Rockin' Remnants
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Date: 12/19/2020
Host: JR
Feature: Holiday
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
· a glossary of terms is below the playlist
6-7pm
White Christmas - The Drifters - 1954
All I Want For Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth - Spike Jones and his City Slickers - 1948
Mary's Boy Child - Harry Belafonte - 1956
The Christmas Song - Nat King Cole - 1961
The Ballad Of Jed Clamplett - Flatt & Scruggs - 1963
The Ballad Of John And Yoko - The Beatles - 1969
The Ballad Of A Well-Known Gun - Elton John - 1971
The Ballad Of Billy The Kid - Billy Joel - 1974
45 Corner
Christmas Dream - Perry Como - 1974 - Plays over the
opening credits of the Odessa File.
Sweet And Dandy - Toots and The Maytals - 1968
Sweet Hitch-Hiker - CCR - 1971
Sweet Cherry Wine - Tommy James And The Shondells
1969
7 - 8pm - Birthday Calendar
December 13th - Ted Nugent, 72
Cat Scratch Fever - 1977
December 14th - Lindley "Spike" Jones, 1911
December 15th - Dave Clark, 81
I Like It Like That - 1965
Over And Over - 1965, #1
December 16th - Billy Gibbons (ZZ Top), 71
La Grange - 1974
December 17th - Eddie Kendricks (Temptations), 1939
Get Ready - 1966
December 18th - Keith Richards, 77
Happy - 1972 - Only Rolling Stones Top 40 hit with "Keef"
on lead vocals!
December 19th - Maurice White (EW&F), 1941
Boogie Wonderland (with The Emotions) - 1979
The next two Songs are from A Holiday Gift From Phil
Spector To You released in 1963 featuring the Philles
Records stable of artists.
The Bells Of St. Mary's - Bob B. Soxx & The Blue Jeans
Christmas (Baby Please Come Home) - Darlene Love
Santa Bring My Baby Back To Me - Elvis - 1957
Do You Hear What I Hear? - Bing Crosby - 1963
Bang Bang - Joe Cuba Sextet - 1966
Cuban Crisis - Atlanta Rhythm Section - 1977
Cuban Slide - The Pretenders - 1980
8 - 9pm
Who Will Answer - Ed Ames - 1967
Good Vibrations - Beach Boys - 1966, #1
Nice, Nice Very Nice - Ambrosia - 1975
Dream Weaver - Gary Wright - 1976
Cleveland Rocks - Ian Hunter - 1979
Love Is The Answer - Utopia - 1977
Christmas Eve Can Kill You - The Everly Brothers - 1971
I Believe In Father Christmas - Greg Lake - 1974
Please Come Home For Christmas - The Eagles - 1978 -
The Eagles only US picture sleeve!
Stone In Love - Journey - 1981
Before we finish, a moment to recognize the passing of
Charley Pride. Over a 4 decade career, Charley charted 67
hits on the BB C&W chart, with 29 #1's, and paved the way
for black artists in Country Music. Charley's highest-charting
Hot 100 45 was Kiss An Angel Good Mornin', #21 from
1972.
CLOSING THEME: Sleepwalk – Santo & Johnny (1959 - #1 for two weeks)
dnc = did not chart
nr = not released as a single at the time
AC = Billboard’s chart for “Adult Contemporary” records
BB = Billboard Magazine, which publishes the Hot 100 chart (previously known as the Top 100), along with several other charts
Bubbling Under = songs that were ranked but fell below the top 100
C&W = Billboard’s chart for “Country & Western” records
R&B = Billboard’s chart for “Rhythm & Blues” records
RRHOF = Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
RS500 = Rolling Stone Magazine’s ranked list of the top 500 singles of all-time
Host December 26th, 2020: Gregory James (GJ) with a spotlight on songs about questions?
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Great mini themes!
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