HEARD IT ON THE RADIO Volume 3 [1999]

The never were hits keep on comin'...

As they did on Volume 2 of the series, Renaissance Records goes deep into the Sony/CBS (and affiliated labels) tape library to assemble a collection of little known songs they call Heard It On The Radio Volume 3. While eleven of the songs made the Rock Tracks chart, only two of the eighteen songs on the album crossed over to the Billboard's Hot 100 and only one fought its way into the Top 40.  All songs were singles or album tracks from 1975-1985. Somewhat surprisingly, HERC counts three of the songs (including the two Hot 100 tracks) as ones he had heard on the radio before this CD came into the fold:

There are a few New Wavish tracks here which seem out of place amidst the mostly MOR offerings but they could be worth a second listen.  The parent albums of those songs are pictured below:

Also of note are two projects by artists whose "day-job" bands were on hiatus at the time:

• Orion The Hunter featured guitarist Barry Goudreau and vocalist Fran Cosmo from the never-known-to-be-prolific, quality over quantity band, Boston
• Pink Floyd's Nick Mason, that group's only constant member since their formation in 1965, moonlighted with 10cc guitarist Rick Finn on an album of mostly insturmentals with the exception of this disc's "Lie For A Lie" which featured vocals from Mason's Floydian bandmate David Gilmour - the rare exteneded version of that song is below:

At first glance, Volume 3 seems to be the weakest of the series thus far but upon a closer listen, it actually equals the other two volumes in breadth and depth of song selection. This disc proves that seeing the title, artist name or photo may evoke no memories but hearing the songs just might do the trick.

	title	artist	year	label	Hot 100	Rock
1	Doctors Of The Universe	DNA	1983	Boardwalk
2	Marseilles	Angel City	1978	Epic
3	Edge Of Sundown	Danny Joe Brown Band	1981	Epic		12
4	Fallen Angel	Rogue	1975	Epic
5	So You Ran	Orion The Hunter	1984	Portrait	58	7
6	Maybe It's You	Great Buildings	1981	Columbia		48
7	The Look In Your Eye	Hughes/Thrall	1982	Boulevard		28
8	Rock And Roll Dreams Come Through	Jim Steinman	1981	Epic	32	14
9	What's Right	David Werner	1979	Epic
10	Out Of My Hands	Face To Face	1984	Epic		55
11	It's All Right, It's O.K.	The Hawks	1981	Columbia		32
12	She Sheila	The Producers	1982	Portrait		48
13	Strange Dreams	Frank Marino & Mahogany Rush	1982	Columbia		9
14	She Talks In Stereo	Gary Myrick & The Figures	1980	Epic
15	Lie For A Lie	Nick Mason & Rick Finn	1985	Columbia		21
16	Make Time For Love	Trillion	1980	Epic
17	I'm Leaving	Taxxi	1982	Fantasy		39
18	Rock It Out	Pia Zadora	1983	Curb