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Although this song is not found on a domestic CD, I believe my Canadian buddy, David Clark, told me a while back that there is a Canadian "best-of" CD collection which features this song on it. My commercial 45, which is stereo, has a listed time of (2:31), but an actual time of (2:34).
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yes I did, Jim! And, it sounds great (from tape) and runs 2:34!
The reason why I add "from tape" is that so much Canadian stuff from the early 70s is simply not available on CD in good form. MUCH comes from vinyl (often poorer quality than what I and my collecting buddy Dave have) if it exists at all. So sad...
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Interesting. I did not know that about Canadian imports. I guess I've been lucky -- the Lighthouse, Terry Jacks, Dan Hill, Frank Mills and Anne Murray CDs I've bought from Canada have all been from tape sources and sounding excellent!
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David:
Just out of curiosity... What is the Canadian CD title that contains Wednesday's "Last Kiss" from a tape source?
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Todd Ireland wrote:
David:
Just out of curiosity... What is the Canadian CD title that contains Wednesday's "Last Kiss" from a tape source? |
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And is that Canadian CD on the Unidisc label?
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Thanks to the restrictive Canadian content laws governing CKLW this song by Wednesday got lots of airplay and was heard here in the USA on The Big Eight. I cannot remember if the group had a follow up to this or not.
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C J Brown wrote:
Thanks to the restrictive Canadian content laws governing CKLW this song by Wednesday got lots of airplay and was heard
here in the USA on The Big Eight. I cannot remember if the group had a follow up to this or not. |
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Big hit at WLS/Chicago as well.
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Wednesday had follow-up hits in Canada, but not so much in the US. They
include "Teen Angel" (BB #74, CA #15 1974), "Fly Away" (CA #21 1974, never
been stereo), "Here Today, Gone Tomorrow" (CA #49 1975), and "Loving You
Baby" (CA #6 1976). They were all over the radio where I lived in Ontario,
Canada back then.
And yes, answering Todd's 13 year old question, it is the Unidisc label.
Edited by davidclark on 04 March 2020 at 9:25pm
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DUPLICATE POST
Edited by eriejwg on 05 March 2020 at 12:29pm
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I remember hearing Last Kiss a lot on CKLW in 1974. WJET
here in Erie, PA also had it charted in late 1973.
Here are WJET's survey positions for 12/17/73:
1. Leave Me Alone – Helen Reddy & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp;
2. Time In A Bottle – Jim Croce & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp;
3. Smoking In The Boys Room – Brownsville Station ;
4. The Joker – Steve Miller
5. Most Beautiful Girl – Charlie Rich &n bsp; &n bsp;
6. Yellow Brick Road – Elton John &n bsp; &n bsp;
7. Mind Games – John Lennon
8. Show And Tell – Al Wilson
9. Spiders & Snakes – Jim Stafford &nbs p; &nbs p;
10. Top Of The World – Carpenters &n bsp; &n bsp; &n bsp;
11. Let Me Be There – Olivia Newton-John & nbsp; & nbsp;
12. Helen Wheels – Paul McCartney &nb sp; &nb sp;
13. Are You Lonesome Tonight – Donny Osmond
14. My Music – Loggins & Messina ; ; ;
15. Photograph – Ringo Starr & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp;
16. Rock On – David Essex & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp;
17. Hello It’s Me – Todd Rundgren &nbs p; &nbs p;
18. Living For The City – Stevie Wonder
19. If You’re Ready – Staple Singers ; ;
20. Tell Her She’s Lovely – El Chicano ; ;
21. Let Me Serenade You – Three Dog Night & nbsp; & nbsp;
22. You’re Sixteen – Ringo Starr & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp;
23. D’yer Mak’er – Led Zeppelin &nbs p; &nbs p; &nbs p;
24. The Love I Lost – H. Melvin & Bluenotes &nb sp; &nb sp;
25. Pretty Lady - Lighthouse &n bsp; &n bsp; &n bsp;
26. The Way We Were – Barbra Streisand &nb sp; &nb sp;
27. Love’s Theme – Love Unlimited Orch. & nbsp; & nbsp;
28. I’m A Rocker - Raspberries & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp;
29. Never Gonna Give You Up – Barry White & nbsp; & nbsp;
30. Imagination – Gladys Knight
31. American Tune – Paul Simon & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp;
32. Last Kiss – F. Wilson/Wednesday &n bsp; &n bsp; &n bsp;
33. Jim Dandy – Black Oak Arkansas &nbs p; &nbs p;
34. Step Into Christmas – Elton John &n bsp; &n bsp;
35. Walk Like A Man – Grand Funk &n bsp; &n bsp; &n bsp;
36. I Can’t Stand The Pain – Ann Peebles ; ;
37. Star – Stealers Wheel & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp;
38. Painted Ladies – Ian Thomas
39. I Got A Name – Jim Croce
40. Who's In The Strawberry Patch - Dawn
41. Just You ‘N’ Me – Chicago ; ; ;
42. Dream On – Aerosmith &nb sp; &nb sp; &nb sp; &nb sp;
43. Half A Million Miles – Albert Hammond ; ;
44. Midnight Rider – Gregg Allman
45. Living For You – Al Green & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp;
46. I Shall Sing – Art Garfunkel &nb sp; &nb sp; &nb sp;
47. Boogie Down – Eddie Kendricks &nb sp; &nb sp;
48. Hangin Around – Edgar Winter Group & nbsp; & nbsp;
49. Blue Collar – Bachman-Turner Overdrive &nb sp; &nb sp;
50. Jessica – The Allman Bros. Band
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Thanks for the WJET chart. Erie Pa was within the CKLW orbit along with the entire Lake Erie shoreline in Ohio. Stands to reason it got action in that market.
Good to know the song did well on WLS. Surprised it did not chart better in the USA on that fact alone.
Teen Angel is the follow up I could not think of last night. Thanks for that fact. CKLW gave it some play.
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The music director of JET at the time was the late Kay
Jones, the first wife of the late owner of JET, Myron
Jones. I remember JET playing many songs from Canadian
artists that were stiffs other places. Songs like I Been
Moved from Any Kim and Glamour Boy from the Guess Who.
An FM in town, 103.7, was known as WCCK then. The jocks
made it a point to say the call letters WC - CK. I don't
remember the reason why perhaps to confuse listeners a
bit, but they because certainly couldn't compete with the
signal of CKLW even though WCCK was 50,000 watts.
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Look at the other Canadian artists on that JET survey with
songs that didn't do well elsewhere...
Blue Collar
Painted Ladies
Pretty Lady
Last Kiss
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Yeah I should have noted those imports on my message. All familiar fodder for CKLW listeners. As were the Andy Kim title and the Guess Who title. Glamor Boy was right in there with the somewhat small "Glam Rock" presence in North America. Another Canadian song that sticks out in my mind is Keith Hampshire "Daytime Nighttime". This Toronto DJ turned artist sure took a page out the early Chicago playbook or "Vehicle" sound from Ides of March. Too bad he was a few years late to do this.
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CKLW exerted an influence in the Great Lakes never heard before or after on radio. So dominant and strong. The engineer of the 70's and early 80s has said he thinks CKLW had an ERP of 250,000 watts or greater to the east and south east back then thanks to his tweaks and fine tuning. A lot of muscle for a 50,000 watt signal.
Listeners from Toledo Ohio feel CKLW drove two local stations out of the top 40 format WTOD AM 1560 1968 and WTTO AM 1520 1973. Plus a third heritage top 40 WOHO went to talk at night giving up the effort to fight the CKLW night time sound 1972. CKLW having overnight jocks such as Ted Richards, Super Max and Mike "Killer" Kelly did not hurt anything either.
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Oh yeah! I remember listening to CKLW at night in my New York City suburb in the late '70s. BIG signal.
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Jim 'Edwards' Davis had worked in Toledo before being
hired by CKLW in the late 1960s. He went on to work
at/program legendary other stations like WOR-FM, KMPC and
many others.
I remmeber Keith Hampshire received airplay on WJET but
not WCCK. The April 2, 1973 WJET survey shows "The First
Cut Is The Deepest" by Keith at #42 in its 2nd week, up
from #50.
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Big Jim Edwards aka James K Davis at WTTO Toledo 66 & early 67. Also at WTRY earlier in 1966. Jim Davis after CKLW. No matter the name he had a good set of pipes.
CKLW must have confused New Yorkers at times on tiny transistor radios being so close to WABC
Legend has it that you get on I90 in Chicago near sundown - drive all night on the ninety to New York City and be able to get CKLW all the way to the Big Apple before sunrise. I can tell you in points east of Cleveland in Ohio and in western PA from the north border to south border CKLW had a very strong signal. It would start about an hour before sundown.
I am going to return of the thread to records and music before I get thrown out
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