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June 2, 2018-GJ: Late May/Early June 1957, 1967, 1977

  

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Date:  6/2/18
Host:  Gregory James
Feature:  Songs from Billboard Surveys for weeks ending June 5 1957, June 3 1967 and June 4 1977

Birthdays May 27-June 2

May 27
1945      Bruce Cockburn
1957      Eddie Harsch       Black Crowes
1957      Siouxsie Sioux     Siouxsie and the Banshees
1958      Neil Finn               Crowded House

May 28
1944 Gladys Knight
1945 John Fogerty            

May 29
1945      Gary Brooker       Procol Harum             
1955      Mike Procaro       Toto                    
1967      Noel Gallagher    Oasis
1969      Chad Kinchla       Blues Traveler

May 30
1955      Topper Headon    The Clash                  
1967      Sven Pipien          Black Crowes

May 31
1938      Peter Yarrow

June 1
1934      Pat Boone
1947      Ron Wood            Rolling Stones            
1950      Graham Russell   Air Supply    
1974      Alanis Morissette

June 2
1941      Charlie Watts       Rolling Stones            
1951      Steve Brookins     .38 Special   
1954      Michael Steele     Bangles


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]

6:00-7:00 p.m.

 OPENING THEME:  Good Old Rock ‘n’ Roll – Cat Mother & the All-Night Newsboys (1969, #29, produced by Jimi Hendrix)

Six O’ Clock Lovin’ Spoonful    #19 Kama Sutra  
They also charted “Groovin’” at #2 that week in 1967.
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Time Loves a Hero   Little Feat
Title track from the album released this week in 1977.

School Day  Chuck Berry         #7   Chess                  
Berry re-used the guitar riffs for “No Particular Place to Go.”

Tramp   Otis Redding and Carla Thomas      #40 Stax      
Off their “King and Queen” LP, the last recording Redding made before his death in December 1967.

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Couldn’t Get It Right   Climax Blues Band   #6  Sire/ABC 
Exhorted to cut a hit single, the band came up with this 1977 radio friendly song about being on the road and looking for Holiday Inn signs in the middle of the night.

Hello Stranger    Yvonne Elliman    #17 Polydor 
Covering Barbara Lewis’ original version, Elliman was cast as Mary Magdalene in Jesus Christ Superstar and her first hit was “I Don’t Know How to Love Him” from that show.

Little Darlin’        Gladiolas       #77        Excello         
Written by Maurice Williams, this version peaked at #11 on the R&B charts. The Diamonds had a bigger hit with this, charting at #5 in the 1957 survey week Hot 100. 
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Here Comes My Baby     Tremeloes     #13 Epic      
The song was written by Cat Stevens. The group beat out the Beatles for a recording contract with Decca in 1962.

Lady        Brownsville Station      # 98               Private Stock

All Shook Up              Elvis Presley        #2   RCA Victor 
The other duet vocal on this 1957 recording is by Jordanaires first tenor Gordon Stoker.

Waterloo Sunset         Kinks           
Says Dave Davies about the 1967 recording: "We spent a lot of time trying to get a different guitar sound, to get a more unique feel for the record. In the end we used a tape-delay echo, but it sounded new because nobody had done it since the 1950s.”


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Bye Bye Love           Everly Brothers    #14 Cadence
This 1957 record charted high on both pop and country charts. The guitar intro was not originally in the recording, Don Everly put it in later.
      
Love, Love, Love, Love, Love      Terry Knight & the Pack                                                      #117     Lucky Eleven

Here I Am    Barbara McNair    #131              Motown        
McNair was a singer/actress, appearing on Broadway, TV and in nightclubs.
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C.C. Rider           Chuck Willis         Atlantic   #43       
This 1957 song, a relaxed and mellow re-make of a Ma Rainey 12 bar blues, inspired the Stroll, a dance popularized on Dick Clark’s American Bandstand.


London Boys               David Bowie
From his first album. A familiar story: a 17 year-old kid comes to ‘60’s swinging London trying to fit in with the Mods and their lifestyle only to find him or herself disillusioned and isolated.

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Susie Q  Dale Hawkins. The original!
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Suzi Q           Creedence Clearwater Revival’s cover.                               John Fogerty’s birthday 5/28/45

Miss You       Rolling Stones.
“Some Girls” was the first Stones record on which birthday boy Ron Wood (6/1/47) played.  Drumming, of course, was stalwart Charlie Watts, born 6/2/41.

Come on Down to My Boat  Every Mother’s Son       #29 MGM 


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Respect       Aretha Franklin     #1          Atlantic         
The repeated "sock it to me" line, sung by Franklin's sisters Erma and Carolyn, was an idea that Carolyn and Aretha had worked out together; spelling out "R-E-S-P-E-C-T" was reportedly Carolyn's idea.

*Love Shack B-52’s   Hot 100 Peak Position: #3  Reprise
Request! The song's inspiration was a Georgia cabin complete with tin roof. B-52's singer Kate Pierson lived in the cabin in the 1970s, and the lyric "Tin roof...rusted" was originally an outtake added to the track.

Hold On, I’m Coming   Sam and Dave #21 Peak position in                                                                 Hot 100  Stax      

According to Peter Guralnick, the men's restroom in the Stax recording studio had tile walls and tile floors. To produce reverb and echo, a speaker from the studio was placed in the men's room to pipe the sound into the men's room; and a microphone was placed in the men's room to return the sound back to the recording studio. This arrangement produced both the reverb and echo heard on Stax Records. 


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Young Blood             Coasters              #18 Atco  
                   
Happy Jack       The Who              #24 Decca          
Keith Moon’s drumming carries not only the beat but the melody as well. At the very end of the music video (at 2:04), listen for Pete Townshend shouting, “I saw you!” to Keith Moon who was trying to add his voice to the recording.

When I Was Young   Eric Burdon and the Animals     #47
Burdon had a rough childhood and he folds that into a larger picture of social injustice in this song.     

Lose Again         Linda Ronstadt     #90 Asylum         
From her seventh album, and her 3rd million seller. Written by Karla Bonoff who also sang back up on the album.
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*Romeo’s Tune    Steve Forbert  #11      Nemperor
From his 1979 album Jackrabbit Slim. The signature piano part was played by former Elvis Presley pianist Bobby Ogdin.

Purple Haze         Jimi Hendrix 
A Hendrix biography claims the song is not about drugs but about an experience Hendrix had when he became ill while living in New York, believing that a woman was attempting to use voodoo to ensnare him.

Not So Sweet Martha Lorraine     Country Joe       Electric Music for the Mind and Body 
Much of the album's material continued to expand upon the band's new psychedelic medium, embracing all facets of the group’s influences, ranging from folk roots, to blues, raga and rock.


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Sgt. Peppers               Beatles          Capitol  
In February 1967, after recording the title track, McCartney suggested that the Beatles should release an entire album representing a performance by the fictional Sgt. Pepper band. This alter ego group would give them the freedom to experiment musically.

Runaway             Bonnie Raitt         #70        Warner Bros.
Norton Buffalo provides the outstanding harmonica solo.


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I Got Rhythm      The Happenings         #3          Puppy   
George Gershwin meets sunshine pop.

Undercover Angel    Alan O’Day    #11 Atlantic  
One hit wonder reaching #1.

It’s You I Love    Fats Domino         Checker      #52          
Domino also had “I’m Walkin” and “Valley of Tears” on the same 1957 chart.


Don’t You Care  Buckinghams       #22        Columbia 
From Chicago, they charted five top 40 songs in 1967.

Leopard Skin Pill Box Hat    Bob Dylan          #81   Columbia 
The pillbox hat was a fashionable ladies' hat in the US in the early to mid-1960s, most famously worn by Jackie Kennedy.


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Surf’s Up      Beach Boys Smile LP (canceled by Capitol on May 2 1967)
The title of "Surf's Up" was a double entendre suggesting that The Beach Boys' earlier, surfing-related material was spent. It was reported that both Brian and Dennis Wilson truly disdained the surf image that the Beach Boys had acquired over the years.

It’s Not for Me to Say       Johnny Mathis     Columbia       #20       

Why Am I Treated So Bad?    Staples Singers    #95 Epic      
This song is about the Little Rock Nine, the first black students to attend the segregated Little Rock Central High School in Arkansas in 1957.


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Jamming       Bob Marley/Wailers #20 (album)      Island
Marley’s “Exodus” LP was released in this week in 1977.  On 3 December 1976, an assassination attempt was made on Marley’s life, luckily he survived. Following the assassination attempt Marley left Jamaica for London where Exodus was recorded.

Plastic People  Mothers of Invention #41 (album)  Verve
A live version of a song from his “Absolutely Free” LP, complete with a request for someone in the audience to move their car and a pitch for the venue’s hamburgers. 


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Society’s Child   Janis Ian       #66 Verve           
Ian writes that she conceived the song when she was 12, wrote it at 13, published it at 14, became known at 15, and was a has-been at 16. Largely due to Leonard Bernstein's efforts, Verve records started promoting the (at the time) controversial record in trade magazines and many radio stations picked it up. The track makes extensive use of harpsichord and features a suprisingly jazzy organ coda, both played by Artie Butler.



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Just a Song Before I Go  Crosby, Stills and Nash      #73 Atlantic 
Graham Nash wrote the song in Hawaii in about 20 minutes at the piano while he was staying with a friend, waiting for the rain to stop before leaving for the airport. The opening line came from the host’s question: "You've got half an hour, why don't you just write a song before you go? Nash states that his host bet him $500 that he couldn't write a song before he left. Nash said he still has the $500.

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

Host Next Week (6/9/18):  Kim Vaughan

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