BOTB June 2025 - Results

 

 

Thanks to everyone who stopped by to listen and cast a vote on my latest Battle of the Bands!  In what is becoming a confounding trend, I’ve gone and selected two of my own favorite (in this case, Summer) songs to battle each other for the win, and choosing seems next to impossible! Maybe I’ll flag down the mail carrier…

Anyhow, despite one vote I’ve taken the liberty of assuming I know who it was for, and including mine, here’s how we tallied up:

Another Park, Another Sunday  -                    3

Hot Rod Hearts - Robbie Dupree                    5      

 

One person who took a guess on the B-Side question was correct in naming Another Park, Another Sunday!  At least, I think so… Thanks for playing along, Stephen T. ;-)

According to Songfacts, it was first released as a single with “Black Water” as it’s B-Side, but one story has it that DJs didn’t appreciate a line in the song and gave the B-Side more airtime which helped it’s popularity so much (‘Black Water’ became they’re first #1 hit) that they “flipped” it to A-Side and ‘Another Park’ became the B-Side. Wikipedia seems to agree…

Thanks, Everyone!

BOTB June 2025 - B-Sides

 

Hey, hi! Glad you stopped by ;-)

The Battle of The Bands (BOTB) is your basic Which-do-you-like-best contest where the one that gets the most votes wins. All you have to do is show up (the 1^st and/or 15^th of every month) give a listen and cast your vote in the comment section. Next, hop on over to see what battles other participants (links located top right column of this page) have posted for us to vote on! Votes will be tallied and the winner revealed on or about 8 days later. 

I hope your summer is off to a fantastic start! Having recently attended a High School Graduation ceremony - what a crowd! - I couldn't help but remember the 'old days' when the very mention of the word "Summer"  made us all anxious for that last school bell to ring already! It didn't even matter if we had plans, as long as we had parks and boulevards ;-)

Did you catch my theme there? Coming up are two songs that always, ALWAYS get me into the summer mood. Let's see if they do anything for you ;-) 

First Up:

Next Up:

And there you have it, folks! Did we stir up any memories? Do you know - without peeking - or care to guess which of these songs was a B-Side hit? Let me know what you think, along with your (much-appreciated) vote in the comment section below. 

Happy tunes in June!