This 70s One Hit Wonder Was So Disturbing...The FCC Tried to OUTLAW It | Professor Of Rock

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In 1971, considered the greatest year in music history by many, with Led Zeppelin, the Who and Joni Mitchell all releasing monumental albums, a band from Fort Worth, Texas horrified & fascinated radio listeners with a song about about a grisly plane crash.The single was widely banned from the airwaves for its explicit subject matter, and for containing the eerie wailing of ambulance sirens that consumed listeners when they were driving… 70s band Bloodrock created their disturbing one hit wonder called simpy DOA from a real life event. Their guitarist had been the witness to a real life plane crash. For the stations that dared to play it,- the request lines immediately lit up like a Christmas tree! . Soon the FCC (Federal Communications Commission tried to outlaw it.and had it not been banned, it might've been a #.1 hit... Up next the story of the most grotesque song ever to crack the Billboard Hot 100 on Professor of Rock.”
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It’s time for another edition of our show Bottled LIghtening where we put a glorious one hit wonder under the microscope and celebrate it’s legacy. WE call it bottled lightening rather than a one hit wonder because the impact for many of these songs is much more than one time dalliance on the pop charts..
Today we are going to jump inside the Delorean and head back to the year 1971. COnsidered by many to be the greatest year in music history. Joni Mitchell released her mesmerizing opus Blue.. John Lennon scaled the top of the charts with his hit Imagine and of course Rod Stewart hit #1 on both sides of the atlantic with Maggie May. Other monumental albums that changed the world as know it were What’s Going on by the immaculate voice of Marvin Gaye, there was also the Rolling Stones dynamite record Sticky Fingers. the magnificent record the low spark of High Heeled boys by Traffic also moved the needle. T Rex Electric Warrior the Who Who’s Next, Carole King Tapestry, Pink Floyd Meddle, Janice Joplin Pearl and then at the end of the year Led Zeppelin IV came out and really I haven’t even touched the surface..It was an incredible year to be sure. In the middle of all of this greatness a band called Bloodrock dropped their only hit, in my view one of the most disturbing songs ever put to record.
I’ve talked about songs that really freaked me out when I was a kid- either because of a weird, intimidating image on an album cover, or a unique lyric that was provocative to my young ears, but as an adult, I am STILL creeped out by the spine-tingling “D.O.A.” by blood rock.
In ’66, the band changed their name to Crowd + 1, but they lost their lead guitarist & co-founder Dean Parks, when he accepted the position of Music Director for the popular Sonny & Cher variety show. Parks was replaced by Lee Pickens, and the band changed their name, once again, to Bloodrock in ’69. As BloodRock, the group was known as a heavy metal act- with psychedelic overtones:

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@TuffEnuffIII 4 месяца назад

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@tinasnewzealand 4 месяца назад

To listen to the music!!

@mathgod 4 месяца назад

To hear 10 seconds…I get to the point then watch the real video.

@Vibeagain 3 месяца назад

Why would I do that? I tend to scroll and zip through things in general but the professor wraps these like a Christmas present from front to end

@TuffEnuffIII 3 месяца назад

@@Vibeagain boooooorrrrrriiing

@Vibeagain 3 месяца назад

@TuffEnuffIII Well, Mr TuffZnuff, you'd be hard-pressed to find someone who does pop culture / music better, and who sets the table just so, but you're welcome to leave posthaste and go out there N' try

@cassietaylor8455 Год назад

Wow. My dad is Nick Taylor from Bloodrock. While they broke up the year I was born, I was fortunate to see them come together for a reunion concert in Fort Worth several years before my dad passed. It was amazing to see the utter joy of them playing one last time. I became a fan of the music that night. Nick was a wonderful musician and played music up until the hours before passed. Thank you for highlighting the band, DOA, and the story behind the song. Forever grateful.

@bradknopp6502 Год назад

I'm sure you know you can be proud of his legacy. Glad you get to see that so many were impacted by his work. Take care.

@gregghernandez2714 Год назад

That is such a cool story. You must be really proud of your Father. May he rest in peace. Lucky in the morning is one of my favorite songs of all time.

@LazyIRanch Год назад

That is so cool! Anytime someone's talking about how hip their parents were back in the day, it must be fun to casually mention who your dad is! 😂 I'm really glad you got to see this tribute by the Professor. I love how much he loves the music we grew up with, and his respect for musicians is genuine. To me, he's our modern day Casey Kasem. (I wonder if he does a "Shaggy" impression?) ♥

@AlmostReady504 Год назад

very cool

@karenleonard3808 Год назад

I. Pray that they know Jesus Christ before they died. Jesus is the only way to heaven. , Please , turn to Jesus. And trust him , cry out to him , that you are a sinner. He loves you

@stratocastergirl 4 месяца назад

I had this album. This tune caused quite a stir on the AM stations in Miami. I was 16 in 1971, and listened with morbid curiosity. I later became an ICU nurse, often working in Trauma and Burn ICUs. I took care of four plane crash victims from three separate crashes. Most healthcare professionals go their entire careers without seeing a cradh victim, since not too many make it to the hospital. Thankfully, all four of my patients survived and resumed their lives. One, a co-pilot who was severely burned, returned to flying for the airlines a few years later.

@ghost-ez2zn 4 месяца назад

@stratocaster girl WFUN?? OR WKAT? I WAS A WFUN girl. I still remember their office on Sunset Drive.

@edwardquimby1960 4 месяца назад

WQAM

@ac1646 3 месяца назад

Thank you. A family friend was badly burnt in an accident. He was 13. Survived.

@elc1960 Год назад

I'd never heard the song until a girl I knew, Rosemary Doxsee, played it for me. She had the single and in autumn 1971 brought it over for me to hear, and I was stunned at the lyrics; one that I still vividly remember was "I try to move my arm but there's no feeling/I look and see there's nothing there." (At least that's what I remember hearing, but it was 1971 and I was 11 years old.) The only time I ever heard it on the radio was one night in the '80s on the Dr. Demento show, and they played the single version, not the album version. Rosemary passed away in early 2014 after a battle with IPF, so I associate the song with her. We were neighbors in my hometown of Brockton MA during 1971 and 1972, and she was basically my first girlfriend. RIP Ro, your memory is immortalized on RU-vid! Thanks for posting this video Prof, and you have a new subscriber!

@paulepstein7421 4 месяца назад

I remember when Alice Cooper was relatively new to DJ-ing, he played DOA one night around Halloween.

@keddy5627 4 месяца назад

I was a faithful Dr Demento listener through the 70s, too! I am sorry for your loss, seems so strange that back in the day the reality of death was such a surreal concept. Now in my 60s, I am privileged to still be here unlike many of those I grew up with…😢 I am, and will forever be, a Cal Jam ‘74 Alumni!!!!

@keddy5627 4 месяца назад

@@paulepstein7421and Dead Babies was a scandal!!!!

@itsjustme7487 4 месяца назад

@paulepstein7421 MY middle brother was an Alice Cooper fan. My mom told me that he had a girlfriend named Alice Cooper. I nearly wet myself laughing.

@ricklovelaec6442 Год назад

I remember leaving a party one snowy night, with no one else on the road, and getting stuck on a hillside, and trying to back down to get another run at it, and DOA starts playing on the radio, and at 2 in the morning backing down an icy road in the dark listing to this song with the sirens coming from the back seat, just adds another layer of strange, to an already surreal landscape,

@markkunkel7401 Год назад

Cool story. Had moments like that growing up. Wish I could remember details

@tinahs8269 5 месяцев назад

Whoa...that had to be freaky

@cotiecowgill4520 4 месяца назад

Damn. What a spooky memory

@cotiecowgill4520 4 месяца назад

Damn. What a spooky memory

@michaelchristiansen2063 Год назад

Saw Bloodrock in concert in ‘71, and when they closed the show they blacked out all lights and then after a few moments in the dark the ambulance siren started accompanied by red flashing lights. The crowd roared so loud that it drowned out the sirens. It had to be a ten minute + version of the song staged to be just as macabre as the lyrics. Don’t remember much about the concert before that, but the finale was unforgettable!

@qjqqoebeqnsonqw1807 Год назад

I like the version of D.O.A. on the "BloodRock Live" lp.

@misledto 4 месяца назад

I too saw them live in '71. Amazing show IMO.

@oneofmany1087 3 месяца назад

I seen that show. 2 times. they warmed up Grand Funk

@keddy5627 4 месяца назад

I was a chick of the 70s and I remember this song!!!! All of my friends were so freaked out by it because it was the closest thing to reality that our 40s parents would have intercepted at all costs. I remember being in the Chevy Nova and hearing the sirens and my friend’s mom pulling over and then getting so upset from the confusion and flashbacks from the War of the Worlds broadcast memories. Then DOA just disappeared and I never knew why…? Censorship was in full swing and we just did not know it…thanks for the trip down Memory Lane! Cal Jam ‘74 Alumni!!!!

@mawortman72 Год назад

Our band played this song in 1971/72. Our keyboard player brought it into practice. One evening, we could not believe the content. But, it was like, "damn we have to do that". I think we only played it a couple of times in public. Iconic song.

@daytonaflorida2247 Год назад

I was in High School when it came out and we all thought it was talking about a car crash. It scared all of us to death listening to it and even thinking about it made a lot of us SLOW DOWN when we were teenagers. It is hard to know for sure but I would bet that song kept a lot of teenagers from getting killed in cars because the song sounded so real to us. Like it could happen to us.

@rft2001 Год назад

Yeah, we all used to think that it was about driving stoned and getting in a car crash. It didn't stop us but we drove a lot more carefully because of this song.

@justicewokeisutterbs8641 Год назад

I remember DOA being a "thing"; I don't recall being particularly disturbed by it, but I think it influenced my conclusion that teenagers go through a phase of being kind of morbid. How about "Don't Fear the Reaper"? It got more play. Geez, Some guy trying to talk his girlfriend into a suicide pact? Anyway, my favorite was a satirical version of "Dead man's Curve" where the guy sings something like, "I looked up, and there was my baby. ....And over there was my baby. ...And waaaay over there was my baby." I prefer silly over morbid any day. 😆

@Melissa0774 Год назад

Yeah, it's like hearing that on the radio might be a bad omen or something, so you don't want it to be true.

@floatsting20 Год назад

@@Melissa0774 Long before school shootings

@Melissa0774 Год назад

@@floatsting20 What does that have to do with school shootings? I meant, you don't want to hear that song on the radio before you drive home from a party or something, because you're afraid it's a sign from "God" that you're going to die in an accident. A superstitious thing.

@calvinsgotgame8365 Год назад

Disturbing song for me that my dad loved was The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald by Gordon Lightfoot. It really painted a vivid picture for me.

@glendalangley1877 Год назад

Great song. Still played a lot today.

@debcollins8231 Год назад

That is one of my favorites of all time.

@billkeithchannel Год назад

Dead Kennedy's - Holiday In Cambodia. "Mama told me to skin you alive..."

@RG-hf4et Год назад

True story!

@SeaBreeze2247 Год назад

Hauntingly moving song.

@terryscheid9224 Год назад

My band did a cover of this one on stage but we added even more creepiness to it. My wife drew a skull face on my own face with red lipstick. The stage was dark except for a red spotlight shining on my face. The red light on red lipstick is invisible. When the lyrics God in heaven teach me how to die the red light switched off and agreed light instantly came on turning the red skull lines to black and you definitely could see the skull!!!! Scared the hell out of the crowd and we got a standing ovation!!!!!!!

@lynshively5980 10 месяцев назад

I was 10 when this song came out, I bought the album when I was 11, babysitting money, I wore it out. 2 years ago I realized I could find it on u tube 🥰 d.o.a.was my favorite, my dad had been killed and this song was my obsession. It got me thru, weird I know but I was 11.

@janc8199 4 месяца назад

I was 10 and I don't remember the song at all.

@michaellisko3509 Год назад

For someone who’s experienced a traumatic event, like witnessing a plane crash, they say it’s very therapeutic to write it down and get your feelings out. This guy happened to write it in a song and release it commercially. Unfortunately, if the general public doesn’t know the backstory of said song then they think it just came out of thin air by someone’s twisted and sick mind. I know a lot of people who think that about other songs besides this one. Really sad. But this is a phenomenal song with that horror movie atmosphere.

@jsilvareverbnation Год назад

I am 62 years old and to this date I am still disturbed by this song ! I love it …

@davemoyer505 5 месяцев назад

Big John, by Jimmy Dean, was kinda eerie in a way, too. Big John dies while saving his fellow miners. They get out- he’s never found. All these songs had intense lyrics, and broached the darkness we don’t normally like to think about. This one, Prof, is a lost gem! Good stuff….. again!👍🥁🎸🇺🇸❤️

@jstewart3517 4 месяца назад

65 last kiss

@peztopher7297 4 месяца назад

Big BAD John. "He was a big, BIG man." "Camouflage" by Stan Ridgway reminds of Big John.

@spiderlily4386 4 месяца назад

Big bad John. He held up that beam so the other guys could get out of the mine. I liked that song, too.@@peztopher7297

@renorocker64 4 месяца назад

I would put that song Timothy in the same categories as well !!!

@lisaswilling594 3 месяца назад

Oh, he was found. His Cajun queen went down and brought him back out. She revived him with a kiss. 111 grandchildren.

@debbywoodbeck1105 Год назад

This was one of my favorite songs as a teenager. I didn't think it was more creepier than the Wreck of the Edmond Fitzgerald.

@ppmnox 10 месяцев назад

wreck of the edmund fitzgerald is much better written, so its creep factor is minimized by the melodic, emotionally charged prose presented as a story.

@garymiller2237 5 месяцев назад

What about Timothy, by the Bouys?

@debbywoodbeck1105 5 месяцев назад

@@garymiller2237 Another one of my favorites. You need to know me. My all time favorite song is Lucky Man by ELP, my 2nd favorite is Fire on the Mountain by Marshall Tucker Band. Timothy would be my 3rd favorite. People dying in a song kind of attracts me.

@FreyaTait 5 месяцев назад

The wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald is an actual historical event. It happened on Lake Superior on November 10, 1975. Gordon Lightfoot wrote and recorded the song as a tribute to the sailors who died. He didn't make it up, and he didn't record it just to put something creepy on the air.

@kristinadospoy7347 4 месяца назад

The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald is one of most tragic and also most historical songs ever. A song that has a sense of history like that one is worth listening to.

@maryjohnson1134 Год назад

I've had this album 40 years and never heard anyone talk about it. I appreciate the song more knowing the story behind it. I use to play it to freak people out, it was scary, thought it was about a car wreck....again Thanks!

@davidmiller8924 4 месяца назад

I also had the album, and now on CD. Definitely a band marketed out ....

@jaylayland2867 4 месяца назад

@davidmiller8924 I also had the album and now on CD.

@kaymuldoon3575 4 месяца назад

The lyrics in the chorus clearly say “We were flying low…and hit something in the air.”

@shrewbuffet 4 месяца назад

@@kaymuldoon3575 Cars can fly low too...

@reddmutt1916 Год назад

In 1971 my brother, and I worked at a local skating rink in Marshall,Texas. My brother slipped the record DOA on the record player that was providing the music to skate by. It was placed between Donny Osmond, and The Jackson Five. The funniest part was the reaction of the skating rink manager ripping the record from the player.

@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980 Год назад

😆

@pelonganar Год назад

Harrison County, represent!

@davevirag5423 Год назад

😍!

@unrulyjulie4382 Год назад

I moved to Marshall in 1980...where was the skating rink? I don't remember it....

@reddmutt1916 Год назад

@@unrulyjulie4382 It was on West Houston st near the rail road crossing.

@embraceyourweirdness70 4 месяца назад

My dad had this 45. It always creeped me out, which means I played the hell out of it. I love this song...

@t.e.nickerson2792 10 месяцев назад

This is great. I missed this one, as I was born the year after it came out. Not sure how you missed (Don't Fear) The Reaper, the biggest death-related song of the '70s (IMO), and certainly one of the most haunting.

@piercehawke8021 4 месяца назад

Probably the BoC song in question had an upbeat instrument track

@kristinadospoy7347 4 месяца назад

That one is also disturbing

@carmenkarle4741 4 месяца назад

Loved that song, blue oyster cult, pretty sure I had the album, because that how we rolled, every time a great song came out we'd run out and buy the album 😁 weird I never thought of don't fear the reaper as disturbing or haunting, great song though, what's disturbing is the song is in the year 2525 by Zager and Evans. Still relevant today.😬

@keddy5627 4 месяца назад

@@carmenkarle4741I saw BOC as the opening band for T Rexx and the tickets were $7.50!

@t.e.nickerson2792 4 месяца назад

@@carmenkarle4741I totally agree on the Zager & Evans song. I know of someone who couldn't listen to that song when it first came out, it disturbed him so much. It is a creepy song for sure.

@ginomadrid577 Год назад

Used to hear this song as a little kid. It would seep through the wall from my older brother's room while I was lying on my bed, blanket over my head, trying to cover my ears to no avail. It lead to a recurring nightmare into my early teens. Found the song again about 15 years ago and now fully appreciate it for the genius and sheer BALLS it took to write, record, and release it on the air. If you haven't heard it, it's a must listen in my opinion. Thanks for the video, and the memories!

@RC32Smiths01 Год назад

Music definitely talks about dark and sensitive topics, it's what makes it a very universal language. Thank you for the story.

@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980 Год назад

Diversity in music is imperative.

@stephaniebaker6001 Год назад

So true. 😔

@normalsee4447 4 месяца назад

I bought the album in ‘71 at college and played it a LOT! We had NEVER heard a rock song like it - cranked it loud every time on my 4 JBL L-100s and McIntosh amp and acted out the song (we thought it was either a car crash or plane crash…) I never listened much to radio that year- too busy listening to all the incredible albums that were coming out. It’s definitely a chilling song to listen to- full 8 minute version 👍

@michaelgrider8135 3 месяца назад

I got L100s. Love them

@steveludwig4200 2 месяца назад

I've still my pair of L-100s too...

@einerreklov4304 Год назад

Thanks for posting this. I have had this song floating around my brain for about five decades, frustrating the heck out of me, not knowing the band, not knowing the lyrics or remembering the name of the song - just the organ and sirens etc. I am now at peace. Thank you.

@manstersr Год назад

I remember that song from my grade school days, they used to play it in the morning when I was getting ready for school. My mother used to tell me to turn it off. "I remember, We were flying along and hit something in the air". DOA, it always sent a chill down my spine. The way they sang with a wavering sound was part of it and the sirens wailing. Professor, I'm always amazed at the stories you get from the artists. Bravo. Keep them coming.

@marvmattison5248 3 месяца назад

Exactly, i was 9 or 10 yrs old. It was very scary and seemed so real. Heck it still is...💀

@creigcoogan5363 Год назад

“God in heaven, teach me how to die.” The most chilling lyrics ever recorded. You never want to hear this song on a powerful psychedelic. Unfortunately I did

@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980 Год назад

What a lyric. So soul crushing indeed.

@yenbbc8840 Год назад

i think these guys were ozzy before ozzy was ozzy

@rayorichard8175 2 месяца назад

So did I, taking acid in 71 .... heard those lyrics a lot because the people I hung out with then all were big on Bloodrock & their music would be playing at every party. Pot and/or acid would be present at most of those parties. I got used to it, & saw them live, double concert w/Grand Funk in April of '71 ... no other concert I was ever at equaled that one in sheer energy & amazing sound of the music.

@StaciArdmore Год назад

What I LOVE about The Professor, is his non-exclusionary policy! ALL artists are given consideration, in spite of popularity or success! This is the ONLY way, to truly express the history of rock music! Rick Beato, eat your heart out!

@loudog2326 9 месяцев назад

I was 11 years old when this song came out, it scared the heck out of me. Now as i listened to it many years later no problems at all !! lol

@bigdaddydave3341 Год назад

I can remember listening to the Doctor Demento show on a transistor radio with the volume so low I could barely hear it because I did not want my mother hearing what I was listening to, even though most Doctor Demento show tracks were relatively innocent enough. My mother was the queen of taking a couple lines of a song out of context and thinking it was sending a horrible message. So I was certain that if she heard me listening to a song like this, my radio was probably going into the garbage. Doctor Demento was all about making you laugh, but every once in awhile, he would throw a song in there to make you cringe.

@Revivethefallen Год назад

I understand that. My folks were the same way.

@spokanetomcat1 Год назад

I was able to play him loud and proud on KMET Los Angeles. Well, maybe, not that loud...LOL

@MrBarryb505050 Год назад

Doctor Demento was an awesome program

@mjwbulich Год назад

Dead puppies aren't much fun

@The_Bammer_2 Год назад

I'm Looking Over My Dead Dog Rover.

@Critty642 Год назад

About 20 years ago, I was making a playlist of songs for a Halloween party. I asked my mom if she knew of any creepy songs from the '60s or '70s to throw in the list, & that's when she turned me on to this gem. I was transfixed & made everyone listen to it. It was like being transported to this horrible scenario. To me, the song spoke of someone trapped in a dead body. This song still gives me chills every time. Thank you for putting the spotlight on this overlooked masterpiece!

@threeballedtomcat9380 5 месяцев назад

I was 16 when this song ( D.O.A.) hit the airwaves, so I bought the album almost immediately. "Dier not a Lover" is still a great song imho . I was sorry to hear of Nick Taylors passing, and it was cool to see that his daughter came here and left a really nice post. Great job , Professor, as always !

@pheresy1367 4 месяца назад

I was in HS in '71 but I missed this song completely! I have heard all the other songs played, but THIS completely managed to escape my radar. I would have loved it! Maybe it was taken off the air before I got to hear it... I did spend the summer overseas that year. But I was surrounded by musicians who made it their job to play for me EVERY SONG worth listening to. I was cheated!!!

@kellyc2425 Год назад

Professor Adam (as usual) NAILED it!! He's a bit too young to have remembered it when first dropped, but he describes the mood and the vibe absolutely spot on!

@briansherwood3595 Год назад

My cousin (who is old enough to be my uncle) turned me on to this song about 40 years ago. He grew up in Houston, TX & said Bloodrock & "DOA" were HUGE at his high school. I distinctly remember him playing this for me & hearing the sirens on it. Very fascinating song.

@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980 Год назад

It is so cool and interesting to hear the backstory behind this one.

@crucifiddle Год назад

I remember hearing this song in January 1971 on one of the Minneapolis radio stations, probably KQRS. I was 11 years old and it was all that the school kids could talk about. My much older brother bought Bloodrock 2 and my dad threw it out!😅 Later on I listened to them, they were really good. Kind of a combination of Grand Funk and Uriah Heep. Lee Pickens is an outstanding lead guitarist, talk about underrated! Thanks for the great memories and your wonderful channel!😋😋

@wickedmirage 4 месяца назад

My older brother had/probably still has this 45. I think I first heard it in 1974 as a 6 year old. It terrified me and yet I loved it so much I would sneak into his room and play it. To this day I still listen to it and have shared it with many people over the decades. Amazing song.

@richc5825 Год назад

This came out when I was 6. Somehow the 45 got into our collection, and my brother found it. We played it about 5 times and stopped. That night I had a very disturbing nightmare and my brother woke me up to get me to stop screaming. The next morning he broke the single in half and we never spoke of it again. Until this morning when I sent this link to him and we had a talk about it. This brought me back to that night, hopefully I won't be too freaked out tonight.

@Comfortdoll Год назад

I'm 60 and I remember my older sister had this record. Like many others, we assumed it was about a car crash. I don't remember it being much more traumatic to me than "Last Kiss" from the early 60's

@claate Год назад

I'm 63 and still have my original album. I always thought it was about a car crash too.

@pennybreslin6666 Год назад

I listened to the 45 over and over for several weeks and weeks. I found an original LP in an antique shop last year. Still is mesmerizing. Thank you for this review of the song

@phillipseifert694 6 месяцев назад

I was a little kid and remember it coming on the radio when I was alone in my dark room in a creepy big Victorian house we lived in .. terrified, but unable to stop listening

@toonswap8511 Год назад

I always found Blasphemous Rumors by Depeche Mode to be one of the eeriest and most disturbing songs I can remember with its 1 minute long outro of a girl slowly dying while on a ventilator with the song ending on her last breath. Still gives me the chills.

@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980 Год назад

Chilly but great song.

@burningoldsage4012 Год назад

Good call. Depeche Mode is darker on the whole than many people realize. I have a friend, whose affection for Halloween I share, that played deep cuts of Depeche Mode for me. I was surprised: chilling stuff. He also played "King Diamond" for me; I thought THEY were hilarious.😄

@yenbbc8840 Год назад

check out Marillion "The Party" album Holdiays In Eden

@btm380 Год назад

Check out the middle of Reynard The Fox by Julian Cope. In a dark room, it's spectacular.

@yorgle Год назад

I've listened to that song since the late 80s and i never made that connection before. Yowza!

@AZD2169 Год назад

Aaahhhh back in the day. I always thought the song “Timothy” was the most disturbing song, then Bloodrock came along with DOA. But, I’ve always remembered both songs. You brought back the 70’s back to me, thanks so much.

@porridge57 4 месяца назад

I was going to mention Timothy too. The interesting thing about that song is that it sounds so normal. A nice sounding, melodic tune. Then you listen to the words and…yikes!

@bettybridges1446 4 месяца назад

@@porridge57 Trapped in a mine a bad cave in the only one's left to tell the tell was me joe and Timothy water enough for two to drink and joe said that he would sell his soul for just one piece of meat Timothy Timothy where on earth did you go Timothy Timothy God why don't I know I lived in Los Angeles I was 9 years old I heard the song twice I learned every single word but I never heard it again because it was banned because they said it was two morbid I didn't know about this until I was older cuz I was so young I just forgot about it I had no clue what it was about and when I did find out I was a bit freaked out and the weirdest thing happened about five years ago there was a post asking what the saddest song you ever heard and Timothy was what I put down and this lady sent me a picture of her brother and her brother was Timothy I was so freaked out I felt so bad I told her how sorry I was she was very nice but that was most definitely a mind blowing experience it's just so bizarre that after all those years I actually talked to the sister of this poor Timothy I'm 64 years old

@larrylawson2912 4 месяца назад

Timothy was a great song. They lyrics were fucked up, but the guitars and music was great

@retrobebop61 3 месяца назад

@@porridge57I agree.

@midislave 4 месяца назад

I was only seven years old when this song came out. Our local AM Top 40 station played it frequently. I was intrigued by it, but it scared the hell outta me! It still freaks me out! Thanks for the video.

@scotttaxdal5297 4 месяца назад

Wow. As soon as I saw your title I knew it had to be this song. I heard this at my parent's neighbor's house during a party. I was maybe 14. Never heard it again until today, I'm 53 and it stuck in my head. Don't know if I even want to look it up and hear it again, once was plenty. But thank you for covering it, it sure deserves exposure to a new generation. Creepy as F...

@debbiec2020 Год назад

I was barely over 11 years old when this song came out. I have a bit of a different take from this song--coming from an extremely difficult childhood--this song, well, scared the shit out of me. All I could think about after hearing this, was death and how scared I was to die! Convinced I was going die anyway from abuse, the eerie tune would follow me around for days, I would be in some horrible state of mind, and days went by before I felt "normal" again. What resonated with me was the singer's ability to communicate the "fear" the character in the song felt as he was dying, and watching the horror that surrounded him. Luckily, I grew stronger over the years and even came to appreciate this song. I can only think of one other song from my childhood that left me in a weird mood a song by Napoleon XIV---"They're coming to take me away". I remember thinking, wow, that guy must be really nuts! (I had no idea in 1966 what that song was all about)

@stumbling_buddhist2255 6 месяцев назад

((((( )))))

@jeffbelding589 Год назад

We did some Bloodrock covers in a band I was in from the 70’s. However we never touched D.O.A. Most of our gigs were school dances, and you certainly can’t dance to THAT one. I’ve always been crazy about the first 3 Bloodrock albums. Every so often, I treat myself to a marathon listening of this trilogy. Whenever I come to DOA, I ask myself, “Should I skip it this time?” But I can’t. Like any accident you come upon, you can’t help but “watch!”

@brucewahler6789 Год назад

Funny: I was also in a band that covered Bloodrock songs. We learned D.O.A. as one of them, but didn't play it much at gigs. The strange this was, when we played the song, couples WOULD slow-dance to it! Always creeped me out, but I guess they didn't want to waste an opportunity to grope on the dance floor. (Especially if it was the long version!) It's a shame that the combination of the morbid song and the band's name ended up sinking their mass appeal. They actually had some other, more interesting tunes!

@jeffbelding589 Год назад

@@brucewahler6789 There were always interesting dance moves at those '70's high school dances. I always liked watching the girls dance to our cover of Humble Pie's version of "I'm Ready." They'd be dancing with each other, and looking around to see if some "groovy guy" would notice them. Slow dancing to DOA? That's something that would be a good subject for the opening of a horror flick! I have to say, I was surprised at how quickly Bloodrock "hit the bargain bins." You really put it in perspective...thanks!

@terrythompson5575 Год назад

I saw Bloodrock many times around Fort Worth and I saw them in concert with Grand Funk twice in Fort Worth and once in Oklahoma. They always rocked our socks off! I especially remember the lights and the sirens and the greatness of D.O.A. as they preformed it at The Tarrant County Convention Center!

@justa.american8303 3 месяца назад

I was a DJ at the time and played DOA. What a reaction from the listeners and the station manager was about to have a stroke!

@bobf9749 Год назад

A friend told me about it. I finally heard it and it made my blood run cold. At the time, it seemed like gratuitous shock and horror, but hearing the story that inspired it, it’s more understandable. Wish it had been explained at the time or maybe better described in the song itself.

@MrPhilm00r Год назад

This is definitely a new one for me, but that's why I love this channel. You're one of the few content creators that I watch every video regardless if I am familiar with the subject matter. I'm sure that I'm not alone in that.

@jillwklausen Год назад

I'd never heard it either.

@babygerald4645 Год назад

Count me as one of those. There isn't a video where I don't learn some interesting fact or gain appreciation for something, whether it's a production technique, an accidental occurrence in the studio, or some other weird bit of trivia.

@juniorjohnson9509 Год назад

@@jillwklausen It got a little airplay at the time, which is how I first heard it, and made me go out and but the album! Yes,I'm an old fart!

@LuvBorderCollies Год назад

New to me also. This video reminds me why I do not miss the 70s at all. From sappy garbage like Captain & Tennille, to horribly depressing songs and a whole lot of nothing in between. Being forced to listen to country music by my mom wasn't all that bad actually. I wasn't like "forced" but mom controlled the main house radio and definitely the car radio. I have to admit I liked a lot of disco also, especially when drinking age was 18. LOL Finally Boston and The Knack and a whole new genre appeared at the tail end to usher in the 80s. Love the 80s!!

@jillwklausen Год назад

@@juniorjohnson9509, I was 10 in 1971, so that's probably why it escaped my attention. I was into Carole King, James Taylor, Marvin Gaye, Carly Simon, Janis Ian, Cat Sevens, Jethro Tull, the Beatles, and Joni Mitchell. A song like this definitely wouldn't have been on my radar.

@robbierobinson3966 Год назад

I was 11 when this came out. It was terrifying to me but i was captivated by it. I had a little am radio. I used to take it in the bathroom when i was taking a bath. Never forget that night i was in the tub all soaped up and DOA came on. The first note played and i leaped out of the tub. Didn't grab my towel and was out of there and in my room in less than a second. Standing there naked wet and covered in soap. Stayed there dripping all over the floor until it was over. Took a few minutes after it was over for me to get the courage to go back in the bathroom and dry off. Didn't rinse off and turned the radio off for a few days.

@David-bq8vz 9 месяцев назад

I hadn’t thought of this song in years until visiting with my grandsons the other day and really don’t know why it came to mind. It was a chilling song that frightened me as a youngster, but for some reason couldn’t help but listen to it. The lyrics that came to my mind the other day was, “Something warm is flowing down my fingers…” Creepy, fascinating song. Great episode.

@chuckseminski5781 Год назад

I heard this in elementary school, playing records in homeroom. It was played on local radio stations every Halloween. I loved the eeriness of the sounds and the concept of the victim telling the story. It gave me cold chills and goosebumps then and now because I tried to visualize and feel the story as it unfolded as if I was there, as if I was the one dying.

@thomasbolman375 Год назад

Glad to see the often maligned term One Hit Wonder renamed Bottled Lightning. Too many great songs are discounted when their creators, for many different reasons, never seem to achieve long term success. Thank you for blowing the dust of this amazing song. I haven't heard D.O.A in many years. My local Rock Radio station used to play D.O.A around Halloween back in the day.

@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980 Год назад

Yessssss! To me, these artists didn’t just make a one hit wonder. They created lightning in a bottle.

@LazyIRanch Год назад

One reason I love this channel, the Professor has such respect and genuine love of music. I don't think I've ever heard him talk disparagingly about any artist. He even had kind words for Bobby Goldsboro's "Honey", one of my least favorite songs ever!

@gkarenko9593 Год назад

I agree. How many people have had hit songs in their lives? Not a heck of a lot.

@wesdoobner7521 Год назад

no way am i I ever referring to one hit wonders as bottled lightning lol

@oldschoolrr6077 Год назад

I had heard of the group Bloodrock but knew nothing of their music. One song I remember from 1971 that insinuated death was "Timothy" by the Buoys. I remember that only one station in the L.A. Market that I knew of, played that song. 93KHJ Boss Radio never played it.

@donnamoon8769 4 месяца назад

Thanks for bringing up this song. I was born in the 60s. This song is somewhere in my brain. It holds up well and almost more relevant today. Not surprising that some people did not play the song. It doesn’t fit a top 40 narrative. A song about a reality we all face.

@jeffreyolivito8810 4 месяца назад

Yesssir!! Ur the man ! As a music collector , i regret that i let that Blood Rock (45 rpm. ) get away from me , but such is life ! I have never heard another song come along as ‘bone-chilling ‘ as DOA. The ‘seventies’ were the ‘golden -years ‘ of music , by far !!!👍👍

@davidlaw689 Год назад

Bloodrock's second album is an exceptionally good album. Well worth a listen Trivia ~ ex -member Warren Ham is currently a part of Ringo Starr's All Star Band.

@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980 Год назад

Never knew that!

@stevebird9510 Год назад

Any relation to Pete Ham ?

@f.fields2703 Год назад

And in TOTO

@keeverotter Год назад

My favorite still 3 with "The Kool-Aid Kids"...I was in high school when DOA came out and had it on 8 track haha and then ended up picking it up on vinyl

@jimburgess9205 Год назад

And he’s touring with Toto.

@joeyanderson3396 Год назад

Bloodrock is one of the most underappreciated bands from the early 70's. I was fortunate to see them open up for Grand Funk in Raleigh NC. They stole the show. I was already a fan of their first album so I knew what to expect.

@eaglerare22 Год назад

Saw them in Atlanta just a few rows from the stage. It was unbelievable!

@joethompson2910 Год назад

Hey Joey… that was my first concert in Albuquerque Bloodrock opening for Grandfunk around 70-71…. Ahh the memories…ha

@WinkLinkletter Год назад

This song couples great with "Paranoid" by Grand Funk, especially if you are making a bad trip mix! Here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Arpon5msJgc.html

@artanddesign8561 Год назад

I have to agree I don’t appreciate this band at all!!!!

@josephtravers777 Год назад

@@artanddesign8561 They were hyped by Terry Knight, just as Grand Funk Railroad. Neither that talented compared to other bands.

@DukesMusic84 4 месяца назад

That's a good friend, helping this dude work out all his trauma through a song. We're all here to help each other get through stuff, whether it's overcoming an addiction or witnessing a plane crash. We all gotta learn how to help each other through it like they did back then. It's a very rewarding thing.

@lorihoop3831 4 месяца назад

Music HEALS, if you listen to the right stuff

@DukesMusic84 4 месяца назад

@@lorihoop3831 yep, I am living proof

@reneefuller4063 3 месяца назад

OMG, I have been looking for this song for decades without success. I was only 14 when I heard this record in 1971 but it was so sad it left a mark on my psyche! I was scrolling RU-vid and ran across your channel by accident and I found myself hoping this song was what you were going to play. Thanks so much for the memory!!!!

@Tina-si1gz Год назад

I was 14 in 1971 and was fascinated by that song. I had the album but I had most of the songs you talked about as well as many others. Born and raised in Fort Worth, Texas we had many great musicians and seeing them perform live was pretty easy. Thank you for covering this song. I had no idea of the true back story. A lover of all music and songs the 70’s was a great time to be a teenager. Teen Angel sung by Mark Dinning was one of my favorites although it seemed kind of dumb to die for a ring even at my young age. My sister’s 10 years older than me so I grew up listening to songs from the 50’s also some of the best music ever written and such talented singers. Thanks again. Love your channel.

@cryptofcraze1153 Год назад

Thanks so much for even talking about Bloodrock! I was hanging out at a vintage record shop in the 90s when I first heard DOA. It was a small hole in the wall shop that usually was never busy. So the owner and I would sit for hours talking about and listening to obscure and vintage records. He played DOA for me and I was instantly hooked. I began collecting all the Bloodrock that I could get my hands on, until I had all their LPs. They are still one of my favorite rock bands from the seventies and I still listen to them on a regular basis. Great band! Thank you.

@wesinman2312 Год назад

I remember this song so clearly, I was 17 when it came out. It was difficult to listen to, but I never forgot it.

@johndolan3566 9 месяцев назад

I love BLOODROCK...I saw them open for Grand Funk at the Boston Garden in 1971... SUPERB live band...Lee Pickens played a Gibson 335 into an Acoustic amp and his tone just cut so nice... brilliant.. BLOODROCK 2 is their masterpiece...

@brucevidito4923 Год назад

I still possess this album that I purchased when it came out. It came back to personally haunt me when my best friend and I were involved in a car wreck in 1975 that ultimately took his life. I couldn't bring myself to listen to DOA ever again and I'm now almost 68 years old.

@wendigo63music55 Год назад

Yeah. Like listening to Alice Cooper's "Dead Babies" after the abortion.

@theDubguy Год назад

@@wendigo63music55 Well, that song is about horrendous parenting not abortion - though one could argue little Betty would've been spared a life of misery if her drug addled mom had gotten one. But point taken

@tammyblackwell499 Год назад

So sorry for your loss. I can understand certain songs that I can't listen to any more, songs that I love, that were favorites of my husband & myself but unless I want to be a blubbering mess, I just don't listen to them anymore. I was widowed in my '30s. Lost my best friend, my husband. He introduced me to do much wonderful music, now @56 I'm getting better at listening to the music we both loved so much. Good luck with your future endeavors of reclaiming the music! ❤️

@brucevidito4923 Год назад

@@tammyblackwell499 , how tragic to lose your husband so young. Thank you for your compassion and words of encouragement. I still listen to the 60's and 70's music we shared while growing up. I choose to live my life to mentor others. My simple prayer each morning is asking God to please let me be a blessing to someone today. You sure blessed me today.

@le_th_ Год назад

That kind of trauma never really goes away. You can have it treated, decades later, with EMDR though. I'm sorry that you had to experience such a traumatizing accident and to have your friend die in the accident on top of it.

@LazyIRanch Год назад

I was 10 years old in 1971, the first time I heard DOA was in my elementary school classroom. On Fridays, the teacher would let us bring records from home to play, and a boy (known for his mischief) brought this record. To the teacher's credit, she played the whole song but I think she just didn't understand what she was hearing. Most kids were bringing in "The Archies" or "Partridge Family".

@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980 Год назад

Wow, amazing story. The Partridge Family were huge back then.

@mrled8555 Год назад

@@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980 Ha ha. The good old days,right? I got my nickname (Led) in 1969 when I brought my Led Zeppelin1 album to school. Other albums brought in were like Blood,Sweat,and Tears.Anyway my teacher didn't have the "ear" or the patience yours did. She pulled the needle off about 1minute into Communication Breakdown. 🤣Good Times!🤘✌

@mrled8555 Год назад

Oops! Sent a reply to the wrong person Lazy L. Hope you can read it down below 🤷‍♂️

@LazyIRanch Год назад

@@mrled8555 What a shame! I brought in The Beatles "Sgt Pepper" album, which the teacher liked and had fun telling us who all the famous people were on the cover. I guess I got brownie points that day!

@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980 Год назад

@@mrled8555 Haha, I would have kept Communication Breakdown playing! Reminds me of the time I spent as a little girl thinking that Led Zeppelin was someone’s name.

@claate Год назад

One of my all time favorites! I still have the original album in my collection! Right up there with In a Gadda da Vida and Vanilla Fudge's You Keep Me Hanging On. Thanks for the background. I didn't realize it was an actual event they were singing about.

@pugil1sttheboxingforce940 4 месяца назад

Great vid, Adam. My (eldest) brother John had (I think, still has) the 45. I was only 10 when he played it, and it creeped me the hell out! IMHO it IS the most macabre and disturbing song of all time.

@bearman2 Год назад

The album From The Inside by Alice Cooper has some of the creepiest lyrics. Millie and Billy is one of them. The album is about Alice's time in an asylum and was written by him and Bernie Taupin (Elton John's lyricist).

@harveyallthumbs763 Год назад

Also, John Nitzinger - who had a Bloodrock connection - also worked with Cooper for a time.

@davedecker1725 4 месяца назад

Nurse Rosetta Cannot let her Catch me peeking Down her sweater 😂

@TedBronson1918 4 месяца назад

Alice Cooper has ALWAYS had some of the creepiest lyrics. They're full of double entendres that shock the straight laced prigs of the world, but he's entertaining as hell to everyone who gets what he's doing. I've been a Cooper fan for almost (jeez !) fifty years now ! He also covers the most forbidden subjects in his music. Cold Ethyl really cracked me up. So much great rock n roll !

@HRConsultant_Jeff Год назад

I was interning at a radio station at this time and we had a LOT of conversation about this song and whether it should be played on air. Some stations refused but others played it for a couple of weeks. Phones would not stop ringing. I always thought I was one of the few people that remembered this song. I guess there are more of you out there.

@justmaitake5910 Год назад

Great job on this video Professor of Rock, and on the story of DOA and Bloodrock, my all time favorite band. I first heard DOA on their "Live" in Chicago" album and was totally blown away. It was love at first siren! I had their first album and had already fallen in love with the band and their great music and musicianship as well as Jim Rutlidge's vocals. When I finally heard their studio version of DOA, that was a real awakening to the greatness of the song, when at the end it sounds like the plug is pulled on the organ and its pitch grandually descends as the song ends along with the lives of the plane crash victims and slows down and further down to signify the victims' deaths. The song did not need an accompanying video. Bloodrock was able to paint the entire horifying picture using sound alone... and that is the dark beauty of it. But there is so much more to Bloodrock. They are absolutely the most under-rated group ever. I was overjoyed when they reunited. It was just as thrilling to see them perform in 2014 as it would have been in 1971, and with guitarist Nick Taylor's son, Chris Taylor, expertly filling in for the band's 2nd drummer Rick Cobb III who was unable to travel to Texas to participate. Lead singer, Jim Rutledge, was Bloodrock's drummer on their first album. All Bloodrock fans were heartbroken to learn of Nick Tayor's and Stevie Hill's untimely passing. I had idolized Stevie Hill as I am primarily an organist and he was an inspiration to me. I never got to see the band "live" in person. Bloodrock was scheduled to play in Sailorsburg, PA in 1973 (I believe it was). I went to purchase tickets and was told the concert had been cancelled. Major, major bummer. That would have been during the band's period with Warren Ham as lead singer. And there are plenty of memorable tracks from that era as well. But for me, for who the members of Bloodorck are as people, as amazing writers, musicians and performers, with me knowing full well the other musical heavyweights that were "out there" since Bloodrock first got together, I still proudly place Bloodrock at the top of my list of great bands. Thanks for this great video, Prof.

@kathybest741 5 месяцев назад

Wow, Professor! Without this "class" today, I'd never have known about this song. Fascinating! You do some very important educating through your channel.

@thomashemmelgarn3211 Год назад

Thank you so much for playing this. I heard this once, decades ago on a Dayton Ohio rock station while driving. I always wondered what band it was. I did indeed pull my car over when hearing the sirens in the song. I could not believe what I was hearing, very alarming very dramatic. Great to finally get info on this

@gicedrat514 Год назад

I was 13 when I heard this song on the radio in 1971. I bought the 45 that same week. My parents would only let me play it if I kept the volume low. My 4 siblings were all younger than I and would have had some problems if they heard it. I still listen to it a few times a year. It still has that eerie spooky feeling to it.

@fknsl1 Год назад

Same here... 7th grade, WPRO played it only a couple of times and I found the 45. My older sister would complain whenever I played it. Many years later a Metalhead friend gave me the full-length album version on CD. Funny but I never had any doubt that it was a plane crash...

@joycescheppa8049 4 месяца назад

I remember all the controversy surrounding this song. I don't remember ever hearing it was a true story. Chilling. Thanks for the info.

@roxleyldc 10 месяцев назад

I first heard this song in college and thought that they were on a motorcycle flying along and hit something in the end. We used to have debates about the lyrics. It’s always playing in the back of my mind still… . Thanks for reviewing this!

@cozmicpfunk Год назад

That is an amazing story! Some of the best pop songs ever made are from heartbreak and experience. DOA would have been appreciated in later decades such as other acts that used intense reality and sounds to enhance the narratives of their songs. The Cure, Depeche Mode, NIN comes to mind with some of their topics. Thank you Adam for sharing this, it is important to share the darker side of music to balance the scale- this was a great history lesson and an important one...

@AllieJ123 Год назад

I had this album

@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980 Год назад

That is the good thing about music. There’s the bright and happy, and then there’s the sad, and then there’s the sinister.

@kenlieck7756 Год назад

@@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980 Ha! This comment thread reminds me of the Mary Whitehouse Show bits with the Cure doing cheerful kiddie songs like The Wheels On The Bus! (Its here on YT if you need a laugh)

@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980 Год назад

@@kenlieck7756 Are you kidding me? I’m gonna go watch that right now. 😝

@glendalangley1877 Год назад

@@AllieJ123 I have it also as well as all the other albums mentioned. That was a good year. Six years later Lynyrd Skynyrd would lose 6 people on a plane they were on.

@beverlykrebs4372 Год назад

I was 12, & I remember hearing it on the radio a lot. I was so fascinated by it, but still found it disturbing. Morbid curiosity, I guess. I never heard the story behind it, though, so thank you so much!!! Poor little 17 yr/old... I am sure he was traumatized for life! So sad.

@pparkerr Год назад

My girlfriend (now current wife) and I saw Bloodrock in concert in Ft. Worth, TX with Grand Funk back in 1970. D.O.A. has stuck with me ever since. We always assumed it was a plane crash. One of the most haunting songs I ever heard. I am 67 now. We saw some great bands back in the early 70s!

@wkanost 4 месяца назад

I loved this song when I was just a kid. DOA by Bloodrock! I went looking for that song not too long ago because I hadn’t heard it in decades but remembered it so clearly. Glad to hear it getting at least some recognition.

@jeanburgess3935 Год назад

I remember that song!!!!! I have talked to others that are close to my age and they all said they never heard such a song. I tried looking it up in hit lists etc. But couldn't find it anywhere. I am so glad you played this, I remembered it better than I thought I did! And yeah, I always liked "the night the went out in Georgia"

@martinmurry3 Год назад

I remember hearing it on the radio in 1971. I was 14. Loved it then and still do.

@timothysergay301 Год назад

I listened to this song when I was 10 years old with great terror and compassion. I memorized every note and every word. The vocals are extremely prominent and clearly articulated, which made everything worse. There was no escaping an understanding of what is happening to the narrator. The present tense of the lyrics likewise leaves the listener no escape. The singer is not narrating a near scrape with death that obviously he must’ve survived, living to tell the proverbial tale. Something warm is flowing down my body… Complete horror. It would not be many years before I began reading Stephen King.

@artdogdeb Год назад

WOW thank you for this! As an old rocker, I remember when this song came out. I was a freshman in high school in the bible belt, and we LOVED how our rock n roll soundtrack to life disturbed adults. We were all obsessed with this song, and were horrified but thrilled with its gruesome story. We would sit outside at lunch and break down the lyrics and the eerie melody. Great memories!!!!

@bluezybones4215 Месяц назад

I too was a 15 yr old freshman, in the bible belt often referred to as the "belt buckle" of the bible belt, haha. Bought this album right after hearing D.O.A., then found their first album, which I played even more. Then bought Bloodrock 3, as soon as it hit the shelves & considered myself to be a true Bloodrock fan. I received Bloodrock U.S.A. (4th album) as a Christmas gift soon after it was released, then bought their next album as soon as it was released. That was the last one though, cuz they had changed the group's lineup & it just didn't sound like the Bloodrock I loved. Also, during that time, I was becoming a huge Grand Funk fan, and when I found out that both groups were managed by the same person (Terry Knight), I thought maybe I'm a T.K. fan as well, haha. Well, artdogdeb, I know there are many of us out here, but couldn't stop myself from reaching out to a fellow fan, same age & area of Texas...

@PatrickManganelli 5 месяцев назад

Hello, being a music nerd and musician and keyboardist, i played DOA with the band i was in. I don't remember how it went over, i do know that we played other songs from bloodrocks catalog. Their 3rd lp. USA was one of their best; as the saying goes: bands come and go, but it was great to hear the music they made. Music is universal to enjoy and spread to all. Rok on.

@soledadharen7426 Год назад

"Hell Is for Children", "Too Long a Soldier" by Pat Benatar; "Luka" by Suzanne Vega, and "19" by Paul Hardcastle. All important subject matter, but difficult to listen to without choking up. Powerful, moving, tear-jerkers.

@daedalus1 Год назад

Great comment! All of these songs were incredibly powerful in their own way and I remember them all fondly.

@katerinakiaha6925 Год назад

I read that Pat wrote hell is for children after seeing an account of a child abused to death. The song has been on my mind for the past week. Child abuse is rampant and horrendous .

@soledadharen7426 Год назад

@@katerinakiaha6925 I heard that, too.

@ElNeroDiablo Год назад

One for the Aussies in the audience I suggest would be Redgum's "I Was Only 19 (A Walk In The Light Green)" about the hell that the soldiers experienced in and after Vietnam.

@richcar3434 Год назад

Last Kiss....had a couple of good remakes too.

@Reverend_Funky Год назад

This song almost gave me nightmares as a kid. When I saw the title of this video I had a feeling but when you started talking I knew what song you were talking about. It gave me chills to hear that I was right. Definitely gets my vote for the creepiest song of all time!!! Keep up the great work!!!

@paulhill8245 Год назад

I had never heard about this band or song before. I just now listened to it, and I am blown away. INTENSE!!

@RidesTheRain 3 месяца назад

Haven't heard DOA in decades. I was in high school in 71 and was totally fascinated by the song. While it was morbid I thought it was one of the most brilliant pieces of song writing I'd ever heard. I still feel that way. So few songs are totally original but this one is. Thanks for the story behind it!

@wolflobo3624 Год назад

I remember my older brother had the single of this song and it scared the you know what out of me. The music alone was like something out of 70's horror movie, but then add the lyrics and it became a nightmare inducing evening every time. I never knew the story behind the song and can now, as an adult, really appreciate the song better now. Thank you for reviewing this song.

@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980 Год назад

I’d never play this song before bedtime.

@heavycheck57 Год назад

No no no, Wolf Lobo! It goes like this: "IIIIIIII rememmmberrrrrrr my older brother had the single..."

@lesleykey5548 Год назад

Yes--my older brother tortured me with this record. I never heard it on the radio, but he would play it and laugh and laugh while I cried. Good times. We had the single but I remember this happening around 1973. I was six and he was 10. Hated this song...gave me nightmares. Gah!

@bryanmeekins835 Год назад

I remember hearing this song on the radio as a 10 year old kid. It fascinated me and still does all these years later.

@footwearisoptional8766 10 месяцев назад

The first time I heard DOA, I was spending a lot of time hanging out on those message boards that served us for social media back in the 1990's and I decided to start a thread asking what the creepiest song to hit the radio and one of my fellow messengers served it up as an offering. Being the morbid 817ch I am, I listened to it over and over and over... I love being creeped out in safe locations.. I actually thought it was about a car wreck, but I didn't see a drug angle. Haven't heard the song in years. Now I want to go listen to DOA again. And again. And again. I'm sick, I'm twisted and I'm utterly unashamed.

@dr.k.eliassummerel8143 Год назад

Back from riverboat navy vietnam and a paramedic my friends in Sunday school gave to me a 45rpm copy of this. So your video brought back this memory thank YOU!

@denislange8046 Год назад

Great episode, I was surprised to see this song and band being highlighted... very cool!! I was 16 in 1971 and loved Bloodrock 2. My brother and I had cassette players in our cars at that time and we used to listen to Bloodrock 2, 3, and LIVE all the time. D.O.A. was definitely a creepy song, but was also really hard and heavy... we loved it. I have all three of these albums on CD and listen to them pretty frequently. They still sound great all these years later! No one today makes music like we had back in the '70's!!

@mrled8555 Год назад

I was born in '56 and I say...RIGHT ON BROTHER! NO ONE!

@mikeb.7589 Год назад

My older brother bought their first album. I liked it so much I bought their second. DOA creeped us both out yet we thought it was cool. I was 15, my bro was 18. He went to see them at the Sports Arena here in San Diego in 1971. My parents said I was too young so I couldn't go. He said when that played that song there were red rotating lights flashing that added exponentially to the macabre atmosphere. I still have two of their original LPs. It was a great time to be young!

@allengator1914 Год назад

Cassette players? I was 16 in 1971 too and I was jamming out to D.O.A. on my car's 8 track player. I liked their album titled "Passage" too, until the 8 track player ate it.

@mrled8555 Год назад

@@allengator1914 good old 8tracks eh? Remember how they would switch tracks right in the middle of a song. After a while the big "CLICK" became part of the song.🤣 and THEN it would eat your tape! Good times! Rock on bro✌

@allengator1914 Год назад

@@mrled8555 I actually had a home 8 track recording deck and you could record right over the track switch instead of fading out and then back in like the commercial tapes did. It wasn't as noticeable when you made your own tapes that way.

@pawmom2693 5 месяцев назад

I have the 45. I hadn’t thought of this song in decades. You always seem to take me back to my teens.

@craigozancin 11 месяцев назад

I was 14/15 in 1971 when D.O.A came on the radio. It wasn't band here in Utah. It scared the shot out of me. I had nightmares from it and the couldn't days afterwards. I listen tp it now and am not bothered by it. I do remember just how real it felt back in 1971.

@maggieanaya1114 Год назад

Thanks for sharing this story Adam! I was 8 years old when United 553 crashed into some houses 2 blocks from where my family lived in Chicago in 1972. It's a memory that you never forget. Interesting song! Great shirt, btw! I can't wait for the Animals remastered release next month!

@hughaskew6550 Год назад

'71 was my mid-teens. This song came out and blew me away. I ended up with the 45, the album, and eventually all of their other albums. One of my other favorite tracks by Bloodrock was "Breach of Lease", which came out on their third album. You're right about this being a very hot period for rock music. I stayed broke from buying so many records. I recorded what I could from the radio but I hated having the intro and outro yapped over every time.

@justcherie 6 месяцев назад

Wow, this was a song I’d nearly forgotten about. I’m sure it was never played on the radio stations I listened to, but sometime around the middle of the 70s, my mom brought home an 8track that was a collection of many popular songs by the original artists. This song was one of them. My siblings and I were obsessed with it. I’m one of the people who thought it was about a car crash. Thanks for reminding me of a forgotten song!

@tpresto9862 6 месяцев назад

My mind immediately went to Seasons in the Sun. And living in Northeast PA (the home of The Buoys) I should have thought of 'Timothy' before you mentioned it, but I didn't. I'm glad you included both of those.

@toddymac Год назад

Oh my, I actually remember being very haunted by this song as a young teen. Only heard it a few times on the radio before it just kind of disappeared but never did forget it. Actually dared to look it up online a few years back. Truly one of the creepiest songs ever. period. I also remember all these other songs from that time, quite a trip down memory lane in this episode.