2022 - Year of the Dell Rat, Part 1: Crazy Little Thing Called Love!

 CAN SHADY DEL KNIGHT KEEP YOU 
 ENTERTAINED IN THE COMING YEAR? 

 DOES 

 CHRIS GRIFFIN 

 REACT POORLY 

 TO BAD NEWS? 

 WELCOME BACK, DEAR FRIEND! 

 AND HAPPY NEW YEAR! 

I'm delighted to have you along for the ride
as I begin another year of blogging here
at Shady's Place Music & Memories.
This year I am excited to launch eight
new S-P-M-M radio shows hosted by
engaging TV and radio personalities.
You met them all last year in sneak
previews, and they're back in this
special two-part post to help me
kick-off 2022. Today, in part one,
you will meet the first four new
members of The Shady Bunch,
so let's get right to it.

Lo & behold, two of your favorite Shady's Place regulars,

Brian and Chris Griffin from Family Guy, are back,

along with my first special guest, their sister Meg.

Meg was overjoyed when I slipped her a note in class

and invited her to join The Shady Bunch DJ team.

Santa was good to Meg this year, and my job offer was the icing on the cake. 

Meg's social media accounts blew-up when word spread that she
had been chosen to become the latest celeb radio personality on SPMM.

Without further ado, please

join me in welcoming this

delightful young woman

back to Shady's Place.

Ladies and gentlemen -

Meg Griffin!

Thank you very much, Shady,
and happy new year, everyone!

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I am beyond excited that Shady picked

me to host my very own radio show.
I've decided to call it Meg Griffin's
Frantic Romantic. I'll be playing the
greatest love songs of your lifetime

including somebody done somebody
wrong songs and wistful ditties like
this one by ABBA. Goodbye '21,
hello '22 and-- "Happy New Year!"

"Happy New Year" - ABBA

(from Nov. 1980 album Super Trouper)

That was the Swede sound of ABBA

and "Happy New Year," featuring

"Aggie" (Agnetha Fältskog) on

lead vocal. Penned & produced

by Benny and Björn, the song

was released in the fall of 1980

on ABBA's Super Trouper album.

It's time for me to hand over the mic

to another new Shady Bunch deejay.

Before I go, I'd like  to invite you to

join me later this year for my show

Meg Griffin's Frantic Romantic

 here on S-P-M-M Retrosonic Radio. 

Now welcome back America's sweetheart.

You know her as Adrian Monk's smart,

savvy and sometimes sassy assistant,

and she's also my great new friend--

Natalie Teeger!

Thank you so much, Meg, and happy new year

to one and all! My new show on S-P-M-M is

called Natalie Teeger's Array of Sunshine.

As the name suggests, I will be bringing

my sunny disposition to the airwaves and

brightening your day with the groovy sounds

of sunshine pop and light rock. For example,

did you know that The Critters derived their

name from The Animals? As the summer of

'66 was getting underway, these Jersey boys

landed their first single on the chart with a

version of a song written by John Sebastian.

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Here are The Critters with a record that brushed the top 20
on Cash Box and got them noticed-- "Younger Girl."

"Younger Girl" - The Critters

(June/July 1966, highest chart pos. #21 Cash Box/#42 Hot 100)

You just heard "Younger Girl," the first single by The Critters,
one that revealed their hit potential as sunshine poppers.
Oddly, while the platter performed well on Cash Box,
it failed to reach the top 40 on the Billboard Hot 100.

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Later that year the group followed-up with "Mr. Dieingly Sad"
which cracked the top 20 on Billboard and top 15 on Cash Box.

"Mr. Dieingly Sad" - The Critters

(Sept./Oct. 1966, highest chart pos. #14 Cash Box/#17 Hot 100)

That's all I have for now. Please join me
this year for the official debut of my show

Natalie Teeger's Array of Sunshine
on S-P-M-M Retrosonic Radio!

Now here's one of the charismatic stars of the

Netflix science fiction drama Sense8. She's the

San Francisco-based trans woman hacktivist

and blogger you first met at Riley's Raves

on the old blog, SDMM, and she's back

this year with her own radio show.

Please welcome-- Nomi Marks!

Thank you, Natalie... and happy 2022 to all my
friends and followers out there in S-P-M-M land!
Just a friendly reminder -- whatever you do,
don't call me Michael. I am delighted that
Shady Del Knight has given me this
amazing opportunity to co-host a radio
show along with my BFF Nia Nal from
Supergirl. Our show, Transitive Verve,
celebrates diversity in music, a mix

of styles by artists old and new...
everything from 80s new wave
to modern pop and rock.

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On our show, you'll meet exciting young entertainers from around the

world, like up-and-coming Romanian stars Andrei Cerbu and Beatrice

Florea. Here they are with-- "Crazy Little Thing Called Love!"

"Crazy Little Thing Called Love" - Queen cover

by Andrei Cerbu & Beatrice Florea (Sept. 2019)

Hi, I'm Nomi's radio co-host Nia Nal,
and that was the fabulous Romanian
duo of guitarist Andrei Cerbu and
 singer Beatrice Florea covering
Queen in fine fashion doing the
Freddy Mercury song "Crazy

Little Thing Called Love." As
that exciting performance
illustrates, people of all kinds
across America and around
the world share a bond. We
have something in common -
this thing called love, a love

of good music. With that in mind,
I invite you to join Nomi and me
for Transitive Verve, making its
official debut this year on S-P-M-M.

Now it gives me great pleasure to introduce Shady's last special guest of the day,
WMEX Boston top 40 radio legend Arnie "Woo Woo" Ginsburg, back from
Beantown to start moonlighting as a Shady Bunch personality
this year on S-P-M-M. Take it away, Arnie!

Thank you, Nia Nal, and happy new year

to all my top 40 teens in the listening audience.

Your friend The Woo Woo is here for you-you,

Old Aching Adenoids, Arnie Ginsburg, back

on the air to bring you another sampling of

my famous Night Train Show coming to

you in '22 on S-P-M-M Retrosonic Radio.

I'll be spinning the great sounds of doo-

wop, pop and rock & roll, records that

were hot in New England and across

the USA in the pre-Beatles years,

the late 50s through early 60s.

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Here's one now, ripped from the Wimmex Tunedex. It's Beantown's
own Freddy "Boom Boom" Cannon taking us along for a day
of fun and teen romance down at-- "Palisades Park!"

"Palisades Park" - Freddy Cannon

(June 1962, highest chart pos. #3 Hot 100 & Cash Box)

Penned by Gong Show host Chuck Barris and

sung by Freddy Cannon, that was a rock & roll

tribute to New Jersey's Palisades Amusement

Park. Can you believe that great song was the

designated B side of a single? What were the

guys in suits thinking? When a deejay played

the song by mistake, it took off and went

top 3 in the spring of 1962, becoming

the biggest hit of Freddy's career.

Gee, that does it for Part 1 of our new year
spectacular. Stay tuned for Part 2 coming up

next Wednesday, the 5th of January, when
you'll meet four more new members of

The Shady Bunch deejay staff.

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And stick around for more great sounds from Meg Griffin, Nomi & Nia,
Natalie Teeger and me, Arnie Ginsburg, coming your way throughout
2022 on S-P-M-M Retrosonic Radio. Remember - while the others
are talkin'...we're rockin'! As Ernie Fields plays us off with
his hit instrumental "In The Mood," this is your buddy
Old Aching Adenoids, Arnie "Woo Woo" Ginsburg,
saying so long and, once again, happy new year!

"In The Mood" - Ernie Field's Orch. aka Ernie Fields Orchestra

(Nov./Dec. 1959, highest chart pos. #4 Hot 100/#7 Cash Box)

 MEET MORE NEW S-P-M-M DEEJAYS 

 IN PART 2 ON WEDNESDAY, JAN. 5! 

Wordless Wendi Meets Iris West, Nomi Marks & Nia Nal

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(COLD SHOW OPEN)

 "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)