Rockin'
Remnants
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Date: May
30, 2026
Host: Kim
Vaughan
Feature:
oldies
Birthday
Calendar
May 24 – Bob Dylan – age 85
– Patti LaBelle – age 82
May 25 – Hal David – born in 1921
– Tom T. Hall – born in 1936
– Mitch Margo (Tokens) – born in 1947
May 26 – Levon Helm (Band) – born in 1940
– Stevie Nicks (Fleetwood Mac) –
age 78
– Peggy Lee – born in 1920
May 27 – Ramsey Lewis – born in 1935
– Don Williams – born in 1939
– Bruce Cockburn – age 81
May 28 – Gladys Knight – age 82
– John Fogerty (Creedence Clearwater
Revival) – age 81
May 29 – Sylvia Robinson (Mickey & Sylvia) –
born in 1935
May 30 – Gladys Horton (Marvelettes) – born in 1945
Rock ‘n’
Roll Trivia
Who is performing
this song? (The song Don’t Drop Out
begins.)
(scroll down to find the answer below the
playlist)
Playlist
· 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)
Who Put The Bomp (In The Bomp, Bomp, Bomp) – Barry Mann (1961, #7)
Sweetie Pie – Billy “Crash” Craddock (1959, did not chart)
* Yer Blues – The Beatles (1968,
from the White Album)
Apeman – The Kinks (1971, #45)
Keep Your
Hands Off My Baby – Little Eva (1962, #12)
* El Paso – Marty Robbins (1959, spent two
weeks at #1 in early 1960)
* Teach Me Tiger - 1965 – April Stevens (her
1959 version had peaked at #86; her 1965 version with more instrumentation did
not chart)
Another Lonely
Girl – Mark Dinning (1961, did not chart)
Just The Way
You Are – Marv Johnson (1966, did not chart)
Oh-Oh, I’m
Falling In Love Again – Jimmie Rodgers (1958, #7)
Everybody
Loves A Lover – The Shirelles (1962, #19)
* Birthday – The Beatles (1968, from the
White Album)
* Happy Anniversary – Little River Band (1977,
#16)
* Tumbling Dice – The Rolling Stones (1972,
#7)
* Do You Wanna Dance – The Mamas & The
Papas (1968, #76)
7-8pm
If Not For You
– Bob Dylan (from 1970 album New Morning)
Tear After
Tear – Patti LaBelle (1962, did not chart)
The Story Of
My Life – Marty Robbins (1957, #15, written by Hal David & Burt Bacharach)
I Love – Tom T.
Hall (1973, reached #12 on the Hot 100 in early 1974, and was #1 on the Country
chart)
Tonight I Fell
In Love – The Tokens (1961, #15, their first Hot 100 hit, cowritten by Mitch
Margo)
Life Is A
Carnival – The Band (1971, #72, cowritten by Levon Helms, and he is one of the
lead singers on the song)
I Don’t Want
To Know – Fleetwood Mac (from their 1977 album Rumours, a song written by
Stevie Nicks. She sings lead on it along
with Lindsey Buckingham.)
Hallelujah, I
Love Him So! – Peggy Lee (1959, #77. Ray
Charles had an R&B hit with the song in 1956.)
Something You
Got – The Ramsey Lewis Trio (1964, #63, R&B #23, their first song on either
chart)
I Believe In
You – Don Williams (1980, #24, Country #1)
Wondering
Where The Lions Are – Bruce Cockburn (1980, #21)
Everybody
Needs Love – Gladys Knight & The Pips (1967, #39)
Wrote A Song
For Everyone – Creedence Clearwater Revival (from their 1969 album Green River)
Love Is
Strange – Mickey & Sylvia (1957, #11, R&B #1)
8-9pm
Someday,
Someway – The Marvelettes (1962, b-side of Beechwood 4-5789, did not chart on the
Hot 100 but was #8 on the R&B chart)
* Peace Train – Cat Stevens (1971, #7)
Sweet Baby
James – James Taylor (1970, did not chart, but he said in a Rolling Stones interview
that he considers it his best song)
Baby Blue –
Badfinger (1972, #14)
Don’t Drop Out
– Dolly Parton (1966, did not chart)
Can’t Find My
Way Home – Blind Faith (from their 1969 eponymous album)
* Good Times – Sam Cooke (1964, #11)
Love Street –
Merrilee Rush (1968, the b-side of Reach Out)
Fly Me High –
The Moody Blues (1967, did not chart)
* Downtown – Petula Clark (1964, spent two weeks
at #1 in early 1965)
* Everything Is Good About You – The Lettermen
(1971, #74)
We’re In This
Love Together – Al Jarreau (1981, #15)
A Sunshiny Day
– Charley Pride (title track of his 1972 album A Sunshiny Day With Charley
Pride, but it was not released as a single)
CLOSING
THEME: Sleep Walk – Santo & Johnny (1959, #1 for two weeks)
Trivia Answer
Don’t Drop Out
was a very early Dolly Parton song, from her days as a pop artist.
Congratulations
to Mike 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
(June 6): Jan Hunsinger
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