Date: 03/01/2014
Host: JR
Feature:
1971
It’s the great Billboard Hot 100 sounds of March, 1971! Hear
the scorching chart sounds of The Osmonds, The J5, CCR, Johnnie Taylor, Chicago,
and lesser lights like Wadsworth Mansion, The Mike Curb Congregation, The Buoys
and the very strange 45 of “D.O.A” by Bloodrock, in the Top 40 this week! Also,
chart debuts this week from Paul McCartney, Daddy Dewdrop, Steppenwolf and
Quicksilver Messenger Service. The
Birthday Calendar is @ 7, and we’ll wind down the show with the 70’s Happy
Hour!
Video links are in yellow!
Video links are in yellow!
6pm
Mama’s Pearl – The Jackson 5 – BB Hot 100 #2
Teenage record buyers were furiously buying the latest
single from their favorite teenage heartthrob bands! The ultimate winner in the battle was The
Osmonds, who sat atop the Hot 100 for 5 big weeks! The J5 peaked at #2 for 2 weeks behind the
brothers from Utah. So who was your
favorite teen band in the early 70’s?
Mine was the J5. I always thought
the Osmonds were kind of corny, but I did have a big crush on sister Marie!
Mr.
Bojangles (45 version) – Nitty Gritty Dirt Band – BB Hot 100 #9
This folk-rock-traditional-country band helped launch the
recording career of comedian Steve Martin in 1976.
Sweet
Mary – Wadsworth Mansion – BB Hot 100 #10
One of the ultimate “one-hit-wonder” bands of the 70’s, this
Providence, RI quartet took this song to #7 on the Hot 100, and never put
another 45 on the chart.
Have
You Ever Seen The Rain – Creedence Clearwater Revival – BB Hot 100 #11
This 45, with “Hey Tonight” on the flip side was one of 7
double-sided hits generated by CCR in the short span of 18 months from May 1969
to February 1971.
Theme
From Love Story – Henry Mancini And
His Orchestra – BB Hot 100 #13
This was the hot flick of early 1971 (“Love means never
having to say you’re sorry”), and there were 2 other version on the Hot 100
chart: a vocal version by Andy Williams and another instrumental version by
composer Francis Lai. Mancini’s version
peaked this week, while Williams’s version cracked the Top 10 at #9.
Rose Garden – Lynn Anderson – BB Hot 100 #16
Off the prolific pen of Joe South, Ms. Anderson also had pop
and country hits with South’s compositions “Fool Me” and “How Can I Unlove
You”. Perhaps Joe’s version of one of
these will be played on the Birthday Calendar?
Don’t
Let The Green Grass Fool You – Wilson Pickett – BB Hot 100 #18
The “Wicked One” used the songwriting and producing talents
of Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff to take this slice of funk to #17 on the Hot 100.
Amazing
Grace – Judy Collins – BB Hot 100 #19
Is this the highest
charting a cappella 45, and the oldest cover version ever (written in
1779)? Yes and no: definitely the
highest charting all vocal song on the pop chart at #15, but not the oldest
cover version (that was two weeks ago with “Joy” by Apollo 100, written 1n 1716
by Bach).
Help Me Make It through The Night – Sammi Smith – BB Hot 100 #22 Written
by Kris Kristofferson, this peaked on the Hot 100 at #8 and on the Country
chart at #1.
Jody’s
Got Your Girl And Gone – Johnnie Taylor – BB Hot 100 #28
Johnnie had a career that spanned 5 decades, and was awarded
the first certified platinum single by the R.I.A.A. in 1976 for “Disco Lady”.
Free –
Chicago – BB Hot 100 #32
A 2 minute 10 second slice of free jazz in the Top 40 back
in ’71? This is why we love the old
Billboard charts so much!
If I
Were Your Woman – Gladys Knight & The Pips – BB Hot 100 #33
One of 3 Top Ten singles by this family group from Atlanta
during their 6 year stint on Motown Records (“I Heard It Through The
Grapevine”, 1967, “Neither One Of Us”, 1973).
Burning
Bridges – The Mike Curb Congregation – BB Hot 100 #34
Theme from the movie Kelly’s
Heroes starring Clint Eastwood. Curb
was later lieutenant governor of California under Ronald Reagan.
D.O.A.
(45 version) – Bloodrock – BB Hot 100 #36
A truly weird 45 about a first-hand account of a plane
crash, this version trims about 4 minutes off the LP version and is (somewhat
thankfully) not available on CD. It must
have been strange to hear this played on the radio in the same hour as The
Osmonds, The J5 and Henry Mancini! The
glory days of AM radio? This is the week
it peaked on the Hot 100.
7pm
Birthday Calendar
Febraury 24th
– Paul Jones (Manfred Mann), 70
February 25th
– Emmit Rhodes, 64
George Harrison,
1943
February26th
– Antoine “Fats” Domino, 86
Mitch Ryder (William Levise),
69
J.R. “Johnny” Cash, 1932
Febraury28th
– Joe South, 1940
March 1st
– Harry Belafonte, 87
Roger Daltrey, 70
“Pretty Flamingo” – Manfred Mann, 1966
“I’m Happy Just To Dance With You” – The Beatles, 1964
Lead vocal from George, from A Hard Day’s Night soundtrack.
This was the flip-side of “I’ll Cry Instead” and spent 1 week on The Hot
100, peaking at #95.
*“Walkin’ To New Orleans” – Fats Domino, 1961
One of Fats’s first stereo recordings; a “moving’ tribute
to his hometown just in time for Mardi Gras.
“Little Latin Lupe Lu” – Mitch Ryder And The Detroit
Wheels, 1966
This was originally recorded by the Righteous Brothers in
1963, peaked at Hot 100 #49. The
Wheels’s version peaked at #17
"Folsom Prison Blues (Live)" – Johnny Cash, 1968
Studio version on Sun Records peaked on the Country Chart
at #4 in 1956.
“Fool Me” – Joe South, 1971
Joe’s version peaked at Hot 100 #78, his last charting
single. See link below for the late Joe
South’s songwriting catalog. One of the
best of the 60’s and early 70’s:
“Jamaica Farewell” – Harry Belafonte, 1956
This song kicked off the Calypso Craze of the mid 50’s to
the early 60’s.
“Love Reign O’er Me” – The Who, 1973
It’s hard to pick one song to represent the vocal output
of over 4 decades of awesome lead vocals by Roger Daltrey, but this is one of
my favorites from the Quadrophenia
LP, especially his last cry of “Loooooooooooooooooove” right before the
end. Epic.
“We Gotta Get Out Of This Place” – The Animals, 1965
This is the vinyl-only version of MGM Records. All CD appearances are an alternate take.
“Just Like A Woman” – Bob Dylan, 1966
"I Wonder What She's Doing Tonight" –Tommy Boyce &
Bobby Hart, 1968
This duo wrote and produced the early Monkees
recordings. They also toured as the
ersatz Monkees, Dolenz, Jones, Boyce
& Hart in the 70’s and 80’s.
"Next Plane to London" – The Rose Garden, 1967
The only charting single for this West Virginia quintet
peaked at Hot 100 #17.
“What Becomes Of The Broken Hearted” – Jimmy Ruffin, 1966
Jimmy, brother of
the Temptations David, scored 3 Top 40 singles for Motown’s Soul Records
subsidiary.
"Ups And Downs"– Paul Revere And The Raiders, 1967
“Riot In Cell Block #9” – The Robins, 1954
A very early production of Lieber and Stoller. The Robins became the Coasters in 1956.
"Sweet Pea" – Tommy Roe, 1966
“Baby, I Love You” – The Ronettes, 1964
This “Wall of Sound” production (Hot 100 #24), was
eclipsed on the chart by an Andy Kim cover version (Hot 100 #9) in 1969.
“2,000 Light Years From Home” – The Rolling Stones, 1968
Psychedelic classic was the b-side of “She’s A Rainbow”,
and the LP Their Satanic Majesties
Request.
"Midnight Confessions" – The Grass Roots, 1968
“Lonely Weekends” – Charlie Rich, 1960
The first charting 45 for the “Silver Fox” produced by
the legendary Sam Phillips peaked at Hot 100 #22.
8pm
Chart
Debuts
Another
Day – Paul McCartney – BB Hot 100 #58
The highest debut
single this week, peaked at Hot 100 #5
Snow Blind Friend – Steppenwolf – BB Hot 100 #85
Off the pen of Hoyt Axton, who also wrote “The Pusher” for
this Canadian band, peaked at Hot 100 #60.
Chick-A-Boom
(Don’t Ya Jes’ Love It) – Daddy Dewdrop – BB Hot 100 #87
Daddy (real name Richard Monda) wrote the music for the
Saturday morning cartoon show Sabrina
& The Groovy Ghoulies.
What
About Me – Quicksilver Messenger Service – BB Hot 100 #100
Making its chart debut at the bottom of the Hot 100, this is
where is stayed for 2 weeks before dropping off the chart. They were more or an album band, anyway.
More
Chart Hits from 03/01/1971
Chairman
Of The Board – Chairman Of The Board – BB Hot 100 #44
One of the stable of soul groups on the
Holland-Dozier-Holland labels of Invictus/Hot Wax, led by the great vocalist
General Norman Johnson.
Love’s
Lines, Angles And Rhymes (45 version) – The Fifth Dimension – BB Hot 100 #46
One toke Over The Line – Brewer & Shipley – BB Hot 100 #48
One toke Over The Line – Brewer & Shipley – BB Hot 100 #48
This hippie anthem featured Jerry Garcia on pedal steel
guitar, and peaked at Hot 100 #10.
Here's the Lawrence Welk version the boys are talking about:
.
Timothy
– The Buoys – BB Hot 100 #95
This band from Scranton, PA released this controversial
single written by their musical director Rupert Holmes. After a slow start, a few new “clean”
versions were released to radio stations and eventually this climbed into the
Top 20 at #17. The group took their name
from “Lifebuoy” soap, and the controversy of “Timothy” was cannibalism. Or was Timothy the coalmine canary? Or a mule, as their label Scepter
claimed? Find the lowdown here:
The version we played
was the uncensored stereo version.
“Into The Mystic” – Johnny Rivers, 1970
Written by Van Morrison, peaked at Hot 100 #51.
“Love Minus Zero – No Limit, Turley Richards, 1970
Written by Bob Dylan, peaked at Hot 100 #84.
"I'll Drink To You"– Duke Jupiter, 1982
This Rochester band charted 2 singles on the Hot 100, this
being the highest charting at #58.
Next Week: JS & KV
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