Life Is A Rock & The Radio Rolled Me
 

1976 by Reunion. Just heard it and it brings back childhood confusion! Couldn’t understand a word back then. The arrangement now is awful and the bad segue in the middle makes me cringe.

Anyone else remember it? The Age of Disco died when that played.

Now playing is Dreamweaver by Gary Wright. Rock? Nope. Disco? Nope. Great when high? Oh yeah!

Hey Pam, I remember this song well. I can't find the longer version. FYI. It came out in 1974.

B. B. Bumble and the Stingers, Mott the Hoople, Ray Charles Singers
Lonnie Mack and twangin' Eddy, here's my ring we're goin' steady
Take it easy, take me higher, liar liar, house on fire
Locomotion, Poco, Passion, Deeper Purple, Satisfaction
Baby baby gotta gotta gimme gimme gettin' hotter
Sammy's cookin', Lesley Gore and Ritchie Valens, end of story
Mahavishnu, fujiyama, kama-sutra, rama-lama
Richard Perry, Spector, Barry, Archies, Righteous, Nilsson, Harry
Shimmy shimmy ko-ko bop and Fats is back and Finger Poppin'

Life is a rock but the radio rolled me
Gotta turn it up louder, so my dj told me (whoa whoa whoa whoa)
Life is a rock but the radio rolled me
At the end of my rainbow lies a golden oldie

Fm, am, hits are clickin' while the clock is tock-a-tickin'
Friends and Romans, salutations, Brenda and the Tabulations
Carly Simon, I behold her, Rolling Stones and centerfoldin'
Johnny Cash and Johnny Rivers, can't stop now, I got the shivers
Mungo Jerry, Peter Peter Paul and Paul and Mary Mary
Dr. John the nightly tripper, Doris Day and Jack the Ripper
Gotta go Sir, gotta swelter, Leon Russell, Gimme Shelter
Miracles in smokey places, slide guitars and Fender basses
Mushroom omelet, Bonnie Bramlett, Wilson Pickett, stop and kick it

Life is a rock but the radio rolled me
Gotta turn it up louder, so my dj told me (whoa whoa whoa whoa)
Life is a rock but the radio rolled me
At the end of my rainbow lies a golden oldie

Arthur Janov's primal screamin', Hawkins, Jay and
Dale and Ronnie, Kukla, Fran and Norma Okla
Denver, John and Osmond, Donny
Jj Cale and zz Top and ll Bean and De De Dinah
David Bowie, Steely Dan and sing me prouder, cc Rider
Edgar Winter, Joanie Sommers, Osmond Brothers, Johnny Thunders
Eric Clapton, pedal wah-wah, Stephen Foster, do-dah do-dah
Good Vibrations, Help Me Rhonda, Surfer Girl and Little Honda
Tighter, tighter, honey, honey, sugar, sugar, yummy, yummy
Cbs and Warner Brothers, rca and all the others

Life is a rock but the radio rolled me
Gotta turn it up louder, so my dj told me (whoa whoa whoa whoa)
Life is a rock but the radio rolled me
At the end of my rainbow lies a golden oldie

Spoken:
Listen--remember, they're playing our song!
Rock it, sock it, Alan Freed me, Murray Kaufman, try to leave me
Fish, and Swim, and Boston Monkey,
Make it bad and play it funky.
(Wanna take you higher!)

Crazy lyrics and you know they were stoned when writing that! I remember hearing it on the deck in our house in Long Island. I left there in 1975 when we moved to Massachusetts. That's why 1976 didn't make sense but the Reunion version was 1976 according to MusicChoice tv. I was too young for it to make sense but hearing it, you know why.

I need to use my ten-year-old iTunes gift cards and download it and others. Thanks for the lyrics.