1971: "Melody" is a year older

Like some of you, I caught the "rent a video" bug in the mid-1980's. 

I remember going to the store one weekend and finding a British movie called "Melody" from 1971.  I read that it featured the music of The Bee Gees so that was enough to rent and watch the movie.  I don't think that the movie was released in the US.

Frankly, it turned out to be one of the most enjoyable movies that I've ever seen.  It did not win any awards or get inducted in some Hall of Fame but it was entertaining.

"Melody" was the story of a boy and girl living that "moment" when we all figure out that boys and girls are different. 

You can call it your "first crush" moment!   Remember that time when you kept looking at some girl across the room?  Remember how she looked back?  Remember the Friday night dance with all of the boys on one side and the girls on the other?

"Melody" was very nice and the music was fabulous, specially "First of May", one of the greatest songs from The Bee Gees' repertoire.

Rent "Melody" and you will enjoy it, specially if you were once a 12-year old boy with a crush on a cute girl in school.

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1971: WABC New York Top 20 this week

We remember this week in 1971.  It was a pretty good list in the very early 1970's.   

At # 16, Chicago and the "45" version of "Beginnings".  The LP version was actually released in 1968 in that great LP simply called "Chicago Transit Authority".  The original version was very long, as I recall.

So here is the Top 20 at WABC New York:

  1. How Can You Mend a Broken Heart                            
                               The Bee Gees (Atco) 
  2. Draggin' the Line - Tommy James (Roulette)                 
  3. You've Got a Friend - James Taylor (Warner Brothers)       
  4. Indian Reservation (The Lament of the                        
          Cherokee Reservation Indian) - The Raiders (Columbia)  
  5. Bring the Boys Home - Freda Payne (Invictus)                
  6. Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology) - Marvin Gaye (Tamla)         
  7. Take Me Home, Country Roads - John Denver (RCA)            
  8. It's Too Late - Carole King (Ode)                           
  9. Mr. Big Stuff - Jean Knight (Stax)                          
 10. Hot Pants (She Got to Use What She Got                       
            to Get What She Wants) Pt. 1 - James Brown (People)  
 11. Spanish Harlem - Aretha Franklin (Atlantic)                
 12. Don't Pull Your Love -                                       
                       Hamilton, Joe Frank & Reynolds (Dunhill)  
 13. What the World Needs Now Is Love/Abraham, Martin & John -    
                                              Tom Clay (Mowest) 
 14. Whatcha See Is Whatcha Get - The Dramatics (Volt)          
 15. K-Jee - The Nite-Liters (RCA)                              
 16. Beginnings - Chicago (Columbia)                            
 17. Signs - The Five Man Electrical Band (Lionel)              
 18. Sooner or Later - The Grass Roots (Dunhill)                
 19. Ain't No Sunshine - Bill Withers (Sussex)                  --
 20. Sweet Hitch-Hiker - Creedence Clearwater Revival (Fantasy)

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