Sitting Here Digging on Beach Music from 1965

The last couple days I have been listening a lot to "Fessa John Hook's Top 40 Beach Songs from 1965.  This includes songs most of us of that particular age know as well as a lot that those of us with a Beach Music bent are familiar with, but those of you who don't know it, wouldn't.

You can check it out at www.beachshag.com .  Go to the hear all three surveys words under the top picture and click on it.

To give you an idea of the music, here are songs 20 to 11 along with Honorable mentions (HM):

HM.  NOWHERE TO RUN--  Martha & the Vandellas
20.  NOTHING CAN STOP ME--  Gene Chandler
19.  WHEN I'M GONE--  Brenda Holloway

HM  I CRIED MY LAST TEAR--  O-Jays
18.  I WANNA BE--  Manhattans
17.  COME OVER TO MY PLACE--  Drifters

16.  OPPORTUNITY--  Jewels
15.  HOT 'CHA/SHOT GUN--  Jr. Walker & the All Stars
14.  ASK THE LONELY--  Four Tops

13.  I'VE GOT SAND IN MY SHOES--  Drifters
12.  VOICE YOUR CHOICE--  Radiants
11.  HOW SWEET IT IS (TO BE LOVED BY YOU)--  Marvin Gaye

Also, tomorrow, Wendy Rice goes back to 1974 on her Saturday Morning Flashback radio show on Chicago's WXRT.  It streams 8 to noon CST at www.wxrt.com .  Tonight, Bob Stroud plays music from 1975 on his Ten at Ten show at 10 PM CST.  Streams at www.wdrv.com ..

Sunday, it's Rock and Roll Roots with Stroud from 7 to 10 AM on WDRV (60s-70s) and Terri Hemmert's Breakfast With the Beatles from 8 to 10 AM on WXRT.  Plenty of that there oldies stuff.

Give It a Listern.  --RoadDog


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