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: October 7, 2015
Host: John Simon & Rob Sullivan
Feature: an old-fashioned tag-team Oldies show!
Birthday Calendar
November 2 - Jay Black (Jay & Americans) - age 77
November 3 - Lulu - age 67
November 5 - Art Garfunkel - age 74
– Peter Noone (Herman's Hermits) - age 68
November 7
- Mary Travers (Peter, Paul & Mary) - born in 1939
- Johnny Rivers - age 73
- Joni Mitchell - age 72
Rock ‘n’ Roll Trivia
"To Sir With Love" spent five weeks at #1 in October/November of 1967. Can you name two of the actors who appeared in the film of the same name?
(scroll down to find the answer below the playlist)
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]
6-7pm
OPENING
THEME: Good Old Rock ‘n’ Roll – Cat Mother & the All-Night Newsboys
(1969, #29, produced by Jimi Hendrix)
* Another Saturday Night - Sam Cooke (4/63; #10)
Let Her Dance - Bobby Fuller Four (8/65; #133)
Ask Me Why - The Beatles (8/64; #132 - released as part of a 4-song EP on the Vee-Jay label, at a time when five record labels were all trying to capitalize on the Beatles' runaway success.)
Break It To Me Gently - Brenda Lee (1/62; #4)
Two Sides To Every Story - Etta James (10/63; #63 R&B)
* Fever - Little Caesar & The Romans (9/61 - buried on the b-side of their bubbling under "Memories Of Those Oldies But Goodies" and requested by a listener who used to hear this on her old radio station.)
Where Or When - Dion & Belmonts (12/59; #3)
Again - Four Cal-Quettes (4/62 - buried on the b-side of their Capitol release "I'll Never Come Back (Silly Boy)," which never charted.)
* Wake Up Little Susie - Everly Brothers (10/57; #1 - a hugely successful "crossover hit" that hit #1 on the Pop chart for four weeks, the R&B chart for one week and the C&W chart - for a whopping eight weeks!)
* Groove Me - King Floyd (11/70; #6 Pop, #1 R&B for four weeks)
* El Paso - Marty Robbins (1/60; #1 Pop, #1 C&W for seven weeks!)
Everglades - Kingston Trio (10/ 60; #60)
45 Corner: Condition Red - Baltimore & Ohio Marching Band (10/67; buried on the b-side of the low-charting Jubilee Records instrumental called "Lapland" [#94], this side is a smoking organ-driven lost treasure!)
To Sir With Love - Lulu (11/67; #1 for five weeks - released as a b-side in her native England (where it didn't even chart), this one became the Single of The Year here in The States.)
7-8 pm
Too Much Of Nothing - Peter, Paul & Mary (11/67; #35)
Homeward Bound - Simon & Garfunkel (2/66; #5 - the first of a three-song mini set about traveling musicians lonely for home.)
East West - Herman's Hermits (12/66; #27 - written by the prolific Graham Gouldman, tonight we hear a first-time stereo release)
Tunesmith - Johnny Rivers (1967 - from his Imperial LP Rewind, written by Jim Webb.)
Chinese Cafe/Unchained Melody - Joni Mitchell (from 1982's "Wild Things Run Fast" LP)
This Magic Moment - Jay & Americans (12/68; #6 - the original by The Drifters only reached #16 in early 1960. This was this group's last great chart hit.)
Rob takes over.....
Banana Boat (Day-O) - Harry Belafonte (1/57; #5 - the only Top 5 hit for the Calypso singer)
The Wayward Wind - Gogi Grant (6/56; #1 for eight weeks - but Elvis had just landed on the scene, and Ms. Grant's hit-making days were over.)
Volare - Dean Martin (8/58; #12 - three versions were competing for attention, but Dino came in in second place: Domenico Modugno reached #1 for five weeks. The Maguire Sisters stalled at #80.)
My Prayer - The Platters (8/56; five weeks at #1, until "Don't Be Cruel/Hound Dog" took over for eleven weeks, followed by "Love Me Tender.")
Sh-Boom - Crew-Cuts (7/54; #1 for nine weeks - stolen right out from under the African-American group The Chords, who still reached #5 on the Pop chart with their original version.)
Sundown - Gordon Lightfoot (6/74; #1 - the only chart-topper for the Canadian singer/songwriter who will appear at Ithaca's State Theatre next weekend.)
45 Corner: Soul Deep - Box Tops (7/69; #18)
It's Too Late - Carole King (6/71; #1 for five weeks - a monster hit from her hugely successful "Tapestry" LP)
Mama Was A Rock 'n' Roll Singer, Papa Used To Write Her Songs - Sonny & Cher (3/73; #77 - the final charting single for this popular husband-and-wife duo.)
8-9pm
Midnight Train To Georgia - Gladys Knight & Pips (10/73; #1 Pop and R&B)
Uncle Albert/ Admiral Halsey - Paul & Linda McCartney & Wings (9/71; #1)
Waterloo - Abba (6/74; #6 - the chart debut for the Swedish quartet with a long string of singles in the Seventies.)
Waterloo Sunset - Kinks (5/67; #2 UK - but never even charted here in the States. Crazy!)
La La Means I Love You - Delfonics (2/68; #4 Pop, #2 R&B for four weeks)
Chances Are - Johnny Mathis (10/57; #1)
Walk On By - Dionne Warwick (4/64; #6 Pop - ranked at #70 in Rolling Stone Magazine's RS500 list. Isaac Hayes would chart with it, as well.)
Witchi-Tai-To - Brewer & Shipley (1971 - an FM radio classic from their Tarkio Road LP.)
On Broadway - Drifters (3/63; #9)
45 Corner: Twenty-Five Miles - Edwin Starr (2/69; #6 Pop)
Can't Help Falling In Love - Elvis Presley (12/61; #2 - Elvis reached #1 eighteen times, but this one just missed the mark.)
Ain't No Sunshine - Bill Withers (7/71; #3 - and #280 in the RS500 list.)
Sidney Poitier and Lulu were the winning callers answer to tonight's trivia question: "Can you name two actors from the film To Sir With Love?"
Congratulations to Dee from Enfield, for correctly answering the question and winning a pair of passes to Cinemapolis!
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.
Host Next Week (11/14/15): JS with a spotlight on November 1965
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