Mar 10, 2018 - KV - Pi, Time

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Date:  March 10, 2018
Host:  Kim Vaughan
Feature:  Pi Day & Time




In honor of upcoming Pi Day (March 14 = 3.14), we’re featuring songs about pies and songs about circles.  Also, in honor of Daylight Saving Time (we change clocks tonight), we’re featuring songs about time and clocks.

 

Birthday Calendar


Mar 4   – Bobby Womack – born in 1944
            – Miriam Makeba – born in 1932

Mar 5   – Eddy Grant (Equals) – age 70
            – Andy Gibb – born in 1958

Mar 6   – Mary Wilson (Supremes) – age 74

Mar 8   – Mickey Dolenz (Monkees) – age 73
            – Little Peggy March (b. Margaret Battavio) – age 70

Mar 9   – Lloyd Price – age 85
            – Mark Lindsay (Paul Revere & The Raiders) – age 76
            – Jeffrey Osborne (LTD) – age 70

Mar 10   – Dean Torrence (Jan & Dean) – age 78





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)

Apples, Peaches, Pumpkin Pie – Jay & The Techniques (1967, #6)

 * I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch) – Four Tops (1965, #1 for two weeks)

American Pie – Don McLean (1971, spent four weeks at #1 in early 1972)

Cherry Pie – Skip & Flip (1960, #11)

Cherry Pie – Dial-Tones (1963, b-side of “Again”, on the Dandy Dan label from Syracuse NY)



 * Time – Pozo-Seco Singers (1966, #47)

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

 * Fly Like An Eagle – Steve Miller (1976, spent two weeks at #2 in early 1977. “Time keeps on slipping into the future…”)

 * Time In A Bottle – Jim Croce (1973, #1 for two weeks)

 * How The Time Flies – Jerry Wallace (1958, #11)

 * Love Me Two Times – The Doors (1967, #25)

 * Time Passages – Al Stewart (1978, #7, #1 on Adult Contemporary)

7-8pm

California Dreamin’ – Bobby Womack (1968, #43)

Pata Pata – Miriam Makeba (1967, #12)

Baby, Come Back – The Equals (1968, #32)

Dance To The Light Of The Morning – Andy Gibb (1977, from his first album Flowing Rivers)

 * River Deep – Mountain High – Supremes & Four Tops (1971, #14, the Hot 100’s highest-charting version of this song)

 * (Theme From) The Monkees – Monkees (1966; it was not released as a single in the U.S. but was a hit on some international charts)

 * Valleri – Monkees (1968, #3)

I Wish I Were A Princess – Little Peggy March (1963, #32, her follow-up to “I Will Follow Him”)

Stagger Lee – Lloyd Price (1958, spent four weeks at #1 in early 1959)

Good Thing – Paul Revere & The Raiders (1966, peaked at #4 in early 1967)

(Every Time I Turn Around) Back In Love Again – L.T.D. (1977, #4)



 * Little Old Lady From Pasadena – Jan & Dean (1964, #3)

 * Rock Around The Clock – Bill Haley & His Comets (1955, #1 for eight weeks)

 * By The Time I Get To Phoenix – Glen Campbell (1967, #26)

 * Boney Moroney – Johnny Winter (his cover of the Larry Williams song, from Winter’s 1974 album Saints & Sinners)

Pie In The Sky – Johnny Cash (from his 1974 album Ragged Old Flag)

8-9pm




Will It Go Round In Circles – Billy Preston (1973, #1 for two weeks)

Daydream – The Lovin’ Spoonful (1966, #2 for two weeks, with the lyric “pie in the face for being a sleepy bull toad”)

 * Reflections – Supremes (1967, #2 for two weeks)

 * Crocodile Rock – Elton John (1972, spent three weeks at #1 in early 1973)

 * Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is? – Chicago (1970, peaked at #7 in early 1971)

 * Circle Game – Joni Mitchell (from her 1970 album Ladies Of The Canyon; a cover version by Buffy Sainte-Marie would bubble under later that year)

Sweetie Pie – Billy “Crash” Craddock (1959)

A Slice Of The Pie – Jewel Akens

Porcupine Pie – Neil Diamond (1972, flip side of “Play Me”)

 * 16 Candles – The Crests (1958, spent two weeks at #2 in early 1959)

Double Crossin’ Sweetie Pie – Janice Ward (1961)



Walking In Different Circles – Goldie & The Gingerbreads (1967)

Lollipop – The Chordettes (1958, #2 for two weeks, contains the lyric “his kiss is sweeter than apple pie”)

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

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






Host Next Week (March 17):  Jan Hunsinger with a spotlight on songs by Irish artists




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