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Tuesday, August 9, 2022
Scratchy Singles
With Mark Ehmcke
1. Sookie Sookie - Don Covay
2. The Joker Went Wild - Brian Hyland
3. There Was A Time - James Brown
4. Whole Lotta Love - C.C.S.
5. Last Night - Mar-Keys
6. I'm A Man Of Action - Jimmy Hughes
7. Band Of Gold - Freda Payne
8. Outa Space - Billy Preston
9. Telstar - Tornadoes
10. Ain't That Loving You Baby - Jerry Butler & Betty Everett
11. Blues In The Night - Doris Day
12. The Lady Wants To Twist - Steve Lawrence
13. Playgirl - Thee Prophets
14. He Ain't Give You None - Freddie Scott
15. Tell Me Something Good - Rufus
16. Bull Dog - Shangri-Las
17. The City Never Sleeps At Night - Nancy Sinatra
18. The Lonely Bull - The Tijuana Brass ft. Herb Alpert
19. Move On Up - Flying Lizards
20. Give Me One More Chance - Wilmer Alexander Jr & the Dukes
21. C.C. Rider - Bobby Powell
22. Come And Give Your Love To Me - New Colony Six
23. Dix-A-Billy - Lavern Baker
24. Kon-Tiki - The Islanders
Wednesday, August 3, 2022
This Week In '66
With Lynn Peril
The first week of August 1966 was not only a microcosm of that whole tumultuous year, but also a harbinger of the twenty-first century. There was gun violence, racial unrest, calls for liberalized abortion laws, a celebrity wedding, and, of course, John Lennon versus the fundamentalists.
SHOW NOTES:
Barnes, Michael, “Finding No ‘Responsible’ Book on Shooting, He Wrote One,” Austin American-Statesman, July 31, 2016, D-9.
“Beatle Boycott Widening in Dixie,” New York Daily News, August 4, 1966, 14.
Bruckner, J.D.R., “King Hit By Rock as Whites Resist Civil Rights Marchers,” Los Angeles Times, August 6, 1966, 1.
Cleave, Maureen, “The Beatles, Part III; John in His Gorilla Suit, Seeking What?” The Detroit Free Press, May 8,1966, 28.
“Epstein Arrives in U.S., Trying to Halt Beatle Ban Bandwagon,” The Los Angeles, Times, August 6, 1966, 27.
Haber, Joyce, “It Was Luci’s Day All the Way as She Became Mrs. Nugent,” The Los Angeles Times, August 7, 1966, 1.
“John, the Beatle’s, Quote on Jesus ‘Out of Context,’” The Miami News, August 5, 1966, 20.
“Knife Misses, King Stoned,” New York Daily News, August 6, 1966, 2.
“Local Radio Station Joins Beatle Ban,” The Daily Times-News (Burlington, North Carolina), August 3, 1966, 1.
McCabe, Charles, “We’re More Popular Than Jesus Now,” Democrat and Chronicle (Rochester, New York), April 22, 1966, 24.
“Quote Angers Beatle Fans,” The Selma Times-Journal (Selma, Alabama), August 2, 1966, 10.
“Sniper Buried Beside Mother He Murdered,” Los Angeles Times, August 6, 1966, 15.
Thornhill, Barbara, “Sorry About That, But You Can Still Hear the Beatles in Macon,” The Macon News (Macon, Georgia), August 4, 1966, 8.
“Weekend TV; 3 Networks to Cover Luci’s Wedding Today,” The Los Angeles, Times, August 6, 1966, 28.
“With Tears of Joy; Luci, Pat Nugent Exchange Vows,” The Los Angeles Times, August 7, 1966, 1.
Tuesday, August 2, 2022
Beatniks
With Mark Ehmcke
1. The Beat Generation - Bob McFadden and Dor
2. Beat Girl - Adam Faith
3. Recitation - Fred Gwynne (Far Out Munsters)
4. Kookie's Mad Pad - Edd "Kookie" Burns
5. Teenage Beatnik - Louis Nye
6. Opp-Pop--A-Da - Dizzy Gillespie and his Orchestra
7. Like Young - Perry Como
8. Beatnik - The Royal Jokers
9. Basic Hip - Del Close & John Brent
10. Crazy Vibrations - The Bikinis
11. Bongo Beatin' Beatnik - Joe Hall & the Corvettes
12. Twisted - Lambert, Hendrick & Ross
13. Beatnik Daddy - Barbara Evans
14. Doin' the Beatnik Twist - Huey Smith and the Clowns
15. Sorta Blue - Henry Mancini
16.The Beat Generation - Paul Evans
17. High School Drag - Phillipa Fallon
18. Pad - Bobby Summers
19. Beatnik Bill - Richard Pine
20. The Image Pt. 1 - Hank Levine
21. Like I Love You - Edd "Kookie' Burns
22. Recitation - Kelton Garwood (Far Out Munsters)
23. Laughin' Beatnik - Johnny Beeman
24. Kerouazy - Don Morrow
25. Beat-nik - J.M. Van Eaton
26. Beatnik Baby - The Bee Hives
27. No Pictures, Please - Rod McKuen
28. Professor Bop - Three Bips, A Bop
29. Reaching Into In - Ken Nordine
30. Beat Guitar - The Wailers
31. Benny the Beatnik - Untouchables
Friday, July 29, 2022
We Say Yeah Yeah Yeah #02
With Robin Braid
01 The Flying Burrito Brothers - If You Gotta Go
02 Brian Auger with Julie Driscoll & The Trinity - A Kind Of Love In
03 Clifford Curry - I Can't Get A Hold Of Myself
04 Gino Parks - Same Thing
05 Yvonne Baker - You Didn't Say A Word
06 The Romeos - Precious Memories
07 Gordon Jackson - A Day At The Cottage
08 Duane Eddy - Mule Train
09 Theola Kilgore - The Sound Of My Man
10 Johnny Cash - Going To Memphis
11 The Selah Jubilee Singers - Downward Road
12 Betty Harris - There's A Break In The Road
13 Aaron Neville - Over You
14 Johnny Horton - I'm Coming Home
15 The Mersey Men - I Can Tell
16 The Troggs - You're Lyin'
17 Johnny Burnette - If You Want It Enough
18 John Lee Hooker - What Do You Say
19 Small Faces - Understanding
20 Dusty Springfield - Little By Little
21 Guitar Ray - Ball And Chain
Wednesday, July 27, 2022
This Week In '66 - The Fishers Disappear
With Lynn Peril
Were there more kidnappings and disappearances than usual in 1966, or am I just attracted to those stories? If it’s the latter, what does that say about me? Perhaps it’s an easy answer: If I fall down a rabbit hole to find out what happened next, maybe listeners will be intrigued as well. The story of Max and Edith Fisher is a wild one, involving arson, a likely murder, and a faked suicide. Also in the news this week, a Merry Prankster gets married and a teen critic harshly reviews the Rolling Stones show at the Cow Palace–on Mick’s 23rd birthday, no less!
SHOW NOTES:
“303rd Golden Gate Suicide Feared,” San Francisco Examiner, June 27, 1966, 20.
Bengelsdorf, Irving H., Ph.D., “Of Atoms and Men; Carbon Dioxide Enriched Air–A Lot of Contemporary Sun,” The Los Angeles Times, July 28, 1966, 33.
“He’ll Stay, Despite Hostility; Cranks Harass Negro in Ritzy Detroit Area,” The Philadelphia Inquirer, July 27, 1.
Leggett, Jim, “Widow Remembers Husband Who Died in Crash 25 Years Ago,” The Town Talk (Alexandria, Virginia), July 29, 1991, 21.
Looney, Gerri, “Stone Shook Up?” Oakland Tribune, July 30, 1966, 8.
Mealey, Mike, “Cabin in Mystery Razed in Clue Hunt,” The Oakland Tribune, July 15, 1966, 4.
Mealey, Mike, “FBI Joins Hunt for SF Man–Wife’s Body at Cabin?” The Oakland Tribune, July 14, 1966, 5.
O’Brien, William, “Cops Still Baffled by the Missing Fishers,” The San Francisco Examiner, July 2, 1967, 8.
“Pope to OK Birth Pill, Italian Paper Claims; Fantasy, Vatican Says,” The Philadelphia Inquirer, July 27, 4.
Spears, Larry, “Groom Had the Second Longest Hair,” Oakland Tribune, July 25, 1966, 3.
“Tragic Rampage; Elephant Tramples Trainer,” Oakland Tribune, July 30, 1966, 4.
Weston, Mary Ann, “Jobs Run Out; 2 Negro Families Leaving Pointes,” The Detroit Press, November 24, 1966, 3.
Trash!
With Mark Ehmcke
1. She's A Fat Girl - Rock-a-Bouts
2. Camel Walk - Saxons
3. Bacon Fat - The Triads
4. Emulsified - Rex Garvin and the Mighty Cravers
5. Big Fat Mama - Roy Young
6. Chimpanzee Ride - Mike Lawing
7. The Beat Generation - Mamie Van Doren
8. One Potato - The Elite
9. Betty Lou's Got A New Tattoo - The Creep
10. Go Go Gorilla - The Shandells
11. The Gamma Goochee - The Gamma Goochee
12. We All Love Peanut Butter - The One Way Street
13. Tarzan - The Ape Quartet
14. Karate - Ray Sanders and Friend
15. New Dance In France - Bobby Lee Trammell
16. Duh - The Fantastic Emanons
17. Big Fat Baby - Sonny Hall
18. Beatnik's Wish - Patsy Raye and the Beatniks
19. Cave Man Hop - Jerry Coulston
20. Fire Water - The Premieres
21. Surfin' Monkey - The Spinners
22. The Trance - Gary Shelton
23. Man With The Golden Arm - Gemtones
24. Konga Joe - Arch Hall Jr.
25. Jugue - Johnny Amelio
26. Bip Bop Bip - Pretty Boy
27. Discombobulated - Rex Johnson
28. Cheese Blintzes - Don Thompson Quartet
Wednesday, July 20, 2022
This Week In '66
With Lynn Peril
It was the week that Bobby Fuller died under mysterious circumstances and Mrs. America 1966 gave her opinions on fighting divorce and raising happy children. Other names in the news this week: Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, Jayne Mansfield, and Montgomery Clift, alas, not all in the same place at the same time.
SHOW NOTES
“‘66 Mrs. America; Houston Housewife No. 1 Homemaker,” Evansville Courier and Press (Evansville, IN), May 9, 1966, 8.
“Autopsy Inconclusive,” Daily News-Post (Monrovia, CA), July 20, 1966, 22.
Brimmell, George, “San Diego corners market on off-beat beauty contests,” The Ottawa Citizen (Ottawa, Ontario, Canada), December 19, 1967, 22.
Gundersen, Edna, “Broken Melody,” El Paso Times, June 7, 1982, 13.
Hall, Claude, “Bobby Fuller Four Fills Nitery Air With Excitement,” Billboard, May 14, 1966, 48.
“Houston TV Ratings War,” Texas Monthly, May 1974, 12. s
Klemesrud, Judy, “Woman’s Place in School Too, Says Mrs. America,” Corpus-Christi Caller-Times, July 1, 1966, 30.
“Marital Inquiry Asked in House; Justice Douglas’ Character Under Attack,” The Los Angeles Times, July 19, 1966, 1.
“Misadventures of Mrs. America,” Press-Telegram (Long Beach, CA), October 9, 1966, 100.
“Movie Manager Files Suit,” The Jackson Sun (Jackson, TN), July 20, 1966, 2.
“Montgomery Clift, 45, dies of heart attack in New York,” The Los Angeles Times, July 24, 1966, 3.
“Mrs. America Ired; Dispute Rises About Prizes,” Fort Worth Star-Telegram, May 17, 1967, 18.
“Mrs. America Tells How to Beat Divorce Scandal,” Oakland Tribune, July 24, 1966, 8.
“Policeman Closes Show; He Wasn’t Afraid of Virginia Woolf,” The Memphis Press-Scimitar, July 18, 1966, 17.
Silverman, Jan, “Luncheon with Mrs. America,” Oakland Tribune, October 7, 1966, 34.
“Singer Found Dead in Automobile,” Press-Telegram (Long Beach, CA), July 19, 1966, 25.
Stanford, Nancy, “Mrs. America Tackles Her Homework,” Corpus Christi Times, January 9, 1969, 25.
“Tests Slated in Death of Rock and Roll Singer,” Santa Cruz Sentinel (Santa Cruz, CA), July 20, 1966, 13.
Thompson, Thomas, “Raw Dialogue Challenges All the Censors,” Life Magazine, June 10, 1966, 92.
Wilson, Earl, “It Happened Last Night,” Courier-Post (Camden, New Jersey), July 19, 1966, 19.
“‘Whose Afraid’ Gets Cleared for Nashville,” Chicago Tribune, July 21, 1966, 53.
Tuesday, July 19, 2022
Songs of 1966
By Mark Ehmcke
1. It's a Man's Man;s Man;s World - James Brown
2. Sha La La La Lee - Small Faces
3. Happenings Ten Years Time Ago - The Yardbirds
4. Solitary Man - Neil Diamond
5. Papa Was Too - Joe Tex
6. They're Coming To Take Me Away - Napoleon XIV
7. Seven & Seven Is - Love
8. Good Thing - Paul Revere and the Raiders
9. I Need Somebody - ? and the Mysterians
10. The Cheater - Bob Kuban and the In-Men
11. I'm Your Puppet - James and Bobby Purify
12. No Milk Today - Herman's Hermits
13. Hey Joe - The Leaves
14. Keep On Running - Spencer Davis Group
15. Ninety-Nine and a Half - Wilson Pickett
16. Rain - The Beatles
17. The Rains Came - Sir Douglas Quintet
18. Pretty Flamingo - Manfred Mann
19. Nashville Cats - The Lovin' Spoonful
20. It Tears Me Up - Percy Sledge
21. Sugar Town - Nancy Sinatra
22. The Ballad of Irving - Frank Gallop
23. Green Grass - Gary Lewis and the Playboys
24. The Pied Piper - Crispian St. Peter
25. Where Were You When I Needed You - The Grass Roots
Friday, July 15, 2022
Wednesday, July 13, 2022
This Week In '66
With Lynn Peril
This is the week in 1966 when eight young women, six student nurses and two visiting exchange nurses from the Philippines, were murdered by a madman in Chicago. You can read about him elsewhere; here we're going to talk about the victims. Also in the news this week: a pair of May-December marriages draw comparisons.
SHOW NOTES
“Delmore Schwartz,” New York Daily News, July 14, 1966, 61.
Freeman, Alex, “How Sinatra’s Kids Feel About His New Bride,” Detroit Free Press, July 31, 1966, 28.
Getze, George, “Trainers Thump TV Slump; Young Adults Called Flabbiest Generation in Nation’s History,” Los Angeles Times, July 12, 1966, 31.
Goodyear, Sara Jane, “Hunt for Clews in Killing of Eight Nurses on S.E. Side; Neighbors Tell of Awakening to Tragedy,” Chicago Tribune, July 15, 1966, 1.
“‘Newlywed Game’ Pits Couples in Daytimer,” The Daily News Leader (Staunton, Virginia), July 8, 1966, 13.
“The Murder Story Unfolds,” Detroit Free Press, July 16, 1966, 32.
Wiedrich, Robert, “Detailed Report of Terrible Crime; The 8 Nurses: 5-Hour Killing,” Chicago Tribune Magazine, July 23, 1966, 9.
Tuesday, July 12, 2022
Atomic Jukebox with Jon - 12 July 2022
Fuzzy 60s garage, wild rockabilly, hot R&B, and a spotlight on the Antipodes !
Rising Suns - I'm Blue
Rogues - It's The Same All Over The World
Unlimited - Feelings
Spires Of Oxford - But You're Gone
Livin' End - Making Time
Tom & The Tornadoes - Long Pony Tail
Sam Hall & The Mor-Loks - Elaine
Lenny And The Thundertones - Hot Ice
Jerry Dallman And The Knightcaps - The Bug
Bracey Everett - The Lover's Curse
Pogs - The Pogs Theme
Missing Links - You're Driving Me Insane
Little Easybeats - Coca Cola spot
La De Das - Jump Back
Steve & The Board - Farmer John
Tony Barber - I Want Her Too
Pretty Boy Don Covay - Switchen' In The Kitchen
Slim Harpo - Little Queen Bee
Little Jerry Williams - Hum Baby
Syl Johnson - Little Sally Walker
Lord Luther - A Thinkin' Man's Girl
Sheep - Hide And Seek
Stags - You Know He Did
Jimmy Soul - Everybody’s Gone Ape
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