Natural Hy - Volume 5: Pips Love Call

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 NATURAL HY 

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(COLD SHOW OPEN)

"Back In My Arms Again" - The Supremes
(May/June 1965, highest chart pos.
#1 Hot 100/#1 Cash Box/#1 R&B)

The big sound... the bold sound... the Holland-Dozier-Holland sound...

the Motown sound of The Supremes blasting us off the launch pad

and sending us into orbit as we take to the sky on a Natural Hy.

Calling all my beats, beards, Buddhist cats,

big time spenders, money lenders, tee-

totalers, elbow benders, hog callers,

home run hitters, finger poppin’

daddies and cool babysitters.

For all my carrot tops, lollipops

and extremely delicate gum drops.

It's your pal on the radio, Hyski

‘O Roonie McVouti ‘O Zoot -
“The South Philadelphia Kid” -

"The Potentate of The Keystone

State." Callin' uptown, downtown,
crosstown - here, there, everywhere.

Your man with the plan, on the scene

with the record machine. Hey you

midnight movers and uptown

groovers, knock me your lobes

— are you ready for this?

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If you dig it big. If you dig it bold, then dig this, another super slab

to keep you flyin' Hy... the grooviest record Cher never made.

Burnin' up the boss lines in April of 1965, it's April Young

and-- "Gonna Make Him My Baby!"

"Gonna Make Him My Baby" - April Young

(April./May 1965, uncharted nationally but reached
top 20 @ WIBG Philadelphia, #27 @ WARM Wilkes-Barre,
#36 @ WSBA Lancaster-York-Harrisburg

and #53 @ WMCA New York City)

Sounding so much like Cher, that was April Young, wife of famed record producer

 Jerry Ross, with "Gonna Make Him My Baby," a Spectorian Wall-of-Sound

 production that caught fire in Philly and up and down the East Coast in

April and May of '65. The record was so hot in the Delaware Valley

that April was dubbed The Daughter of Wibbage-land, and her

power platter rode high on the surveys of radio stations in

other mid-Atlantic burgs as well. Sadly, April Young

never grew old. She was only in her 40s when

she took ill and died in 1989.

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Slowing it down on Natural Hy

with one of the great groups to

come out of Philly. These guys

had a string of hits from the late

60s to early 70s and helped shape

"The Sound of Philadelphia."

Here now are The Delfonics

and - "Break Your Promise."

"Break Your Promise" - The Delfonics

(Sept./Oct. 1968, highest chart pos. #12 R&B,

#35 Hot 100/#46 Cash Box)

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That was the ice cool sound of Philly's Phinest,

The Delfonics, with a sweet and soulful ballad

that brushed the top 10 on the R&B chart in

the fall of '68, "Break Your Promise." If you're

just tuning in... you're on a Natural Hy with

me, Hy Lit, on the greatest little station in

the nation, S-P-M-M. Gentlemen... start

your engines. Keeping it mellow, from

the Motor City, the group best known

for the early 70s crossover hits "Whatcha

See Is Whatcha Get" and "In The Rain."

The Dramatics now with a groove

from '75-- "Tune Up!"

"Tune Up" - The Dramatics

(Feb. 1975, highest chart pos. #74 R&B)

The Dramatics of Detroit there with a smooth groove

from 1975, a little thing called "Tune Up."

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You're listening to Natural Hy with yours truly

Hyski, on S-P-M-M... where all the cool oldies

come to play... and we're in the middle of a

7-in-a-row block party. It's a family affair...

Gladys Knight And The Pips, a group with

talent to spare and great records to burn.

This one, for instance - impossibly cool -

yet it went to waste, hidden away to die

on the vine as the B side of a poor selling

single. From '64, listen to the sweet sound,

the soulful sound, the groovy sound of

The Pips and their-- "Love Call!"

"Love Call" - Gladys Knight And The Pips

(July 1964, B side of "What Shall I Do")

Gladys Knight and the Pips and their "Love Call," a little known

and seldom heard B side that shoulda been, coulda been

and woulda been a hit... if only...

Hy Lit of The Shady Bunch

keeping you company here

on S-P-M-M... the station

with personality.

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Here's hot wax that knocks me out

cold...a sound that's guaranteed

 to keep you on a Natural Hy.

Quite rightly it's from Hi Records

and soul man Syl Johnson--

"Take Me To The River!"

"Take Me To The River" - Syl Johnson

(June/July 1975, highest chart pos. #7 R&B/#48 Hot 100/#59 Cash Box)

One of the fine artists on the roster of Hi Records, the Memphis-

based soul and rockabilly label... that was bluesy R&B great

Syl Johnson doing the biggest hit of his recording career,

"Take Me To The River."

Shady Del Knight will take me to task

if my show runs overtime. That being

the case, it's time for me to spin my

last record and hit the road, Jack.

It was a groove having you here

as together we took to the sky on

a Natural Hy. Hey, stick around.

Coming up on the flip side of

news it's everybody's favorite

K-9 companion, my pal Toto

Moto, to welcome you inside

his Top Tunes Time Tunnel,

and I'll be back soon with

another stack of boss goldens...

every spinner a certified winner.

I wanna see your face in the place

-- Shady's Place -- so keep your

ear here on S-P-M-M retro radio!

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To play us off, Big Al... Mr. Downing... a man who did it all and did it well.

He rocked. He rolled. He sang the blues, gospel, country, R&B and Disco,

and that brings us to this killer from the mid 70s at the height of the Disco

craze, "I'll Be Holding On," a song that spent 3 weeks atop the Dance chart.

Now this is Hy Lit reminding you to be good, be nice, be kind,

maintain your cool, don't be nobody's fool. Later!

"I'll Be Holding On" - Al Downing

(Feb./Mar. 1975, highest chart pos. #1 Disco/Dance,

#31 R&B, #85 Hot 100)