Shady Train - Ep. 18: Good Times with My Cutie Pie!

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Shady Train...

the hippest trip in America!

60 nonstop minutes across the

tracks of your mind into the

exciting world of Soul!

And now the host of

Shady Train...

Don Cornelius!

Hi there! You're right on time for another super slick ride on

the big train. You know the drill. Only the cool kids get in

and every tune's a bad mamma jamma. 

And we are delighted to have with us what has become just about

everybody's favorite group, and certainly ours here at Shady Train.

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Led by Nile Rodgers, they are as much responsible for the current

disco craze as anyone. As they join us to do their latest single on

the Atlantic label, their second chart-topping smash of the year

entitled "Good Times," hands together and make some noise

please, gang, for the fabulous-- Chic!

"Good Times" - Chic

(July/Aug. 1979, highest chart pos. 

#1 Hot 100 & Cash Box & R&B) 

And look out now, don't hurt yourself. It's the

Shady Train gang... the Shady Train Line. 

They're gonna get up and boogie to a sound that's

one of the baddest things around. 

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It's the husband and wife team of guitarist Ronald Muldrow and

singer Ricki Byars Muldrow. Together they call themselves

Chemise and this is-- "She Can't Love You!" 

"She Can't Love You" - Chemise

(1982 single released in The Netherlands)

And here's a lovely lady from Hawaii

with one of the biggest songs from

the hit movie Saturday Night Fever. 

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As she joins us courtesy of RSO 

Records and our good friends

over on Burt Sugarman's

Midnight Special to do her

 #1 charting international

hit "If I Can't Have You,"

a warm welcome please

for-- Yvonne Elliman!

"If I Can't Have You" - Yvonne Elliman

(Apr. 1978, highest chart pos. #1 Hot 100/#60 R&B,

from OST of Dec. 1977 film Saturday Night Fever,

perf. on Burt Sugarman's The Midnight Special)

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And that's just

half the ride.

Stick around for

more super soul

sounds when

Shady Train

continues right

after this. 

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And we're excited to have aboard

the train a Trinidad born English-

man who's been rackin' 'em back,

and that's no fiction, it's a natural

fact. He's Billy Ocean, here to

perform his latest single on the

Jive label, his 4th chart-topping

hit in as many years. Billy says:

"Get Outta My Dreams" and

"Get Into My Car!" 

"Get Outta My Dreams, Get Into My Car" - Billy Ocean

Mar./Apr. 1988, highest chart pos. #1 Hot 100 & Cash Box & R&B) 

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And we are pleased to have with us

a funky R&B band from Detroit led

by vocalists Al Hudson and Alicia

Myers. Recording as Al Hudson &

The Partners in 1979, they released

"You Can Do It," an R&B hit in the

U.S. that also reached the top 15

in the UK. Since that time, their

name has changed, but the

excitement of their music

has stayed the same. 

As they join us to do their latest single on the MCA label entitled

"Cutie Pie," let's make some major noise, gang, for-- One Way!

"Cutie Pie" - One Way

(June/July 1982, highest chart pos. #4 R&B/#61 Hot 100)

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And hold onto your hats. There's a

def ditty comin' outta New York City.

The gang's movin' down the line and

lookin' real fine, tuffin' up their stuff,

boppin' to the beat and and poppin'

to the percussion on this hot one by

Jimmy Ross, a little thing called--

"First True Love Affair!" 

"First True Love Affair" - Jimmy Ross

(Oct./Nov. 1981,highest chart pos. #50 R&B) 

And if that don't do it for

you, nothing ever will.

We hope you'll get

into it with us again

next time when we

pop open another

six pack and toss in

an extra cool one

for good measure.

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You can bet your last money, it's all gonna be a stone gas,

honey. I'm Don Cornelius, and as always in parting,

we wish you love... peace... and soul!

"TSOP (The Sound of Philadelphia)" - MFSB

(Theme from Soul Train feat. The Three Degrees)

(Mar./Apr. 1974, highest chart pos. #1 Hot 100 & Cash Box & R&B) 

Beth Boland's ADRENALINE RUSH..... Vol. 1: Cold as Ice is More Than a Feeling!

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 BETH BOLAND'S 
 ADRENALINE RUSH 

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"Some Guys Have All The Luck" - Rod Stewart

(Sept./Oct. 1984, highest chart pos.

#10 Hot 100/#16 Cash Box)

You know what they say. Spare the rod, spoil the show.
I say... let there be Rod!

That was British lightning rod Rod Stewart feeling his

oats and knocking me out with one of his top 10 hits

of the 80s, "Some Guys Have All The Luck." 

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Hi, I'm Beth Boland from the

NBC TV series Good Girls.

Think I look like Joan from

Mad Men? I get that a lot.

I'm an average suburban

housewife and mother who

leads a secret life. In fact,

my girl pals and I have a

lot of secrets. Is our show

a comedrama or is it a

dramedy? Who's to say?

This I can tell you. It's a

hoot, a guilty pleasure.

You need to watch, and

girlfriend, here's a hint...

wait till you lay eyes

on my "Loverboy."

Here's Billy Ocean!

"Loverboy" - Billy Ocean

(Jan./Feb. 1985, highest chart pos. #2 Hot 100,

#4 Cash Box/#20 R&B, perf. on American Bandstand)

That was loverboy Billy Ocean, the Trinidad born,

England raised singer/songwriter, appearing on

American Bandstand and doing his top 3 hit.

Speaking of secrets... one of my

best kept is that I am moonlighting
as a Shady Bunch deejay here on

S-P-M-M Retrosonic Radio, and
and you're tuned to my very first

show! Here's the thing to remember:

Beth's bigger on beats than ballads.

The songs I will play are intended

to give you an Adrenaline Rush

that'll get you up on your feet,

out of your seat and rockin'

till you drop. Got it?

A little more about me.

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To make a long story short,

on Good Girls I went from

being an average play-by-

the-rules soccer mom to

gun toting gangster moll

in two shakes of a jiffy.

Don't ask 'cause I'm not

gonna tell! Let's just say

bad boy Rio gives this

  Good Girl everything 

she needs, honey... and

"Everything She Wants!" 

"Everything She Wants" - Wham!

(May/June 1985, highest chart pos.

#1 Hot 100 & Cash Box/#1 Canada) 

Topping the pop charts in the U.S. and Canada in the spring

of 1985, that was WHAM!... the English pop duo cosisting

of George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley. Meanwhile, that

smooth criminal Rio and that redheaded bombshell Beth

(that's me) make a dynamite duo every week on NBC's

Good Girls, so be sure to watch! 

BB - Beth Boland - keeping

you company and pumping

you full of adrenaline here

on S-P-M-M... where the

 classic rock hits just

keep on comin'!

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Ever since I started breaking

bad on Good Girls, people say

I'm cold as ice. Maybe so...

but it gets the job done.

Foreigner recorded a

song about it!

"Cold As Ice" - Foreigner

(Sept/Oct. 1977, highest chart pos.

#6 Hot 100/#10 Cash Box)

From 1977 that was "Cold As Ice," a hot one by Foreigner,

the part-English, part-American band that achieved most

of their hits on this side of the pond. That single brushed

the top 5 in the U.S. and made the top 10 in Canada.

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If you're just tuning in I'm Beth,

Good Girl turned naughty and

lovin' it, and I'm playing the

classics of the 70s and 80s.

We're in the middle of a

7-in-a-row commercial-

free Adrenaline Rush

and to keep the juices

flowing here are--

Hall and Oates!

"Did It In A Minute"

- Daryl Hall And John Oates

(Apr./May 1982, highest chart pos.

#9 Hot 100/#10 Cash Box)

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You just heard Daryl Hall

and John Oates doing it

right with "Did It In A

Minute," a top 10 hit

for the duo in 1982.

We're going for an

Adrenaline Rush

with one classic rock

nugget after another,

the good stuff from

the Good Girl on

S-P-M-M... your

station for pure

rock and roll!

"More Than A Feeling" - Boston

(Oct./Nov. 1976, highest chart pos.

#4 Cash Box/#5 Hot 100)

S-P-M-M... the station that never stops rockin'...

and that was a dose of FM rock nirvana from the

fall of '76-- Boston with "More Than A Feeling."

The song was the first single released from the

band's self-titled debut album. It spent 19 weeks

on the chart and is considered a classic rock staple.

"More Than A Feeling" made the Rock & Roll Hall

of Fame's list of 500 Songs That Shaped Rock & Roll

and Rolling Stone's list of 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.

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I've got more than a feeling I'm out of time and the show's over.

The clock on the wall proves it. I need to fly on outta here and

I'm going to do it on The Steve Miller Band's "Jet Airliner,"

a top five hit in the summer of '77. I give it to you straight,

and this is the real deal, the album version, not the edited,

sanitized single version played on ordinary radio stations.

I hope by now I've got you feeling that Adrenaline Rush.

Stick around. Coming up on the flip side of news, it's

those other Good Girls - Patti, Cindy & Jane - from

Good Girls Revolt. They'll be here with the second

edition of their S-P-M-M show Libbin' It Up with

The Good Girls, and I'll be back soon to give you

another Adrenaline Rush with classic rock of the

70s and 80s. Now this is Beth Boland saying

take care, watch your back, be good... and if

you can't be good... be careful. So long!

"Jet Airliner" - The Steve Miller Band

(May to July 1977, highest chart pos.

#3 Cash Box/#8 Hot 100)