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Rockin' Remnants



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Date:  12-3-16
Host:  Kim Vaughan
Feature:  Rainbow Remnants




Birthday Calendar


Nov 28 – Berry Gordy, Jr. – age 87
            – Randy Newman – age 73

Nov 29 – Denny Doherty (Mamas & Papas) – born in 1940
            – Felix Cavaliere (Rascals) – age 74

Dec 1 – Gilbert O’Sullivan (b. Raymond O’Sullivan) – age 70

Dec 3 – Andy Williams – born in 1927




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)

Baby Blue – The Echoes (1961, #12)

Navy Blue – Diane Renay (1964, #6)

   

Lavender Blue – The Fleetwoods (Their version of this centuries-old English folk song was on their 1961 album Deep in a Dream.  Sammy Turner’s version of the song charted in 1959, making it to #3 on the Billboard Hot 100.)

Happy Shades of Blue – Freddie Cannon (1960, #83)

 * Purple People Eater – Sheb Wooley (1958, #1 for six weeks)

Ten Times Blue – The Fleetwoods (1964, the b-side of a non-charting 45 called Ska Light Ska Bright)

Silence Is Golden – Frankie Valli & the Four Seasons (1964, the b-side of Rag Doll.  The Tremeloes made it to #11 with this song in 1967.)

Little Black Book – Jimmy Dean (1962, #29)

 

Neon Rainbow – Petula Clark (1970, on her album Memphis.  The Box Tops had charted with the song in 1967, peaking at #24.)

18 Yellow Roses – Bobby Darin (1963, #10)

Ballad of the Green Berets – Staff Sergeant Barry Sadler (1966, #1 for five weeks)

[45 Corner] Flying Blue Angels – George, Johnny, & the Pilots (1961, bubbled under at #108)

Black and White – Three Dog Night (1972, #1 on the Hot 100 and on the Adult Contemporary chart)

 * Green Door – Jim Lowe (1956, #1 for three weeks)

 

Out of the Blue – Tommy James & the Shondells (1967, #43)

7-8pm

Purple Rain Drops – Stevie Wonder (1965, b-side of Uptight (Everything’s Alright)) 

 

William Brown – Randy Newman (1979, from his Born Again album)

European Blueboy – The Mamas & the Papas (1971, from their album People Like Us, which was their 5^th and final studio album.  They had disbanded a couple years prior, but still owed an album to their record label, so they came together once more.)

Singin’ the Blues Too Long – The Rascals (1968, from their album Once Upon a Dream, their first album without the word Young in the band’s name.  It was co-written by Felix Cavaliere and Eddie Brigati.)

Christmas Song (I’m Not Dreaming of a White Christmas) – Gilbert O’Sullivan (1974, charted in the UK and Ireland)

Sing a Rainbow – Andy Williams (recorded in Dec 1963 and released New Year’s Eve on the album The Wonderful World of Andy Williams.  The children’s voices in the song belong to members of the Williams family.)

 * Black Is Black – Los Bravos (1966, #4)

When My Blue Moon Turns to Gold Again – Elvis Presley (1956, #19)

Red Rubber Ball – The Cyrkle (1966, #2)

Pretty Blue Eyes – Steve Lawrence (1959, peaked at #9 early 1960)



Brown-Eyed Handsome Man – Chuck Berry (1956, reached #5 on the R&B chart)

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

[45 Corner] 1, 2, 3, Red Light – 1910 Fruitgum Company (1968, #5)

The Other Man’s Grass Is Always Greener – Petula Clark (1967, #31)

 

Green Grass – Gary Lewis & the Playboys (1966, #8)

8-9pm



 * Red Roses for a Blue Lady – Andy Williams (1965, b-side of his song And Roses And Roses.  There were 3 versions of this song to make it into the Hot 100 that year; his wasn’t one of them.)

 * Yellow River – Christie (1970, #23)

 * Blue On Blue – Bobby Vinton (1963, #3)

 * She’s a Rainbow – Rolling Stones (1967, peaked at #25 in early 1968)



 * My Blue Heaven – Fats Domino (1956, #19)

Green Green – The New Christy Minstrels (1963, #14, with Barry McGuire singing lead)

Jolly Green Giant – The Kingsmen (1965, #4.  They used the same tune as the song Big Boy Pete by the Olympics, but with words inspired by vegetable commercials.  Here's a bit of the song as part of a medley.)  
 * Green Tambourine – The Lemon Pipers (1967, reached #1 in early 1968)

 

 * Over the Rainbow – The Demensions (1960, #16)

 * A White Sport Coat (and a Pink Carnation) – Marty Robbins (1957, #2)

Pink Shoe Laces – Dodie Stevens (1959, #3)

Forever in Blue Jeans – Neil Diamond (1979, #20)

 * Roses Are Red (My Love) – Bobby Vinton (1962, #1 for four weeks, his first of almost 50 Hot 100 hits)

 

[45 Corner] Silver Bird – Mark Lindsay (1970, #25)

 *  Colour My World – Chicago (1971, #7, b-side of Beginnings)

Blue Shadows – The Tams (1963, did not chart)

 *  White Bird – It’s a Beautiful Day (1969, #118.  The male lead singer, David LaFlamme, would make it to #89 with this as a solo artist seven years later.) 

 * Misty Blue – Dorothy Moore (1976, #3)

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





Prize Winners


Congratulations to Dave from Ithaca, for calling when he heard the first song of the evening with “red” in the title, and winning a $20 gift card to Red’s Place! 

And congratulations to Randy from Trumansburg, Deborah from Ithaca, and Bill from Ithaca – each of the 3 of them won $5 gift cards to GreenStar!






Host Next Week (Dec 10):  John Rudan with a spotlight on 1971



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