Golden Oldies

Fridays, 5 - 7 p.m.  NOTE:  There will be NO SHOW on Friday, June 25.  Sorry, but I will be in Washington, D.C. for a professional meeting.  Should be back on the air Friday, July 2 (provided there are no building access problems due to the July 4 holiday weekend).

HOUR 1

  • Legal I.D;
  • Sister Rosetta Tharpe - “Up above my Head”, 1947
  • The Cookies - “Later, Later”, 1955
  • Danny and the Juniors - “At the Hop”, 1957
  • Carol Jarvis - “Sock Hop”
  • The El Capris - “Girl of Mine”, 1957
  • The Sheiks - “Come on Back”, 1960
  • PSA:Nat. Endow. for Financial Ed.
  • Donnie Elbert - “Hear my Plea”, 1957
  • Sam Price - “Roll ‘Em, Sam”, 1959
  • Little Bessie - “For your Love’, 1960-61
  • Fats Domino - “Let the Four Winds Blow”, 1961
  • Dorothy Love Coates and the Original Gospel Harmonettes - “It’s Getting Late in the Evening”, 1955 (Live Gospel!  Intense!)
  • The Harmonizing Four - “Trust Jesus”, 1954
  • Paula Watson - “A Little Bird Told Me”, 1948
  • Bobby Day - “Rockin’ Robin”, 1958
  • The Big Bopper - “Big Bopper’s Wedding”, 1958
  • Jerry Lee Lewis - “Great Balls of Fire”, 1957
  • Louis Jordan - “Ain’t Nobody Here but Us Chickens”, 1946
  • PSA:  Americorps Vista/Weather
  • Billie Holiday - “God Bless the Child”, 1941
  • Thelma Cooper - “Let’s Try Again”, 1949
  • Tampa Red - “Baby, Take a Chance with Me”, 1940
  • Jimmy Witherspoon - “Money’s Gettin’ Cheaper (Times Gettin’ Tougher than Tough)”, 1947

HOUR 2

  • Legal I.D.
  • Elmore Nixon - “Shout and Rock”
  • Sticks McGhee and his Buddies - “Let’s Do It”, 1950
  • Bette McLaurin - “Crying for You”, 1951
  • Red Belcher and his Kentucky Ridgerunners - “Kentucky Is Only a Dream”, 1948
  • Bill Monroe and his Blue Grass Boys - “My Little Georgia Rose”, 1950
  • PSA:  Nat. Endow. for Financial Ed.
  • June Carter - “Juke Box Blues”, 1952
  • Roy Acuff - “Beautiful Brown Eyes”, 1953 (Live!)
  • Bea Booze - “See See Rider”, 1942
  • Chuck Willis - “C.C. Rider”, 1957
  • Staple Singers - “I Know I Got Religion”, 1956
  • The Goldrock Gospel Singers - “Jesus Is with Me”, 1950
  • The Del Vikings - “Come Go with Me”, 1956
  • The Del Vikings - “Whispering Bells”, 1956
  • PSA:  Americorps Vista/Weather
  • The Del Vikings - “Over the Rainbow”
  • The Del Vikings - “Cool Shake”, 1957
  • The Del Vikings - “Come Along with Me”, 1958
  • Gloria Mann - “Goodnight, Sweetheart, Goodnight”, 1954
  • Ruby and her Swinging Rocks - ” I Cried a Tear over You”, 1964

Golden Oldies

Fridays, 5 - 7 p.m.

The station’s computer was locked on Friday, June 11, so I was unable to enter the playlist.  (Am writing this on Monday, June 14 from a different computer).  Will post the June 11 playlist later this week when I get a chance.

HOUR 1

  • Legal I.D.
  • Sister Rosetta Tharpe - “Up above my Head”, 1947
  • Piano Red - “Jumpin’ the Boogie”, 1950
  • Ella Mae Morse - “Five - Ten -Fifteen Hours”, 1954
  • The Satellites and the Space Man - “Blast Off”, 1959
  • The Playboys - “Tell me”, 1954
  • Barbara Lynn - “Lonely Heartaches”, 1962
  • PSA:  Nat. Endow. for Financial Ed.
  • Don Gibson - “Oh, Lonesome Me”, 1957
  • Barbara George - “I Know”, 1961
  • The Versatiles - “Just Words”, 1962
  • The El Capris - “Oh, But She Did”, 1956
  • The Five Blind Boys of Mississippi - “Our Father”, 1950
  • Mahalia Jackson - “I Am Healed by the Wound in His Side”, c. 1947
  • Domenico Modugno - “Nel Blu Dipinto di Blu (Volare)”, 1958
  • Paul Anka - “Diana”, 1957
  • Jim Lowe - “The Green Door”, 1956
  • Doris Troy - “Just One Look”, 1963
  • PSA:  Americorps Vista/Weather
  • Doris Troy - “Stormy Weather”, 1963
  • The Sheppards - “Forgotten”, 1964
  • The Wheels - “Clap your Hands, Part 1″, 1959
  • The Contours - “Do You Love Me?”, 1962
  • The Shirelles - “Slop Time”, 1958

HOUR 2

  • Legal I.D.
  • The Tune Weavers - “Look Down that Lonesome Road”, 1958
  • The Cufflinks - “Guided Missiles”, 1956
  • Laurie Tate and the Joe Morris Orchestra - “Anytime, Anyplace, Anywhere”, 1950
  • The Nov-Elettes - “Butcher Shop Blues”
  • Tennessee Ernie Ford - “The Shot Gun Boogie”, 1950
  • PSA:  Nat. Endow. for Financial Ed.
  • Bolean Barry - “Long Sideburns”
  • Jerry Lee Lewis - “Lewis Boogie”, 1958
  • Brother Joe May - “Mother’s Prayer Answered”, 1964
  • Sister Jessie Mae Renfro - “I’ll Be Satisfied Then”, 1952
  • Millie Small - “My Boy Lollipop”, 1964
  • Mille and Roy - “Marie” (Millie Small and Roy Panton - great Ska music from Jamaica!)
  • Skitter - “Mr. Khruschev” (Bluesy Ska from Jamaica concerning the Soviet Union.  Probably issued shortly after the October 1962 Cuban missile crisis).
  • Laurel Aitken - “Boogie in my Bones”, 1959  (Bluesy Jamaican music!  Considered to be the first Ska record)
  • Keith and Enid - “Worried over You”, 1960
  • Gene and Eunice - “This Is my Story”, 1955
  • Lewis Lymon and the Teenchords - “Your Last Chance”, 1957
  • PSA:  Americorps Vista/Weather
  • The Del Vikings - “Come Go with Me”, 1957
  • The Fontane Sisters - “You’re Mine”
  • The Metrotones - “Skitter Skatter”, 1957
  • The Rubies - “Loaded with Goodies”, 1961
  • The Clevers - “Love Me Now”
  • King Victor - “Boppin’ Bobbie Jean”

Golden Oldies

Fridays, 5 - 7 p.m.

HOUR 1

  • Legal I.D.
  • Sister Rosetta Tharpe - “Up above my Head”, 1947
  • Pearl Bailey - “I Can’t Rock and Roll to Save my Soul”, c. 1956
  • Bill Haley and the Comets - “Rock Around the Clock”, 1954
  • The Carlisles - “Middle-Aged Spread”, 1955
  • Sugar Pie and Preston Love’s Orchestra - “Please Be True”, 1955
  • The Four Dots - “My Dear”, 1951
  • PSA:  Nat. Endow. for Higher Ed.
  • Little Richard - “Tutti Frutti”, 1955
  • Mimi Romano - “Little Lovin’”
  • The El Domingos - “Lucky Me, I’m in Love”, 1961
  • The Showmen - “39-21-40 Shape”, 1961  (Kazowee!  She’s built!!)
  • Baby Washington - “The Bells”, 1958
  • The Valentines - “Tonight, Kathleen”, 1954
  • Sister Rosetta Tharpe - “Strange Things Happening”, 1944
  • The Radio Four - “Blood Done Signed my Name”, 1952
  • The Dominoes - “That’s What You’re Doing to Me”, 1952
  • Lowell Fulson - “9:30 Shuffle”, 1947
  • PSA:  Americorps Vista/Weather
  • Beverly Ann Gibson - “Call on Me”, 1959
  • The Six Teens - “A Casual Look”, 1956
  • Fatso Bentley - “June-Teenth Jamboree”, 1953
  • Jackie Wilson - “That’s Why (I Love You So)”, 1959
  • Charlie and Inez Foxx - “Mockingbird”, 1963

HOUR 2

  • Legal I.D.
  • LaVern Baker - “Jim Dandy”, 1955
  • LaVern Baker - “Jim Dandy Got Married”, 1957
  • The Paragons - “The Vows of Love”, 1958
  • Joe Templeton - “Lover, Be Fair”, 1962
  • The Quintones - “Please, Dear”, 1958
  • PSA:  Nat. Endow. for Financial Ed.
  • Jimmy Cliff - “Miss Jamaica”
  • Jimmy Cliff - “King of Kings”, 1963
  • Gary U.S. Bonds - “Mixed Up Faculty”
  • Barbara Mason - “Yes, I’m Ready”, 1965
  • Johnnie Morissette - “You and your Lovin’ Ways”
  • Chris Powell and the Five Blue Flames - “Hot Dog”, 1949
  • The Coleman Brothers - “Go Away, Mr. Satan”, 1951
  • The Sallie Martin Singers - “God Is a Battle Axe”, 1950
  • King Perry - “Come Back, Baby”
  • Juanita Nixon - “I Want to Be Free”
  • PSA:  Americorps Vita/Weather
  • Elvis Presley - “I Want to Be Free”, 1957
  • Lynn Hope - “Blow, Lynn, Blow”, 1951
  • Ruth Brown - “Mama, He Treats your Daughter Mean”, 1953  (The fast version!)
  • B.B. King - “Let’s Do the Boogie”, 1956
  • Frankie Lee Sims - “She Like to Boogie Real Low (Blue Light Boogie)”, 1958
  • Marie Adams and the Johnny Otis Show - “In the Dark”, 1958

Golden Oldies

Fridays, 5 - 7 p.m.

HOUR 1

  • Legal I.D.
  • Sister Rosetta Tharpe - “Up above my Head”, 1947
  • Gary U.S. Bonds - “New Orleans”, 1960
  • Carol Fran - “Knock, Knock”, 1957
  • Huey “Piano” Smith and the Clowns - “Don’t You Know, Yockomo?”, 1958
  • Marva Allen - “Here Comes the Night Owl”
  • The Nutmegs - “Down to Earth”, 1963
  • PSA:  Nat.  Endow. for Financial Ed.
  • Guitar Gable - “Congo Mombo”, 1956
  • Gene Pitney - “Hello, Mary Lou”, 1961  (The ORIGINAL version before Ricky Nelson’s big hit by the guy who wrote it!)
  • Roxie Williams - “Fifteen Seconds”
  • Dion - “Run Around Sue”, 1961
  • The Ward Singers - “Surely, God Is Able”, 1950
  • Vance “Tiny” Powell and the Paramount Gospel Singers - “Mother”, 1955
  • Dave Bartholomew - “Texas Hop”, 1953
  • Marie Adams and Junior Ryder with the Johnny Otis Orchestra - “Boom Diddy Wa Wa”
  • Hank Ballard and the Midnighters - “The Hoochi Coochi Coo”, 1960
  • The Chiffons - “He’s So Fine”, 1963
  • PSA:  Americorps Vista/Weather
  • The Memories - “Stop, Look, and Listen”
  • The Vestelles - “Come Home”, 1958
  • The El Venos - “Geraldine”, 1956
  • The Del Larks - “Remember the Night”, 1958
  • The Majors - “A Wonderful Dream”, 1961

HOUR 2

  • Legal I.D.
  • The Rainbows - “Mary Lee”, 1954
  • Brook Benton - “It’s Just a Matter of Time”, 1959
  • Ann Cole - “Please Forgive Me”
  • Slim Harpo - “I’m a King Bee”, 1957
  • Slim Harpo - “Baby, Scratch my Back”, 1965
  • PSA:  Nat. Endow. for Financial Ed.
  • Katie Webster - “Whooee, Sweet Daddy”
  • Tommy Tucker - “High-Heel Sneakers”, 1964
  • Bobby Jay - “Red Sails in the Sunset”, 1962
  • Barbara Lewis - “Hello, Stranger”, 1963
  • Jim Lowe - “The Green Door”, 1956
  • The Sensations - “My Heart Cries for You”, 1956
  • The Blue Chips - “Crying Holy unto the Lord”, 1936
  • Arizona Dranes - “He Is my Story”, 1928
  • Sylvester Weaver - “Guitar Rag”, 1923  (The ORIGINAL Hawaiian guitar version of this Blues instrumental!)
  • Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys - “Steel Guitar Rag”, 1936  (The HOT Western Swing remake!  Also the biggest hit version)
  • Ike Turner’s Kings of Rhythm - “Steel Guitar Rag”, 1959  (Ike Turner brings us an electric guitar version!)
  • PSA:  Americorps/Vista/Weather
  • Dolly Cooper - “Down So Long”, 1955
  • The Skyliners - “Since I Don’t Have You”, 1959
  • Sam Price - “Bar-B-Q Sauce”, 1956
  • Dolores Ware - “Can’t eat, Can’t Sleep”, 1955

Golden Oldies

Fridays, 5 - 7 p.m.

HOUR 1

  • Legal I.D.
  • Sister Rosetta Tharpe - “Up above my Head”, 1947
  • Lula Reed - “Going Back to Mexico”, 1953
  • The Honey Bears - “One Bad Stud”, 1954
  • Billy Ward and the Dominoes - “Lay It on the Line”, 1961
  • The Chantels - “Maybe”, 1957
  • PSA: Nat. Endow. for Financial Ed.
  • James Brown and the Famous Flames - “Please, Please, Please”, 1956  (His FIRST record!  The ORIGINAL gospel-flavored R. & B. pleadin’ ballad!)
  • Al Harrison - “Don’t Know Where I’m At”, 1955
  • Millie Bosman - “Your Good Doin’”, 1954
  • Bo Diddley and Jerome Green- “Bring It to Jerome”, 1955
  • Betty McQuade - “Tongue Tied”
  • Helen Hall - “Honky Tonk Husband”, 1955
  • The Platters - “Only You (and You Alone)”, 1955
  • King Houdini - “Moan,People, Moan”, 1953-54  (Wonderful combination of Calypso and Gospel from Trinidad!)
  • The Percentie Brothers - “Heaven Is So High”, 1953  (Wonderful combination of Calypso and Gospel from the Bahamas!)
  • Lili Verona and Mike McKenzie’s All Stars - “Massa Johnnie”, 1954
  • The Mighty Sparrow - “Jean and Dinah”, 1956 (The FIRST Calypso record by perhaps the greatest calypsonian of all time!  He’s still at it in 2010!)
  • PSA:  Americorps Vista/Weather
  • Paula Watson - “Pretty Papa Blues (Pretty Mama Blues)”, 1948
  • Sonny Til and the Orioles - “Tell Me So”, 1948
  • Bardu Ali with Johnny Otis and his Orchestra - “Bardu’s Boogie”, 1946
  • Louis Jordan - “Let the Good Times Roll”, 1946

HOUR 2

  • Legal I.D.
  • Laurie Tate - “Rock Me, Daddy”, 1952
  • Vicki Evans and Bill Campbell’s Orchestra - “If You Don’t Know What You’re Doing”, 1955
  • The Moonglows - “Sincerely”, 1954
  • Arthur Lee Maye and the Crowns - “Truly”, 1955 (Nice soulful ballad very similar to the Moonglows’ classic “Sincerely”!)
  • The Antwinettes - “Kill It”, 1958
  • PSA:  Nat. Endow. for Financial Ed.
  • Curtis Lee - “Pretty Little Angel Eyes”, 1961
  • The Del Larks - “Remember the Night”, 1958  (Crazy bass voice on this midtempo doo-wop rocker!)
  • The Teenettes - “Too Young to Marry You”
  • Wilbert Harrison - “Kansas City”, 1959
  • Delores Maxwell - “My Man”, 1959
  • Lightnin’ Hopkins - “Mojo Hand, 1961
  • The Flares - “Foot Stomping, Part II, 1961 (OUTSTANDING instrumental version of their HUGE 1961 dance hit!  Features HOT organ playing!)
  • Bessie Griffin - “Since I Met Jesus”, 1953
  • The Spirit of Memphis Quartet - “I Will Trust the Lord”, 1953
  • Nolan Strong and the Diablos - “Whatcha Gonna Do?”, 1955
  • PSA:  Americorps Vista/Weather
  • Ruth Brown - “Love Contest”, 1953
  • Chuck Berry - “Little Queenie”, 1958
  • Kimball Coburn - “Please, Please”
  • Maxine Brown - “All in my Mind”, 1961
  • Ray Charles - “That Lucky Old Sun”, 1963

Golden Oldies

Fridays, 5 - 7 p.m

HOUR 1

  • Legal I.D.
  • Sister Rosetta Tharpe - “Up above my Head”, 1947
  • Stony Calhoun - “Bounce, Baby, Bounce”, 1954
  • Erline Thomas - “I Need Lovin’”
  • Carl Mann - “Mona Lisa”, 1959
  • Hank Snow - “I’ve Been Everywhere”, 1962
  • PSA: Nat. Endow. for Financial Ed.
  • The Davis Sisters - “I Forgot More than You’ll Ever Know”, 1953
  • Ivory Joe Hunter - “I Almost Lost my Mind”, 1949
  • Gale Storm - “I Hear You Knocking”, 1955 (Nice remake of the Smiley Lewis original!)
  • Fats Domino - “I Hear You Knocking”, 1958 (Nice remake of the Smiley Lewis original!)
  • Smiley Lewis - “I Hear You Knocking”, 1955 (The ORIGINAL version!  There’ve been remakes, most famously the one by Dave Edmunds in 1970, but THIS is the ORIGINATOR, not the imitator!)
  • Dave Bartholomew - “Another Mule”, 1955
  • The Angelic Gospel Singers - “Tell the Angels”
  • Johnnie Taylor and the Soul Stirrers - “The Love of God”, 1958  (Yes, that Johnnie Taylor - future Soul star of the 60’s and 70’s.  Nice slow Gospel!)
  • The Caronators [sic] - “Long Hot Summer”, 1960
  • The Shirelles - “Tonight’s the Night”, 1960
  • Daddy G and the Church Street Five - “Look Alive”, 1963
  • PSA:  Americorps Vista/Weather
  • The Azaleas - “Hands Off”, 1963
  • The Harptones - “Life Is but a Dream”, 1955
  • The El Sierros - “Sometimes I Wonder”
  • The Bobbettes - “Come-A, Come-A”
  • The Cadillacs - “Zoom”, 1956

HOUR 2

  • Legal I.D.
  • Lewis Lymon and the Teenchords - “I’m Not Too Young to Fall in Love”, 1957
  • The Collegians - “Zoom, Zoom, Zoom”, 1957
  • Damita Jo with Steve Gibson and the Redcaps - “I Went to your Wedding”, 1952
  • Hank Williams and the Drifting Cowboys - “Wedding Bells”, 1949
  • Hank Williams and the Drifting Cowboys - “Long Gone Lonesome Blues”, 1950
  • PSA:  Nat. Endow. for Financial Ed.
  • Patsy Montana - “I’m an Old Cowhand”, 1936
  • Sir Lancelot - “Sweet Like a Honey Bee”, (Nice calypso!)
  • Dusty Taylor - “Ranger Boogie”,  1947
  • Hank Penny - “Let Me Play with your Poodle”  (Nice Country Boogie remake of Tampa Red’s Blues from 1942)
  • Little Esther - “Looking for a Man”, 1951
  • Jackie Wilson and the Dominoes - “Rags to Riches”, 1953 His first record!  Nice R. & B. remake of the Tony Bennett Pop hit!)
  • Madame Edna Gallmon Cooke and the Radio Four - “Walk through the Valley”, 1952
  • Rosa Shaw - “He Rolled the Stone Away”, 1952
  • Chester Guydon - “Miss Fannie Brown”, 1956
  • Wynonie Harris - “I Want my Fanny Brown”, 1948
  • PSA:  Americorps Vista/Weather
  • The Atilla - “Miss Bombilla Brown”  (Great Calypso!)
  • Zilla Mays and the Boy Friends - “Why Do You Cry?”, 1954
  • The Clickettes - “To Be a Part of You”, 1960
  • Elvis Presley - “Don’t Be Cruel”, 1956
  • The Fabulous McClevertys - “Don’t Blame It on Elvis”, 1956 (West Indian Calypso about Elvis!)

Golden Oldies

Fridays, 5 - 7 p.m.

HOUR 1

  • Legal I.D.
  • Sister Rosetta Tharpe - “Up above my Head”, 1947
  • LaVern Baker - “See See Rider”, 1962
  • Ray Charles - “What’d I Say, Part1 and 2″, 1959
  • Bobby “Blue” Bland - “You Got Me Where You Want Me”
  • PSA: Nat. Endow. for Financial Ed./2010 Jazz & Blues Festival
  • The Rubies - “Loaded with Goodies”, 1961
  • The Counts - “Waiting Around for You”, 1954
  • Ruth Brown - “Shine On”
  • Joe Fuller - “You Made a Hit”
  • Tommy Brown - “Double Faced Deacon”, 1951
  • The Dominoes and Little Esther - “The Deacon Moves In”, 1951
  • The Capers - “Miss You, my Dear”, 1958
  • The Plants - “I Searched the Seven Seas”, 1957
  • The Davis Sisters - “Get Right with God”, 1952
  • The Pilgrim Travelers - “Jesus Hits Like the Atom bomb”, 1950
  • PSA:  Flu Vacc./Weather/2010 Jazz & Blues Festival
  • The Marcels - “Friendly Loans”, 1962
  • The Fawns - “Come on (and Love Me)”, 1958
  • Lydia Larson and the River Rovers - “I Just Love You So”, 1951
  • Tommy and the Tears - “Punishment”
  • Lloyd Price - “Stagger Lee”, 1958

HOUR 2

  • Legal I.D.
  • Bill Doggett - “Honky Tonk, Part 1″, 1956
  • Betty James - “I’m a Little Mixed Up”, 1961
  • Ronnie Self - “Rocky Road Blues”, 1957 (Live!  Rockabilly with a strong Blues component!)
  • The Griffins - “I Swear by All the Stars Above”, 1955
  • Savannah Churchill and the Striders - “Changeable You”, 1950
  • Rocky Jones and the Texas jacks - “Olds ‘88′”, 1951
  • Sonny Boy Williamson - “Pontiac Blues”, 1951
  • Memphis Minnie - “Me and my Chauffeur Blues”, 1941
  • The Beavers - “Big Mouth Mama”, 1950
  • PSA:  Nat. Endow. for Financial Ed./2010 Jazz & Blues Festival
  • The Dreamers - “Tears in my Eyes”, 1955
  • Shirley Gunter and the Queens - “It’s You”, 1954
  • Louis Prima with Sam Butera and the Witnesses - “Night Train”, 1956
  • Chuck Berry - “Roll Over, Beethoven”, 1956
  • Bo Diddley - “Ride On, Josephine”, 1960
  • Cleo and the Crystaliers - “Please Be my Guy”, 1957
  • PSA:  Americorps Vista/Weather/2010 Jazz & Blues Festival
  • The Swan Silvertones - “Shine on Me”, 1952
  • Bessie Folk and the Roberta Martin Singers - “Tell Jesus All”, 1949
  • Jimmy Bryant - “Jelly Beans Daddy”, 1949
  • Gene O’ Quinn - “Boogie Woogie Fever”, 1951
  • Charline Arthur - “Hello, Baby”, 1957

Golden Oldies

Fridays, 5 - 7 p.m.

HOUR 1

  • Legal I.D.
  • Sister Rosetta Tharpe - “Up above my Head”, 1947
  • Jackie Wilson - “Baby, Workout!”, 1963
  • Bob B. Soxx and the Blue Jeans - “Why Do Lovers Break Each Others’ Hearts?”, 1963
  • Vito and the Salutations - “High Noon”, 1965
  • PSA:  Nat. Endow. for Financial Ed./Walk for Life
  • Rosie and the Originals - “Angel, Baby”, 1960
  • Rosie and the Originals - “A Thousand Stars”, 1961
  • Boyd Bennett and his Rockets - “Put the Chain on the Door”, 1957
  • Priscilla Bowman and Al Smith’s Orchestra - “A Spare Man”, 1957
  • Big Joe Turner - “Shake, Rattle, and Roll”, 1954
  • Big Joe Turner - “My Gal’s a Jockey”, 1946
  • Mahalia Jackson - “God Will Take Care of You”, c. 1947
  • The Prisonaires - “My God Is Real”, 1953
  • PSA:  Flu Vacc./Weather/2010 Auburn Jazz & Blues Festival
  • Earl Jackson with Johnny Otis and his Orchestra - “Women Don’t Want a Good Man No More”, 1949
  • Big Maceo - “Have You Heard about It?”, 1950
  • Eunice Davis - “Let’s Have a Party”, 1955
  • Robie Kirk and the Ruppert-Aires - “Romance Time”
  • Paula Watson with Four Hits and a Miss, 1950

HOUR 2

  • Legal I.D.
  • Arthur Lee Maye and the Crowns - “Love Me Always”, 1955
  • Elvis Presley - “Blue Suede Shoes”, 1956
  • Ray Batts - “Stealin’ Sugar”, 1954
  • Barbara Pittman - “I Need a Man”, 1956
  • LaVern Baker - “Tweedlee Dee”, 1955 (Live!)
  • PSA:  Nat. Endow. for Financial Ed./Walk for Life
  • The Jacks - “Why Don’t You Write Me?”, 1955
  • Kay Starr - “Rock and Roll Waltz”
  • Georgia Harris and the Hytones - “I Want to Kiss You”, 1958
  • Buddy Guy - “You Sure Can’t Do”, 1957  (His first record!  Sounds a lot like Guitar Slim’s 1953 hit “The Things I Used to Do.”  However, Guy’s intensity on guitar and vocals is there from the beginning!)
  • Buddy Guy - “Stone Crazy”, 1961
  • B.B. king - “Please Love Me”, 1953
  • Elmore James and his Broomdusters - “Standing at the Crossroads”, 1955
  • Memphis Minnie - “Downhome Girl”, 1949
  • PSA:  Flu Vacc./Weather/2010 Auburn Jazz and Blues Festival
  • The Du Droppers - “Give Me Some Consideration”, 1953
  • The Dixie Hummingbirds and the Angelic Gospel Singers - “In the Morning”, 1950
  • The Songbirds of the South - “He Is Able”, 1953
  • The Church Street Five - “Norfolk Country, U.S.A.”
  • The Blendtones - “Come on Home”, 1963

Golden Oldies

Fridays, 5 - 7 p.m.

Just as happened two weeks ago, the web site acted up, so I was unable to post the playlist on Friday, April 23.  Am now posting it on Monday, April 26.

HOUR 1

  • Legal I.D.
  • Sister Rosetta Tharpe - “Up above my Head”, 1947
  • Lloyd Price and the Dukes with Band - “Chee Koo Baby”, 1953
  • Smiley Lewis - “Standing on the Corner”
  • Margo White - “Don’t Mess with my Man”  (Remake of Irma Thomas’s original version recorded in 1959)
  • Lil Greenwood - “Monday Morning Blues”, 1952
  • The Shells - “Baby, Oh, Baby”, 1957
  • PSA:  Nat. Endow. for Financial Ed.
  • Faith Taylor and the Sweet Teens - “Won’t Someone Tell Me Why?”, 1958
  • Dion and the Belmonts - “I Wonder Why”, 1958  (GREAT uptempo doo-wop!  Their first hit.)
  • Georgia Harris and the Hytones - “I Want to Kiss You”, 1958
  • The Vitones - “Old Love”
  • The Dreamers - “Do Not Forget”, 1957
  • Cecil Surratt and his West Virginia Ramblers - “Where Will You Spend Eternity?”, 1951
  • The Blue Ridge Quartet - “Hold On, Brother”
  • Patsy Holcomb - “I Wanna Rock”, 1957  (Appealing, sexy female voice Rockabilly!  Nice Jerry Lee Lewis (?) boogie piano and electric guitar solos too!)
  • Jerry Lee Lewis - “Breathless”, 1958
  • The Poni-Tails - “Before We Say Goodnight”, 1959
  • Johnnie and Jack - “Goodnight, Sweetheart, Goodnight”, 1954 (Appealing Country remake of the Spaniels’ romantic doo-wop ballad classic!)
  • The Spaniels - “Goodnight, Sweetheart, Goodnight”, 1953
  • Noble Watts and the Paul Williams Orchestra - “South Shore Drive”, 1955
  • Kitty Stevenson with Todd Rhodes and his Toddlers - “How Long, How Long, How Long?”, 1950
  • The Jewels - “Keep your Feet on the Floor”, 1955
  • Corporal Booker T. Washington [sic] - “St. Lous Boogie”
  • Etta James - “At Last”, 1960
  • Etta James - “Fools We Mortals Be”, 1956
  • Eddie Cochran - “Somethin’ Else”, 1959
  • Eddie Cochran - “Twenty-Flight Rock”, 1956
  • The Miller Sisters - “Ten Cats Down”, 1956
  • The Original Casuals - “So Tough”, 1958
  • The Dixie Cups - “Going to the Chapel”, 1964
  • The Marvelettes - “Strange, I Know”, 1962
  • The Desires - “Rendezvous with You”, 1960
  • The Nutmegs - “Coo-Coo (Nutmeg Rock)”, 1963
  • Jackie Wilson - “A Woman, a Lover, a Friend”, 1960
  • The Marcels - “My Melancholy Baby”, 1961
  • The Spirit of Memphis Quartet - “God Save America”, 1953
  • The Gospel Silhouettes - “When I Wake Up in Glory”, 1950-51
  • Enid Mosier and her Trinidad Steel Band - “Boy Days”
  • E. Bedasse and Chin’s Calypso Sextette - “Red Tomato” (FUN double-entendre Calypso from Jamaica!)
  • Jimmy Soul - “If You Wanna Be Happy”, 1963
  • Jimmy Soul - “Treat ‘Em Tough”, 1963
  • The Crystals - “Look in my Eyes”, 1963 (Nice remake of the Chantels’ 1961 romantic, dreamy ballad!)
  • The Corsairs - “Smokey Places”, 1961
  • The Church Street Five - “A Night with Daddy G”, 1961

Golden Oldies

Fridays, 5 - 7 p.m.

HOUR 1

  • Legal I.D.
  • Sister Rosetta Tharpe - “Up above my Head”, 1947
  • Ruth Brown - “This Little Girl’s Gone Rockin’”, 1957
  • The Crew Cuts - “Ko Ko Mo (I Love You So)”, 1955
  • Lesley Gore - “It’s my Party”, 1963
  • Ray Charles - “Georgia on my Mind”, 1960
  • PSA: Nat. Endow. for Financial Ed.
  • Mildred Bailey and the Delta Rhythm Boys - “Georgia on my Mind”, 1941 (Live!  Bailey recorded the ORIGINAL version back in 1931 (without the Delta Rhythm Boys)).
  • The Ivy-Tones - “Oo-Wee, Baby”, 1958
  • The Vernalls - “Why Can’t You Be True?”, 1958
  • Shirley Gunter and the Queens - “Oop-Shoop”, 1954
  • Lewis Lymon and the Teenchords - “Your Last Chance”, 1957
  • The Harmonizing Four - “Let God Abide”, 1953
  • The Roberta Martin Singers - “He Knows How Much We Can Bear”, 1949
  • Ray Charles - “Hit the Road, Jack”, 1961
  • Albert Ammons - “Boogie Woogie Stomp”, 1939
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  • Dot Rice and Frankie Black - “Texas Stomp”, 1935
  • The York Brothers - “Sixty Minute Man”, 1951  (A nice Country remake of the Dominoes’ famous R. & B. original from ‘51!).
  • Casey Simmons - “Juke Box Boogie”, 1950
  • Margie Day and the Griffin Brothers Orchestra - “Your Best Friend”, 1951
  • The Castelles - “My Girl Awaits Me”, 1953

HOUR 2

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  • Eugene Church - “I Ain’t Goin’ for That”, 1959
  • The Poka-Dots - “A Ting a Ling”, 1954
  • Little Richard - “Tutti Frutti”, 1955
  • The Playboys - “Rock, Moan, and Cry”, 1954
  • Bonnie Lou and the Harmonaires - “Drop Me a Line”, 1955
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  • Dolly Cooper and the Wanderers - “Love Can’t Be Blind”, 1953
  • Ritchie Valens - “La Bamba”, 1958
  • Ritchie Valens - “That’s my Little Suzie”, c. 1958
  • Gloria Gunter and Group - “Move on Out”, 1959 (Sounds like a female version of the Coasters’ big hit below!)
  • The Coasters - “Yakety Yak”, 1958
  • Barbara Lynn - “Lonely Heartaches”, 1962
  • The Desires - “Set Me Free”, 1960
  • Lee Allen and Paul Gayten - “Creole Alley”, 1954
  • Henry Hayes and his Band - “Bowlegged Angeline”
  • Bull Moose Jackson - “I Want a Bowlegged Woman”, 1947
  • The Angelic Gospel Singers - “There Must Be a Heaven”, 1949-50
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  • Prof. J. Earle Hines and St. Paul’s Baptist Church Choir of Los Angeles - “Makes Me Feel Like Flying Away to Be at Rest”, 1948
  • The Four Dots - “You Won’t Let Me Go”, 1951
  • Shirley and Lee - “I’m Gone”, 1952
  • Fats Domino - “Careless Love”, 1950
  • Roy Byrd (Prof. Longhair) - “Hey, Little Girl”, 1949