Starting next Thursday and continuing through the remaining Thursdays and Fridays in December, "Yesterday's Top Secrets" (8 p.m. on WCRS 98.3/102.1 FM) will feature a "Name That Band" competition in which there will be absolutely no prizes awarded to the winners. Selections will be played by groups that have not yet been heard over the course of the first twenty editions of "Secrets", and listeners will have the opportunity to test their musical knowledge and see how many they can identify. Twenty-six groups from each of the show's two genres of oldies and alternative (52 bands in all) will be played in A-Z order, so the first letter of each one's name will automatically be provided as a clue, and serving as a second bit of help will be a "process of elimination" angle in which a listing of each letter's bands that have already been played on the show will be provided immediately prior to the playing of that letter's two songs. Comprende?
Hey, if you guys are really good, you might be able to guess some of the groups without even hearing the songs! Take the letter "S", for example -- as of December 6, we'll have played secret songs (non-smash hits) by Buffy Sainte-Marie, The Searchers, The Seekers, Nancy Sinatra, Sly and the Family Stone, Spirit, The Squires, Steely Dan, Steppenwolf, and The Supremes (oldies), and Scrawl, Section 25, the Sex Pistols, Simple Minds, Siouxsie and the Banshees, The Smiths, Sonic Youth, and The Stranglers (alternative). What is the best-known "S" band/singer of each genre that we haven't played yet? And put away that rock and roll encyclopedia -- no fair cheating!
For those of you who can't wait for the contest to begin, you're more than welcome to tune in tonight and tomorrow night for the 19th and 20th editions of "Yesterday's Top Secrets", as they're both going to be great shows as well. Tonight we've got The Guess Who, Husker Du, The Rising Sons, R.E.M., Janis Joplin, The Raybeats, The Carpenters, and a few others, and then tomorrow night it's going to be Jan and Dean, X, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Nirvana, Tim Buckley, Redd Kross, Velvet Underground ... oh, and speaking of things "S", our featured artists tonight and tomorrow night are going to be Sly and the Family Stone and Sex and the Family Pistol, er, I mean the Sex Pistols, and then beginning a three-week run in the spotlight on December 11 will be, gosh, another pair of S's -- Steely Dan and The Smiths! Featured artists get two of their songs played each night instead of just one, so sandwiched in between each show's opening and closing selections from Lieutenant Dan and Smitty during the last three weeks of the month will be the "Secrets" newcomers, all fifty-two of 'em.
So it's going to be fun fun fun on "Yesterday's Top Secrets" in December!!! "Name That Band" is going to be our Christmas present to the city of Columbus, and it's going to be a rather prolonged one at that. Nothing wrong with a little bit of extra length, a few girls told me.
Hey, if you guys are really good, you might be able to guess some of the groups without even hearing the songs! Take the letter "S", for example -- as of December 6, we'll have played secret songs (non-smash hits) by Buffy Sainte-Marie, The Searchers, The Seekers, Nancy Sinatra, Sly and the Family Stone, Spirit, The Squires, Steely Dan, Steppenwolf, and The Supremes (oldies), and Scrawl, Section 25, the Sex Pistols, Simple Minds, Siouxsie and the Banshees, The Smiths, Sonic Youth, and The Stranglers (alternative). What is the best-known "S" band/singer of each genre that we haven't played yet? And put away that rock and roll encyclopedia -- no fair cheating!
For those of you who can't wait for the contest to begin, you're more than welcome to tune in tonight and tomorrow night for the 19th and 20th editions of "Yesterday's Top Secrets", as they're both going to be great shows as well. Tonight we've got The Guess Who, Husker Du, The Rising Sons, R.E.M., Janis Joplin, The Raybeats, The Carpenters, and a few others, and then tomorrow night it's going to be Jan and Dean, X, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Nirvana, Tim Buckley, Redd Kross, Velvet Underground ... oh, and speaking of things "S", our featured artists tonight and tomorrow night are going to be Sly and the Family Stone and Sex and the Family Pistol, er, I mean the Sex Pistols, and then beginning a three-week run in the spotlight on December 11 will be, gosh, another pair of S's -- Steely Dan and The Smiths! Featured artists get two of their songs played each night instead of just one, so sandwiched in between each show's opening and closing selections from Lieutenant Dan and Smitty during the last three weeks of the month will be the "Secrets" newcomers, all fifty-two of 'em.
So it's going to be fun fun fun on "Yesterday's Top Secrets" in December!!! "Name That Band" is going to be our Christmas present to the city of Columbus, and it's going to be a rather prolonged one at that. Nothing wrong with a little bit of extra length, a few girls told me.