Tease for 3pm
US#1(2) from 12 April 1975. Tribute to tennis star Billie Jean King and her team, the Philadelphia Freedoms, in response to a gift of a personalised track suit she had surprised the singer with at a tennis tournament.
Tease for 5pm
US#2(3) from 12 April 1969, UK#35 in April and a Monster Hit in N.Z. ( Taken from the group’s self titled album by popular demand, it spent 13 weeks in US Top 100 from 1 March and sold a million by 12 June 1969. From a pop jazz group formed in New York in the (northern) summer of 1967, one of the most mature groups formed in some years. The group got to 9 members with a significant brass sound, with trumpet and trombone, along with sax and the usual guitar and drums.
And the songs;
3pm, Elton John – Philadelphia Freedom
5pm, Blood, Sweat and Tears – You've Made Me So Very Happy
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