This week’s edition of Digging for Gold contains not one, but two references to Twilight. No reason why, that’s just how we roll at Popdose.
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Disco, glam rock, and Leo Sayer are riding high on the charts, which can only mean one thing. It’s time for AM Gold: 1975 baby!
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If there was any doubt that disco was quickly gaining traction in America in 1974, witness two of the three chart-topping songs highlighted this week. And then check out “Seasons in the Sun” so we don’t have to again.
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We’re up to week #50 in our AM Gold series. That’s half of 100!
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1973 didn’t end on such a high note for our humble AM Gold series, so maybe 1974 will pick things up nicely. Maybe.
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That’s a wrap on AM Gold: 1973. This week may not offer a lot, but it does have David Foster!
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Certainly you’ve noticed by now that we have good weeks and bad weeks here on Digging for Gold. This is definitely one of the good weeks.
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As we float like a mellow breeze into the second installment of AM: Gold 1973, we leave behind the deep analyses of the story-song and just enjoy some great tunes.
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It’s AM Gold: 1973! Get comfortable, folks, because we’re feeling analytical this week.
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The final installment of AM Gold: 1972 floats in on a summer breeze and gets really weird at the end.
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It takes a strong piece of music to overcome sub-par song lyrics. We’re looking at you, America.
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Wait, is that Neil Diamond on this week’s AM Gold? Nope, it’s just Gallery.
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Thus begins our journey into AM Gold: 1972. And hey, look, Three Dog Night is still hanging around!
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Digging for Gold is turning forty! That’s forty great installments, which is ten more than thirty!
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If you love sex, drugs, and rock ‘n’ roll, then this is the AM Gold installment for you! OK, maybe not the rock ‘n’ roll part so much. But sex and drugs, yeah, we got that covered.
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In this, the second installment of AM Gold: 1971, we tackle one of music’s greatest mysteries. Just how many people are in Hamilton, Joe Frank & Reynolds?
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The first installment of AM Gold: 1971 features a fairly diverse range of pop — from the manly swagger of Tom Jones, to the super-cheery pop of Dawn, and finally to the potent realism of Carly Simon. Oh, and a song about drugs. Can’t forget the drugs. This was the ’70s after all.
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And just like that, the first chapter of AM Gold in the 1970s is over.
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Our look at the third batch of songs from AM Gold: 1970 serves up a healthy amount of bile for Mungo Jerry’s “In the Summertime.”
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We’re back once again to review the second batch of songs from AM Gold’s 1970 collection.
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What better way to kick off a new decade of AM Gold than to sharpen our collective wit and come up with all the awful Bread jokes we can?
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The AM Gold express has reached the last station of the 1960s. Take a good look around, because we move on to the ’70s next week!
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The third installment of our look at “AM Gold: 1969” is a grim one indeed. We can only imagine what it was like to hear these songs all the time back then.
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Say what you want about the Guess Who and Three Dog Night… because you may be talking about the other band anyway.
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1969 –The year Hair dominated the American airwaves. The first of several Hair cover songs debuts on AM Gold this week.
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This week’s look at AM Gold touches on Laura Nyro, the Bee Gees, and David Hasselhoff. Because that’s just how we roll.
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We’re back after a brief pause for the holiday season, and we’ve got a couple of stone classics for you.
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AM Gold: 1968 is here! And so is a new batch of songs to ignite the debate over just what Time-Life was thinking when they picked these songs.