Rockin' Remnants
Rockin' Remnants is broadcast from WVBR-FM Ithaca. Check out our webpage, like us on Facebook, and tune in to 93.5 or stream the show every Saturday night from 6-9pm! (Or download the WVBR+ app now available for iOS and Android!)
Date: November 19, 2016
Host: John Rudan
Feature: "Top Twenty Countdown"
OPENING THEME: Good Old Rock ‘n’ Roll – Cat Mother & the All-Night Newsboys (1969, #29, produced by Jimi Hendrix)
Playlist
[songs in bold are from the spotlight date of DATE; 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]
On Remnants tonight, our feature is the "Top Twenty Countdown"; not a countdown based on chart information or personal preference, but rather songs that have numbers in their titles! And all of them charted on the Billboard Hot/Top 100 singles chart! We'll start that right after the Birthday Calendar at 7:00, and until then, "Rock" on!
6pm - 7pm
"Silhouettes" - The Rays - 1957
"I'll Never Find Another You" - The Seekers - 1965
"Come A Little Bit Closer" - Jay & The Americans - 1964
Written by Boyce and Hart, who later wrote for the Monkees.
" A Symphony For Susan" - The Arbors - 1966
"I've Been Loving You Too Long (To Stop Now) - Otis Redding - 1965
Otis' first Top 40 single; Hot 100 #21.
"Suspicion" - Terry Stafford - 1964
"Gitarzan" (stereo 45 version) - Ray Stevens - 1969
Used to be rare, but now out on CD.
"Woman, Woman" - The Union Gap featuring Gary Puckett - 1968
"Little Egypt" - The Coasters - 1961
"Workin' On A Groovy Thing" - Patti Drew - 1968
A competing version by The Fifth Dimension charted in the Top 20, while this stalled at Hot 100 #62.
"Hello Stranger" - Barbara Lewis - 1963
"Cry To Me" - Solomon Burke - 1962
"You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling'" - Righteous Brothers - 1965
"I've Been Carrying A Torch For You So Long That I Have Burned A Great Big Hole In My Heart" - Nino Tempo & April Stevens - 1963
This was the "A" side of the single with "Deep Purple" on the "B" side. DJ's flipped it over and "DP" rode all the way to the top of the Hot 100!
"You Don't Miss Your Water" - William Bell - 1962
"For Your Precious Love" - Jerry Butler and The Impressions - 1958
7pm - 8pm
Birthday Calendar
November 15th - Petula Clark, 84
Frida (ABBA), 71
Clyde McPhatter, 1933
"Little" Willie John, 1937
November 16th - Garnet Mimms, 83
November 17th - Gordon Lightfoot, 78
Gene Clark, 1944
November 18th - Graham Parker, 66
Hank Ballard, 1936
"Un Jeune Homme Bien" - Petula Clark, 1965
A French Language version of The Kinks "Well Respected Man"!
"Knowing Me, Knowing You" - ABBA, 1977
"Fever" - "Little" Willie John - 1956
"A Lover's Question" - Clyde McPhatter - 1958
Clyde's highest charting solo single (#6) on the Hot 100.
"Cry Baby" - Garnet Mimms & The Enchanters - 1963
"Rainy Day People" - Gordon Lightfoot - 1975
"Echoes" - Gene Clark - 1967
"Mercury Poisoning" - Graham Parker & The Rumour - 1976
"Kansas City" - Hank Ballard & The Midnighters - 1959
A competing version by Wilbert Harrison topped the Hot 100 for 2 weeks! Hank's version peaked at #72.
Rockin' Remnants "Top Twenty" Countdown
"Twenty Miles" - Chubby Checker - 1963
Hot 100 #15
"Nineteen Days" - DC5 - 1966
Hot 100 #48
"Eighteen With A Bullet" - Pete Wingfield - 1975
Hot 100 #15
"(She's) Sexy + 17" - Stray Cats - 1983
Hot 100 #5
"Only Sixteen" - Sam Cooke - 1959
Hot 100 #28
"Fifteen Years Ago" - Conway Twitty - 1970
Hot 100 #81, CW #1
"1432 Franklin Pike Circle Hero" - Bobby Russel - 1968
Hot 100 #36
"13 Question" - Seatrain - 1971
Hot 100 #49
"The Twelfth Of Never" - Johnny Mathis - 1957
Top 100 #9
"11th Hour Melody" - Al Hibbler - 1956
Top 100 #21
"Ten Commandments Of Love" - Harvey and The Moonglows - 1958
Hot 100 #22
"9 to 5" - Dolly Parton - 1981
Hot 100 #1, 2 weeks
"Eight Days A Week" - The Beatles - 1965
Hot 100 #1, 2 weeks
"Seven Bridges Road" - The Eagles - 1981
Hot 100 #21
"Six Days On The Road" - Dave Dudley - 1963
Hot 100 #32
"Five O'Clock World" - The Vogues - 1966
Hot 100 #4
"Four Strong Winds" - Neil Young
Hot 100 #61
"Three Times In Love" - Tommy James - 1980
Hot 100 #19
"Two Divided By Love" - The Grass Roots - 1971
Hot 100 #16
And The #1 record is... Probably the toughest pick as there are over 75 songs with "One" in the title that have charted on the Hot 100! So, with a little "random generating" here it is:
"One Bad Apple" - The Osmonds - 1971
Hot 100 #1, 5 weeks
Winding down this week:
"Will It Go Round In Circles" - Billy Preston - 1973
"Yah Mo Be There" - James Ingram with Michael McDonald - 1983
CLOSING THEME: Sleepwalk – Santo & Johnny (1959, #1 for two weeks)
Host Next Week (Nov 26): John Simon with a spotlight on 1967!
Thanks for tuning in! You can listen to Rockin' Remnants every Saturday night from 6-9pm on WVBR (93.5 FM in Ithaca, NY) or streaming here.
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Nov 5, 2016 - KV - Feel Good and '58
Rockin' Remnants
Rockin' Remnants is broadcast from WVBR-FM Ithaca. Check out our webpage, like us on Facebook, and tune in to 93.5 or stream the show every Saturday night from 6-9pm! (Or download the WVBR+ app now available for iOS and Android!)
Date: November 5, 2016
Host: Kim Vaughan
Feature: Feel Good & ‘58
Birthday Calendar
Oct 30 – Grace Slick (Jefferson Airplane) – age 77
Nov 2 – Jay Black (b. David Blatt, Jay & the Americans) – age 78
– John David “J.D.” Souther – age 71
Nov 3 – Lulu (b. Marie McDonald McLaughlin Lawrie) – age 68
Nov 5 – Ike Turner – born in 1931
– Art Garfunkel – age 75
– Peter “Herman” Noone (Herman’s Hermits) – age 69
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)
I Got You (I Feel Good) – James Brown (1965, #3)
Brother Love’s Traveling Salvation Show – Neil Diamond (1969, #22)
A Melody For You – The Grass Roots (1968, bubbled under at #123)
* Try A Little Tenderness – Otis Redding (1966, peaked at #25 in early 1967)
* Turn! Turn! Turn! (To Everything There Is A Season) – The Byrds (1965, #1 for three weeks)
* The Look Of Love – Sergio Mendes & Brasil ’66 (1968, #4)
It’s Only Make Believe – Conway Twitty (#2 this week in 1958; it would spend two weeks at #1)
A Lover’s Question – Clyde McPhatter (#32 this week in 1958; it would peak at #6 on the Hot 100 and would reach #1 on the R&B chart)
To Know Him, Is To Love Him – The Teddy Bears (#11 this week in 1958; it would eventually spend three weeks at #1)
* Itchycoo Park – Small Faces (1967, #16)
* (Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher – Jackie Wilson (1967, #6 on the Hot 100 and #1 on the R&B chart)
* Carrie-Anne – The Hollies (1967, #9. The song was written for Marianne Faithfull.)
* A Groovy Kind Of Love – The Mindbenders (1966, #2 for two weeks)
Beep Beep – The Playmates (debuted on the Hot 100 this week in 1958 at #54; it would reach #4)
Dreamy Eyes – Johnny Tillotson (debuted on the Hot 100 this week in 1958 at #92; his first song to chart on the Hot 100)
Come A Little Bit Closer – Jay & the Americans (1964, #3)
Cara Mia – Jay & the Americans (1965, #4)
You’re Only Lonely – J.D. Souther (1979, #7 on the Hot 100 and #1 on the Adult Contemporary chart)
Oh Me Oh My I’m A Fool For You Baby – Lulu (1969, peaked at #22 in early 1970)
A Fool In Love – Ike and Tina Turner (1960, #27, written and produced by Ike. It was the first Hot 100 hit for Ike and Tina; they’d have a total of 20 of them over the next 15 years.)
* The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin’ Groovy) – Simon and Garfunkel (1967, b-side of “At The Zoo”)
* Bridge Over Troubled Water – Simon and Garfunkel (1970, #1 for six weeks)
This Door Swings Both Ways – Herman’s Hermits (1966, #12)
Daylight Savin’ Time – Keith (1967, #79)
* Unchained Melody – The Righteous Brothers (1965, #4. It would chart again in 1990 after being used in the film Ghost.)
* Do Wah Diddy Diddy – Manfred Mann (1964, #1 for two weeks)
* I Only Want To Be With You – Dusty Springfield (1964, #12, her first Hot 100 hit as a solo artist. She’d had two a couple years earlier as part of The Springfields.)
* My Girl – The Temptations (1965, #1 on both the Hot 100 and R&B charts. The song was written and produced by Smokey Robinson, as were most of their early hits.)
* Maybe I’m Amazed – Paul McCartney (from his first solo album in 1970; a live version of the song would reach #10 for him in 1977)
* Twenty Four Hours From Tulsa – Gene Pitney (1963, #17, written by Burt Bacharach and Hal David)
* Jackie Wilson Said (I’m In Heaven When You Smile) – Van Morrison (1972, #61)
* Sugar Magnolia – Grateful Dead (1973, #91)
* Three Little Birds – Bob Marley & the Wailers (from the 1977 album Exodus, released as a single in 1980; did not chart in the U.S.)
* A Beautiful Morning – The Rascals (1968, #3)
* Brown Eyed Girl – Van Morrison (1967, #10)
* Give Him A Great Big Kiss – The Shangri-Las (1964, peaked at #18 in early 1965)
* I Am Woman – Helen Reddy (1972, #1)
* Incense And Peppermints – Strawberry Alarm Clock (1967, #1)
* Stand By Me – Ben E. King (1961, #4)
* Time Has Come Today – The Chambers Brothers (1968, #11)
* Put The Clock Back On The Wall – The E Types (1967, dnc)
* (Sittin’ On) The Dock Of The Bay – Otis Redding (1968, #1 for four weeks, an R&B #1 as well, recorded three days before Redding’s death)
* Blackbird – The Beatles (1968, from the White Album)
* Only The Lonely (Know How I Feel) – Roy Orbison (1960, #2)
* Apeman – The Kinks (1971, #45)
Host Next Week (Nov 12): Jan Hunsinger with a spotlight on 1963
Thanks for tuning in! You can listen to Rockin' Remnants every Saturday night from 6-9pm on WVBR (93.5 FM in Ithaca, NY) or streaming here.
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