September 6, 2025
Host: Jan Hunsinger (JH)
Spotlight: "Golden Oldies".
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OPENING THEME: Good Old Rock ‘n’ Roll – Cat Mother & the All-Night Newsboys (1969 - #29: produced by Jimi Hendrix)
School Is In - Gary "U.S." Bonds (1961 - #28: his follow-up to the song "School Is Out")
School Days - Chuck Berry (1957 - #3: Berry wrote this, one of his best-known songs, with the classic line "Hail, hail rock and roll; Deliver us from the days of old")
Sausalito Summer Nights - Diesel (1981 - #25: one-hit wonder group from the Netherlands)
It's Summertime U.S.A. - The Pixies Three (1964 - #116: trio formed as teenagers from Hanover, Pa.)
Summer's Daughter - The 5th Dimension (1967 - NR: album track from The Magic Garden LP, which had all songs written by Jimmy Webb)
Summer's Almost Gone - The Doors (1968 - NR: spooky sounding track from the Waiting for the Sun LP)
Mama's Little Girl - Dusty Springfield (1973 - DNC: late release by the best known female singer of the British Invasion)
In Need of a Friend - The Cowsills (1968 - #54: minor hit that was written by Bill and Bob Cowsill)
My Elusive Dreams - David Houston and Tammy Wynette (1967 - #89: country crossover that was one of Wynette's 20 #1s on the Country and Western charts)
When I Die - Motherlode (1969 - #18: one-hit wonder group out of London, Ontario)
I Believed It All - The Pozo-Seco Singers (1967 - #96: Texas trio that consisted of Don Williams, Susan Taylor, and Lofton Kline)
Can't Get It Out of My Head - Electric Light Orchestra (1975 - #9: song made its chart debut on 12/21/74)
Whispering Bells - The Dell-Vikings (1957 - #9: inter-racial doo-wop group out of Pittsburgh)
Function at the Junction - Shorty Long (1966 - #97: Long was killed at the age of 29 in a boating accident on the Detroit River)
*(Hey Won't You Play) Another Somebody Done Somebody Wrong Song - B.J. Thomas (1975 - #1: song was a Grammy for Best Country Song)
7:00 - 8:00 The Birthday Calendar
Background song: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly - Hugh Montenegro and His Orchestra (1968 - #2: his cover to the movie of the same name; Simon & Garfunkel's "Mrs. Robinson" held down the #1 spot)
August 31:
Jerry Allison (The Crickets) - b. 1939
Bob Welch - b. 1945
Van Morrison - 80
September 1:
Tommy Evans (The Drifters) - b. 1927
Conway Twitty [Harold Lloyd Jenkins] - b. 1933
Archie Bell - 81
Barry Gibb - 79
September 2:
Hugo Montenegro - b. 1925
Rick Lewis (The Silhouettes) - b. 1933
Jimmy Clanton - 87
Bobby Purify [Dickey] - b. 1939
Sam Gooden (The Impressions) - b. 1939
Rosalind Ashford (Martha Reeves and the Vandellas) - 82
Billy Preston - b. 1946
September 3:
Al Jardine (The Beach Boys) - 83
September 4:
Sonny Charles - 85
Merald "Bubba" Knight (The Pips) - 83
Gene Parsons (The Byrds) - 81
Gary Duncan (Quicksilver Messenger Service) - b. 1946
Greg Elmore (Quicksilver Messenger Service) - 79
September 5:
John Stewart - b. 1939
Joe "Speedo" Frazier (The Impalas) - b. 1943
Al Stewart - 80
Freddie Mercury (Queen) - b. 1946
September 6:
Roger Waters (Pink Floyd) - 82
Peggy Sue - Buddy Holly and the Crickets (1957 - #3: song ranks #194/RS500; Holly originally titled the song "Cindy Lou", but drummer Jerry Allison talked him into changing it to the name of his girlfriend to reconcile the two)
Sentimental Lady - Fleetwood Mac (1972 - DNC: Bob Welch would later record his song as a solo artist and it charted at #8)
Jackie Wilson Said (I'm In Heaven When You Smile) - Van Morrison (1972 - #61: from the LP St. Dominic's Preview)
Sweets for My Sweet - The Drifters (1961 - #16: Tommy Evans sang bass for the group from 1956-62)
It's Only Make Believe - Conway Twitty (1958 - #1: Twitty co-wrote his first big hit when he was a rock and roller; he became a country artist in 1965)
(There's Gonna Be a) Showdown - Archie Bell and the Drells (1969 - #21: R&B group from Houston, Texas)
(The Lights Went Out In) Massachusetts - The Bee Gees (1967 - #11: song went to #1 in the U.K., the first of 5 for the brothers, who had never been to Massachusetts)
Get a Job - The Silhouettes (1958 - #1: song for the one-hit wonder Philadelphia group spent two weeks at #1)
Just a Dream - Jimmy Clanton (1958 - #4: Clanton was from Baton Rouge, La. and wrote this hit)
I'm Your Puppet - James & Bobby Purify (1966 - #6: Bobby Dickey changed his name when performing to match that of his cousin James)
People Get Ready - The Impressions (1965 - #14: song was written by Curtis Mayfield and ranks #24/RS500)
Nowhere to Run - Martha and the Vandellas (1965 - #8: song ranks #358/RS5000)
Get Back - The Beatles with Billy Preston (1969 - #1: Preston first met the Fab Four in Hamburg in 1962 when he was the organist in Little Richard's band)
Help Me, Rhonda - The Beach Boys (1965 - #1: one of a few songs on which Al Jardine did lead vocal honors)
Black Pearl - Sonny Charles and the Checkmates (1969 - #13: song was produced and co-written by Phil Spector)
8:00 - 9:00
Best Thing That Ever Happened to Me - Gladys Knight and the Pips (1974 - #3: Merald and Gladys are brother and sister)
Wasn't Born to Follow - The Byrds (1969 - DNC: song was written by Carole King and Gerry Goffin and used in the movie "Easy Rider"; Gene Parsons (no relation to Gram) was the band's drummer from 1968 to 1972)
What About Me? - Quicksilver Messenger Service (1971 - #100: a birthday calendar two-fer: Gary Duncan was guitarist and Greg Elmore drummer for the San Francisco band)
Lost Her in the Sun - John Stewart (1980 - #34: from his LP Bombs Away Dream Babies, which was something of a comeback for the former Kingston Trio member and writer of "Daydream Believer")
Sorry (I Ran All the Way Home) - The Impalas (1959 - #2: Wilbert Harrison's "Kansas City" kept this song out of the top spot)
Flying Sorcery - Al Stewart (1977 - DNC: song was the B-side to "On the Border")
Killer Queen - Queen (1975 - #12: the group's first charting single in the US)
Money - Pink Floyd (1973 - #13: we heard the 3:59 single edit of the tune, which runs 6:22 on the classic LP Dark Side of the Moon)
Passing: Mark Volman of the Turtles. Born 4/19/47 in Los Angeles, Volman passed away on 9/5/25 at the age of 78. Co-founder of the Turtles with Howard Kaylan, the duo were known as "Flo & Eddie" after the group broke up and they found that they had no rights to the name of their band.
45 Corner
Elenore - The Turtles (1968 - #6: great pop tune that was written as a parody of their hit "Happy Together" when their record company, White Whale, demanded they write more hits, but the joke went over the heads of the studio execs; we heard 45 rpm single from a 2014 collection put out by Flo & Eddie)
Is Is Any Wonder? - The Turtles (1970 - DNC: song was included on the 1967 LP The Turtles Golden Hits, and released as a single in 1970)
Hungry Heart - Bruce Springsteen (1980 - #5: Flo & Eddie provided harmony and background vocals on this hit from The River LP)
Take a Giant Step - The Monkees (1966 - DNC: another Goffin-King penned effort, released as the B-side to "Last Train to Clarksville")
Elusive Butterfly - Bob Lind (1966 - #5: Lind was inspired by a W.B. Yeats poem that, as he said, "had the sense we feel of being most alive when we're searching or looking or chasing after something")
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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