Wordless Wendi Meets Iris West, Nomi Marks & Nia Nal

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 "Barbara Ann" - The Beach Boys 

 (Jan./Feb. 1966, highest chart pos. #1 Cash Box/#2 Hot 100, 
 from Nov. 1965 album Beach Boys' Party!) 

A song from the 1965 album Beach Boys' Party!... that was "Barbara Ann"
featuring Dean Torrence of Jan and Dean on co-lead vocals along with
Brian Wilson and backed by America's Beach Boys. "Barbara-Ann"
was originally recorded in 1961 by the Bronx doo-wop group
The Regents who had a #13 charting hit with it. In early
1966 the Beach Boys cover topped the Cash Box chart
and reached #2 on the Billboard Hot 100. In the summer
of 1975, the Beach Boys' single made a return visit to the
chart and Bubbled Under for three weeks, finishing at #101.

Hi everyone! It's Almost Wordless Wednesday

and I'm Wordless Wendi, Wendi Falkenberry,

Eddie Cleary's perky, levelheaded girlfriend

on The Kids Are Alright, the TV sitcom set

in the year 1972. I'm here today along with

three other cool television characters with

a sneak preview of our new radio shows.

That's right, you guessed it. Beginning

next year the four of us will be joining

The Shady Bunch as DJs on S-P-M-M

Retrosonic Radio. My show will be

called Wordless Wendi because I'll

bring you more music with less talk,

the best surf-rock and sunshine pop

hits of 60s, and right now I've got
another one by The Beach Boys.

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Listen to the fresh, vibrant sound on this newly enhanced remix
of their top 10 hit from the summer of '66-- "Wouldn't It Be Nice!"

 "Wouldn't It Be Nice" - The Beach Boys 

 (Aug./Sept. 1966, highest chart pos. 

 #7 Cash Box/#8 Hot 100) 

I'm Nomi Marks. Do not call me Michael.

I'm the San Francisco based trans woman

hacktivist and blogger from the sci-fi TV

series Sense8. You might also remember

me from Riley's Raves on the old blog

Shady Dell Music & Memories. Next
year my BFF, an exciting young woman
you'll meet in a moment, will join me
in hosting a new show on S-P-M-M
called Transitory Verve. Together
we will bring you musical diversity,
great sounds of the past and present
by recording artists all over the world.

My first play is a way cool number

by the perennially popular dance-pop

new wave Brit girl trio Bananarama.

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These English sparrows made the Guinness book for having the world's
highest number of chart entries by a female group. If you wanna know

why, the proof is in the butter pie. From Disorderlies, the 1987

comedy starring The Fat Boys and Ralph Bellamy, here

are the banana girls and-- "I Heard A Rumour!"

 "I Heard A Rumour" - Bananarama 

 (Aug. to Oct. 1987, highest chart pos. #4 Hot 100 & Cash Box, 

 from OST of the Aug. 1987 film Disorderlies) 

Hi, I'm Nia Nal, code name Dreamer on the hit

TV series Supergirl. In 2018 I made history as

the first transgender superhero on television.

Latin rock 'n' roll pioneer Ritchie Valens was
only seventeen years old when he died in an
Iowa plane crash along with Buddy Holly

and The Big Bopper on February 3, 1959,

a date immortalized in the Don McLean

song "American Pie" as "The Day the

Music Died." Ritchie's adaptation of

the Mexican folk song "La Bamba"

was released as a single at the end

of 1958 and charted in the weeks

before and after his tragic death.

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Sixty years later, on the other side of the world,

two young Romanians breathed new life into

the song. Here with their joyful cover of
"La Bamba" are guitarist Andrei Cerbu
and singing partner Beatrice Florea.

 "La Bamba" - Ritchie Valens cover by 

 Andrei Cerbu & Beatrice Florea, (August 2019) 

Hi, I'm Iris West, news journalist
and Barry Allen's girlfriend on the
DC Comics superhero TV series

The Flash. You might recall the

night we met when Shady Dell

Music & Memories presented

the rave party Barry's Bash
"Dance With The Flash."

My new show, which begins
next year on S-P-M-M, will be
called Flashback with Iris West.
I'll be playing hot urban soul,
R&B and dance club sounds
of the 70s, 80s and 90s.

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If you follow my simulcast on YouTube, you'll be able to see the music videos

that aired on MTV and Vh1. Here's a music history mystery, a single by
O'Bryan that spent a whopping 21 weeks on the R&B chart and went

all the way to #1, but somehow missed the Hot 100. O'Bryan co-
wrote this song with Soul Train's Don Cornelius. Watch and
listen now as O'Bryan turns on your-- "Lovelite!"

 "Lovelite" - O'Bryan (May/June/July 1984, 

 highest chart pos. #1 R&B/#101 Bubbling Under) 

Here's another R&B chart-topper,

and this one also rode high on

the pop charts. It was recorded

in 1987 by Perri McKissack, a

singer from Oakland, California,

who, as a little girl, earned the

nickname "Pebbles" because

she reminded her family of

the cartoon character

Pebbles Flintstone.

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In 1988, Pebbles hit pay dirt with her second

single, another record that logged 21 weeks

on the R&B chart-- "Girlfriend!"

 "Girlfriend" - Pebbles (Feb./Mar. Apr. 1988, 

 highest chart pos. 1 R&B/#5 Hot 100/#6 Cash Box) 

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That wraps up our sneak preview.
We hope you enjoyed sampling the
sounds you'll be hearing on Wordless

Wendi, Transitory Verve and Flash-

back with Iris West. Now for Iris,

Nia Nal and Nomi Marks, I'm

Wendi Falkenberry. See you

next year on S-P-M-M! 

 "Wendy" - The Beach Boys 

 (Oct./Nov. 1964, highest chart pos. #44 Hot 100, 

 #57 Cash Box, from Sept. 1964 EP 4-By The Beach Boys)