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Date: September 27, 2025
Host: Kim Vaughan
Feature: First Amendment
This week we’re celebrating the first amendment with songs whose titles include the word One or First, or which fit the theme in other ways.
Birthday Calendar
Sept 21 – Dickey Lee – age 89
Sept 22 – Debby Boone – age 69
Sept 23 – Ray Charles – born in 1930
Sept 24 – Phyllis “Jiggs” Allbut (Angels) – age 83
– Rosa Lee Hawkins (Dixie Cups) – born in 1945
Sept 25 – Erik Darling (Tarriers, Weavers, Rooftop Singers) – born in 1933
Sept 26 – Marty Robbins – born in 1925
– George Chambers (Chambers Bros) – born in 1931
– Lynn Anderson – born in 1947
– Olivia Newton-John – born in 1948
Sept 27 – Randy Bachman (Guess Who, BTO) – age 82
Rock ‘n’ Roll Trivia
In the first hour of the show, we heard 3 pairs of songs with the exact same title, but which are completely different songs. The first caller to name any of those pairs will win 2 passes to Cinemapolis!
(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)
One By One – The Jarmels (1961, did not chart)
One By One – Brook Benton (may have been recorded in 1960, not released as a single)
One Last Kiss – Bobby Vee (1960, bubbled under the Hot 100 at #112, from the musical Bye Bye Birdie)
Dear One – Darrell McCall (1962, did not chart)
No One Can Love You Like I Do – Johnny Ferguson (1960, did not chart. The only song he had that did chart was called Angela Jones that same year. He was a DJ from Nashville.)
* Beach Baby – First Class (1974, #4)
* People Got To Be Free – The Rascals (1968, #1 for five wks)
Just One Look – Doris Troy (1963, #10)
You Are The Only One – Ricky Nelson (1960, #25)
One Track Mind – The Knickerbockers (1966, #46)
One Track Mind – Bobby Lewis (1961, #9)
I Know One – Jim Reeves (1960, #82)
Just One Kiss – Shelton Dunaway With The Cup Cakes (1960, did not chart any of the times it was released)
Just One Kiss – Connie Stevens (1962, the b-side of Why’d You Wanna Make Me Cry)
Just One Kiss From You – The Impressions (1965, #76)
Dedicated To The One I Love – The Mamas & The Papas (1967, #2 for three weeks)
7-8pm
I Saw Linda Yesterday – Dickey Lee (1962, peaked at #14 in early 1963)
You Light Up My Life – Debby Boone (1977, #1 for ten weeks)
Talkin’ ‘Bout You – Ray Charles (1958, did not chart)
Wow Wow Wee (He’s The Boy For Me) – The Angels (1964, #41)
Little Bell – The Dixie Cups (1964, #51)
Walk Right In – The Rooftop Singers (1963, #1 for two weeks)
El Paso – Marty Robbins (1959, spent two weeks at #1 in early 1960)
People Get Ready – The Chambers Brothers (1968, the b-side of Time Has Come Today. The Impressions charted with the song in 1965.)
Flower Of Love – Lynn Anderson (from her 1969 album With Love, From Lynn)
Let Me Be There – Olivia Newton-John (1973, peaked at #6 in early 1974, won her a Grammy for Best Female Country Vocalist)
No Time – The Guess Who (1969, peaked at #5 in early 1970)
* I’ve Got Sand In My Shoes – The Drifters (1964, #33, their follow-up to Under The Boardwalk, and it gives a nod to that song with the phrase “down by the sea” using the same notes)
* Midnight Blue – Melissa Manchester (1975, #6)
* Rumble – Link Wray (1958, #16, the only instrumental single to be banned in some locations – some people thought the title was glorifying violence)
8-9pm
Still The One – Orleans (1976, #5)
One Of A Kind (Love Affair) – The Spinners (1973, #11)
One Toke Over The Line – Brewer & Shipley (1971, #10, with Jerry Garcia on steel guitar)
Just One More Day – Otis Redding (1965, #85)
One – Harry Nilsson (1968, did not chart, but it was a Top Ten hit for Three Dog Night the following year)
Just One Smile – Dusty Springfield (from her 1969 album Dusty In Memphis. The song was written by Randy Newman.)
One Life – Albert Hammond (from his 1975 album 99 Miles From LA)
My Adorable One – Joe Simon (1964, bubbled under at #102)
One Less Bell To Answer – The 5th Dimension (1970, #2 for two weeks)
One Monkey Don’t Stop No Show (Part One) – Honey Cone (1971, peaked at #15 in early 1972)
The First Cut Is The Deepest – P.P. Arnold (1967, did not chart, written by Cat Stevens whose own version of the song was an album track later that year)
First Taste Of Love – Ben E. King (1960, #53, b-side of Spanish Harlem)
The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face – Roberta Flack (1972, #1 for six weeks. It had been on her 1969 album First Take, and she released it as a single after it was in the 1971 film Play Misty For Me.)
CLOSING THEME: Sleep Walk – Santo & Johnny (1959, #1 for two weeks)
Trivia Answer
We heard pairs of songs named “One By One”, “One Track Mind”, and “Just One Kiss” during the first hour of the show.
Congratulations to Barbara from Ithaca, for correctly answering the question (she named the first pair, “One By One”) 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 (Oct 4): Jan Hunsinger
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