A song by a band after a major Personnel change- Mosquito by The Doors… after Jim Morrison’s death, the Doors continued for a short while and released two albums, Other Voices and Full Circle. Mosquito was a single from Full Circle. If you can get past the first 50 seconds of the song (which sounds like a bad, but catchy, novelty record) it turns into an excellent instrumental jam featuring Ray Manzarek’s incredible keyboards. Back then, Ray was favoring bringing in Iggy Pop; who wasn’t doing much at the time (pre Bowie comeback); as a replacement singer, but but Robby Krieger and John Densmore were completely against it… Ahhh, what might have been…
A US band covering a song by a UK band- On the 1987 Monkees reunion lp
Pool It, the Monkees (Micky Dolenz, Peter York & Davy Jones, for this reunion) covered Wreckless Eric’s great song (I’d go the) Whole Wide World…
A band that lasted three years or less – Johnny Won’t Get To Heaven by the Killjoys… The Killjoys were a cool British punk band (1976 to 1978)… Vocalist Kevin Rowland went on to form Dexys Midnight Runners and Bass player Gill Weston joined Girlschool…
A song that mentions candy or sweets- “Candy everywhere I’ve got chocolate in my hair…” Unfinished Sweet by the Alice Cooper band, from the brilliant LP Billion Dollar Babies…
