Sept. 10, 2016 - JS - Bye Bye Baby

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Date:  9/10/16
Host:  John Simon
Feature:  Request Oldies Show


Milestone birthdays for some true innovators (Buddy Holly, Otis Redding, Chrissie Hynde) will anchor the middle of the show. The rest is totally up in the air - what would YOU like to hear? 93.5 locally, wvbr.com worldwide. It's cheap date night and we're in this together. See you at 6 p.m.


By the way...my youngest daughter is driving to Los Angeles with her brother at this very moment. They'd reached Colorado by air time. My show may be partially shaped by that transition this evening. Those songs will be in bold type below.

 

Birthday Calendar


September 5 - John Stewart (Kingston Trio) - born in 1939
            – Al Stewart (no relation) – age 71           

September 6 - Roger Waters (Pink Floyd) - age 73
           
September 7 - Chryssie Hynde (Pretenders) - age 65
            – Buddy Holly - born in 1936
           
September 8 - Jose Feliciano - age 71
            – Patsy Cline - born in 1932

September 9 - Otis Redding - born in 1941








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)

Wild World - Cat Stevens (2/71; #11 - this was his first charting single for A&M Records, and the beginning of his "singer/songwriter" phase. This goes out to everybody who's getting ready to stretch their wings....)

    

Midnight Train to Georgia - Gladys Knight & The Pips (10/73; #1 Pop and R&B - "L.A. proved too much for the man...." I'm not jinxing the trip  -  but it's a perfect driving-to-L.A. kind of a song.)

Bye Bye Baby - Bay City Rollers (3/75; #1 U.K. for six weeks - this 4 Seasons cover never charted in the States, but it was a smash in England  -  and it was used to great effect in the film "Love, Actually." Bye bye, baby.)

* California Soul - Fifth Dimension (12/68; #25 - most of their songs came from the pens of either Jimmy Webb or Laura Nyro, but Ashford & Simpson snuck this one in. It goes out to Jude, who was our first caller of the evening.)

* Fresh Air - Quicksilver Messenger Service (10/70; #49 - our first Facebook request of the evening goes out to Mary Anne. We've been singing about cleaning this Earth up for a long time now, and it's still just getting worse....)

It Could Be We're In Love - Cryan' Shames (8/67; #85 - not much of a hit nationally, but this record spent a whopping four weeks at #1 in their home town of Chicago.)

* Come Go With Me - Dell-Vikings (2/57; #4 - recorded by an interracial Air Force Doo Wop group in Pittsburgh. Rolling Stone Magazine ranks this at #441 in the RS500.)

* 59th Street Bridge Song - Simon & Garfunkel (3/67; dnc - the flipside of At The Zoo became one of the signature songs of the Summer of Love. Going out to Judy, who wanted to "lighten things up a little.")

* Break On Through (To The Other Side) - Doors (4/67; #126 - Elektra picked this as the band's debut single, but it stalled. Their next one would spend three weeks at the top, and the rest is history. Going to Jayne from Lew. She's far away, but he knows she loves this band.)

Special 45 Spotlight:  So Goes Love - The Turtles (6/66; not released - this one was recorded and mastered to be the band's follow-up single to their low-charting Grim Reaper Of Love. Written by Goffin & King, it had all the ingredients of a hit single....but the record company got cold feet.)

Reelin' and Rockin' - Chuck Berry (2/58; b-side - this little gem was tucked on the back of Sweet Little Sixteen. It didn't chart for Chuck Berry, but a lot of groups covered it.)

She May Call You Up Tonight - Left Banke (6/67; #120 - the third and final record in the "Renee" trilogy, this lost gem failed to crack the Hot 100. This is one of my personal favorites of all-time.)

  

* Pretty Ballerina - Left Banke (1/67; #15 - requested by listener David in Vancouver and lauded for being "modal and harpsichordy" by Betsy in Danby, this was a real crowd-pleaser on this night.)

* Witchi Tai To - Everything Is Everything (2/69; #69 - this was requested to acknowledge the struggle to preserve sacred land in the Dakotas. Stop the pipeline!)

7-8pm

These Arms Of Mine - Otis Redding (5/63; #85 Pop, #20 R&B - Otis was the driver and roadie for bandleader Johnny Jenkins. One day they finally let him sing one in the studio. This was it  -  his debut single, and the beginning of a meteoric career that ended with a tragic plane crash.)

1. 

Maybe Baby - Buddy Holly & The Crickets (3/58; #17 - this quirky kid from Lubbock, Texas became one of the biggest stars on the Rock 'n' Roll scene. His life was lost in a plane crash in Clear Lake, Iowa on a day Don McLean called "the day the music died.")

She's Got You - Patsy Cline (1/62; #14 Pop, #1 C&W for 5 weeks - one more crossover star whose life ended too soon when her plane crashed in the hills of Tennessee. This record features some of Nashville's finest studio players and the Jordanaires on back-up vocals.)

Light My Fire - Jose Feliciano (7/68; #3 - released just one year after The Doors took this one to #1, Feliciano's sultry interpretation was a revelation. Somebody at Elektra Records decided to re-release The Doors' version when this one was climbed the charts and it scraped into the Hot 100 for a couple of weeks.)

* True Love Ways - Buddy Holly (6/60; dnc - this was one of the last songs recorded before his death and was released posthumously but never charted in The States. Listener Tom suggested that we play a Holly original followed by a Holly cover. He suggested It's So Easy  -  also covered by Linda Ronstadt  -  but I took the easy way out. Sigh.)

  

* True Love Ways - Peter & Gordon (2/66; #14 - this is a fairly bombastic version of a delicate love song, and earned the British duo a pretty big hit!)

One More Town - Kingston Trio (10/62; #97 - this was one of the first singles written by and featuring new guy John Stewart, and it goes out to my two kids tooling across the country in a rickety old 1999 Honda.)

* Pipeline - Chantay's (3/63; #4 - they were a high school Surf band from Santa Ana, CA who were referencing waves, but this was played in reference to the proposed oil pipeline under the Missouri River in today's headlines.)

* I Got Rhythm - Happenings (4/67; #3 for three weeks - this one goes out to Lee in Groton. It was one of the biggest hits ever for the Tokens' B.T. Puppy Records label and was all over the airwaves back in the day!)

Tell Daddy - Ben E. King (1/63; #122 Pop, #29 R&B - one of a string of great records that most people have never heard, sung by one of the true greats of the era  -  and written by two of the greatest.)

 

Home Of The Brave - Jody Miller (8/65; #25 - two versions were released on the same day. This one on the Capitol label clearly outperformed the Phil Spector version, which was attributed to Bonnie & The Treasures. Either way, school's back in session and it's not always a picnic for misfit kids....)

   

Top Forty News, Weather & Sports - Mark Dinning (2/61; #81 - this was something of a Novelty record that referenced a bunch of the newsmakers of the day, all lumped together in funny ways by a drowsy high school kid.)

* Wonderful World - Sam Cooke (5/60; #12 - going out to Woody in Danby, who was enjoying the "school thread." He wasn't quite sure of the name of the song, so he sang a couple lines on the phone. Dude  -  you nailed it!)

Unchained Melody - Sweet Inspirations (9/68; #73 Pop, #41 R&B - this is a stunning version of the oft-recorded song made most famous by Bobby Hatfield of the Righteous Brothers. The Sweet Inspirations were more valuable to their record label as session singers, so their records weren't actively promoted. That was everybody's loss.)

   

I Got You (I Feel Good) - James Brown (11/65; #3 Pop, #1 R&B for 5 weeks - Rolling Stone ranks this one at #78 in the RS500. This was the follow-up single to Papa's Got a Brand New Bag. James Brown was at the top of his game!)

8-9pm


* Without You - Nilsson (2/72; #1for four weeks - written by Pete Ham and Tom Evans of Badfinger, but Nilsson's version is the definitive masterpiece  -  going out to Barbara in Danby.)

   

You Made Me Believe In Magic - Bay City Rollers (6/77; #10 - the final big hit for this Scottish Pop group clocks in at just about two minutes, but it's two minutes well-spent.)

In The Bottle - Brother To Brother (7/74; #46 Pop, #9 R&B - from the pen of Gil Scott-Heron, this was their only Billboard Pop hit.) 

Us & Them - Pink Floyd (3/74; #101 - from the biggest-selling album of the Rock era Dark Side Of The Moon, which  spent over 1600 weeks on the Billboard albums chart. This heavily-edited version just missed to Hot 100.)

   

Kid - The Pretenders (6/79; #33 U.K., dnc US - their first charting single in England failed to make any noise in the States, but it was the beginning of a splendid career for Chryssie Hynde and the band.)

I Love Music (Part I) - The O'Jays (11/75; #5 Pop, #1 R&B - from the original Philadelphia International single, Dave Marsh ranked this one at #550 in his Top 1001 Singles of All-Time. Check out the recent video performance at Daryl's House!)

I'll Be Good To You - Brothers Johnson (5/76; #3 - this is a record I played at Atlas Bowl's "Vinyl Showcase" the other night. Bowl to that, baby!)

When Will I See You Again - Three Degrees (9/74; #2 Pop - another smash hit for the Philadelphia International Records label, going out to my girl.)

Don't Play That Song (You Lied) - Aretha Franklin (8/70; #11 Pop - Aretha's sizzling remake of the Ben E. King classic.)

Year Of The Cat - Al Stewart (12/76; #8 - the debut single for this Scottish singer/songwriter. This is the stereo 45 edit.)

45 Corner:  Childsong - Tom Rush (4/70; dnc - this one never charted, but it's acknowledged as one of the greatest "moving out" songs of the past fifty years.)

 

I Can't Find The Time - Rose Colored  Glass (4/71; #51 - the original was a low-charting hit for a Boston band called Orpheus. This Bang Records single left Orpheus in the "chart dust")

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






Trivia Answer


ANSWER.

Congratulations to Sean from Trumansburg, who walks away with one hour of free bowling at Atlas Bowl in his home town!








Host Next Week (9/17/16):  John Rudan with a spotlight on September 1977





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