Forty Years Ago This Month-- Summer 1970-- Part 5

FOR YOU BLUE-- BEATLES-- the "B" side of "Long and Winding Road." (Who'd have figured a Beatles song being on the airwaves, but it was sad to think it was all coming to an end. However, I liked their earlier stuff better than the later, so it wasn't as bad.)
SPILL THE WINE-- ERIC BURDON & WAR-- brand new. (No more Animals, but these California lads were getting the publicity and did quite well themselves.)

PROPER STRANGER-- GUESS WHO-- From our record collection, the album "American Woman." A great deep track. (That Burton Cummings could do the blue-eyed soul with the best of them.)

(LAY DOWN) CANDLES IN THE RAIN-- MELANIE--Pretty inspired set with Melanie and the Edwin Hawkins singers. In the top ten and included on our Rock and Roll Roots Vol. 11.

(This is the longer version than what was usually played on the AM stations. If there was one song that reminds me of the Kent State riots at NIU, it is this one.

The campus radio station, WNIU, broadcast only to the dorms. I was in Lincoln Dorm and watching the stand-off at Lucinda and Anne Glidden roads with the police to the east and students to the west. A couple of trash cabns were set afire.

A short time later, the police attacked and the students ran behind Lincoln. I remember two cops had a long-haired student on the ground and were violently shaking the boy's head by grabbing his hair until yelling and shouting from the dorm caused them to let him go.

It was a frightening time and I thought I was seeing the end of the United States.)

And, the Number One Song in Chicago July 4, 1970, THE LOVE YOU SAVE-- JACKSON 5-- It was their third straight number one song in the country for this Gary, Indiana group. (On the Motown label. Berry Gordy and Diana Ross were so proud.)

And, We Still Have Two More Months to Go. --RoadDog