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That's what I call a certain sound that was all over the airwaves in the 1970s. I call it that because the same sound was used in the music beds on The Electric Company. It can best be described as a "wokka" sound. I didn't know how to spell that until a hilarious online troll posted about it some years ago. I'm not even sure what instruments create that sound. In fact, I think different instances of it used different instruments. It's not just a sound but a genre.
It should be a whole radio format! In the mid-1990s, WUBE-AM briefly had a format of old pop standards remade by then-current artists. A format of Electric Company music is no more niche than that.
Elton John came through on the Electric Company front. Listen to his lost hit we're profiling today. The Electric Companying begins about 21 seconds in. Wokka!
This song was big while I attended my enlightening summer class just before 1st grade. I remember hearing it on the radio in the Horizon as we were tooling up U.S. 27 near NKU. This was around the same time and same spot where I burst out laughing because we were behind a TANK bus where a passenger blew a humongous bubble with bubble gum.
As soon as the '80s came, that was the end of Electric Company music. A blink of an eye, and it was suddenly gone. Just like that. Reruns of The Electric Company aired throughout the '80s, but in the decade of MTV and new wave, The Electric Company seemed dated because of its music beds.
But Electric Company music made a fleeting reappearance in the '90s, which we'll cover in our next entry - another top 10 hit, no less!
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