No KCCK Beaker Street Show tonight. If there was a playlist I have yet to see it.
Paul Horning passed away. He was the other half of the Power Packer running backs of him and Jimmy Taylor. With Bart Starr, Paul has joined Vincent Lombardi and the other guys in the great football field in the sky. Horning was at his best playing in mud games, most notably the 12/10/60 13-0 shutout of San Francisco in the Kezar mud, the 1965 NFL title game winning 23-12 vs Cleveland and various games against Detroit, namely the 17-9 1961 Thanksgiving Packer win.
I haven't comment much on Hawkeye football. The 2020 Hawks are in transition. Nate Stanley is gone. Spencer Petras is his replacement. He's been very shaky of late. The Iowa team for the first two games played one half football and got beat. Last week they decided to play both halves and blew out Michigan State, which defeated the overblown and overrated Michigan team. This Friday, Iowa went up to Minnesota and blew them out of Minneapolis 35-7, to which the Gophers didn't score till 14 seconds left and the game decided. Which means Floyd of Rosedale will remain in Iowa City for the sixth straight season. One more and he can be declared permanent residency here. Minnesota fans are not happy with the outcome and blowout and PJ Fleck may be going bye bye if he doesn't turn it around. Iowa could be 4-0 had they played a full game. The defense has stepped up to the plate, the offense had Tyler Goodson and Mekhi Sargent carving up the Gopher D with 228 yards rushing and three TDs. Minnesota had the ball longer 36 minutes to IA's 25, including a 10 and half minute drive, only to have their FG blocked in the third quarter. Good thing Petras had a good running attack, he went 9 out 18 throws for 111 yards and two touchdowns but still suffers from a case of shakiness. Keith Duncan's chance for a Lou Gorza kicker award went out the window with a missed XP (done in by a bad snap) and missed FG. Nevertheless, Iowa's sixth straight win over the Gophers means Floyd returns home for another season. Iowa has done very well, winning 16 out of the last 20 meetings with them. We'll see if the Hawks are for read again next week against a disappointing Penn State.
Beaker Street Song List 11/13/2020 Clyde Clifford's Show, Kyle Vincent Compiled.
9 p.m. to 10 p.m.
1. Kraftwerk “Autobahn” (Live)
2. Al Stewart “Roads to Moscow”
3. Argent “Candles On The River”
4. Audience “Jackdaw”
5. The Doors “Five To One”
6. Alvin Lee “Shot In The Dark”
7. Jimi Hendrix “Red House” (Live)
8. Blue Oyster Cult “Buck’s Boogie” (Live- On Your Feet Or On Your Knees)
9. The Band “The Caves Of Jericho”
10 p.m. to 11 p.m.
1. The Incredible Broadside Brass Bed Band “The Great Grizzly Bear Hunt” (Live)
2. Jethro Tull “Bouree” (Live- Nothing Is Easy: Live At The Isle Of Wight, 1970)
3. The Moody Blues “Higher and Higher> Eyes Of A Child I> Floating> Eyes Of A Child II> I Never Thought I’d Live To Be A Hundred”
4. Brownsville Station “Question of Temperature”
5. The Yardbirds “Mr. Saboteur”
6. Michael Burks “Hard Come, Easy Go”
7. David Lindley and El Rayo-X “Do Ya Wanna Dance?” (Live- Very Greasy)
8. Strawbs “Further Down The Road”
11 p.m. to Midnight
1. Gordon Lightfoot “The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald”
2. Within Temptation “Mother Earth” (Live)
3. R. Michael Thomas “Pray For The Captain”
4. Jeff Beck “All Along The Watchtower” (Live)
5. Fleetwood Mac “Bare Trees”
6. Kansas “Song For America”
7. Leon Russell “This Masquerade/ Magic Mirror”
8. Black Sabbath “Planet Caravan”
9. Everything Is Everything “Witchi Tai To”
10. Alan Parsons “One Day To Fly”
The surprise track is Brownsville's Question Of Temperature, and Alvin Lee's Shot In The Dark. We get a live version of Autobaun, and I guess we'll have to suffer the Yardbirds subpar Mr. Saboteur from the awful Birdland. Gordon Lightfoot's song played on the Anniversary of the Edmund Fitzgerald sinking in Lake Superior but we get Bare Trees and Five To One. The rest, I'm sure you have your faves.
More 45 finds.
Angel-Johnny Tillotson (MGM K-13316) #51 1965
You're The Reason-Johnny Tillotson (MGM K-13829) 1968 #48 Country
The hits were getting few and far between for Johnny, tho he continue to deliver the teenybopper songs, which little fanfare and interest. Sounds like Frankie Avalon's Venus, B side Little Boy another passable two minute ditty from a Walt Disney film that seems to have the Walt Disney Singers in the background. Oops, that was Angel, from the the movie Those Calloways.
Three years later, You're The Reason came out and seems to be aimed for the country market. Hank Locklin had the hit with this song. And was the better version. Counting The Teardrops doesn't vary from You're The Reason. If nothing else You're The Reason did do a respectable number 48 country position, his first country single that made the chart since Send Me The Pillow that You Dream On, also recorded by Hank Locklin come to think of it.
Stranger In Your Arms-Bobby Vee (Liberty F-55654) #83 1964
The pop idols of the 60s could make decent pop songs, Brian Hyland made consistent songs, likewise Bobby Vee and to a lesser extent Johnny Tillotson. But by 1964 The Beatles made these guys sound like yesterday. Nothing wrong with Stranger In Your Arms, but when EMI put together the Bobby Vee best of CD, this was left off. B side 1963 shows Bobby missing the old days already.
Hurt So Bad-The Lettermen (Capitol 2482) #12 1969
Their last top 20 hit, and it made the top of the charts on the local radio scene. For lounge pop, The Lettermen could wake up and score a hit or two but I think this had more to do with the Mort Garson's arrangement and Al Delory's production. It fit in quite well with the rock of the 1969 AM radio scene. B side they take a crack at Donovan's Catch The Wind, which is not as bad as you think.
Does My Ring Hurt Your Finger-Country Charlie Pride (RCA 47-9281) 1967 #4 country
Charley Pride was the first true black country and western star. He scored 9 straight top ten singles including the hard hitting Does My Ring... B side Spell Of The Freight Train is one of my all time fave Charley Pride songs ever. Of course he got the best producers, namely Bob Ferguson and Cowboy Jack Clement.
Me And You And A Dog Named Boo-Lobo (Big Tree BT 112) #5 1971
Number one on the KCRG Super 30 though.
Ken Lavoie aka Lobo, was one of those soft rock singer songwriters that continued to score soft pop hits in the 1970s, mostly for Big Tree Records. While Me You Boo got laughs from the rock crowd (Stonewall Jackson recorded a country version but he was never happy with having to do it from the record label ABC Records). Good memories of hearing this song in grade school walking Cheryl Barker from school. B side Walk Away From It All is another Lobo song, uptempo and perfect for background noise.
The Greatest Adventure Of All-Bobby Brookes (Carlton 515) 1959
The last three singles on this, I found at Vinyl Emporium, the newest record shop in Cedar Rapids and I spent about an half hour sorting through scratchy forty fives and came up with the Lobo, Charley Pride and Bobby Brookes song. To which the owner of the shop, surprised at me hanging there finding the best of the bunch gave these singles for free. Perhaps I may pay another visit to see if he has the Hank Locklin version of You're The Reason (I thought I saw it there). Not much is known for Brookes, he recorded for RCA and made one offs for Capitol, Twist and this one on Carlton, somewhat in the Roy Hamilton ballad range. B side Looka Looka Looka is much more fun.
Thank you to Vinyl Emporium for all that you do.
Five star mud game. The Fog Bowl Green Bay 42, Baltimore 27 12/10/65 (Baltimore)
Paul Hornung's best years were the early 60s to which he could do no wrong (except get banned by the NFL for gambling along with Alex Karras in 63). But perhaps his most shining time was 1965 which he scored five TD's against the Colt Defense in a foggy drizzle. He scored three TDs rushing but he scored on a 50 yard pass from Bart Starr in the first quarter and tho Gary Couzzo, subbing for Johnny Unitas rallied the Colts with a Ray Berry pass to cut the lead to 8, Hornung would score on a 65 yard pass from Starr to give the Packers the win. The pic comes from Packer History dot net but Neil Lefner took the photo.
Record Review: The Essential Who (Polydor 2020)
Just what we need, another Who compilation, to which doesn't improve on the Who Hits 50, which remains their best overview or Meaty Beaty Big And Bouncy, which was the original Who best of. Interesting to note that disc one really packs a lot of the songs from The Who Sing My Generation which gives us Much Too Much and The Good's Gone Disc two adds However Much I Booze and Trick Of The Light, one of John's most aggressive sounding songs ever. Disc 3 adds live cuts which really don't vary much, only one track is from the 2000's. And Zak Starkey still doesn't get much respect tho, he was the closest to capture Keith Moon's sound and vision. Nothing from their last album, tho they did pick the most listenable track from Endless Wire. Not essential unless you have to have it just for the sake of having it. But then you're probably off making your own mix CD and get the same result. Or just buy The Who Hits 50.
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The New And Improved R Smith Show 11/15/20 #14 New Music And Other requests.
First Hour:
The New Townedgers Album
Buckingham Nicks
Cheating Songs
Willin
Tomorrow's Girl
Just To Satisfy You
Stupid The Dog
Nine Pound Hammer
Knock On The Door
Jeanette (45 years later)
Please Send Me Someone To Love
Distant Early Light
Steppin' Razor
If You See Her
She Belongs To Me
Rainbow In The Dark
At The Crossroads
Hour Two
The One That Knows Me Best-The Townedgers
Love Like Backfire
The Honeythief-Hipsway
Ask The Lord
Don't Tempt Me (live)-Richard Thompson
Can't Win
1984 (live)-The Dawn
Leaf On A Stream
Let Me Down Easy
