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(Originally finalized on May 10, 2024)
Preface: I was searching for number songs for a theme, and I noticed that the most represented number by far was the number one. That's a lot of company for what may be considered the loneliest number. I'd say it deserves its own featured theme.
Monday: Three Dog Night - One [Three Dog Night, 1968]
Comments: I suppose we should start with the song that gave this theme its name. Written by Harry Nilsson while he was listening to a busy signal on the phone, Three Dog Night covered it for their debut album. I like their version, because it adds a touch of rock to the mix.
Tuesday: Pink Floyd - One Of These Days [Meddle, 1971]
Comments: In lieu of Ten Years After (since I already used that song for a previous theme), here's a different song by the same name. Not the only song by Pink Floyd with the number "one" in its title, but the first. I can still remember my fascination, hearing Pink Floyd's radio hits and then listening to their earlier material - like this dark and powerful mostly instrumental track from the album that birthed the epic Echoes.
Wednesday: The Eagles - One Of These Nights [One Of These Nights, 1975]
Comments: From days to nights! This title track from the album that preceded Hotel California features a band in transition, just on the verge of super stardom. Don Felder had recently joined the ranks, and Joe Walsh's arrival was right around the corner, coinciding with founding member Bernie Leadon's departure.
Thursday: Cold Chisel - One Long Day [Cold Chisel, 1978]
Comments: There's a good chance you haven't heard of Cold Chisel if you live outside of Australia. Unlike a certain other band that needs no introduction, they never seemed to hit the mainstream overseas (at least here in the States). But I'm excited to have this chance to put them in the spotlight, with a song from their debut album.
Friday: The Allman Brothers Band - One Way Out [Eat A Peach, 1972]
Comments: Recorded live at the same concert documented on At Fillmore East, but not released until the band's followup album, Eat A Peach, this is a rollicking blues previously recorded by both Elmore James and Sonny Boy Williamson II. But here, the Allman Brothers Band makes it their own.
Saturday: Lynyrd Skynyrd - I Ain't The One [Pronounced Leh-Nerd Skin-nerd, 1973]
Comments: From yet another debut album, Lynyrd Skynyrd proves they have the chops to dominate the southern rock scene, opening with I Ain't The One. Five years later a mystery is solved, when, on their own debut, another rock band that made waves in the '70s - Van Halen - sings I'm The One. XD
Sunday: Bob Dylan - One More Cup of Coffee [Desire, 1976]
Comments: Bob Dylan waxes poetic on this haunting yet beautiful ballad, which I consider to be the epitaph to a beloved coffee shop where I and my brother got our start performing music in front of audiences many years ago. That, and Big Yellow Taxi by Joni Mitchell (yes, Joni Mitchell), since they literally tore it down to put up a parking lot. :-(