As we all knew it would, "Baby Love" by The Supremes moves into the #1 spot on this week's Super Chart. Last week's #1 Hit, "Last Kiss," slips down to #2 and Manfred Mann's "Do Wah Diddy Diddy" comes in at #3 in its 10th week on the chart.
The only other British Hit in The Top Ten this week belongs to The Honeycombs, who are up four places to #5 with "Have I The Right." (Will this one end up topping the chart in a week or two as well?)
But don't think for a moment that The British Invasion has lost its hold on America ...
Save #15 by Elvis, numbers 14 - 22 ALL belong to British acts on this week's chart ...
"Tobacco Road" by The Nashville Teens hold at #14, "Everybody Knows (I Still Love You)" by The Dave Clark Five comes in at #16, Chad and Jeremy's "A Summer Song" follow it at #17, "I'm Crying" by The Animals is at #18, "I Don't Want To See You Again" moves up a couple of notches to #19, The Kinks climb six spots to #20 with "You Really Got Me," The Zombies are right behind them at #21 with "She's Not There" (which is up eleven places) and Gerry and the Pacemakers round out the block of British Rock at #22 with "I Like It."
The Rolling Stones are not far behind ... their latest, "Time Is On My Side," comes in at #26, which is up a dozen spots from the week before.
Also climbing twelve places are The Searchers with "When You Walk In the Room," this week's #43 hit. (Dusty Springfield falls somewhere in between at #33 with "All Cried Out.")
And newbies Herman's Hermits make another 14-point leap from #60 to #46 with their first US chart hit, "I'm Into Something Good."
This week's highest debut is way down at #79 ... but it belongs to The Four Seasons ... so odds are we'll be hearing a lot more of "Big Man In Town" in the weeks to come.
60 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK:
11/2/64 – The performers at this year’s Royal Command
Performance for Queen Elizabeth in London include Brenda Lee, Cilla Black,
Cliff Richard and The Bachelors
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
your favorite songs!
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.
Once the results are tabulated you can see where yours placed at OldiesBoard.com.
You can even have your own copy of the list of more than 3000 songs that get
votes, in order of their popularity.
So if you haven't already voted this year, please vote!
Remember, this is the only music survey that includes any artist, any era, any
style ... and we NEED YOUR VOTE THIS YEAR to make this the best year ever!
The process is easier than ever!
Please just take a few minutes to pick your favorite songs (pick anything from
one song up to to ten of your favorites).
And pass the word to any other family members or friends.
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)
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.
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!)
