Nov 5, 2016 - KV - Feel Good and '58

 

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Date:  November 5, 2016
Host:  Kim Vaughan
Feature:  Feel Good & ‘58






Birthday Calendar


Oct 30 – Grace Slick (Jefferson Airplane) – age 77

Nov 2 – Jay Black (b. David Blatt, Jay & the Americans) – age 78
            – John David “J.D.” Souther – age 71

Nov 3 – Lulu (b. Marie McDonald McLaughlin Lawrie) – age 68

Nov 5 – Ike Turner – born in 1931
            – Art Garfunkel – age 75
            – Peter “Herman” Noone (Herman’s Hermits) – age 69





Playlist


[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)

I Got You (I Feel Good) – James Brown (1965, #3)

Brother Love’s Traveling Salvation Show – Neil Diamond (1969, #22)

A Melody For You – The Grass Roots (1968, bubbled under at #123)

 

 * Try A Little Tenderness – Otis Redding (1966, peaked at #25 in early 1967)

 * Turn! Turn! Turn! (To Everything There Is A Season) – The Byrds (1965, #1 for three weeks)

 * The Look Of Love – Sergio Mendes & Brasil ’66 (1968, #4)

It’s Only Make Believe – Conway Twitty (#2 this week in 1958; it would spend two weeks at #1)

A Lover’s Question – Clyde McPhatter (#32 this week in 1958; it would peak at #6 on the Hot 100 and would reach #1 on the R&B chart)

 

To Know Him, Is To Love Him – The Teddy Bears (#11 this week in 1958; it would eventually spend three weeks at #1)

 * Itchycoo Park – Small Faces (1967, #16)

 * (Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher – Jackie Wilson (1967, #6 on the Hot 100 and #1 on the R&B chart)

 * Carrie-Anne – The Hollies (1967, #9.  The song was written for Marianne Faithfull.)

 * A Groovy Kind Of Love – The Mindbenders (1966, #2 for two weeks)

Beep Beep – The Playmates (debuted on the Hot 100 this week in 1958 at #54; it would reach #4)

Dreamy Eyes – Johnny Tillotson (debuted on the Hot 100 this week in 1958 at #92; his first song to chart on the Hot 100)

7-8pm

White Rabbit – Jefferson Airplane (1967, #8, written by Grace Slick in her pre-Airplane days as a member of The Great Society)

Come A Little Bit Closer – Jay & the Americans (1964, #3)

Cara Mia – Jay & the Americans (1965, #4)

You’re Only Lonely – J.D. Souther (1979, #7 on the Hot 100 and #1 on the Adult Contemporary chart)

 

Oh Me Oh My I’m A Fool For You Baby – Lulu (1969, peaked at #22 in early 1970)  

A Fool In Love – Ike and Tina Turner (1960, #27, written and produced by Ike.  It was the first Hot 100 hit for Ike and Tina; they’d have a total of 20 of them over the next 15 years.)

 * The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin’ Groovy) – Simon and Garfunkel (1967, b-side of “At The Zoo”)

 * Bridge Over Troubled Water – Simon and Garfunkel (1970, #1 for six weeks)

This Door Swings Both Ways – Herman’s Hermits (1966, #12)

 

Daylight Savin’ Time – Keith (1967, #79)

 * Unchained Melody – The Righteous Brothers (1965, #4.  It would chart again in 1990 after being used in the film Ghost.)

 * Do Wah Diddy Diddy – Manfred Mann (1964, #1 for two weeks)

 * I Only Want To Be With You – Dusty Springfield (1964, #12, her first Hot 100 hit as a solo artist.  She’d had two a couple years earlier as part of The Springfields.)

 * My Girl – The Temptations (1965, #1 on both the Hot 100 and R&B charts.  The song was written and produced by Smokey Robinson, as were most of their early hits.)

 * Maybe I’m Amazed – Paul McCartney (from his first solo album in 1970; a live version of the song would reach #10 for him in 1977)

8-9pm




 * Twenty Four Hours From Tulsa – Gene Pitney (1963, #17, written by Burt Bacharach and Hal David)

 * Jackie Wilson Said (I’m In Heaven When You Smile) – Van Morrison (1972, #61)

 * Sugar Magnolia – Grateful Dead (1973, #91)

 

 * Three Little Birds – Bob Marley & the Wailers (from the 1977 album Exodus, released as a single in 1980; did not chart in the U.S.)

 * A Beautiful Morning – The Rascals (1968, #3)

 * Brown Eyed Girl – Van Morrison (1967, #10)

 * Give Him A Great Big Kiss – The Shangri-Las (1964, peaked at #18 in early 1965)

 * I Am Woman – Helen Reddy (1972, #1)

 * Incense And Peppermints – Strawberry Alarm Clock (1967, #1)

 * Stand By Me – Ben E. King (1961, #4)

 * Time Has Come Today – The Chambers Brothers (1968, #11)

 

 * Put The Clock Back On The Wall – The E Types (1967, dnc)

 * (Sittin’ On) The Dock Of The Bay – Otis Redding (1968, #1 for four weeks, an R&B #1 as well, recorded three days before Redding’s death)

 * Blackbird – The Beatles (1968, from the White Album)

 * Only The Lonely (Know How I Feel) – Roy Orbison (1960, #2)

 * Apeman – The Kinks (1971, #45)

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







Host Next Week (Nov 12):  Jan Hunsinger with a spotlight on 1963





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