Where Were You June 7, 1969? --Part 2

Bob Stroud did a Time Warp for all three hours back to June 7, 1969, the 40th anniversary of that great Summer of '69, yesterday. This is the third time he's featured that summer on four full shows, the last two being 1967 and 1968.

I especially like it when he devotes the full show to one date. That is heavy immersion into memories from another era.

As usual, I will have his comments with mine in parentheses (). He played the big hits plus some album cuts.

We are standing on the precipice (OK, BIG Word, Bob) of the Summer of '69 on the Time Warp This is what your radio sounded like on June 7, 1969.

INTRODUCTION-- CTA-- Brand new band, the Chicago Transit Authority. Side 1, cut 1. Our introduction to them. (Named after Chicago's mass transit system. The band shortened their name to just Chicago. One of the early horn bands as this cut demonstrates.)

GRAZING IN THE GRASS-- FRIENDS OF DISTINCTION-- A group out of Los Angeles modeling themselves after the Fifth Dimension. Their vocal version of a song we had heard before in the Summer of 1968 in its instrumental form by Hugh Masakela. (I'd never picked up on the similarity, but it is definitely there.)

ONE-- THREE DOG NIGHT-- Another new band out of LA with three guys up front: Corey, Danny and Chuck. Their current hit was a Harry Nilsson song. (Blue-Eyed Soul)
THE LONER-- THREE DOG NIGHT-- Covering a Neil Young song from their debut album. (Never heard this song before.)

DOWN BY THE RIVER-- NEIL YOUNG-- If you were a fan of Buffalo Springfield, you were more than likely a fan of Neil Young who was now solo as Springfield had been broken up for about a year now. He was enjoying success with his second solo album, "Everybody Knows This is Nowhere." It came out in May of '69 so we'd only had it for a couple two or three weeks. (The long-long-long version.)

ISRAELITES-- DESMOND DEKKER AND THE ACES-- Band out of the islands enjoying their first and only hit. (This might have been my first introduction to Caribbean music depending upon if Johnny Nash or Desmond came first. I don't remember. I also liked Millie Small's "My Boy Lollipop which came out around this time. OK, I just looked it up, and "My Boy Lollipop came out in 1964, so that was the firts one. Now, wait a minute, how about Harry Belafonte? Oh well.

Now, I see that Johnny Nash had his "Stir it Up" and "I Can See Cleraly Now" in 1971 and 1972. I must study up on my Caribbean music.)

More Cruisin' to '69 to Come. --RoadDog