AOR : THE REALEST PULLS IN THE GAME
fishmongerfunk
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someone else here said this and i has resonated.... these days, i find no raer in the wild and all these newbies seem to be clogging shit up at the record stores i used to frequent.... all this is to say, i have been digging into cheapie AOR records (that have no cache with the younger crowd) and it's been great. then again, i think i have finally turned into my father.
we have been rocking the following records a lot lately:
What have you folks been listening to in the AOR dept. these days?
we have been rocking the following records a lot lately:
What have you folks been listening to in the AOR dept. these days?
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Was never really a fan of most.
Have not gone back and rediscovered much.
Right now mid career Fleetwood Mac is available on the cheap. Bare Trees is nice, Mystery to me is Listenable, Kiln House is nice but slightly more in demand (and there is a rare variation).
I'm a fan of Laura Nyro. The one with Labelle and Eli and the 13th Confession. Later one with a white cover. One with Sexy Mama.
Myself I have been enjoying country and bluegrass. There is nothing cheaper or less sought after. Lots of good music. If I had the space and time I would be buying up all the private press country stuff.
sorry
spoiled rotten
flush with everything from all 4 corners of the earth year after year
i feel bad for the OP
GINO, maybe the king of AOR is killingit here this morn:
question: were there any black AOR artists?
Gaye, Mayfield, Hathaway, Gil Scott-Heron, guys making crafted albums. Any song could be a hit.
Garland Jeffries would count as Black AOR.
Another 'orrible record
B/w always loved pulling Alessi albums out of the car boots and R&Ts;
Adult contemporary, yes. Top 40, sure. Black stations showed him some love as well.
However, Gino was far too MOR for the AOR.
Besides the occasional black rocker (Hendrix, Garland Jeffreys, etc.), most AOR stations in the 70s would have the occasional "progressive soul" act on the playlist. Stevie Wonder is an obvious example, but War and Billy Preston were others.
I once met a guy who was a DJ on WRIF, an album-rock station in Detroit. He said that they were playing Bill Withers' first album when it dropped in '71. Which makes sense - if you're into, say, James Taylor or Carole King, then Bill Withers or Roberta Flack should be right in the same groove.
It appears the exchange may have gone the other way as well, with black soul, funk and jazz artists showing some love for AOR by doing covers of their material.
And with that segue, I can shamelessly plug my recent mix of Yacht Rock & AOR covers, many performed by black artists.
Intro
Millie Jackson - This is It [1980] (Loggins/McDonald)
Charme - Georgy Porgy [1982] (Paich)
Joe Thomas - Low Down [1978] (Scaggs/Paich)
Nina Simone - Rich Girl [1978] (Hall/Oates)
Orchestres Daniel Janin, Jean-Luc Ferré Et Leurs Chanteurs - Love Will Keep Us Together [1975] (Greenfield/Sedaka)
The Michael Johnson Singers - Just a Little Talk [1984] (Loggins/McDonald)
Lou Rawls - She’s Gone [1974] (Hall/Oates)
Maarit - Yhteen Kuulutaan [1978] (McDonald/Simon)
Pointer Sisters - Hypnotized [1978] (Welch)
Good To Go - Baby Come Back [1987] (Crowley/Beckett)
New Jersey Mass Choir - Yah Mo B There [1985] (Ingram/McDonald/Temperton/Jones)
Shirley Ross - If You Leave Me Now [1984] (Cetera)
Ron - Hai Capito O No? [1983] (Hall/Oates)
Nashville Rhythm Section - I Can’t Go For That [1981] (Hall/Oates)
Mike Mandel - Peg [1978] (Becker/Fagen)
Scherrie Payne - I’m Not In Love [1982] (Stewart/Gouldman)
Frank Dana - Do It Again [1983] (Becker/Fagen)
Montana Sextet - Ride Like The Wind (Original Version) [1992] (Cross)
Saxon - Ride Like The Wind [1988] (Cross)
Outro
the segue was tenuous, I admit.
Adrian Gurvitz - Borrowed Beauty
Airplay - After The Love Is Gone
Bill Champlin - Gotta get back to Love
Bobby Caldwell - Sunny Hills
David Roberts - Wrong Side Of The Tracks
:talib:
Saturday was the annual CHIRP Record Fair in Chicago. I did get there very late, after 1 p.m., but it was pretty slim pickins' overall. I did find a pretty clean copy of Just As I Am.
Bill LaBounty - Dream On
Terence Boylan - Shake It
Far Cry - The Hits Just Keep On Comin'
And a couple tracks for the yacht rockers….
Marc Jordan - Marina del Rey
Gordon Michaels - Bermuda
WaxPoetics posted these 2 mixes of AOR last year, all selected by Ed Motta. there are ton of great tracks on them. not really cheapie AOR records like OP was talkin bout, but definitely worth checking out:
http://www.waxpoetics.com/music/mixtape/the-aor-mix/
http://www.waxpoetics.com/music/mixtape/ed-motta-drops-aor-mix-2-support-u-s-tour/
Dwayne Ford - Lovin’ and Losin’ you
Dude from Mr. Mister
Pages - You Need a Hero
Eric Tagg = White Stevie
Erik Tagg - Living Off The Love
Mike McDonald Clone
Greg Guidry - (That's) How Long
Ill beats...
Michael Johnson - Rosalee
People need to go out and find the Journey and Glen Frey wannabes?
I've already got my 1,000 (or so) funk and soul records from the turn-of-the-century digs (aka the Soul Strut Golden Age) to listen to. The super-raers that I never found BITD are now on YouTube for the most part, and while I wouldn't pass over an original Manzel at a bargain price, I hold little hope of expanding my collection of OGs much further at this point.
I'm on to estate sales and auctions for antiques. Upholstered chairs, vintage lard tins, restaurant ephemera, and art glass are my current quests. I'll always flip through a pile of records when I see one, but at this point I know it's probably going to be a heap of chud.
Wassup with vintage lard tins? Is there a personal connection?
I'm a chef by trade, so I like the idea of good old-fashioned lard. A lot of the tins from the mid-century have pretty cool graphics of pigs, and they're not too pricey to collect.
Let's go commit some crimes.