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Hi, Everyone...

What songs do think have gotten less
exposure/commercial success than they should have?

I'd be interested in hearing your responses.
Some songs that are hits seem undeserving, while some that are fabulous get ignored...

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Interesting topic, Emily. Without naming any particular songs (my mind is blank at the moment), I've often found when I used to buy LP albums (remember those?) and even CDs today, the very BEST songs were almost always the album cuts, those songs that very few people ever heard because they never made it to the radio.

Example: I'm a huge Paul McCartney fan, but for the life of me, I never understood why "Silly Love Songs" and "Let 'Em In" were the hits off of Wings At The Speed Of Sound. There were much better radio-friendly songs on that album.

I'll try to think of specific songs that should have been hits and come back later.

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One that comes immediately to mind is "The Miner's Silver Ghost" by Merle Haggard. It's a very powerful ghost story (and a train song, of course)--but it got airplay only for a few days around Hallowe'en on year around 25 years ago, and they stoppeed playing it after Hallowe'en. The radio said the song was on an album called "My Love Affair with Trains," so I eventually bought the album. Alas, the rest of the material on the album was [insert euphemism for fecal material]. So I assume one of the reasons the song never went anywhere was it was packaged with a bunch of stuff that may have had no business seeing the light of day. Another reason, of course, was the marketing--that fixation on Hallowe'en that conveyed the impression the song was one of those "play only at..." items.

Too bad. I always considered "The Miner's Silver Ghost" one of Merle's best songs.

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Amen about Buddy & Julie Miller, Gillian Welch and a host of other artists. That's why I pay for MusicChoice from my cable TV company. The Americana channel plays those artists and all the others I love that won't see the light of day on any radio station in these parts. Same goes with the Bluegrass channel. None of that's getting played on the radio, either.

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Hi Emily [Linked Image]..From listening alot around the net to unsigned artists the last year i've heard hundredsof great songs that deserve to be hits,but probarbly never will be....

So many yawningly cliched,forced and utterly average songs clog up the commercial airwaves that it makes me think(sadly)the quality of the 'song' obviously has very very little to do with getting a 'hit'. [Linked Image]

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here's two

Harder Cards - Colin Raye and
I Will - Billy Ray Cyrus

below are the lyrics to both

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Harder Cards
(Craig Wiseman/Michael Henderson)

Well the hammer fell down on a forty-four primer
Now there's one less problem in South Carolina tonight
Wrong or right

She just looked at me as she finished her tale
And her blank expression went another shade pale of grey
There was nothin' to say
In the shadows of her face, I saw the scars
That you get when you live where love is hard
And she said

Don't you sit and judge me
From some high and mighty seat
Don't you shrug off
Until you've walked a mile in my bare feet
'Cause there are people that you pass by every day
With harder cards than yours in life to play

Well I put the cuffs on her
And I put her in the car
And I walked in and he was on the floor
Stone dead
Shot in the head

There were whiskey bottles and dope by his chair
And a starving baby with nothin' to wear
But tears
You know, the picture was clear

He had finally pushed her farther than the line
And the badge i wore had lost all of it's shine

Don't you sit and judge me
From some high and mighty seat
Don't you shrug off
Until you've walked a mile in my bare feet
'Cause there are people that you pass by every day
With harder cards than yours in life to play

Well I stood there thinkin' how justice was blind
But I didn't see any and I could see just fine
And I made up my mind

So I took the cuffs off her
And I took her back in
I wiped off the gun
And wrapped it in his right hand
Where it should've been

And the morning paper told in black and white
Just another senseless case of suicide
Oh, just a suicide

Oh but don't you sit and judge me
From some high and mighty seat
Don't you shrug off
Until you've walked a mile on my beat
'Cause there are people that you pass by every day
With harder cards than yours in life to play

Yeah the hammer fell down on a forty-four primer
Now there's one less problem in South Carolina tonight

I Will - Billy Ray Cyrus
written by B. Baker, C.A. Brown

I would crawl through your grief
I'll cry till I drown
Cut a path through your dark
Till I'm lost and your found
Turn your blue into gray
I won't hurt when I bleed
I'd give up my desire
Till you get what you need
Ask me to be there whenever you fall
To do anything, everything, nothing at all
I'll move any mountain that keeps you from me
I will change, rearrange, disappear in your dreams
Don't ask to let go or make me give up
Cuz I love you that much
And I will, baby I will

I'll never say
That I know how you feel
But I know in your heart
That those demons are real
So don't push me out
And I won't pull you in
But I won't let love lose
If you'll just let love win

If you can just look past your fear
You'll see me standing right here

Ask me to be there whenever you fall
To do anything, everything, nothing at all
I'll move any mountain that keeps you from me
I will change, rearrange, disappear in your dreams
Don't ask me to let go or make me give up
Cuz I love you that much, and I will, baby I will
It'll kill me, but baby I will


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Off the top of my head one of the most "blatant" omissions in recent memory was; "I'LL CRY TOMMORROW" by Larry Stewart I heard the song "once" on radio back in 1993 and I thought it was one of the top 3 Country songs goin at the time.
Also I thought The GATLIN BROTHERS (in their Heyday) like ALIVE & WELL (livin in the land of Dreams),,,,,were often overlooked come AWARDS time in favor of THE JUDDS?????? I'd like to see a "POSTHUMOUS AIRPLAY" given to John Denver's Country Cut from his last recorded performance "live" HARBOR LIGHTS CONCERT called "KISSIN YOU GOODBYE". Great Country song and conversation about it!
QUESTION; did the VIEW FROM MY BACKPORCH( ,,,,is that the title,,,? sippy cup song) win anything????

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In the early days of MTV, there were songs that got airplay on the channel, simply because they had a video in an era when videos were scarce. Songs therefore developed a national following, without the printing and distribution ready to capitalize. Therefore, "That's What I Like About You" by the Romantics, now a beloved classic-rock staple that's been used in a half-dozen commercials, never got it's moment in the sun, as the moment had passed by the time the record company belatedly made it widely available.

It's very weak follow-up, "Talking in Your Sleep," actually did better on the charts. Other MTV songs that had a national following but not necessarily national sales aren't hitting me now.

Obviously, there's "I Don't Like Mondays," which went number one in virtually every country on earth that charted singles sales, but was pulled from playlists shortly after it entered the charts in the US somewhere in the fifties, when it became known that Bob Geldof wrote it based on a school shooting.


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