Chuck Woolery, “Soft Velvet Love”
Still on track to make 20 Thrifty Music posts in 40 days — and today’s post allows me to both fulfill my Thrifty Music Anniversary Pledge and be counted as the Last Man Standing on the topic of show biz personalities who got their start as rockers. Why? Because today’s thrifty score is a late-’60s single by Chuck Woolery — yes, that Chuck Woolery — who traveled from his home in Kentucky to the hills of Hollyweird to find fame and fortune as a rock star before he settled into his role as host of innumerable teevee game shows.
Chuck actually scored a top 40 hit in, I think, 1967, with his band, The Avant Garde, entitled “Naturally Stoned” — but this slab of cheese was released after The Avant Garde called it quits. I originally meant to post it as a 100% gag, but I’ve grown to appreciate the Lee Greenwood-esque over-the-top-ness of it, so I offer it to you as a mere 75% gag. In any case, enjoy! And please note:
I AM THE LAST MAN STANDING!
HVB
Well, I guess most people who end up as game show hosts set out to do something else. Now we know what Chuck’s something else was. I’d like to solve the puzzle: T H I S S U C K S .
NOTE: To be LMS you’ve got to enter your answer in the thread.
Chuck belongs in the Throwback Look thread with those 80s highlights in his hair.
Someone time the track and see if it clocks in at exactly two minutes, two seconds.
alexmagic: Windows Media Player (which inexplicably does not have a running time counter) reports 3:00 in file properties.
Is there a such thing as a Walker Brothers throwaway?
You know, if it weren’t for all that “soft velvet love” and icky lyrical excess, and a couple too many string swellings, I wouldn’t mind this one.
It’s a pretty solid block of cheese. I gagged more at the acoustic duo’s rendering of ‘Walk On the Wild Side’ in the following thread. This was about what I would have expected from Chuckles.