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The 1970s #1 Classic Rock hit Black Water by the Doobie Brothers is has been called the rock and roll equivalent of Gone with the Wind meets Huckleberry Finn. The classic rock band wrote it as a love letter to the south. They thought the song was ok but don’t think it was a hit so it was relegated to a b side when out of nowhere a DJ played it and suddenly the request lines lit up like a CHRISTMAS Tree! Weeks later it went to #1. Tom Johnston and Pat Simmons also tell the story of how Another Park Another Sunday was stopped in the charts because radio stations refused to play. You’ll love this underdog story of two 70s classics!
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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.. Today we get the scoop on the all time classic rock standard, Black Water straight from the principal members of the Doobie Brothers. Tom Johnston and Pat Simmons.
The doobie brothers were just coming off their massive hit album the Captain and me which contained the classic hits China Grove, and Long Train Running both hits that pushed the sales of the Captain and me past double platinum. in Late 73 the Doobies started to putting the track together for what would be their next album 1974’s What were Once Vices are now Habits…
When Pat Simmons came up with the basic guitar lick for what would become Black Water, he was at Warner Brothers Recording Studio during the sessions for their previous album. He was just sitting their playing the parts between takes for a different song and producer Teddy Templeman got on the talk back and said What is that. Pat just told him it was a little riff that he came up with that he'd been tweaking with.’ Ted said : 'I love that. You really should write a song using that riff.’
Later Simmons finished it while in New Orleans as a tribute to the South. Even though Templeman thought it was a great song and they really spent a great amount of time recording it with painstaking metal. they never thought it as a potential single. They ended up putting it on the b side for the lead single from the album.. the heart wrenching top 40 hit another park, another sunday which was written by lead singer Tom Johnston…
Another Park, Another Sunday was actually moving up the charts steadily and then according to the band it got yanked off the radio for the line 'And the radio just seems to bring me down’” years later it was voted as one of the 5 greatest Doobies Brothers songs despite only hitting #32…So radio definitely stopped it’s momentum.[ After the second single off the new album, "Eyes of Silver", Missed the top 40 the Doobies decided to a re-release their inaugural single "Nobody” which failed to chart when it was first released in 1971..