Rockin'
Remnants
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Date: November 29, 2025
Host: Kim Vaughan
Feature: theme-free
Birthday Calendar
Nov 23 – Betty Everett – born in 1939
Nov 24 – Donald “Duck” Dunn (Booker T and the MGs) – born in 1941
Nov 25 – Percy Sledge – born in 1940
– Bob Lind – age 81 or 83
– Bev Bevan (Electric Light Orchestra) – age 80
Nov 26 – Tina Turner – born in 1939
– Jean Terrell (Supremes) – age 80 or 81
– John McView (Fleetwood Mac) – age 80
Nov 27 – Al Jackson Jr. (Booker T and the MGs) – born in 1935
– Jimi Hendrix – born in 1942
Nov 28 – Berry Gordy Jr. – age 96
– Randy Newman – age 82
– R.B. Greaves – born in 1943 or 1944
Nov 29 – Denny Doherty (Mamas & Papas) – born in 1940 or 1941
– Felix Cavaliere (Rascals) – age 83
Rock ‘n’ Roll Trivia
What was the unusual “instrument” played by Bev Bevan in the song Mr. Blue Sky (according to Wikipedia)?
(scroll down to find the answer below the playlist)
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
OPENING THEME: Good Old Rock ‘n’ Roll – Cat Mother & the All-Night Newsboys (1969, #29, produced by Jimi Hendrix)
Friendship Train – Gladys Knight & The Pips (1969, #17)
Reach Out Of The Darkness – Friend & Lover (1968, #10)
Old Friends / Bookends – Simon & Garfunkel (1968, b-side of Mrs. Robinson)
Let The Water Run Down – Ben E. King (1964, b-side of It’s All Over)
I Want You To Meet My Baby – Eydie Gorme (1964, #43)
Without You – Johnny Tillotson (1961, #7)
Here I Go Again – The Hollies (1964, #107)
Train Of Love – Annette (1960, #36, written by Paul Anka)
Bottle Of Wine – The Fireballs (1967, peaked at #9 in early 1968)
Got To Get You Off My Mind – Solomon Burke (1965, #22, R&B #1)
Look What You’ve Done – The Pozo-Seco Singers (1966, #32)
Rockin’ Little Angel – Ray Smith (1960, #22)
Baby You Belong To Me – The Bobbettes (1960, did not chart)
Sweet Surrender – Bread (1972, #15, Adult Contemporary #1)
I’m Nobody’s Baby Now – Reparata & The Delrons (1966, did not chart)
She Is Still A Mystery – The Lovin’ Spoonful (1967, #27)
Can I Get To Know You Better – The Turtles (1966, #89)
7-8pm
The Shoop Shoop Song (It’s In His Kiss) – Betty Everett (1964, #6)
Soul-Limbo – Booker T and the MGs (1968, #17)
Warm And Tender Love – Percy Sledge (1966, #17)
Elusive Butterfly – Bob Lind (1966, #5)
Mr. Blue Sky – Electric Light Orchestra (1978, #35)
River Deep–Mountain High – Ike & Tina Turner (1966, #88, produced by Phil Spector)
Everybody’s Got The Right To Love – The Supremes (1970, #21, with Jean Terrell as the new lead singer)
Don’t Stop – Fleetwood Mac (1977, #3)
Breaking Up Somebody’s Home – Denise LaSalle (from her 1972 album On The Loose. Al Jackson Jr., aka the Human Timekeeper, played drums on this.)
All Along The Watchtower – Jimi Hendrix (1968, #20, written by Bob Dylan)
Paradise – The Temptations (1962, #122, written and produced by Berry Gordy Jr.)
Mr. President (Have Pity On The Working Man) – Randy Newman (from his 1974 album Good Old Boys)
Take A Letter, Maria – R.B. Greaves (1969, #2)
California Dreamin’ – The Mamas & The Papas (1966, #4, with Denny singing lead on the verses)
8-9pm
Groovin’ – The Young Rascals (1967, #1 for four weeks, with Felix Cavaliere singing lead and also as co-writer)
* The Harder They Come – Jimmy Cliff (the title track of the 1972 film, starring Jimmy Cliff. He passed away on Nov 24 at the age of 81.)
* Don’t Let The Sun Go Down On Me – Elton John (1974, #2 for two weeks, with Toni Tennille, Bruce Johnston, and Carl Wilson on backing vocals)
Sitting In Limbo – Jimmy Cliff (1972, another song from the soundtrack of The Harder They Come)
Baby That’s Me – Lesley Gore (from her 1965 album My Town, My Guy & Me)
Little Miss Sad – The Five Empressions / The Five Emprees (1965, #74. The same single credited different names for the group depending on which pressing it was.)
The House That Jack Built – The Alan Price Set (1967, did not chart)
Maybe Tomorrow – The Iveys (1969, #67, their first Hot 100 hit, from before they were renamed Badfinger)
The Little Green Bag – The George Baker Selection (1970, #21)
Make Your Own Kind Of Music – Mama Cass Elliott (1969, #36)
Warm Baby – The New Colony Six (from their 1967 album Colonized, their version of a Lovin’ Spoonful song written by John Sebastian)
CLOSING THEME: Sleep Walk – Santo & Johnny (1959, #1 for two weeks)
Trivia Answer
Along with drums and other common percussion instruments, Bev Bevan played the fire extinguisher in the song Mr. Blue Sky (Wikipedia says it is the cowbell-like sound we hear).
Congratulations to Pat from Ithaca, for correctly answering the question and winning two passes to Cinemapolis!
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 Next Week (Dec 6): John Simon with his belated birthday show
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