Media is Trying To Destroy This Feel Good Classic For Being Racist…But It Just Keeps Getting BIGGER!

Today we are visiting one of the most gloriously weird and wondrous years in music history — the charts were packed with streakers, gangsters, and some passive-aggressive jealousy. We celebrate this crazy year with 10 songs that sound exactly like the moment they came out in the 70s and when you hear them you’ll be transported to the exact moment they ruled radio and the stories are even better. We’ll tell the story of how a folk icon sat alone at his desk one evening, unable to shake the thought of his girlfriend cheating on him with another man. He wrote what sounded like a mellow tune but if you listen closer, it is the most dangerous song of his career and in the end he got a #1 hit and she went to prison. Then there’s the comedian songwriter who read a magazine blurb about the national craze of streaking during his flight. He rushed home and wrote the most iconic streaking song in history. And then there’s the songwriter who took his song to the Beach Boys for help, but watched the sessions dissolve into chaos after Brian Wilson kept sneaking in at night trying remix his master tape. He gave up and recorded it himself, then disappeared to the South Pacific for two months while it climbed to #1. Let’s get into it. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Executive Producer Brandon Fugal Honorary Producers Holly Hammet, Remnarc, Kevin riley, Paul Moore II, CharleyAnne ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe to the Professor of Rock Podcast Apple: https://apple.co/445fVov Spotify: https://spoti.fi/42JpfvU Amazon: https://amzn.to/44b5D6m iHeartRadio: https://bit.ly/444h8MO ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Patreon: http://bit.ly/ProfessorofRockVIPFan Merch Store: https://professor-of-rock-lsn-shop.fo... Instagram: https://bit.ly/Instagram_Professor_of... #classicrock #70smusic #vinylstory #onehitwonder Hey Music Junkies It’s been a long road back to health and at times I’ve been so low I wondered if I’d get back her but the music has been healing and their stories have taken my mind off the fatigue and pain and your support has been incredible. Thank you. Well while I was in bed recovering I happened upon these stories from the year 1974 and through they were prefect for a Time in a bottle episode so Were’ going to do it. It’s our time in a bottle countdown for the year 1974, and these songs will take you back to that year like no other… it’s our tip of the hat to beloved singer songwriter jim croce. At #10, it’s a song that could make you cry just as easily as it could make you dance… It’s the disturbing French death song that became a feel-good smash…. Terry Jacks’ “Seasons in the Sun.” Adapted from a Jacques Brel song, this bittersweet goodbye spent weeks at the top of the charts and soundtracked a lot of teary transistor radio moments. Terry Jacks formed The Poppy Family with his future wife, Susan Pesklevits and in 1970, their song “Which Way You Goin’, Billy?” Went to #2 on the Hot 100. Jacks wrote and produced it, and that success made him a sought-after producer in Canada. By 1973, he and Susan had ended the marriage and the group, and each was recording on their own. “Seasons in the Sun” started in 1961 as “Le Moribond,” or “The Dying Man,” by Belgian songwriter Jacques Brel. Brel’s version was a march about a dying man saying goodbye to his priest, his best friend, and his cheating wife. Jacks later said Brel told him he wrote it in a brothel in Tangier. American poet Rod McKuen translated it into English, and the Kingston Trio recorded that version in 1964. That’s the one Jacks heard. Around 1971, Jacks was playing golf with one of his closest friends when the friend told him he had acute leukemia and 6 months to live. Jacks recalled, “He was gone in 4 months. He was a very good friend of mine, one of my best friends, and he said I was the first one that he told. I remembered this song of an old man dying of a broken heart, and I liked some of the melody and there was something there. I rewrote the song about him.” Jacks first brought the song to The Beach Boys, who had asked him to produce them. He pictured Carl Wilson singing lead, and they started recording at Brian Wilson’s house. But the band fought constantly, and Brian kept trying to take over and add to the tracks. Jacks said the engineer had to take the tape home at night to keep Brian from messing with it. He said he was close to a nervous breakdown, so he gave up, went home and just recorded the song himself. Terry Jacks put the song out on his own label in Canada . It hit #1 there in January 1974, and stayed for 4 weeks. Bell Records bought the US rights, and the single spent 3 weeks at #1 on the Hot 100. But Jacks wasn’t interested in