Kenny Rogers and the First Edition "Something's Burning"

Another song the radio stations forgot. This song written by Mac Davis. 1970 Reprise 45.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• pop
• rock
• 45
• rpm
• Mac Davis
• mini-changer

[freepussy]

All commercial Oldies stations I've heard resort to the same burned out Vanilla flavored list of 500 or so oldies.

[Kaaawa2000]

Yes, this is another song that the radio stations forgot. It's funny but most of the songs I liked as a kid, stuff like "Sookie, Sookie" by Steppenwolf, "Sunday Sun" by Neil Diamond, these songs were played every day back then. The radio stations today have this list of oldies like "Mustang Sally" for instance that we never listened to back then. Many of the tunes we listened to, you never hear now.

[mkervelegan]

@freepussy it's called clear channel and it owns a lot of the airwaves as well as the tacky billboards...thankfully we have satellite radio and Youtube.

[KMelKang]

I want your record player and your .45s and your collection!

[Tornfreedom]

Always reminds me of the old joke "Do you Smoke after Intercourse?" "I don't know, I've never looked".

[ProudKansan08]

The rock station where I live played this song all the time when it was released. I heard it quite a bit. I guess the radio station was great, when I come to think of it. Once in a blue moon, some station will play this song, but like I said, its like once a year or once every year and a half. I think this is a great song.

[JMarshallBeckham0952]

This song was on the mighty 690, The Big Ape, with 50,000 watts of power in Jacksonville, Florida on their TOP FIVE @ 5 as # 1 for weeks literally!!! Why don't the am / fm stations play this song hardly ever? In my opinion this was Kenny Rogers biggest song ever?

[bluzharplady]

I am so fortunate to have had two parents that, although they didn't stay together, had an AWESOME combined music collection. They taught me to appreciate not just the songs, but the songwriters too. I grew up listening to groups such as Kenny Rogers and the First Edition, and have been a lifelong fan. I agree with everybody on here who posted (paraphrased) that the music scene today is pretty much total crap; it's all gimmick and formulated for crappy radio airplay. Miss this stuff!!

[casperjames78]

this song reminds of what I thought love was!!!! now I search for what this song showed me love is!!!!!!!!

[thedove76]

I never understood why this song was quickly forgotten. It was a monster hit at the time when I first started paying attention to Top 40 radio in early 1970. I don't believe I have ever heard it played on the radio since it left the charts, which is incredible considering how famous the singer and the songwriter are. Strange...

[funguy571]

Awesome! We had a Columbia house record subscription when I was a kid. We had the first edition's greatest hits as well as many others that became classics Didn't realize Mac Davis wrote this, he wrote many other hits he didn't perform himself..

[chairjockey1]

Yes.  I remember when this was playing on AM radio all the time. Great memories.