A sample of some obscure - and maybe not obscure - tunes from my strange and off-the-wall collection.

Today's medley selection: Bloodrock - D.O.A. 1970

Bloodrock was a band from the Dallas-Ft Worth region. This - their only charting song - was from their second album "Bloodrock 2"

When the guitar player was 17, he had aspirations to be a pilot. Flying with a friend, they landed, the guitarist got out of the plane to watch his friend take off, get about 200 feet up, then crash and burn. At another time, the keyboard player was casually picking a couple of notes that happened to sound like a European ambulance siren. They put the story together - the result was D.O.A. - the dying of the pilot while being treated after a mid-air collision told in 1st person.

Considered one of the most banned songs of the '70s, radio stations refused to play it, high schools banned it.
It still hit #36 on the charts of the day.

The lyrics are considered overly-graphic by some ...

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