WHAT ARE YOU LISTENING TO?

The Sanford-Townsend Band was a blue-eyed soul group featuring Alabama keyboardists Ed Sanford (from Montgomery, AL) and Johnny Townsend (from Tuscaloosa, AL), who previously worked together in a Tuscaloosa-based band called "Heart", not to be confused with the band of the same name fronted by Ann & Nancy Wilson from Seattle/Vancouver.

After reuniting in Los Angeles, Sanford and Townsend signed a publishing deal with Chappell Music and began writing songs, most notably "Peacemaker" for Loggins and Messina, which was co-written by the duo with Kenny Loggins.

Their 1976 self-titled album started getting attention when "Smoke from a Distant Fire" reached No. 9 on the Billboard Hot 100 and No. 1 in Cash Box, recorded at the famous Muscle Shoals Sound Studios in Alabama. The album was re-released using the song title as its own. The band supported the song by opening for Fleetwood Mac on their Rumours Tour, as well as concerts with the Marshall Tucker Band, Charlie Daniels, Jimmy Buffett, Foreigner, Heart and others.

This was a great!! single. 

Wow! When I posted it I was thinking "is anybody on here going to know who they are or ever listened to them."

I think that is my favorite right now....must listen the the cd a few more times.

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In Response to Re: WHAT ARE YOU LISTENING TO?: Just arrived in the mail today....loving it so far.  Great band to see live. Like Clockwork                             I love "My God is the Sun"! Queens of the Stone Age  ...Like Clockwork is the sixth studio album by American rock band Queens of the Stone Age, released on June 3, 2013 on Matador Records in the UK and on June 4 in the United States. Release date: June 3, 2013 Artist: Queens of the Stone Age Label: Matador Records Songs 1    Keep Your Eyes Peeled    2    I Sat by the Ocean    3    The Vampyre of Time and Memory    4    If I Had a Tail    5    My God Is the Sun    6    Kalopsia    7    Fairweather Friends    8    Smooth Sailing    9    I Appear Missing    10  Like Clockwork    Posted by SandeRLyons   Posted by michaeljkelly21

Great band. Great choice.

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One of the ’70s’ most energetic and enduring double live albums was released 35 years ago, and from the start, fans knew what they were in store for: The cover photo pulls them out of their seats, over the barricades and face to face with the leather-covered crotch of an instrument-wielding rock star. Thin Lizzy’s celebrated ‘Live and Dangerous’ vaulted the hard-working, and even harder partying, quartet as close as they’d ever come to mainstream success in their U.K. homeland, making it to No. 2 on the chart. But the Irish group, which was founded in Dublin back in 1969 by singer and bassist Philip Lynott, drummer Brian Downey and original guitarist Eric Bell, struggled to make themselves heard among the era’s other more popular hard-rock power trios. Their souped-up cover of the traditional Celtic folk song ‘Whiskey in the Jar’ got them noticed, but they were written off as a novelty and had to start at square one again, gradually building a loyal following with Bell’s twin-harmonizing replacements, Scott Gorham and Brian Robertson. Posted by nyadrn

One of the ’70s’ most energetic and enduring double live albums was released 35 years ago, and from the start, fans knew what they were in store for: The cover photo pulls them out of their seats, over the barricades and face to face with the leather-covered crotch of an instrument-wielding rock star.

Thin Lizzy’s celebrated ‘Live and Dangerous’ vaulted the hard-working, and even harder partying, quartet as close as they’d ever come to mainstream success in their U.K. homeland, making it to No. 2 on the chart.

But the Irish group, which was founded in Dublin back in 1969 by singer and bassist Philip Lynott, drummer Brian Downey and original guitarist Eric Bell, struggled to make themselves heard among the era’s other more popular hard-rock power trios. Their souped-up cover of the traditional Celtic folk song ‘Whiskey in the Jar’ got them noticed, but they were written off as a novelty and had to start at square one again, gradually building a loyal following with Bell’s twin-harmonizing replacements, Scott Gorham and Brian Robertson.

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Just arrived in the mail today....loving it so far.  Great band to see live. Like Clockwork                             I love "My God is the Sun"! Queens of the Stone Age  ...Like Clockwork is the sixth studio album by American rock band Queens of the Stone Age, released on June 3, 2013 on Matador Records in the UK and on June 4 in the United States. Release date: June 3, 2013 Artist: Queens of the Stone Age Label: Matador Records Songs 1    Keep Your Eyes Peeled    2    I Sat by the Ocean    3    The Vampyre of Time and Memory    4    If I Had a Tail    5    My God Is the Sun    6    Kalopsia    7    Fairweather Friends    8    Smooth Sailing    9    I Appear Missing    10  Like Clockwork    Posted by SandeRLyons

Just arrived in the mail today....loving it so far.  Great band to see live.

Like Clockwork

Queens of the Stone Age

...Like Clockwork is the sixth studio album by American rock band Queens of the Stone Age, released on June 3, 2013 on Matador Records in the UK and on June 4 in the United States.

Release date: June 3, 2013

Artist: Queens of the Stone Age

Label: Matador Records

Songs

1    Keep Your Eyes Peeled   

2    I Sat by the Ocean   

3    The Vampyre of Time and Memory   

4    If I Had a Tail   

5    My God Is the Sun   

6    Kalopsia   

7    Fairweather Friends   

8    Smooth Sailing   

9    I Appear Missing   

10  Like Clockwork   

Good choice. Me and my son in law listened to this on Sunday..he wanted to hear it on vinyl.

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Dreamboat Annie Studio album by Heart Released February 14, 1976 Recorded July - August 1975 at Can-Base Studios, Vancouver, BC, Canada Genre Hard rock, folk rock Length 40:02 Label Mushroom Capitol Producer Mike Flicker Dreamboat Annie is the debut album by American rock band Heart. It was released in the United States on February 14, 1976 through Mushroom Records. It contained three hit singles which became staples on FM radio. Producer Mike Flicker helped the group to polish their sound and obtain a recording contract with the label.  This is a great album!! Happy birthday to Ann Wilson  born on this date in 1951!! Posted by nyadrn

Dreamboat Annie
Studio album by Heart
Released	February 14, 1976
Recorded	July - August 1975 at Can-Base Studios, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Genre	Hard rock, folk rock
Length	40:02
Label	Mushroom Capitol
Producer	Mike Flicker

Dreamboat Annie is the debut album by American rock band Heart. It was released in the United States on February 14, 1976 through Mushroom Records. It contained three hit singles which became staples on FM radio. Producer Mike Flicker helped the group to polish their sound and obtain a recording contract with the label.  This is a great album!!

Happy birthday to Ann Wilson  born on this date in 1951!!

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Listening and smiling. My grandson just turned 9 on Father's Day and here with me for a few days of celebrating. He had a request and of course, I couldn't say no. He wanted me to make him a CD of Blondie songs...so I did while he was sleeping. He now had a huge smile on his face...woke up to the CD waiting for him. Ian's Blondie CD 1. Heart of Glass 2. Atomic 3. One Way Or Another 4. Mother 5. Call Me 6. Rapture 7. The Tide Is High 8. Picture This 9. Hanging On The Telephone 10. Dreaming 11. Denis 12. Maria 13. Good Boys 14. Undone Posted by SandeRLyons

He has good taste !!

Listening and smiling.

My grandson just turned 9 on Father's Day and here with me for a few days of celebrating. He had a request and of course, I couldn't say no.

He wanted me to make him a CD of Blondie songs...so I did while he was sleeping. He now had a huge smile on his face...woke up to the CD waiting for him.

Ian's Blondie CD

1. Heart of Glass

2. Atomic

3. One Way Or Another

4. Mother

5. Call Me

6. Rapture

7. The Tide Is High

8. Picture This

9. Hanging On The Telephone

10. Dreaming

11. Denis

12. Maria

13. Good Boys

14. Undone