Posted on 08/29/2025 3:54:34 PM PDT by DallasBiff
The first Jefferson Airplane album was folk rock, with Signe Anderson as the female singer. She tried touring with her newborn, but soon realized she needed to be a full-time mom. (She still performed in small bands up until her death about 10 years ago).
The albums that followed with Grace Slick were very different.
The Derek and the Dominos lp is notable for its creepy and horribly ugly cover art.
I’d have included Pearl Harbor and the Explosions and The Headboys, although the latter had a second, “lost” album released years later.
CTA had numerous albums, mostly after changing the name to merely “Chicago”. Same group.
So that’s what happened to those guys. ;)
Yes, their transformation is very interesting... but I was taking “one-album wonders” very literally and I thought the blues-style Fleetwood Mac was for a couple of albums. Also, I thought it relevant because I was sorta saying that the band that recorded from More onward was very much a different band than the one-album wonder because of the departure of the songwriter, lead guitarist and lead singer. I had thought that although their sound changed, Fleetwood Mac’s original foursome was together for a handful of albums.
It was, after all, just one album, even if it did have several “Cover Art” versions.
The previous Aussie hit came out about 1963. “Tie Me Kangaroo Down”
I can’t think of any songs that came after their big mega-albums.
"Sports" came out in 1983.
The "Back to the Future" soundtrack came out in 1985.
It featured "Power of Love" and "Back in Time", and the album went platinum.
"Fore!" came out in 1986.
Singles from that included "Stuck with You", "Hip to be Square", and "Doing It All for My Baby", and the album went triple platinum.
An album that everyone I know had back in the day was The Producers. It was a pop band with a cool video and a bunch of catchy tunes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ruw9fsh3PNY
Just under 3 minutes.
“American Psycho” explains why “Fore!” is their most accomplished album.
“Hey Paul!”
I wasn’t a huge fan of theirs. I only knew of these songs from a jukebox in a watering hole I used to go to. But the years you mentioned make sense. I guess I was just backfilling the anthology.
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