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June 17, 2022: Show #450: "No goddam death dedications."
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Artist | Track | Album | Label | Year | Comments | Approx. start time | ||||
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Godspell - OBC | Day By Day | single (b/w Bless The Lord) | Bell | 1972 | #44 | 0:02:36 (Pop-up) | ||||
Joe Tex | You Said A Bad Word | single (b/w It Ain't Gonna Work Baby) | Dial | 1972 | #43 | 0:05:40 (Pop-up) | ||||
Procol Harum | Conquistador | single (b-side to A Salty Dog) | A&M | 1972 | #42 | 0:08:05 (Pop-up) | ||||
Luther Ingram | (If Loving You Is Wrong) I Don't Want To Be Right | single (b/w Puttin' Game Down) | KoKo | 1972 | #41 | 0:12:14 (Pop-up) | ||||
Aretha Franklin | All The King's Horses | single (b/w April Fools) | Atlantic | 1972 | #40 | 0:15:44 (Pop-up) | ||||
Jackson Five | Little Bitty Pretty One | single (b/w If I Have To Move A Mountain) | Motown | 1972 | #39 | 0:19:32 (Pop-up) | ||||
Little Jimmy Osmond | Long Haired Lover From Liverpool | single (b/w Mother Of Mine) | MGM | 1972 | #38 | 0:22:13 (Pop-up) | ||||
Supremes | Automatically Sunshine | single (b/w Precious Little Things) | Motown | 1972 | #37 | 0:24:19 (Pop-up) | ||||
Music behind DJ: The Spotnicks |
If You Could Read My Mind |
single (b/w Last Date) |
Polydor |
1971 |
0:26:54 (Pop-up) |
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Graham Nash And David Crosby | Immigration Man | single (b/w Whole Cloth) | Atlantic | 1972 | #36 | 0:33:01 (Pop-up) | ||||
Donny Osmond | Too Young | single (b/w Love Me) | MGM | 1972 | #35 | 0:36:10 (Pop-up) | ||||
Mouth and McNeil | How Do You Do? | single (b/w Land Of Milk And Honey) | Philips | 1972 | #34 | 0:38:59 (Pop-up) | ||||
Michael Jackson | I Wanna Be Where You Are | single (b/w We've Got A Good Thing Going) | Motown | 1972 | #33 | 0:41:54 (Pop-up) | ||||
Derek and the Dominos | Layla | single (b/w I Am Yours) | Atco | 1971 | #32 | 0:44:38 (Pop-up) | ||||
Frederick Knight | I've Been Lonely For So Long | single (b/w Lean On Me) | Stax | 1972 | #31 | 0:47:18 (Pop-up) | ||||
Millie Jackson | Ask Me What You Want | single (b/w I Just Can't Stand It) | Spring | 1972 | #30 | 0:50:31 (Pop-up) | ||||
The Moody Blues | Isn't Life Strange | single (b/w After You Came) | Threshold | 1972 | #29 | 0:53:28 (Pop-up) | ||||
Music behind DJ: Herbie Mann |
Respect Yourself |
single (b/w Mississippi Gambler) |
Atlantic |
1972 |
0:56:49 (Pop-up) |
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Harry Chapin | Taxi | single (b/w Empty) | Elektra | 1972 | #28 | 1:01:24 (Pop-up) | ||||
David Cassidy | How Can I Be Sure | single (b/w Ricky's Tune) | Bell | 1972 | #27 | 1:07:55 (Pop-up) | ||||
Wayne Newton | Daddy Don't You Walk So Fast | single (b/w Echo Valley 2-6809) | Chelsea | 1972 | #26 | 1:10:57 (Pop-up) | ||||
Creedence Clearwater Revival | Someday Never Comes | single (b/w Tearin' Up The Country) | Fantasy | 1972 | #25 | 1:14:15 (Pop-up) | ||||
Cher | Living In A House Divided | single (b/w One Honest Man) | Kapp | 1972 | #24 | 1:18:05 (Pop-up) | ||||
Cornelius Brothers & Sister Rose | Too Late To Turn Back Now | single (b/w Lift Your Love Higher) | United Artists | 1972 | #23 | 1:21:00 (Pop-up) | ||||
Al Green | Look What You Done For Me | single (b/w La-La For You) | Hi | 1972 | #22 | 1:24:06 (Pop-up) | ||||
Music behind DJ: Apollo 100 |
Beethoven 9 |
single (b/w Valley's) |
Pink Elephant |
1972 |
1:27:05 (Pop-up) |
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Commander Cody & His Lost Planet Airmen | Hot Rod Lincoln | single (b/w My Home In My Hand) | Paramount | 1972 | #21 | 1:33:23 (Pop-up) | ||||
Elton John | Rocket Man | single (b/w Suzie (Dramas)) | Uni | 1972 | #20 | 1:35:58 (Pop-up) | ||||
America | I Need You | single (b/w Riverside) | Warner Bros. | 1972 | #19 | 1:40:38 (Pop-up) | ||||
Love Unlimited | Walkin' In The Rain With The One I Love | single (b/w I Should Have Known) | Uni | 1972 | #18 | 1:43:37 (Pop-up) | ||||
The Pipes And Drums And The Military Band Of The Royal Scots Dragoon Guards | Amazing Grace | single (b/w Cornet Carillon) | RCA Victor | 1972 | #17 | 1:47:51 (Pop-up) | ||||
Todd Rundgren | I Saw The Light | single (b/w Marlene) | Bearsville | 1972 | #16 | 1:51:00 (Pop-up) | ||||
Bread | Diary | single (b/w Down On My Knees) | Elektra | 1972 | #!5 | 1:53:52 (Pop-up) | ||||
Music behind DJ: Ramsey Lewis Trio |
Upendo Ni Pamoja (Love Is Together) |
single (b/w Eternal Peace) |
Columbia |
1972 |
1:56:57 (Pop-up) |
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The Rolling Stones | Tumbling Dice | single (b/w Sweet Black Angel) | Rolling Stones | 1972 | #14 | 2:02:38 (Pop-up) | ||||
Cat Stevens | Morning Has Broken | single (b/w I Want To Live In A Wigwam) | A&M | 1972 | #13 | 2:06:13 (Pop-up) | ||||
The Carpenters | It's Going To Take Some Time | single (b/w Flat Baroque) | A&M | 1972 | #12 | 2:09:27 (Pop-up) | ||||
Roberta Flack | The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face | single (b/w Trade Winds) | Atlantic | 1972 | #11 | 2:12:20 (Pop-up) | ||||
Bill Withers | Lean On Me | single (b/w Better Off Dead) | Sussex | 1972 | #10 | 2:16:31 (Pop-up) | ||||
Dr. Hook | Sylvia's Mother | single (b/w Makin' It Natural) | Columbia | 1972 | #9 | 2:20:08 (Pop-up) | ||||
5th Dimension | (Last Night) I Didn't Get To Sleep At All | single (b/w The River Witch) | Bell | 1972 | #8 | 2:23:50 (Pop-up) | ||||
Music behind DJ: Quincy Jones |
Ironside (Theme From "Ironside" - NBC - TV) |
single (b/w Cast Your Fate To The Wind) |
A&M |
1972 |
2:26:57 (Pop-up) |
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Mr. Science | The Sexes | Series 02 | 96x | 1979-83 | 2:31:53 (Pop-up) | |||||
The Jimmy Castor Bunch | Troglodyte | single (b/w I Promise To Remember) | RCA Victor | 1972 | #7 | 2:33:59 (Pop-up) | ||||
Billy Preston | Outa-Space | single (b-side to I Wrote A Simple Song) | A&M | 1972 | #6 | 2:37:18 (Pop-up) | ||||
Gallery | Nice To Be With You | single (b/w Ginger Haired Man) | Sussex | 1972 | #5 | 2:41:18 (Pop-up) | ||||
Chi-Lites | Oh Girl | single (b/w Being In Love) | Brunswick | 1972 | #4 | 2:43:52 (Pop-up) | ||||
Neil Diamond | Song Sung Blue | single (b/w Gitchy Goomy) | Uni | 1972 | #3 | 2:47:09 (Pop-up) | ||||
Staple Singers | I'll Take You There | single (b/w I'm Just Another Soldier) | Stax | 1971 | #2 | 2:50:11 (Pop-up) | ||||
Sammy Davis Jr | Candy Man | single (b/w I Want To Be Happy) | MGM | 1972 | #1 | 2:53:20 (Pop-up) | ||||
Music behind DJ: Fleetwood Mac |
Albatross |
single (b/w Jigsaw Puzzle Blues) |
Blue Horizon |
1968 |
2:56:24 (Pop-up) |
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Listener comments!
THE LORD:
Uncle Michael:
THE LORD:
spodiodi:
good morning, Hinks and Dinks!
(splitting time in half hour slots today -- cruel scheduling gods!)
listener james from westwood:
"Is Don on the phone?!"
Aaron in Minneapolis:
Doug Schulkind:
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:
doctorjazz:
dan:
listener james from westwood:
Uncle Michael:
mauri:
Pauly from Clifton:
listener james from westwood:
Uncle Michael:
coelacanth∅:
it's been a few decades on the this one
(like 5)
spodiodi:
dan:
listener james from westwood:
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:
Uncle Michael:
still b/p:
The wee quickie glimpse on the screen behind Mr. Casem?
Joan Jett, I Love Rock 'N Roll.
I'd demand a prize, but prize goeth before a fall.
Andres:
coelacanth∅:
listener james from westwood:
dan:
Hopey Sockmonkey:
coelacanth∅:
coelacanth∅:
still b/p:
Can we do that now....can we?
Uncle Michael:
Robm:
Uncle Michael:
coelacanth∅:
Robm:
listener james from westwood:
Robm:
StringOFperils:
Uncle Michael:
dan:
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:
- a terminal Timmy Leary
phat in lincoln:
Rudy Poot:
Uncle Michael:
phat in lincoln:
doctorjazz:
dan:
Dean:
Uncle Michael:
Hopey Sockmonkey:
Rudy Poot:
listener james from westwood:
phat in lincoln:
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:
still b/p:
Robm:
Dean:
dan:
Bertolucci film about a hitman hired to take out his mentor.
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:
Uncle Michael:
phat in lincoln:
PAULS:
Hopey Sockmonkey:
still b/p:
dan:
Dean:
Uncle Michael:
Brian in UK:
phat in lincoln:
Uncle Michael:
Yes, Dean.
Alvy Singer:
dan:
One more, "Brandy (You're A Fine Girl)" also debuted on the charts on this very day.
coelacanth∅:
KevinfromBayRidge:
dan:
We're not hearing those songs today. I'm not giving anything away on today's show.
Hopey Sockmonkey:
Dean:
Also, it's possible, isn't it, that a song recorded in '71 stayed aloft into mid-'72, isn't it?
Dean:
Uncle Michael:
Yes, Dean!
coelacanth∅:
dan:
Billboard's archive site says so.
still b/p:
Brian in UK:
Zipperhead7:
Robm:
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:
coelacanth∅:
again i'm sorry.
...just trying to be respectful of our hosts wishes.
StringOFperils:
Zipperhead7:
Uncle Michael:
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:
Hopey Sockmonkey:
Brian in UK:
Alvy Singer:
Dean:
still b/p:
dan:
phat in lincoln:
Hopey Sockmonkey:
Robm:
Zipperhead7:
Uncle Michael:
Dean:
Sweet Corn Lizzie:
Gerry from Miami:
dan:
Reminds me of a dystopian book I have by Kingsley Amis called "The Alteration" which has to do a society of castratos in the future.
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:
Dean:
phat in lincoln:
dan:
Big cities and Appalachia didn't re-elect Nixon
Robm:
Uncle Michael:
still b/p:
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:
Zipperhead7:
Robm:
phat in lincoln:
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:
phat in lincoln:
StringOFperils:
Zipperhead7:
Hopey Sockmonkey:
Uncle Michael:
Hopey Sockmonkey:
phat in lincoln:
Gerry from Miami:
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:
Uncle Michael:
dan:
Listener Robert:
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:
Uncle Michael:
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:
still b/p:
Looking at or listening to chart titles from years before and just after this makes one feel like King of Fogeys, not just for heavy nostalgia but because it shoves in one's face again the disappointments of current chart music's -- I'm talking just the radio pop zone, now -- commitment to bulldoggedly formulaic, redundant, generic sounds and voices. It could be said it was ever so, but something about the moments of variety and appeal back then was surely different to fogey ears.
dan:
Zipperhead7:
Brian in UK:
wfmu.org...
Listener Robert:
Robm:
Hopey Sockmonkey:
Robm:
Hopey Sockmonkey:
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:
dan:
listener james from westwood:
Robm:
Brian in UK:
Uncle Michael:
still b/p:
I knew someone who thought Taxi's best line and moment, in an amusing pulp novel kinda way, was "I stashed the bill in my shirt."
Brian in UK:
Stanley:
Stanley:
Uncle Michael:
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:
Now also - More & More is owned by Fewer & Fewer - the central fact of our time, I put it to you. Not just in Music & Culture - but these are always the singing little canary in the coalmine ...& *this* too is a real difference. The label may have a Mom & Pop Farm on it ...but the Lawyers & Accountants control *everything*.
KevinfromBayRidge:
dan:
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:
Zipperhead7:
Brian in UK:
Uncle Michael:
Robm:
Brian in UK:
Uncle Michael:
Uncle Michael:
phat in lincoln:
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:
Gerry from Miami:
Brian in UK:
Alvy Singer:
Uncle Michael:
KevinfromBayRidge:
dan:
The car crash happened on the Long Island Expressway as he was heading in the direction of Eisenhower Park where he was to do a free show later that night.
phat in lincoln:
listener james from westwood:
Robm:
Uncle Michael:
phat in lincoln:
Robm:
Brian in UK:
phat in lincoln:
Zipperhead7:
dan:
phat in lincoln:
Uncle Michael:
phat in lincoln:
Rudy Poot:
still b/p:
Some of what the article describes -- Scientists Just Discovered Why All Pop Music Sounds Exactly the Same, from a few years ago -- was just as true decades ago. A hit leading to a nearly indistinguishable next shot by same artist(s).
There's much other writing and study regarding the direction, characteristics and devolving complexity of pop.
But for now, let us eat potato chips and grant our sprits rest, and just enjoy.
Zipperhead7:
dan:
It all has to do with algorithms and Autotune. That's why songs sound the same these days.
dan:
I think Fogerty would approve.
listener james from westwood:
Brian in UK:
Uncle Michael:
Rudy Poot:
Stanley:
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:
Haha Zipperhead !!
...I think a parallel is Special FX in films. To the News, old FX look hokey & *LoDef*. To us Olds, the CGI looks pushbutton & sterile. So with the Sounds as well...
Dean:
dan:
Get the papers...get the papers.
Rudy Poot:
still b/p:
phat in lincoln:
Gerry from Miami:
phat in lincoln:
Hopey Sockmonkey:
dan:
Depends on the week.
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:
...but whut ?!?
Uncle Michael:
still b/p:
dan:
PAULS:
Uncle Michael:
dan:
phat in lincoln:
still b/p:
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:
phat in lincoln:
phat in lincoln:
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:
Release dates
19 December 1971 (New York City)
13 January 1972 (United Kingdom)
2 February 1972 (United States)
Robm:
Gerry from Miami:
Dean:
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:
chresti:
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:
CountrySwing in the PopChart.
Uncle Michael:
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:
Dean:
Flimflamfilmnoir:
Uncle Michael:
spaniel:
Dean:
Zipperhead7:
phat in lincoln:
dan:
Gerry from Miami:
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:
still b/p:
Gotta confess...the recent -- yes, a recent favorable reaction! -- Dua Lipa and Elton thing that adapts this...I like it's bouncy catchy ease.
Uncle Michael:
Dean:
KevinfromBayRidge:
phat in lincoln:
Stanley:
phat in lincoln:
Hopey Sockmonkey:
Uncle Michael:
KevinfromBayRidge:
egould:
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:
Uncle Michael:
phat in lincoln:
Uncle Michael:
Gerry from Miami:
Dean:
I suppose the only America song that makes me angry is "Ulster Boy."
Uncle Michael:
phat in lincoln:
Gerry from Miami:
dan:
Rolling Stone wrote 1 star reviews of Led Zeppelin, Queen and Toto, to name a few. They were then and now on the wrong side of music.
phat in lincoln:
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:
Dean:
phat in lincoln:
Hopey Sockmonkey:
Uncle Michael:
@Hopey: right?!
dan:
Rudy Poot:
Dean:
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:
WR:
1972 I was the manager of a retail record store in south Texas. I gave my tickets to a concert that included America to musician friends of mine. Met them for late night dinner after the concert. They were entertaining me with whiny singing parody of what America's harmony singing sounded like. Waiter came and said that we were disturbing the other diners. At that point we realized that the complainants were members of the band sitting nearby. The singing at our table stopped but spontaneous outbursts of giggles continued for a bit.
Uncle Michael:
Hopey Sockmonkey:
Dean:
Uncle Michael:
Stanley:
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:
Uncle Michael:
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:
Brian in UK:
Rudy Poot:
Gerry from Miami:
Sweet Corn Lizzie:
Hopey Sockmonkey:
Uncle Michael:
Uncle Michael:
Sweet Corn Lizzie:
I adore this song. The ambiguity. Lifelong fan.
Dean:
Hopey Sockmonkey:
Sweet Corn Lizzie:
phat in lincoln:
still b/p:
"The Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo is Scotland's biggest, bestselling outdoor spectacle."
My dad took my brother and I to see a version of it in Boston Garden. The best part in my kid outlook was an appearance of an Aston Martin doin' some lowe-grade stunts! ..some Bond stand-in included...leanin' on the hood, lightin' a smoke.
Zipperhead7:
Hopey Sockmonkey:
Rudy Poot:
Uncle Michael:
phat in lincoln:
Gerry from Miami:
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:
phat in lincoln:
phat in lincoln:
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:
WR:
Gerry from Miami:
StringOFperils:
doctorjazz:
Hopey Sockmonkey:
phat in lincoln:
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:
& Grace was a smash #1 in the UK (as suggested already).
Exile - ftw.
Hopey Sockmonkey:
dan:
still b/p:
Uncle Michael:
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:
Gerry from Miami:
phat in lincoln:
Gerry from Miami:
Uncle Michael:
Dean:
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:
Uncle Michael:
Rudy Poot:
Uncle Michael:
still b/p:
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:
Uncle Michael:
Gerry from Miami:
Dean:
phat in lincoln:
Gerry from Miami:
dan:
phat in lincoln:
still b/p:
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:
KevinfromBayRidge:
dan:
Hopey Sockmonkey:
Uncle Michael:
grillwhatufeel:
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:
...MacColl made no secret of the fact that he disliked all of the cover versions of the song. His daughter-in-law wrote: "He hated all of them. He had a special section in his record collection for them, entitled 'The Chamber of Horrors'. '...
Gerry from Miami:
Uncle Michael:
still b/p:
If only there were, I don't know a device that would let you call up song words and stuff.
Actually a very pressed smudgy slip of paper out of the wallet or shoe or bra is better.
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:
still b/p:
dan:
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:
spodiodi:
Hopey Sockmonkey:
phat in lincoln:
spodiodi:
Alvy Singer:
dan:
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:
Uncle Michael:
dan:
Signed Epstein's Mother
still b/p:
Wouldja ever poll listeners for a suggested year if you do another of these, Uncle Michael?
Uncle Michael:
phat in lincoln:
spodiodi:
Brian in UK:
Alvy Singer:
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:
en.wikipedia.org...
...maybe after a whole Century or more I'll know something about this Music...
Gerry from Miami:
dan:
Uncle Michael:
still b/p:
dan:
CCR were from California, not the bayou. I guess record companies wanted that swampland sound to the music.
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:
still b/p:
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:
phat in lincoln:
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:
Doug Schulkind:
Hopey Sockmonkey:
Brian in UK:
Uncle Michael:
dan:
Gerry from Miami:
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:
AS from MP:
still b/p:
still b/p:
Uncle Michael:
Uncle Michael:
Alex In Illinois:
Uncle Michael:
Brian in UK:
Hopey Sockmonkey:
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:
AntiEnvelopeFollower...
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:
Uncle Michael:
Uncle Michael:
Hopey Sockmonkey:
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:
still b/p:
Oh, Girl is one of the tracks of the period that gets ya in a good mm-mmm wistful swaying mood, with intermittent singing attempts.
Uncle Michael:
Listener Robert:
Uncle Michael:
dan:
phat in lincoln:
still b/p:
Is it too unkind to say that Neil was on his way down at this point?...and I don't just mean chart position or hit-making, cuz he still was Mr. Chart Big later. I mean, y' know.
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:
...He may be haunting me already...
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:
dan:
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:
Uncle Michael:
Gerry from Miami:
PAULS:
Stanley:
Thanks.
Hopey Sockmonkey:
dan:
Uncle Michael:
adamdoesit:
still b/p:
Hah...Candy Man, getting ready for school, breakfast in the kitchen, radio tuned to WHDH where the MOR rotation swung this HARD for a while.
Dean:
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:
phat in lincoln:
egould:
Alvy Singer:
Listener Robert:
still b/p:
spodiodi:
Hopey Sockmonkey:
Dean:
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:
- George Carlin
listener james from westwood:
KevinfromBayRidge:
Pauly from Clifton:
KevinfromBayRidge:
WR:
coelacanth∅:
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:
chresti:
coelacanth∅:
doctorjazz:
phat in lincoln:
Uncle Michael:
WR:
en.wikipedia.org...
Stands to reason that the pipe and drum corp for the new regiment was recorded to help establish their identity. Amazing Grace becoming a hit was an organic response of the UK public of the time, and it grew from there.
Michael 98145:
Listener Robert:
Listener Robert: