Jay Coffey returns - boss radio hits

[GeorgeJ.]

Oldies: You won't find many. KHJ's brief attempt at Top 40 lasted only a few months in 1963...ended by a new GM who arrived in July of that year and changed course back to an adult information-oriented station (including a nighttime talk show by Michael Jackson, who would become a legend later in the decade at KABC). So the July 10th list at ARSA is one of the first, and it's possible the August 28th is the last. There wouldn't be a printed playlist again until the first Boss 30 in July of 1965.

Billboard says (in the June 29th, 1963 issue) that the then-new "Very Important Platters" lists were being mailed to more than 200 local record shops in the L.A. area. Whether that was one copy for display in the stores, or some for customers to take (as was the case with the later "Boss 30" and "KHJ Thirty" lists), they don't say. Having never seen any other than those two at the ARSA site, those two could be the only survivors.

By 1963, KRLA had eclipsed KFWB in the ratings, so if you're looking for the number ones from then until KHJ's first Boss 30, I'd go with the KRLA lists at Oldiesloon.

I have a September 11 1963 KHJ V.I.P. list, so they were printed as late as that in 1963. I sold one last year or so on Ebay that was another week.

 

[GeorgeJ.]

First, the above post is not a Rewind. Second, I know KHJ played later Monkees releases---I was merely quoting Ron Jacobs, who had said he would not play any. If KHJ played Valleri in 1967, how did they get a copy of the song? Third, not only is the title spelled Valerie on KHJ's Top 300 list, it is also spelled Valerie on the eleven consecutive KRLA Most Requested lists on which it appeared. The song debuted at number one on April 22, 1967. From there it went to 1-1-1-2-9-5-15-13-18-21-off. Fourth, do you really think think our two biggest top-40 stations in 1967 both would misspell the title of a song by one of the most popular groups of that time? Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart wrote the song and initially named it after frequent Monkees co-star Valerie Kairys. Let me repeat that name: Valerie Kairys. A link to a story about her is below. By the way, when stations began playing Valleri in 1967, Colgems Records president Don Kirshner refused to release the song as a single. Kirshner got fired for releasing A Little Bit Me, A Little Bit You as a single without the consent of Columbia Pictures. After he was gone, Valleri became a single...and Michael Nesmith thought it was the band's worst song.

http://cindybin.blogspot.com/2012/07/valerie-kairys-of-monkees-tv-show.html

As I recall, Valeri was released first in Canada. I should still have a copy of it on the Canadian label, but don't really feel like digging through filing cabinets of 45's to find it. If any stations in the US began playing it before an official US release, it's very likely that they had gotten a copy of the Canadian 45...

 

[michael hagerty]

As I recall, Valeri was released first in Canada. I should still have a copy of it on the Canadian label, but don't really feel like digging through filing cabinets of 45's to find it. If any stations in the US began playing it before an official US release, it's very likely that they had gotten a copy of the Canadian 45...

George:

We're talking about two different versions. The 1968 re-cut of Valleri, with Tapioca Tundra as the flip side, was released in Canada a few weeks ahead of the US release.

But what we're discussing is the original version of the song, recorded in August of 1966, which appeared on the TV show in early 1967. That's what some radio stations in the US (including KHJ) played (recorded from the TV)....more than a year before the official single release of the re-recorded version in either the U.S. or Canada.

 

[Thomps2525]

Does anyone know which station in 1967 was the first to play Valleri as a tape recording made from the tv episode? WING 1410 in Dayton did so...but were they the first?

http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?lyrics=1837

KFWB had the Seven Swingin' Gentlemen. WMCA and WSAI had the Good Guys. WING's DJs were called the Lively Guys. Wooh, catchy!

Or not.

 

[michael hagerty]

Does anyone know which station in 1967 was the first to play Valleri as a tape recording made from the tv episode? WING 1410 in Dayton did so...but were they the first?

http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?lyrics=1837

KFWB had the Seven Swingin' Gentlemen. WMCA and WSAI had the Good Guys. WING's DJs were called the Lively Guys. Wooh, catchy!

Or not.

Steve:

From my reply (to you, actually) of six days ago:

(screen goes all wavy, harp music plays)

Two disc jockeys, one in Chicago and another in Florida, had begun taping the audio of the Monkees TV show, mining it for unreleased songs and playing them on their shows. Three as-yet-unreleased Monkees songs had been on the TV show (All The King's Horses, the rock version of I Wanna Be Free and I'll Be Back Up On My Feet) prior to Valleri airing in the 23rd episode.

The DJs played Valleri, got requests and made dubs available to other radio stations around the country.

So, no Dayton wasn't the first.