Rockin' Remnants
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Date: March 16, 2013
Host: John Rudan
Feature: 1976
Birthday Calendar
Mar 10 - Dean Torrence (Jan & Dean) - 73 years old
- Tom Scholz (Boston) - 66 years old
Mar 12 - Paul Kantner (Jefferson Airplane) - 72 years old
- James Taylor - 65 years old
Mar 13 - Neil Sedaka - 74 years old
Mar 14 - Phil Phillips - 87 years old
- Quincy Jones - 80 years old
Mar 15 - Mike Love (Beach Boys) - 72 years old
- Sylvester “Sly Stone” Stewart (Sly & the Family Stone) - 69 years old
Mar 16 - Nancy Wilson (Heart) - 59 years old
Rock and Roll Trivia
Clue 1: Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1991, this R & B singer had cover versions by Georgia Gibbs, The Animals and Black Oak Arkansas.
Clue 2: Born Delores Williams, she performed under the stage name "Little Miss Sharecropper".
Clue 3: Her only Top 10 Pop Hit, "I Cried A Tear", peaked at #6 in 1959.
(scroll down for the answer below the playlist)
Playlist
(songs in bold are from the spotlight date of 3-16-76; yellow song titles are YouTube links)
6-7pm
OPENING THEME: Good Old Rock 'n' Roll - Cat Mother & the All-Night Newsboys - 1969 - peaked at #29 on the Billboard Hot 100, produced by Jimi Hendrix
December, 1963 (Oh What A Night) – The Four Seasons (1976, BB Hot 100 #1 on 03/16/1976, 3 weeks)
Take It To The Limit – Eagles (1976, BB Hot 100 #4 on 03/16/1976; 45 version)
Dream Weaver – Gary Wright (1976, BB Hot 100 #5 on 03/16/1976)
Theme From S.W.A.T. – Rhythm Heritage (1976, BB Hot 100 #7 on 03/16/1976)
Junk Food Junkie – Larry Groce (1976, BB Hot 100 #10 on 03/16/1976)
Remember Then – The Earls (1963)
Good Lovin’ – The Young Rascals (1966, Original version by The Olympics peaked at BB #81 in 1965)
I Fought The Law – The Bobby Fuller Four (1966)
Vehicle – The Ides of March (1970, Lead singer Jim Peterik was a member of Survior in the 1980's)
Have You Seen Her Face – The Byrds (1967)
GTO – Ronny & The Daytonas (1964)
You Can’t Sit Down – The Dovells (1963)
Peggy Sue – Buddy Holly & The Crickets (1957)
Grow Some Funk Of Your Own – Elton John (1976, Listed on BB Hot 100 as two-sided single with "I Feel Like A Bullet (In The Gun Of Robert Ford)”; Ford the man who shot Jesse James
Strange Magic – ELO (1976)
7-8pm (birthdays and trivia)
Surf City – Jan & Dean (1963)
Crown Of Creation – Jefferson Airplane (1968)
Next Door To An Angel – Neil Sedaka (1962)
Sea Of Love – Phil Phillips With The Twilights (1959, Phil was born John Phillip Baptiste)
"Cassius" Love vs. "Sonny" Wilson – The Beach Boys (1963, Beach Boys album filler with studio chatter. "Cassius" was Clay (later Muhammed Ali), and "Sonny" was Liston, both top prizefighters. Prefigured famous studio battles between cousins Mike Love and Brian Wilson (Love now legally owns the name "Beach Boys".)
Little Deuce Coupe – The Beach Boys (1963)
Good Hearted Woman – Waylon & Willie (1976)
Fooled Around And Fell In Love – The Elvin Bishop Group (1976, 45 version; featuring Mickey Thomas, later of The Starship) on lead vocals.
Come On Over - Olivia Newton-John (1976)
Mozambique – Bob Dylan (1976, BB Hot 100 debut at #74; peaked at #54)
Sugar And Spice – The Searchers (1964)
Yummy Yummy Yummy – Ohio Express (1968)
You Are My Sunshine – Ray Charles (1962, #20 hit for Bing Crosby in 1941; Ray's version peaked at BB Hot 100 #7)
Ain't Nothing You Can Do – Bobby "Blue" Bland (1964)
People Get Ready – The Impressions (1965, Cover version by Jeff Beck and Rod Stewart hit BB Hot 100 in 1984; peaked at #48)
I Cried A Tear – LaVern Baker (1959)
8-9pm
More Than A Feeling – Boston (1976, 45 version; Boston's debut album has sold over 20 million copies!)
Something In The Way She Moves – James Taylor (1976, JT's original version released on his Apple Records debut album in 1969; this version was a re-make for his Greatest Hits album)
(You Caught Me) Smilin' – Sly And The Family Stone (1971)
I'll Be Good To You – Brothers Johnson (1976, Produced by Quincy Jones)
These Dreams – Heart (1986, A rare lead vocal from guitarist Nancy Wilson, 59 years old on March 16th)
Love Fire – Pilot (1976)
Tracks Of My Tears – Linda Ronstadt (1976, Original version by The Miracles peaked at BB Hot 100 #16 in 1965; Linda's version peaked at #25)
Shannon – Henry Gross (1976)
Fanny (Be Tender With My Love) – The Bee Gees (1976)
Locomotive Breath – Jethro Tull (1976, Rare "censored" 45 version with "fun" substituted for "balls" in the last verse! Hope no one was offended.)
More, More, More pt. 1 – Andrea True Connection (1976)
Dancing In The Moonlight – Boffalongo (1970, Original version released by this Ithaca-based band did not chart; downstate New York band King Harvest had the big hit, peaking at BB Hot 100 #13 in 1973)
The Entertainer – Marvin Hamlisch (1974, From the movie The Sting; composed in 1902 by ragtime great Scott Joplin)
Tulsa Time – Don Williams (1978)
Dream On – Aerosmith (1976, Originally released in 1973; re-released in 1976 and peaked at BB Hot 100 #6, the group's first Top 10)
CLOSING THEME: Sleepwalk - Santo and Johnny - 1959 - #1 for two weeks
Trivia Answer
A: LaVern Baker. (Congratulations to Megan from Ithaca, who correctly answered the question and won the $10 gift certificate to the Scale House Brewpub / Northeast Pizza!)
Host Next Week (Mar 23): John Simon
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