Time Machine co -ordinates VILXI50283156

And we are back to abnormal here on August 31st, 1956- where the only partly interesting story involved the first flight of what would be a veteran presence in the USAF...

This is the K-135 stratotanker named "City of Renton", which made the first flight of the series today.  An amazing beast that was 150 % stronger, 125 MPH faster, and held double the fuel load of it's predecessor, the K-135s hit their 60th anniversary of service two years ago and are only just now being replaced by a Boeing frame based on the 767.


And with a roar of its mighty engines, we take off on the second half of the thousand post reich, er, career of Time Machine and all its relations.  And, it's Labor Day weekend, so that means the Top 15 of Summer '18 are coming your way!  Plus two debuts- one all the way up at #6- on the M10, and a 6D that includes Batman, Tweety Bird, Percy Faith, Johnny Cash... and...

...yes, Bonanza !  Plus, Bill Haley is here to help out with things!  Strap in, we're back at flight altitude!


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So welcome to Bill Haley, and the first question I have to ask is, are you related to Cheap Trick's Rick Neilson?

Um, I'm going to go with "no"... that, or, "God, I hope not!"

So this week, instead of short changing you with a little bitty Panel list, I'd let you do the intros to the Top 15 of Summer '18!  Are you up for it?

Well, if Gilbert O, can hit the list at 72, I can give'er a try!  Say how old am I now, anyway?

Let's see... you are 31 where I grabbed you from... you'd have been 93 this year...

Oh, I'm dead now?  How old am I when I die?

Spoilers... somewhere between 32 and 92....

Ha, that's fair I guess.  Lemmee at that list!

Alright, but let me tell everyone this is by the traditional 10-9-8 point system, covering all the weeks between May 30th and now, and the one tie is broken by figuring which one will eventually end up with more points.  Okay, Bill, sock it to me!

All righty-roonie!  First off, that lovely young lady Dorothy and her boys, currently holding at #2 on the charts with our #15 of the year, Ain't our Time To Die!

#14 is the man with the big bushy mustache, Jim Croce, and his Lover's Cross...

Another lovely young lady and her band at #13, Sara Tudzin and illuminatti hotties with Shape Of My Hands.

And the gorgeous chicks just keep coming!  Caroline Rose is at number one dozen with Jeannie Becomes A Mom!  And you have ME on this show...

Then comes the runner up in a 10th place tie, them boys called Kidsmoke with Patterns!  Okay, back to you, boss!

Thanks, Bill!  Before I delve into the Panel list for the week, here's our first debut at #10- the third hit for Cullen Omori, off the now-released lp The Diet...





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With just 7 stations to choose from, I did a bit of a hybrid- I collected points from the 5 #1s (that's right, two got 2 #1s) and ranked them that way.  Your choices include one song that debuted on Cashbox at #37- under FIVE different acts!  By Billboard who actually separated their songs, the tune When The White Lillies Bloom had the following chart peaks:

Lawrence Welk hit #70
Leroy Holmes #53
Florian ZaBach #50
Billy Vaughn' Orchestra #16

And the man that got the panel position, Helmut Zacharius at #12.

Also, we have TWO contestants from Elvis this week- Hound Dog, which was the Cashbox #1, and Don't Be Cruel, at #5.

And the other two are the Platters with My Prayer at #2, and Bill Buchanan and Dickie Goodman at #3 with The Flying Saucer.  So here's the deal- first try to guess the 2 songs with 2 #1 votes, and then pick the winner of the two!


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Bill, you ready for the next five Songs of Summer '18?

Yeah... say, how old was that Bologna Casserole at the buffet line?  I think it's turned a bit...

I think it was MADE turned.

Hmmm... so next we have the other #10, ELO with this week's #1 song- oh, was I supposed to say that?


Technically, no, but I'm easy...


Cool, man!  So the song is Buildings Have Eyes, and what does ELO stand for, boss?

Electric Light Orchestra...

Oh, so are they sponsored by GE or something?

No, actually you are supposed to read it like it's a light orchestra, of only 9 or so players, with electric instruments.

No foolin'!  No wonder they just go by the letters!

So then #9 is is the lovely Sarah Barthel and Phantogram with Saturday.  Boy, you sure like the pretty girls...

Next is the award winning family of the year... say, you left off the name of the family, boss!

No, it's not a family, it's just the name of the band.

Ah... so, Family Of The Year with Let Her Go at #8.

At numero seveno, here's a mouthful, the Derevolutions with Now You Know My Name.  And what a name!

And at #6, we have the next day of the week, Sunday by... Geowulf?  Isn't that Beowulf?

Nope, Geowulf is right...

Hm, kids these days.  Well I suppose it isn't any worse than Crazy Otto or the Chuckles...

Okay, thanks again, and hold that spot for the top five at the end.


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Let me do a quick run through the stat pack next.  I knew 12 of 50 here in the US and 8 of 30 in England, where Que Sera Sera- our upcoming 6D victim- was #1.  And the big mover was Bill Doggett's Honky Tonk, which cruised up 27 spots from 46 to 19.

Now as I let the cat outta the bag, It was indeed Doris Day at #4 without Panel love with Que Sera Sera.  It was composed by Jay Livingstone and Ray Evans, who are also the composers of the Bonanza theme song.  Now the pilot had the four stars singing actual lyrics, but Pernell Roberts thought it was silly and refused to do it for the main show and they were dropped.  The orchestration was arranged by two more famous names.  One was David Rose of The Stripper fame; the other was Billy May, who also did the Batman TV theme, as well as a song that Warner Brothers star Mel Blanc took to #9 in 1950- I Taught I Taw A Puddy Tat with the voices of Sylvester and Tweety.

Al Caiola took the instrumental version of the Bonanza theme onto the charts, hitting #19 in 1961.  He was a session guitarist, whose range of performances ran from A Summer Place by Percy Faith and Chances Are by Johnny Mathis, to Simon and Garfunkel's Mrs Robinson and Dion's Abraham Martin And John!  Meanwhile, back at the Ponderosa, Johnny Cash rewrote the lyrics to Bonanza and released it as a single- ignored on Country and hitting #94 on the pop charts.

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And now before Bill goes on with the songs of Summer '18 and I sort through the remnants of the M10, two things.  The first, if you took My Prayer and/or Don't Be Cruel, YOU still have a shot at winning!  Two, the debut up at #6 I found out after the fact was a cover of a Lucinda Williams song, to which I said, that explains it!  At #6, here is newcomer to the M10 Vanessa Carlton...





Wow, boss, you did it again with those three!

Yep, I think so... you ready to wrap up all but the last of your countdown?

You betcha!  At #5...

...the Jayhawks and Everybody Knows!  Say, they must be big, because... well, just lemmee hold that thought.  At #4...

...another of your sweeties, Shilpa Ray and Shoot This Dying Horse!  That bring ya to #3, and...

,,, now hears a name that'd be fitting right in in my era, Black Joe Lewis and the Honeybears, with Nature's Natural.  Say, that seems kinda common sense...  And back to the point I almost made early, back again at #2, this week's #3 on the M10...

...the Jayhawks an' Backwards Women!  Okay boss, she's all yours!

Thanks for riding along!  So, sorting out the rest of the countdown...

...with a lot of songs moving up fast, room had to be made.  Quiet Hollers slips from 8 to 9 with Addicted, Player from 6 to 8 with Addiction, and of course Kidsmoke dropped to 7.

Beach House soars up 5 from 10 to 5 with Equal Mind... Blackberry Smoke from 7 to 4 with One Horse Town... and if you were paying attention you know the top 3 stayed in place, with the Jayhawks at 3, Dorothy at 2, and ELO at the top.

I'm sure you know, if you've spent the summer with me, that the top Song of Summer '18 is...

Caroline Rose and More Of The Same!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

And who did you pick between Elvis and the Platters?  Well you're a winner by a 267-224 nod if you took...

...the Platters and My Prayer!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

That's it for this time, be here next week, God willing, for 1957!