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episode date - January 9, 2007
With the New Year, we are back to our original format, but we’re doing it with a new twist. You see, we’ve been doing the “American Hit Radio” program for over five years now (at least I think we have…), and the program was (usually) tightly connected to my book, “American Hit Radio.” We would determine our topic by rotating through the book’s ten chapters, each week covering a different era in pop music. This worked just fine, but it meant that we’d often be covering a time of year that had nothing to with the date of the show.
It has taken me this long to recognize something quite obvious, but here it is;
From now on, our Tuesday program will feature a date that is in line with the date of the show. More specifically, we will focus each show on a corresponding month and year from each of the past five decades. For example, our first show for January 2007 featured music from January 1957 – a fifty year ‘anniversary’ – and our second show –today’s - features music from January 1967, a forty year ‘anniversary’, and etc., etc. If the month has five Tuesdays, we will either feature one decade twice (from different angles), or we will resort to looking at music from ten years ago – the dreaded Nineties.
It so happens that January 2007 has five Tuesdays, but the music charts from January 1997 are so uninspiring that I thought it would be more appropriate (and a lot more entertaining) if we spent two weeks covering a period that was infinitely more interesting, from a historical and musical perspective. So, this week we will count ‘up’ the top 10 songs for the first week of January 1967, and then look at a new album release from that same week. Next week, we’ll focus on the best singles that debuted in January 1967, while taking another look at another contemporary album.
Does it make sense to you? Well, okay, maybe it doesn’t make much sense, or maybe I’m explaining it horribly. Either way, this is what we’re gonna do, so I hope you’re okay with it and I hope you stick with us.
Okay, then, let’s go! Here’s a list of songs from today’s program. The first ten tracks represent the top ten singles for the week ending January 7, 1967, followed by featured album tracks from a semi-ridiculous album of that era;
1) I’m a Believer – The Monkees
2) Snoopy vs. the Red Baron – The Royal Guardsmen
3) Tell It Like It Is – Aaron Neville
4) Winchester Cathedral- The New Vaudeville Band
5) Sugar Town – Nancy Sinatra
6) That’s Life – Frank Sinatra
7) Good Thing – Paul Revere & the Raiders
8) Words of Love – The Mamas and the Papas
9) Standing in the Shadows of Love – The Four Tops
10) Mellow Yellow – Donovan
11) Pushin’ Too Hard – The Seeds (as an album track)
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