DARK SHADOWS FORUMS
General Discussions => Current Talk Archive => Current Talk '26 I => Current Talk '06 I => Topic started by: Sandor on February 01, 2006, 07:41:19 PM
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Found a fun website with Top 30/Top 40 music chart listings for various U.S. cities. For laughs, I typed in "Bangor" (closest big city to Collinsport, right?) and saw what was happening in popular music around the time Willie popped open that infamous coffin. Carolyn and Buzz were rocking out to these tunes... and what must have Barnabas thought of modern music when The Monkees and Herman's Hermits were blaring from the car radios. By the way, #30 is a surefire "Julia Hoffman" song. Enjoy:
WGUY - BANGOR, MAINE
GOOD GUYS TOP 30 CHARTBUSTERS
APRIL 3, 1967
1. Happy Together - Turtles
2. Dedicated To The One I Love - Mamas & Papas
3. Something Stupid - Nancy & Frank Sinatra
4. A Little Bit Me, A Little Bit You - Monkees
5. There's A Kind Of A Hush - Herman's Hermits
6. This Is My Song - Petula Clark
7. Bernadette - 4 Tops
8. California Nights - Lesley Gore
9. Western Union - Five Americans
10. Jimmy Mack - Martha & The Vandellas
11. I Never Loved A Man - Aretha Franklin
12. 59th Street Bridge Song - Harpers Bizarre
13. Beggin' - 4 Seasons
14. Sweet Soul Music - Arthur Conley
15. With This Ring - Platters
16. Detroit City - Tom Jones
17. Dry Your Eyes - Brenda & The Tabulations
18. At The Zoo - Simon & Garfunkel
19. The Loser - Gary Lewis & Playboys
20. On A Carousel - Hollies
21. Tell Me To My Face - Keith
22. I'm A Man - Spencer Davis
23. Sunday For Tea - Peter & Gordon
24. Don't You Care - Buckinghams
25. I'll Try Anything - Dusty Springfield
26. Love Eyes - Nancy Sinatra
27. Sit Down I Think I Love You - Mojo Men
28. Travelin' Man - Stevie Wonder
29. Lawdy Miss Clawdy - Buckinghams
30. What A Woman In Love Won't Do - Sandy Posey
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Golly, what an OUTASITE list of songs! thanks, Sandor!
Among my personal fave raves on that list are "There's a kind of Hush" by Herman/Hermits, California Nights by fab Lesley Gore (she performed it on a Catwoman episode of Batman that year!), "Jimmy Mack" by Martha & the Vandellas, and "I'll try anything" by The Divine Dusty!
Would love to hear "Sunday for Tea" by Peter & Gordon, & that Hollies song... I've been thinking of buying a Hollies CD, basically, forever! I am very curious about Brenda & the Tabulations, too!
Thanks again!
G.
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Found a fun website with Top 30/Top 40 music chart listings for various U.S. cities. For laughs, I typed in "Bangor" (closest big city to Collinsport, right?) and saw what was happening in popular music around the time Willie popped open that infamous coffin. Carolyn and Buzz were rocking out to these tunes
When I first started watching DS again on VHS in the early 90's I often imagined in my head what was REALLY on that jukebox (rather than the typical Bob Cobert DS ballad). I often picture in my head that more contemporary stuff was playing whenever Joe and Maggie were out on a date etc...so, I wrote a story about them, Buzz, Harry Johnson and the Jennings twin's at a Collinsport High Halloween dance and had some of those songs playing not only in the gym, but their car radios too. ;)
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If this was a CD compilation I'd sure as hell buy it!!! :D
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California Nights by fab Lesley Gore (she performed it on a Catwoman episode of Batman that year
Saw her last fall in concert here in Philly and she performed "California Nights." It was at a tiny club and she sounded amazing. I'm surprised she isn't a more prominent figure on the nightclub/cabaret circuit.
It is a great list, and pretty much reflective of my personal tastes. I was born in 1967 and the music from that era resonates with me.
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Sandor, I'd love the URL for that website - By the way, I grew up listening to the BIG GUY good guys on WGUY 1250 on your AM dial - The call-in number in those days was 942-1250, and we had the request hotline hummin'! Mighty John Marshall was an up and coming DeeJay who would gain something of national prominence as a major AM guy in the 70s and 80s. Type in Mighty John Marshall on the web, and you'll find this life-long resident of Maine has got a record appraisal company online and a novel that he's hawking! He's an old friend of Stephen King's as well. Ah, Memories of Bangor . . .
Petofi
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IIRC, in one of the early epsides (I think it was one of the Laura episodes), you could hear an instrumental version of the Beatles' "Michelle" in the background!
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Francis Lai's "Theme From a Man and a Woman" made it onto the box one time. I've always loved that one.
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Francis Lai's "Theme From a Man and a Woman" made it onto the box one time. I've always loved that one.
Laaaa ... Laaaa...Laa .. Wubadubadub, Wubadubadub .. . . . . :D
Petofi
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Actually, it was on the radio in Collinwood when Adam kidnapped Carolyn! BTW, I grew up in NYC with WABC and later WCBS-FM, and a lot of those songs bring memories, though there's some I've never heard before! There are some songs I'll always associate with DS, though. Whenever I hear Huey Lewis & The News' "The Power of Love", I instantly go back to August '85 and the heartbreak of reading Grayson's obituary. On the other hand, I always associate "Music To Watch Girls By" by The Bob Crewe Generation with the Laura Collins storyline, since it was on the charts then. When I started kindergarten in September '70, the big hit song was "Make It With You" by Bread, and that's when 1840 began. Whenever somone mentions the summer of '71, I automatically think of Carole King and one of the best 45s ever: "It's Too Late" / "I Feel The Earth Move".
Here's a link to the ultimate top 40 station of the 60s and 70s- WABC! :)
http://musicradio.computer.net/
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I grew up listening to the BIG GUY good guys on WGUY 1250 on your AM dial
God, NOW we're dating ourselves! ;) Who remembers AM!!? Next we'll be talking about *transister* radios w/a single earplug. ;D Kids's today barely know what FM is what w/Sirius and XM Radio, LOL! ;)
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BTW, I grew up in NYC
Charles, where you a "studio kid"?
When I started kindergarten in September '70
Hey! I started kindergarten in the fall of '70 too! Small world! ;)
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Yes, I remember AM and transistor radios, and losing my earplug and putting my radio under my pillow at night so I could secretly listen to "Night Train" on the local AM station, which played the top 40 hits. And of course falling asleep with the radio playing and waking up the next morning to find its battery graveyard dead.
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Sandor, I'd love the URL for that website
Great memories of Bangor AM radio in the 60's, Petofi. I found the website by Google-ing "Airhead Radio Survey Archive."
While it would have been cool (and surreal) to have Julia humming Aretha Franklin's "I Never Loved A Man (The Way I Love You)" to the portrait of Barnabas, I remember Julia being partial to 40's Big Band music. That style was playing on the radio when Julia was down in the Old House basement, working on the infamous "experiment".... soon to meet Tom Jennings.
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While it would have been cool (and surreal) to have Julia humming Aretha Franklin's "I Never Loved A Man (The Way I Love You)" to the portrait of Barnabas, I remember Julia being partial to 40's Big Band music. That style was playing on the radio when Julia was down in the Old House basement, working on the infamous "experiment".... soon to meet Tom Jennings.
If she had been more "up to date," maybe she would have been attacked by Tom JONES! Thanks, Sandor!
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Believe it or not, this youngin' knows most if not all of the songs mentioned, AM radio, etc...I was brought up on the classics (cough.) ;) Some of my favorite moments on the series (aside from J&B's various ventures) are when they play an interesting selection on the blue whale jukebox... ;D
Great topic, Sandor! :-*
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I remember Julia being partial to 40's Big Band music. That style was playing on the radio when Julia was down in the Old House basement, working on the infamous "experiment".... soon to meet Tom Jennings.
Ah yes, but I think that was a tape recorder and it was actually Lang's recorder, remember [spoiler]she kept turning it off right before his cryptic message regarding Barnabas and Adam both surviving the experiment.[/spoiler]Anyway, guess he too was partial to Big Band music. ;)
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The music on Lang's tape is Mozart...
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The music on Lang's tape is Mozart...
You are correct sir! I think the music that the other poster and I were thinking of was when [spoiler]Julia was working on HER experiment to cure Barnbas. I now recall her listening to a radio then and that it was big band.[/spoiler]
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Yes, I remember AM and transistor radios, and losing my earplug and putting my radio under my pillow at night ...
Hey....you had an earplug?? LOL
I always listened to good ole Cousin Brucie on WABC out of NY. He called everyone "cousin". How appropriate! (many of us considered ourselves cousins from Collinsport) I remember at the point where they were playing Quentin's Theme an awful lot - that was way high up on the charts.
Of course long before that time, being the progressive, enlightened person I was ::) heh...
I was listening to WNEW FM - 102.7 -- they were playing Hendrix, Richie Havens, Joplin, a lot of Stones, Joni Mitchell, etc. etc.
I was not above, however, taking a stroll down W. 53rd to ogle the little yellow building with awe and wonderment. My best friend and I KNEW that we HAD to get in there somehow.....some day....
[wavey]
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So, Connie- did you get inside "that little yellow building"?
"Come on, let's go, go, go, what a groovy show- come on let's go, go, go
with Cousin Brucie!" (a tip of the hat to The Four Seaons)
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So, Connie- did you get inside "that little yellow building"?
Yes, yes I did. It's a fond memory that still brings a smile to my face.
And it was definitely the high point of THAT year.
[laughing7]