Listen to this man. Seven years of college, you know. Trying to reason with 2020 and, now, 2022.

Thursday, June 16, 2022

WLS Top 30 for Week of June 12, 2022-- Part 3: 'I Saw the Light'

*  means the songs was climbing the chart.  The number after the artist is how high the song got on the Billboard Hot 100 National Chart.

20.  *LEAN ON ME--  Bill Withers     #1    If this doesn't take you back fifty years, nothing will.Always brings back memories of driving the Ramblin' Wreck (a 1963 Ramble station wagon) around Athens, Georgia, when I was a student there.   His biggest hit.

19.  *HOW CAN I BE SURE--  David Cassidy    #25    Doing the old Rascals song and without the Partridge Family.

18.  DIARY--  Bread      #15    Another slow David Gates song, something he was very good at.

17.  I SAW THE LIGHT--  Todd Rundgren    #16    A comment said that he played all the instruments on the album.

16.  *ASK ME WHAT YOU WANT--  Millie Jackson       #27    One great Beach Music song, even before the genre was known as Beach Music.   R&B singer/songwriter.

Name That Tune (from the above songs):  "Sometimes In Our Lives We All Have Pain, We All Have Sorrow."  Answer below.  --RoadDog


"Lean on Me"


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