Toto's Top Tunes Time Tunnel - Vol. 2: Yeh, Yeh!

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"Just One Look" - The Hollies

(May 1964, highest chart pos. #98 Hot 100/#2 UK)

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Heidi-ho! It's me again, your puppy pal
Toto Moto. Hey, if my buddy Jerry Blavat
can call himself The Boss with the Sauce,
then I'm The Pooch with the Hootch...
your Hi-fi Fido, your Musical Mutt,
your All Nite Satellite, welcoming
you into my wormhole, the Top
Tunes Time Tunnel, for another
fun-filled trip back to the
best years of your life!

To open the show, we flashed back to the British Invasion in 1964 and listened

to a new enhanced version of "Just One Look," the fist single to reach the U.S.

chart by the English pop-rock band The Hollies, a cover of the top 10 hit the

previous year for American R&B singer Doris Troy who co-wrote the song.

Amazingly, the Hollies fabulous version lasted only one week on the U.S.

chart at #98 while soaring to #2 back home in the UK. When reissued

in the states in 1967 the single cracked the top 50 but should have

done better, doggone it!

In 1966 the British Invasion was followed by a Spanish Invasion
of sorts in the form of Los Bravos, a beat band from Madrid
that scored a top 5 hit in the UK and here in the states
with "Black Is Black."

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Two years later Los Bravos released another rousing single that brushed

the top 50 stateside, a song written by members of the Aussie band

The Easybeats. The excitement meter is pegged as Los Bravos

performs-- "Bring a Little Lovin'."

"Bring A Little Lovin'" - Los Bravos

(June 1968, highest chart pos. #51)

That was "Bring A Little Lovin'" by the Spanish band Los Bravos,

a minor hit in America that deserved to be a major hit!

If you're just tuning in, I'm Toto Moto,

your Rover of the Radio, the Dawg

who Put the "WOW" in Bowwow...

and you're traveling through my

Top Tunes Time Tunnel here

on S-P-M-M... the station

with personality.

I used to chase a feline named Felix,

and next, here's another Felix who's

a very cool cat. He's Felix Cavaliere

who, along with Eddie Brigati, Gene

Cornish and Dino Danelli, made up

the exciting blue-eyed soul quartet

The Young Rascals... one of the

most popular acts of the 60s.

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From 1966 to '68 the Jersey boys placed nine singles in the top 20

and here's one of them. From the summer of '66, a song written

by Eddie and Felix-- "You Better Run!"

"You Better Run" - The Young Rascals

(July 1966, highest chart pos. #20)

Old school's the rule and every song is certifiably K-9 cool here in
Toto's Time Tunnel - the Paws that Refreshes - and you just heard from
Felix the musical cat and his group doing "You Better Run," a single
released when they were still "Young" - before they shortened
their name to The Rascals.

Shady's dog Toto with you on the radio,

and I'll be doggone if I don't get a chuckle

out of "The Jolly Green Giant," the nifty

novelty number by the Kingsmen, the

rowdy garage rockers from the Pacific

Northwest who shook up the civilized

world with their cover of "Louie Louie."

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"The Jolly Green Giant" was written by

Lynn Easton, one of the founders of the

Kingsmen, and so was this one, the flip

side of that 1965 single, another titanic

tune called-- "Long Green!"

"Long Green" - The Kingsmen

(Jan./Feb. 1965, uncharted B side of "The Jolly Green Giant")

The Kingsmen with "Long Green (the root of evil)," the fab flip on the

back side of "The "Jolly Green Giant" single. "Long Green" was also
released on the band's 1964 album The Kingsmen Volume II and
again on the 1965 album The Kingsmen Volume 3.

Wassup, pup? Chief Petting Officer Toto behind the mic on
the greatest little station in the nation, S-P-M-M.  I aim to fleas
by spinning the best sounds of the 60s here in the Time Tunnel.

Back across the pond we go for one of the

coolest grooves featured on Hullaballoo

London. The Blue Flames, a British R&B

jazz band, were the backing musicians for

English singer Billy Fury until he sacked

them for being "too jazzy" and replaced

them with another band, The Tornados,

the guys who recorded the instrumental

hit "Telstar." Out on their own with key-

boardist Georgie Fame taking over on

lead vocals, The Blue Flames burned up

the chart with a groovy cover of "Yeh Yeh,"

originally recorded by Afro-Cuban per-

cussionist Mongo Santamaría, the artist

best known for his hit "Watermelon Man,"

a standard written by Herbie Hancock.

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Do I dig this sound from Georgie Fame? "Yeh Yeh!"

That's what I say, I say-- "Yeh Yeh!"

"Yeh, Yeh" - Georgie Fame And The Blue Flames

(Feb./Mar. 1965, highest chart pos. #21 Hot 100/#1 UK)

Georgie Fame and The Blue Flames with "Yeh, Yeh," a great song you don't hear

very often on oldies radio. Leave it to me, your Hound of Sound, to find it and

play it for you. "Yeh, Yeh" brings back marvelous memories of Brian Epstein

hosting Hullabaloo London during those exciting years of The Brit Invasion.

Toto Moto of The Shady Bunch keeping you

company all night long as we cruise through

my Time Tunnel here on S-P-M-M Radio.

Know what? I admit it - I'm a horndog. :)

I love bands from the mid 60s through

early 70s that featured strong,

brassy horn sections.

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Here's one of my horn-driven favorites,
The Buckinghams, the sunshine poppers
from Chi-town who cranked out a string
of feel-good hits including the one you're
listening to right now. 1967 gold--
"Don't You Care!"

"Don't You Care" - The Buckinghams

(Mar./Apr. 1967, highest chart pos. #6)

From the Windy City, those were The Buckinghams with "Don't You Care,"

a sad song that makes you happy when you listen to it. "Don't You Care"

was one of the group's five top 10 hits of the mid 60s if you count

the Cash Box chart along with Billboard.

Oh bowwow, we're nearing the end of
Toto's Top Tunes Time Tunnel. I know

for sure because I can see the dawn's
early light. Thanks for spending the

wee hours of the morning with me,
your All Nite Satellite. Stay tuned

for my good friend Shady Blue
coming up on the B side of news to

get you Stuck Like Glue to his dusty
ditties, and I'll be back soon to start
from scratch and satisfy your itch for
terrific tuneage in my Time Tunnel.

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To play us off, Tommy James and the Shondells with "Mirage,"

a hit born when a tape of "I Think We're Alone Now"

was accidentally played backward. Bye bye!

"Mirage" - Tommy James And The Shondells

(May/June 1967, highest chart pos. #10)