You make a good point - a record that made it to #15 will never be
"Lost", although I'll admit that none of the oldies stations in my
area seem to play much out of the top 10 (sadly).
Of course your question borders on the rhetorical, as collections this
large are bound to contain all sorts of anomalies. If this is the
worse one you find, consider yourself ahead of the game.
I'm pleased to see that I'm not the only one who slogs through these
looking for undiscovered gems. The vast majority of these tunes, as
well as the "super rare" compilations, are lost or rare because they
absolutely deserve to be. But every once in a while, a victim of bad
release timing or poor distribution comes shining through, making all
the effort worth while.
Hang In There,
Spidey
On 31 Aug 2015 00:43:27 GMT, R H Draney <dadoctah@spamcop.net> wrote:
>Have been working my way through the massive collection of Lost Jukebox
>discs, and I spotted a record that doesn't seem to belong...out of the more
>than 6,000 songs, I recognized about forty, some because I've heard them on
>The Dr Demento Show, some because I own surplus-store ex-radio-station
>copies of the 45s myself...but for the most part the collection is what I
>understood it to be: records that for whatever reason never made any impact
>on the charts back in the day...granted, there are artists we're all quite
>familiar with doing forgotten tunes, and well-known numbers performed by
>people other than the ones we associate them with....
>
>But there on volume 206, I find "Don't Say You Don't Remember" by Beverly
>Bremers...I still hear this regularly on the oldies station I listen to,
>and it doesn't even appear to be some obscure alternate take...Wiki says
>the record hit #10 on Billboard's Easy Listening chart in '71, and got as
>high as #15 on the Hot 100 the following year, placing as #86 for the 1972
>year-end chart....
>
>So it's hardly a forgotten single...I'm puzzled how it found its way into
>the Lost Jukebox, as much as I'm puzzled by why the Shazam app insists on
>identifying it as "No Digas Que No Recuerdas" by "The Music Makers", and
>then offers me a YouTube video of Bremers anyway (there doesn't seem to be
>a YouTube clip of the Spanish version)...any thoughts?...r
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