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!

Natalie Teeger's Array of Sunshine: Natalie Gets it On and Cuts to the Chase!

COLD OPEN:

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"Get It On" - Chase

(July 1971, highest chart pos. #22 Cash Box/#24 Hot 100)

That was "Get It On,"

the best known recording

by Chase, the jazz rock

band led by trumpeter

Bill Chase. The single

peaked just outside

the top 20 in the

summer of 1971.

Hi there, I'm

Natalie

 Teeger!

As you might already know, I am Mr. Monk's

personal assistant on the TV series Monk.

I'm here today with exciting news.

Shady Del Knight has picked me

to join The Shady Bunch as a DJ

on his S-P-M-M radio station!

You're tuned to the second sneak

preview of my show which will

make its debut in 2022. It's called

Natalie Teeger's Array of Sunshine.

I'll be bringing you the best sounds

of the 60s and 70s - sunshine pop,

soft rock, brassy horn bands like

Chase, English imports and more -

songs that are guaranteed to put

Array of Sunshine into your day.

Would you like to ride in my

beautiful balloon? Or how

about my Flying Machine? 

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That's the name of the British studio

group formed by songwriters/producers

Tony MacAuley and Geoff Stephens.

In the fall of 1969, The Flying Machine

was way up there where the air is rare,

in the top 5 on the U.S. chart, with

the feel-good ditty-- "Smile A Little

Smile For Me (Rosemarie)." 

"Smile A Little Smile For Me" - The Flying Machine

(Oct./Nov. 1969, highest chart pos. #5 Hot 100 & Cash Box) 

That one goes out to all of the

brokenhearted Rosemaries of

the world who need cheering

up - the English studio-based

pop group The Flying Machine

doing their signature song and

big U.S. hit-- "Smile A Little

Smile For Me." 

If you're just tuning in, I'm

Natalie Teeger, Mr. Monk's

 girl Friday and every other

day of the week, giving you

a sneak peek at my new

 show coming to S-P-M-M

Retro Radio. I'm offering

Array of Sunshine

to make your day a little

 brighter and a little better.

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This band put Niles, Michigan, on the map with their debut single "Hanky Panky,"

originally released in 1964 on that city's Snap record label. Fast forward to the
summer of '69. Tommy James And The Shondells were riding high with a
string of hits and soaring toward the top of the chart with this song
co-written by Tommy. Here's "Crystal Blue Persuasion."

"Crystal Blue Persuasion" - Tommy James And The Shondells

(July/Aug. 1969, highest chart pos. #2 Hot 100 & Cash Box)

That was one of the songs most often

heard playing on the radio during the
celebrated summer of '69 - Tommy
James And The Shondells peaking
at #2 on the charts with "Crystal

Blue Persuasion." Many listeners
thought the song was about drugs,

but Tommy insisted he got his
inspiration from Bible verses. 

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Natalie Teeger playing the great

sounds of your lifetime and here's

another, The Grass Roots with 1971

gold-- "Two Divided By Love!"

 

"Two Divided By Love" - The Grass Roots

(Nov. 1971, highest chart pos. #8 Cash Box/#16 Hot 100/#2 Canada)

An ear-pleasing blast from your past, those were The Grass Roots, the LA-

based band that started out doing folk rock, but had their greatest success

in the late 60s and early 70s cranking out good time pop-rock singles like

that one, "Two Divided By Love," a record that penetrated the top 10

on Cash Box and went all the way to #2 in Canada in the fall of 1971. 

Natalie Teeger keeping you company

on S-P-M-M, where all the cool oldies
 come to play. I'm doing my best to

turn that frown upside down and

put Array of Sunshine into your

day. How am I doing so far?

Here's another fellow who did pretty

doggone well for himself after first

making his mark with a famous band.

It's Paul McCartney, you might have

heard of him, joined here by wife Linda

and their band Wings doing a 1978 single

that went top 5 in the UK and did even

better stateside, going all the way to the

top of the chart.  Here are McCartney

and Wings-- "With A Little Luck."

"With A Little Luck"- Wings

(Apr./May 1978, highest chart pos. #1 Hot 100 & Cash Box)

That was Paul McCartney with

his band Wings performing

"With A Little Luck," their

chart-topping single from

the spring of '78, a song

from their album

London Town.

This is your breath of fresh

air, Natalie Teeger, bringing

Array of Sunshine into your

life on S-P-M-M Retro Radio,

the station with personality.

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No one spreads sunshine better

than this pair and their yacht rock

sound. Here are The Captain and

Tennille with-- "Love Will

Keep Us Together!" 

"Love Will Keep Us Together" - The Captain & Tennille

(June/July 1975, highest chart pos. #1 Hot 100 & Cash Box,

live perf. on The Midnight Special) 

A winner of a song that spent

four weeks at #1 at the start

of summer in 1975, that was

"Love Will keep Us Together,"

composed by Brill Building

greats Neil Sedaka and his

partner Howard Greenfield

and performed by Captain

and Tennille on a telecast

of The Midnight Special.

“Captain” Daryl Dragon

laid down the entire

instrumental backing

on the record except

for the drums which

were played by Hal

Blaine of the famed

Wrecking Crew. 

Before I forget, I want to remind you to watch Mr. Monk,

Captain Leland Stottlemeyer, Lieutenant Randy Disher and

me as we work together to bring the bad guys to justice

on our series Monk, now playing on Amazon Prime.

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Darn!  Boss man Shady Del Knight's giving me the signal to wrap it up.

That does it for this second preview of my new show on S-P-M-M Retro Radio.

To play us off, here's Santana with "Jingo," the first single released from the

Latin rock band's self-titled debut 1969 album. "Jingo" is a cover of a song

originally released in 1959 by Nigerian percussionist Babatunde Olatunji.

Stay tuned. Coming up on the B side of Gary Owens' news, meet Shady's

Place newbie Denny the Dell Rat and take Shady's latest Mom & Pop

Brain Buster Quiz. Now this is Natalie Teeger inviting you to join

me next year when once again I'll bring Array of Sunshine

into your world. Take care and I'll see you in '22!

"Jingo" - Santana

(Nov. 1969, highest chart pos. #37 Cash Box,

#56 Hot 100,  from Aug. 1969 album Santana)

Nice job, Natalie.

By the way, in case you

haven't heard... I have

my own band. It's called

The Randy Disher Project.

Hey, if you'd like, I can

get you tickets to our

next show. It's Saturday

afternoon...in my garage.

Toto's Top Tunes Time Tunnel - Vol. 2: Yeh, Yeh!

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

 TOTO'S TOP TUNES 

 T I M E  T U N N E L 

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

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AT 9 SEC. MARK OF FIRST VIDEO!

"Just One Look" - The Hollies

(May 1964, highest chart pos. #98 Hot 100/#2 UK)

Retrosonic Radio

in Futuresonic

Stereo Surround...

that's S-P-M-M!

Heidi-ho! It's me again, your puppy pal
Toto Moto. Hey, if my buddy Jerry Blavat
can call himself The Boss with the Sauce,
then I'm The Pooch with the Hootch...
your Hi-fi Fido, your Musical Mutt,
your All Nite Satellite, welcoming
you into my wormhole, the Top
Tunes Time Tunnel, for another
fun-filled trip back to the
best years of your life!

To open the show, we flashed back to the British Invasion in 1964 and listened

to a new enhanced version of "Just One Look," the fist single to reach the U.S.

chart by the English pop-rock band The Hollies, a cover of the top 10 hit the

previous year for American R&B singer Doris Troy who co-wrote the song.

Amazingly, the Hollies fabulous version lasted only one week on the U.S.

chart at #98 while soaring to #2 back home in the UK. When reissued

in the states in 1967 the single cracked the top 50 but should have

done better, doggone it!

In 1966 the British Invasion was followed by a Spanish Invasion
of sorts in the form of Los Bravos, a beat band from Madrid
that scored a top 5 hit in the UK and here in the states
with "Black Is Black."

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Two years later Los Bravos released another rousing single that brushed

the top 50 stateside, a song written by members of the Aussie band

The Easybeats. The excitement meter is pegged as Los Bravos

performs-- "Bring a Little Lovin'."

"Bring A Little Lovin'" - Los Bravos

(June 1968, highest chart pos. #51)

That was "Bring A Little Lovin'" by the Spanish band Los Bravos,

a minor hit in America that deserved to be a major hit!

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

your Rover of the Radio, the Dawg

who Put the "WOW" in Bowwow...

and you're traveling through my

Top Tunes Time Tunnel here

on S-P-M-M... the station

with personality.

I used to chase a feline named Felix,

and next, here's another Felix who's

a very cool cat. He's Felix Cavaliere

who, along with Eddie Brigati, Gene

Cornish and Dino Danelli, made up

the exciting blue-eyed soul quartet

The Young Rascals... one of the

most popular acts of the 60s.

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From 1966 to '68 the Jersey boys placed nine singles in the top 20

and here's one of them. From the summer of '66, a song written

by Eddie and Felix-- "You Better Run!"

"You Better Run" - The Young Rascals

(July 1966, highest chart pos. #20)

Old school's the rule and every song is certifiably K-9 cool here in
Toto's Time Tunnel - the Paws that Refreshes - and you just heard from
Felix the musical cat and his group doing "You Better Run," a single
released when they were still "Young" - before they shortened
their name to The Rascals.

Shady's dog Toto with you on the radio,

and I'll be doggone if I don't get a chuckle

out of "The Jolly Green Giant," the nifty

novelty number by the Kingsmen, the

rowdy garage rockers from the Pacific

Northwest who shook up the civilized

world with their cover of "Louie Louie."

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"The Jolly Green Giant" was written by

Lynn Easton, one of the founders of the

Kingsmen, and so was this one, the flip

side of that 1965 single, another titanic

tune called-- "Long Green!"

"Long Green" - The Kingsmen

(Jan./Feb. 1965, uncharted B side of "The Jolly Green Giant")

The Kingsmen with "Long Green (the root of evil)," the fab flip on the

back side of "The "Jolly Green Giant" single. "Long Green" was also
released on the band's 1964 album The Kingsmen Volume II and
again on the 1965 album The Kingsmen Volume 3.

Wassup, pup? Chief Petting Officer Toto behind the mic on
the greatest little station in the nation, S-P-M-M.  I aim to fleas
by spinning the best sounds of the 60s here in the Time Tunnel.

Back across the pond we go for one of the

coolest grooves featured on Hullaballoo

London. The Blue Flames, a British R&B

jazz band, were the backing musicians for

English singer Billy Fury until he sacked

them for being "too jazzy" and replaced

them with another band, The Tornados,

the guys who recorded the instrumental

hit "Telstar." Out on their own with key-

boardist Georgie Fame taking over on

lead vocals, The Blue Flames burned up

the chart with a groovy cover of "Yeh Yeh,"

originally recorded by Afro-Cuban per-

cussionist Mongo Santamaría, the artist

best known for his hit "Watermelon Man,"

a standard written by Herbie Hancock.

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Do I dig this sound from Georgie Fame? "Yeh Yeh!"

That's what I say, I say-- "Yeh Yeh!"

"Yeh, Yeh" - Georgie Fame And The Blue Flames

(Feb./Mar. 1965, highest chart pos. #21 Hot 100/#1 UK)

Georgie Fame and The Blue Flames with "Yeh, Yeh," a great song you don't hear

very often on oldies radio. Leave it to me, your Hound of Sound, to find it and

play it for you. "Yeh, Yeh" brings back marvelous memories of Brian Epstein

hosting Hullabaloo London during those exciting years of The Brit Invasion.

Toto Moto of The Shady Bunch keeping you

company all night long as we cruise through

my Time Tunnel here on S-P-M-M Radio.

Know what? I admit it - I'm a horndog. :)

I love bands from the mid 60s through

early 70s that featured strong,

brassy horn sections.

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Here's one of my horn-driven favorites,
The Buckinghams, the sunshine poppers
from Chi-town who cranked out a string
of feel-good hits including the one you're
listening to right now. 1967 gold--
"Don't You Care!"

"Don't You Care" - The Buckinghams

(Mar./Apr. 1967, highest chart pos. #6)

From the Windy City, those were The Buckinghams with "Don't You Care,"

a sad song that makes you happy when you listen to it. "Don't You Care"

was one of the group's five top 10 hits of the mid 60s if you count

the Cash Box chart along with Billboard.

Oh bowwow, we're nearing the end of
Toto's Top Tunes Time Tunnel. I know

for sure because I can see the dawn's
early light. Thanks for spending the

wee hours of the morning with me,
your All Nite Satellite. Stay tuned

for my good friend Shady Blue
coming up on the B side of news to

get you Stuck Like Glue to his dusty
ditties, and I'll be back soon to start
from scratch and satisfy your itch for
terrific tuneage in my Time Tunnel.

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To play us off, Tommy James and the Shondells with "Mirage,"

a hit born when a tape of "I Think We're Alone Now"

was accidentally played backward. Bye bye!

"Mirage" - Tommy James And The Shondells

(May/June 1967, highest chart pos. #10)