June 21, 2025
Host: Jan Hunsinger (JH)
Spotlight: "Salute to Summer"
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OPENING THEME: Good Old Rock ‘n’ Roll – Cat Mother & the All-Night Newsboys (1969 - #29: produced by Jimi Hendrix)
Background songs: Theme from "A Summer Place" - Percy Faith and His Orchestra: the #1 song from 1960, it spent 9 weeks at #1 and won the Grammy for Record of the Year;
Song for a Summer Night - Mitch Miller and His Orchestra: 1956 - #8
Soft Summer Breeze - Eddie Heywood: 1956 - #11
Those Lazy-Hazy-Crazy Days of Summer - Nat "King" Cole (1963 - #6: opening track from his 1963 LP of the same name)
Summer - War (1976 - #7: song made its chart debut on 6/21/76)
Summertime, Summertime - The Jamies (1958 - #26; 1962 - #38: Tom Jamieson and his sister Serena led the group and Tom wrote the hit song that was re-released in 1962)
Hot Fun in the Summertime - Sly and the Family Stone (1969 - #2: song ranks #247/RS500 but "I Can't Get Next to You" by the Temptations kept it from #1)
Groovy Summertime - The Love Generation (1967 - #74: sunshine pop group from L.A. that existed only in the studio)
Save Your Heart for Me - Gary Lewis and the Playboys (1965 - #2: cover of a 1963 Brian Hyland B-side; Sonny & Cher's "I Got You Babe" kept it out of the top spot)
In the Summertime - Mungo Jerry (1970 - #3: Mungo Jerry was the name of the group led by Ray Dorset; the name comes from T.S. Eliot's poem "Mungojerri and Rumpleteazer" in the book "Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats")
Summer Means Fun - Bruce & Terry (1964 - #72: duo consisted of Bruce Johnston and Terry Melcher; Melcher was the son of Doris Day and would later be a producer for the Byrds)
Summertime - Billy Stewart (1966 - #10: song was written in 1935 by George Gershwin for "Porgy and Bess" and has been covered over 33,000 times)
Summer Days - The Partridge Family (1971 - NR: written by Tony Romeo, who also wrote the hit "I Think I Love You")
One Summer Night - The Danleers (1958 - #7: one-hit wonder Brooklyn group)
45 Corner
Summer Nights - Marianne Faithfull (1965 - #24: her second-highest charting single; we heard the original 45 RPM on London Records)
Summer Nights - John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John (1978 - #5: upbeat tune from the hit movie "Grease")
Summer Wind - Frank Sinatra (1966 - #25: Johnny Mercer wrote English lyrics to the original German song, which went to #1 on the Easy Listening chart)
VACATION - Connie Francis (1962 - #9: her last top 10 single for which she received songwriting credit)
Summer in the City - The Lovin' Spoonful (1966 - #1: song spent 3 weeks at #1 in August of '66 and ranks #401/RS500)
7:00 - 8:00 - The Birthday Calendar
Background song: Theme from "Bonnie & Clyde" - Flatt & Scruggs (1968 - #55: variation of their classic "Foggy Mountain Breakdown")
June 15:
Nigel Pickering (Spanky and Our Gang) - b. 1929
Ruby Nash Garnett - 91
Waylon Jennings - b. 1937
Harry Nilsson - b. 1941
[Mervyn] "Muff" Winwood - 81
June 16:
Carl Burnett (Little Caesar) - ??
Lamont Dozier - b. 1941
Eddie Levert (The O'Jays) - 83
James Smith (The Stylistics) - 75
June 17:
Norman Kuhlke (The Swinging Blue Jeans) - 83
Barry Manilow [Pincus] - 83
June 18:
[Charles] Tommy Hunt (The Flamingos) - b. 1933
James Paul McCartney - 83
Sandy Posey - b. 1944
Jerome Smith (KC and the Sunshine Band) - b. 1953
June 19:
Lester Flatt - b. 1914
Tommy DeVito (The Four Seasons) - b. 1935
Al Wilson - b. 1939
Elaine "Spanky" McFarlane - 83
Ann Wilson (Heart) - 75
June 20:
Jerry Keller - 88
Brian Wilson (The Beach Boys) - b. 1942
Anne Murray - 80
Dolores "La-La" Brooks (The Crystals) - 78
June 21:
O.C. Smith - b. 1932
Ray Davies (The Kinks) - 81
Joey Molland (Badfinger) - b. 1947
My Summer Love - Ruby & the Romantics (1963 - #16: follow-up single to their big hit "Our Day Will Come")
Are You Sure Hank Done It This Way? - Waylon Jennings (1975 - #60: song went to #1 on the Country charts)
Me and My Arrow - Harry Nilsson (1971 - #34: song was used in a prime-time TV cartoon "The Point" and came from Nilsson's LP of the same name)
Gimme Some Lovin' - Spencer Davis Group (1967 - #7: bassist "Muff" Winwood recruited younger brother Stevie to join the group; song ranks #244/RS500)
Those Oldies But Goodies (Remind Me of You) - Little Caesar and the Romans (1961 - #9: group often performed in togas)
Heat Wave - Martha and the Vandellas (1963 - #4: one of many Motown hits from the songwriting/producing team of Holland-Dozier-Holland)
Love Train - The O'Jays (1973 - #1: Eddie Levert was lead singer for the soul group that formed in high school in Canton, Ohio in 1958)
Stop, Look, Listen (to Your Heart) - The Stylistics (1971 - #39: James Smith was an original member of the Philadelphia soul group)
Hippy Hippy Shake - The Swinging Blue Jeans (1964 - #24: Norman Kuhlke was the drummer for the Liverpool band; song was a cover of the 1959 Chan Romero original)
Tryin' to Get the Feeling Again - Barry Manilow (1976 - #10: title track to his 1975 LP)
Nobody Loves Me Like You - The Flamingos (1960 - #30: Tommy Hunt, who just passed away in February, had three charting singles as a solo artist after leaving the group in 1961)
Jet - Paul McCartney & Wings (1974 - #7: from Sir Paul and the band's classic LP "Band on the Run")
A Single Girl - Sandy Posey (1966 - #12: Posey had a number of singles make the country charts after turning to that genre of music in 1971)
Get Down Tonight - KC and the Sunshine Band (1975 - #1: Jerome Smith provides the guitar solo for this hit song, although the tape was sped up and it sounds like a synthesizer)
Working My Way Back to You - The Four Seasons (1966 - #9: Tommy DeVito played lead guitar and sang the baritone part for the New Jersey group)
Show and Tell -- Al Wilson (1974 - #1: song made its chart debut on 10/20/73)
Give a Damn - Spanky and Our Gang (1968 - #43: song began as a public service announcement for then New York City mayor John Lindsay)
Dreamboat Annie - Heart (1976 - #42: we heard the original Mushroom Records 45)
Here Comes Summer - Jerry Keller (1959 - #14: Keller wrote the one-hit wonder that fits tonight's spotlight feature)
Good Vibrations - The Beach Boys (1966 - #1: it took over 90 hours of tape and 7 months to produce this classic, which ranks #6/RS500)
What About Me - Anne Murray (1973 - #64: song was written by Scott McKenzie)
Da Doo Ron Ron - The Crystals (1963 - #3: Dolores Brooks sang lead vocal on this girl group classic, which ranks #114/RS500)
Little Green Apples - O.C. Smith (1968 - #2: song was written by Bobby Russell ("Honey"; "Saturday Morning Confusion") and won Grammys for Song of the Year and Country Sog, but The Beatles' "Hey Jude" had a lock on #1)
Sunny Afternoon - The Kinks (1966 - #14: Ray Davies was the lead singer, rhythm guitarist, and primary songwriter for the group)
Maybe Tomorrow - The Iveys (1969 - #67: after this minor hit, the Iveys became Badfinger; guitarist Joey Molland passed away in March of this year)
Passing: Lou Christie. Born Lugee Sacco in Glenwillard, PA. on 2/19/43, Christie passed away on 6/18/25 at the age of 82. Known for his falsetto singing, his manager told him to copy Frankie Valli. We heard "I'm Gonna Make You Mine", a #10 record from 1969.
*Things I'd Like to Say - New Colony Six (1969 - #16: song made its chart debut on 12/28/68)
Summer Rain - Johnny Rivers (1967-8 - #14: song was released in November of 1967 and would peak the next year; it references the Summer of Love - 1967)
That Sunday, That Summer - Nat "King" Cole (1963 - #12: another charter from his Lazy-Hazy-Crazy Days of Summer LP)
Dancing in the Streets - Martha and the Vandellas (1964 - #2: group's signature song which ranks #40/RS500)
CLOSING THEME: Sleepwalk – Santo & Johnny (1959 - #1 for two weeks; brothers Santo [steel guitar] and Johnny [rhythm guitar] Farina from Brooklyn)
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