Band SCAMMED GREEDY Record Label To MAKE This 70s Hit...Sold 17 Million Copies! | Professor of Rock

Coming up, we’re diving into ten unforgettable rock classics from 1976 that never cracked the Hot 100’s Top 40 — songs you know by heart, but were never “hit singles.” And most of these are better than some of the biggest smash hits of their day. You’ll hear the story of a Robert Plant who was confined to a wheelchair after a serious car crash. And his band named the title Achilles Last Stand after his injury. Then there’s the tale of Boston's sonic genius Tom Scholz, who preferred working in his basement over the recording studio. So when his label tried to get him into the studio, he ran an elaborate scheme to trick them… using his bandmates as decoys. And we’ll unpack a tabloid takedown that Debbie Harry wrote to call out how women were chewed up by the media… and then her own label turned around and used her song to exploit her with a crass ad campaign. Killer stories, legendary tracks—NEXT on Professor of Rock. MyBookie: Get in on the action with MyBookie. Use our promo code ROCK and any bet you choose up to $500 is fully covered. Go to https://www.mybookie.ag/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Executive Producer Brandon Fugal Honorary Producers 22Unchained, Thomas Halterman, Keith Novak, Yvonne Fus, Jeffrey Thorn ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe to the Professor of Rock Podcast Apple: https://apple.co/445fVov Spotify: https://spoti.fi/42JpfvU Amazon: https://amzn.to/44b5D6m iHeartRadio: https://bit.ly/444h8MO ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Patreon: http://bit.ly/ProfessorofRockVIPFan Merch Store: https://professor-of-rock-merch.creat... Instagram: https://bit.ly/Instagram_Professor_of... #classicrock #70smusic #vinylstory #ledzeppelin Hey music junkies, Professor of Rock, always here to celebrate the greatest artists and the greatest songs of all time. If you remember solving mysteries with the book series Encyclopedia Brown back in the day, you’ll dig this channel. of deep musical nostalgia, subscribe below right now. I promise that you are going to love this channel. Also, check out our Podcast on Apple and Spotify. Alright, so we've gone year by year from the 60s to the 90s, covering the best songs that charted in the Top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100. It was a good ride. But just because we finished that series, it doesn’t mean we’re finished with the music. We've only told half the story with those countdowns. Now it’s time to tell the rest. Today, we’re kicking off a sister series that explores the Top 10 best songs from every year that we covered before… except they failed to make it to the Top 40. Sure, some are hidden gems, but most are songs that are true classics. So for this first episode, we’re rewinding back to the year 1976… a time when disco grooves and soft rock ballads ruled the airwaves. And as a result, kept some of the best songs from that year from climbing up the charts. Though not all of these songs were released as singles… It’s definitely a mix between singles and album cuts. So to keep things less complicated, the criteria I am using is the year that the song’s album was released. Are you ready for this? Let’s get going. Here are my Top 10 tracks from 1976 that never made it to the Top 40. At #10 it’s Kiss with the A-side that was upended by its B-side, Detroit Rock City. Here’s the story… Kiss’s Paul Stanley began ‘Detroit Rock City’ as a tribute to Motor City, but changed course and began penning lyrics about a fan who was killed in a car crash en route to a concert. The idea sprang from a real incident of a fan who was unalived on the way to a show. “Detroit Rock” was crafted into a teen-tragedy narrative with muscle. It had high-octane tempos, duel-guitar fireworks, and a storyline that ends with the crash. According to Stanley, he already had the basic riff of the song… You know the ‘Get up, get down,’ part. But initially, he didn’t know what the song was really about, other than something to do with Detroit.” But honestly, at that point, the odds were that the song was going to be about sex. However, sex was a topic Ezrin wanted the band to scale back on. He wanted to help the band draw in a larger audience beyond the teenage boys demographic. So it became a tragedy. Detroit Rock City was released as the third single from Kiss’s fourth studio album, Destroyer, following singles Shout It Out Loud and Flaming Youth. Shout It Out Loud broke into the Top 40 at #31. Flaming Youth came in at #78. But Detroit Rock City should have been a lot bigger. However, with its fatal car crash theme, it didn’t exactly fit the mold of Top 40 Radio at the time. And when programmers discovered the ballad “Beth” on the flip side, they made the switch, and the request lines blew up.