Buchanan Brothers – "Medicine Man" (1969)

Got the cure

It’s for sure

I’m the one you’re looking for!

Yesterday, 2 or 3 lines featured “Somebody’s Been Sleeping” by 100 Proof (Aged in Soul), which was a big hit the year I was a senior in high school.  

Back then, I spent hours each day listening to top-40 radio.  But I would swear that I never heard “Somebody’s Been Sleeping” until very recently.

Today we’re featuring a record that broke into the Billboard “Hot 100” the day after I turned 17 years old, and remained there for seven weeks.  But I have absolutely no memory of hearing it.  

Did my local top-40 station eschew both “Medicine Man” and “Somebody’s Been Sleeping” for some reason?  That’s possible, I suppose, but very unlikely.

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I’m not sure why Terry Cashman, Tommy West, and Gene Pistilli decided to call themselves the Buchanan Brothers – they weren’t brothers and none of them were named Buchanan.

Cashman and Pistilli wrote “Sunday Will Never Be the Same,” a top-ten hit for Spanky and Our Gang in 1967.  And Cashman and West produced all of Jim Croce’s hit records.

But Cashman is best known for writing and recording “Talkin’ Baseball” – otherwise known as the “Willie, Mickey and the Duke” song – in 1981.  

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Click here to listen to “Medicine Man” – which is a really good record.

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