Rose-Colored Glasses with Dr. Don Rose - Vol. 2: I Wanna Meet You, Alice Long!

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BOOTH ANNOUNCER GARY OWENS:

...and the cow was returned to its rightful owner.

And that's the latest from S-P-M-M news...
fast, up-to-the-minute, completely fake
and proud of it. Now stand by for

 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)

"I Wanna Meet You" - The Cryan Shames
(Dec. 1966, highest chart pos. #65 Cash Box/#85 Hot 100)

Starting us off today, the Chicago pop - garage rock band

The Cryan Shames and "I Wanna Meet You," a record

that was hot in Chi-town at Christmas 1966, but got a 

chilly reception in other parts of the country, leaving

it stranded at #85 on the Billboard Hot 100 and #65 on

  Cash Box. It's a cryan shame the record didn't catch on,

and it's a cryan shame Shady isn't paying me for this gig.

(BA-DUM-BUMP)

A Dr. Donald D. Rosey good morning to you!

I'm Dr. Don Rose from Quixie in Dixie -

WQXI Atlanta - here with my pet canary

Lulu-Belle (MOOOOO!) welcoming you

to my second fun-filled show here on

sister station S-P-M-M, bringing you

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

allow you to view the past thru

Rose-Colored Glasses.

Just remember, folks. Dr.Don's the real doctor

of The Shady Bunch. Those two mangy mutt

DJs, Brian Griffin and Toto Moto, think they're

doctors because they've learned how to heel. 

 (BA-DUM-BUMP)

Hey, don't be a stranger. Stick around because our

7-in-a-row commercial free cruise is just getting started.  

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Speaking of strangers, in 1966 Bobby Vee & The Strangers

gave us this feel good song-- "Look At Me Girl."

"Look At Me Girl" - Bobby Vee And The Strangers

(July/Aug. 1966, highest chart pos. #52 Hot 100/#67 Cash Box)

From the summer of '66, that was pop teen idol and rock & roller

Bobby Vee making the transition from heartthrob to more of an

adult oriented rock singer with "Look At Me Girl." It was the

first Bobby Vee single that also credited his studio band

The Strangers. The platter was pleasing, but petered out

before making it halfway up the chart. Maybe it coulda

climbed higher with a swig of Geritol. (MOOOOO!)

By the way, my doctor told me that jogging

could add years to my life. He was right...

I feel ten years older already.

(BA-DUM-BUMP)

If you're just tuning in, you're looking

directly into the past through Dr. Don's

Rose-Colored Goggles and listening to

my show in futuristic stereophonic sound.

I'm on assignment from Quixie in Dixie,

moonlighting as your host here on

S-P-M-M... where they put old DJs

like me out to pasture. (MOOOOO!)

We're right smack dab in the middle

of a 7-in-a-row block party... so

let's put the pedal to the metal.

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You've heard of the Motown Sound. Well here's the

Sound of Allentown-- Jay And The Techniques!

"Apples, Peaches, Pumpkin Pie" - Jay And The Techniques

(Sept./Oct. 1967, highest chart pos. #4 Cash Box/#6 Hot 100/#8 R&B,

dancers on ep. of Casey Kasem's Hollywood TV show Shebang) 

Apples, peaches, pumpkin pie and the Patridge Family in

a pear tree. (MOOOOO!) That was Jay Proctor and his

band The Techniques from Allentown, PA, doing their

signature song and biggest hit. Truth be told, record

producer Jerry Ross had studio musicians lay down

the instrumental backing track on that recording and

 added vocal sweetening by the soon-to-be famous

Ashford & Simpson. "Apples, Peaches, Pumpkin Pie"

made the top 10 on the R&B chart and the top 5 on

Cash Box in the fall of 1967. The song on the flip

side, "Stronger Than Dirt," makes reference to the

early 60s ad campaign for Ajax Cleanser and

Ajax Laundry Detergent that featured an

armed knight riding a white horse. 

I'm Dr. Don, your knight in shining armor -

the clown prince of morning radio here on

S-P-M-M... the station with personality. 

Hey folks, speaking of ad slogans, if you've

got the time, Miller's got the beer, and if

you've got the Question Mark, I've got the

answer. This next song "Can't Get Enough

Of You Baby" was first recorded by the

Four Seasons and released on their 1966
album Working My Way Back to You
and More Great New Hits.

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Here's a groovy version of the song released as a single

in the spring of '67 by the Michigan-based garage rock

band Question Mark and the Mysterians-- 

"Can't Get Enough Of You Baby!"

"Can't Get Enough Of You Baby" - ? And The Mysterians

(Apr. 1967, highest chart pos. #51 Cash Box/#56 Hot 100)

That was "Can't Get Enough Of You Baby (but I can sure

have fun tryin')" (kazoo sound) by those protopunk garage

rockers from Saginaw, Question Mark & The Mysterians.

The song was also covered by Smash Mouth and

by the soul trio The Toys.

Quixie in Dixie and S-P-M-M Retro-Radio.

You've got Dr. Don Rose in your ear and I'm

 loaded with wax-- the best sounds of 60s.

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Speaking of having a bug in your ear,

the minute I sign off my show each day,

my wife calls the studio and complains

about things I said on the air and things

I should have said. Here with a report

on the state of my marriage are--

The Grass Roots!

"Things I Should Have Said" - The Grass Roots

(Aug./Sept. 1967, highest chart pos. #23 Hot 100/#36 Cash Box)

From West Coast record exec Lou Adler and the fine songwriting

duo P. F. Sloan and Steve Barri, those were The Grass Roots,

a folk rock and psychedelic pop band founded by Sloan

and Barri, with "Things I Should Have Said," a single

that made a run at the top 20 at the tail end

of The Summer of Love - 1967. 

Dr. Donald D. Rose keeping you company

in the A-M on S-P-M-M... your prescription

 for music and fun, and folks, I've got a

problem. I wake up every day stiff in all

the wrong places. (BA-DUM-BUMP) 

It got so bad Mrs. Rose demanded I see 

a chiropractor. I was wrong to think he

couldn't help me.  I stand corrected.

(BA-DUM-BUMP). All it took was a

period of adjustment. (BA-DUM-BUMP) 

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In 1968 Al Wilson scored a top 30 hit with "The Snake,"

released on Johnny Rivers' Soul City Records. Two years

earlier, in '66, Johnny himself performed the song for a

TV audience at The Hollywood Palace!

"The Snake" - Johnny Rivers

(live perf. May 7, 1966, on The Hollywood Palace,

from 2004 album Reinvention Highway)

With go-go dancers wiggling and jiggling behind him, that was

Johnny Rivers in the spring of 1966 appearing on the TV show

The Hollywood Palace and performing his great rendition of

"The Snake." The song was written and first recorded by

civil-rights activist Oscar Brown in 1963. By the way,

that episode of The Hollywood Palace was

hosted by Judy Garland.

Shucks, I'm all out of time, folks, 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 my

Rose-Colored Glasses and reliving

the salad days of your youth. I'm

a meat 'n' potatoes man myself.

(MOOOOO!) Hey, stick around.

Coming up on the flip side of

Gary Owens' news, my good

friend Dell Rat Tom will

be here to play another

stack of Shady Dell

Jukebox Giants.

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And I'll be back soon with another pile of platters for a Rosey

good morning. To play us off, Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart

with "you're still my favorite girlfriend, Alice... but not for long."

(BICYCLE HORN) Now this is Dr. Don Rose reminding you

 that one pill makes you larger. Go ask Alice. (KAZOO SOUND) 

Say goodbye, Lulu-Belle (MOOOOO!) So long, folks!

"Alice Long (You're Still My Favorite Girlfriend)"

Tommy Boyce And Bobby Hart (Aug. 1968,
highest chart pos. #16 Cash Box/#27 Hot 100)

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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:

...and the cow was returned to its rightful owner.

And that's the latest from S-P-M-M news...
fast, up-to-the-minute, completely fake
and proud of it. Now stand by for

 ROSE-COLORED GLASSES 

 with DR. DON ROSE 

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

CLICK TO START THE VIDEO NOW!

(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.

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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.

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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)

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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)

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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.

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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!)

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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)