Ron Howard Pops the Clutch and Tells the World...

EAT MY DUST!

Look out world!  Opie Taylor's breaking badass in Eat My Dust...

winner of 50 Academy Awards including Best Picture and

Best Performance in a Supporting Role, an accolade

given to the suspension springs on Ron's muscle car.

SURPRISE!!!

You'll be surprised  shocked  upset  happy to know that this post has

nothing to do with Opie's 1976 action film produced by Roger Corman,

King of Low Budget Filmmakers. The bold headline and poster are merely

"click bait" - a gimmick I used to attract attention and lure hundreds,

perhaps thousands of new readers to Shady's Place. As you will

see at the end of the post, comments are already pouring in

from the four corners of the world. Hooray!

My clever ploy actually worked!

Although this post isn't about Ron Howard or that el cheapo

bicentennial cult classic car chase flick, it is loosely related.

That's because it's time to go...

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Cruisin' through the year 1963

with "Your Leader" - BMR!

That's right. It's time to hop

in the old jalop and go

C R U I S I N '

through the history of Top 40 Radio.

Today we're visiting The Big Apple, New York City.

The year is 1963 and the voice on the radio

belongs to the DJ known as "BMR" -

 B. MITCHELL REED 

one of the

  Good Guys  

on station

 WMCA. 

PIGGYBACK COLD OPEN:

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AT 21 SEC MARK, CLICK TO

START SECOND VIDEO!

 "Easier Said Than Done" - The Essex 

 (June/July 1963, highest chart pos. 

 #1 Hot 100/#1 Cash Box/#1 R&B) 

 THE ESSEX 

I just had to do that - test out the Piggyback Cold Open on that first song.

If you timed it just right, BMR's intro to that Essex song syncs up with the

full length song video that followed. WOW! If you aren't familiar with that

soulful group, The Essex consisted of four guys and a girl (Anita Humes).

Strange as it seems, their signature song, "Easier Said Than Done," is

categorized as a Girl Group sound. Solo female artist Diane Renay

also falls into the Girl Group category, as does Lesley Gore. The

confusion doesn't end there. In the wacky world of pop music

classification, certain recordings by all male groups or solo

male artists are also designated by some music historians

as Girl Group sounds! "Easier Said Than Done" was a

smash hit for The Essex. The record spent two weeks

at the top of the pop charts in the summer of that

great Cruisin' year 1963.

 THE JAYNETTES 

Another cool sound on the Cruisin' 1963 album belongs to The Jaynettes,

an all-girl vocal quartet from The Bronx. These one hit wonders charted

their biggie a couple months after "Easier Said Than Done." Inspired by

the nursery rhyme "Ring around the Rosie," the song "Sally, Go Round

The Roses" spent two weeks at #2 on the Hot 100, held back from
the top position by Bobby Vinton's "Blue Velvet." Here now are

The Jaynettes with "Sally, Go Round The Roses!"

 "Sally, Go Round The Roses" - The Jaynettes 

 (Sept./Oct. 1963, highest chart pos. #2 Hot 100/#3 Cash Box, 

 #4 R&B, dancers on Sept. 28, 1963, ep. of American Bandstand) 

 JAN BRADLEY 

Born in Mississippi and raised near Chicago, R&B thrush Jan Bradley

is another one hit wonder, but her waxing of a Curtis Mayfield song

became a northern soul classic and my favorite song on the Cruisin'

1963 album. Released on Chicago's legendary Chess label at the

start of that year, "Mama Didn't Lie" became a top 10 hit on

the black chart and finished at #14 on the pop charts.

Here's Jan Bradley with Chitown soul at its best!

 "Mama Didn't Lie" - Jan Bradley 

 (Feb./Mar. 1963, highest chart pos. 

 #8 R&B/#14 Hot 100 & Cash Box) 

 THE ROOFTOP SINGERS 

Baltimorean folk singer/songwriter Erik Darling was a key figure
in the American folk music scene of the late 50s and early 60s.

Along with with a friend, Bill Svanoe, and jazz singer Lynne Taylor,
Darling formed a folk trio called The Rooftop Singers. In their
trademark progressive folk style, the group recorded the 1929
country blues song "Walk Right In." To everyone's surprise,
the single shot to #1 on the chart. Return with me now
to the simple, uncluttered, unplugged, pre-Beatles
Hootenanny era, the pop-folk boom of the mid
20th century. Walk right in, sit right down,

Daddy, let your mind roll on!

 "Walk Right In" - The Rooftop Singers 

 (Jan./Feb. 1963, highest chart pos. #1 Hot 100 & Cash Box) 

 "A TALE OF TWO DITTIES" 
 (MAKE THAT FOUR) 

The last song on B. Mitchell Reed's 1963 Cruisin' show is "Louie Louie,"

and there are four versions of the song that are important to know.

 RICHARD BERRY 
 AND THE PHARAOHS 

The Kingsmen are best known for their version of "Louie Louie," the infamous
late 1963 record that prompted an FBI investigation into allegedly obscene lyrics.
The Kingsmen's recording is a rockin' cover of an innocent Jamaican love ballad
written and first recorded in 1957 by R&B doo-wop singer Richard Berry
along with his backing group The Pharaohs.

 "Louie Louie" - Richard Berry And The Pharaohs 
 (Mar. 1957, B side of "You Are My Sunshine") 

 ROCKIN ROBIN ROBERTS 

The first cover of Richard Berry's "Louie Louie" was released in March 1961
by Tacoma Washington's Rockin Robin Roberts backed by the noteworthy
Pacific Northwest instrumental band The Wailers.

 "Louie Louie" - Rockin Robin Boberts 

 (Mar. 1961, uncharted) 

 PAUL REVERE & THE RAIDERS 

Paul Revere And The Raiders recorded a version of "Louie, Louie" the same week

and at the same studio in Portland, Oregon, where The Kingsmen waxed their

history making record. For a short time after their release, the two singles

were running neck and neck, but events conspired to make one version

an iconic hit of the 20th century and the other a flop. Columbia A&R

man Mitch Miller, famous for his TV show Sing Along With Mitch,

hated rock 'n' roll and "pulled the plug" on the Raiders' single,

leaving it stranded on the Bubbling Under chart. Here are

The Raiders performing the song nearly three years

later on Dick Clark's Where The Action Is.

 "Louie, Louie" - Paul Revere And The Raiders 

 (Nov. 1963, highest chart pos. #103 Bubbling Under/#118 Cash Box, 

  perf. on Sept. 16, 1966, ep. of Where The Action Is) 

 THE KINGSMEN 

The Kingsmen, like The Raiders, were a rowdy Pacific Northwest garage band,

and as such gave "Louie Louie" the full frat party treatment. Lead zinger

Jack Ely mumbled and slurred the words and his vocal track is buried

beneath dense layers of crashing cymbals, drums, guitars and organ,

rendering most of the lyrics unintelligible and fueling speculation

that they were dirty. They weren't. The actual words to

"Louie Louie" are as safe as mama’s milk. (Shucks!)

The FBI probe went nowhere and "Louie Louie"

went on to become a rock standard, but it

didn't happen overnight.

The single waxed by The Kingsmen was going nowhere fast until
Boston deejay Arnie Ginsburg (now a member of The Shady Bunch
on SPMM Retrosonic Radio), started promoting the platter on his
Night Train Show as "The Worst Record of the Week." Arnie's
listeners went wild for the Kingsmen platter and it soon broke

nationally. "Louie Louie" spent two weeks at #1 on Cash Box
and six weeks at #2 on the Hot 100, denied the #1 spot
by The Singing Nun's "Dominique" and Bobby Vinton's
latest hit "There! I've Said it Again." Determined to
stamp out bland ballads in your lifetime, here are
The Kingsmen appearing in a Dallas, Texas,

TV studio on the local Bandstand style

show Sump'n Else, performing one

of the greatest and best known

 rock 'n' roll records ever

made-- "Louie Louie!"

 "Louie Louie" - The Kingsmen 

 (Dec. 1963/Jan. 1964, highest chart position 

 #1 Cash Box/#2 Hot 100, perf. on TV show Sump’n Else 

 on WFAA-TV, Channel 8 (ABC), Dallas/Ft.Worth) 

 Don't miss the next thrill packed 

 episode of Cruisin' coming soon! 

Have a Shady day!

Wordless Wendi - Vol. 1: Cinnamon Girl

CLICK TO START THE VIDEO NOW!

(COLD SHOW OPEN)

"The Kids Are Alright" - The Who cover

by The Bloomfields (December 2021)

Kicking-off my first show, those were The Bloomfields, a rock band

in The Philippines, putting down a groovy sound on their cover of

the jangle pop classic "The Kids Are Alright," a Pete Townshend

song originally recorded by The Who, an early career minor hit

stateside for the Brit band in the summer of 1966. 

Hi again everyone! It's Almost Wordless

Wednesday and, as you might recall from

my preview last year, 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 back today with my first full

show as a member of The Shady Bunch

DJ team on S-P-M-M Retrosonic Radio.

Wordless Wendi means more music with

less talk, allowing me to squeeze in a

bonus song - eight in all - in the same

time it takes other DJs to play seven.
It's 1972 and disco has not yet taken
over the music scene, so get up and

boogie with me to the great rock and

sunshine pop sounds of the 60s and

early 70s. I promised more music with

less talk, so let's get to the next song!

CLICK TO START THE VIDEO NOW!

As a California girl it's only natural that I love America's Beach Boys.

This song, a reworking of a Crystals hit, has Al Jardine on lead.

From 1965 The Beach Boys-- "Then I Kissed Her!"

"Then I Kissed Her" - The Beach Boys

from July 1965 album Summer Days (And Summer Nights!!)

Wordless Wendi loves her

Beach Boys, and that was

their cover of the Crystals

hit "Then He Kissed Me,"

switching genders and

renaming the song

"Then I Kissed Her."

In the late 60s, the Pacific NW

band Paul Revere & The Raiders
underwent personnel changes

and adopted a psychedelic

pop-rock style. You are about

to hear a top 20 hit from that

phase of their career, the lead

song on the band's 1969

album Hard 'N' Heavy

(With Marshmallow). 

CLICK TO START THE VIDEO NOW!

Here are the reimagined, reinvented Raiders featuring

Mark Lindsay doing their top 20 single--

"Mr. Sun, Mr. Moon!"

"Mr. Sun, Mr. Moon" (enhanced) 

- Paul Revere And The Raiders Feat. Mark Lindsay

(Mar. 1969, highest chart pos. #15 Cash Box/#18 Hot 100)

That was a groovy enhanced remix of "Mr. Sun, Mr. Moon"

by Mark Lindsay and The Raiders, a single that left

the launch pad at the start of 1969 and landed

in the top 20 the first week of spring.

CLICK TO START

THE VIDEO NOW!

Wordless Wendi Falkenberry

keeping you company with my

first show on S-P-M-M Retro

Radio. Up next, we're gonna
play a guessing game and here

are the clues. I can tell you

that members of this popular

Canadian rock band included

Burton Cummings and Randy

Bachman. I will also tell
you there's no sugar tonight

in my coffee, but I'm not gonna
tell you the name of the band.
You'll have to-- Guess Who!

"No Sugar Tonight" - The Guess Who

(Apr./May 1970, highest chart pos. #1 Hot 100

as B (double-A) side of "American Woman."

"No Sugar" charted separately on Cash Box @ #39)

That was the sweet sound of success,

"No Sugar Tonight" part of a medley

with "New Mother Nature" by the

Canadian band The Guess Who

and released on their 1970 album

American Woman. Issued as the

B side of the chart-topping single

"American Woman," "No Sugar

Tonight" was also ranked #1

on Billboard. Listed separately

by Cash Box, "No Sugar" barely

reached the top 40. Go figure! 

If you're just tuning in, I'm Eddie's

girl Wendi from The Kids Are Alright

and you're listening to my new show

Wordless Wendi exclusively here

on S-P-M-M Retrosonic Radio...

where all the cool oldies come

to play. Brief intros are ideal

 for a Wordless Wendi and

here's one now.

CLICK TO START THE VIDEO NOW!

It's Jim Sohns and his Chicago-based Shadows of Knight with

their top 10 cover of Van Morrison's garage rock gem-- "Gloria!" 

"Gloria" (enhanced) - Shadows Of Knight

(Apr./May 1966, highest chart pos. #7 Cash Box/#10 Hot 100)

Wordless Wendi means more rockin'

and less talkin', and we're right in the

middle of an 8-in-a-row sonic boom

on S-P-M-M.... Retrosonic Radio

in Futuresonic Stereo Surround.

Let's get back to the music!

Last summer you saw John Sebastian

appearing with Austria's singing sibs

the MonaLisa Twins. The inspired

trio performed the biggest hit from

Do You Believe in Magic, the 1965

debut album by Sebastian's band

The Lovin' Spoonful. Let's flash

back to my era and when John

and his famous group did the

original version of the song. 

CLICK TO START THE VIDEO NOW!

Here are The Spoonful asking the musical question:

"Did You Ever Have To Make Up Your Mind"?

"Did You Ever Have To Make Up Your Mind?" - The Lovin' Spoonful

(May/June 1966, highest chart pos. #2 Hot 100/#4 Cash Box)

Did you ever have to make up your mind?

Pick up on one and leave the other behind?

That was the question asked by Sebastian

and The Spoonful, and if my boyfriend

Eddie doesn't soon get his act together,

I might need to make up my mind
and leave him behind.

START VIDEO NOW!

Up next, a name and a sound you should
know. He's Neil Young, the Toronto rocker
who founded Buffalo Springfield. A few
months before Neil joined another great
band, Crosby, Stills & Nash, he waxed
this relic along with his backing band
Crazy Horse. Yepper... I can see it all
now. When I kick Eddie to the curb,
Neil is gonna make me his--
"Cinnamon Girl!"

"Cinnamon Girl" - Neil Young With Crazy Horse

(July 1970, highest chart pos. #55 Hot 100/#56 Cash Box,

from May 1969 album Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere)

That was The Godfather of Grunge,

Neil Young, serenading you and me

with "Cinnamon Girl," a single that

approached the top 50 on the pop

charts in the summer of 1970.

The song was recorded in March

of 1969 and originally released
on Neil's album Everybody

Knows This Is Nowhere.

By the time the single was

released, Neil had already

been a member of Crosby,

Stills, Nash & Young

more than a year.

That wraps up my first show. I hope
you enjoyed my lineup of pop and
rock nuggets on Wordless Wendi.
Stick around. Coming up on the
flip side of news, it's time to

hop in your jalop and go

Cruisin' back to 1962...

and I'll be back soon with

more music and less talk

in the next edition of

Wordless Wendi.

START VIDEO NOW!

To play us off, here's another song by

The Beach Boys. It's my theme song,

"Wendy," with Mike Love on lead vocals

and Brian Wilson on falsetto lead. Now

this is Wendi Falkenberry reminding you

to follow that dream wherever that dream

may lead. I'll see you next time. Bye-bye!

"Wendy" - The Beach Boys

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

from July 1964 album All Summer Long and

Sept. 1964 EP Four by the Beach Boys)

New Year's Rockin' Eve in the Shady 2020: Time to Rock, Roll & Remember Dick Clark and the Bandstand Dancers!

 I'm Shady Seaweed 

 "America's Oldest Living Toddler" 

 Welcome to the 

 58th annual 

 New Year's 

 Rockin' Eve 

 in the Shady! 

The wrecking ball in Shady Square is about to drop, signalling the end
of the year 2020. As we look ahead to the coming year, let's view the past
with 2020 hindsight, specifically Dick Clark's long running music program
American Bandstand. Tonight the spotlight is not on the songs or artists
who performed on the show, not even on Dick Clark. Instead I ask that
you focus you attention on the teenagers who danced on Bandstand
over the years. In case you can't spare the time to watch every
video from beginning to end, I provided in bold red letters,

the recommended start point for each video.

 RETURN WITH US NOW 
 TO THE GLORY YEARS 

 OF BANDSTAND. 

Observe the young studio dancers of the 1960s,
their body language, clothing styles and hairdos.
Note their attitude, how they conducted
themselves on the program.

 THE DOVELLS 

 Mem'ries light the corners of my mind 

"You Can't Sit Down" - The Dovells

(Jan. 4, 1964, ep. of American Bandstand)

START PLAYING VIDEO

AT THE 1:05 MARK! 

 THE RONETTES 

 Misty water-colored mem'ries of the way we were 

"Be My Baby" - The Ronettes

(January 04, 1964, ep. of American Bandstand)

START PLAYING VIDEO

AT 45 SEC MARK:

 THE SEEKERS 

 Scattered pictures of the smiles we left behind 

 Smiles we gave to one another for the way we were 

"Georgy Girl" - The Seekers

(February 4, 1967, ep. of American Bandstand)

START PLAYING VIDEO

AT THE 1:20 MARK! 

 GLADYS KNIGHT 
 AND THE PIPS 

 Can it be that it was all so simple then 

 Or has time rewritten every line 

"Friendship Train" - Gladys Knight And The Pips

(Nov. 8, 1969, ep. of American Bandstand)

START PLAYING VIDEO

FROM BEGINNING!

 THE MCCOYS 

 If we had the chance to do it all again, tell me, 

 would we..... could we? 

"Fever" - The McCoys

(December 18, 1965, ep. of American Bandstand)

START PLAYING VIDEO

AT THE 1:44 MARK!

 PAUL REVERE 
 AND THE RAIDERS 

 Mem'ries may be beautiful and yet 

 What's too painful to remember 

 We simply choose to forget 

"Him Or Me - What's It Gonna Be?" 

Paul Revere And The Raiders

(June 3, 1967, ep. of American Bandstand)

START PLAYING VIDEO

FROM BEGINNING! 

 SAM THE SHAM 

 AND THE PHARAOHS 

 So it's the laughter we will remember 

 Whenever we remember the way we were 

"How Do You Catch A Girl"

- Sam The Sham And The Pharaohs

(January 14, 1967, ep. of American Bandstand)

START PLAYING VIDEO

AT THE 1:15 MARK!

Submitted for your approval - exhibits A through G - seven scenes of young people
having good clean fun... unbridled joy... fresh faced exuberance. Simply put -
it was great to be alive in the 60s! If you ever wondered why Boomers
say they wouldn't trade places with any other generation, the magic
moments on these videos are all the evidence you'll ever need.

 If I could turn back time 

  If I could find a way...  

 HAPPY 

 NEW YEAR! 

Rose-Colored Glasses with Dr. Don Rose - Volume 1: 2020 Hindsight: A Perfect View of the Past Thru Song!

LISTEN TO THIS BRIEF SEGMENT TO BECOME FAMILIAR WITH DON ROSE'S VOICE:

BOOTH ANNOUNCER GARY OWENS:

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 ROSE-COLORED GLASSES 

 with DR. DON ROSE 

on the station that's #1 for music and fun - S-P-M-M!

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(COLD SHOW OPEN)

"Ju Ju Hand" - Sam The Sham And The Pharaohs

(Aug./Sept. 1965, highest chart pos. #26 Hot 100/#28 Cash Box) 

I've got a yoka mata huba bakwa Juju Hand

This yoka mata huba bakwa sure is grand

Makes your eyes look red and your tongue turn green

The yoka mata huba bakwa makes you scream 

Shucks, if I were in a restaurant and heard Sam at the next

table yammering that mumbo jumbo... I'd grab the waiter

and say "I'll have what he's having!" (BA-DUM-BUMP) 

In the lead-off spot, boasting about the magical power of his "Ju Ju Hand,"

that was Dallas rock & roller Sam The Sham along with his band of Pharaohs.

They're the wild and crazy guys who scored a top 3 hit with "Wooly Bully."

"Ju Ju Hand," their follow-up single that same year, 1965, didn't do as

well on the chart, just making it into the top 30. 

A Dr. Donald D. Rosey good morning to you! I'm

Dr. Don Rose from Quixie in Dixie, WQXI Atlanta,
along with my pet canary Lulu-Belle (MOOOOO!)
welcoming you to my first official radio show on 
sister station S-P-M-M, the authentic sound of
top 40 radio in the 60s. The songs I play will

make your ears smile, and the videos you'll

watch on my YouTube simulcast will let

you view the past thru Rose-Colored

Glasses and relive the halcyon days

of your youth. By the way, if anybody

knows what the devil a halcyon is,

give me a call. I'm pretty sure a halcyon

is the doodad doohickey gismo that

fits on the end of a whatchamacallit
thingamajig. (BA-DUM-BUMP)

Now let's peer through our Rose-Colored glasses at the fall of 1966.

For nearly three years The Beatles and other Brit bands had been

dominating the chart in the states, but some American artists

survived the onslaught and successfully competed with the

long hairs from across the pond.  Among them were these

cool cats from Boise, Idaho, and later Portland, Oregon.

CLICK TO START THE VIDEO NOW!

As the story goes, patriot Paul Revere shouted "The British are coming!

The British are coming!... but my band  of Raiders can and will fight back

against the Invasion." That they did. 1966 was The Raiders breakthrough

year - 5 hit singles in a row - and I've got one of them on my turntable.

Here they are, the clown princes of pop rock, singing the red, white

and blues about another problem-- "The Great Airplane Strike!"

"The Great Airplane Strike" - Paul Revere And The Raiders

(Oct./Nov. 1966, highest chart pos. #17 Cash Box/#20 Hot 100)

Just what the doctor ordered - a feel good

ditty from Paul Revere & The Raiders, a

terminal tirade about "The Great Airplane

Strike," a top 20 hit for the band in 1966.

CLICK TO START

THE VIDEO NOW!

This fella's full name is Billy Joe Thomas

and he keeps nagging me to pay back the

$50 I borrowed. Bobbie Gentry wrote a

song about it --- "Owed To Billy Joe."

(MOOOOO!) Here's B.J. Thomas and his 

chandelier song - "Hooked On A Ceiling!"

"Hooked On A Feeling" - B.J. Thomas

(Dec. 1968/Jan. 1969, highest chart pos. #5 Hot 100 & Cash Box)

The sound of the electric sitar allows Boomers to name that tune in 2 seconds flat.
A top 5 hit across the land at Christmas 1968 and on into the winter of '69, that

was B.J. Thomas and "Hooked On A Feeling," a song covered five years later

by the Swedish rock band Blue Swede, the guys who added the creepy chant
 "Ooga-Chaka-Ooga-Ooga" to the song. "Ooga-Chaka-Ooga-Ooga" is the
sound I make in the bathroom after eating my wife's pot roast.
(BA-DUM-BUMP)

Dr. Donald D. Rose reminding you that

an apple a day keeps the doctor away -

if your aim is good enough.

(BA-DUM-BUMP)

CLICK TO START

THE VIDEO NOW!

Up next, countrified crooner Roger Miller

sings about a place where you can see

bobbies on bicycles, Westminster Abbey,

the tower of Big Ben and The Snows

of Kilimanjaro. (MOOOOO!) Here's

Roger now with-- "England Swings!"

"England Swings" - Roger Miller

(Nov./Dec. 1965, highest chart pos. #8 Hot 100 & Cash Box)

A top 10 hit from late fall 1965, that was

Roger Miller singing "Inga Lynn swings

like a pendulum do." Shucks, that's why

I'm eager to meet her! (BA-DUM-BUMP)

Dr. Don Rose in the morning on Quixie

in Dixie and S-P-M-M, Retro Radio in Futuresonic Stereo Surround. I don't

have a clue what any of that means!

(KAZOO SOUND)

CLICK TO START VID!

These guys are a little bit country, a little bit

rock 'n' roll and a whole lotta fun. They're
The Newbeats, and they had a string of
Nashville style pop hits like this
one-- "Run, Baby Run!"

"Run, Baby Run (Back Into My Arms)" - The Newbeats

(Oct./Nov./Dec. 1965, highest chart pos. #12 Hot 100/#14 Cash Box)

You just heard the falsetto of the late great
Larry Henley singing "Run, Baby Run" with
The Newbeats. The record stopped at #12 on

the U.S. chart in the fall of 1965 but reached

the 10 spot in the UK six years later when it

was re-released as a B side and became

a dance favorite in Northern Soul clubs.

CLICK TO START
THE VIDEO NOW!

Now a taste of Nashville soul from

Joe Simon. Joe feels like a puppet

on a string because his sweetie

keeps him-- "Hangin' On."

"(You Keep Me) Hangin' On" - Joe Simon
(May/June 1968, highest chart position

#11 R&B/#25 Hot 100/#42 Cash Box)

Not to be confused with the hit by

the Motown Supremes, that was

"(You Keep Me) Hangin' On,"

a different song and different

kind of soul - Nashville soul,

a crossover hit in 1968 for

R&B soul man Joe Simon.

Shucks, I'm all out of time and

Gary Owens is waving me off.

Thanks for tuning in and letting

me put some corn in your morn.
I hope you had fun peering into

the past through Rose-Colored

Glasses and reliving the salad

days of your youth. I'm a meat

and potatoes man myself.

(MOOOOO!)

CLICK TO START THE VIDEO NOW!

Stay tuned for Geator Gold with Jerry Blavat coming up on the B side of news,

and I'll be back soon with another pile of platters for a Rosey good morning.

That's my pledge, and here's Joe Jeffrey with his "Pledge of Love." Now

this is Dr. Don Rose along with Lulu-Belle (MOOOOO!)... So long!

"My Pledge Of Love" - The Joe Jeffrey Group

(June/July 1969, highest chart pos. #13 Cash Box/#14 Hot 100)

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"Just Like Me" - Paul Revere And The Raiders

(Jan./Feb. 1966, highest chart pos. #11 Hot 100/#16 Cash Box)

"THE DITTIES ARE COMING!"

"THE DITTIES ARE COMING!"

That there was Paul Revere and his band of Raiders featuring
Mark Lindsay on lead vocal, kicking off our midnight ride with
"Just Like Me," a single that brushed the top 10 in the
early weeks of 1966 and began a string of classic
garage rock hits by the group.

Hi there! I'm your host, Toto Moto,
Shady's dog, the Shady's Place
blog mascot, Chief Petting Officer
and Shady Bunch deejay. They call
me the All Night Satellite, the Hound
of Sound and the Hi-Fi Fido. Shucks,
I don't care what they call me as long
as they don't call me late for chow.
(BA-DUM-BUMP)
Welcome to another 7-in-a-row
midnight block party here on
S-P-M-M, the station that's
number one for music and fun.
I'm starting from scratch...
and I aim to fleas.

Here's a riddle: What has four legs and chases cats?
Mrs. Katz and her lawyer! (BA-DUM-BUMP)

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I know I'm a corn dog, but it's alright, and that just happens to be the
title of my next song. In 1966 this one reached the top 30 on the pop
chart and the top 5 R&B. J.J. Jackson zings-- "But It's Alright!"

"But It's Alright" - J.J. Jackson

(Oct./Nov. 1966, highest chart pos.

#4 R&B/#22 Hot 100/#26 Cash Box)

You done me wrong, girl... left me
all alone with my achy breaky heart,
"But It's Alright," sings Brooklyn soul
man J.J. Jackson, a record that was
hot on the charts in the fall of 1966.

This is everybody's favorite mutt, your rover

of the radio - Toto Moto - and I want you to

lend me your ears. Lend me your eyes, too,
because my show is simulcast on YouTube.
We're traveling thru my Top Tunes Time
Tunnel back to the swingin' 60s here on
S-P-M-M, the number one station for
a rock and roll nation. This 7-song
non-stop commercial free cruise
is just getting started!  

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From 60s R&B soul we switch to country pop and the smooth
sound of Billy Joe Royal's sig song "Down In The Boondocks."
In this vintage clip, Billy Joe is flanked by The Gazzarri
Dancers on Hollywood A Go-Go!

"Down In The Boondocks" - Billy Joe Royal

(July/Aug. 1965, highest chart pos. #6 Cash Box/#9 Hot 100)

From the archives of Hollywood A Go-Go, that was Billy Joe Royal

doing his biggest hit, "Down In The Boondocks," a top 10 record

in the summer of 1965. "Boonies" was written by Joe South and

samples the Gene Pitney hit "Twenty Four Hours From Tulsa."

If you're just tuning in, I'm Toto Moto,

your Rocker Spaniel, keeping you

company on the radio all night

long here on the greatest little

station in the nation, S-P-M-M. 

Folks, this next one has me scratching
my head (and other body parts). Dionne
Warwick emerged as one of the biggest
stars of the 60s waxing the songs of
Burt Bacharach and Hal David. You
are about to hear one of their greatest.
It's among Dionne's best known hits,
ranked #70 on Rolling Stone's list of
The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time,
yet, at the time of its release, the
single failed to reach the top 5
on the pop and R&B charts.

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Check out this vintage clip in which Dionne decides to
casually "Walk On By" rows of mysterious men in suits.

"Walk On By' - Dionne Warwick

(May/June 1964, highest chart pos.

#6 Hot 100 & Cash Box & R&B)

That was sultry soul siren Dionne Warwick brushing the top 5
in the spring of 1964 with "Walk On By," and this is your
All Night Satellite Toto Moto digging up gold (and a
few old bones)  on S-P-M-M... Retrosonic Radio
in Futuresonic Stereo Surround.

I've got more great tunes in my Time Tunnel

than you can shake a stick at, enough to last

you through the dogs days of summer.

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Now let's hear the West Coast folk-rock
sound of The Byrds with a Bob Dylan
song that ignited the mid 60s folk-rock
boom. Spinning on my turntable even
as I bark is the band's first single,
number one in the summer of
'65-- "Mr. Tambourine Man."

""Mr. Tambourine Man" - the Byrds

(June/July 1965, highest chart pos. #1 Hot 100 & Cash Box)

Those Byrds are the bees knees, and you're sweatin' to the oldies
with me, your K-9 compadre, Toto Moto, right here on

S-P-M-M, the station that's #1 for music and fun.

From Oklahoma they came - Five Americans,

count 'em - one, two, three, four five. In 1967

the band released their biggest hit. Inspiration

for the ditty came when the lead guitarist was

goofing around and produced a unique sound

that reminded the other guys of a telegraph key.

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By now I'm sure you know the famous
song I'm talking about - "Hot Diggity
(Dog Ziggity Boom)" - uh... no...
pardon me, folks, I accidentally
skipped ahead to my next show.
Here are The Five Americans
and-- "Western Union!"

"Western Union" - The Five Americans

(Mar./Apr. 1967, highest chart pos. #5 Hot 100/#7 Cash Box)

"Western Union" by the Five Americans, not to be confused with
"Hey, Western Union Man" by Jerry Butler or the traditional
Christmas hymn "Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer."
(BA-DUM-BUMP)

Hey, the sun's comin' up and I gotta run.
(I also need to find the nearest fire hydrant
pronto!) Thanks for staying awake with me

all night long. Stay tuned on the B side of
news for the debut of another brand new
show here on S-P-M-M Retrosonic Radio.
It's called Libbin' It Up With The Good Girls
and stars those sweet thangs, my new best
bud-ettes Cindy, Patti & Jane, and I'll be
back soon to take you on another hip
musical trip to the Swingin' Sixties.

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Toto's Top Tunes Time Tunnel - the paws that refreshes. Accept no substitutes.
Now this is your puppy pal, your Pooch with the Hooch, Toto Moto, saying
so long and leaving you in the capable hands of Every Mother's Son as
they sing their 1967 top 5 hit "Come On Down To My Boat." What's
my favorite part of a boat, you ask? The poop deck, of course.
(BA-DUM-BUMP)  Goodbye everybody!

"Come On Down To My Boat" - Every Mother's Son

(June/July 1967, highest chart pos. #5 Cash Box/#6 Hot 100)