Friday, April 25, 2014

April 25, 2014 Playlist with Host Alex McNeil

More music written and/or produced by Bert Berns (1929-1967):

  1. Bert & Bill Giant - Gettysburg Address (45, 1959)
  2. Russell Byrd (Bert Berns) - Little Bug (45, 1961)
  3. Top Notes - Twist and Shout (LP, 1961)
  4. Jarmels - A Little Bit of Soap (CD, 1961)
  5. Gene Pitney - If I Didn't Have a Dime (To Play the Jukebox) (CD, 1962)
  6. Four Pennies (Chiffons) - My Block (CD, 1963)
  7. Gil Hamilton - Tell Her (CD, 1962)
  8. Gerry Levene & the Avengers - It's Driving Me Wild (45, 1963)
  9. King Curtis - Beach Party (45, 1962)
  10. Rocky Fellers - Killer Joe (CD, 1963)
  11. Solomon Burke - Everybody Needs Somebody to Love (CD, 1964)
  12. Betty Harris - I'll Be a Liar (CD, 1963)
  13. Ben E. King - Let the Water Run Down (CD, 1964)
  14. Garnell Cooper & the Kinfolks - Green Monkey (CD, 1963)
  15. Kenny Hamber - Show Me Your Monkey (CD, 1964)
  16. Hoagy Lands - Baby Let Me Hold Your Hand (CD, 1964)
  17. Tammy Montgomery - If I Would Marry You (CD, 1964)
  18. LaVern Baker - A Little Bird Told Me So (CD, 1963)
  19. Moses K & the Prophets - I Went Out with My Baby Tonight (CD, 1965)
  20. Wilson Pickett - Come Home Baby (CD, 1965)
  21. Drifters - Up in the Streets of Harlem (CD, 1966)
  22. Patti LaBelle & the Bluebelles - You Forgot How to Love (CD, 1965)
  23. Bobby Harris - Sticky Sticky (45, 1966)
  24. Witches - My Little Baby (CD, 1965)
  25. Nancy Ames - Friends and Lovers Forever (CD, 1966)
  26. Jack Ely & the Courtmen (45, 1966)
  27. McCoys - I Got to Go Back (And Watch That Little Girl Dance) (CD, 1967)
  28. Van Morrison - Chick-a-Boom (CD, 1967)
  29. Freddie Scott - Just Like a Flower (CD, 1968)
  30. Knight Brothers - Come on Girl (CD, 1964)
  31. Exciters - Soul Motion (CD, 1967)
  32. Van Morrison - Joe Harper Saturday Morning (CD, 1967)
  33. Hoagy Lands - White Gardenia (45, 1968)
  34. Garnet Mimms - I'll Take Good Care of You (CD, 1966)

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Friday, April 18, 2014

April 18, 2014, Playlist with Host Alex McNeil

A salute to writer/producer Bert Berns (1929-1967), featuring a telephone interview with Joel Selvin, author of the new biography, "Here Comes the Night: The Dark Soul of Bert Berns and the Dirty Business of Rhythm & Blues" (Counterpoint Press, 2014) [all selections from CD unless otherwise noted]:

  1. Isley Brothers - Twist and Shout (1962)
  2. Austin Taylor - Push Push (1960)
  3. Solomon Burke - Cry to Me (1962)
  4. Exciters - Tell Him (1963)
  5. Garnet Mimms and the Enchanters - Cry Baby (1963)
  6. Drifters - I Don't Want to Go on Without You (1964)
  7. Them - Here Comes the Night (1965)
  8. Lulu - I'll Come Running Over (1964)
  9. Vibrations - My Girl Sloopy (1964)
  10. Freddie Scott - Are You Lonely for Me (1966)
  11. Erma Franklin - Piece of My Heart (1967)
  12. Lorraine Ellison - Heart Be Still (1967)
  13. Van Morrison - Brown Eyed Girl (1967)
  14. Isley Brothers - Nobody But Me (LP, 1962)
  15. Erma Franklin - Open Up Your Soul (1967)
  16. Russell Byrd (Bert Berns) - You'd Better Come Home (1961)
  17. Tami Lynn - I'm Gonna Run Away from You (1964)

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Friday, April 11, 2014

April 11, 2011, Playlist with Host Alex McNeil

"Alive & Kickin'" - Artists from the Lost and Found era who are still living and are at least 80 years old:

  1. B.B. King - How Blue Can You Get (CD, 1964) (age 88)
  2. Mose Allison - I'm Not Talking (CD, 1964) (86)
  3. Sonny Burgess - My Bucket's Got a Hole in It (CD, 1958) (82)
  4. Eddie Fontaine - Nothin' Shakin' (CD, 1958) (80)
  5. Dick Hyman & His Orch. - Washington Square (CD, 1964) (87)
  6. Lloyd Price - Bad Conditions (LP, 1969) (81)
  7. Don Gardner - Bitter with the Sweet (CD, 1964) (83)
  8. Tommy Hunt - I Just Don't Know What to Do with Myself (CD, 1964) (80)
  9. Della Reese - Choice of Colors (LP, 1970) (82)
  10. Church Street Five - A Night with Daddy G (45, 1961) (Gene "Daddy G" Barge, 87)
  11. Crew-Cuts - Sh-Boom (CD, 1954) (members John & Ray Perkins are 82 and 81)
  12. McGuire Sisters with Lawrence Welk - Weary Blues (45, 1956) (Christine and Phyllis McGuire are 87 and 83)
  13. Lambert Hendricks & Ross with Count Basie - Jumpin' at the Woodside (CD, 1958) (Jon Hendricks is 92)
  14. Bob and Ray - Slow Talkers of America (CD, 1971) (Bob Elliott is 91)
  15. Fats Domino - Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except for Me and My Monkey (LP, 1969) (86)
  16. Jane Morgan - Elusive Butterfly (LP, 1966) (89)
  17. Jimmie Rodgers - Both Sides Now (CD, 1969) (80)
  18. Johnny Mann Singers - Heart Full of Soul (CD, 1965) (85)
  19. Hal Blaine - Secret Agent Man (LP, 1965) (85)
  20. Petula Clark - Round Every Corner (CD, 1965) (81)
  21. Noel Harrison - A Young Girl (45, 1966) (oops, he passed away in 2013)
  22. David McCallum - Communication (45, 1966) (80)
  23. John Mayall - Room to Move (LP, 1970) (80)
  24. Mr. Acker Bilk - Stranger on the Shore (CD, 1962) (85)
  25. Little Jimmy Dickens - When the Ship Hit the Sand (45, 1966) (93)
  26. Roy Clark - Thank God and Greyhound (CD, 1970) (80)
  27. Sue Thompson - Paper Tiger (CD, 1965) (88)
  28. Willie Nelson - Night Life (LP, 1963) (80)
  29. Scotty Moore - Milk Cow Blues (CD, 1964) (82)
  30. Chuck Berry - Around and Around (CD, 1958) (87)
  31. Harry Belafonte - I'm Just a Country Boy (CD, 1957) (87)
  32. Jaye P. Morgan - I Walk the Line (45, 1960) (82)
  33. Tony Bennett - Georgia Rose (LP, 1966) (87)
  34. Johnny Maddox - The Crazy Otto (CD, 1955) (84)
  35. John Zacherle - Lunch with Mother Goose (CD, 1958) (95)
  36. Carol Channing - Daddy's Song (LP, 1971) (93)
  37. Ray Charles Singers - California Dreaming (LP, 1967) (95)
  38. Johnny Beecher (Plas Johnson) - Sax Fifth Avenue (LP, 1963) (82)

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Friday, April 04, 2014

April 4, 2014, Playlist with Host Alex McNeil

Medicine & Health:

  1. Huey "Piano" Smith & the Clowns - Rockin' Pneumonia and the Boogie Woogie Flu (CD, 1957)
  2. Johnny Dee (John D. Loudermilk) - Asiatic Flu (CD, 1958)
  3. Little Willie John - Fever (CD, 1956)
  4. Ray Stevens - Jeremiah Peabody's . . . Pills (CD, 1961)
  5. Pete Rugolo - Theme from Dr. Kildare (LP, 1962)
  6. Little Willie John - (I've Got) Spring Fever (CD, 1961)
  7. Ronnie Love - Chills and Fever (CD, 1961)
  8. Arthur Alexander - A Shot of Rhythm and Blues (CD, 1961)
  9. Bo Diddley - Pills (CD, 1961)
  10. Pete Rugolo - Ben Casey (LP, 1962)
  11. John D. Loudermilk - Callin' Doctor Casey (CD, 1962)
  12. Doctor Feel Good & the Interns - Doctor Feel Good (CD, 1962)
  13. Chiffons - Doctor of Hearts (CD, 1962)
  14. Mary Wells - The Doctor (CD, 1968)
  15. Ray Charles - I Don't Need No Doctor (LP, 1966)
  16. Olympics - Good Lovin' (CD, 1965)
  17. Delicates - Comin' Down with Love (CD, 1965)
  18. Harvey Scales & the Seven Sounds - Love Itis (CD, 1967)
  19. James Carr - Love Attack (CD, 1966)
  20. Little Richard - Lovesick Blues (LP, 1970)
  21. Lalo Schifrin - Medical Center (LP, 1970)
  22. Beatles - Dr. Robert (CD, 1966)
  23. Who - Doctor Doctor (LP, 1968)
  24. Fleetwood Mac - Dr. Brown (LP, 1969)
  25. Rolling Stones - Dear Doctor (CD, 1968)
  26. Yes - The Clap (LP, 1971)
  27. Bobby Hendricks - Psycho (CD, 1960)
  28. Sonics - Psycho (CD, 1967)
  29. Brenton Wood - Psychotic Reaction (LP, 1967)
  30. Napoleon XIV - They're Coming to Take Me Away Ha Ha (LP, 1966)
  31. Roy Hamilton - Crackin' Up Over You (CD, 1966)
  32. Dusty Springfield - Bad Case of the Blues (CD, 1971)
  33. Lambert Hendricks & Ross - Twisted (LP, 1960)
  34. Kinks - Acute Schizophrenia Paranoia Blues (LP, 1972)
  35. Rolling Stones - 19th Nervous Breakdown (CD, 1966)
  36. Scaffold - Lily the Pink (CD, 1968)
  37. Nervous Norvus - Transfusion (CD, 1956)
  38. Keith - 98.6 (45, 1967)
  39. Easybeats - Come in, You'll Get Pneumonia (CD, 1968)

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