Rockin' Remnants
Rockin' Remnants is broadcast from WVBR-FM Ithaca. Check out our webpage, like us on Facebook, and tune in to 93.5 or stream the show every Saturday night from 6-9pm! (Or download the WVBR+ app now available for iOS and Android!)
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Date: 5/08/2021
Host: JR
Feature: What's in a Name?
Playlist
6pm - 7pm
· 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
6pm - 7pm
Bob And Earl - Harlem Shuffle - 1966
Bob Dylan - Maggie's Farm - 1966 - From Blonde On Blonde, this was not released as a single in the U.S.; this is the Dutch 45.
Bob Crewe Generation-Music To Watch Girls By - 1966 - Prolific songwriter/producer. Click here to see his credits.
Bob Lind - Elusive Butterfly - 1966
Bob Seger - Shame On The Moon - 1982 - Piano solo by the venerable Bill Payne (Little Feat), one of my favorites!
Bobbie Gentry - Ode To Billie Joe - 1967 - This feature could have been called "Riffin' on Robert" but for...
Bobby Bare - Detroit City - 1963
Bobby Darin - You're The Reason I'm Living - 1963
Bobby Bloom - Montego Bay - 1970
Bobby Fuller Four - Let Her Dance - 1966
Bobby Fuller - A Name Like Watermelon - 1971 - This is the "other" Bobby Fuller. Song written by Dennis Linde, who also
wrote "Burnin' Love" and "Goodbye Earl".
Bobby Vee - Rubber Ball - 1961
Bobby Vinton - Roses Are Red (My Love) - 1962
Bobby Sherman - Little Woman - 1969
Hope ya figured out the question!
7pm - 8pm
Birthday Calendar
May 2 - Engelbert Humperdinck (Arnold Dorsey)- 83
Lesley Gore - 1946
Lou Gramm - (Foreigner) - 69
May 3 - Frankie Valli - 85
Mary Hopkin - 69
James Brown - 1933
Pete Seeger - 1919
May 5 - Tammy Wynette - 1942
Johnny Taylor - 1938
May 6 - Bob Seger - 74
May 7 - Jimmy Ruffin - 1936
May 8 - Philip Bailey (EW&F) - 68
Eric Hilliard Nelson - 1940
Stood Up - Ricky Nelson - 1957
Easy Lover - Philip Bailey & Phil Collins - 1985
What Becomes of the Brokenhearted - Jimmy Ruffin - 1966 - Brother of Temptation David, he had a few hits for Motown, this being the highest charting at #7.
Disco Lady [45 edit] - Johnnie Taylor - 1976 - First single certified Platinum (sales of one million copies) by the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America)!
on the BB Hot Country Singles Chart.
and released by Pete Seeger in 1955
.
Walk Like A Man - The Four Seasons - 1963 -
co-written by Bob Crewe! Check out this clip
from Hawaii Five-0 featuring Frankie and Carol
Burnett...
Living In America - James Brown - 1985 - From Rocky IV
California Nights - Lesley Gore - 1967 - Co-written
by the late Marvin Hamlisch (The Sting) and produced
by Bob Crewe (there he is again!)
I Want To Know What Love Is - Foreigner - 1984 - A memorable video with The New Jersey Mass Choir and Jennifer Hudson.
Knock Knock Who's There - Mary Hopkin - 1970
Release Me - Engelbert Humperdinck - 1967 - Written and
originally released in 1949 by Eddie "Piano" Miller.
songwriter/producer Tommy West, who passed away this week.
West, real name Thomas Picardo, Jr., was probably best known
for his work with Jim Croce, but he was also a member of the
Buchanan Brothers and other musical endeavors. Click here to
read his full bio.
Little Willy - Sweet - 1973
Best Of Both Worlds - Robert Palmer -1978
Anyway Anyhow Anywhere - The Who - 1965, dnc - Like many early Who singles this was totally ignored by American radio programmers.
Dead Flowers - Rolling Stones - 1971 - Off Sticky Fingers and never released as a U.S. single, but here is the European Radio Promo!
Something's Wrong With Me - Austin Roberts - 1972
It Don't Matter To Me - Bread - 1972 - David Gates assassinated English grammar with this and "Baby I'm-A-Want You". 😄
Easy As Pie - Billy "Crash: Craddock - 1975
Hi-De-Ho - Blood, Sweat & Tears - 1970 - Goffin and King originally titled this "That Old Sweet Roll" and it's still in the lyric.
Nature's Way - Spirit - 1971
Baby Hold On - Eddie Money - 1978
Love Stinks - J. Geils Band - 1980
Games Without Frontiers - Peter Gabriel - 1982 - The French lyric, "Jeux Sans Frontieres" was sometimes misinterpreted as "She's so funky, yeah". Check it out:
Comes a Time - Neil Young - 1978
Mother - Pink Floyd - 1979 - Off The Wall, co-lead vocals by Roger Waters and David Gilmour.
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
Thanks for tuning in! You can listen to Rockin' Remnants every Saturday night from 6-9pm on WVBR (93.5 FM in Ithaca, NY) or at wvbr.com/listen.
Thanks again to our sponsors Island Health & Fitness and Rasa Spa for their support every week!
Host This Week (5/15): GJ with a feature on Comings and Goings!
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