formally credited on the album.   "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" was ranked #136 on Rolling Stone's list of "The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time", #7 on their list of the 100 Greatest Guitar Songs of All Time, and #10 on their list of The Beatles 100 Greatest Songs. In an online poll held by Guitar World magazine in February 2012, "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" was voted the best of Harrison's Beatle-era songs.

Inspiration for the song came to Harrison when reading the I Ching, which, as Harrison put it, "seemed to me to be based on the Eastern concept that everything is relative to everything else... opposed to the Western view that things are merely coincidental." Taking this idea of relativism to his parents’ home in northern England, Harrison committed to write a song based on the first words he saw upon opening a random book. Those words were “gently weeps”, and he immediately began the song. As he said:

"I wrote "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" at my mother's house in Warrington. I was thinking about the Chinese I Ching, the Book of Changes... The Eastern concept is that whatever happens is all meant to be, and that there's no such thing as coincidence - every little item that's going down has a purpose. "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" was a simple study based on that theory. I decided to write a song based on the first thing I saw upon opening any book - as it would be a relative to that moment, at that time. I picked up a book at random, opened it, saw 'gently weeps', then laid the book down again and started the song
 
    KEN THORNE and GEORGE MARTIN ORCHESTRA - BITTER END / YOU CAN'T DO THAT (1965)

Album: Help soundtrack by The Beatles (1965 USA release only included the instrumentals)

The North American version, the Beatles eighth Capitol Records album and tenth overall, includes the songs in the film plus selections from the orchestral score composed by Ken Thorne and performed by the George Martin Orchestra, which contains one of the first uses of the Indian sitar on a pop album. "Ticket to Ride" is the only song on the American release in duophonic stereo (also known as "fake stereo") reprocessed from the mono mix. This album is available on CD as part of The Capitol Albums, Volume 2 box set. This set also includes the mono version of the American release, which is purely a stereo-to-mono fold-down mix, including the "fake stereo" duophonic "Ticket To Ride" folded down to mono, despite Capitol already having the mono mixes for the single releases of both that song and "Help!".

The American version of "Help!" reached the number one spot on the Billboard album charts for nine weeks starting on 11 September 1965.

 
    ABBA - HONEY HONEY (1974)

Album:  Waterloo (1974)

Waterloo is the second studio album by the Swedish pop group ABBA. It was originally released in Sweden on 4 March 1974 through Polar Music. The album's title track won ABBA the 1974 Eurovision Song Contest. Waterloo was first released on CD in Sweden in 1988; a West German CD release followed in 1990 (later released internationally). The album has been reissued in digitally remastered form three times; first in 1997, then in 2001 and again in 2005 as part of The Complete Studio Recordings box set. It was also released as a special 30th Anniversary edition in 2004, celebrating 30 years of the group's victory in the Eurovision Song Contest.

The original 1974 Polar Music edition of the album opens with the Swedish version of the title track and closes with the English language version. The American version of the album, released through Atlantic Records, closes with a 1974 remix of "Ring Ring". In the United Kingdom/Ireland and several other European markets, the original 1973 version of "Ring Ring" was added as track 6 on side 2. The cover features the sub-title "Bjorn, Benny, Agnetha & Frida" although some editions replaced 'Agnetha' with 'Anna' – by which Agnetha Fältskog was known in some countries.

Waterloo peaked at the top of the charts in Sweden and Norway, charting highly in many other countries as well. In 2004, it was certified platinum in Germany, thirty years after its release.

Waterloo was the group's first album released in most countries outside Scandinavia, and the first to be credited to "ABBA" (the band was originally referred to as "Björn & Benny, Agnetha & Anni-Frid". However, to avoid confusion, they were called "ABBA (Björn, Benny, Agnetha and Frida)". The "Honey, Honey" single was the first release to refer to the group as ABBA and nothing else.

 
    THE BEATLES - HOLD ME TIGHT (1963)

Album: With The Beatles (1963)

Hold Me Tight" is a song by The Beatles from their 1963 album With The Beatles. It was first recorded during the Please Please Me album session, but not selected for inclusion and re-recorded for their second album.   "Hold Me Tight" was composed principally by Paul McCartney in 1961, and was part of the Beatles' stage act until 1963. They attempted to record it for their début Please Please Me but the thirteen takes recorded were deemed unsatisfactory, and the tape was destroyed. Seven months later, they recorded a further nine takes, and the final version is an edit of the sixth and ninth takes from the second attempt, varispeeded up a semitone to F major.   Both McCartney and John Lennon, at one time or another, shared their distaste for the song, and in a 1980s interview with Mark Lewisohn in The Beatles Recording Sessions, McCartney says, "I can't remember much about that one. Certain songs were just 'work' songs, you haven't got much memory of them. That's one of them." In Barry Miles' Paul McCartney: Many Years from Now, the songwriter calls it "a failed attempt at a single which then became an acceptable album filler." Lennon in 1980 said "That was Paul's....It was a pretty poor song and I was never really interested in it."

In their book The Beatles: An Illustrated Record, Roy Carr and Tony Tyler call it the album's poorest track, saying it "fails because McCartney's vision of the complete tune obviously sagged somewhat." They also claim that McCartney's singing was "out of tune".  However, Ian MacDonald redeems it in his book Revolution in the Head, in which he writes: "Play it loud with the bass boosted, and you have an overwhelming motoric rocker strongly redolent of the band's live sound."   McCartney wrote a different song called "Hold Me Tight" for a medley included on his 1973 solo album Red Rose Speedway.
    BARRY GRAY - DRAGON'S DOMAIN (1975)

Album: Space 1999 (TV soundtrack) (1975)

Growing up I was not into Star Trek as much as I was into Space 1999. That really was the sci-fi TV series that I loved more than any other being a Star Wars generation child.  Re-runs were on Saturday mornings I would estimate around 1980-1982 at age 9-11.   My best friend Nathan Martens and I sat through all 48 episodes together in 2004 when I bought the complete DVD box set.

Barry Gray (18 July 1908 in Lancashire, England - 26 April 1984 in Guernsey, Channel Islands) was a British musician and composer who is best known for his work for Gerry Anderson.In 1956 he joined Gerry Anderson's AP Films, where he first scored the puppet show, The Adventures of Twizzle. This was followed by Torchy The Battery Boy and then the famed Four Feather Falls, a puppet Western based on a concept suggested by Gray.  Gray's association with Gerry Anderson lasted well in to the 1970s. Perhaps most famous for his score to Thunderbirds and its theme "March of the Thunderbirds", Gray composed the themes to the other Supermarionation shows such as Stingray, Fireball XL5, Joe 90, and Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons. Additionally, Gray is also known as the composer for the Anderson live-action shows, such as UFO and Space: 1999, as well as the Thunderbirds films and the live action feature Doppelgänger (aka Journey to The Far Side Of The Sun, 1969). Gray's professional association with Anderson ended after the first season of Space: 1999 when Anderson decided to replace Gray's original theme with one by another composer.
 
    THE MONKEES - FOR PETE'S SAKE (1967)

Album: Headquarters (1967)

I listened to The Monkees a lot in 1984 and 1985 so unfortunately there is no documented chart runs for any Monkees songs or albums to show how much I liked them.  I had their 4 earliest albums from garage sale purchases likely by the age of 13.   I had also watched re-runs of the TV series after school somewhere around this time.   In Grade my best friend Mark Kleiner was a huge Monkees fanatic and collector.     I remember listening to the Headquarters albums more than any other.

For Pete's Sake" is a song written by Peter Tork and Joseph Richards, and recorded by The Monkees, with Micky Dolenz on lead vocals. It appeared on The Monkees' third album, Headquarters, and was used as the closing theme for the second season of their TV series.

The song is often mistakenly thought to be titled "In This Generation" or "This Generation," because that phrase is prominent in the song. The phrase "For Pete's Sake" does not appear anywhere in its lyrics.

Co-writer Peter Tork later said of the song "It was basically me playing these chords at my house, and my then-roommate, Joey Richards, was with me, and he threw in a couple of odds and ends of lines as I was going along. It just fell right into place", adding that "[it was] my first song on a Monkees' record and the first song that I had written

The Monkees were an American rock band that released music under its original incarnation between 1966 and 1970, with subsequent reunion albums and tours in the decades that followed. Assembled in Los Angeles in 1965 by Robert "Bob" Rafelson and Bert Schneider for the American television series The Monkees, which lasted 2 seasons from 1966–1968, the musical acting quartet was composed of Americans Micky Dolenz, Michael Nesmith, and Peter Tork, and Englishman Davy Jones. The band's music was initially supervised by producer Don Kirshner.
    AMANDA MARSHALL - IF I DIDN'T HAVE YOU (1999) hit #31 in Canada

Album:  Tuesdays Child (1999)

January 10th 2000 - my #3 favorite daily song for 59 days during my 29th birthday on the road now with Marilyn for over 7 years and selling on ebay/internet for 1.5 years.

Tuesday's Child is Canadian singer-songwriter Amanda Marshall's second album, released in 1999. The album was certified triple platinum by the CRIA selling over 300,000 copies across Canada   

 

Amanda Meta Marshall (born August 29, 1972, Toronto, Ontario, Canada) is a Canadian pop-rock singer.

She grew up in Toronto in a biracial family, with a White Canadian father and a Black Trinidadian mother. In several of her songs, Marshall has reflected on her racial identity "as a woman who looks white but is also half-black".

Marshall studied music extensively during her childhood, including at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto. While performing on the Queen Street West bar scene in her teens, she met guitarist Jeff Healey, who was struck by her powerful voice and took her on tour
    SPIRIT - WE'VE GOT A LOT TO LEARN (1981)

Album:  Potatoland (1981)

December 28th 1994 - my #1 favorite daily song for 110 days at age 23 including my 24th birthday while on the road with Marilyn now for over a year performing across Western Canada. 

The Adventures of Kaptain Kopter & Commander Cassidy in Potato Land was originally recorded by Randy California and Ed Cassidy during the 1973/74 hiatus period of Spirit. A concept album of sorts, interspersed with dialogue, it was only released in skeletal form in 1981 through Line Records. A reworked and fuller version, still somewhat erroneously credited to Spirit, was released in 2006 and remains available as The Original Potato Land

Spirit was an American jazz/hard rock/progressive rock/psychedelic band founded in 1967, based in Los Angeles, California

 
    CHRISTINA AGUILERA - CANDYMAN (2007) hit #25
Candyman" is a song by American recording artist Christina Aguilera. It was written by Aguilera and Linda Perry for Aguilera's third studio album, Back to Basics. RCA Records released it as the album's third single in early 2007. The song got a positive response from critics, who praised the uptempo beat.

"Candyman" had moderate success throughout the charts, peaking at top 20 in most countries. In the US it reached number 25 and has been certified Gold by selling 500,000 copies. The song was highly successful in Australia and New Zealand, peaking at number 2 in both countries.

It received a Grammy Award nomination for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance at 2008 Grammy Awards. The music video was directed by Matthew Rolston and Aguilera herself, and is based on a 1940s World War II theme. The music video received a MTV Video Music Awards nomination for Best Direction at 2007 MTV Video Music Awards.

Originally, "Candyman" was to be the second single from the album, but the label pushed for "Hurt" hoping it would have comparable success to 2002's "Beautiful" and would become a holiday hit. The song was released on February 20, 2007 in the US. The song began charting in the US prior to its official release date, appearing on the January 20, 2007 issue of the Billboard Hot 100. "Candyman" peaked at #25 in its seventh week on the chart making it Aguilera's 14th top 40 hit on the Billboard Hot 100. It was certified Gold. In the UK it was released on download only, peaking at #17 on the UK main singles chart and staying in the top 75 for 20 weeks while selling over 100,000 digital downloads. The song re-entered the UK iTunes chart in 2008 reaching 60 on the top 100 after Alexandra Burke performed the song on X-Factor.
    AMERICA - DAISY JANE (1975)

Album:  Hearts (1975)

Hearts is the fifth original studio album by American folk rock trio America, released by Warner Bros. Records in 1975. The album was produced by legendary Beatles producer George Martin.

This album was a big hit in the US, reaching number 4 on the Billboard album chart and being certified GOLD by the RIAA. It produced three hit singles: "Sister Golden Hair" went to number 1 on the Billboard singles chart and number 5 on the Adult Contemporary chart; and "Daisy Jane" which peaked at 20 on the Billboard singles chart and number 4 on the Adult Contemporary chart; and the funky "Woman Tonight" which reached 44 on the Billboard singles chart and 41 on the Adult Contemporary chart. Several other songs received radio airplay on FM stations playing album tracks including "Old Virginia", "Bell Tree" and "Midnight".

America is an English-American folk rock band, that originally consisted of Gerry Beckley, Dewey Bunnell and Dan Peek. The three members were barely out of their teens, when they became a musical sensation during 1972, scoring No. 1 hits and winning a Grammy for best new musical artist. Their recording success stretched throughout the 1970s; some of the band's best known songs are "A Horse with No Name", "Sister Golden Hair" (both of which reached No. 1), "Ventura Highway", "Tin Man", "Daisy Jane", and "Lonely People". George Martin produced seven of their albums.

 
    AMERICA - THREE ROSES (1971)

Album:  America (1971)

December 7th 1987 - my #1 favorite daily song for 8 days when I was 16 in Grade 12.  This was the first of 3 #1 daily songs by America at the end of 1987 making them my new favorite band.  I played them nonstop while staying at my grandparents house that month and sleeping in the living room playing the albums on the old 1960's huge record player.  Great harmonies on a nice serious acoustic song from their debut album.

America is the eponymous debut album released by America in 1971. The album was initially released without "A Horse With No Name," which had not yet been recorded. When "Horse" became a worldwide hit in early 1972, the album was re-released with that track.

The album went to number 1 on the Billboard album chart in the US and stayed there for 5 weeks. It produced two hit singles, "A Horse With No Name" spent three weeks at number 1 on the Billboard singles chart in 1972 (it peaked at number 3 on the Adult Contemporary chart), and "I Need You" hit number 9 on the Billboard singles chart and number 7 on the Adult Contemporary chart. Several other songs received radio airplay on FM stations playing album tracks, including "Sandman" (long rumored in the US Navy to be about the VQ-2 air squadron formerly based in Rota, Spain) and "Three Roses". The album was certified platinum by the RIAA for sales in excess of 1 million units in the US
    THE JOEL GRUNDAHL BAND - ATTENTION SHOPPERS (1991)

Album: Cityworks 1991 (1991)

November 10th 1991 - my #4 favorite daily song for 5 days at age 20 in 3rd year University.

Cityworks was an annual CD released by C95 FM in Saskatoon and 1991 was the 5th one and featured the best songs/songwriters in Saskatoon and area.

 
    YES - EVERYDAYS (1969)

Album: Yes (1969) new CD release

After dedicating all of 1980-1983 to The Beatles I discovered Yes in 1984 and that year at age 13 bought every single one of their albums due to their new fame with Owner Of A Lonely Heart but it was their 2nd new single Leave It that had my intrigued.  So I learned their first 15 years of material all in 1984 just as I was entering high school.  Yes would quickly become my 2nd favorite band of all time.   I saw Bill Bruford live in concert in 1992 and chatted with him for a moment.  My wife bought tickets to see Yes in 2009 in Toronto but the concert was cancelled due to Jon Anderson's vocal problems.  We flew to New York in 2011 to see Jon Anderson solo in concert.  Members of Yes are my favorite musicians ever including Rick Wakeman, Trevor Rabin, Steve Howe and Chris Squire.   My high school best friend Nels Krauss and I also bonded through our connection of Yes and playing music and we enjoyed jamming on Yes songs in the mid 1980's.

Yes is the 1969 eponymous debut album from British progressive rock band Yes, considered among the first progressive rock albums. The original Yes line-up of vocalist Jon Anderson, bassist Chris Squire, guitarist Peter Banks, keyboardist Tony Kaye, and drummer Bill Bruford remained intact for the album's recording.

Yes are an English rock band who achieved worldwide success with their progressive, art and symphonic style of rock music. Regarded as one of the pioneers of the progressive genre, Yes are known for their lengthy songs often with complex instrumental and vocal arrangements, mystical lyrics, elaborate album art, and live stage sets. Seventeen musicians have been a part of the band's line-up, which currently comprises singer Jon Davison, bassist Chris Squire, guitarist Steve Howe, drummer Alan White, and keyboardist Geoff Downes. Yes have sold 13.5 million certified units in the United States
    THE BEATLES - TOMORROW NEVER KNOWS (1966)

Album:  Revolver (1966)

This song was definitely ahead of its time and may have been a direct opening for all the creativity that opened in music in late 1966.

I first heard this song on the US version of Revolver but have no recollection of buying this album in either 1981/1982 at about age 10.

Tomorrow Never Knows" is the final track of The Beatles' 1966 studio album Revolver but the first to be recorded. Credited as a Lennon–McCartney song, it was written primarily by John Lennon.    The song has a vocal put through a Leslie speaker cabinet (which was normally used as a loudspeaker for a Hammond organ) and uses automatic double tracking (ADT) to double the vocal image. Tape loops prepared by the Beatles were mixed in and out of the Indian-inspired modal backing underpinned by Ringo Starr's constant but non-standard drum pattern. The song is also one of the first uses of a flanger effect on any instrument.

It is often considered one of the greatest songs of all time, with Pitchfork Media placing it at number 19 on its list of "The 200 Greatest Songs of the 1960s", and it being featured in Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All-Time    John Lennon wrote the song in January 1966, with lyrics adapted from the book The Psychedelic Experience: A Manual Based on the Tibetan Book of the Dead by Timothy Leary, Richard Alpert, and Ralph Metzner, which in turn was adapted from the Tibetan Book of the Dead. Although Peter Brown believed that Lennon's source for the lyric was the Tibetan Book of the Dead itself, which, he said, Lennon read whilst consuming LSD, George Harrison later stated that the idea for the lyrics came from Leary's, Alpert's and Metzner's book and Paul McCartney confirmed this, stating that he and Lennon had visited the newly opened Indica bookshop — Lennon was looking for a copy of The Portable Nietzsche — and Lennon had found a copy of The Psychedelic Experience that contained the lines: "When in doubt, relax, turn off your mind, float downstream
    YES - WE HAVE HEAVEN (1971)

Album: Fragile (1971)

After dedicating all of 1980-1983 to The Beatles I discovered Yes in 1984 and that year at age 13 bought every single one of their albums due to their new fame with Owner Of A Lonely Heart but it was their 2nd new single Leave It that had my intrigued.  So I learned their first 15 years of material all in 1984 just as I was entering high school.  Yes would quickly become my 2nd favorite band of all time.   I saw Bill Bruford live in concert in 1992 and chatted with him for a moment.  My wife bought tickets to see Yes in 2008 in Toronto but the concert was cancelled due to Jon Anderson's vocal problems.  We flew to New York in 2011 to see Jon Anderson solo in concert.  Members of Yes are my favorite musicians ever including Rick Wakeman, Trevor Rabin, Steve Howe and Chris Squire.   My high school best friend Nels Krauss and I also bonded through our connection of Yes and playing music and we enjoyed jamming on Yes songs in the mid 1980's.

Fragile is the fourth studio album from the English progressive rock band Yes, released on Atlantic Records. It is the first to feature keyboardist Rick Wakeman, who replaced Tony Kaye in 1971, and the first to feature cover art by Roger Dean, who would design many of the band's records.

Upon its release in the UK in November 1971, Fragile hit number 7 on the UK Album Chart, which would prove its highest position there. It later reached number 4 on the US Billboard 200 during a stay of 46 weeks. Its release in the United States was held back for two months because of the chart momentum of their previous record, The Yes Album

Yes are an English rock band who achieved worldwide success with their progressive, art and symphonic style of rock music. Regarded as one of the pioneers of the progressive genre, Yes are known for their lengthy songs often with complex instrumental and vocal arrangements, mystical lyrics, elaborate album art, and live stage sets. Seventeen musicians have been a part of the band's line-up, which currently comprises singer Jon Davison, bassist Chris Squire, guitarist Steve Howe, drummer Alan White, and keyboardist Geoff Downes. Yes have sold 13.5 million certified units in the United States
    ROBERT GOULET - I DON'T WANNA HURT YOU ANYMORE (1968)

November 10th 1988 - my #6 favorite daily song for 1 day at age 17 the fall after graduating high school at Nutana and now taking extra classes for something to do.   I started a 2 year project to listen and learn every 45 rpm I owned this included the A and B sides of 1000 singles I owned.  This is why I learned such a large varied odd collection of songs from 1988-1991 but discovered many gems like this song.

Robert Gerard Goulet (November 26, 1933 – October 30, 2007) was a Canadian-American singer and actor. He is probably best known for originating the role of Lancelot in the 1960 Broadway musical Camelot and his numerous appearances in Las Vegas  

In 1968, Goulet was on Broadway in the Kander and Ebb musical The Happy Time and won a Tony Award as Best Actor in a Musical for his role. Goulet began a recording career with Columbia Records in 1962, which resulted in more than 40 best selling albums.   He also toured in several musicals, including Camelot as King Arthur, Man of La Mancha, Rodgers and Hammerstein's South Pacific, Rodgers and Hammerstein's Carousel, where he portrayed Billy Bigelow, a role he also played in 1967 in a made-for-television adaptation of the musical.   He also starred in a 1966 television version of Brigadoon, which won several Emmy Awards), and Kiss Me Kate in 1968, opposite his then-wife Carol Lawrence.   Goulet guest starred on The Lucy Show in 1967 as himself and two additional characters who entered a Robert Goulet look-alike contest. In 1972, he played a lead villain in the season finale of TV's original Mission: Impossible. Goulet was featured in a two-part episode of the TV series Alice furing the 1981 season, again playing himself.
    THE SHANGRI-LA'S - REMEMBER (WALKING IN THE SAND) (1964)

Very moody American girl group hit!

Remember (Walking in the Sand)" is a song written by George "Shadow" Morton and originally recorded in 1964 by The Shangri-Las.

Morton was looking to break into the music business, and went to the Brill Building in New York City to see an old girlfriend, Ellie Greenwich, who had become a successful pop songwriter. Morton and Greenwich's writing partner, Jeff Barry, took a dislike to one another. Asked what he did for a living, Morton replied "I write songs", although he had never written one. When Barry asked him what kind, Morton retorted, "Hit songs!" Barry said he would love to hear one of Morton's tunes, and invited him to come back the following week with something.

Morton hired a teenage group from Queens, The Shangri-Las, to sing. Realizing that he did not have a song yet, he immediately wrote "Remember (Walking in the Sand)". There are several stories as to how it was written. One is that immediately upon his realization of not having a song, he stopped his car on the spot next to the ocean beach and there wrote the song. He used The Shangri-Las on the demo, which he himself produced. (A not-yet-famous Billy Joel is said to have played the piano chords that open the song.) Jeff Barry was impressed and Red Bird Records picked up the song for release and signed Morton and The Shangri-Las to contracts. According to some accounts, the original version was nearly seven minutes long. In order to fit the AM radio format of the time, the song had to be cut in length, but rather than edit it, Morton simply faded it out after 2:10.

The song was released as the debut single on Red Bird Records by The Shangri-Las and became a number five hit on the Billboard Hot 100 and number nine on Cashbox Magazine's R&B chart. It was also hit number fourteen on the UK Singles Chart, and became more successful in the UK when reissued on several occasions in the 1970s. As noted above, Billy Joel, an unknown working as a session musician at the time, played piano on the original demo recording of the song and has playfully claimed that Morton failed to pay him his $67 union scale fee for the performance.

The Shangri-Las' recording placed #395 on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time list in 2004.
    BILLY BOB - BIDING MY TIME (1990)

it did NOT appear on the Album:  Simply A Dance Band (1989)

September 1989 - age 18 having just moved to Muenster, SK to take 1st year University classes at St Peters College where I moved into residence.  My grandfather Les Walters had died on September 8th and at this time my father gave me a copy of his new album a few weeks prior and he would come visit me at the Monastery and take me to hear him play live for the first time ever in a nearby town. 

Billy Bob was a duo from Saskatoon, SK comprised of my father Robert Hoknes on guitar and vocals and Billy Hodge on vocals and keyboards and songwriting.   They recorded this album at Audio Art with Glenn Ens programming the drum parts for the album. 

They had songs appear on two consecutive Saskatoon compilation music Cds called Cityworks 1989 and Cityworks 1990.  Biding My Time appeared on 1990 and The Billy Bob Beat appeared on 1989.
    SPIRIT - I'M TRUCKIN' (1969)

Album:  Clear (1969)

February 17th 1993 - my #4 favorite daily song for 4 days at age 22 in 4th year University playing in two bands Whats His Name And The Other Guys and in The Shade (whom we covered this song live).  I was also working at the newly opened Collectors Edge comic book store on 22nd St & 2nd Avenue and also hosting my radio show History Lesson on CFCR FM where I taught the history of pop music each week.  One of my best friends was Ross Martin whom I met at St Peters College and he dug this album too.

Clear was the third Spirit album, written largely in the wake of their work on the soundtrack to the 1968 film Model Shop. Several of the band members have said that they felt there wasn't enough time for developing the album after releasing two albums in 1968, recording a soundtrack and constantly touring, but a growing number of fans feel that it is one of their finest, if not the finest, album the group would ever make. Possibly because of the rushed work on the album, there is a larger reliance upon instrumental work and the jazz backgrounds of several members than any of their other albums, perhaps most exemplified by the three instrumental pieces penned by John Locke. It also features their sound gaining depth and sprawling out even more than it previously had, as they even attempt everything from the bluesy "So Little Time To Fly" to tightly constructed multi-part songs like "Dark Eyed Woman" and "New Dope In Town". Stylistically, "Clear" is a precursor to the band's next album, Twelve Dreams of Dr. Sardonicus