July 16, 2016: JH spotlight on Summer 1968

July 16, 2016

Rockin' Remnants


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Date:  July 16, 2016
Host:  Jan Hunsinger
Feature:  Summer, 1968

Birthday Calendar

July 10 - Ian Whitcomb - 1941
     Arlo Guthrie - 1947

July 11 - Jeff Hanna (Nitty Gritty Dirt Band) - 1947  

July 12 - Christine McVie (Fleetwood Mac) - 1943
    Phil Kramer (Iron Butterfly) 1952

July 13 - Roger McGuinnn (the Byrds) born James Joseph McGuinn III - 1942 

July 14 - Woody Guthrie - 1912

July 15 - Linda Ronstadt - 1946

July 16 - Sollie McElroy (The Flamingos) - 1933
Tony Jackson (The Searchers bass player) - 1940
Desmond Dekker - 1942
Tom Boggs (The Boxtops drummer) - 1947

Playlist


[songs in bold are from the Summer of 1968; 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  

Transmitter issues caused the show to begin about 6:45

OPENING THEME:  Good Old Rock ‘n’ Roll – Cat Mother & the All-Night Newsboys (1969, #29, produced by Jimi Hendrix)

This Guy's In Love With You - Herb Alpert (Herb stepped out from behind his trumpet to solo record this Burt Bacharach-Hal David tune that stayed #1 for 4 weeks)

Grazing in the Grass - Hugh Masekela (#1 for 2 weeks)

Lady Willpower -  Gary Puckett and the Union Gap (#2)

*Hello, I Love You - The Doors (#1; first top 40 hit spent 2 weeks at the top of the charts)

People Got to Be Free - the Rascals (written by Felix Caviliere, spent 5 weeks at #1 in the turbulent summer of 1968) 

Dream a Little Dream of Me - Mama Cass (#12; John Phillips was unhappy that the record label released this one as "Mama Cass and the Mamas and Papas")

Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing - Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell (#8) 

A Man Without Love - Engelbert Humperdinck (#19) 

Journey to the Center of the Mind - Amboy Dukes (#16; one-hit wonder featuring Ted Nugent)

Master Jack - Four Jacks & A Jill (#18; one-hit wonder by quintet out of South Africa)

Don't Take It So Hard - Paul Revere & the Raiders (#27; lesser-known hit written by lead singer Mark Lindsay  

Turn Around, Look at Me - the Vogues (#7; million-seller for the quartet from Turtle Creek, Pa.)

Special Angel - the Vogues  (also reached #7 on the charts in October of 1968)

The Look of Love -  Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66 (#4; cover that Dusty Springfield took to #22 in 1967)

Yummy, Yummy, Yummy - the Ohio Express (#4; a bit of bubblegum pop)

Think - Aretha Franklin (#7; this song gave the Queen of Soul a big moment in the film "The Blues Brothers") 

45 corner MacArthur Park - Richard Harris (#2; has been called "The worst song ever written", but songwriter Jimmy Webb insists that all of the images in the song were observations that he made in the real MacArthur Park during a romance) 

Stoned Soul Picnic - 5th Dimension (#3; from the pen of Laura Nyro)

Hurdy, Gurdy Man -  Donovan (#5) 

8:00 - 9:00: Birthday Calendar

You Turn Me On - Ian Whicomb (#8;1965)

City of New Orleans - Arlo Guthrie (#18; 1972)

Mr. Bojangles - Nitty Gritty Dirt Band (#9; 1971) 

Over My Head - Fleetwood Mac (#20; 1975)

In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida - Iron Butterfly (#30; 1968 - 45 edit of rock classic)  

5D (Fifth Dimension) - the Byrds (#44; 1966 - Jim McGuinn's attempt to explain Einstein's theory of relativity)

You Went the Wrong Way Old King Louie - Allan Sherman (from the LP "My Son, the Nut"; Rockin' Remnants salute to Bastille Day) 

Long, Long, Time - Linda Ronstadt (#25; 1970 - from the LP "Silk Purse")

Lovers Never Say Goodbye - the Flamingos (#52; 1959)

Love Potion #9 - the Searchers (#3; 1964 - group took their name from the 1956 John Wayne movie)

Israelites - Desmond Dekker & the Aces (#9; 1969)

Neon Rainbow - the Boxtops (#24; 1967)

CLOSING THEME:  Sleepwalk – Santo & Johnny (1959, #1 for two weeks)






Host Next Week (July 23):  John Simon with a spotlight on July 23,1966.





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