The Mills Brothers' inexplicable late '60s resurrection on Dot Records with this song that was a decade out of decade at least.
>>128726177Beach Boys Do It Again?
>>128726177Later songs that I thought were last gasp-end is near from the 70s and 80s.Righteous Brothers - Rock and Roll HeavenJohnny Rivers - Slow Dancin' (Swayin to the music)KC and the sunshine band - Please Don't GoCaptain and Tennille - Do That to Me One More TimeAbba - The Day Before You Came
In 1970 I'd guess Gene Chandler's pop hit "Groovy Situation" seemed to come out of left field, although he'd had and would continue to have sporadic R&B hits for the next decade.
>>128726177"Bad Blood" by Neil Sedaka
Mitch Ryder sings Prince. No, really.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJOy8oT20qs
no i don't count Red Carpet Massacre because nobody bought that one
Those Del Shannon/Gary U.S. Bonds/Roy Orbison comeback albums from the 80s produced by their fanboys like Petty and Springsteen.
>>128726466He had a few hits into the 70s afaik.
>>128726503Cindy Lauper does that one, too, but it was early in her career
>>128726205not Kokomo?
Bobby Vinton was a highly successful 60s artist who had his last Top Ten hit in 1968 until his comeback with the retro smash hit My Melody of Love in 74.
>>128726177>that was a decade out of decade at least.*decade out of date I mean
>>128726729Lots of late 50s-early 60s powerhouses were releasing some fairly wince-inducing late 60s records. Most of these guys obviously couldn't just grow out their hair and start taking acid, but they also couldn't keep making 1961's records forever so they came up with stuff that was superficially edgy but in a bad dad jokes kind of way like "Cherry Hill Park", a record that would have had more edge to it in 1965 than 69.
Madonna All Hung Up
>>128726466Sedaka's 70s comeback was kind of unexpected and I think people kind of humored him out of respect for his old hits. The guy really didn't evolve stylistically at all, although with his voice he probably couldn't.
Dion - "Abraham Martin & John"
>>128726965Some of these records managed to disguise the identity of the artists, they were so far removed from their prime career hits.
Marty Robbins - My Woman, My Woman, My Wife
>>128726965I always thought this one was really repetitive and underdeveloped. Wilson Pickett did a version that reworked it as a tribute to deceased black singers and it blows the original out of the water.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAXE_B6_A4U
"I'm Gonna Make You Mine" Lou Christie. Came out 69 and still sounded like 66.
>>128726177Tom Jones - Sex Bomb (1999)30 years after his peak lol
Any late career Aretha Franklin especially that shit feminist Annie Lennox collab.
Assorted late 60s comebacks by guys like Ed Ames, Eddie Fisher, Vic Damone, etc.
>>128727421that's true but it wasn't that rare to see old guys from pre-Elvis days still on the Billboard in the mid to late 60s. they still had industry connections in a lot of case and a large housewife audience who couldn't get down with the Rolling Stones or Supremes.
>>128726177Dubs checked. Santana, "Smooth" Beatles, "Free as a bird" Cher, "Believe"
"It's My Life"
>>128727200I thought Rayman sang this
Paul Revere and the Raiders Indian Reservation
>>128726177Frankie Laine's late 60s revival on ABC.
Blondie - MaríaDuran duran - ordinary world George Harrison - myselfBeach boys - KokomoJohn Lennon - womanRoy Orbison - you got itKinks - come dancing
>>128727812That's actually just a Mark Lindsay solo record anyway.
The Korn dubstep album.
Peter, Paul, and Mary also got left in the dust once psych rock arrived.
that Kay Starr album from 1968. you sure it wasn't cut in '59 and they just left it in the can?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9S7amXveSghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkylI20cL8Mhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmmPFrkuPq0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A39xfn3K_Ps
>>128728467didn't Johnny Mathis have some comeback albums in the 70s?
>>128726177I know "A Boy Named Sue" was a big hit but somehow doubt the kids still thought Cash was as cool then as he was ten years earlier.
>>128728604Hurt was bigger than anything since the 50s
>>128728604he'd been definitely knocked from the country charts by Haggard, Jones, and soon Willie and Waylon who all defined the 70s
>>128728834"One Piece at a Time" was a big country hit in '76 although it did prove Cash was way behind the times at that point and still doing that early 60s humorous narrative folk style of song.
>>128726177Perry Como had some hits into the early 70s.
>>128727596>SantanaHell, that whole two album stretch was a comeback. Smooth, Maria Maria, Game of Love...
>>128728000https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rOTKeoAs7M&pp=ygUtcGV0ZXIgcGF1bCBhbmQgbWFyeSBpIGRpZyByb2NrIGFuZCByb2xsIG11c2lj
>>128727200unironic kino and so is the album
>>128728604That was literally at the peak of his fame and coolness
>>128726619Came here to post theseDel Shannon's final album is quite nice, it's easy to imagine him filling in for Roy in the Wilburyshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6anfGc5HZ50
>>128728933lol Como was never cool at any point i don't think. he was always Captain Dork. probably even going back to his youthful days with the Ted Weems Orchestra.
>>128726177I'm reminded of Brat and its lame and way outdated 2012 wubstep sound.
for some of you only mentioning the artists please add the song titles
>>128726205>Beach Boys Do It Again?that one's still early-ish in the band's run, and to mike's credit, was their first actual hit in years. plus it's still a bit quirky and lo fi like a lot of their stuff around that time
Bump
>>128727189really underwhelming song compared to Lightning Strikes, or even The Gypsy Cried
>>128733074he burned out really fast
bon jovi in the 2000s had its my life, for some reason
>>128734053the early 2000s were a good opportunity to "reinvent" yourself, there was a short window where that was possible
>>128726177Coasters redid/remixed their 50s song Down in Mexico in the early 70s.70s:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ds_IEhYiLE50s:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmx3AgTWm-w
>>128726177https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzvk0fWtCs0
I know they got a songwriter to help with it but the fact that I Don't wanna miss a thing is aerosmiths second biggest hit and it was released 25 years after dream on is pretty impressive
Chumbawumba Tubthumping counts, the band is otherwise a group of British antifa anarchists who had been around since the 80s
>>128734857I guess
