Bacon was really good on vocals; Fallon as GA not so much. Seemed like they were trying to show tension between the 2 already.
@sang That was funny. Lamar Williams on bass and Mike Lawler on keys? Or is it Chuck?
I am just wondering if the current younger generation would get this skit/be on to it.
Everyone has a plan, till you get punched in the face,
"It ain't like they got a scale on that bus." I think younger people know it and miss it......the crowd noise when he goes into the fake solo at the end says it to me....but maybe i'm just reading into it as an old man. Ha! And I still love "Ramblin' Man' as it is the only song that will make me hold off heading to the check out line when I hear it at the grocery store........have to hear that solo. Happy to hear Dickey Betts' name ring out on national television.
1986 live in Nashville.
"... it was at this time when Dickey Betts wrote what would become one of their biggest hits ..."
How many "hits" did they have?
@rusty Crazy Love went to number 29 in 1979. Straight From The Heart reached number 39in 1981. The band was being pushed by Arista founder Clive Davis to come up with a hit which will drive the sales of the album as Ramblin' Man did Brothers and Sisters. Dickey Betts and Nashville song writer, producer and musician Johnny Cobb worked hard writing this song to be a hit single but it failed to reach the top 10.
Butch Trucks and Gregg Allman soon labeled this phase of the ABB embarrassing and Arista the wrong label for the band. Gregg left the band and took the Tolers with him in 1982 so Dickey, Butch and Chuck Leavell regrouped as Betts, Hall, Leavell, Trucks but Arista refused to record this band or Gregg's band demanding another Allman Brothers album but the band members refused to record another album with one left on their contract. I can't remember how they finally got out of that mess but Gregg and Dickey were soon back playing small clubs and bars which was kinda shocking to me.
In 1973 Jessica was released as a single making it to number 65 in the US, number 35 in Canada.
In 1990 Good Clean Fun made the top 10 chart for radio airplay and so did No One To Run With Anymore in 1994.
Also Ramblin' Man, Jessica Blue Sky, One Way Out, Melissa, Ain't Wasting Time No More, Midnight Rider, Statesboro Blues and In Memory of Elizabeth Reed were top 30 airplay tracks on the 250 album rock stations across the country in the 1990s. Butch Trucks said in 1994 " We are getting more airplay now than ever before except for when Ramblin'Man was new".
Midnight Rider from Laid Back reached number 19 on the singles chart in early 1974 for Gregg. The album reached number 13 in 1973 and sold over 600,000 copies for Gregg earning a gold record.
I'm No Angel by the Gregg Allman Band went to number 49 in 1987. The original version was by Bill Medley of the Righteous Brothers in 1982 but Gregg's cover was a modest hit and the album made it up to 54 on the album chart and sold over 500,000 copies earning Gregg his second gold record for his solo career.
@robertdee Ah, the Arista, Gregg the Narc years ... when I actually stopped listening for a while. 😉
Playing for airplay and hits! When I heard "Crazy Love", I told whoever I was with "this is the best Lynyrd Skynyrd song I've ever heard!". It sounded more like Skynyrd than the Allman Brothers - at least to me.
Hilarious! Glad to see the Brothers get some national exposure, even in a spoof. Kevin Bacon did a dead-on Dickey, with those shoulder movements. Great skit.
A wonderful spoof on a great band & a great song...
to me Jimmy Fallon looked more like Leon Russell than Gregg....
