This Is the #1 SONG EVER by an AUSTRALIAN ACT...and IT's NOT WHO YOU THINK! | Professor of Rock
6,691Coming up, it’s the most played song by an Australian act and if you took 100 guesses you get it wrong. It’s not a song from Men At Work or AC/DC or INXS, it’s by Little River Band that had many hits in the 70s and 80s on the American charts, but "Reminiscing" was their biggest... It went to #3 and since then it’s been played over 6 million times on American radio and the song was almost thrown away. As the band was recording it, they couldn’t get the arrangement right so they decided to nix it after trying to record it 2 separate times … today’s guest, the writer of the song, talked them into trying it just one more time and someone who wasn’t even in the band is the one who figured out how to make it work… It’s a great story and it’s coming up next on Professor of Rock.
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It’s time for another edition of our series Revelations. Where artists and bands take us for a deep dive into their greatest songs and albums. Details about the recordings that you won’t find ANYWHERE else and that’s a fact. Today was have the story of the most-played song in radio history by an Australian artist. I MENTIONED some of the great artists from down under but I left one out. It’s a band that has had a lot of hits here in the States and is definitely the greatest Australian Yacht rock group. I’m talking about Little River Band and the classic 1978 classic hit Reminiscing. We have the co-founder, writer, and guitarist Graham Goble to tell us how he created it.
It was awarded the BMI award for 5 million plays and is now almost at 6 million plays. The song went to #3 on the Hot 100 and was actually named by John Lennon as one of his favorite songs. Graham tells us that the entire song lyrics and music fell out of him in minutes…. he was fantasizing and romanticizing what it would’ve been like to have a relationship with a girl he never got with and having a romance in the 30s when big bands were the rage…the song was created in short order but then almost didn’t get recorded because they couldn’t get the arrangement to work.
Also, Graham tells us that after writing this and many other Little River band Classics he and other original band members like singer Glenn Shorrock and Beeb Birtles haven’t been able to tour under the name because the band who uses the name currently who doesn’t have any original members controls it. How would you like to wake up one morning and see that everything you’d ever worked for and created was controlled by someone else? Get the full story next in our exclusive interview with Graham...
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