Song of the Day 4/6: The Buckinghams, “Don’t You Care”
No crowd of supporters appeared in New York for Donald Trump’s arraignment. Television networks cut away from his whiny speech afterwards before he finished. People were leaving his Waco rally after half an hour. If he had a trace of self-awareness he’d be asking the question the Buckinghams set to music in 1967, when it reached No. 6 on the Hot 100.
The Chicago-based band — they changed their name from the Pulsations to take advantage of the so-called second British Invasion — had five Top 20 hits, all of them in 1967. Billboard named them that year’s Most Listened to Band in America, but their winning streak ended when they fired manager James William Guercio, who took their horn-enhanced sound to longer-lasting success with Blood, Sweat & Tears and Chicago.
Not hippies, not politicos, too pop for some back then. But one of the ’60s bands I most like to listen to now.
Always enjoyed the sophomoric alternative lyrics to ‘Kind Of A Drag’, which I won’t quote here…