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Lost Classics
A "Lost Classic" is a song that had it's chance, but never gets airtime anymore.  The first group is in no particular order except for the first cut, from the most underrated and underbroadcast band of all-time.  If it weren't for the fact that I spent some time working for Alex DeMers at the eclectic WIOQ in Philadelphia in the 80's, I might have missed out on Annie Haslam and Renaissance altogether

I invite you to CLICK HERE send me your favorite Lost Classics.

We'll start out with the "Best Of The Best." My Top 25 Lost Classics.
1
Carpet Of The Sun Renaissance
2
Love And Affection Joan Armatrading
3
Say Good-bye To Little Jo Steve Forbert
4
One More Time Peter Frampton
5
Crystal Fleetwood Mac
6
Let's Spend The Night Together David Bowie
7
Now I'm Here Queen
8
The Actor The Moody Blues
9
5:01am (The Pros & Cons Of Hitchhiking) Roger Waters
10
Diamonds & Rust Joan Baez
11
Free Man In Paris Joni Mitchell
12
Mozambique Bob Dylan
13
Everyone's Gone To The Movies Steely Dan
14
Captain Fantastic And The Brown Dirt Cowboy Elton John
15
The Court Of The Crimson King King Crimson
16
Holiday Nazareth
17
Nice, Nice, Very Nice Ambrosia
18
Alison Elvis Costello
19
You're My Home Billy Joel
20
Growing Up Bruce Springsteen
21
Manhattan Skyline Julia Fordham
22
I Don't Want To Go Home Southside Johnny
23
Love Is The Drug Roxy Music
24
I Wouldn't Want To Be Like You Alan Parsons Project
25
Lowdown Chicago

Here are some more "Lost Classics," in order by artist. Believe it or not, most of these actually appeared on the Billboard Hot 100 Chart. In most cases, the songs had a week or two in the high numbers (Who's original band name was that?), but vanished without a trace. Others were of a type of music that no longer fits any radio format known to modern man (damn those consultants... damn them all to hell!), and so, regretably, are no longer played for the masses. I keep updating the list as I think of more, so keep checking back.

NOTE: There is a syndicated show called "The Deep End" hosted by Nick Michaels that gives Lost Classics some love. Click Here for his site and a list of stations where you can dig the show.

How ironic is it, that the first song listed below could be the battle cry for the legions of "Lost Classics" that follow. I'm always looking for your "Lost Classics," so DROP ME AN eMAIL and I'll credit you.
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  • Art For Art's Sake
  • Dreadlock Holiday
  • Good Morning Judge
  • A's
  • Do The Dance
  • Woman's Got The Power
  • Addrisi Brothers
  • We've Got To Get It On Again
  • Ambrosia
  • Holdin' On To Yesterday
  • Life Beyond LA
  • Nice, Nice, Very Nice
  • America
  • Daisy Jane
  • Don't Cross The River
  • Sandman
  • Today's The Day
  • Woman Tonight
  • Argent
  • Liar
  • God Gave rock & Roll To You
  • Joan Armatrading
  • (I Love It When You) Call Me Names
  • Drop The Pilot
  • Love & Affection
  • Me Myself I
  • Show Some Emotion
  • The Weakness In Me
  • Willow
  • Atlanta Rhythm Section
  • Champagne Jam
  • I'm Not Gonna Let It Bother Me Tonight
  • Imaginary Lover
  • So Into You
  • Bad Company
  • Young Blood
  • Badfinger
  • Baby Blue
  • Joan Baez
  • Diamonds And Rust
  • Berlin
  • The Metro
  • Sex (I'm A...)
  • Bloodstone
  • Natural High
  • Box Tops
  • Soul Deep
  • Bread
  • Let Your Love Go
  • Martin Briley
  • The Salt In My Tears
  • Jackson Browne
  • The Pretender
  • Redneck Friend
  • Rock Me On The Water
  • Buffalo Springfield
  • Bluebird
  • Rock 'n' Roll Woman
  • Jimmy Buffett
  • Changes In Latitudes, Changes In Attitudes
  • Come Monday
  • Livingston Saturday Night
  • T Bone Burnett
  • Fatally Beautiful
  • Byrds
  • My Back Pages
  • Eric Carmen
  • Never Gonna Fall In Love Again
  • She Did It
  • Sunrise
  • That's Rock & Roll
  • Jim Carroll band
  • People Who Died
  • Chambers Brothers
  • Love, Peace And Happiness
  • Charlie
  • Johnny Hold Back
  • Chase
  • Get It On
  • Chicago
  • Dialogue (Parts 1 & 2)
  • Lowdown
  • Questions 67 & 68
  • Eric Clapton
  • Hello Old Friend
  • The Core
  • Dave Clark Five
  • Catch Us If You Can
  • The Clash
  • Clampdown
  • I Fought The Law
  • London Calling
  • Police On My Back
  • Train In Vain
  • Climax Blues Band
  • Couldn't Get It Right
  • Joe Cocker
  • Delta Lady
  • Phil Collins
  • Behind The Lines
  • Elvis Costello
  • (I Don't Want To Go To) Chelsea
  • (What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love & Understanding
  • Accidents Will Happen
  • Alison
  • Everyday I Write The Book
  • Oliver's Army
  • Pump It Up
  • Radio Radio
  • Veronica
  • Watching the Detectives
  • Gene Cotton
  • Like A Sunday In Salem
  • Cream
  • Badge
  • Marshall Crenshaw
  • Someday, Someway
  • David Crosby/Graham Nash
  • Immigration Man
  • Kiki Dee
  • I've Got The Music In Me
  • Delaney & Bonnie
  • Only You Know And I Know
  • Thomas Dolby
  • Hyperactive
  • Doobie Brothers
  • Another Park, Another Sunday
  • Ukiah
  • Dramatics
  • In The Rain
  • Whatcha See Is Whatcha Get
  • Bob Dylan
  • Mozambique
  • Positively 4th Street
  • Sara
  • Stuck Inside Of Mobile With The Memphis Blues Again
  • Tangled Up In Blue
  • Easybeats
  • Friday On My Mind
  • Dave Edmunds
  • Girls Talk
  • I Hear You Knocking
  • Walter Egan (no relation)
  • Magnet And Steel
  • Electric Light Orchestra
  • Can't Get It Out Of My Head
  • Do Ya
  • Fire On High
  • Strange Magic
  • Sweet Talking Woman
  • Telephone Line
  • Turn To Stone
  • Emerson, Lake & Palmer
  • From The Beginning
  • Still, You Turn Me On
  • Jay Ferguson
  • Thunder Island
  • Fleetwood Mac
  • Crystal
  • Fireflies
  • I'm So Afraid
  • Sara
  • Sentimental Lady
  • Warm Ways
  • Firefall
  • Just Remember I Love You
  • Livin' Ain't Livin'
  • Strange Way
  • The Fifth Dimension
  • If I Could Reach You
  • Five Man Electrical Band
  • Absolutely Right
  • Flo & Eddie
  • Illegal, Immoral & Fattening
  • Rebecca
  • Dan Fogelberg
  • Part Of The Plan
  • Power Of Gold
  • Steve Forbert
  • Romeo's Tune
  • Say Goodbye To Little Jo
  • Foreigner
  • Headknocker
  • That Was yesterday
  • Fotomaker
  • Where Have You Been All My Life
  • Aretha Franklin
  • Daydreaming
  • Until You Come Back To Me (That's What I'm Gonna Do)
  • Peter Gabriel
  • Games Without Frontiers
  • J. Geils Band
  • Give It To Me
  • Must Of Got Lost
  • Genesis
  • The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway
  • Ripples
  • Robbery, Assault and Battery
  • Squonk
  • Trick Of The Tail
  • Your Own Special Way
  • Nick Gilder
  • Hot Child In The City
  • Grand Funk Railroad
  • Bad Time
  • Guess Who
  • Albert Flasher
  • Hand Me Down World
  • Share The Land
  • Star Baby
  • Hall & Oates
  • It's A Laugh
  • George Harrison
  • Crackerbox Palace
  • This Song
  • You
  • Richie Havens
  • Here Comes The Sun
  • Justin Hayward
  • Forever Autumn
  • Robert Hazard & The Heroes
  • Escalator Of Life
  • Head East
  • Never Been Any Reason
  • Heart
  • Dog & Butterfly
  • This Man Is Mine
  • Tell It Like It Is
  • Rock & Roll
  • Hollies
  • Sandy
  • It's A Beautiful Day
  • White Bird
  • Joe Jackson
  • Breaking Us In Two
  • Is She Really Going Out With Him?
  • Look Sharp
  • One More Time
  • Steppin' Out
  • Sunday Papers
  • You Can't Get What You Want (Till You Know What You Want)
  • Jefferson Starship
  • Count On Me
  • Miracles
  • Play On Love
  • Ride The Tiger
  • Runaway
  • With Your Love
  • Jethro Tull
  • A Passion Play
  • Bungle In The Jungle
  • Hymn 43
  • Living In The Past
  • Minstrel In The Gallery
  • ***anything from "Benefit"
  • Jo Jo Gunne
  • Run, Run, Run
  • Billy Joel
  • I Go To Extremes
  • Say Goodbye To Hollywood
  • You're My Home
  • Elton John
    Me & EJ in Columbus, OH
  • Amoreena
  • Captain Fantastic & The Brown Dirt Cowboy
  • Chloe
  • Come Down In Time
  • Ego
  • Elderberry Wine
  • Empty Garden
  • Empty Sky
  • Friends
  • Harmony
  • Hercules
  • I Need You To Turn To
  • Just Like Belgium
  • Kiss The Bride
  • Michele's Song
  • Part-Time Love
  • Sartorial Eloquence
  • Teacher I Need You
  • Ticking
  • Tonight
    ...and about a zillion more (can you tell I'm a fan?)
  • Rickie Lee Jones
  • Chuck E's in Love
  • Danny's All-Star joint
  • Don't Let The Sun Catch You Crying
  • Satellites
  • Kayak
  • I Want You To Be Mine
  • King Crimson
  • 21st Century Schizoid Man
  • The Court Of The Crimson King
  • KISS
  • Christine Sixteen
  • Detroit Rock City
  • Hard Luck Woman
  • Cyndi Lauper
  • I Drove All Night
  • Led Zeppelin
    Thanks to variations of "Get The Led Out" radio shows, there are no Lost Zeppelin Classics
    John Lennon
  • Cold Turkey
  • Mother
  • Power To The People
  • Stand By Me
  • Kenny Loggins/Jim Messina
  • My Music
  • Thinking Of You
  • Vahevala
  • Lovin' Spoonful
  • Darlin' Be Home Soon
  • Nick Lowe
  • Cruel To Be Kind
  • I Knew The Bride When She Used To Rock and Roll
  • Malo
  • Suavecito
  • Martha & The Muffins
  • Echo Beach
  • Dave Mason
  • Let It Go, Let It Flow
  • So High (Rock Me Baby And Roll Me Away)
  • We Just Disagree
  • Paul McCartney
  • Oh Woman, Oh Why
  • Girls School
  • Helen Wheels
  • Hi Hi Hi
  • I've Had Enough
  • Letting Go
  • Listen To What The Man Said
  • Venus And Mars Rock Show
  • Barry McGuire
  • Eve Of Destruction
  • Scott McKenzie
  • San Francisco (Be Sure To Wear Some Flowers In Your Hair)
  • Meat Loaf
  • All Revved Up & No Place To Go
  • You Took The Words Right Out Of My Mouth (Hot Summer Night)
  • Melanie
  • Lay Down (Candles In The Rain)
  • Steve Miller
  • Serenade
  • The Stake
  • Joni Mitchell
  • Free Man In Paris
  • Help Me
  • Raised On Robbery
  • You Turn Me On, I'm A Radio
  • Moody Blues
  • The Actor
  • Driftwood
  • Go Now
  • I'm Just A Singer (In A Rock And Roll Band)
  • Isn't Life Strange
  • Question
  • Ride My See-Saw
  • Steppin' In A Slide Zone
  • The Story In Your Eyes
  • Van Morrison
  • Blue Money
  • Come Running
  • Jackie Wilson Said
  • Tupelo Honey
  • Wavelength
  • Graham Nash
  • Chicago
  • Nazareth
  • Hair Of The Dog
  • Love Hurts
  • Holiday
  • Nilsson
  • Jump Into The Fire
  • Space Man
  • You're Breaking My Heart
    *** no chance in Hell that last song will ever get radio play :-)
  • Orpheus
  • I Can't Find The Time To Tell You
  • Pablo Cruise
  • A Place In The Sun
  • Love Will Find A Way
  • Whatcha Gonna Do?
  • Pacific Gas & Electric
  • Are You Ready?
  • Robert Palmer
  • Every Kinda People
  • Graham Parker
  • Mercury Poisoning
  • Alan Parsons Project
  • I Wouldn't Want To Be Like You
  • The Pretenders
  • Don't Get Me Wrong
  • Message Of Love
  • Precious
  • Stop Your Sobbing
  • Talk Of The Town
  • Procol Harum
  • Conquistador
  • Pure Prairie League
  • Two Lane Highway
  • Queen
  • Flick Of The Wrist
  • Now I'm Here
  • Tie Your Mother Down
  • Quicksilver Messenger Service
  • Fresh Air
  • Gerry Rafferty
  • Right Down The Line
  • Bonnie Raitt
  • Runaway
  • Rare Earth
  • (I Know) I'm Losing You
  • Rascals
  • You Better Run
  • Raspberries
  • Let's Pretend
  • Tonight
  • Lou Reed
  • Dirty Boulevard
  • Rock & Roll
  • Sweet Jane
  • Renaissance
  • Can You Understand?
  • carpet Of The Sun
  • I Think Of You
  • Trip To The fair
  • Rockpile
  • Play That Fast Thing
  • Romeo Void
  • Never Say Never
  • Roxy Music
  • Avalon
  • Love Is The Drug
  • More Than This
  • Todd Rundgren
  • Can We Still Be Friends
  • Hello It's Me (Nazz)
  • I Saw The Light
  • We Gotta Get You A Woman (Runt)
  • Leon Russell
  • Back To The Island
  • Lady Blue
  • Song For You
  • Superstar
  • Tight Rope
  • Sanford-Townsend Band
  • Smoke From A Distant Fire
  • Santana
  • Europa
  • Hope You're Feeling Better
  • No One To Depend On
  • She's Not There
  • Samba Pa Ti
  • Well Alright
  • Peter Schilling
  • Major Tom (Coming Home)
  • Pete Shelley
  • Homosapien
  • Simon & Garfunkel
  • America
  • At The Zoo
  • Fakin' It
  • Hazy Shade Of Winter
  • My Little Town
  • Frank Sinatra
  • Summer Wind
  • Slade
  • C'um On Feel The Noize
  • Small Faces
  • Itchycoo Park
  • Patti Smith
  • Because The Night
  • Southside Johnny & The Asbury Jukes
  • I Don't Want To Go Home
  • The Fever
  • Spirit
  • I Got A Line On You
  • Bruce Springsteen
  • Badlands
  • Candy's Room
  • Blinded By The Light
  • For You
  • Growin' Up
  • She's The One
  • Spirit In The Night
  • Jungleland
  • Squeeze
  • anything
  • Status Quo
  • Pictures Of Matchstick Men
  • Steely Dan
  • Black Friday
  • Everyone's Gone To The Movies
  • Dr. Wu
  • FM
  • Josie
  • Kid Charlemagne
  • My Old School
  • Pretzel Logic
  • Dirty Work
  • Cat Stevens
  • Father & Son
  • Sitting
  • Two Fine People
  • Al Stewart
  • On The Border
  • Song On The Radio
  • Time Passages
  • Year of the Cat
  • Styx
  • Lorelei
  • Donna Summer
  • State Of Independence
  • Supertramp
  • Bloody Well Right
  • Cannonball
  • Give A Little Bit
  • School
  • Billy Swan
  • I Can Help
  • Sweet
  • Fox On The Run
  • Little Willy
  • Love Is Like Oxygen
  • Talking Heads
  • Life During Wartime
  • Take Me To The River
  • Psycho Killer
  • Bram Tchaikovsky
  • Girl Of My Dreams
  • Ten Years After
  • I'd Love To Change The World
  • Thin Lizzy
  • The Boys Are Back In Town
  • Three Dog Night
  • Easy To Be Hard
  • Eli's Coming
  • Liar
  • One Man Band
  • Out In The Country
  • Thunderclap Newman
  • Something In The Air
  • Traffic
  • Empty Pages
  • Feelin' Alright
  • Glad
  • Low Spark Of High Heeled Boys
  • Paper Sun
  • Pearly Queen
  • Rock & Roll Stew
  • Robin Trower
  • Caledonia
  • anything from "Bridge Of Sighs"
  • Tubes
  • Don't Touch Me There
  • Talk To Ya Later
  • White Punks On Dope
  • Undisputed Truth
  • Smiling Faces Sometimes
  • Uriah Heep
  • Easy Livin'
  • Vanilla Fudge
  • You Keep Me Hangin' On
  • War
  • Slippin' Into Darkness
  • The World Is A Ghetto
  • Bob Welch
  • Ebony Eyes
  • Hot Love, Cold World
  • Sentimental Lady
  • Wet Willie
  • Keep On Smilin'
  • Street Corner Serenade
  • Stevie Wonder
  • Boogie On Reggae Woman
  • Don't You Worry 'bout A Thing
  • Living For The City
  • We Can Work It Out
  • You Haven't Done Nothin'
  • Gary Wright
  • Blind Feeling
  • Love Is Alive
  • Yardbirds
  • Over Under Sideways Down
  • Shapes Of Things
  • Yes
  • America
  • Warren Zevon
  • Certain Girl
  • Excitable Boy
  • Lawyers, Guns & Money
  • Tenderness On The Block
  • Do you have a "Lost Classic?" CLICK HERE and I'll add it to the list.

     
     
     
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