February 6, 2021 - JR - Super + Soul Hits of the 70's!

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Date:  2/6/2021

Host:  JR

Feature: The Seventies!

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  

Super Hits of the 70's - Have A Nice Day!

The Cover Of The Rolling Stone - Dr. Hook & The Medicine Show - March 1973 - Group made the cover of the magazine on 3/29/1973!

 Dead Skunk - Loudon Wainwright III - March 1973 

Uneasy Rider - Charlie Daniels - August 1973 - The LP long version of this contains a "dirty" word!  Check it out!

The Morning After - Maureen McGovern - August 1973 - Love theme from The Poseiden Adventure; Oscar Best Song.

Stuck In The Middle With You - Stealers Wheel - May 1973

Keep On Smilin' - Wet Willie - August 1974

Life Is A Rock (But The Radio Rolled Me) - Reunion - November 1974 - Studio group led by Joey Levine (Ohio Express, 1910 Fruitgum Co.).  Listen and see how many music and pop culture references you can find!  Lyrics included!

Kung Fu Fighting - Carl Douglas - December 1974 - The Martial Arts craze of the mid-70's pushed this all the way to #1, Grasshopper...

Jackie Blue - Ozark Mountain Daredevils - May,1975 - The only Top 10 single for this Missouri band.

So You Are A Star - Hudson Brothers -  November 1974 - A Paul McCartney soundalike?

45 Corner

Our 45 Corner tonight features the 45 version of "A Cowboy's Work Is Never Done", Sonny & Cher.  The single version features a guitar overdub that is not on the LP version; you can hear it starting at 1:33.

Don't Call Us, We'll Call You - Sugarloaf - March1975 - There's a great story behind this song!  Click here to read it.

I'm On Fire - Dwight Twilley Band - August 1975 - Lead singer Phil Seymour had a solo hit in 1981 with "Precious To Me".

Long Tall Glasses (I Can Dance) - Leo Sayer - May 1975

Lowdown - Boz Scaggs - July 1976

7pm - 8pm

Birthday Calendar

January 31 - Harry Wayne "KC" Casey - 70

                      Terry Kath (Chicago) - 1946

Get Down Tonight - KC and the Sunshine Band - July 1975

Free - Chicago - February 1971 - I usually play a Chicago song with a Terry Kath extended guitar solo, but this time I went with a shorter song, which encompasses free jazz in the Top 40!

February 1 - Don Everly - 84

('Til) I Kissed You - The Everly Brothers - August 1959 - Written and sung by Isaac Donald Everly.

 Ray Sawyer (Dr, Hook) - 1937

February 2 - Graham Nash - 79

Military Madness - Graham Nash - August 1971 - released from Graham's first solo LP Songs for Beginners.

February 3 - Dave Davies - 74

All Day And All Of The Night - The Kinks - January 1965 - Rumors circulated that Jimmy Page played lead guitar on this.  He did not, it was Dave.  Jimmy played acoustic guitar at the Kinks recording session for this song.

Melanie Safka - 74

Lay Down (Candles In The Rain) - With outstanding background vocals by The Edwin Hawkins Singers, labelmates of Melanie on Buddah.

Dennis Edwards (Temptations) - 1943

Run Away Child, Running Wild - The Temptations - February 1969

February 4 - Alice Cooper (Vincent Furnier) - 73

I Never Cry - Alice Cooper - July 1976

Marge & MaryAnne Ganser (Shangi-Las) - 1946 

Give Him A Great Big Kiss - The Shangri-Las - January 1965 - The twins are the dark-haired girls singing the replies to Betty Weiss!

February 5 - Cory Wells (Three Dog Night) - 1942 - This was my favorite band of the 70's, hands down!  The next 3 feature Cory Wells on lead vocals...

Mama Told Me (Not To Come) - Three Dog Night - May 1970 - The 45 version is in mono and fades out which differs from the cold ending of the LP version.

Never Been To Spain - Three Dog Night - January 1972 - Written by Hoyt Axton, who also penned Joy To The World!

Shambala - Three Dog Night (45 version) - May 1973

February 6 - Fabian (Forte) - 79

Turn Me Loose - Fabian - March 1959 - This Philly teen idol started his movie career this same year with Hound Dog Man.

Natalie Cole - 1950

Pink Cadillac - Natalie Cole - March 1988 - One of the best Bruce Springsteen covers, IMHO!

Bob Marley - 1945

One Love/People Get Ready - The Wailers - 1977 dnc - Another interesting story about the writing credits for this song.  Click here to read!

8pm - 9pm

Time to get down and get funky with the Soul Hits of the Seventies; Didn't  It Blow Your Mind!

Superfly - Curtis Mayfield - January 1972 - Title song of the "Blacksploitation" flick starring Ron O'Neal.

Keep On Truckin', Pt. I - Eddie Kendricks - November1973 

Natural High - Bloodstone - July 1973 - Banned on many AM radio stations, naturally...

Soul Makossa - Manu Dibango - July1973 - This Cameroon sax player won a copyright infringement lawsuit against Michael Jackson for his use of a lyric in his song "Wanna Be Starting Something".  Listen carefully at the end...

Show And Tell - Al Wilson - January 1974

TSOP (The Sound Of Philadelphia) - MFSB featuring The Three Degrees -  April 1974 - Philly was a hub of soul music in the 70's and these guys were the house band for The O'Jays, Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes, The Spinners and even David Bowie and Elton John!  Also the Soul Train theme...

Be Thankful For What You Got - William DeVaughn - July 1974

Rock The Boat - Hues Corporation - July 1974

Rock Your Baby - George McRae - July 1974

The above two played non-stop on the AM radio in the summertime!

Nothing From Nothing  - Billy Preston - October 1974

Everlasting Love  - Carl Carlton - September 1974 - This was originally done in Robert Knight in 1967 and covered by Rex Smith & Rachel Sweet in 1981

The World Is A Ghetto - War - February 1974 - This L.A. band was funky and socially conscious!  If you've got an extra ten minutes, check out the video of the LP version, featuring a steaming sax solo from Howard Scott...

Stir It Up - Johnny Nash - February 1973 - Off the pen of Robert Nesta Marley...

Hollywood Swinging -  Kool & The Gang - July 1974

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

Host This Week (2/13):  Jan Hunsinger with a spotlight on Valentine's Day!  And thanks to John Simon for his help in assembling this show...

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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