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Tonight it's "TV on the Radio" part II, with songs currently being used in TV commercials! Click on the yellow and you can see a video of that commercial (if I can find it.) And, for you percussion lovers it's "More Tambourine" in the last hour of the show!
Date: March 9, 2019
Host: JR
Feature: TV on the Radio and More Tambourine.
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 A Name - Jim Croce (1973, #10; Goodyear Tire in an ad dedicated to Dale Earnheardt, Jr.)
The Times They Are A-Changin' - Bob Dylan (1964, dnc; WGU Online University.)
Blowin' In The Wind - Bob Dylan (1963, dnc; Budweiser brewery wind power. Both of the commercials using Dylan tunes are redone versions for that commercial.)
Time for a little Rockin' Remnants Trivia!
What is the first company that used an officially licensed Bob Dylan song for a TV commercial?
Answer at the end of the blog!
Runaround Sue - Dion (1961, #1, 2 weeks; Applebee's pickup window.)
Cars - Gary Numan (1980, #9; "Famous Cars" Walmart grocery pickup. This is one of the best commercials I've seen in a long time! See if you can name them all...)
Fire – Ohio Players (1975, #1, 1 week; Toyota RAV4 off-road looking for hot food.)
Funkytown – Lipps, Inc. (1980, #1, 4 weeks; Pringles stacks sad device).
The Oogum Boogum Song – Brenton Wood (1967, #34; Kinder Joy is an egg featuring a kid's toy and a chocolate.)
The Beat Goes On – Sonny & Cher (1967, #6; Entresto heart medication. Makes sense to me.)
Atomic Dog – George Clinton (1983, #101; this E*Trade commercial is absolutely hilarious!)
Rockit – Herbie Hancock (1983, #71; Fidelity Investments Decision Tech).
7-8pm
Birthday Calendar
March 9 – Lloyd Price - 86
Mickey Gilley - 83
Mark Lindsay - 77
Robin Trower - 74
Jeffery Osborne (L.T.D.) - 71
March 8 – Mickey Dolenz - 74
Randy Meisner (Poco, Eagles) - 73
Little Peggy March (Margaret Battavio) - 71
March 7 – Peter (Blankenfeld) Wolf – 73
March 6 – David Gilmour - 73
Kiki Dee (Pauline Matthews) - 72
March 5 – Andy Gibb - 1958
March 4 - Mary Wilson (Supremes) - 75
Bobby Womack - 1944
Stagger Lee – Lloyd Price (1959, #1, 4 weeks).
In 1950, a version of "Stack-a-Lee" by New Orleans pianist Archibald reached number 10 on the Billboard R&B chart.[15] Lloyd Price recorded the song as "Stagger Lee" in 1958, and it rose to the top of both the R&B and US pop charts in early 1959.[15] His version was ranked number 456
on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time list, and also reached number 7 on the UK singles
chart. Price also recorded a toned-down version of the song that changed the shooting to an argument between two friends for his appearance on Dick Clark's American Bandstand.[
Bridge Of Sighs – Robin Trower (1974, from the LP of the same name; Trower was the lead guitarist of Procul Harum from 1968 - 1971.)
(Every Time I Turn Around) Back In Love Again – L.T.D. (1977, #4; Jeffery Osborne was the lead singer of this sould band who's initials stood for "Love, Togetherness and Devotion".)
Room Full Of Roses – Mickey Gilley (1974, #50; the movie Urban Cowboy was filmed at the nightclub Gilley's in Pasadena, TX in 1980.)
Try And Love Again – The Eagles (1976; from LP Hotel California, this track features Randy Meisner on lead vocals.)
Hello Heartache, Goodbye Love - Little Peggy March (1963, #26).
Don't Go Breaking My Heart – Elton John and Kiki Dee (1976, #1, 4 weeks; Sir Elton released a remake of this in 1994 as a duet with RuPaul!?!. Thankfully, it only reached #92 and then sank like a stone...)
There's No Way Out Of Here – David Gilmour (1978, dnc; off David's first solo self-titled LP).
Shadow Dancing - Andy Gibb (1978, #1, 7 weeks!; the youngest Gibb brother died a tragic death at the age of 30, 5 days after his birthday.)
Back In My Arms Again - The Supremes (1965, #1, 1 week).
Sweet Caroline (Good Times Never Seemed So Good) – Bobby Womack & Peace (#51, 1972; this "sweet" cover version was originally the b-side of "Harry Hippy".)
Give It To Me (45 version) – J. Geils Band (1973, #30; 2 weeks ago I played the long version of this, which features a searing J. Geils guitar solo. This week, the 45 version which exorcises over half the song, including the solo. Click on the song and you can give it a listen.)
8-9pm
Back to our feature: More Tambourine!
Back to our feature: More Tambourine!
Last Train To Clarksville - The Monkees (1966, #1, 1 week; Davy on tamourine? Maybe, but more likely one of the Wrecking Crew.)
Kicks – Paul Revere And The Raiders Featuring Mark Lindsay (1966, #4; why is this band not in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame? I have lost my faith in the organization that inducts Madonna and Janet Jackson and ignores rock, psychedelic, and progressive bands! Congratulations to The Zombies who were inducted
this year! About time...)
Silver Bird - Mark Lindsay (1970, #25; Happy 77th Birthday to one of the best vocalists of the Remnants era!)
Cherry, Cherry & Solitary Man - Neil Diamond (1966, #6 & 1970, 21); Neil's producers on BANG Records, Jeff Barry and Ellie Greenwich used the tambourine pretty liberally on his early recordings.)
Come On Down To My Boat – Every Mothers' Son (1967, #6; really nice tambourine and some soaring vocal harmonies!)
Hey Baby (They're Playing Our Song) – The Buckinghams (1967, #12).
8:05 - Moby Grape (1967, dnc; Columbia Records released 5 singles off their debut album in July, 1967, and the only ones that charted were "Omaha", #88 and "Hey Grandma, #127. The over-hype basically killed the band before they even got off the ground.)
Tighter, Tighter – Alive And Kicking (1970, #7; the only Top 40 hit for this Brooklyn, NY band.)
Out In The Country – Three Dog Night (1970, #15; during my first Tambourine show, a listener called in and said he remembered a 3DN song with a nice tambourine. It took me 2 weeks and some additional research to discover which one it was.)
Jesus Is Just Alright – The Doobie Brothers (1973, #35); producer Ted Templeman employed a cool tambourine sound on the early Doobies records, and I think this is the best! Also some cool bongos...)
Don't Leave Me This Way – Thelma Houston (1977, #1, 1 week).
I Can't Let Go – Linda Ronstadt (1980, #31).
I Need You – Paul Carrack (1982, #37; first solo hit for this versatile vocalist - Ace, Squeeze, Mike & The Mechanics.)
Trivia question answer: the first company to license a Bob Dylan song for a TV commercial was Apple Computer in 2000 (the song was "Forever Young", and unfortunately I could not find the video.) Since then Bob has "lent" his music to many advertisers with the most memorable probably being Victoria's Secret in 2007!
CLOSING THEME: Sleepwalk – Santo & Johnny (1959, #1 for two weeks)
Glossary of terms
dnc = did not chart.
nr = not released as a single at the time.
AC = Billboard's chart for "Adult Contemporary" singles.
Bubbling Under = songs that were ranked, but below the Hot 100 (spots 101 - 130),
Bubbling Under = songs that were ranked, but below the Hot 100 (spots 101 - 130),
BB = Billboard Magazine, which publishes the Hot 100 chart (previously known at the Top 100), along with several other charts.
C&W = Billboard's chart for "Country & Western" singles.
R&B = Billboards's chart for "Rhythm & Blues" singles.
RRHOF = Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
RS500 = Rolling Stones Magazine's ranked list of the top 500 singles of all-time.
RRHOF = Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
RS500 = Rolling Stones Magazine's ranked list of the top 500 singles of all-time.
Host This Week (March 16th): Greg James and John Simon with more &'s and a tribute to Wrecking Crew drummer Hal Blaine, who recently passed.
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