BOOTH ANNOUNCER GARY OWENS:
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GEATOR GOLD
on the station that's #1 for music and fun - S-P-M-M!
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(COLD SHOW OPEN)
"The 81" - Candy And The Kisses
(Dec, 1964/Jan. 1965, highest chart pos.
#39 Cash Box/#51 Hot 100 & R&B)
Kicking-off the show with a sizzling sound that was big up and down the East Coast
at Christmas, 1964... a record that reached it's peak in the top 40 on Cash Box the
first week of '65. It was a song about a new dance going around called "The 81,"
and it was recorded by Candy & The Kisses, a girl trio from Staten Island.
Greetings and sal-u-ta-tions! I am the Geator with the Heater.
I am the Boss with the Big Hot Sauce, welcoming you in for
a special all-girl edition of Geator Gold! Every record I'll
be playing was made by a female artist or girl group.
If you're ready, let's spin more Geator Gold!
"The 81" by Candy And The Kisses is
an example of the "cool" brand of soul
that came out of Philadelphia in the mid
to late 1960s. When fans of the genre
talk about cool Philly soul, this next
song and this next artist are most
certainly mentioned in the conver-
sation.You would be hard pressed
to find a cooler sound that this
one by Dee Dee Sharp.
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Dee Dee is best known for her up tempo dance ditties, but some say this mature
and mellow song is her greatest recording. Geator Gold proudly presents
one of Philly's Phinest, Miss Dee Dee Sharp and-- "I Really Love You!"
"I Really Love You" - Dee Dee Sharp
(Jan. 1966, highest chart pos. #37 R&B/#78 Hot 100)
That was Philadelphia's own sultry soul siren Dee Dee Sharp singing
"I Really Love You," a sophisticated soul classic and a far cry from
"Mashed Potato Time," "Gravy (For My Mashed Potatoes)" and
other dance-pop songs she recorded at the start of her career.
Up next, a girl group everybody
knows, Martha And The Vandellas.
In the spring of 1965, the Motown
trio appeared on the British TV
special Ready, Steady, Go!
The Sound of Motown.
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The Vandellas were fantastic and
bombastic as they performed their
latest hit-- "Nowhere To Run!"
"Nowhere To Run - Martha And The Vandellas
(Mar./Apr. 1965, highest chart pos. #5 R&B, #8 Hot 100,
#9 Cash Box, live perf. on Apr. 28, 1965, on British TV
special Ready, Steady, Go! The Sound of Motown)
One of the hottest sounds ever to come out of Motown, that was
Martha Reeves and her group The Vandellas on TV in the UK
doing "Nowhere To Run" a single that went top 5 on the U.S.
R&B chart and top 10 pop. Believe it or not, the record was
produced using the clinking sound of snow chains as
percussion along with the tambourine and drums.
If you're just tuning in, I'm Jerry Blavat -
The Geator with the Heater - and this
is Geator Gold on S-P-M-M...
the station with personality.
My parade of female artists continues now
with Sheila Ross and her Royalettes, a family
R&B group from Baltimore. The Royalettes
are best known for the song "It's Gonna Take
A Miracle," a hit single penned and produced
by Teddy Randazzo, the man responsible for
a string of hits by Little Anthony And The
Imperials. I'd like to play two other great
records by The Royalettes, starting with
a single from the fall of 1963.
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Here's "Blue Summer," a song similar to "Our Day Will Come"
and "My Summer Love," back-to-back hits for Ruby And
The Romantics earlier that year.
"Blue Summer" - The Royalettes
(Sept. 1963, highest chart pos. #121 Bubbling Under)
On Geator Gold we program from the heart, not from the chart, and you just heard
one of the reasons why - "Blue Summer" by The Royalettes - a record that shoulda
been, coulda been and woulda been a hit, but instead, it merely Bubbled Under.
Many of my teen kings and teen queens
are familiar with Philadelphia pop-soul
songstress Barbara Mason's 1965 hit
"Yes, I'm Ready." But you might not
know that The Royalettes covered
the song on their 1965 album
It's Gonna Take A Miracle.
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Had it been released as a single, this cover
might have been a hit for The Royalettes
because it rivals and, in the ears of
some, surpasses the original.
What do your ears say?
"Yes, I'm Ready" - Barbara Mason cover by The Royalettes
(from 1965 album It's Gonna Take A Miracle)
You just heard two smooth grooves in a
row by The Royalettes, a girl group from
Baltimore. Now here's yet another fine but
underrated female group... this one a trio
from down the road in Washington, D.C.
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They're The Fuzz... and in the spring of '71, this
became their biggest hit, a record that made the
top 10 on the R&B chart and crossed over to
crack the top 20 on the pop survey. This cool
sound knocks me out cold... The Fuzz and
"I Love You For All Seasons."
"I Love You For All Seasons" - The Fuzz (Apr./May 1971,
highest chart pos. #10 R&B/#20 Cash Box/#21 Hot 100)
You just experienced the ice cool sound of The Fuzz doing their biggie,
"I Love You For All Seasons," a slow jam that has truly stood the test of time.
Shady says I have time for one last record,
And, speaking of time, as all good things
must come to an end... so too must this
special all-girl edition of my show.
Don't touch that dial. Keep it here on
S-P-M-M... the station with personality.
Coming up on the B side of Gary Owens'
news, it's the debut of the long awaited,
much anticipated Shady's Place series
Joyce Martin's a Gold Digger.
I hope she digs the Geator's Gold.
so here it is, a song waxed by the reinvented
Supremes with Jean Terrell as the Motown
super-group's new lead singer. This platter
started up the chart in the spring of '71 as
the one by The Fuzz was reaching its peak.
It's the lead single from the Supremes' 23rd studio album Touch. The Geator
wants you to put your ear close to the radio and listen carefully, because this
is an unusual and innovative recording for The Supremes. All three members,
Jean Terrell, Mary Wilson, and Cindy Birdsong, sing the song's lead vocal
in unison, and they are joined by veteran session singer Clydie King.
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In addition, as you will hear, the sound is sculpted with a phase shifting effect
applied to The Funk Brothers' backing track. "Winter's past, spring, and fall,"
and "Nathan Jones," the former lover who ghosted our heroine, is still in
the wind. Now this is The Geator with the Heater saying so long and
reminding you to keep on rockin'... 'cause you only rock once!
"Nathan Jones" - The Supremes (May/June 1971,
highest chart pos. #8 R&B/#10 Cash Box, #16 Hot 100)
