Yes 88.5 FM the station that plays a deep and wide list is playing The Lemon Pipers; funny thing is when they do stuff like this and like yesterday morning when they played Dionne Warwick's "Walk on By" it all sounds like it belongs! Love it and they have not only my ears but my support ($$$)
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Green Tambourine
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"Green Tambourine" was one of those burnouts for me back in the days of oldies stations, got played way too often for my taste. It's still one of the songs that gets two or three spins a day on Sirius XM's '60s channel. Did oldies stations in SoCal not play it? I thought is was a bubblegum smash hit that was played all over, like "Sugar Sugar."
So Sky Daniels filling in for Garrison West (recovering from hip replacement surgery) followed Green Tambourine with "It's a Shame about Ray" and the "Fooling Around"; in this order the groups- The Lemon Pipers, The Lemonheads, and The Lemon Twigs. Only on this type of radio station and especially if you are the Program Director.
I remember back in the day back in NJ I used to listen to Bill Drake's WOR-FM and they eschewed Sugar Sugar IIRC, also never played Crimson and Clover. But I think they did play Tambourine.
What is really cool is when they do things like that but don't mention it. Like great comedy, it shouldn't be explained. Either you are an attentive musically knowledgeable listener and can appreciate it, or you are part of the masses that view radio as nothing more than a background of sonic wallpaper. I know this may sound elitist (which I am certainly not) but we are talking about a niche station at the end of the dial, not KIIS-FM.
Green Tambourine irritated the crap out of me from the day it hit the KHJ Boss 30-KRLA Tunedex-KFWB Fabulous 40 in 1967. I don't recall that it was in even moderate rotation on the Oldies stations where I lived, but I can guarantee that if it was, I changed the station.
WDRC-FM Hartford played it a lot.
"Any song you like I'll gladly play. Listen while I play, my Green Tambourine". My son commented yesterday to em "All songs sound alike when played on a Tambourine"
Quite true but then a tambourine is a percussion instrument and is not intended to carry a melody. The song referred to its use by street beggars primarily Hippies in places like San Francisco in the 60's. They'd shake the tambourine and people would toss coins into it.
K-Earth 101 played it alot, but the song is so good, burnout was not a factor. K-Surf 1260 is probably spinning it now.
A matter of opinion. Personal taste, but Sugar Sugar, for example, was such a straight-up unapologetic bubblegum song that I kind of had to...well, not like it, exactly, but not dislike it either. But Green Tambourine had a kind of a hippie undercurrent to it that annoyed me.
Although the song was written in NYC by two veteran Brill Building writers about beggars on Broadway.
Like all of the songs they were playing in the 90's, KRTH burned it to a krispy krisp. It is a below average song that adds color and interest to an oldies station (or a station like KCSN/KSBR), but does not deserve constant rotation on any station; multiple spins become annoying. My 2 cents. Playing it in the context Sky did is just fine. And I bet he won't spin it again this year.
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