Today's noteworthy event- for what it's worth- was the inaugural flight of the Boeing 737. Unlike most flight stories that seem to make TM, at least it didn't crash.
This week on the show, I have a couple of 6D themed features, perhaps (as close as I can figure without actually digging through back posts) the largest Panel in history, a 3-way tie for big mover, and a helluva close Panel race! All this and the Righteous Bros!
Elvis: Aw no, not the crazy idiots...
You're thinking the Everlys, bud! Bobby and Bill are much more dignified...
"Hah, we've got one of them fooled!"
Oh, come on, dudes, compared to the Beatles and the Everlys on here, you're downright sedate! Anyway, I have a couple, like I said, 6 D features that involve this week's victim, the Four Tops and Bernadette at #7. It was written by that magical team of Dozier-Holland-Dozier, and that got me digging. D-H-D had one of the greatest stable of writing hits of anyone, and I dug up this factoid: They had 2 songs hit the US charts by 5 different acts, and 3 each by four acts and three acts! So here's the game: I give you the song, YOU guess which two had five different iterations on the hot 100- and which one, when you average out their peak positions, was the biggest! Here, Bobby, Bill, you guys tell the audience which songs they get to choose from!
Bobby Hatfield: But I wanna guess!
Bill Medley: Don't be a baby, Bobby! Just write your guesses down but don't tell anybody!
BH: Well, fine, I guess... here, you read them so I can guess!
BM: Fine. In alphabetical order, the songs are...
Baby I Need Your Loving
How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You)
(Sugar Pie Honey Bunch) I Can't Help Myself
(Reach Out) I'll Be There
Stop In The Name Of Love
This Old Heart Of Mine
Where Did Our Love Go
and You Keep Me Hanging On.
All right, nice job. Bobby, you got your guess written down?
BH: I sure do!
Good, now if you hit Bobby's guess, you get the first ever Righteous Guesser Award! In the meantime, I have one new debut. It comes in at #10, new to the M10 list, here's Rogue Waves- which, BTW comes with this addendum:
With the release of “Aesop Rock”, Rogue Wave is asking fans to donate to the Tipping Point Community - an Oakland-based organization raising money for families in need throughout the Bay Area.
You can see the link on YouTube if interested. Without further ado:
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Ready for the Panel, boys?
BM: Yes, sir!
Well, we had 29 songs from a possible-record 123 stations! Just to give everyone a leg up, why don't you read off where Panelists finished in the years top 100 before giving us the finalists?
BH: But there's so many!
BM: Bobby, don't be a baby! Just read them!
BH: Okay... in order of ranking:
The Five Americans, Western Union, #82
Hollies, On A Carousel, #79
Baby I Need Your Loving- say, that was on that game!- Johnny Rivers, #73
Buffalo Springfield, For What It's Worth, #52.
The Royal Guardsmen, Snoopy and the Red Baron, #50.
Bill, you do some! I need some water.
BM: All right, we have
Martha and the Vandellas, Jimmy Mack, #48
The Beatles, Penny Lane...
Elvis: NOOOOO!
BM: ...#45
Engelbert Humperdinck, Release Me, #42
Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels, Sock It To Me Baby, #40
Petula Clark, This Is My Song, #39... say, this is a lot! Bobby, you ready?
BH: Yeah, where we at?
BM: Right here... see? BH: Got it! The Mamas and Papas, Dedicated To The One I Love, #37
Herman's Hermits, There's A Kind Of Hush, #35
The Monkees, A Little Bit Me, A Little Bit You, #30
The Supremes, The Happening, #23
Frank and Nancy Sinatra, Somethin' Stupid, #13
Tommy James and the Shondells, I Think We're Alone Now, #12
and finally, The Turtles, Happy Together at #6!
And aren't you glad I don't make you guess from the whole list! Four Songs make the final this week, will it be:
A Little Bit Me, etc, by the Monkees at #4 this week;
So the other thing I did was go through the list of charting D-H-D compositions and come up with my personal top ten songs of theirs. Here's MY list:
10- Stop In The Name Of Love, Supremes, #1/1964
9- You Keep Me Hanging On, Supremes, #1/1966
8- Nowhere To Run, Martha Reeves and the Vandellas, #8/1964
7- How Sweet It Is, James Taylor, #5/1975
6- Heat Wave, Martha and the Vandellas, #4/1963
5- You Keep Me Hanging On, Kim Wilde, #1/1986
4- (Sugar Pie Honey Bunch) I Can't Help Myself, the Four Tops, #1/1965
3- It's The Same Old Song, the Four Tops, #5/1965
2- Take Me In Your Arms (Rock Me A Little While), the Doobie Brothers, #11/1975
EP: Hee Hee...
What's so funny?
EP: It just came to me...
These are your brothers...
These are your brothers on drugs...
Any questions?
OMG, that was bad, dude!
Now, we'll save my favorite for the finale, but right now, Bobby, Bill?
BM: Yes, sir?
How about you let us in on who the TWO songs for D-H-D were that charted five times each- without naming the winner by best average- and then picking up the Overseas If You Please?
BM: You bet! The two songs that charted five time each were... (Reach Out) I'll Be There, and You Keep Me Hanging On!
BH: Shoot, Bill, that means my pick- This Old Heart Of Mine- didn't get it!
BM: No, but it DID get 4 times, along with Baby I Need Your Loving and Where Did Our Love Go. Don't feel so bad, here, do the Overseas thing...
BH: Well, okay... Canada had A Little Bit Me... Australia and New Zealand had Penny Lane...
EP: NOOOOO!
Now cut that out!
BH: South Africa had Sandy Posey and Single Girl... and England had Release Me.
BM: Go ahead, Bobby, do the big movers!
BH: But there's so many!
EP: Gimme that, you baby! Three songs moved up 34 spots this week. they were Simon and Garfunkel's At The Zoo (to #30), Peter and Gordon's Sunday For Tea (to #35), and Nancy Sinatra's Love Eyes (to #34). Hey, boss, howsabout the M10?
Don't mind if I do...
9- Pale Waves slides from 5 with You Don't Own Me...
8- Har Mar Superstar up one with Where We Began...
7- Elton John holds here with Big Man In A Little Suit...
6- Maddie and Tae up 4 with Woman You Got...
5- back down one for the Fratellis and Action Replay...
4- one more down for American Pie... Home Free and Don McLean in week #10 now just one point out of first all time...
3- Squeezing up 3 through the cracks is Dami Im and Lonely Cactus...
2- Holding here, The Explorers Club and Don't Waste Her Time...
And with a second week at the top...
...Matthew Sweet and Blown Away!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
EP: Hey, my turn! The Boss's favorite Dozier-Holland-Dozier song....
.... Linda Ronstadt's Heat Wave, #5 in 1975!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And the winner between the five time charting D-H-D songs...
BH: Hey, give me that microphone...
EP: Beat it, punk...
BH: WAAAAH! Bill, he called me a punk!!!!
EP: Geez, what a baby! The winner, averaging 39.2....
photo by steve ullathorne
Kim Wilde's song, You Keep Me Hanging On! Besides her an' the Supremes hittin' the top, Vanilla Fudge took it to 6, Wilson Pickett to 92, and Jackie DeShannon to 96! ROIBT had hits from the Tops, plus Diana Ross (29), Gloria Gaynor (60), Michael Bolton...
NOOOOOO!!!
...at 73, and Merilee Rush at 79! Issat all?
All but the Panel picks! If you took:
I Think We're Alone Now, you got 10.5%...
A Little Bit me, you got 15.44%...
Frank and Nancy got you 21.9%...
But the winner, by a 28-27 vote, with 22.7%...
...the Turtles and Happy Together!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So if that was the most stations ever, then a win by .813 is the closest race ever! And since that is a LOT of votes to count up, let's hope that we are just a bit farther apart next week in 1968!
Interesting indeed, things I did not know
ReplyDeleteExcellent. So many songs from those teen years!
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