5 on Friday - Set 28

Travis at Trav's Thoughts invites everyone to lay down a short set of music that takes their fancies for his 5 on Friday meme.

Since this is Les McKeown Week here at A Piece of My Mind, here are five tunes from the Bay City Rollers. In the summer of 1976 I fell hard for the lead singer of this Scottish band. 30 years later I still love his voice and still get swoony when his gaze reaches through the lens to find me.

1 - Saturday Night

Gonna dance with my baby
Till the night is through
On Saturday night, Saturday night
Tell her all the little things
I'm gonna do
On Saturday night, Saturday night

I love her so
I'm gonna let her know

At the good old rock and roll road show
I gotta go
Saturday night, Saturday night
Gonna rock it up
Roll it up
Do it all
Have a ball
Saturday night, Saturday night

- Coulter / Martin



2 - Sweet Virginia

Oh Sweet Virginia
No, you never knew her name
She tried to win ya
But you never played the game

Her name was Jackie Brown
She cried when they told her
Old sweet Virginia town
You know it's not over

- Faulkner / Longmuir / McGlynn / McKeown / Wood

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3 - Rock 'n Roll Love Letter

Hey sister poet
Dear brother poet, too
These tears and words I'm makin'
Wanna be with you

'Cause I need to spend my body
I'm a music makin' man
And no peace can release me
Like this amplifier can

This is my rock 'n roll love letter
To you
This is my rock 'n roll love letter
To you
Gonna sign it, gonna seal it,
Gonna mail it away
Gonna mail it today

- Moore



4 - My Lisa

Lisa
You're the dancer to the song
Without your music
All the words just seem so wrong

And like a picture you keep fading
Your colors running dry
Save the pieces of this life
We put together

Oh can't you see it in my eyes?
Oh won't you save a place for me tonight
Find a space for me
And light this corner of my lonely life

- Egorin / Scutio



5 - Wouldn't You Like It

I've included two versions of this song because the first clip is only a fragment - but I love Leslie's performance in it! The second one is the whole song.

We'd be alone and we could turn the
Lights down low
Just you and me and we could take it
Nice and slow
Come on, I won't let go

Wouldn't you like it?
Wouldn't you like it?
Let's spend the night together

So come up and see me
Please let me please you
Yes how I wanna love you
So come on now
Wouldn't you like it?

- Faulkner / Wood





Akelamalu says I just knew your 5 would be Bay City Rollers! LOL

Jamie says Oooh I would get all swoony over that as well. :-)

Anna Campbell says Julia, I had to smile when I saw your post! I was swept back to the glories of the mid-70s.