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Fantastic Oldies Game!

My favorite Jerry Goffin/Carole King song is CHAINS by the Cookies on Dimension Records.

I find it superior to the Beatles recording, but THAT recording probably made G & K more money. I ALSO love One Fine Day by the Chiffons.
 
The 5th Dimension, the smooth vocal quintet from Los Angeles, had two #1 hits, both in 1969: "Aquarius/Let The Sunshine In (The Flesh Failures)," a medley from the Broadway musical Hair; and "Wedding Bell Blues," a Laura Nyro composition.
 
When I worked at WIND Chicago, in the mid-70's they were oldies. Just prior to music on tape cart (I put 2000 songs on cart in the Summer of 72) all music (and all commercials) used records, played by a "record turner."

We had about a hundred copies of UP UP and AWAY. The song was in heavy rotation there for over a year.
 
The 5th Dimension's first record label, Soul City, was owned by Johnny Rivers, and Rivers himself produced the group's first three hits: "Go Where You Wanna Go," "Another Day, Another Heartache," and "Up -- Up And Away."
 
I also enjoyed the 5th Dimension singing "Paper Cup,"Save the Country, and "One Less Bell to Answer."
 
One of Jerry's REAL kids and his group -- Gary Lewis And The Playboys -- had one of their biggest hits in 1965 with "Save Your Heart For Me."
 
Jerry himself had a #10 on the chart record for Decca in 1956, "Rockabye Your Baby with a Dixie Melody" previously a hit for Al Jolson in 1918.
 
In the 60's, the leading soul station in New York was WWRL, and among its great disc jockeys was Enoch Gregory, known on the air as The Dixie Drifter; he recorded a spoken tribute to Dinah Washington, Nat King Cole, and Sam Cooke, "Soul Heaven," which charted, briefly, in 1965.
 
In 1955 Eddie Dean recorded, I Dreamed of a Hillbillly Heaven. In 1961 Tex Ritter (John Ritter's daddy) covered that song and it got to #20 in Billboard. Tex died in 1974.
 
In 1961, Jimmy Dean -- who is now best known for his line of pork sausages! -- had a huge #1 hit with "Big Bad John," the story of a man's courage and selflessness in a mine disaster ("...at the bottom of this mine lies a big, BIG man, Big John").
 
Jimmy Dean will be 80 this August. In addition to Big Bad John, Jimmy scored with "The First Thing Every Morning (and the Last Thing Every Night)", "The Cajun Queen", "to a Sleeping Beauty", "PT-109"
and went as high as #2 with "IOU."

(I did that from memory!).
 
[We're having quite a weekend here, hammondo!]

Jimmy Jones, an R&B singer from Birmingham, Alabama, gave us two great Top 5 classics in 1959 and 1960 respectively, "Handy Man" and "Good Timin'"; in the latter, good timin' (ticks and tocks) ensured that Jimmy and his girl would meet and avoid spending the rest of their lives "walkin' down Misery Street."
 
Neil Sedaka wrote Venus in Blue Jeans for his Louisiana buddy, Jimmy Clanton.
 
Jimmy Clanton played the lead in a 1958 movie, Go, Johnny, Go! about an orphan who gets kicked out of a church choir for playing rock 'n roll and becomes a teen idol; the film features many other Top 40 stars, including Sandy Stewart, Chuck Berry, Jo-Ann Campbell, The Cadillacs, Ritchie Valens, Eddie Cochran, Harvey Fuqua, The Flamingos, Jackie Wilson, and legendary disc jockey Alan Freed .
 
Detroit native Jackie Wilson sang (your love keeps lifting me) Higher and Higher in the summer of 1968. The Summer I got my frst class license to be able to work at a "directional am station."

I can almost tell you what I had for breakfast the first day I played that on WAZY, 1410aam, Lafayette, IN. Followed by O-ooo Child.

What ever happened to Dave Allison?
 
I thought Jimmy Clanton was from York, PA. In fact, wasn't he a dj there on WIOO, WSBAland or WHP?
 
Joel Whitburn says Jimmy Clanton is from (Jimmie Swaggart country) Baton Rouge, LA, near Ferriday, La, the home of Jerry Lee Lewis.
Their cousin, Johnny Lee (Lookin for Love in all the wrong places) was born in Texas City, Texas.
 
Jerry Lee Lewis' new CD, Last Man Standing, is amazing, the old guy still has it.
 
Don't EVER miss Jerry Lee in person. I bet I've seen him 40 times. Nobody even approaches him.

In a movie (unsure of title) w/Jerry Lee the starts the piano on fire duriing "Great Balls of Fire."

I saw him do that at a 4th of July Weekend COUNTY FAIR - He beat the fireworks show!
 
Jerry Lee Lewis' biggest hits, all from 1957-58, were "Great Balls Of Fire," "Whole Lot Of Shakin' Going On," and "Breathless"; he stayed on the charts though the 60s, and even into the 70s, with "Drinking Wine Spo-Dee O'Dee" his last charted single in 1973.
 
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