Can you believe the balloting has already begun to determine this year’s All-Time Favorite Oldies on Rewound Radio?!?!
It represents my favorite week of the year …
They’ll play them down the week between Christmas and New Year’s (just like they’ve done EVERY year for the past 27 years!)
It’s really very simple …
Just cast your votes for up to your Top Ten Favorites … and then be listening to see where your favorite oldies came in. (You’ll even be able to print out the massive list that shows where every single song finished in the poll when everything is over.)
There was a changing of the guard last year as The Rolling Stones’ “Satisfaction” FINALLY displaced The Beatles’ “Hey Jude” at the top of the chart. (Previously, “Hey Jude had been the reigning champion, earning the most votes for 24 out of the previous 26 years!)
Here are all the details you need to know to head on over and cast your votes …
Hello again ...
Once again it's time to let us know
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Please help determine the greatest music of all time! We need to know YOUR
favorites.
The yearly tradition of determining music lovers' favorite songs continues this
year with the 27th edition of the Top Songs of All-Time at OldiesBoard.com
The voting is just starting and this year you can pick up to ten of your
favorite songs to determine the results.
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You can even have your own copy of the list of more than 3000 songs that get
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Last weekend we ran a picture of Micky Dolenz with Donnie Most … Ralph Malph from Happy Days …
And today we’ve got one of Micky with The Fonz!!!
THE TWO FONZES
Henry Winkler - the Fonz on TV’s Happy Days - and Micky Dolenz - from The Monkees - met up in Nashville over the weekend for the Gallatin Comic-con.
Dolenz, who auditioned for the role, before Winkler nabbed it, has a new album coming out next month called MICKY DOLENZ: LIVE AT THE TROUBADOUR and is in the middle of a country-wide tour.
(photo courtesy dis COMPANY: L-R: Winkler and Dolenz)
Hi there Kent,
Well, the WRCO website is back to its old style, and the listen live link is back working again, and I am listening to Phil Nee's oldies show at 7:34, 6:34 PM central time and he's featuring songs from 1973 in this week's show.
Right now he's playing We're An American Band by Grand Funk, which my ex-wife Mary absolutely hated! They were just too heavy for her. Her style was more Neil Diamond, Carpenters, Bread, Barry Manilow, Jim Croce and Lobo.
Anyway, I'm really glad to be able to listen to the show this week.
Thanks for researching Playground In My Mind.
Since it was released in June of 1972, I guess there's something that the PD or Music Director at WMEX liked about the record, so he decided to start playing it in October. There are a number of other records like that ...
Don't Say You Don't Remember by Beverly Bremers was released in the summer of 1971, and some stations actually played it that early.
Of course, Hanky Panky by Tommy James and the Shondells was a three year old record when that KQV Pittsburgh disc jockey started playing it in the spring and early summer of 1966. Space Oddity by David Bowie was first released in 1969, but it didn't do very well back then. It took a re-release in 1973 for it to become a hit. There are quite a few records that got released at least twice, but the first time for whatever reason, the record flopped.
I also made the statement that Freddy Cannon was probably the only first generation rock and roller, but I forgot about Paul Anka, and he's from that generation as well.
Anyway, Kent, take care, and just know that you'll be able to hear Those Were The Days shows again after a single week's interruption.
Take care,
Sam Ward
Port Credit Ontario Canada
Three other records that immediately come to mind (regarding a better “afterlife” than their original release) include “Dream On” by Aerosmith (we heard it here in Chicago in 1973, where it made a modest showing on the national charts (#32 in Record World … but only #59 in Billboard), “She’s Gone” by Daryl Hall and John Oates (another record that got airplay here in 1974 (#48 in Record World and #60 in Billboard), which exploded into a Top Ten Hit after the success of “Sara Smile.” (Atlantic re-released it to cash in … by then the duo had moved to RCA)
But perhaps the BIGGEST late-success story of all belongs to The Moody Blues, who first released “Nights In White Satin” in 1968 (#93 in Cash Box) It took the rest of the world nearly FIVE YEARS to catch up with what many of us knew back then, propelling the record to a #1 showing in both Record World and Cash Box in 1972. (Then again, you’ve got “The Twist” by Chubby Checker, the first record EVER to go to #1 twice in the rock and roll era, first in 1960 and then again in 1962 when it was re-released to cash in on the record’s popularity in clubs and discotheques all over the country. (kk)
kk …
Cousin Brucie is playing “HEY SVENGOOLIE" right now. Tonight’s Guest is Andy Kim.
FB
John Farnham, the latter-day lead singer of The Little River Band … he replaced original lead singer Glenn Shorrock in 1982 and sang lead on all three of the band’s last Top 40 Hits: “The Other Guy” (#11), “We Two” (#22) and “You’re Driving Me Out Of My Mind” (#35) … may never sing again.
In his new book, “The Voice Inside,” he says that he was diagnosed with mouth cancer in 2022 and had to undergo a surgical procedure where all of his bottom teeth were removed, after which his jawbone was scraped.
Farnham writes, "My facial disfigurement from the surgery means I can't open my mouth wide enough for a strip of spaghetti, let alone to sing a top C. At this stage, I can't get the movement to make the sounds I want to make, and that's where the vibrations and my voice come from. It’s still a very disconcerting thing – and trying hurts."
As if this wasn’t enough of a career setback, he also fell and broke his back during his recovery period. But Farnham says he hasn't yet given up on his dream to sing again: "I can barely open my mouth but I still wail in the shower."
We talked about The Rolling Stones in our Saturday Evening Post. Now comes word that their 18-city “Hackney Diamonds” tour grossed $235 million. And they’ve already got their next album in the can, waiting to be released!!!
Not a bad 60-year-run for these guys, eh???
(L-R: Ronnie Wood, Mick Jagger and Keith Richards of The Rolling Stones –
Taken at Camping World Stadium on June 3rd, 2024, in Orlando, Fla.
Paul Hennessy / Anadolu via Getty Images)
More from the “Everything Old Is New Again” Department …
Thanks to their inclusion in the new hit movie “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice,” “Tragedy” by The Bee Gees, “Margaritaville” by Jimmy Buffett, “Right Here Waiting For You” by Richard Marx and both the original Richard Harris and the ‘70’s disco version of “MacArthur Park” are scoring on Billboard’s new “Top Movie Songs” chart. All five songs made The Top Ten upon their original release … and are now scoring fans with a whole new generation of music lovers.
“Tragedy” earned 8.3 million streams last week, followed by 6.1 million streams for “Margaritaville,” 4.2 million streams for “Right Here Waiting For You,” 1.2 million streams for the Richard Harris version of “MacArthur Park,” followed by 750,000 streams for the up-tempo Donna Summer remake. (kk)
Toronto radio/TV personality Sam Houston (air name) told me that as a ten-year old kid, she sat down and wrote out, then memorized all of the lyrics to "Life Is A Rock."
After nearly 50 years, however, I still remember a DJ copy of the song where a few words that didn't rhyme were spoken during the fade of the longer version. Do you remember that? It's possible that radio stations were the only place this "custom" version was available.
It kinda reminds me of the (misheard - or heard correctly?) lyrics during the final phrases of "Love Grows." Everyone seemed to be talking about that uncertainty for a few weeks.
David Lewis
I definitely remember the original “long fade” we were exposed to after “Life Is A Rock” proved its long-lasting popularity. Joey Levine just kind of rambled on while the background singers sang “wanna take you higher.”
I know here in Chicago, BOTH major Top 40 stations had their own customized versions of the song … where Levine sang either “WLS” or “WCFL” or (to MY recollection, “Super ‘CFL”) rolled me. (I’ve yet to find that last one … but I remember hearing it as clearly and distinctly as yesterday. Rewound Radio has featured BOTH versions (as well as a special mix version that includes both radio station’s call letters, I believe made by Scott Childers) as part of their annual WLS / WCFL Rewound Labor Day Weekend series. (kk)
A nice tribute to Jack Jones: https://theseconddisc.com/2024/10/25/in-memoriam-jack-jones-1938-2024/
The Cowsills have released the second track from their new (old) album “Global.”
The Cowsills at the time of the Global recording:
L-R: Robby Scharf, John, Bob, Susan and Paul Cowsill
Photo Credit: LouAnn Cowsill
Following the release earlier this month of “What I Believe,” the first track from The Cowsills’ newly restored Global album (out November 8 on Omnivore Recordings), comes “She Said To Me.” The song’s release is accompanied by a lyric video that includes major elements of an early ‘90s music video, shot on VHS. That archival video, directed and edited by Ryan Sexton, captures the band energetically performing “She Said To Me” around the time the Global album was recorded. Sexton also directed videos for Global tracks "Is It Any Wonder?" and "Some Good Years." They were created for promotion of the album, the release of which was hung up for years, though they were actually screened in local movie theaters before the main feature. According to Bob Cowsill, “The budget for these was non-existent. Ryan used the band to hone his talent on and we, in turn, received three promotional videos at no cost for an album that wouldn’t come out until many years later. Somehow, it all made sense.”
Global, which had been more of a rumor rather than a reality for the better part of three decades, will be legitimately released by Omnivore Recordings on November 8. The album is the stuff of rock ‘n’ roll legend: it was recorded partially at Rumbo Recorders in LA’s San Fernando Valley with the financial underwriting of a self-styled financier. Rumbo is the studio that had been established by Daryl Dragon, “The Captain” in The Captain and Tennille, and had over the years hosted sessions by a broad range of significant artists including Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers, Guns N’ Roses, Fleetwood Mac, Dio, Megadeth and Survivor. The Cowsills, who had decided to pursue the path of a contemporary band rather than as the “oldies” act that Dick Clark had hoped to promote, were left high and dry when their backer was revealed to be a scam artist and was summarily arrested by the FBI for insurance fraud. The funds for the Rumbo sessions were theoretical at best so the album’s master tapes were not accessible to the group due to the outstanding bill for the recording.
The album will finally be available on vinyl for the first time ever next month; the CD and digital versions will include three bonus tracks that had never been heretofore released in any format. Upon finally hearing it, Greg Brodsky, founder of the popular site BestClassicBands, called it “... a revelation of pure pop greatness” and “a joyous noise spanning decades of pure pop and songcraft.” Global represents a continuation of the alliance between The Cowsills and Omnivore, which released the critically lauded Rhythm of the World, the band’s first all new album in 30 years in 2022.
With full cooperation from the band and executive producers Rock Positano and James Ferr, Global has been restored and remastered by multiple Grammy-winner Michael Graves. Bob, John, Paul and Susan Cowsill, as well as veteran bassist Robby Scharf, are joined by guests Vicki Peterson (The Bangles, Continental Drifters), Berton Averre (The Knack), Peter Holsapple (The dB’s, Continental Drifters), members of the extended Cowsills family, and even John Stamos, who was already one of the biggest names in Hollywood at the time of recording. It’s a joyous noise spanning decades of pure pop and songcraft. Updated artwork, and new liner notes from Brett Milano and Bob Cowsill bring this “lost” album’s story to life.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vX_ZB0iy3vU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjq3yKY-vpY
This is some damn good stuff!
Go on YouTube and sample some of these tracks … they’re excellent! (kk)
60 YEARS AGO TODAY:
11/1/64 - Cleveland running back Jim Brown runs for 149 yards in The Browns' 30-17 win at Pittsburgh to become the first NFL player to exceed 10,000 yards career rushing
Also on 11/1 – The Dave Clark Five appear on “The Ed Sullivan Show”
(OK, so it's not the real deal ... but this is such a great song and was their big hit at the time!)
