Rockin' Remnants
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Date: November 18, 2017
Host: Kim Vaughan
Feature: 1961
Trivia Question
The #1 song this week in 1961 was “Big Bad John” by Jimmy Dean. There was another song on this week’s chart with a very similar name: “Big John”. What girl group performed that song?
(scroll down to find the answer below the playlist)
Birthday Calendar
Nov 12 – Brian Hyland – age 74
– Booker T. Jones – age 73
– Donald “Buck Dharma” Roeser (Blue Oyster Cult) – age 70
Nov 15 – Clyde McPhatter – born in 1932
– Little Willie John – born in 1937
– Petula Clark – age 85
Nov 16 – Garnet Mimms – age 84
Nov 17 – Gordon Lightfoot – age 79
– Gene Clark (Byrds) – born in 1944
Nov 18 – Hank Ballard – born in 1927
Playlist
[songs in bold are from the spotlight date of 11-18-61; 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)
Big Bad John – Jimmy Dean (in its second of five weeks at #1 on the Hot 100, this week in 1961)
Runaround Sue – Dion (#2 this week, after having spent two weeks at #1)
Fool #1 – Brenda Lee (#3 this week)
Town Without Pity – Gene Pitney (#72 this week, its third week on the Hot 100)
Bristol Stomp – The Dovells (#4 this week)
Tower Of Strength – Gene McDaniels (#5 this week)
Hit The Road Jack – Ray Charles (#6 this week; it had spent two weeks at #1 the previous month)
Please Mr. Postman – The Marvelettes (#9 this week)
* When A Man Loves A Woman – Percy Sledge (1966, #1 for two weeks and #1 on the R&B chart as well)
Sweets For My Sweet – The Drifters (#23 this week)
‘Til – The Angels (#81 this week; it would reach #14 in early 1962)
Take Good Care Of My Baby – Bobby Vee (#54 this week in 1961. It had spent three weeks at #1 in Sept/Oct.)
* Crazy – Patsy Cline (#19 this week; peaked at #9. Written by Willie Nelson.)
Please Don’t Go – Ral Donner (#39 this week)
Just Out Of Reach – Solomon Burke (#34 this week)
Cryin’ – Roy Orbison (#22 this week; it had peaked at #2)
The Lion Sleeps Tonight – The Tokens (debuted this week in Nov 1961 at #70; it would spend three weeks at #1 in Dec/Jan)
Soul Limbo – Booker T and the MGs (1968, #17)
Rock And Cry – Clyde McPhatter (1957, #93)
Fever – Little Willie John (1956, #24, R&B #1)
Heart – Petula Clark (1965, non-charting b-side of You’d Better Come Home)
Look Away – Garnet Mimms (1964, #73)
* Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald – Gordon Lightfoot (1976, #2 for two weeks)
I’ll Feel A Whole Lot Better – The Byrds (1965, #103, b-side of All I Really Want To Do)
Finger Poppin’ Time – Hank Ballard (1960, #7)
Take Five – The Dave Brubeck Quartet (#37 this week in 1961)
* Taxi – Harry Chapin (1972, #24)
* Bell Bottom Blues – Derek & the Dominos (1971, #91. Eric Clapton – founder of Derek & the Dominos – would re-release the song two years later under his own name, and it would peak at #78 that time.)
Foot Stompin’ – The Flares (#38 this week)
(Don’t Fear) The Reaper – Blue Oyster Cult (1976, #12, written by Buck Dharma, who lived in Ithaca NY for a while)
* Bo Diddley – Bo Diddley (1955, R&B #1)
Big John – The Shirelles (peaked this week at #21)
Morning After – The Mar-Keys (#61 this week)
Walk On By – Leroy Van Dyke (#46 this week)
* King Of The Road – Roger Miller (1965, #4, Country #1)
Draggin’ The Line – Tommy James (1971, #4)
Take The Long Way Home – Supertramp (1979, #10)
Northern Lights – Renaissance (1978, a top ten hit in the UK, and the band performed it live in the US on The Mike Douglas Show)
In The Rain – The Dramatics (1972, #5, R&B #1)
Boogie Down – Eddie Kendricks (1974, #2 for two weeks)
Goodbye Girl – David Gates (1977, peaked at #15 in early 1978; title song of a Neil Simon movie)
I Love You For All Seasons – The Fuzz (1971, #21)
Cry Baby – Garnet Mimms (1963, #4, R&B #1)
Trivia Answer
Big John was performed by The Shirelles.
Congratulations to Bruce from Horseheads, for correctly answering the question and winning a $25 gift certificate to Rasa Spa!
Host Next Week (Nov 25): John Simon with a spotlight on 1966
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