Every year for the past five years, the Drive's (WDRV, 97.1 FM) has taken listeners to his Rock and Roll Roots Show (Sundays 7 to 10 AM) back to that summer 40 years earlier. I don't mind telling you that these four monthly shows (always the first Sunday of June, July, August and September) are high on my list of must-listen things to do.
The June show was on the 3rd. All songs were being played at the time on Chicago's WLS and WCFL.
Forty years before now, I was a junior at the University of Georgia in Athens and living at a trailer near town, I was getting ready for summer session as I was transferring back to Northern Illinois University and had to have some classes in order to graduate the following June.
As usual, Bob Stroud's comments are given (they are what really makes the show that good) and mine follow in parentheses.
I'LL TAKE YOU THERE-- STAPLES SINGERS-- Chicagos own on their way to the top of the charts (And Bob was taking us there.)
DOCTOR MY EYES-- JACKSON BROWNE-- new artist's debut self-titled album released six months earlier. His first hit.
MONA LISAS AND MAD HATTERS-- ELTON JOHN-- By now, we'd had five months of great album releases. This released in mid-May and called Honky Chateau. A track from side 2.
VA-HE-LA-LA-- LOGGINS & MESSINA-- from their debut album titled Sitting In. A decent hit here in Chicago on radio station WCFL. (The beginning of Caribbean, Tropic Rock?)
ME AND JULIO DOWN BY THE SCHOOL YARD-- PAUL SIMON-- current single from his self-titled debut album.
FAMILY OF MAN-- THREE DOG NIGHT-- Written by Paul Williams.
Many More Songs to Come. --RoadDog
Being an account of some things I'm interested in, what I'm doing, and reflections on my past, especially music.
Listen to this man. Seven years of college, you know. Trying to reason with 2020 and, now, 2022.
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