Day #24 of the 30 Day Song Challenge

[shadowkat]

Day 24 of the 30 Day Song Challenge - a song by a band that you wish were still together..

There so many. I guess the operative bit would be that it's impossible for them to get back together? Also, some bands really seemed to be more about the front man than anything else. And had run their course - I may miss them, but I'm not sure there's much juice left.

People have already posted a lot of songs by The Who, who I adore. I actually met Roger Daltry during a marketing event. And got to see him reunite with a manager or band player he had a major falling out with. I also got a lot of inside intell on the Who by their friend and marketing manager rep, Martin Lewis. I don't remember any of it, by the way. And I found him less impressive in person. Actually the only member of The Who that impresses me is Eric Clapton, who created even better music post Who.

Feel somewhat the same way about the Runaways and the Doors. I thought about the Doors - but really that was just Jim Morrison.

Okay enough of that.

I'm going with...a band that I felt everyone gelled perfectly together and was insanely versatile - as this song proves.

Watch on YouTube

And..mainly because it's a happy tune and makes me smile, and I kind of want to smile at the moment. Whether it really fits the rules of the meme or not? Eh. I'll let you decide.

Comments

[cactuswatcher]

I don't think there is anything in the meme that forbids wishing there was more from a group in its prime that can't actually get together anymore due to sheer time like the Beatles. Otherwise you'd be limited to very recent groups.

Let me present a couple of groups (not actually bands) I really enjoyed that broke up for two different reasons:

The first, the Ames Brothers were a quartet of quite homely men with beautiful voices. Really enjoyed them when I was a kid, and was sad there would be no more when they broke up because of the usual pressures. The lead singer, Ed Ames, went on to some success as a single act, but he was up against guys like Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin in his genre and the continuing rise of Rock. He eventually became an actor and may be best know by people about your age as Fess Parker's Indian sidekick on the Daniel Boone TV show.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HxB7lxbTnI

The second, Joe and Eddie were a couple of African-American, folk and gospel singers who enjoyed when I was a teen. They broke up the tough way when Joe was killed in a car accident.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33-lV_AbBBc

[shadowkat]

Both of those songs are really familiar. I've heard them before. I just don't know where. (I did see a lot of 1950s movies in my youth, also my mother liked music more in that vein.)

Daniel Boone was long gone by the time I started watching television. My mother remembers the Daniel Boone Television series. She watched it. I came along in the late 1960s, and was watching stuff in the 1970s. Daniel Boon was gone by then. We got some stuff on the Wonderful World of Disney, but I don't remember Boone.

I like the songs a lot. Thanks for sharing.

Yesh, right now, I'm just going with the first song that pops into my head. I've decided it doesn't really matter what I post, as long as no one else posted it first as far as I can recall.

[shadowkat]

PS: thank you so much for your response. I was able to use it to cheer up my mother tonight or at the very least distract her a little. Both groups she remembered, and had listened to.