Did you get a chance to listen to Phil Nee’s salute to 1971 Saturday Night?
I guess there were a few glitches early on with
people being unable to stream the station (I myself had issues), but things
were corrected early enough to air the balance (and bulk) of the show.
I’ve personally received some very good feedback (and
I’m hoping that Phil has, too.) He did a
GREAT job of presenting not only your Top 40 Favorites, but also a TON of
extras. (And I love the way he was able
to edit in my contributions as well as many of his vintage interviews with
these artists and distribute them throughout the six hour program.) A GREAT job … and a reminder of just how
solid the music of ’71 really was.
(If you’re curious as to how The Top 40 shaped up, I
can now reveal the list for those who may have missed the show):
|
1 |
Brown Sugar - Rolling Stones |
|
2 |
It's Too Late - Carole King |
|
3 |
LA Goodbye - Ides Of March |
|
4 |
Mighty Clouds Of Joy - BJ Thomas |
|
5 |
Joy To The World - Three Dog Night |
|
6 |
What Is Life - George Harrison |
|
7 |
If I Were Your Woman - Gladys Knight and the Pips |
|
8 |
It Don't Come Easy - Ringo Starr |
|
9 |
Lucky Man- Emerson, Lake and Palmer |
|
10 |
Bell Bottom Blues - Derek and the Dominoes |
|
11 |
I'd Love To Change The World - Ten Years After |
|
12 |
Lonely Days - Bee Gees |
|
13 |
Me And You And A Dog Named Boo - Lobo |
|
14 |
Riders On The Storm - Doors |
|
15 |
Do You Know What I Mean - Lee Michaels |
|
16 |
Black Magic Woman - Santana |
|
17 |
Maggie May - Rod Stewart |
|
18 |
Baby I'm-A Want You - Bread |
|
19 |
Temptation Eyes - Grass Roots |
|
20 |
Woodstock - Matthews' Southern Comfort |
|
21 |
Just My Imagination - Temptations |
|
22 |
We Gotta Get You A Woman - Runt |
|
23 |
Roll On - New Colony Six |
|
24 |
Get It On - Chase |
|
25 |
Sooner or Later - Grass Roots |
|
26 |
Fresh As A Daisy - Emitt Rhodes |
|
27 |
Rings - Cymarron |
|
28 |
Won't Get Fooled Again - Who |
|
29 |
Eighteen - Alice Cooper |
|
30 |
Have You Seen Her - Chi-Lites |
|
31 |
Draggin' The Line - Tommy James |
|
32 |
Let Your Love Go - Bread |
|
33 |
I Just Want To Celebrate - Rare Earth |
|
34 |
Ain't No Sunshine - Bill Withers |
|
35 |
Wild World - Cat Stevens |
|
36 |
Stairway To Heaven - Led Zeppelin |
|
37 |
Indian Reservation - Paul Revere and the Raiders |
|
38 |
Walk Away - James Gang |
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39 |
It's A Cryin' Shame - Gayle McCormick |
|
40 |
Treat Her Like A Lady - Cornelius Brothers and Sister Rose |
When all was said and done, 151 songs were nominated and 5286 votes were cast. (kk)
It was a great show (after I got it.) Great interviews, too.
Clark Besch
On the radio …
Good morning!
In baseball, when a player has a very brief stint in the big
leagues or a short career overall, they like to call it “a cup of coffee.” In
popular music, the shortest career of all, having but a single hit song on the
pop charts, puts the artist in a special category, that of one-hit wonder. Like
most fans of pop music, we hold a special affection for these one-and-done
artists. Later in the week, we’ll be marking their all-too-brief time in the
spotlight with a One-Hit Wonder Weekend to coincide with National One-Hit Wonder Day, which is this Saturday, the 25th of September. We’ll kick off our weekend feature, as we
always do, in the 7:00 pm hour on Friday.
Care to make any suggestions for our celebration
of One-Hit Wonders? Feel free to drop us a line using contact@metv.fm anytime. Your input is always welcome here.
Have a good week!
Rick O’Dell / Me-TV-FM
And, from Chuck Buell, whom I think it’s safe to
say is NOT a “One Hit Wonder,” although he has played all of these Forgotten
Hits on his Big Radio Shows Across the Land over the years!
We bring this up because this Saturday is Officially “National
One-Hit Wonder Day,” honoring those who HIT it Big - ONCE - then FADED away!
So many of these songs still resonate among our personal favorites!
This by no means is a comprehensive list but just a taste of some of
those singular songs from that Forgotten Hit Decade known as the unforgettable
1960s! What’s interesting is, you can almost immediately “hear” these songs in
your head just by reading their titles!
1960 ~~~
"Teen Angel" by Mark Dinning
"Stay" by Maurice Williams and the Zodiacs
"Alley Oop" by The Hollywood Argyles
"Mr. Custer" by Larry Verne
1961 ~~~
"I Like It Like That" by Chris Kenner
"Apache" by Jørgen Ingmann
“Mother-in-Law” by Ernie K Doe
“The Lion Sleeps Tonight” by the Tokens
1962 ~~~
"Hey Baby" by Bruce Channel
“Telstar” by The Tornados
“The Stripper” by
David Rose
"Rhythm of the Rain" by The Cascades
"Stranger on the Shore" by Acker Bilk
1963 ~~~
"Wipe Out" by The Surfaris
"The Game of Love" by Wayne Fontana
"Sukiyaki" by Kyu Sakamoto
"Sally Go Round the Roses" by The Jaynetts
“Six Days on the Road” by Dave Dudley
1964
“Ringo" by Lorne Greene
"Last Kiss" by J. Frank Wilson and the Cavaliers
1965
"Eve of Destruction" by Barry McGuire
1966
“They’re Coming to Take Me Away, Ha-Haaa!”
1967
"Little Bit O' Soul" by The Music Explosion
1968
"Judy in Disguise (With Glasses)" by John Fred and His
Playboy Band
"Green Tambourine" by The Lemon Pipers
"Love is Blue" by Paul Mauriat and His Orchestra
“Harper Valley P.T.A.” by Jeannie C. Riley
“Grazing in the Grass”– Hugh Masekela
1969
“Smile a Little Smile for Me” by The Flying Machine
“Spirit in the Sky” by Norman Greenbaum
"Love (Can Make You Happy)" by Mercy
"In the Year 2525" by Zager and Evans
And there you go! And there they went!
One and Done!
CB!
(Chart
Boy???) kk
And,
of course, our own list, put together for a radio program many years ago by
Rich Appel …
Forgotten Hits - Top
100 One-Hit Wonders
And
we’ve just GOT to mention the song that WE always try to encourage disc jockeys
to play during any One Hit Wonder celebration
(and most have complied) …
It
comes from the very prolific (and very clever) pen of Chicago’s own Jim
Peterik, whose Ides Of March are considered by most of the world to be a One
Hit Wonder (although Jim once said to me, “C’mon, we’ve got to be at least a 1 ½
Hit Wonder!”) …
Check
out all that went into the writing of this song … a Forgotten Hits Classic that
we’ve been playing for YEARS now …
And, speaking of classic One Hit Wonders ...
kk
…
BRUCE interviews BRUCE –
Last
Night Bruce Milner of Every Mother’s Son was interviewed by Bruce Morrow.
The
group was discovered singing on the beaches of Brooklyn, New York.
They
were together for three years ... one year before recording their "ONE HIT
WONDER," "COME ON DOWN TO MY BOAT" and two years after.
Everybody
wants to know where their name came from:
Every Mother’s Son.
One of the group members heard the quote in "MOBY DICK." He also heard the same quote in "MERCHANT OF VENICE" and decided it would be a good group name.
After
three years, the group members went their separate ways.
Bruce
Milner became a Dentist. Nowadays he's Cousin Brucie's Dentist.
Don't
you just love a happy ending?
FB
“Come On Down To My Boat” was a GREAT song … we STILL
hear it all the time, 54 years later … definitely one of the biggest songs from
The Summer of ’67 (aka The Summer Of Love.)
Big as it was, it was kept out of the #1 spot thanks to “Windy” by The
Association on our WLS chart … but it DID hit #1 on WCFL. (Nationally, it peaked at #5 … but I know it
also hit #1 on other Top 40 charts around the country.)
I MC’d a show one time where former Every
Mother’s Son lead singer Denny Larden appeared with The New Colony Six and sang the band’s one big
hit. (The closest they ever came to
another one was with their follow-up single, “Put Your Mind At Ease” … it
peaked at #36 on the charts, probably due to the immediate airplay it got
coming off their previous chart success.
Billboard ranked it ten spots lower on their Hot 100 Chart.)
Frank also sent us a video of the band performing
“Come On Down To My Boat,” but you’ll have to look closely to find Bruce Milner
… he’s barely in any of the shots!!!
This is just one of those Real Good, Feel Good
Songs! (kk)
Frank also sent these cool photos from Brian Hyland’s “homecoming” ceremony …
kk
…
Saturday
(September 18th) was Brian Hyland's Homecoming Ceremony.
In
an interview, I heard Brian say that he bought a house for his family. They moved from Woodhaven, Queens to West
Hempsteag, Long Island.
FB
... And this tribute to legendary deejay Harry Harrison, who would have turned 91 yesterday (September 20th) …
On This Day In History: September 20th, 1930: Harry Harrison is born.
Harrison worked at WCFL as a summer replacement, yet remained
there eight months, substituting for the permanent DJs. Harrison became program
director at WPEO, Peoria and hosted the morning show as the "Morning Mayor
of Peoria." In just six months, Harrison made WPEO the top station.
In 1959, Harrison joined WMCA, New York, as the mid-day
"Good Guy." Joe O'Brien (mornings) and Harrison gave WMCA a
"one-two punch" for over eight years. Harrison, along with wife
Patti, and children Brian Joseph ["B.J."], Patti, Patrick, and
Michael, called the New York suburbs "home." In 1965, he recorded the nationally charted
holiday narration "May You Always" on Amy Records. Other WMCA
"Good Guys" included Jack Spector, B. Mitchel Reed, Dan Daniel and
Johnny Dark, and talk show host Barry Gray.
Harrison became popular with his "Housewife Hall of
Fame" feature, and participated in the 1966 WMCA Good Guy picnic. Often,
he scored the highest ratings on WMCA. WABC program director Rick Sklar took
note. In 1968, when WABC morning man Herb Oscar Anderson left the station, Rick
Sklar hired Harrison to replace him. Harrison was followed in the WABC day by
Ron Lundy.
Every year, Harrison played seasonal songs, such as his
holiday greeting "May You Always" in the winter (the Amy records
single of this song made the Billboard Christmas charts in 1965), and Allan
Sherman's summer camp novelty, "Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh",
throughout the summer months. WABC personalities included, along with Harrison,
Charlie Greer, Scott Muni, Bob Lewis, Lundy, Johnny Donovan, Dan Ingram,
"Cousin Brucie" Bruce Morrow, Chuck Leonard, Bob Cruz, Frank Kingston
Smith, and Roby Yonge, and others.
Harrison had a number of "trademark" phrases, such
as "Morning, Mom," "Every brand new day should be unwrapped like
a precious gift," "Stay well, stay happy, stay right here" and
"Harry Harrison wishing you all the very best ... because that's exactly
what you deserve!" Also, on the last day of every year, Harrison would
bring his four children to work with him and at the end of his shift, he would
join them in giving listeners New Year's wishes.
Harrison was let go from WABC as the station changed
direction in November 1979. In March, 1980, Harrison became the morning
personality at WCBS-FM (101.1), playing oldies music. In 1984, with Lundy
joining the station, they were once again heard back-to-back. Harrison would interact
with Morning Crew engineer Al Vertucci, Phil Pepe, who reported sports, and
joke about "wacky weather" and toupee warnings with Irv "Mr.
"G" Gikofsky (weather), Mary Jane Royce, and Sue Evans. At 7:20 AM,
Harrison opened the "birthday book" and announced listener and
celebrity birthdays.
On April 25, 1997, New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani
issued a proclamation, naming April 25th "Harry Harrison Day" in
honor of the second "Mayor." On March 19, 2003, after a 44-year
career in New York radio, Harrison left WCBS-FM, saying "I am not
retiring." His farewell to his loyal radio friends (from 5:30 to 10:00 am)
was held before a live audience at the Museum of Television and Radio in New
York City. It offered old airchecks plus guest appearances by WCBS-FM colleagues
Don K. Reed, Bobby Jay, Steve O'Brien, Randy Davis and Dan Taylor, his
replacement, as well as his son and daughter, and wife Patti. Harrison took
phone calls from Bob Shannon, Mike Fitzgerald, Ed Baer, and Ron Lundy. Songs
included Gladys Knight's "Neither One of Us (Wants to Be the First to Say
Goodbye)" and the Little River Band's "Reminiscing," before
closing with "That's What Friends Are For."
Shortly after he left WCBS-FM, Harrison's long-time wife,
Patti, who he had always referred to as "Pretty Patti" on the air,
died. Harrison returned to WCBS-FM with a Saturday morning show in 2004. It
offered two hours of variety and two hours of Beatles music and memories. On
Memorial Day, May 30, 2005, Harry and "Cousin" Bruce Morrow were
guests on WABC Radio's annual Rewound show. Four days later, on June 3, WCBS-FM
ended its "oldies" format, in favor of the new "Jack"
format. However, as a result of listener disapproval, the WCBS-FM Oldies format
was brought back on July 12, 2007, in a modernized form.
#HarryHarrison #WABC #WABCAM #AMTop40 #TheMostMusic #MusicRadio #MusicRadioWABC #AM77WABC #SeventySevenWABC #WABCAM #WABCRadio #AllAmericans #WABCAllAmericans #AMRadio #Radio #OldTimeRadio #OTR #Deejays #DJs #DiscJockeys #RadioShows #GreatDJs #GreatDiscJockeys #Airchecks #WCBSFM #WCFL #WPEO #WMCA #GoodGuys #WMCAGoodGuys
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Harrison_(DJ) Harry Harrison
Of course the big news here in Chicago yesterday was the impromptu
concert by Metallic at the small 1100 seat venue The Metro … tickets sold out
an hour after the show was first announced … it was the band's first appearance here at the
club in 38 years. (One of the attendees
mentioned to me that he saw them then, too … and for probably the same $20
ticket price!)
Meanwhile, The Rolling Stones played a private warm-up show for Patriots
Owner Robert Kraft and his family … their first ever without Charlie Watts on
Drums. The real No Filter Tour resumes
on Sunday in St. Louis. (Incredibly,
this tour first launched in Hamburg, Germany, on September 9th of 2017
and played thru to August 30th of 2019 in Florida. Plans to pick up again early last year were
disrupted when the pandemic hit and forced the cancellation of all events.
Noise 11 is reporting this as the band’s set list when they
performed for the Kraft’s private family party at Gillette Stadium, Foxborough, MA:
Let’s Spend the Night Together
Tumbling Dice
Under My Thumb
Trouble’s a Coming (from the brand new “Tattoo You”
expanded box set coming out next month)
Living in a Ghost Town (their pandemic single from
last year)
You Can’t Always Get What You Want
Midnight Rambler
Miss You
19th Nervous Breakdown
Start Me Up
Gimme Shelter
Sympathy for the Devil
Jumpin’ Jack Flash
(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction
And, leaving no Stone unturned ...
kk …
The Rolling Stones will darken their logo to honor Charlie Watts. They Will Also Show Videos Of Charlie During Concerts.
FB
Yes, we talked about this last week … at least SOME kind of tribute to honor their fallen bandmate. (These poor guys couldn't even attend Charlie's funeral.) kk
Latest band reunion to report seems to be The Fugees, who last
performed together in any capacity back in 2006. Lauryn Hill,
Wyclef Jean and Pras Michel (each of whom have enjoyed some degree of
success as solo artists) would all be onboard.
Geared around the 25th anniversary of their 1996
album “The Score,” new recordings, a film and possibly even a tour are all
being discussed. That LP spawned their
#2 Hit “Killing Me Softly,” a hip-hop remake of the Roberta Flack classic.
There have been other reunions of sorts during the past 25
years, but all have been one-offs designed around a specific event.
The first happened
just a year after their announced split in 1997 when The Fugees reunited to
film the music video for ‘Just Happy to Be Me’ for the “Sesame Street” special “Elmopalooza”
in 1998, as well as the Grammy-winning soundtrack album.
In September of 2004,
they reunited on stage for a concert in Brooklyn, and a year later, the group
played a 12-minute set at the 2005 BET Awards.
(Talks of a reunion album also surfaced at the time, but only one song,
“Take It Easy,” ever materialized. It
charted for just two weeks in October of 2005, only managing to bubble under at
#119. Still, The Fugees (short for
Refugees) are regarded as one of the most influential groups of the 90s, having
sold over 22 million records worldwide.
(They were certainly all the rage at the time!)
Lauryn Hill went on to
even greater notoriety with the release of her solo album “The Miseducation of
Lauryn Hill” in 1998 and then went on to produce tracks for artists like Whitney
Houston, Aretha Franklin and Mary J. Blige.
Haitian cousins Wyclef
Jean and Pras Michel also went on to produce other artists, as well as scoring
hits with their own solo releases. In
1997, Wyclef Jean released his debut album “The Carnival,” (which just happened
to feature multiple appearances from his former bandmates) while Pras Michel
scored the big hit “Ghetto Supastar” (#15, 1998), featuring Ol’ Dirty Bastard
and Mya (from the Warren Beatty film “Bulworth.”
FUGEES HIT LIST
(includes solo hits to date)
Peaks shown were in
Billboard Magazine … higher chartings also noted
1994 – Nappy Heads (by
Fugees) #49
1996 – Fu-Gee-La (by
Fugees – Refugee Camp) #29 / #19 in Cash
Box
1996 – Killing Me Softly
(by Fugees) #2 / #1 in Radio and Records
1996 – No Woman, No
Cry (by Fugees) #38
1997 – The Sweetest
Thing (as released by The Refugee Camp All-Stars, featuring Lauryn Hill) #61
1997 – Avenues (as
released by The Refugee Camp All-Stars, featuring Pras with Ky-Mani)
1998 – Gone Till
November (by Wyclef Jean) #7
1998 – Can’t Take My
Eyes Off Of You (by Lauryn Hill) #35
1998 – Ghetto Supastar
(by Pras Michel) #15
1998 – Doo Wop (That
Thing) by Lauryn Hill (#1)
1999 – Ex-Factor (by
Lauryn Hill) #21
1999 – Everything Is
Everything (by Lauryn Hill) #35
2001 – Perfect
Gentleman (by Wyclef Jean) #xx / #46 in
Radio and Records
2000 – 911 (by Wyclef
Jean featuring Mary J. Blige) #38
2002 – Two Wrongs (by
Wyclef Jean featuring Claudette Ortiz of City High) #28
2005 – Haven’t Found
(by Pras Michel featuring Sharli McQueen)
#xx / #36 in Radio and Records
2007 – Sweetest Girl
(Dollar Bill) by Wyclef Jean featuring Akon, Lil Wayne and Nila (#12)
#10 in Radio and Records
Kent,
In
today's FH, you mentioned the song "Pedal Pushin' Papa" you listened
to while you were a kid. Was that the version by the Dominoes or did you
eliminate that one? Also was this supposed to be an answer to the song PISTOL
PACKIN' MAMA?
Larry
Neal
I remember it being a blue and white label 78 … so I
suppose it COULD have been The Dominoes’ version … but it just doesn’t sound
right to me. (I’ve done extensive
searches for this over the years and never found it … but, unfortunately, even
if I found another artist who cut the track, odds are I wouldn’t be able to
listen to the song to see if it was the right one … because the ONLY one shown
or featured on YouTube seems to be The Dominoes’ version!)
For some reason, I think it was a white cover version
… but I can’t substantiate that either.
(Years ago we were able to track down a song that Frannie had been
looking for since she was a young girl … evidently a local hit only in the
Dallas / Fort Worth area where she grew up.
I amazed her one year when I actually found and was able to download a
copy of the track. In fact, at one point
I even talked to the artist who recorded it!!!
And it’s actually not a bad song at all!) I just don’t think, after all this time, I’ll
ever be as fortunate in my own quest.
(kk)
Hi
Kent,
Thank
you so much for the explanation of the cancellation of Randy and Burton's
Concert. With today’s problems, it is
doing the safe thing.
Hope
they make a lot of $$ at Biondi Bash. When they had a donation show for him in Merrionette
Park, a few of my friends and me went and had to leave since there was nowhere
to park in the big shopping parking lot nor by the surrounding side streets!!!
So
we all sent a check.
Hope
they have a great turn out. Wish I could be there, but I have a family birthday
to go to.
Thank
You SO MUCH for all your help ... Was hoping to see you at their concert ... maybe
next year. We have to think positive!
Carolyn
A closing smile from Frank B …
I like some of the comments …
Charles Sedgwick Cairns: And the rye is grey.
Joe Baliga: Shouldn’t have bought it on a Monday. Just can’t trust
that day…
Christine Kelly: Sometimes I chuckle and shake my head …
Sometimes
I just shake my head.
Rajani Surendar Bhat: Cauliflower dreaming?
