Joh 21:15 When they had finished breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, "Simon, son of John, do you love me more than these?" He said to him, "Yes, Lord; you know that I love you." He said to him, "Feed my lambs."
Joh 21:16 He said to him a second time, "Simon, son of John, do you love me?" He said to him, "Yes, Lord; you know that I love you." He said to him, "Tend my sheep."
Joh 21:17 He said to him the third time, "Simon, son of John, do you love me?" Peter was grieved because he said to him the third time, "Do you love me?" and he said to him, "Lord, you know everything; you know that I love you." Jesus said to him, "Feed my sheep.
Most Christians know that in this passage, Jesus uses the term "agape" for love the first two times, indicating the greatest level of love; While Peter each time- and Jesus the last- uses "phileo"; more of a brotherly love. It strikes me that this is another, unfortunate, affinity I have with Peter- not knowing how to go from "I'm fond of you" to the next level.
The Better Part, Day #100:
A post by Chuck Swindoll gave me, "Consider this" for a topic (paraphrased my way): The biggest difference between Jonah and John Mark was that Barnabas didn't have to swallow Mark...
No wonder that Jesus cited the saved (by Jonah) of Nineveh! No matter how hard you've run from God in the past, turning and standing will bear fruit....
The Better Part, day #101:
James 4:7 Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
Charles Stanley rightly pointed out, "The Bible tells us to flee temptation and resist the Devil, but too many of us flip that the other way." Then he went on to discuss how flipping them just gets you clobbered by both. I can look at myself and say, "Yep, that's just how I get clobbered." No one needs tell me that that second look at temptation brings the house of cards down. What I need is to do the fleeing.
The Better Part, Day #102:
2Ti 4:10 For Demas, in love with this present world, has deserted me and gone to Thessalonica. Crescens has gone to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia.
2Ti 4:11 Luke alone is with me. Get Mark and bring him with you, for he is very useful to me for ministry.
Michael Youseff pointed out this morning that we see Demas but three times in the Bible- and he goes from "a fellow worker" to a deserter. Mark's life trajectory has gone the other way, I noticed. He started as a double-deserter and became "very useful".
If I can't be "life-long faithful"- and who was?- let me be a Mark and not a Demas, someone who begins to grow in Christ and is able not to desert near the end of life.
The Better Part, Day #103:
This morning I was the anointed one to get Misty and her first round of pills done. Afterwards, I told myself I'll lay back down for a couple hours, listen to a few Pastors to get some teaching to share on TBP. Four programs came and went, and I woke up for the end and start of each one, and none of the teaching. I decided to get on my e-mails and peruse the devotionals I get. First thing from Chuck Swindoll's Sunday post:
Your mind is a muscle. It needs to be stretched to stay sharp. It needs
to be prodded and pushed to perform. Let it get idle and lazy on you,
and that muscle will become a pitiful mass of flab in an incredibly
brief period of time.
Definitely true, perhaps not completely applicable to the situation, but a well-appreciated chuckle from a loving God.
So this week I just don't have the wherewithal to do a whole Time Machine because of the ordeal getting a certain four-legged someone back to health, but I did want to do the M10- and a little something in the nature of canine music. But before I do...
10- Seven weeks on the chart, dropping from five to ten, the Fratellis and Action Replay/.
9- This is the first of two debuts, both by acts that have seen the M10 before, and both have seen #1 before! From a new lp called You Hear Georgia, here's new Blackberry Smoke...
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So I was thinking about doggie songs, and I'm sure Many of you first thought "Who Left The Dogs Out", but I tend to think of songs I'd actually want to listen to. So I'm going to list my top ten of songs with dog in the title I most like to listen to- with one song about a dog that gets special consideration. (BTW, sorry AC/DC fans, I am not one especially, so Giving The Dog A Bone don't make it...)
10- How about we start with Heart's Dog And Butterfly? I like their more mellow stuff.
9- illuminati hotties had a hit on the M10 a while back called I Want To Keep Yr Dog. Not one of their best, but it is an M10 post so...
8- I would likely hear from Laurie if we didn't include the Monkees and Gonna Buy Me A Dog....
8- Rogue Waves moves up a pair in week 2 with Aesop Rock. Be sure you listen to this and not Aesop Rock with Rogue Waves, I did not approve that message...
7- The new biggest hit of M10 history....
American Pie slides 3 spots in week #11.....
6- Elton John moves up one with Big Man In A Little Suit from the Jewel Box box set.
5- And here's that other debut way up here! For the first time since they topped the M10 in May of 2016 with Ride It Out, here's Australia's Redspencer...
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Doggie songs....
I have to interject at this point that I am utterly amazed by the number of song sites I found that tried to include Simon and Garfunkel's The BOXER as a dog title...
7- Patty Page with her #1, How Much For That Doggie In The Window. Moments ago, I had to force down the throat of this doggie in the window, the ickiest of her 8, count 'em, 8 meds, so she's probably about ready to put Daddy through the window...
6- Shhh... I don't want them coming in and turning this into a goof-fest, but the Everly Brothers come next with Bird Dog.
5- And if you know this one, you'll be saying, "So why did Chris think the Boxer was so off-topic", but I rank here Nazareth's Hair Of The Dog.
2021 has, in many ways, become a bigger monster than last year. With the 10-hour day that was foisted on us at work (with COVID being the convenient excuse when the truth was, corporate management said, "I'm tired of fighting you for the fragments of your life I want") and the amount of time it costs me from my rapidly recovering from the $2200 bug doggie; the dropping amount of people actually visiting/commenting (because everybody else has lives, too), we now drop in that Blogger is killing the free subscribe to e-mail thingie that many of you get my blog by. Mix in Facebook's decision last year that somehow my blog is 'spammy' and 'seeking ways to ask for money in return for clicks' and thus banning me from posting my blog directly there (while constantly reminding me that it's page hasn't had any new content lately)... I'm beyond discouraged.
I was at a point of going to Wordpress- when I saw the magic words, "billed annually at a monthly rate of..." So, what's the point of giving a monthly rate, even a 'join-up' plan, if you still pay once a year? With all the add-ons they recommend, it came out to a cost I can't afford, especially with the "Pay half now, the rest when she's released" policy of the Vet Hospital (have you NEVER heard of financing?).
I'm just not doing it.
So, here's your need to know stuff:
-If you follow by e-mail, after July that is gone. You'll either have to set a bookmark or look me up. Or just let me drift off into your personal sunset. I really hope you don't choose #3.
-It has been in the works that when the Time Machine co-ordinate number (after the Roman numerals) hits 700, the Musical Tardis is going to retire, mainly because of that 10-hour thing. That cuts on a post that takes minimum 1 hour to research and 3 to 4 to type. I haven't worked out what date that would be... not sure if the July thing might not change it.
-I intend to continue the Bible study and Better Part posts, as long as it is teaching me as well as anyone willing to listen, at this point. Only God knows when that ripple will touch someone who needs it as much or more than I do.
-Right now, my Twitter page also gets the posts through Dlvr.it, so they do show up on that feed. Plus, I have a link there to the blog. If you wanna be my twitter friend, as some of you already are, I'm at @scrappybooogle .
Plus, I am going to admit, losing 4 of my best bloggy friends in recent years- 3 to death, one to being an anti-mask fanatic who couldn't stand my opposition to their sound-bite take on things, has really hurt my desire. I don't want to quit. I just wanna downsize. Many of you have left your own blogs and become FB friends, and you can't know what that means to me.
When you feel you're carrying a weight too heavy, you have two choices: Carry it or get out from under it. The non-communicative policies of Facebook and Google have made it impossible to work any other way. So here we are. Maybe things will pick up, and I will be rejuvenated somewhere along the line. But for right now, I'm going to give Time Machine a week off so I can cope with Misty's pill-laden recovery (NOTE: Thanks for reminding me! The 6 o'clock trio was 2 easy peasies and one that required several oaths and holding her head straight up until I heard 'gulp'), I'll get you an M10 update tomorrow, and see how it goes from there!
In two weeks of looking at 1 Timothy, I noticed two themes that Paul stressed to the young pastor that we can use. First, I saw the list of distractions that can come on innocently enough and grow to choke the ministry; the other are the four things to keep in mind to fight that corruption.
First distraction: Using the Word for the sake of argument
1Ti 6:3 If anyone teaches a different doctrine and does not agree with the sound words of our Lord Jesus Christ and the teaching that accords with godliness, 1Ti 6:4 he is puffed up with conceit and understands nothing. He has an unhealthy craving for controversy and for quarrels about words, which produce envy, dissension, slander, evil suspicions, 1Ti 6:5 and constant friction among people who are depraved in mind and deprived of the truth, imagining that godliness is a means of gain.
Paul warns Timothy here of the progression- it starts with a bit of pride, becomes arrogance, until the ministry is just a job to make money from.
First preventative- Humility
1Ti 6:1 Let all who are under a yoke as slaves regard their own masters as worthy of all honor, so that the name of God and the teaching may not be reviled.
Starting with the one thing all men have in common- a boss- Paul says to practice humility, serving without complaint, because aren't most such complaints basically, "Here's how I'd do it better than you"?
Second distraction- Greed
1Ti 6:9 But those who desire to be rich fall into temptation, into a snare, into many senseless and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction. 1Ti 6:10 For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evils. It is through this craving that some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many pangs.
Note the part about "senseless and harmful desires". To do well in life is helpful- to obsess on it is not.
Second preventative- Contentment
1Ti 6:6 Now there is great gain in godliness with contentment, 1Ti 6:7 for we brought nothing into the world, and we cannot take anything out of the world. 1Ti 6:8 But if we have food and clothing, with these we will be content.
If we remember v7 as we prosper, it will keep the greed from becoming our focus. And, it will move the more important things into focus.
Third distraction- being 'elite'
1Ti 6:17 As for the rich in this present age, charge them not to be haughty, nor to set their hopes on the uncertainty of riches, but on God, who richly provides us with everything to enjoy.
And back we come to the arrogance. Why? Because this is an every day, every moment fight. It only takes one moment where one truly is an 'expert' to make one think they're an expert in everything.
Third preventative- don't let up!
1Ti 6:12 Fight the good fight of the faith. Take hold of the eternal life to which you were called and about which you made the good confession in the presence of many witnesses.
Satan isn't going to allow you to 'catch a breath'. The promise before us is worth hanging onto with every moment.
Fourth distraction- and fourth preventative-
1Ti 6:20 O Timothy, guard the deposit entrusted to you. Avoid the irreverent babble and contradictions of what is falsely called "knowledge," 1Ti 6:21 for by professing it some have swerved from the faith. Grace be with you.
Distraction is the 'babble'- those who will try to lessen the meaning of the Word by dilution with 'society's norms', 'tolerance', 'science', and so on. You have to guard what was passed to you in the Word, or the world will talk you out of it.
Well, despite all currently ongoing disasters, I'm back to try and post the back half of my A to Z mashup- and actually got ambitious enough to lift the badge from Arlee Bird at his blog, which is a major step today! See right now, Misty is at the hospital and we are awaiting results, and I decided to do Laurie's taxes while awaiting word... I'll let you all know what we find out later. Anyway, let's pick this up where we left off.
L on April 16- Peace on the Lakes
In 1818, the Rush-Bagot Treaty de-militarized Lake Champlain and the Great Lakes. Apparently, both the USA and Britain had had enough of beating each other silly for 13 of the last 43 years.
M on April 17- A fine can of Worms
Which is where the trial of Martin Luther started in 1521- gee, 500 years ago this year! They asked him if he was ready to take anything he said back that had disrupted the clergy of Europe or hurt the poor, corrupt Pope Leo X. He asked for a day to pray about it. Next day, he told the Wormers to go fish.
N on April 18th- Not like Almond Joy...
Negros were first considered 3/5ths of a person for tax purposes in 1783 in an attempt at compromise by Congress under the Articles of Confederation- also 1/2, or even 3/4ths. In the end, this Congress shot it down, but James Madison- who had the idea in the first place- stuck it into the Constitution.
O on April 19th- Funny how it took that long....
In 1926, Mae West wrote and produced a play called Sex. Panned by the critics, it nonetheless became a hit. However, it suddenly became obscene after 375 performances and 325,000 paying customers, "including members of the police department and their wives, judges of
the criminal courts, and seven members of the district attorney's staff." Mae got ten days in a workhouse and a $500 fine.
"And, more popular! Don't forget that part..."
P on April 20th- Girls get better mileage
In 2008's Indy Japan 300, everyone was trying to play the fuel mileage game for the last 50 laps. But it was Danica Patrick who played it best, passing the all-but-empty Helio Castroneves with 2 laps to go and hanging on to become the first female to win a top level open wheel race.
Q on April 21- Happy Birthday to you!
On this day in 1926, the future King George VI of England received a bouncing baby girl he named Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor, better known to us as Queen Elizabeth II. No surprise she's still alive and kicking at 95; her Mom lived to 101 and an aunt to 102!
R on April 22- Play Ball!
The first true MLB Baseball game was played in 1876- with the Red Stockings of Boston (not the same as the current Bosox, but actually the linear descendants of the Atlanta Braves) winning in Philadelphia against the Athletics (Not the same as the Philadelphia-Kansas City- Oakland A's of today- this team had a crappy season, bagged the last road trip of the year, and got expelled) by an error strewn final of 6-5. Winning pitcher was Joe Borden, who had just 28 games left in a 36-game baseball career; loser Lon Knight would pick up 10 of the Athletics' 14 wins and 22 of their 45 losses, which pretty much put paid to his career as well.
S on April 23- Smashdown
Soyuz I, launched in 1967, was a Politburo-inspired deathtrap from which Yuri Gagarin and Vladimir Komarov both tried to save each other from. Komorov "won" the battle, and after the known defects (that the Politburo ignored to go for the media buzz) had not only crippled the I's mission and scrubbed that of the II which was supposed to link up with it, Komorov tried to land the beast but the parachute failed to open (with some thoughts that a last minute application of heat sealer glued it shut), the capsule made an approximately 154 mph dent in the landing field. Good for Gagarin: the Hero of the Soviet Union was banned from any further space flights, so he didn't get killed as well. Bad on Yuri: less than a year later he was killed crashing a MIG-15 on a test flight.
T on April 24- Someday, we'll be in a movie over this
Some 1,000 years after the fact, Eratosthenes of Cyrene- the same guy who just missed the circumference of the earth by about a percent and a half- pegs the fall of Troy to this date in what we now call 1183 BC. Give or take 70 years, if he stayed on the same error.
U on April 25- Long time to hold one's breath...
The USS Triton nuclear sub completes a circumnavigation of the globe underwater, following the above water path took by Ferdinand Magellan and his survivors, in 1960. This crew managed the feat in 60 days, 21 hours. Or, roughly 18 times as fast as the elder expedition's two weeks shy of three years.
V on April 26- ...or, "Both were filled with gas"
Paul von Hindenburg became the first popularly elected President of Germany in 1925. His two terms would last till his death in 1934. His accomplishments were much like the zeppelin named for him, a picture of ponderous stateliness and power, until at the end they burst into flames and crashed.
W on April 27- The next reason to toss the UN
Kurt Waldheim, a two term (and almost a third) Secretary General of the UN and current President of Austria, was told by the US State Department in 1987 that they had (through the OSI) enough evidence of him being involved in holocaust-level atrocities that he was persona not grata in the USA, the first active head of state to earn that dubious distinction. What actual level he was involved to is debatable; what his case really did was tie three entities that should have known better- the Mossad, Austria, and the Catholic Church- to the suspicions of helping former Nazis.
X on April 28- As in, "X him off"
Muhammad Ali was stripped of his titles in 1967 (actually the next day) for refusing to step forward at his draft induction today. Three years later, a 5-year prison term was thrown out by the Supreme Court because the Draft Board had failed to come up with a good reason to refuse him conscientious objector status.
Y on April 29- "...you know – can we all get along?"
Today in 1992, the officers in the Rodney King beatdown were acquitted, leading to the riots, and Rodney trying to stop the riots two days later with a statement that started with that quote. In light of the lack of precautions at the start of this, which led to 63 dead in 6 days, the curfews in Minnesota this week seem a damn good idea.
And finally, (Whew!) Z on April 30- How not to throw a revolution
1671 saw the culmination of was was known as the "Magnates' Plot". Essentially, the story goes: The Ottomans were trying to extend their gains in the areas of Hungary and Croatia, but a combined force from Germany, France, the Habsburg lands (AKA Austria), and what was left of Hungary beat the Turks. However, the War of the Spanish Succession- a largely Habsburg/Bourbon war- was brewing and Emperor of Germany Leopold (AKA Archduke of Austria) gave the Turks basically a status quo ante Treaty and promised to pay a small fortune for a 20-year truce. Obviously, Hungary and Croatia felt fed to the dogs, and were willing to go to great lengths to kick the Habsburgs out for their treachery. In Croatia, this was led by the provincial Ban (AKA Governor), Nikola Zrinski, his brother Petar, and Petar's Brother-In-Law. Nikola was supposedly killed by a wild boar during a hunt, just after a bid to get the Croatian army to revolt fell through. Petar and his co-conspirators then made the rounds of Europe trying to get someone, anyone, to help them get Hungary-Croatia a better deal. This, unwisely, involved going to the Ottoman Sultan, promising allegiance for semi-autonomy and the removal of the Habsburgs. The Sultan told Leopold... and Leopold let them off. Finally, they came to Leopold seeking pardon- but not until they had tried to fight a war of pamphlets, including suggestions that the Emperor be harmed.
Final results: 2,000 nobles arrested, with many including Petar Zrinsky on April 30, 1671, executed; any self government in Hungary and Croatia lost; 41 Protestant pastors agitating against the Catholic Emperor executed, 800 churches closed, and 600,000 forced conversions to Catholicism; a new, more effective, Hungarian terrorist group called the Kurac, whose successes, after the bought and paid for armistice collapsed, caused a massive Ottoman invasion that was just stopped at Vienna by Poland's Jan Sobieski in 1688. Nice job, everyone.
Here are this week's FB posts for your enjoyment and edification:
The Better Part, day #93:
For some, God's provision means one more day of safety from persecution. Others, just that word of encouragement. For me, on a day my back was screaming at me to go home at noon, and having a machine that fought me every step of the way for the last hour before noon, God's provision was David Jeremiah saying, "Calm is a word that really doesn't mean anything on its own. It only has meaning when the storm comes."
The Better Part, Day# 94:
Jas 4:6 But He gives more grace. Therefore He says, God resists the proud, but He gives grace to the humble.
Jas 4:7 Therefore submit yourselves to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
The first of two things I heard in the middle of the night last night, not realizing they were part of the same word to me, was that second verse, with the teaching: "Note the order. To make the Devil flee from you, you must first submit to God, then God will make him flee."
But when you look at the whole passage, you note some things about submitting. It involves humbling yourself, drawing near to the Lord. It references Ephesians 6, and taking advantage of all the tools the Spirit gives, known as the Whole Armor of God. Notice this all involves emptying your hands of the battle, and giving it to God.
Not surprisingly, this joined with something John McArthur mentioned in thumbnailing the Prodigal Son parable: "...he was in a hurry to claim riches HE NEVER EARNED." Too many times we try to claim a promise from the Lord, without bothering to meet, or even learn, the requirements thereof.
The Better Part, Day #95
We find mission fields in unusual places. Last night, someone close to us had their father get hit by a driver going the wrong way on a four lane divided highway. In my prayers, I realized that to be heard for one, I have to pray for the other as well. I prayed this prayer: "Whatever goal Satan had in filling this person with hell, glorify Yourself and destroy the plan by filling them both with Heaven."
The Better part, Day #96:
Michael Youssef has been touching on Jonah this week, including mentioning something I never thought about before: Instead of telling the sailors, "It's me, turn around and take me back," He was ready to be thrown in the sea and drown rather than do things God's way. Not only was he disobedient, he gave sailors the idea he served a powerful and wrathful God; if he'd told them to turn around, the storm would still have abated and they would have been much more interested in a merciful God.
Of course, that was the part of God Jonah didn't want to see. What part of God causes MY disobedience?
The Better Part, Day #97:
Eph 3:4 When you read this, you can perceive my insight into the mystery of Christ,
Eph 3:5 which was not made known to the sons of men in other generations as it has now been revealed to his holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit.
This passage- particularly v5- has a question mark from me in my p[ap[er and ink Bible, a New Open translation. And when I looked at it this morning, it had me confused then, too. However, when you look at it in this, the ESV- indeed in any other of the English translations I have on the e-Sword I use- it makes perfect sense. I don't remember what my Bible's version was that made it a bit obtuse, but what matters is: If the Bible you are using has a verse that confuses you, don't just shake your head- check other versions, check the commentaries, until you either have a grasp of it or a reason why it's confusing. Don't give up!
NOTE: After the fact, I realized the problematic verse was 10, not 5- but the point isn't affected by the error. In fact, had I listened to myself... -C
The Better Part, day #98:
There is an old saying, and apparently evidence runs both for and against, that it takes more muscles to frown than to smile. No, I'm not switching to anatomy here, but if true it makes a point about something. Some things we do naturally, there's an easier way to do it that we just didn't realize; then when we see how much easier it is, we do it all the time. I think that believing in Jesus is this same way.
Think on this: God is Father, Son, and Spirit. The great leaders of the New Testament were Paul, the cerebral, logical, step by step man; Peter, the human, full of love and mistakes, but always following in the footsteps; and John, the mystic, who was alone able to grasp the mysteries of Revelation- each one a reflection, Paul of Father, Peter of Son, John of Spirit. Likewise the OT is dominated by the teachings of three men: Abraham, the Father of believers; Moses, who led by his example; and David, in whose Psalms the intimacy of what Christ went through is shown.
Given that these strong reflections of Father Son and Spirit reside in BOTH testaments, I would think it would take a lot more "muscle" to deny and reject than to see them throughout history and believe.
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!
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