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Welcome to a Time Machine where the opener certainly led me on a merry chase.  Not today- October 11th, 1966- but yesterday, the 10th, Robert Moog applied for the ONLY patent he ever sought for a component of what was to become the Moog Synthesizer.  To celebrate, I tried to find out what the first chart hit with a MS on it was.  The answer- Dick Hyman and the Electric Ecclectics with The Minotaur, which came in the Hot 100 on Cashbox the week of my 7th birthday and flamed out at #34 in the second week of July 1969.  And it took me a good while to find that out, and I got it because some guy got cheezed because a buddy made fun of him for NOT knowing the answer, so he kicked over rocks until he found it.

Dick Hyman, the first of today's many winners

So in honor of that search, I have a first time ever guessing game for you.  This week, among the whopping 95 stations that provided us our 25 Panel contestants, were not one, but TWO stations from my hometown of Fort Wayne- WOWO and WGL!  Now, I have taken their top tens, and figured up the Panel votes each song on their individual charts got.  So here's the question to you- which station's top ten got more Panel Votes?  In the meantime, we have two M10 debuts, a 6D which leads to yet another of my, "What were the biggest hits HE played on" lists, and four Fabulous POTMs!  Strike up the band and let's go!


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First off is a song so new, I have to give you a link to go listen to it on!  They are on the M10 for the third time, and they are Quiet Hollers at #10 with Loup (Hide It Away)! UPDATE:  If that don't work, I forgot I could embed this off their Bandcamp page, so try this:








Okay, that seemed to work- enjoy!

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All right, guys, you're up agin it this week!

Paul:  Right-o!  I might say though, we did a bit of that Moog thing way back on Abbey Road...

John:  Yes, I played the machine on a few tracks...

Yep, and before you, the Monkees tried it out on Pisces Aquarius Capricorn And Jones LTD, but neither of you released tracks with the Moog on them.

P:  Oy, the Monkees... aren't they that lot you had Davy Jones play me on that fake Beatles fiasco of yours?

The very same.

George:  Lads, this is all well and good, but we do have a list that's fairly substantial...

P:  Very good, then, Ringo, how about you start us off?

Ringo:  Of course... the one-vote wonders start off with The Troggs and With A Girl Like You, which was doing quite well back home, but here it peaked at #41 a couple weeks back.
The Left Banke were at #22 with Walk Away Renee...
Sonny and Cher were at #46 with Little Man...
J: That he was...
R: And Herman's Hermits were at #44 with Dandy.  John?

J: Very well, you left me a few of the one-vote lot.  Next is a song called Next Time You See Me, a non-charting tune for The Robbs, who hold the record for most charting hits in the bubbling under section without ever hitting the Hot 100...
P: Obviously, there won't be a next time we see them...
j: Ha, that was quite droll! Then, we have our good mate Georgie Fame with his version of Sunny, while here the Bobby Hebb version was dropping at #41.  Back home, Georgie was at #15 while Mr Hebb was at #12.
James and Bobby Purify were at #65 with I'm Your Puppet...
And some lot called the Critters were at #14 with Mr Dieingly Sad.  George?

G: You've left me with one one-vote wonder, Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels with their Devil With a Blue Dress medley at #63.
The two vote songs start with our very own Yellow Submarine at #11...
J:  And that, Richard, is why we rarely let you sing...
R:  Oy, I've had songs I sung in the last TWO Panels, John!
G: Then comes Los Bravos with Black Is Black at #3...
Jimmy Ruffin's What Becomes Of The Broken Hearted at #19... oh, here, Paul!

P:  Thank you, my good man.  Carla Thomas with B-A-B-Y is next at #35...
Sandy Posey was Born A Woman at #12, and thank heaven for that!
And that brings us to the three vote songs, with the Surfaris and Wipeout at #9...
R:  See, we should cover that one!
J: You would think that, being the drummer and all...
P: The Supremes and You Can't Hurry Love are at #4...
And the Stones with Have You Seen Your Mother, Etc, Etc, at #40.  Ringo, that leaves you with one three vote and one four vote!

R: And that means I get the first two Final choices!
J: You should go ahead and do three, and we will divvy up the other three.
R: You're being awfully pleasant today, John...
P: He doesn't want any of us telling Cynthia about that ghastly Chinese girl he's seeing...
J: OY!  I don't even meet her for another whole month!
G: This time stuff does get a tad confusing.
R: Anyway, thank you, John.  The three- vote song is... hey, you figured wrong, all that's left is the one four vote song!
J: You try to read this bloke's notes!  At least he could have them typed...

Hey, I do enough typing here...

R: Sooo...  the four vote song is the Count Five and Psychotic Reaction at #13... and now, your choices for the winner.

Johnny Rivers, Poor Side Of Town at #21...
Tommy Roe, Hooray For Hazel at #38...
The Association, Cherish, at #1... Fellows?

J: I have Reach Out (I'll Be There) by the Four Tops at #2...
G: Mine is 96 Tears, ? and the Mysterians at #5...
P: And I finish it our with those Monkees fellows and Last Train To Clarksville at #6!

Nice job, guys! So take your pick here, while you listen to the soothing sounds of Foster The People debuting at #8 this week...








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So our 6D victim was Neil Diamond's Cherry Cherry at #7 without a Panel vote.  Among the musicians on this song (which easily could have been yet another Ellie Greenwich story) was session guitarist Al Gorgoni.  Al was on a lot of hits, and I compiled what I thought was the ten biggest hits he played on- until I went back to the story on Cherry Cherry and saw I left one out, so here are the 11 biggest hits Al Gorgoni played on:

11- The Left Banke, Pretty Ballerina (#15)
10- Rock And Roll Lullabye, BJ Thomas (#15)
9- Janis Ian, Society's Child (#14)
8- Brown Eyed Girl, Van Morrison (#10)
7- Of course, Cherry Cherry (#6)
6- The Left Banke, Walk Away Renee (#5)
5- At Seventeen, Janis Ian (#3)
4- Bob Dylan,  Like A Rolling Stone (#2)
3- The Sounds Of Silence, Simon and Garfunkel (#1 2 weeks)
2- My Boyfriend's Back, the Angels (#1 3 weeks)

And the top song he played on...

The Monkees and their 7-week #1, I'm A Believer!!!!

P:  Again with that lot!  You'd think they were the guests...

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And now, a moment with our attorney, Horace Bellbottom...

In this past week, some algorithm on Facebook has apparently decided we are a spam blog.  I assure you we are not.  We have been given green light checks for phishing on every major site evaluator.  However, I must point out that one of the "definitions of spam" that Facebook admits to using is  "Impersonate or pretend to be a business, organization, public figure, or private individual".  In those regards, it is our declaration that none of the various personages on the Time Machine posts, unless directly quoted, are anything but fabrications for the amusement of readers.  The sole exception to this is our author, and even his reality is questionable in some areas.  Any pretense at being the real or unreal people we represent is strictly unintentional.  You really should know better.


Thanks, Horace!  Now, on with the show...

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So what for the Ft Wayne lists?  Here we go...

WOWO

1- 96 Tears
2- Cherish
3- Black Is Black
4- Cherry Cherry
5- Last Train To Clarksville
6- Psychotic Reaction
7- I've Got You Under My Skin, The Four Seasons
8- Hooray For Hazel
9- Reach Out (I'll Be There)
10- Beauty Is Only Skin Deep, the Temptations

Total votes- 62

WGL

1- Mr Dieingly Sad
2- Cherish
3- 96 Tears
4- Reach Out (I'll Be There)
5- Wipeout
6- Black Is Black
7- Last Train To Clarksville
8- I've Got You Under My Skin
9- See See Rider, the Animals
10- Hooray For Hazel

Total votes- 62

IT WAS A TIE, LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Ye quicke stat packe...

Big mover, the Vogues and Please Mr Sun, 21 spots from 97-76.

Debuts this week- Have You Seen Your Mother etc etc at 40
Devil With A Blue Dress Medley at 63
and Peter and Gordon's Lady Godiva at #80.

Ramsey Lewis's version of Stevie Wonder's Everything is All Right Uptight, simply titled Up Tight, is our 66 in 66...

And the UK's official #1 was Jim Reeves with Distant Drums, which was a posthumous #1 country and hit #45 pop.

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The remaining M10...

Saint Asonia falls from 3 to 9 in week #7 with The Hunted.
M83 moves up two to #7 with the early Genesis-like instrumental Feelings.
Barbara Lewis moves from 10 to 6 with her 1963 song Straighten Up Your Heart.
For King And Country and Dolly Parton climb a notch to 5 with God Only Knows.
1F holds at 4 for White Reaper.
Silversun Pickups climb a pair to #3 with Neon Wound.
Slipping off the top perch, the Explorer's Club and The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Anymore.
Making the new #1...

Geowulf and Lonely!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

And your Panel race?

Johnny Rivers and Tommy Roe got 5.2% each...

The Monkees got 6.3%...

The Four Tops got 9.5%...

96 Tears got 16.8 %...


But the winner, with 21 % of the vote...

The Association and Cherish!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Next time, 1967!  Be there, unless you're spam....