Joyce Martin's a Gold Digger - Vol 2: Gettin' Together

Hi again! I'm Joyce Martin.

I'm sure you remember
me from my previous
appearances here at
Shady's Place.

As you recall, I'm a good girl breaking bad... falling under
the influence of the mean girl gang known as the

I'm just trying to

fit in, but ever since

I got mixed up with

The Hellcats... my

grades have been

slipping and my

folks have been

on my case.

Not knowing which way to turn for help, I found a friend in
Professor Shady Del Knight who offered to be my sugar daddy

private tutor and help me bring up my grades. To earn extra

credit, I am doing a special research project for Professor

Knight and hosting this series at Shady's Place. It's called

Joyce Martin's  a  Gold Digger!

In each volume I display vintage top tunes surveys,

the hit parades distributed by radio stations in the
50s and 60s. Next I go digging for gold - picking
a favorite song from each list and playing it for

your listening and dancing pleasure.

I'm lucky to have this

chance to make good,

so... if you're ready...

let's dig some gold!

WNOW 1250 AM YORK

Today I'm featuring the playlists of radio
stations across Pennsylvania. Let's begin
with the survey above, issued by WNOW
12-5-0 Radio in York, Professor Shady's
hometown. It's the week of June 25,
1961, and I'm poring over WNOW's
Fabulous Forty. I think I'll play #7,
"The Boll Weevil Song," an adap-
tation of a traditional folk song
by Brook Benton with backing
by The Mike Stewart Singers,

a top 3 crossover hit nationally.

"The Boll Weevil Song" -
Brook Benton (June/July 1961,
highest chart pos. #2 Hot 100,
#2 Cash Box/#2 R&B)

WRAW 1340 AM READING

Our next stop is Reading and WRAW 1340,
another station with a Fabulous Forty. It's the
week of April 7, 1967, and I'm choosing survey
sound #36 - pop crooner Andy Williams doing

"Music To Watch Girls By," a vocal version of a
hit instrumental by The Bob Crewe Generation.

"Music To Watch Girls By" - Andy Williams

Apr. 1967, highest chart position
#34 Hot 100, #50 Cash Box)

 WLAN 1390 AM LANCASTER

We now head southwest to Prof. Shady's

old stomping ground and a visit to Lancaster,

home of station WLAN 1390. My pick comes

from the Super Heart Survey for the week of
October 7, 1967. It's Tommy James And The
Shondells with "Gettin' Together," a record
that merely cracked the top 20 nationally
but made the top 5 in Lancaster. This week
it's hanging on to the #12 spot. Here's an
ultra rare video of Tommy and his group
performing the song on the TV show
The Village Square which at the time
originated from Atlanta, Georgia!

"Gettin' Together" - Tommy James
And The Shondells (Sept./Oct. 1967,
highest chart pos. #14 Cash Box,
#18 Hot 100, live perf. on TV show
The Village Square, Atlanta, GA)

 WQTW 1570 AM LATROBE

I'm digging this gold. Hope you are, too.

We now travel all the way back out west to

Latrobe, famous for the brewing company
that makes Rolling Rock Beer. It's June 9,
 1967, and I'm plucking a song from the
WQTW 1570 Good Guy Hot Prospects,
 a list of records that are bubbling under
the top 30 in Latrobe this week. It's an
uncanny sound from the garage rock
band The Seeds, the first song they
recorded. When first released in 1965,
it was only a regional hit in California,
but when re-released in '67 it brushed
the top 40 nationally. Here now are
Sky Saxon and The Seeds with--
"Can't Seem To Make You Mine!"

"Can't Seem To Make You Mine" - The Seeds

(May/June 1967, highest chart pos.

#41 Hot 100/#55 Cash Box)

WOW! My request hotline is lighting up! 

A guy named Frankie is calling from a Muscle Beach bikini & pajama party,

and he wants to hear a song by his favorite girl-popper, Annette Funicello.

         WSBA 910 AM YORK

In that case, let's travel all the way

back across the commonwealth to

Professor Shady's hometown, York,

and a top tunes list issued by WSBA
"Hi-Fi Radio 910" later to be called
"The Nifty 9-10" and ultimately
"The Mighty 910." It's the week

of September 17, 1960, and I'm
gonna play #13 on the survey
"Pineapple Princess," a ukelele
song by Mouseketeer Annette
that brushed the top 10 on
the Billboard Hot 100.

"Pineapple Princess" - Annette

(Sept./Oct. 1960, highest chart pos.
#11 Hot 100/#15 Cash Box)

Oh shoot-- Professor Shady's waving me off!

  It time for the last play of the day, and a look at

one more vintage radio station top tunes survey.

KDKA 1020 AM PITTSBURGH

From station KDKA 1020 AM in Pittsburgh, here above is a survey listing

the top hits of 1964. I'm spinning the #6 song that year, a single by the English

rock & roll band The Dave Clark Five. This is the band's first big hit, the echo-

drenched, sax-driven, call-and-response style song that ignited their rivalry

with The Beatles and launched the British Invasion. Here are the DC5

with their big beat biggie from the spring of '64-- "Glad All Over!"

"Glad All Over" - The Dave Clark Five

(Mar./Apr. 1964, highest chart pos. #5 Cash Box/#6 Hot 100)/#1 UK)

I hope you dug this gold.

Please join me for vol. 3 of

Joyce Martin's
 a  Gold Digger.

coming soon!

Daisy Skye's Power Surge - Vol. 1: Seeds & Dirty Deeds!

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"Pushin' Too Hard" aka "You're Pushing Too Hard"

- The Seeds aka The Seeds Featuring Sky Saxon

(Feb. 1967, highest chart pos. #1 WLS Chicago/#36 Hot 100,

#40 Cash Box, scene from Apr. 28, 1968, ep. of The Mothers-In-Law)

And we're off to a rockin' start with The Seeds, the LA-based psychedelic

garage rock band doing their signature song "Pushin' Too Hard." I have

two pieces of trivia to share with you. If you're watching the simulcast

of my show on YouTube, you saw The Seeds in the role of a hippie

band called The Warts and singing their big hit on a 1968 episode

of the TV sitcom The Mothers-In-Law. Lead singer Sky Saxon,

who wrote "Pushin' Too Hard," died June 25, 2009, the same

day the world lost The King of Pop Michael Jackson.

Hi, I'm Daisy Skye from the superhero TV series Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
I'm delighted to be joining forces with the other members of the Shady Bunch
DJ squadron here on S-P-M-M Powersonic Radio. Welcome to my new radio
show Power Surge featuring the electrifying sights & sounds of classic rock.
From this point on, I guarantee more rock with less talk... so let's roll!

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Here's a rowdy relic from the summer of '68 performed by Philadelphia

area rock chick Joan Jett and her badass band The Blackhearts.

Seems Joan needs a check-up from the neck-up as she

declares-- "I Hate Myself For Loving You!"

"I Hate Myself For Loving You" - Joan Jett & The Blackhearts

(Aug./Sept. 1988, highest chart pos. #8 Hot 100/#10 Cash Box,

from May 1988 album Up Your Alley)

That was Philly filly Joan Jett,
hatin' on herself for loving you,
a girl power anthem from the
album Up Your Alley and a
top 10 hit single for Joan
and The Blackhearts in
the summer of 1988.

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That's right - two Jetts for the price of one. Far from one hit wonders,
Joan Jett and The Blackhearts rode high on the chart throughout the 80s.
At the start of 1990, Joan covered a song by the Aussie band AC/DC.
Here's The Original Riot Grrrl doing-- "Dirty Deeds!"

"Dirty Deeds" - Joan Jett

(Feb./Mar. 1990, highest chart pos.

#36 Hot 100/#42 Cash Box)

Retiring the side with a double play,

that was The Queen of Rock'n Roll

Joan Jett covering the AC/DC hit

"Dirty Deeds (Done Dirt Cheap),"

and before that, a song Joan co-

wrote "I Hate Myself For Loving

You." I hate repeating myself, but

I'm Daisy Skye and I love you for

being here for the official debut of

my new radio show Power Surge

on S-P-M-M... where we dig-up

the greatest gems of classic rock.

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Up next a pair of 21st century up-and-comers doing justice to a rock classic of

the 20th century. Canadian YouTube star Jadyn Rylee was born on Valentine's

Day, 2006, and began singing at the age of six. Her performances of covers

and original songs have drawn tens of millions of views on social media.

One week after her 12th birthday, Jayden uploaded the cover you are

about to witness, a collaboration with fellow Canadian singer,

composer, dancer, actress and fellow YouTuber Aviv Cohen.

Together the cute and capable Canucks make magic

doing their version of Aerosmith's best known

power ballad-- "Dream On!"

"Dream On" - Aerosmith cover by

Jadyn Rylee and Aviv Cohen (Feb. 2018)

Canadian YouTube sensations Jadyn Rylee and Aviv Cohen with their
2018 vocal cover of "Dream On," Aerosmith's big hit of the mid 70s.

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If you're just tuning in, I'm Daisy Johnson aka Skye aka Quake, newest member
of The Shady Bunch. I'm jolting you awake and blasting you back to the past
with Power Surge on S-P-M-M Powersonic Radio. Here's a great sound by
Boston rock singer and guitarist Billy Squier, another artist who enjoyed
a string of hits in the 80s. This is the first song on Billy's triple platinum
album Don't Say No. Let's get busy with Billy-- "In The Dark!"

"In The Dark" - Billy Squier

(Oct. 1981, highest chart pos. #7 Hot Mainstream Rock,

#35 Hot 100/#41 Cash Box

You just spent some time "In The Dark"

with rocker Billy Squier, a song he wrote
and a 1981 single that cracked the top 40
on the pop chart and brushed the top 5
on the Mainstream Rock survey.

Daisy Skye with you here on

S-P-M-M Ultrasonic Radio...

where rock rules. 

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Now here's a trippy retro relic

by the San Diego based psych-

rock band Iron Butterfly.

 This, my friend, is--

"Termination!"

"Termination" - Iron Butterfly

(from June 1968 album In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida)

A sonic blast from the past - flower power from Daisy's woofers to your

ears - that was "Termination," a psyched-out song by Iron Butterfly

from their multi-platinum 1968 album In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida. 

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Daily Skye Johnson behind the mic sending shockwaves to

knock your socks, only on S-P-M-M... where the rock never

stops. Time for another rough ride with-- Steppenwolf! 

"Hey Lawdy Mama" - Steppenwolf

(Apr./May 1970, highest chart pos. #21 Cash Box/#35 Hot 100)

Making a run at the top 20 on Cash Box in the spring of '70, that 

was lead zinger John Kay and his psych-blues-acid rock band

Steppenwolf doing the biker biggie "Hey Lawdy Mama." 

That wraps up my first complete show on S-P-M-M.

I hope you enjoyed this super set of classic rock nuggets.

Stay tuned. Coming up on the B side of news, it's a

sneak preview of another new series - Shady's Angels -

coming soon to Shady's Place Music & Memories.

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And I'll be back soon to blow you away with another Power Surge earquake.

This I promise - on my watch the sound of pure unadulterated rock will prevail.

 To play us off, here are Ritchie Blackmore and his British band Deep Purple

the week before Halloween 1968 entertaining Hef, Barbi and the pretty people

at the Playboy Manson on the TV show Playboy After Dark. The pioneers of

 hard rock and heavy metal perform their top 5 charting hit cover of "Hush,"

a Joe South song originally waxed by Billy Joe Royal. Now this is

Daisy Skye saying be good, stay vigilant and see you next time!

"Hush" - Deep Purple

(Sept. 1968, highest chart pos. #4 Hot 100 & Cash Box,

perf. on Oct. 23, 1968, ep. of Playboy After Dark)