Rockin' Remnants: Mar 15, 2014 - KV

Rockin' Remnants

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Date: Mar 15, 2014

Host: Kim Vaughan

Features: 1959

Birthday Calendar

Mar 9 – Lloyd Price – age 81

– Mark Lindsay (Paul Revere & The Raiders) – age 72

– Jeffrey Osborne (LTD) – age 66

Mar 10 – Dean Torrence (Jan & Dean) – age 74

– Tom Scholz (Boston) – age 67

Mar 12 – James Taylor – age 66

Mar 13 – Neil Sedaka – age 75

Mar 14 – Phil Phillips – age 88

Mar 15 – Mike Love (Beach Boys) – age 73

– Sly Stone (born Sylvester Stewart) – age 71

Playlist

[songs in bold are from the spotlight date of 3-15-59;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)

Venus – Frankie Avalon (#1 on 3-15-59, spent five weeks at the top)

Stagger Lee – Lloyd Price (#3 on 3-15-59, spent four weeks at #1)

Donna – Ritchie Valens (#4 on 3-15-59)

I Cried a Tear – LaVern Baker (#9 on 3-15-59)

Charlie Brown – The Coasters (#2 on 3-15-59)

I’ve Had It – The Bell Notes (#6 on 3-15-59)

It’s Just a Matter of Time – Brook Benton (#7 on 3-15-59)

Sixteen Candles – The Crests (#10 on 3-15-59)

I’m Never Gonna Tell – Jimmie Rodgers (debuted this week at #67)

Never Be Anyone Else But You – Ricky Nelson (#19 on 3-15-59)

My Happiness – Connie Francis (#21 on 3-15-59)

Come Softly To Me – The Fleetwoods (debuted this week at #55, would end up spending four weeks at #1)

Peter Gunn Theme – Ray Anthony (#12 on 3-15-59)

La Bamba – Ritchie Valens (#28 on 3-15-59)

Pink Shoe Laces – Dodie Stevens (#33 on 3-15-59)

Sea Cruise – Frankie Ford (#35 on 3-15-59)

Little Space Girl – Jesse Lee Turner (#46 on 3-15-59, peaked at #20)

Don’t Take Your Guns To Town – Johnny Cash (#38 on 3-15-59)

It Doesn’t Matter Anymore – Buddy Holly (#36 on 3-15-59)

7-8pm

Him or Me - What's It Gonna Be? – Paul Revere and the Raiders (1967, #5)

Sea of Love – Phil Phillips and the Twilights (1959, #2 for two weeks)

Everyday People – Sly and the Family Stone (spent four weeks at #1 in early 1969)

Fun – Sly and the Family Stone (an album track in 1968, then the b-side of "Hot Fun in the Summertime" in 1969)

I Go Ape – Neil Sedaka (debuted at #90 on 3-15-59, would peak at #42)

The Diary – Neil Sedaka (#71 on 3-15-59, had peaked at #14)

Sidewalk Surfin’ – Jan and Dean (1964, #25, new lyrics to the Beach Boys' 1963 hit "Catch a Wave")

Surfin’ U.S.A. – The Beach Boys (1963, #3, song now credited as written by Chuck Berry)

Wow Wow Wee (He’s the Boy for Me) – The Angels (1964, #41)

A Girl Like You – The Rascals (1967, #10)

So Long Baby – Del Shannon (1961, #28)

* Bristol Stomp – The Dovells (1961, spent two weeks at #2)

Who Cares? – Don Gibson (#59 on 3-15-59, had peaked at #43)

Try Me – James Brown And The Famous Flames (#88 on 3-15-59, had peaked at #48. This was his very first song to hit the Hot 100 -- and in 1965 he would hit the Hot 100 with an instrumental version of this same song. All in all, James Brown made it onto the Hot 100 a whopping 99 times.)