Bill Zuka (Debuting This Week)

3/9/1991:
#32 The Star Spangled Banner - Whiteny Houston
#78 I Touch Myself - Divinyls
#94 Highwire - Rolling Stones
#98 Baby's Coming Back - Jellyfish

“We’ve heard tighter playing from a garage door”

I was 5 years old when The Magician was cancelled and that really upset me. During Covid I finally revisited the series & for me it held up

Every friend had a copy. It sold 10 million, yet couldn’t get higher than #9 on the albums chart

Lenny’s It Ain’t Over reminded me so much of EWF’s That’s The Way of The World, a song I only distantly knew as an oldie-something I never heard in the wild circa 1991

I was all in on early Black Crowes, especially Steve Gorman classing up his look, à la Charlie Watts

Easily the album I played the most in 1990. When the follow-up was released I had to order an European import because US labels thought nobody here wanted vinyl

Monkees Kool-Aid commercials YouTube video by orangeneko

I’d never seen any of these commercials. Supposedly it was Mike Nesmith’s final involvement before leaving The Monkees

youtu.be/yo_zwBE4K_E?...

3/7/1987:
#59 Sign 'O' The Times - Prince
#73 Boom Boom (Let's Go Back To My Room) - Paul Lekakis
#80 (I Just) Died In Your Arms - Cutting Crew
#82 Looking For A New Love - Jody Watley

The wonderful new chart chat episode has me thinking how Free To Be You And Me may have a reverse curse.

Alive & well:
Marlo Thomas-87
Alan Alda-90
Rosey Grier-93
Shirley Jones-91
Mel Brooks-99
Dick Cavett-89

Lived past 90:
Carol Channing-97
Harry Belafonte-96
Cicely Tyson-96

The four members remaining friendly brings me so much joy. Peter & Mike seem pretty happy when on the road playing clubs, which isn’t a common attitude among arena & stadium vets.

Given the day’s events I’m wondering if Freedom tastes of surreality

3/7/1964:
#75 Needles And Pins - Searchers
#78 Dead Man's Curve - Jan & Dean
#80 Hippy Hippy Shake - Swingin' Blue Jeans
#86 From Me To You - Beatles

My introduction to Country Joe was not via Woodstock, but instead the flawed More American Graffiti, broadcast Thanksgiving weekend, 1981 on NBC

Instantly made me think of this

Love it!!

Very cool!

Same! Especially “Real Love”, where are the background noise on Lennon’s source tape was distracting as it panned in and out

Awesome!!

This week’s #AT40 top 10 features 3 Beatles producers (sorry, but Phil Spector was not in the studio with The Beatles)
Lonely People-produced by George Martin
Best Of My Love-produced by Glyn Johns (Let It Be producer, but only credited as Engineer)
Can’t Get It Out Of My Head-Jeff Lynn (90s hits)

I enjoyed every comic who was on Letterman, but I especially loved guys like George Miller in the early-mid 80s when I realized I wouldn’t get exposed to that type of genius with any frequency anywhere else

“Sounds like, uh, John Paul & George”
Way to diss Ringo while he’s cranking out #AT40 hits.
Shoutout for interchanging the I Feel Fine riff with the Superstition riff

As was Randy’s intro to today’s episode

On the @danagould.bsky.social hour podcast, Alison Martino told how when she met Ringo she said “my dad was on all your albums”. When Ringo responded “really?”, Alison told him about the Capitol inner sleeves #AT40

Hey Casey, I also located Lesley Gore in 1975 on my local UHF channel 30 #AT40

Hey Won’t You Play was co-written & produced by Chips Moman. (College 🏈 fans note: strings by Mike Leech 😉)

In ‘69 Moman brought Elvis to record in Memphis for the first time in 13 yrs & produced Suspicious Minds, In the Ghetto, Kentucky Rain & Don’t Cry Daddy. The Col didn’t let Elvis return #AT40

Carole King’s second song on this week’s #AT40 after Grand Funk’s Some Kind Of Wonderful. CK’s Nightingale was co-written with former Steely Dan vocalist David Palmer, who sang lead on Dirty Work

For two weeks in January ‘75 both were in the top 40!

David Gates wrote one of my favorite Monkees album tracks: Saturday’s Child from their 1966 debut #AT40

My favorite solo Lennon & possibly my favorite solo Beatle hit