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Sunday, June 7, 2020

WLS Top 40 for Week of June 8, 1970-- Part 2: "A Song of Joy"


Don't forget, Bob Stroud is going back fifty years on his Rock and Roll Roots show in Chicago's WDRV 97.1, 96.9 FM from 9 am to noon CDST and again from 9 pm to midnight.  It streams at www.wdrv.com.

For an even better trip back, go to YouTube and listen to the songs.  Every Top 40, there are a few songs that I had never heard of before and a few that I had forgotten.

The number after the artist is the highest the song got on the Billboard Hot 100.

35.  A SONG OF JOY--  Miguel Rios   Beethoven's "Ode to Joy.     #14     Get yer classikal stuff right hyer.  Born in Granada, Spain.

34.  SOOLAMOIN--  Neil Diamond       #30    That African sound.  Love the drums.  Full title:  "Soolaimon (African Trilogy II)".

33.  GOOD MORNING FREEDOM--  Daybreak      #94    Never heard it before.  Canadian group.  Sounds like a TV sitcom theme song.  A group called Blue Mink also did this song.  The song will grow on you.

32.  AIRPORT THEME--  Vincent Bell      #31     Again, that was one strange guitar sound.  Back when the airline companies loved us, not like now.  Full name:  "Airport Love Theme (Gwen and Vern)".

31.  FOR THE LOVE OF HIM--  Bobbi Martin     #13    One of the last great girl group songs.   Born in Brooklyn in 1943, raised in Baltimore.

Name That Tune (from the above songs):  "Come See, Come Say, Ride On The Night."  Answer below.  --RoadDog


"Soolamoin"


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