Rockin' Remnants
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Date: November 2, 2013
Host: John Simon
Features: Spotlight on a 17th birthday
Birthday Calendar
Oct 27 – Floyd Cramer (RCA Records Nashville-based piano player) – born in 1933
Oct 29 – Denny Laine (Moody Blues ’64-’66; Wings ’71-’81) – 69 years old
Oct 30 – Grace Slick (Jefferson Airplane AND Starship) – 74 years old
Nov 2 – David “Jay Black” Blatt (Jay & The Americans) – 75 years old
From the Rockin’ Remnants Facebook page:
“JS here - when I started as a
Rockin' Remnants DJ, my 6-year old daughter would tune in and make a request
every week. This Saturday is her 17th birthday. In honor of the event, I'll be
spinning some of those very tunes that were her faves back in the day - and I must say
that she had excellent taste. Sure, there'll be some #1's, but she had some
low-charting Girl Group and Doo Wop tunes on her list, too. Mix them in with
your requests, throw in a cool batch of birthdays, and you've got a nice 3-hour
Saturday night of radio fun - 6-9 p.m. on WVBR!”
As mentioned above, JS’
daughter Kenzey turned 17 on this very night. In preparation for the show,
he asked her to think of some songs she might like to have played in her name.
They’re the ones appearing in bold typeface
below. Happy birthday, you beautiful kid!
Playlist
[songs in bold are from Kenzey’s list; 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)
Little
Bell
– Dixie Cups [12/64; #51 (an
unsuccessful attempt to equal the chart success of “Goin’ To the Chapel”)]
Johnny
Loves Me – Shelley Fabares [6/62; #21 (“Johnny Angel” follow-up)]
Pay
You Back With Interest – Hollies [6/67; #28 (their final single on the Imperial Records
label; released at about the same time “Carrie Anne” was released on Epic
Records. “Carrie Anne” would crack the Top Ten)]
Stop! In the Name of Love – The Supremes [3/65; #1 for 2 weeks]
Peanuts
–
Rick & The Keens [7/61; #60]
* Go Your Own Way – Fleetwood Mac [1/77; #10 (the request
was for “Lindsey Buckingham’s greatest guitar-lick song.” This was my pick).]
* Runaround Sue – Dion [9/61; #1 (requested by a listener
from Vancouver)]
Anyway You Want It – Dave Clark 5 [11/64; #14]
Where Is She? – Paul Peterson [rel. on Colpix Records in
early 1964; did not chart]
I Saw Her Standing There – Beatles [2/64; #14 (b-side of
the Beatles’ first US #1)]
Moody River – Pat Boone [5/61; #1]
I Love How You Love Me – Bobby Vinton [rel. on 11/2/68;
#9 (his last Top 10 of the ‘60s)]
* Ruby Tuesday – Rolling Stones [3/67; #1 (designated as
the b-side of “Let’s Spend the Night Together,” which was deemed “too racy” for
Pop radio airplay. Little did they know that “Ruby Tuesday” was written about a
groupie…)]
Trade Winds, Trade Winds – Aki Aleong [11/61; #101]
I Just Want to Make Love to You – Etta James
[non-charting b-side of “At Last,” from early 1961]
7-8pm (birthdays and more)
Your Last Goodbye – Floyd
Cramer [9/61; #61]
This is My House (But Nobody’s Home) – Moody Blues [7/66;
#119]
Cara Mia – Jay & The Americans [6/65; #4 (this special mix was created by a friend of
mine who managed to extend Jay’s most dramatically-sustained note for an extra
7 measures, adding a comical element to a truly dramatic moment)]
* Lather – Jefferson Airplane [from the 1969 LP “Crown of
Creation,” written by Grace Slick]
East, West – Herman’s Hermits [12/66; #27]
If I Were a Carpenter – Bobby Darin [9/66; #8 (his first hit since the beginning of the
British Invasion, and the beginning of his “Folk” phase)]
* Reflections – Diana Ross & The Supremes [8/67; #2 (the first release to give Diana Ross
top-billing, and the record that broke a string of four consecutive #1 hits for
the group. They wouldn’t reach the top slot again until their final record made
it to #1 in late 1969)]
(The Lights Went Out In) Massachusetts – Bee Gees [11/67;
#11]
* All Along the Watchtower – Jimi Hendrix [9/68; #20 (his only Top 40 hit in the US)]
* Dancing In the Moonlight – King Harvest [10/72; #13 (written by Tompkins County resident Sherman
Kelly, who had a birthday on October 27th)]
Hot
Dog Dooly Wah – The Pyramids [non-charting single from
1958 on Shell Records]
Oh Dio Mio – Annette [2/60; #10]
Baby Baby, I Still Love You – Cinderellas [5/64; #134 (a pseudonym for The Cookies. Shoulda been a
hit!)]
8-9pm (70s hour)
* Papa Was a Rolling Stone – Temptations [10/72; #1]
* Amie – Pure Prairie League [3/75; #27]
* Killer Queen
– Queen [2/75; #12 (their first charting single)]
* Isn’t She Lovely
– Stevie Wonder [1976; Songs From the Key of Life LP (never released as a single)]
Make It With You – Ralfi Pagan [7/71; #104 * #32 R&B]
Tracks of My Tears – Linda Ronstadt [12/75; #25]
My Maria – BW Stevenson [7/73; #9 * #1 on the Adult
Contemporary chart]
Rock Your Baby – George McCrae [6/74; #1 (2 weeks) Pop
and R&B]
Poor Shirley – Christopher Cross [6/80; b-side of his #1
record “Sailing”]
One Toke Over the Line – Brewer & Shipley [2/71; #10
(featuring an uncredited Jerry Garcia on pedal steel guitar)]
CLOSING THEME: Sleepwalk – Santo & Johnny (1959, #1 for two weeks)
Host Next Week (Nov 9): John Simon and John Rudan split the show with a spotlight on “Flop Follow-Up” records of the ‘60s (JS) and the ‘70s (JR)
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 at wvbr.com/listen.
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