Rockin'
Remnants
Rockin' Remnants is broadcast from WVBR-FM Ithaca. Check out our webpage, like us on Facebook,
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Date:
4/5/25
Host: John Rudan
Feature: JR’s 50th Anniversary Show
It is fifty years to the day since John Rudan first sat behind the microphone in Air One to host The Rockin' Remnants Show on WVBR. He's seen general managers and program directors and co-hosts come and go, but he's never wavered when it comes to delivering excellent programming, with an encyclopedic knowledge of - and excellent taste in - music. Tonight he opens with the first song that he ever played on the air, followed by 90 minutes of the music that was on the radio in 1975. The final 90 minutes will be devoted to the "progressive" FM tracks that he came to love as he grew and evolved. No requests and no Birthday Calendar tonight: just a celebration of his fifty years on Rockin' Remnants!
Playlist
YouTube links follow certain entries
· 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 - Songs on the BB Hot 100
Paint It, Black - Rolling Stones #1 - First song I played on Remnants 50 years ago! This is the only one I remember…
Philadelphia Freedom - Elton John Band #2 - The only single released as the EJ Band.
Express - B.T. Express #4
Lady Marmalade - LaBelle #7, dropping from #1. - Patti LaBelle first hit the Hot 100 with “I Sold My Heart To The Junkman” in 1962. Banned in many markets for alleged drug reference.
* Interview segment with Remnants co-host JS
Have You Never Been Mellow - ONJ #10 - My teenage crush after Lori Partridge!
Chevy Van - Sammy Johns #12 - Rock critics lambasted this song for its trite subject matter. Hey, what's more 70’s than a Chevy Van?
Harry Truman - Chicago #16 - I bought just about every single from Chicago in the mid-70’s including this one.
Before The Next Teardrop Falls - Freddie Fender #17* - Alias of Baldemar J. Huerta, but great name for a musician
Love Won't Let Me Wait - Major Harris #5 Pop, #1 R&B
Sun Goddess - Ramsey Lewis & E, W & F - “Vocal” supplied by Philip Bailey of EWF.
Fire - Ohio Players #1 Pop and R&B
Bad Time - Grand Funk #5
Amie - Pure Prairie League #44* - Lead singer Craig Fuller was a latter-day member of Little Feat!
Young Americans - David Bowie #51* - Bowie recorded this with TSOP studio band of Philadelphia.
Can’t Get It Out Of My Head - ELO #57 - Jeff Lynne was a master of hard to understand vocals. Good thing Google came around!
Best Of My Love - Eagles #59 - The first #1 record for my favorite 70’s band!
* Interview visit with Remnants hosts KV, JH and GJ
Jackie Blue - Ozark Mt. Daredevils #26* - The 45 cuts out the bridge: Every day in your indigo eyes…
7:30 - 9:30 Progressive songs and artists
What Can I Say - Pousette Dart - Band from New England who scored big with LP Amnesia. Well, on FM stations anyway…
The Man Who Built America - Horslips - This Irish band played a free concert on “Slope Day” at Cornell, ‘78 or ‘79?
Ooh Child - Valerie Carter - Great blue-eyed soul version of the hit by The Five Stairsteps.
Genesis - Jorma Kaukenen - First solo effort from the original guitarist of the Jefferson Airplane.
Willin’ - Little Feat - This was definitely my favorite FM group after Three Dog Night and Eagles on the AM radio.
Custard Pie - Led Zeppelin - The lead track of Zep’s sprawling double album Physical Graffiti!
Frank & Jesse James - Warren Zevon - Ok, WZ was my favorite solo artist of the 70’s…
Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd - I can’t remember if I wore out this along with The Wall!
Glad - Traffic - I knew nothing about this band until I started hanging out at WVBR. What a great discovery.
Hypnotized - Fleetwood Mac - Bob Welch was the lead vocalist in this version of FMac, 1971 - 1974. He had a moderate solo career after that.
Powderfinger - Neil Young - WVBR had a Midnight Movie screening of Live Rust at The Pyramid Mall. I loved Neil (late 70’s) but fell asleep about halfway through, although I did see the whole thing on VHS?
Billy the Kid - Billy Joel - From the Piano Man album, a tribute to one of his musical heroes, Aaron Copland.
Carpet of the Sun - Renaissance - Lead singer Annie Haslem had one of the best female voices of the 70’s, but never received the recognition of, let’s say, Linda Ronstadt.
Here At The Western World - Steely Dan - My nickname at the station for a time was “Steely Rudan”! Guess I played them alot?
Host Next Week (4/12/25): John Simon with a spotlight on More Movie Music
Thanks for tuning in - and for voting us Ithaca's Best Local Radio Show in the most recent Ithaca Times Readers' Poll! 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, too, to our sponsors Island Health & Fitness and Rasa Spa for their support every week!
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