January 23, 2021 - JR - Flute Thing

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Date:  1/23/2020

Host:  JR

Feature: Flute Thing!

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  

The Mighty Quinn - Manfred Mann - BB Top 100 #10, 1968 - Klaus Voorman, flute.

The Tears Of A Clown - Smokey Robinson & The Miracles - BB Hot 100 #1,1970 - Thomas "Beans" Bowles, flute.

Going Up The County - Canned Heat - BB Hot 100 #11, 1968 - Bob "Bear" Hite, flute.

Colour My World - Chicago - BB Hot 100 # 7, 1971 - Walter Parazaider, flute - A 70's slow dance classic, for sure, but why the Canadian spelling, eh?

Heard It In A Love Song - MTB - BB Hot 100 #14, 1977 - Jerry Eubanks, flute - I saw MTB live in Barton Hall in 1978.  Their sound engineer was so clueless as to what to do with the sounds bouncing around this terrible concert venue he just pushed the volume up to 11 and let it ride!  I left about halfway through because the music was so distorted; too bad because I was a big fan...

Windy - The Association - BB Hot 100 #1, 1967 - Terry Kirkman, flute-like recorder!

California Dreamin' - The Mamas And The Papas - BB Hot 100 #4,1966 - Bud Shank, flute.

Me The Peaceful Heart - Lulu - BB Hot 100 #53, 1968 - John Paul Jones, flute.

 Fool On The Hill - The Beatles - Off the LP Magical Mystery Tour, 1967 - Jack Ellory, flute.

Moondance - Van Morrison - Off the LP Moondance, 1970 - Colin Tilton, flute.

45 Corner

Tonight's offering in The Corner is Locomotive Breath, Censored 45 version, by Jethro Tull with the leader of the "Flute Revolution", Ian Anderson.  The offensive word is "balls", as in "got him by the", and in a neat edit it's replaced by "fun"!  I couldn't find this version anywhere on the WWW, but if you click here,  another censored version with a beep!

Legend Of A Mind - Moody Blues - Off the LP In Search Of The Lost Chord,1968 - Ray Thomas, songwriter, vocalist, flute.

7pm - 8pm

Birthday Calendar

January 17 - Mick Taylor - 74

Honky Tonk Women - The Rolling Stones - BB Hot 100 #1 1969 - Taylor's first appearances on a Stones single.

January 18 - David Ruffin - 1941

Ain't Too Proud To Beg - Temptations  - BB Hot 100 # 1965

January 19 - Dolly Parton - 77                                                                         Phil Everly - 1939                                                                         Janis Joplin - 1943                                                                        Robert Palmer - 1949, died in 2003

Cathy's Clown - BB Hot 100 #1, 5 weeks, BB R&B #1, 1 week, 1960!

Johnny And Mary - dnc, 1980 - Although this didn't chart as a single here in the U.S., it's one of his best-loved songs. 80's synth classic...

Move Over - dnc, 1970 - From her LP Pearl.

Jolene - BB Hot 100 #60, C&W #1, 1974 - #219 RS 500.

January 21 - Billy Ocean - 71                                                                           Richie Havens - 1941                                                                 Mac Davis - 1942

Get Out Of My Dreams, Get Into My Car - BB Hot 100 #1, 1988

Here Comes The Sun - BB Hot 100 #16, 1971- Richie's only Top 40 hit and the only charting version of this song.

In The Ghetto - Elvis Presley - BB Hot 100 #3, 1969 - Written by Mac Davis, his first big break!

January 22 - Steve Perry - 74                                                                           Sam Cooke - 1935

Lights - BB Hot 100 #68, 1978

You Send Me - BB Top 100 #1, 1957

Shake - BB Hot 100 #7, 1965 - Above, Sam's first Top 10 single; this, his last.

January 23 - Patrick Simmons (Doobie Brothers) - 75                                     Robin Zander (Cheap Trick) - 67

Jesus Is Just Alright - Doobies - BB Hot 100 #35, 1973

Don't Be Cruel - CT - BB Hot 100 #4, 1988

Before we get back to the Flute Thing, one for the 80th birthday of Neil Diamond on the 24th!  He was my first music hero...😍

Red, Red Wine - BB Hot 100 #62, 1968 - A cover version by UB40 went all the way to the top of the chart in 1988!

Hijack - Herbie Mann - BB Hot 100 #14, 1975

8pm - 9pm

The Pied Piper - Crispian St. Peters - BB Hot 100 #4, 1966 - Eddie Mordue, flute.

There Is A Mountain - Donovan - BB Hot 100 #11, 1967 - Harold McNair, flute.

Sometimes In Winter - Blood, Sweat & Tears - Off their first LP The Child Is The Father To The Man, 1968 - Steve Katz, flute.  He was also a member of Blues Project, who's song Flute Thing is our background song tonight!

Purple Haze - Dion - BB Hot 100 #63, 1969 - A truly different rendering of this, but Jimi liked it!

John Barleycorn - Traffic - Off the LP John Barleycorn Must Die, 1970 - The late, great Chris Wood on flute.  If you're not convinced Traffic wasn't one of the greatest bands ever, check out this video of a live performance of  poor John Barleycorn...

 Spill The Wine - Eric Burdon & War - BB Hot 100 #3. 1970 - Charles Miller (group member), flute.

Follow Your Daughter Home - The Guess Who - BB Hot 100 #61,1973 - The multi-talented Burton Cummings on flute, first heard on Undun (#22) in 1971!

Hocus Pocus - Focus - BB Hot 100 #9,1973 -  The single by this Dutch group was edited down from a 6:30 LP version.  Thijs Van Leer on flute, and check out his yodeling on the full-length version!

Rockin' Robin - Michael Jackson - BB Hot 100 #2,1972 - Dayna Hartwick on flute.

Everybody Plays The Fool - The Main Ingredient - BB Hot 100 #3, 1972 - Unknown on flute.

I've Found Someone Of My Own - The Free Movement - BB Hot 100 #5, 1971 - Unknown on flute.

I combed the WWW and could not find the musicians who played flute on the above two soul classics.  Lost to history?

Down Under - Men At Work - BB Hot 100 #1, 1981 - Greg Ham (group member) on flute.

One Night In Bangkok - Murray Head - BB Hot 100 #3, 1984 - Bjorn J:son Lind on flute - From the bizarre musical Chess, written by Tim Rice and Bjorn and Benny from Abba!  J:son was a buddy of the Swedes.

To Put Up With You - The Holy Mackerel - dnc, 1968 - Featuring noted singer/songwriter Paul Williams on vocals and Cynthia Fitzpatrick on flute.

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” 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

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Host This Week (1/30):  JS with a  Spotlight on late January 1964  + the music of the late Phil Spector.