Friday night MULTIMEDIA EXTRAVAGANZA with THE SWEET!

No, no Christmas songs until Christmas Eve. You kids have to be patient. We'll have them all day Sunday but tonight you'll be getting your usual Music Series.

Also, for those scoring at home we've covered this before, yes, their official name was The Sweet, not just Sweet.

Now that the t's are crossed and the i's dotted let's kick things off with a really fun jam, 'Fox on the Run.' Just a reminder for the fellas, nobody ever got run up the company flagpole for calling a gal a "fox" back in the 70's. It was later when guys decided to unzip their pants and share those flagpoles with the group in the 80's and beyond things got dicey.

Friday night MULTIMEDIA EXTRAVAGANZA with SWEET!

Wow, this one has Johnny a little verklempt and not for the song itself. Johnny was looking for a song from the 70's that rang a bell and for laughs he was going to include a picture of an old style transistor hand held radio like many kids had back in the day. He searched Google and it really hit him when he saw a picture of the ACTUAL radio Johnny used for years as a poor kid who was all about the music and the idea of radio. An AM/FM 9Volt radio with an extra long antenna that allowed a kid just outside Detroit to listen in at night to Red Wings and Blues games from St. Louis on KMOX. Listening to the news in Richmond Virginia on WRVA. Wondering what the weather was in the coolest place on earth, New York New York and listen for the temperature in midtown, a place he can go on his roof deck and go look at with his own eyes. The memories in looking at this one image kept coming back; listening to the Grand Old Opry on WSM Nashville, or maybe WBBM in Chicago. Most of all though, it was about listening to music of all kinds and saving up for that next 9V battery. Kids these last couple decades have no idea how great they have it with iPods and at least 128 bit mp3's and AAC files and Spotify and what not and it's all pretty high quality. Back with these radios you had station drift and fuzzing in and out as you tried to learn the songs. Airplanes didn't help. Then CB radios came out and interfered with such AM giants like the Big 8, CKLW out of Windsor Ontario. CB almost ruined it all (that would ultimately happen with right wing talk radio) but back in the day you had this:

Sweet (Yes it's The Sweet technically but Johnny's given up tilting at that particular windmill) and 'Fox on the Run'

New Year's Eve REAL Rockin Eve with The Sweet

Well, shoot, when you make mention of The Sweet, it's only proper to keep this New Year's Eve party rocking with one of their songs.

Howz 'bout 'Fox on the Run' all the way back from 1975?