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Date: September 2, 2023
Host: JR
Feature: Work to Do! It's Labor Day weekend and the last hour of the show is songs about... work and working!
First hour we'll be featuring songs that end with the title and cold ending. There's more than you think!
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!)
Thanks to our sponsors Island Health & Fitness and Rasa Spa for their support every week!
6pm - 7pm
Penny Lane - Beatles - 1967
Here, There And Everywhere - Beatles - 1966 - Revolver
No Reply - Beatles - 1965 - Just three of many Beatles songs that end with the title...
Can't Find My Way Home - Blind Faith - 1969 - Baker, Clapton, Grech and Winwood. This was never released in the U.S. as a single. This image is the Australian single release.
Wasn't Born to Follow - The Byrds - 1968 - Great psychedelic lyrics from Goffin and King. It's Easy Rider, man...
Everyday People - Sly & The Family Stone - 1969
Questions 67 & 68 - Chicago -1969 - This was Chicago's first single release in 1969. Later released in 1971, where it peaked at #
Go Now - The Moody Blues - 1965
Hi-De-Ho - BS&T - 1970 - Goffin and King strike again!
Love Is The Drug - Roxy Music - 1975
Is That All There Is - Peggy Lee - 1969 - The last charting single for Miss Peggy Lee off the pen(s) of Lieber and Stoller.
It Don't Matter To Me - Bread - 1970 - David Gates was a soft-rocker destroying the English language in the early 70's! 😄 Your Jr. High School English teacher would have said "Doesn't"!
Just Another Night - Ian Hunter - 1979 - Don't know if you could call an album "You're Never Alone With A Schizophrenic" these days...
Take It Easy On Me - Little River Band - 1981
The Look Of Love - ABC - 1982
7pm - 8pm - Birthday Calendar
Before tonight's calendar, a tribute to Randy Meisner, Eagles bassist and vocalist who passed away on July 27th, age 77. Randy always had at least two songs on every Eagle LP and had a somewhat successful solo career until he retired from the music biz in the mid-80's. His high vocals were a key to the band's soaring harmonies. Another member of Rock'n'Roll heaven...
Certain Kind of Fool - Eagles - Desperado,1973
Take It To The Limit - Eagles - One Of These Nights, 1975 - Randy's only single release.
Try and Love Again - Eagles - Hotel California, 1977
Hearts On Fire - Randy Meisner - 1980 - I remember seeing this LIVE on the ABC late-night variety show, "Fridays", where a whacked-out Michael Richards introduced him as "Rick Meiser"! "Randy", being a consummate professional, corrected him... 😂
Birthday Calendar!
August 28th - David Soul (Solberg) - 80
August 29th - Michael Jackson - 1958
August 30th - John Phillips - 1935
August 31st - Van Morrison - 78
September 1st - Barry Gibb - 77
Conway Twitty - 1933
September 2nd - Billy Preston - 1946
Don't Give Up On Us - David Soul - 1977 - Back in the day, I could play the intro of this on the piano, self-taught, but that's about as far as it got!
Creeque Alley - The Mamas & The Papas - 1967
It's Only Make Believe - Conway Twitty - 1959 - First single release and only #1 Hot 100 single for the former Harold Lloyd Jenkins. He took his stage name from Conway, Arkansas and Twitty, Texas.
First Of May - Bee Gees - 1969 - The only Bee Gees single with NO harmony vocals. Just Barry...
ABC - Jackson 5 - 1970 - The J5's first 4 single releases topped the Hot 100, with this at #1 for 2 weeks on 4/25/70.
My Sweet Lord - Billy Preston - 1971 - Before Billy signed with A&M Records and had himself a fine solo career, he had 3 single releases on Apple Records and this peaked the highest at #90. Billy was brought up on Gospel music, so this is a soulful version of his boss's original tune...
Blue Eyes Crying In The Rain - Willie Nelson - 1975 - This song, written by Fred Rose, was first a country hit in 1947.
The Year That Clayton Delaney Died - Tom T. Hall - 1971 - The first "pop" hit for The Storyteller peaked at #42 on the Hot 100.
My Sharona - The Knack - 1979 - Number One for 6 weeks on the Hot 100 and the #1 single of 1979!
Stairway to Heaven - Led Zeppelin - 1971 - Is there any better song to end the "Songs That End With The Title" feature? 😁
8pm - 9pm
Work To Do - Isley Brothers - 1972 -
I first heard this as a soulful cover by the Average White Band in 1975!
Five O'Clock World - The Vogues - 1965
She Works Hard For The Money - Donna Summer - 1983 - Who remembers this tune from the early days of MTV?
Part Of The Union - Strawbs - 1973
Blue Collar Man (Long Nights) - Styx - 1978
9 to 5 - Dolly Parton - 1980
Morning Train (Nine to Five) - Sheena Easton - 1981 - Dolly had the hit with "9 to 5" the year before, so this was released as "Morning Train" with 'Nine to Five" parenthetical.
Bang the Drum All Day - Todd Rundgren - 1983 - The theme for people who "Don't want to work"!
A Hard Day's Night - Beatles - 1964
Workin' For MCA - Lynyrd Skynyrd - 1974 - A true story about how a "Yankee slicker" signed the band to a recording contract with MCA!
Workin For A Livin' - Huey Lewis & The News - 1982.
Cleaning Windows - Van Morrison - 1982 - Van the Man hard at work, and hearing Jimmie Rodgers on the phono...
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 This Week (9/9/23): Kim Vaughan
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