Meet Bud's Budding Blossoms - 60s Teenagers Christine, Denise, Sharon, Janice and Melissa!

After school, and often until late at night,

my friends and I satisfied our hunger for

good music in the Shady Dell dance hall.

We satisfied our hunger for good food and pleasant

conversation at Helen Ettline's snack counter.

Today I begin a new series that pays tribute to

another popular York area hangout for teenagers -

 BUD'S DRIVE-IN. 

Bud's was located
on South George St.
extended, just across
the hill from the
Shady Dell.

Like the Dell, Bud's was a meeting spot for

teenagers from various area high schools.

Bud's offered good food and a great

selection of tunes on the jukebox.

As it was at The Shady Dell in its early

years, Bud's started out as an ice cream

parlor operating under a different name

and owned by the Fitz brothers. From

1958 to '74, the restaurant was owned

by Bud Markey. Bud's featured indoor

booths and additional seating at tables
outdoors. Going to Bud's was a unique
experience because every booth was
equipped with a "bat phone" - a red
telephone that you used to place

your order to the kitchen staff.
A waitress appeared a short
time later with your food.

In this series entitled This Bud's For You, my assistants,
Bud's Budding Blossoms aka The Budettes, the girls
hovering around Bud's jukebox, will play their

favorite songs from the mid 60s to 1970,

the years I hung out at Bud's Drive-in.

I'd like you to meet them!

The trio of Shady's helpers below represents

the gang of teenagers making the scene at

Bud's in the mid 60s (1963 thru early '67). 

Selecting a song

in the foreground

is the ponytailed

redhead Christine.

On the left behind

her you see Denise

aka "Deenie," the

pretty brunette in
purple. On the

right, meet their

smiling blonde

friend Sharon.

And in this scene at left,

representing the teenagers

at Bud's in the later 60s,

(mid 1967 through 1970),

meet Janice preparing

to pick a song at the

keyboard, and her

bestie, Melissa

behind the box.

Now that you've met Bud's Budding Blossoms,

why not have a taste of the musical menu at

 BUD'S DRIVE-IN. 

 "THIS BUD'S FOR YOU!" 

CHRISTINE: I'm picking B-3

to play a record that was hot
during the Christmas season
in 1963. In York and in cities
and towns across the country,
high school football rivalries
were occasionally played out
at spots far from the gridiron,
and Bud's parking lot was no

exception. Set to the tune of
the University of Wisconsin's
fight song, and featuring the
girl group The Honeys as the
voices of the cheerleaders,
here are The Beach Boys
urging every one of us to:
"Be True To Your School!"

"Be True To Your School" - The Beach Boys

(Dec. 1963, highest chart pos. #6 Hot 100/#8 Cash Box)

SHARON: I'm pressing H-9

because I wanna hear singer -songwriter Neil Diamond's

first big hit. The record was originally intended to be a

demo, but with songwriting

partners Jeff Barry and Ellie Greenwich producing it and  prominently heard on back-

ing vocals and hand-claps,

the finished product was

too good to waste. From

the fall of 1966, a single

that brushed the top 5 on

Billboard and on Cash Box.

Troubadour Neil Diamond

sings-- "Cherry, Cherry! 

"Cherry, Cherry" - Neil Diamond

(Oct. 1966, highest chart pos. #6 Hot 100 & Cash Box)

DENISE: I get a kick out of

Sam The Sham and his Dallas

based band The Pharaohs.

I'm keying in P-7 to play

the group's.third single

and third novelty hit in

a row in a single year.

It's Thanksgiving 1965

at Bud's Drive-in, and

here are Sam The Sham

And The Pharaohs

cracking the top 30 on

the Cash Box chart

with-- "Ring Dang Doo!"

"Ring Dang Doo" - Sam The Sham And The Pharaohs

(Oct./Nov. 1965, highest chart pos. #28 Cash Box/#33 Hot 100,

live performance on Oct. 25, 1965, episode of Hullabaloo)

 TIME TO EAT! 

JANICE: It's the spring of 1968
at Bud's, and I'm selecting L-12
to play the latest record by one
of the top female artists of the

rock and roll era, sultry soul
siren Dionne Warwick. This
is one of the many hit songs
given to Dionne by the ace
composing team of Burt
Bacharach and Hal David.
The needle's in the groove.
Here's Dionne Warwick
and her top 10 single
"Do You Know The
Way To San Jose."

"Do You Know The Way To San Jose" - Dionne Warwick

(May 1968, highest chart pos. #10 Hot 100 & Cash Box/#23 R&B)

MELISSA: I'm picking R-8 because
I love this groovy sound by the
South African folk rock group
Four Jacks And A Jill featuring
lead singer Glenys Lynne. The
same month Dionne Warwick

was riding high on the chart
with "San Jose," Four Jacks
And A Jill became the only
South African recording act
to reach the U.S. Hot 100,
and they did it with this song.
Hot on Bud's box in the spring
of 1968, here are Four Jacks
And A Jill with their top 10
American hit-- "Master Jack!"

"Master Jack" - Four Jacks And A Jill

(May 1968, highest chart pos. #10 Cash Box/#18 Hot 100)

That does it for this sneak preview of my
my new series This Bud's For You coming
to Shady's Place in 2022. Many thanks to
Bud's Budding Blossoms: Janice, Melissa,
Christine, Denise and Sharon, for feeding
the old jukebox and playing the top tunes
from the golden years at Bud's Drive-in.

I leave you with another nugget from Bud's

box. The Hal David - Burt Bacharach song

"Wishin' And Hopin," was first recorded by

Dionne Warwick and released as the B side

of Dionne's poor selling 1963 single

"This Empty Place."

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Covered the following year by this lady - English blue-eyed soul diva Dusty Springfield -

the song became an international hit, top 5 stateside. Now for the whole gang at

Bud's this is emcee Shady saying so long and remember-- This Bud's For You!

"Wishin' And Hopin" - Dusty Springfield

(June/July 1964, highest chart pos. #4 Cash Box/#6 Hot 100)

Hashtag Rick-Rolled! Alternate Title: "If You're Becoming Your Parents... You Should Be Coming To Me."

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"Dreams" - Fleetwood Mac cover

by Lanie Gardner (Oct. 2020) 

You just witnessed the turning point in a young

woman's life... the moment a star was born. 

Posted on YouTube last fall, Lanie Gardner's seemingly casual cover

of the 1977 Fleetwood Mac hit "Dreams" blew up, went viral, and has

since been viewed more than 50 million times across social media.

The performance landed the 21 year old Nashville-based artist a

recording contract, placing her on the verge of super stardom.

Upon seeing Lanie's video for the first time, Fleetwood Mac

leader and co-founder Mick Fleetwood exclaimed that he

was “absolutely blown away."  So am I. Remember her

name - Lanie Gardner - because she's going places.

Some say Lanie's awesome cover of "Rumors"

is the greatest cover of that or any other

song ever made!

Hi, I'm Dr. Rick, the Dr. Phil-type tough-love mentor from the

Progressive Insurance commercials. Thanks for attending my

"Un-Become Your Parents" seminar here at Shady's Place. 

 

Copies of my book are available for purchase at the back of the room. 

As an author, lecturer and self-help guru, I will teach you about

parentamorphosis - the phenomenon of turning into your parents

when you reach a certain age. You find yourself talking like them,

acting like them and adopting their old fashioned values and attitudes. 

My job is to educate and empower you, to support you in

overcoming the aging process. One way is to bring you up

to speed so that you can function in today's high-tech world. 

You're at the movies and need to silence your phone.

Can't find that button? It's right up here. Everybody has one. 

Another thing. When we're texting, we don't hunt

and peck with our index finger. It's all in the thumbs.  

And your

computer mouse?

Guess what ---

You don't need

to name it. 

In my course you will learn the latest words

and terms commonly used on social media.

Nope. Nope. Nope. Not even close. It's pronounced "QAnon." 

Say it with me: "Q-an-on." It's a thing. Look it up. 

I will also help save you from becoming your parents by

playing modern covers of boomer era hits like the one

you just listened to-- "Rumors" by Lanie Gardner. 

  

You've heard of TED Talks. By the time you leave this room today,

you'll be "Rick-Rolled" - confident, bursting with energy,

vigor and vitality and feeling like a kid again. 

Are you ready to get Rick-Rolled?

I can't hear you!

I  CAN'T  HEAR  YOU! 

Yeah - okay, that's more like it. Let's do this!

You met Ukrainian zinger Victory Vizhanska last year

doing a song in Shady's Best of the Quarantunes.  

CLICK TO START THE VIDEO NOW! 

Today the scarlet-haired YouTube star is back, covering an oldie but goody

reminiscent of the Swing Era of the 1930s and 40s. Here's Vicky V retro-

rockin' her version of Christina Aquilera's "Candyman!" 

"Candyman" - Christina Aguilera cover

by Victory Vizhanska (June 2021) 

Putting a fresh spin on "Candyman," the 2007 hit by Christina Aguilera,

that was Ukraine's singing sweetheart Victory Vizhanska starring in a

video released this month. Listen up. If you want to avoid becoming

your parents, you need to remember that when young people today

refer to old school recording artists, they're talking about Britney

Spears, Mariah Carey, Snoop Dogg, Justin Timberlake, J-Lo

and Christina Aguilera -- not Perry Como. 

Dr. Rick with a reminder that

you are not your parents...

and getting Rick-Rolled

in my musical seminar is

how you can stay young.

Written by Bruce Springsteen and

Patti Smith, "Because The Night"

by The Patti Smith Group went

top 10 in the states and hit the

top 5 in the UK in June of 1978.

Forty years later, a performance

of the rock nugget was recorded

live on stage in England by an

ensemble that has earned a

reputation as one of the

world's best cover bands. 

CLICK TO START THE VIDEO NOW! 

Watch and listen as the UK-based Classic Rock Show, featuring

Jess Harwood, breathes new life into-- "Because The Night!" 

"Because the Night" - Patti Smith Group cover

by The Classic Rock Show feat. Jess Harwood

(Sept. 2018) 

On lead vocals for The Classic Rock Show in England, that was

the outstanding songstress Jess Harwood delivering a version

of Patti Smith's "Because The Night" that rivals the original.

We're Rick-Rolling right along here on S-P-M-M...

the station that's #1 for music and fun. 

In June, 1966, a song written by

John Sebastian and waxed by

his band The Lovin' Spoonful

reached #2 on the pop chart.

In 2019 Sebastian was back

singing his well known ditty

as featured artist on a cover

by the Austrian pop rock

duo the MonaLisa Twins

now based in Liverpool.

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In this surreal video, John asks twin sisters Mona and Lisa Wagner

the musical question "Did You Ever Have to Make Up Your Mind?" 

"Did You Ever Have To Make Up Your Mind"

- Lovin' Spoonful cover by MonaLisa Twins

feat. John Sebastian (Mar. 2019) 

The definition of cool - boomer John Sebastian of The Lovin' Spoonful

joining the MonaLisa Twins and putting a fresh coat of Day-Glo paint

on his 60s hit "Did You Ever Have To Make Up Your Mind?"

If you're just tuning in,

I'm Dr. Rick and you're

listening to my seminar

aimed at helping prevent

you from becoming your

parents. One of the keys

is groovin' to new cover

versions of old classics.

The tunes I play and the

principles I teach will

reprogram your brain

and help you to think,

feel and act younger. 

In seminar speak, it's called being Rick-Rolled. 

In 1958 when your parents (or grandparents) were young,

the Sheboygan, Wisconsin, female quartet The Chordettes

scored a #2 charting hit with "Lollipop." The song was

covered in 2017 by the vocal trio The Candy Girls.

Determined not to be licked by those versions of

"Lollipop," Andrei Cerbu's Shut Up & Kiss Me

band recently released their own sweet cover. 

CLICK TO START THE VIDEO NOW! 

Lead zinger, Beatrice Florea is beside herself...

forming a Bea-times-three trio to sing "Lollipop!" 

"Lollipop" - Chordettes/Candy Girls cover

by Shut Up & Kiss Me! feat. Beatrice Florea

(Apr. 2021) 

I'm a sucker for that version of "Lollipop" sung

so sweetly by "Bea-X-3" fronting Andrei Cerbu's

Romanian band Shut Up & Kiss Me! 

S-P-M-M radio personality

Robert W. Morgan gets you

Morganized, and I'm here to

make sure you you get Rick-

Rolled with cool covers of

rusty relics. I'm your host

and motivational speaker

Dr. Rick. Now, on with

the show. In late 1977

and the early weeks of

1978, the English rock 

band Electric Light

Orchestra had a hit

single on both sides

of the pond with

"Turn To Stone." 

CLICK TO START THE VIDEO NOW! 

Check out this fine rendition of the song laid down in the

new millennium by rock vocalist Royston Calder and the

talented gang at the Deesound Recording Studio in the UK. 

"Turn To Stone" - ELO cover

by Royston Calder and Dee (Apr. 2015) 

Not your granddaddy's ELO - that was a great cover

of "Turn To Stone" recorded at a studio in the UK

by British rock veteran Royston Calder. 

Time's up and I need to clear the conference room to make way for

Tony Robbins and his NLP seminar and firewalk. I hope you found

value in my musical motivational workshop. Thanks for attending.

Stay tuned. Coming up on the flip side of Gary Owens' news,

meet Bud's Budding Blossoms, the new girls on the block,

exclusively here at Shady's Place, and I'll be back soon

to get you Rick-Rolled with another edition of my

Bloggy Award winning seminar series. 

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To play us off, here's Nashville singer Allison Young with

Dusty Springfield's cover of "Spooky" by the Classics IV.

I'm Dr. Rick reminding you that I can help save you from

becoming your parents, but the rest is up to you. So long!

"Spooky" - Dusty Springfield/Classics IV cover

by Allison Young (Oct. 2020) 

#Rick-Rolled 

John Ettline - Every Dell Rat's Dad

It's Father's Day...

time to honor
JOHN ETTLINE,

"Every Dell Rat's Dad."

John didn't have kids of his own but, as every Dell rat knows, he would

have made a great father.  John was like a dad to us all. Again this year

on Father's Day, I am proud to present that classic scene from

The Donna Reed Show as Dell rats old and new salute a

great man and genuine father figure, John Ettline.

HAPPY FATHER'S DAY, JOHN.

WE LOVE YOU AND MISS YOU!

Libbin' It Up With The Good Girls (Cindy, Patti & Jane) - Volume 2: The Good Girls Rise Up Eight Miles High!

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 LIBBIN' IT UP with 

 THE GOOD GIRLS 

 Cindy, Patti & Jane 

on the station that's #1 for music and fun - S-P-M-M!

COLD OPEN

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"Nobody But Me" - The Human Beinz

(Jan./Feb. 1968, highest chart position

 #5 Cash Box/#8 Hot 100, scene from TV show

 Teen Time on WSTV Channel 9 in Steubenville, OH)

Kicking-off our second show on S-P-M-M, The Human Beinz,

the one-hit-wonder rock band from Youngstown, Ohio, and

"Nobody But Me," their top 5 charting single from the early

weeks of 1968. It's a cool cover of an R&B song recorded

 in 1962 by The Isley Brothers. If you're watching our

simulcast on YouTube, you saw the kids dancing on

Teen Time, the Tri-State area's (OH-PA-WV) answer

to American Bandstand, a show that originated from

the studios of WSTV-TV channel 9 (now WTOV) in

Steubenville, Ohio, with youthful host Del Curtis.

In his Book of Rock Lists, music historian Dave

Marsh named the version of "Nobody But Me"

by The Human Beinz "The most negative song

to hit the Top 40" since the word "no" is sung

over 100 times and "nobody" is sung 46 times. 

Cindy           Patti               Jane

Nobody but we can keep you dancing to the coolest

sounds around, like the groovy tune you just heard.

Hello again! We're The Good Girls - Cindy, Patti

and Jane - stars of the TV show Good Girls Revolt,

back with you for our second stint moonlighting

as Shady Bunch deejays here on S-P-M-M.

I'm Jane Hollander. My friends and I are delighted to be back

 libbin' it up with you - singing and dancing to the greatest

recordings of the 1960s and early 70s. Songs you'll hear

on today's show are pulled from some of the most 

significant albums of the period, and my first

spin is an example. It's Carlos Santana who,

along with his Latin style psychedelic

blues rock band, rose to fame

following his appearance

at Woodstock.

CLICK TO START THE VIDEO NOW!

Hitting the street less than two weeks after the music festival,

Santana's self-titled debut album peaked in the top 5,

and this song, released as the second single,

went top 10 in March of 1970. Listen

to the unmistakable sound of 

Santana and-- "Evil Ways!"

"Evil Ways" - Santana

(Feb./Mar. 1970, highest chart pos. #7 Cash Box,

#9 Hot 100, from Aug. 1969 album Santana)

From early 1970, the sound America came to know and love, Santana

there with their first hit single, "Evil Ways," followed soon after

by an even bigger hit, "Black Magic Woman."

It starts with a great song, and

"Baby, It's You" is a great song.

Composed by Burt Bacharach,

Luther Dixon and Mack David,

"Baby It's You" was first waxed

by The Shirelles who gained a

top 10 hit with the song early

in 1962. In March of 1963,

The Beatles covered the

song on their debut album

  Please Please Me. The

most successful version

reached the top 5 on the

chart in the fall of 1969.

It was recorded by

a St. Louis pop rock

band called Smith. 

CLICK TO START THE VIDEO NOW!

As you are about to hear, lead singer Gayle McCormick

belted the vocals in a bluesy, soulful style. Here's A Group

Called Smith on The Ed Sullivan Show doing-- "Baby, It's You!"

"Baby It's You" - Smith

(Oct./Nov. 1969, highest chart pos. #4 Cash Box/#5 Hot 100,

from July 1969 album A Group Called Smith, perf. on

Oct. 19, 1969, episode of The Ed Sullivan Show)

From their debut album, A Group Called Smith with their hit cover

of the Shirelles' original, "Baby, It's You." A sad footnote - Smith

lead singer Gayle McCormick died in 2019 at the age of 67.

Hi, I'm Cindy Reston. My first spin is one of the

most memorable and poignant songs of the 60s,

a grim tale about urban decay and generations

trapped in the cycle of poverty. Released in

the spring of '69, this record went top 3 on

the Billboard chart and all the way to

number one on Cash Box.

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THE VIDEO NOW!

Here now is The King - Elvis Presley -
performing his big comeback hit, a song
written by Mac Davis-- "In The Ghetto."

"In The Ghetto" - Elvis Presley

(May/June 1969, highest chart pos.
#1 Cash Box/#3 Hot 100)

Heavy stuff, Elvis singing "In The Ghetto," a song originally

titled "The Vicious Circle," a record that put The King

back on his throne in 1969 after years of struggling

on the chart. Elvis Presley's "In The Ghetto" along

with the Woodstock Rock Festival, that debut

album by Santana and the single and album by

Smith were some of the musical milestones

of 1969. Another major event that year was

the release of The Age of Aquarius, the 4th

studio album by The 5th Dimension. Four

hit singles were released from the album

including the chart-topping smash

I am about to play next.

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It's a medley of two songs from the off-Broadway musical Hair,

a manifestation of the hippie counterculture and the sexual

revolution. This single spent an incredible six weeks at #1.

The 5th Dimension-- "Aquarius/Let The Sunshine In!"

"Medley: Aquarius / Let The Sunshine In (The Flesh Failures)"

The Fifth Dimension (Apr./May 1969, highest chart pos. #1 Hot 100,

#1 Cash Box, from May 1969 album The Age of Aquarius)

You just listened to one of the most iconic songs of the Baby Boom
generation, "Medley: Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In (The Flesh Failures)"
a song assimilated by pop culture and ranked #66 on Billboard's list of
The Greatest Songs of All Time, sung by the fabulous 5th Dimension
with backing by The Wrecking Crew, the great Los Angeles based
session musicians who played on many major hits of the 60s.

I'm "Patti" Robinson. One of the most
important singing and songwriting acts
of the 60s counterculture music scene,
The Mamas and the Papas, gave us a
string of groovy folk-rock recordings.

Their 1966 debut album on Dunhill
made Rolling Stone's list of The 500
Greatest Albums of All Time and
climbed 15 notches to #112 in the

magazine's most recent revision.

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THE VIDEO NOW!

If You Can Believe Your Eyes and Ears, here are the Mamas

and the Papas with a song from that album that was released

on the B side of "Monday, Monday"-- "Got A Feelin'."

"Got A Feelin'" - The Mama's And The Papa's

(from Feb. 1966 album If You Can Believe Your Eyes and Ears,

Apr./May 1966, B side of "Monday, Monday")

McGuinn and McGuire still a-gettin higher

in LA you know where that's at, and no one's

gettin' fat except Mama Cass.

Those were The Mamas And The Papas doing

"Got A Feelin'," one of the songs from their debut

album If You Can Believe Your Eyes and Ears.

If you can believe what I say, you might be shocked to learn

that the original album with a cover photo showing the group

in a bathroom sitting in a tub with a toilet visible was pulled

from stores because, in 1966, the sight of a toilet was

declared indecent. We've come a long way, baby!

Oh damn! They're waving us off. Our second show has come

to an end and we need to go. I hope you got your kicks

Libbin It Up With The Good Girls.

CLICK TO START THE VIDEO NOW!

Coming up on the flip side of news, meet Bud's Budding Blossoms,

the teen queens at another popular York area venue, and we'll be

back soon with more sensational sounds from the dawning of

the Age of Aquarius on Libbin' It Up, so keep your dial set to

S-P-M-M, the grooviest spot in the universe. To play us off,

German drummer Sina with a cover of "Eight Miles High"
by The Byrds. Now this is Patti along with Cindy and

Jane - The Good Girls - saying see you next time!

"Eight Miles High" - The Byrds  (Apr. 2019 drum cover by Sina,

orig. May 1966, highest chart pos. #12 Cash Box/#14 Hot 100,

from July 1966 Byrds album Fifth Dimension)