Saturday, August 17, 2024

It's Something Special To Get Things Going

 This is one of the featured stations for the week coming up, as I pay tribute to the "Big 8", CKLW.


The Official CKLW Survey For Monday August 17, 1970


 1. Ain't No Mountain High Enough - Diana Ross               

 2. In The Summertime - Mungo Jerry              

 3.(They Long To Be) Close to You - Carpenters               

 4. Lookin' Out My Back Door - Creedence Clearwater  Revival     

 5. Don't Play That Song (You Lied) - Aretha Franklin with The Dixie Flyers

 6. Make It With You - Bread                    

 7. Spill The Wine - Eric Burdon & War       

 8. Patches - Clarence Carter          

 9. That's Where I Went Wrong - Poppy Family           

10. It's A Shame - Spinners                 

11. I've Lost You - Elvis Presley          

12. Hand Me Down World - Guess Who               

13. I Wanna Know If It's Good to You - Funkadelic             

14. 25 or 6 to 4 - Chicago                

15. War - Edwin Starr            

16. Candida - Dawn                    

17. Lay A Little Lovin' On Me - Robin McNamara         

18. Do You See My Love (For You Growing) - Jr. Walker & The All Stars                  

19. Cracklin' Rosie - Neil Diamond           

20. Julie Do You Love Me - Bobby Sherman          

21. Groovy Situation - Gene Chandler          

22. Indiana Wants Me - R. Dean Taylor           

23. Signed, Sealed, Delivered (I'm Yours) - Stevie Wonder          

24. Big Yellow Taxi - The Neighborhood          

25. Everything's Tuesday - The Chairmen Of The Board   

26. Express Yourself - Charles Wright and The Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band

27. Overture From Tommy - Assembled Multitude   

28. (I Know) I'm Losing You - Rare Earth              

29. I Who Have Nothing - Tom Jones               

30. God Love Rock & Roll - Teegarden & VanWinkle  


Hit Bound

Snowbird - Anne Murray

Soul Shake - Delaney & Bonnie And Friends



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 The Backroom Classics Version 

 1. Ain't No Mountain High Enough - Diana Ross               

 2. In The Summertime - Mungo Jerry              

 3.(They Long To Be) Close to You - Carpenters               

 4. Lookin' Out My Back Door - Creedence Clearwater  Revival     

 5. Don't Play That Song (You Lied) - Aretha Franklin with The Dixie Flyers

 6. Make It With You - Bread                    

 7. Spill The Wine - Eric Burdon & War       

 8. Patches - Clarence Carter          

 9. Ohio - Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young       

10. It's A Shame - Spinners                 

11. I've Lost You - Elvis Presley          

12. Band Of Gold - Freda Payne           

13. Ball Of Confusion (That’s What The World Is Today) - Temptations    

14. 25 or 6 to 4 - Chicago                

15. War - Edwin Starr            

16. Candida - Dawn                    

17. Lola - The Kinks       

18. Do You See My Love (For You Growing) - Jr. Walker & The All Stars                  

19. Cracklin' Rosie - Neil Diamond           

20. On The Beach (In The Summertime) - The 5th Dimension  

21. Groovy Situation - Gene Chandler          

22. Indiana Wants Me - R. Dean Taylor           

23. Signed, Sealed, Delivered (I'm Yours) - Stevie Wonder          

24. Big Yellow Taxi - The Neighborhood          

25. Everything's Tuesday - The Chairmen Of The Board   

26. Express Yourself - Charles Wright and The Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band

27. The Love You Save - Jackson 5  

28. (I Know) I'm Losing You - Rare Earth              

29. Paper Mache - Dionne Warwick          

30. The Wine Is Young - Dionne Warwick


Hit Bound 

(Both Records Were On The Cashbox "Looking Ahead" chart for the week ending August 15, 1970)

I Gotta Get Away (From My Own Self) - Ray Godfrey

We Can Make It Baby - The Originals


Recurrents (All Of These Records Were On Official CKLW Charts in June, July and August of 1970)

Cecilia - Simon & Garfunkel

Cinnamon Girl -Neil Young and Crazy Horse

Everybody's Got The Right To Love - The Supremes      

I Just Can't Help Believing - B. J.  Thomas   

Hi-De-Ho - Blood, Sweat & Tears

Hitchin' A Ride - Vanity Fare

Maybe I'm Amazed - Paul McCartney

Save The Country - The 5th Dimension

Tighter, Tighter - Alive And Kicking

Westbound #9 - The Flaming Ember

I have no idea if any of the recurrents were actually played at all on the week in question.  I do think that this is a pretty good recreation, if I do say so myself.

This will go live on Monday, August 19th.

The station is at:

https://streaming.live365.com/a63230

You'll need to cut and paste that in a browser window. I tried attaching a direct link here but couldn't get it to work.


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