Two LPs that fit this description for me were Billy Cobham’s “Spectrum” and Norman Greenbaum’s “Spirit in the Sky”. Bought both of these during the early/mid 70s…the Cobham LP purely on the strength of a short passage of the track, “Stratus” that I was enamored of enough to rush out and get the album after hearing the music-in-question in the wee hours of morning played over Houston’s “K101” (KLOL) by the muchly remembered DJ, “Crash”. For years, I had no use for either disc save for the snippet/beginning of “Stratus” and Greenbaum’s signature single. At 65, the entire Billy Cobham album is one of my perennial favorites though…….Jury’s still out on the “filler” material in the Greenbaum disc. I’ll give it another listen later today and see if anything’s changed.
When You Buy The Whole Album And Only Like One Song.
Over fifty years of buying music, I've bought scores of albums because of one track...only to find out that one track was the only one on the entire album that was listenable to me.
'Losalamitoslovesong'.... by Gene Harris on the 'Astralsignal' album is but one example.