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<blockquote data-quote="Days of Broken Arrows" data-source="post: 1289510" data-attributes="member: 4258">RE: The Anti-Clown World Thread: In Praise Of The Disappearing Old World&quot;The Ballad Of The Green Berets&quot; was actually a #1 hit in 1966...for FIVE weeks. They leave this stuff out of the musical histories of the 1960s because it doesn't fit their agenda. This song was also completely shut out of oldies radio in the '80s and '90s, even though it came out on RCA.Speaking of left-field songs that became massive hits, a nun called Sister Janet Mead scored a Top 5 U.S. hit with her version of &quot;The Lord's Prayer&quot; in 1974.It came out originally on a tiny label called Festival. When it started getting lots of regional airplay, A&amp;M Records (which was smaller major label) stepped in and bought the rights, so it could be distributed nationally.This is the kind of thing that would never happen nowadays. For one thing, there isn't much local/regional radio. For another, there are no longer companies like A&amp;M who compete to distribute the (non-existent) regional hit. A&amp;M was started by trumpet player Herb Alpert and had an office in L.A. That's it. Today's record companies have boards of directors based all over the world making decisions. So if you like this, thank Herb Alpert and company for bringing it to the masses (no pun intended):[MEDIA=youtube]DZF9rsgKZHw[/MEDIA]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Days of Broken Arrows, post: 1289510, member: 4258"] [b]RE: The Anti-Clown World Thread: In Praise Of The Disappearing Old World[/b] "The Ballad Of The Green Berets" was actually a #1 hit in 1966...for FIVE weeks. They leave this stuff out of the musical histories of the 1960s because it doesn't fit their agenda. This song was also completely shut out of oldies radio in the '80s and '90s, even though it came out on RCA. Speaking of left-field songs that became massive hits, a nun called Sister Janet Mead scored a Top 5 U.S. hit with her version of "The Lord's Prayer" in 1974. It came out originally on a tiny label called Festival. When it started getting lots of regional airplay, A&M Records (which was smaller major label) stepped in and bought the rights, so it could be distributed nationally. This is the kind of thing that would never happen nowadays. For one thing, there isn't much local/regional radio. For another, there are no longer companies like A&M who compete to distribute the (non-existent) regional hit. A&M was started by trumpet player Herb Alpert and had an office in L.A. That's it. Today's record companies have boards of directors based all over the world making decisions. So if you like this, thank Herb Alpert and company for bringing it to the masses (no pun intended): [MEDIA=youtube]DZF9rsgKZHw[/MEDIA] [/QUOTE]

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