WLS Top Ten for Week of December 22, 1973: "I Got a Name"

1.  GOODBYE YELLOW BRICK ROAD--  Elton John

2.  TOP OF THE WORLD--  Carpenters

3.  SHOW AND TELL--  Al Wilson

4.  BABY IT'S ME--  Todd Rundgren

5.  LEAVE ME ALONE (RUBY RED DRESS)--  Helen Reddy

6.  THE JOKER--  Steve Miller Band

7.  ONE TIN SOLDIER--  Coven

8.  I GOT A NAME--  Jim Croce

9.  TIME IN A BOTTLE--  Jim Croce

10.  D'YER MAK;ER--  Led Zeppelin

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NEW TO CHART

36.  TEENAGE LAMENT--  Alice Cooper

38.  I'VE GOT TO USE MY IMAGINATION--  Gladys Knight & the Pips

40.  WALK LIKE A MAN--  Grand Funk

Name That Tune (from the above songs):  "Some People Call Me the Space Cowboy

--RoadDog

Long Time No Blog

I lost internet connection last May and am finally back on.

Right now trying to figure out how to do these blogs and e-mail and all sorts of stuff.  Should keep me busy for awhile.

--RoadDog

Visit With Liz, Donovan's, Trivia, Saylor Mick's, Kent State, Star Wars and a Movie

WEDNESDAY, MAY 3

Visited Liz at Cole Cemetery and then went to Donovan's Reef in Twin Lakes,Wisconsin, as we so often did.  Played live trivia with Uncle Jeffie.  Stopped at Saylor Mick's in Spring Grove for the wing special and those great retro $1 Hamm's pints.

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THURSDAY, MAY 4

Today was the 53rd anniversary of the killings at Kent State in Ohio.  That set off rioting and troubles in college campuses across the United States, including at NIU where I was a freshman.  I thought I was seeing the end of the United States.

On a lighter note, today, being May the 4th, has a play on words "May the Force Be With You" so it is an "Star Wars" day.  All of Bob Stroud's Ten at Ten had to do with space.  I wrote them down earlier in this blog.

Went to the Fox Lake Theatre and saw "Renfield."  That Nicholas Cage makes a fine Dracula.

--RoadDrac

Music Deaths in 2022: Eihard, Anderson, Gracie and Jett

SHIRLEY EIHARD, 67

**  Died 15 December 2022

Singer / songwriter

RICK ANDERSON, 75

**  Died 16 December 2022

Bass player with the Tubes.  "She's a Beauty"  (#10-1983)

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CHARLIE GRACIE, 86

**  Died 17 December 2022

Singer / guitar player (rock and roll)  "Butterfly"  (#1-1957).  If you're old enough, you will remember this song.

HARVEY JETT, 73

**  Died 21 December 2022

Guitarist and founding member of Black Oak Arkansas.  "Jim Dandy"  (#25-1974)

--RoadDog

WLS Top Ten for Week of May 7, 1973: 'You Are the Sunshine of My Life'

The top songs in Chicago fifty years ago.  Right!!

1.  TIE A YELLOW RIBBON 'ROUND THE OLD OAK TREE--  Dawn

2.  THE CISCO KID--  War

3. THE NIGHTS THE LIGHTS WENT OUT IN GEORGIA--  Vickie Lawrence

4.  SING--  Carpenters

5.  STUCK IN THE MIDDLE WITH YOU--  Steeler's Wheel

6.  YOU ARE THE SUNSHINE  OF MY LIFE--  Stevie Wonder

7.  THE TWELFTH OF NEVER--  Donny Osmond

8.  FRANKENSTEIN--  Edgar Winter Group

9.  DRIFT AWAY--  Dobie Gray

10.  LITTLE WILLIE--  Sweet

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DEBUTS

17.  HOCUS POCUS--  Focus

22.  IT SURE TOOK A LONG, LONG TIME--  Lobo

26.  I'M GONNA LOVE YOU--  Barry White

27.  I'M DOIN' FINE NOW--  New York City

Name That Tune (from the above songs):  "He Drink Whiskey, Poncho Drink The Wine."  Answer elow.  --RoadDog

"The Cisco Kid"

This Blog Passed Its 8000th Post

This post is # 8,020.  I started it on May 9, 2007, one year after I retired.

This was the second blog that I started and actually, the reason I started it was that I was unable to get onto my RoadDog's RoadLog Blog.  Shortly after I started this,I was able to get on my first blog, but kept this one to write about what I was doing and especially music.

Lots and lots of music posts.

Every week, I do the WLS top songs from 50 years ago.

Way Too Many Blogs.  --RoadDog

Music Deaths in 2022: Christie McVie of Fleetwood Mac

CHRISTIE McVIE, 79

Died 30 November 2022

Keyboard player / vocalist with Fleetwood Mac.

Wrote and sang lead on "Say You Love Me"  (#11-1976), "Go Your Own Way"  (#10-1977), "Don't Stop"  (#3-1977)  and "You Make Loving Fun"  (#9-1977).

In the 1970s it was hard to turn on the radio and not hear a Fleetwood Mac song and she was the cement that kept the group together.

May the 4th Be With You: 'Space Oddity' A Long Time Ago in a Galaxy Far Away...

Bob Stroud played songs with this theme today on his Ten at Ten show on Chicago's WDRV, 97.1 FM, the Drive, Chicago's Classic Rock.

The reason, of course, was a play on words for a signatiure line from the Star Wars movies, "May the Force be with you."

Pretty good song selection and you can still listen to it tonight at 10 PM, CDST as it sure does stream.

SPACE ODDITY--  David Bowie

MAN ON THE MOON--  REM

SPACE TRUCKING--  Deep Purple

FULL MOON TURN MY HEAD AROUND--  Off Broadway

ROCKET MAN--  Elton John

2,000 LIGHT YEARS FROM HOME--  Rolling Stones

SPACE COWBOY--  Steve Miller Band

ACROSS THE UNIVERSE--  Beatles

WALKING ON THE MOON--  Police

MAJOR TOM--  Peter Schilling

Name That Tune (from the above songs):  "I Told You About Living In The US  Of  A, Don't You Know That I'm The Gangster Of Love?"  Answer below.  --RoadForce

"Space Cowboy"

Music Deaths in 2022: Cipriano, Cara, Barnes, Simmonds

** GENE CIPRIANO, 94

Died 12 November 2022

Saxophone player, prolific session musician with the Wrecking Crew.

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**  IRENE CARA, 63

Died 25 November 2022

Singer / actress, known for hit songs "Flashdance, What a Feeling" and "Fame."

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**  J. J. BARNES, 89

Died 10 December 2022

Singer (rhythm & blues / soul).

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**  KIM SIMMONDS, 75

Died 13 December 2022

Vocalist / guitar player with blues rock band Savoy Brown

Top Ten Songs for Week of April 30, 1973: 'Tie a Yellow Ribbon 'Round the Old Oak Tree'

That's right, fifty years ago today.

1.  TIE A YELLOW RIBBON 'ROUND TNHE OLD OAK TREE--  Dawn

2.  THE NIGHT THE LIGHTS WENT OUT IN GEORGIA--  Vickie Lawrence

3.  THE CISCO KID--  War

4.  SING--  Carpenters

5.  LITTLE WILLY--  Sweet

6.  STUCK IN THE MIDDLE WITH YOU--  Steelers Wheel

7.  THE TWELFTH OF NEVER--  Donny Osmond

 8.  YOU ARE THE SUNSHINE OF MY LIFE--  Stevie Wonder

9.  MASTERPIECE--  Temptations

10.  AIN'T NO WOMAN LIKE THE ONE I GOT--  Four Tops

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DEBUTS

20.  THE RIGHT THING TO DO--   Carly Simon

23.  DANIEL--  Elton John

24.  THINKING OF YOU--  Loggins & Messina

25.  ARMED AND EXTREMELY DANGEROUS--   First Choice

26.  BLUE SUEDE SHOES--  Johnny Rivers

Name That Tune  (from the above songs):  "I Feel Like This Is The Beginning Though I've Loved You For A Million Years."  Answer below.  RoadDog

"You Are the Sunshine of My Life"

Movie Scratches 2023: Groundhog-- Brady--Plane-- 65

Movie Scratches--  Movies I saw in the theater in 2023.

5.  GROUNDHOG DAY--  2-5--  Woodstock--  $2--  There wasn't one today.  What if there is no tomorrow.  Nothing like seeing this great flick on the big screen and in a theatre that was actually in the movie.

6.  80 FOR BRADY--  2-10--  Super Brady fans  What those ol' gals got into?  Four lasses on the loose and their "particular" skills that avoided disaster.

7.  PLANE--  2-10--  All the action you could possibly want from a storm, lightning strike, jungle landing and those mean old rebels.

8.  65-   3-31--  Fox Lake--  $7--  Earth 65 million years ago was not a friendly place.  If the dinosaurs don't get you, that big ol' asteroid thing will.

--RoadDog

Movie Scratches 2023: Babylon-- M3gan-- Otto-- Avatar

Movie Scratches--  Movies I watched in the theater in 2023

1.  BABYLON--  Fox Lake--  1-9--  $6--  The rise and fall of Hollywood folks during the transition from silent to talkies.  The other side of "The Golden Age of Hollywood."  That was one bodacious party.

2.  M3GAN--  FOX LAKE--  1-20--  $6--  A lot prettier than Chuckie.  Not as funny, but every bit as dangerous.  Those creepy eyes.

3.  A MAN CALLED OTTO--  1-25--  $6--  You cried, you laughed.  Other than trying to die (and he wasn't very good at it).    I have had a similar experience when my wife of 49 years died in September.  This one should be up for an Academy Award.  (It wasn't.)

4.  AVATAR:  THE WAY OF WATER--  1-31--  $7--  Quite the epic and in 3D  Again, it is bad, meanie humans against the innocent and good Navee.  Loved the culture shock between the land dwellers and water folk.

--RoadDog

Top Ten Beach Music Songs for April 22, 2023: 'Tequila On Ice'

I love my Beach Music and listen a lot to 94.9 FM, WVCO, the Surf out of North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. the Center of the Beach Music Universe.  I'm listening to it right now.

These are the Top Ten Beach Music songs right now according to their listeners.  If you're looking for some really cool throwback kind of music, give it a listen.

1.  GOT IT RIGHT (THE FIRST TIME)--  Rick Strickland & Lesa Hudson

2.  OUGHT TO BE IN A SONG--  Pink Slips Band

3.  YOU'RE THE ONE FOR ME--  Rick Strickland

4.  GOT TO BE YOU--  Band of Oz

5.  THAT YOU HEAR IN A SONG--  Too Much Sylvia

6.  BREATHLESS--  Lesa Hudson

7.  HEY GIRL--  Scott Fine

8.  TEQUILA ON ICE-- Wayne Free

9.  I LOVE DOIN' NOTHING--  Starbuck

10.  TOP DOWN--  Nadia Lena  Shutkufski

GreatStuff--  RoadBeach

WLS Top Ten and Debuts for Week of April 23, 1973: 'Danny's Song'

That's right, 50 years ago.

1.  THE NIGHT THE LIGHTS WENT OUT IN GEORGIA--  Vickie Lawrence

2.  TIE A YELLOW RIBBON ROUND THE OLD OAK TREE--  Dawn

3.  THE CISCO KID--  War

4.  SING--  Carpenters

5.  LITTLE WILLIE--  Sweet

6.  AIN'T NO WOMAN LIKE THE ONE I GOT--  Four Tops

7.  DANNY'S SONG--  Anne Murray

8.  NEITHER ONE OF US WANTS TO BE THE FIRST TO SAY GOODBYE--  Gladys Knight & the Pips

9.  THE TWELFTH OF NEVER--  Donny Osmond

10.  STIR IT UP--  Johnny Nash

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DEBUTS

19.  DAISY A DAY--  Jud Strunk

22.  OUT OF THE QUESTION--  Gilbert O'Sullivan

23.  CHERRY CHERRY--  Neil Diamond  (Live from "Hot August Night".)

24.  PILLOW TALK--  Sylvia

25.  PINBALL WIZARD/SEE ME FEEL ME--  New Seekers

Name That Tune (from the above songs):  "Make It Simple To Last Your Whole Life Long."  Answer below.  --RoadDog

"Sing"

Music Deaths: Gordon, Cafferty, Levine and Kalb

**  ROBERT GORDON, 76

Died 18 October 2022

Singer (rockabilly)

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**  DAN CAFFERTY, 76

Died 8 November 2022

Singer with rock band Nazareth.  Had the big hit "Love Hurts" (#8-1976)

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**  KEITH LEVINE, 65

Died 11 November 2022

Guitar player, founding member of The Clash and Public Image Ltd.  

"Rock the Casbah"  (#8-1983)

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**  DANNY KALB, 80

Died 19 November 2022

Guitarist / vocalist with the Blues Project.

It's Record Store Day Today

Saturday, April 22.

Check out your local mom and pop record store today, especially if you haven't been for awhile.

Chicago's WDRV, the Drive is spotlighting vinyl albums today.

I will be going over to my favorite old record store, Vinyl Frontier Records in McHenry, Illinois, later today.  I will definitely buy a couple used vinyl records and some CDs.  (I don't know about you, but I'm glad to see albums back for sale at Wal-Mart, but not at the $25-$30 price.)

I'm listening to WXRT's Saturday Morning Flashback right now which is back to the year 1987.  It goes to noon CDST.  

I am also listening to the Beach Music Top 20 over the internet on WVCO, 94.8 FM, the Surf.  It goes to 11 am CDST.  The annual Spring SOS is going on in North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, right now, so all the bands and shaggers are down there having a good old time.

Both stations stream.

--RecordDog

Music Deaths: Jeff Cook of Alabama

JEFF COOK, 73

Died 7 November 2022

Guitarist / fiddle player with country rock band Alabama.

A country supergroup that had 46 Top 40s between 1977 and 1994, including 32 #1s on the Country Charts.  

Some of their hits:

"Tennessee River"  (#1 1980)

"Mountain Music"  (#1-1982)

"Dixieland Delight)  (#1- 1983.

They even had five Top 40s on the Pop Charts.

Got their start at the Bowery in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, playing for tips.

Music Deaths in 2022: Jerry Lee Lewis

JERRY LEE LEWIS, 87

Died 28 October 2022

Singer / piano player (rock and roll / country)

One of the original rock and rollers, called "The Killer."  Cousin to country singer Mickey Gilley and TV evangelist Jimmy Swaggart.

"Whole Lot Of Shakin' Going On"  (#3-1957)

"Great Balls of Fire"  (2-1958)

"Breathless"  (#7-1958)