Monday, May 20, 2013

Playlist 130519

With the Record Shelf on summer hiatus, this week's broadcast of the Idiosyncratic History of Rock and Roll was the annual Memorial Show, paying tribute to the heroes of popular music who passed away over the past year.  There are always more folks to honor than we can fit into a two hour program, but these are the ones who got on the air last night: 

Freedom, Richie Haven
Hip Hug Her, Booker T. & the MGs (Donald "Duck" Dunn) 
With a Girl Like You, Troggs (Reg Presley)
I'd Love to Change the World, Ten Years After (Alvin Lee) 

Sh-Boom, Chords (Buddy McRae)
The Great Pretender, Platters (Herb Reed)
Earth Angel, Penguins (Cleve Duncan) 
Speedoo, The Cadillacs (Earl "Speedoo" Campbell) 

White Lies, Jason & the Scorchers (Perry Baggs)
Uncle Jack, Spirit (Ed Cassidy)
Let It Out, Let It all Hang Out, Hombres (B.B. Cunningham) 
You're Gonna Miss Me, Sir Douglas Quintet (Johnny Perez)

Take Five, Dave Brubeck Quartet (Dave Brubeck)
Love Makes Sweet Music, Soft Machine (Kevin Ayers)
Call Any Vegetable, Mothers of Invention (Ray Collins) 
Junk Maker Shoppe, Yellow Balloon (Don Grady) 

It Wasn't God Who MadeHonky Tonk Angels, Kitty Wells 
The Race Is On, George Jones
Wolverton Mountain, Claude King
Gonna Dance All Night, Hardrock Gunter
My Rough and Rowdy Ways, Doc Watson 

San Francisco, Scott McKenzie
Hot Smoke & Sassafras, Bubble Puppy (Roy Cox Jr.)
I Started a Joke, Bee Gees (Robin Gibb)
Hush, Deep Purple (Jon Lord; also songwriter Joe South)

I'll Be Around, Spinners (Bobbie Smith) 
The Wanderer, Donna Summer
Sentimental Lady, Bob Welch 
Take a Letter Maria, R.B. Greaves

Don't Be Cruel, Elvis Presley (Gordon Stoker, of the Jordanaires)
Tobacco Road, Nashville Teens (Mike Dunford) 
Train Leaves Here ThisMorning, Dillard & Clark (Doug Dillard) 
Bewildered, Mickey & Sylvia (Mickey Baker)

Going to a Go Go, Miracles (Bobby Rogers) 
My Bonnie, Tony Sheridan & the Beatles (Tony Sheridan)
Goodnite Sweetheart Goodnite, Spaniels (Ernest Warren)

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