>>> This week’s edition of The Sunday Comments
will post at exactly 12:01 am ... that's one minute after midnight ... TONIGHT! (kk)
I am probably the only old s.o.b.
that will be up when you post it!
Phil – WRCO
>>>Check
it out ... our New Colony Six buddies have the #22 Record in Alaska this
week!!! (kk)
Very cool, errr, cold, Kent! Never
made the trek that far north (to Alaska, go north, the rush is on…) but have
always loved their ice cream bars!
Ray
Hi Kent,
We’ve just recently
introduced a new book series that should be of interest to your readers,
especially those fans of the Saturday Survey feature. It’s Cash Box
Regional Hits 1956. Cash Box published numerous regional charts, mostly
from DJs at various radio stations across the country. Joel has spent a
lot of time personally researching each and every chart and picked out the ones
that never made it to the national charts. Talk about “forgotten hits,”
this book is chock full of them! Lots of great doo-wop, rockabilly and
novelty hits are included. After Joel dug out these treasures, I got them
entered in our database and the end result is a fun, colorful look at some very
obscure and, in some cases, very valuable records (many of which have full
color photos in the book). I especially love seeing the different radio
stations and disc jockey names, along with the retail store names.
Here’s a look at the 1956
volume, now on sale and coming in stock this week. We also have 1957 and
1958 in the works, with hopefully more to follow.
Paul Haney
Record Research
Very cool indeed! How many years did they keep this up? (I’m wondering if these charts continued thru
my key era of interest, 1964 – 1972)
And I was QUITE surprised to see
WCFL playing rock and roll music in 1956!!!
I had absolutely NO idea that this was the case. (Guess I’m going to have to dig a little deeper in
my CFL Research!!!) I’m curious … do
individual Top Ten Charts exist for each week for the radio stations reporting
in? I would love to see THOSE in addition
to Joel’s recap … especially for our local charts here in Chicago.
Yep, I think we can probably shoot a
few Forgotten Hits Readers your way for this one! (Check out some of the sample pages via the
link … some very cool and amazing stuff!)
kk
>>>From the “Now I’ve Seen
Everything” Department … Have you caught the new PetSmart commercial that
features Yoko Ono singing “I’m Your Angel”?!?!
Who would have EVER thought!
Sure, it’s nearly forty years later … but Yoko’s music has FINALLY hit
the mainstream … John would have been SO proud!
(kk)
Kent,
It really surprises me they're using that Yoko Ono song in a TV commercial. She was sued shortly after the Double Fantasy album was released by the heirs of the composers of "Makin Whoopee." Obviously, the songs sound so similiar. The matter was settled out of court. "Makin Whoopee" was written back in the 20s but I remember hearing it a lot in Pepsi commercials in the 60s. Instead of Makin Whoopee, it was "Drinkin Pepsi". The commercials are on You Tube.
Dave
Hoffman Estates
It really surprises me they're using that Yoko Ono song in a TV commercial. She was sued shortly after the Double Fantasy album was released by the heirs of the composers of "Makin Whoopee." Obviously, the songs sound so similiar. The matter was settled out of court. "Makin Whoopee" was written back in the 20s but I remember hearing it a lot in Pepsi commercials in the 60s. Instead of Makin Whoopee, it was "Drinkin Pepsi". The commercials are on You Tube.
Dave
Hoffman Estates
The 2018 Midwest Fest For Beatles
Fans has just been announced. Being held
once again at the Chicago Hyatt Regency O’Hare, performers will include our FH
Buddy Billy J. Kramer as well as Peter and Jeremy (who we’ve been dying to
see!) Full information via the links
below (as Early Bird Registration has already started!) kk
Hey Kent,
I wondered if you could put in a word about the band
Dinosaur Exhibit. Prog-jazz-rock band including members of the Mauds, the Flock
and Aura, including Jerry Goodman of the Flock. They played a couple of
months ago at Ravinia’s Bennett Gordon Hall and sold the place out. Their next
gig is June 16 at Space in Evanston. They are really a great mix of music and
musicians, and I encourage you to check them out if you can - they won’t
disappoint! Hopefully there will be more shows in the near future, but I’d get
on the bandwagon while it’s still early.
Great band!
Marlene
Actually, I think we’ve promoted
each of their shows thus far and while I still haven’t had the chance to see
them, I’ve heard some really good things.
(I doubt that I’ll make the June Space gig either … but am still happy
to help spread the word.) This place is
kinda small, so will sell out quickly.
Get your tickets early if you want to catch this show! (kk)
I personally loved the
period piece of "Tip Toe Thru The Tulips" by Tiny Tim. However,
about a year earlier, the song was given a rather bleak (mean?) treatment by
the Humane Society that did fairly well in California, so Tiny Tim made
it nice and wholesome in his year later remake ... and personally, I loved his version
as just a newer "Winchester Cathedral" sound.
The song originated in 1929 and was #1 for many weeks
nationally.
Here's the 1967 Humane Society version, which was top 10 hit
on KACY in May, 1967 … and even top 20 on LA's giant AM KRLA in the summer of
love '67!
Clark
Besch
I’ve always been fond of The New
Christy Minstrels’ fun work up of the song, which I first heard on the Dr.
Demento program many, many years ago.
Tiny Tim’s may be the definitive
novelty version … but I’ve gotta rank this one as a close second. (kk)
I really like
this chart … not so much a sales and / or airplay chart in the traditional sense but rather one geared more
around listener requests. As such you
get great tracks like “Shades Of Gray” by The Monkees (last week’s #1 record)
and “A Day In The Life” by The Beatles, which you know EVERY radio station from
coast to coast was playing … but not necessarily charting since you couldn’t
actually buy it as a single. A couple of
Stones LP tracks, too … and “Randy Scouse Git” by The Monkees and “With A
Little Help From My Friends” by The Beatles, from the same albums as the two
mentioned above. Now THIS would have
been a fun countdown to listen to! (kk)
