May 16, 2015 - KV - Birds 2

Rockin' Remnants




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Date:  May 16, 2015
Host:  Kim Vaughan
Feature:  Birds Two










Birthday Calendar


May 10 – Donovan Leitch – age 69
            – Dave Mason (Traffic) – age 69
            – Graham Gouldman (10cc) – age 69
            – Jay Ferguson (Spirit, JoJo Gunne) – age 68
            – Larry Williams – born in 1935

May 11 – Eric Burdon (Animals) – age 74

May 12 – Burt Bacharach – age 87
            – Billy Swan – age 73
            – James Purify – age 71
            – Steve Winwood (Traffic, Spencer Davis Group, Blind Faith) – age 67

May 13 – Stevie Wonder (b. Steveland Morris) – age 65
            – Mary Wells – born in 1943
            – Ritchie Valens – born in 1941

May 14 – Jack Bruce (Cream) – born in 1943
            – Gene Cornish (Rascals) – age 71
            – Bobby Darin (b. Walden Robert Cassotto) – born in 1936

May 15 – Eddy Arnold – born in 1918
            – Trini Lopez – age 78
            – Lenny Welch – age 77







Playlist


[yellow song titles are YouTube links; songs with * were requests; all chart information comes from the Billboard Top 100 (for chart dates before/during July 1958) or Billboard Hot 100 (for chart dates during/after Aug 1958) unless otherwise noted]





6-7pm  



OPENING THEME:  Good Old Rock ‘n’ Roll – Cat Mother & the All-Night Newsboys (1969, #29, produced by Jimi Hendrix)

 * High Flying Bird – Elton John (from the 1973 album Don’t Shoot Me I’m Only the Piano Player)

 * Bird on the Wire – Leonard Cohen (from the 1969 album Songs from a Room)

The Cat in the Window (The Bird in the Sky) – Petula Clark (1967, #26)



 * Lay Down (Candles in the Rain) – Melanie with the Edwin Hawkins Singers (1970, #6)

 * Little Wing – The Jimi Hendrix Experience (from the 1967 album Axis: Bold As Love)

The Little Black Egg – The Nightcrawlers (this was their only Hot 100 hit; it bubbled under at #135 in 1965, and then was re-released at peaked at #85 in 1967)



Little Bird – Beach Boys (1968, b-side of the single “Friends”)

Little Turtle Dove – Bobby Day (1958, did not chart)

Sing Little Bird Sing – The Left Banke (1968, dnc, b-side of “Goodbye Holly”, which also did not chart)

My Girl – The Temptations (1965, #1, “I’ve got a sweeter song than the birds in the tree…”)

When the Swallows Come Back to Capistrano – Pat Boone (1957, #80)

Bluebird – The Buffalo Springfield (1967, #58)





Band on the Run – Paul McCartney and Wings (1974, #1)

Skylark – Aretha Franklin (1963, dnc)

7-8pm

Slow Down – Larry Williams (1958, b-side of “Dizzy, Miss Lizzy”)

Girl in Your Eye – Spirit (1968, from their eponymous debut album)

The Things We Do For Love – 10cc (1977, #5; Gouldman is the chap on the left)



Bus Stop – The Hollies (written by Graham Gouldman, 1966, #5)

No Milk Today – Herman’s Hermits (written by Graham Gouldman, 1967, #35)

For Your Love – The Yardbirds (written by Graham Gouldman, 1965, #6)

We Just Disagree – Dave Mason (1977, #12)

Feelin’ Alright – Traffic (1968, #123.  Dave Mason wrote the song, sings lead, and plays guitar.  Other artists who charted with the song include Joe Cocker, Mongo Santamaria, and Grand Funk Railroad; Mason is the bloke on the right)



Atlantis – Donovan (1969, #7)

Sunshine Superman – Donovan (1966, #1)

Boom Boom – The Animals (peaked at #43 in 1965)

Message to Michael – Dionne Warwick (1966, #8, written by Burt Bacharach and Hal David.  Other versions were recorded as “Message to Martha” or “Kentucky Bluebird”.  Bacharach and David were reputedly opposed to the idea of Warwick recording the song, as they had written it from a male perspective, but came to appreciate her rendition.)




I Can Help – Billy Swan (1974, #1 for two weeks, also Country #1)

Shake a Tail Feather – James & Bobby Purify (1967, #25.  The R&B duo consisted of James Purify and his cousin, Robert Lee Dickey.)

8-9pm




 * Can’t Find My Way Home – Blind Faith (written by Steve Winwood, from Blind Faith’s only album, the 1969 LP Blind Faith)

Blowin’ in the Wind – Stevie Wonder (1966, #9.  "How many seas must a white dove sail...")



Once Upon a Time – Marvin Gaye and Mary Wells (1964, #19)

That’s My Little Suzie – Ritchie Valens (1959, #55)

Groovin’ – The Rascals (1967, #1 for four weeks)

I Feel Free – Cream (1967, #116, co-written by Jack Bruce; he's the geezer in the middle)



Sleepy Time Time – Cream (1967, co-written by Jack Bruce)

 * Why Dontcha – West, Bruce, and Laing (1972, the title track from the trio’s first studio album)

Dream Lover – Bobby Darin (1959, #2)

Do You Love Me – Jaye P. Morgan and Eddy Arnold (1957, dnc)

Since I Fell For You – Lenny Welch (1963, #4)

If I Had a Hammer – Trini Lopez (1963, #3) The word "hootenanny" was removed from the dictionary in 2008.
R.I.P.



Hummingbird – B.B. King (1970, #48.  B.B. King, born Riley B. King (the B.B. stood for Blues Boy) passed away on May 14 at the age of 89.)



Dream a Little Dream of Me – Mama Cass with The Mamas and The Papas (1968, #12)

CLOSING THEME:  Sleepwalk – Santo & Johnny (1959, #1 for two weeks)







Host Next Week (May 23):  John Rudan with a spotlight on 1973





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