[SamAdams76]

[CodeJockey]

ha... When I was a kid we had the song/artist jokes.

One was, Yellow River by I Pee Free

I’m sure some FReepers remember others.

[CodeJockey]

Needless to say, an interesting hobby.

I remember the late sixty’s, early 1970 songs played on Armed Forces radio in Naha Okinawa from 69 thru 70.

[lee martell]

Fun video. There was some good guitar work going on.
That song sounds as though it was written a long time ago.
It sounds like a working class Folk Song. It may have also worked as a Country Western performance, but at a slower pace.
I could imagine someone with a booming Johnny Cash type voice doing it.

This song by Christie is one of the few recordings where I can clearly hear the lead’s British accent.
Usually, when Brit’s sing rock, you can barely tell they aren’t American.

[Migraine]

Thanks for posting this. I like the song; have for some time.
As it happens, one of my top 5 songs from the early 70s is this one by the obscure “Christie”, “Yellow River”:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxu5zyUnVzE

I have never fully discerned his obscurity; but I can lay some of it to lax marketing, and the lack of a band of his own. The few hit records he made were done with backup music by some of the Tremeloes (a really skilled band from the late 60s):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AbAw6cbu2s

[lee martell]

Here is another song from that era, an obscure song I have always liked, that no one else remembers.

“Love Can Make You Happy” by Mercy 1969.
This song was written by a high school kid during a class.
It took him about 30 minutes.

[FrdmLvr]

I was a junior in high school at that time and I don’t recall this group or that song.

[Regulator]

That was way fun.

Only remember the band name. Neither song.

Maybe only eclipsed by The Sweet for cheekiness.