As a Christmas gift to my small but loyal listenership, I've eliminated the annoying and repetitive commercials. It'll be commercial-free from now on. It costs a little more but it sounds so much better.

Dale Patterson wrote:

As a Christmas gift to my small but loyal listenership, I've eliminated the annoying and repetitive commercials. It'll be commercial-free from now on. It costs a little more but it sounds so much better.

 I'm not going to speak for anyone else, as I'm sure they will soon speak for themselves. What you're doing is pretty damn cool - and that's an understatement.

Merry Christmas to you and yours, Dale!

Cheers

DeepTracks wrote:

  What you're doing is pretty damn cool

   
  

What Deep Tracks said goes for me too
 

All I can say to Dale about his successful idea is, "Oh Wow!"

Keep it up in 2019.  

A little late, but in the spirit of the season, a former CHUM staffer had this hit in 1964.


 

Here's an answer song to Roger Miller's smash "King of the Road."

It was by Jody Miller (no relation) and was called "Queen of the House." It managed to make it to #12 on Billboard. 

I can only imagine how it would go down in this more enlightened era.


 

 Probably, if not the first, one of the first answer records was 1953's Bear Cat by Rufus Thomas which answered Big Mama Thornton's Hound Dog. I found a website called everyhit.com which has a vast list of answer records. It is a British website so it only includes songs which made the top 40 overseas. I discovered that there were two answer records to Napoleon XIV's 1966 hit They're Coming To Take Me Away, Ha Ha. Josephine XV did I'm Happy They Took You Away Ha Ha and Teddy & Darrell did a highly disturbing tune called They Took You Away, I'm Glad, I'm Glad. Neither of these charted on the Hot 100 or the Bubbling Under chart.

mace wrote:

I discovered that there were two answer records to Napoleon XIV's 1966 hit They're Coming To Take Me Away, Ha Ha. Josephine XV did I'm Happy They Took You Away Ha Ha and Teddy & Darrell did a highly disturbing tune called They Took You Away, I'm Glad, I'm Glad. Neither of these charted on the Hot 100 or the Bubbling Under chart.

Not sure about the Teddy & Darrell one, but it probably won't surprise anyone here that I actually have the only Napoleon XIV album ever put out. As some here know, the flip side of the 45 of "They're Coming To Take Me Away" was the song played backwards. (I've relayed this here before, but as a kid I once stumbled onto CJBC playing the backward version and thought they'd released it in French!)

That same reverse version is listed on the album cover, but it's not actually on there. Instead, that's where the Josephine answer song is, the very last song on the LP. Which makes that a very strange anomaly. Most answer records were put out by someone else, sometimes on a different label. This is the only one I know of that was put out on the same album as the hit.

 
 

And on the Internet, apparently!



Man is that painful to listen to! What most people don't realize is that the original song was actually about a man who went insane when his dog left him. It had nothing to do with a person, let alone a woman. (That explains the line in the original Napoleon XIV lyrics about "you mangy mutt!")

So none of these answer records actually make any sense. But then again, neither did the tune that inspired them!

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Well that was weird! I added a new post and it seems to have disappeared.

Hi Fitz. I would have linked to that FLASH song but thought it to be too long for Dale's liking. Perhaps, Dale, you could tell 'us' if you have any limitations. Your answer may affect my last song below.

While I'm here....here's some varying shades of "purple"





















 

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Two songs I always thought were purposely recorded to get played on CKLW. At first, I thought Copper Penny were from Detroit. Then, when no other US stations besides WTAC were playing "Poor Man's Throne," I knew they were Canadian. "These Eyes" by Junior Walker, Motown artist (actually, on the "Soul" label) w a Canadian song, couldn't miss on the Big 8. They played it for years & years --






 

RadioActive wrote:

Hard to believe there are at least two Four Tops songs that fit this category. Just about everything they did flew right to the top of the charts. But these songs never get played.

Are You Man Enough hit #15 on Billboard in 1973.



Keeper Of The Castle was a #10 smash a year earlier. Another never played hit by one of Motown's greatest male vocal groups. 


  

Just added "Are You Man Enough" as song #800 on the playlist.
 

The Miracles song that fits. From 1974, after the classic Motown period. The classic Smokey / Miracles songs, even "My Girl," are okay (I hear them so often on normal oldies radio that they're like wallpaper). This one is great. A huge CKLW hit. BTW it's Billy Griffin, not Smokey, singing lead --



 

Okay, before I begin, I admit that this one may be a stretch. But, it did chart at #35 on the U.S. Top 40, a year after Dion first made it a hit in 1968, hitting #1 on Canada's RPM 100.

Those of you unfamiliar with Moms Mabley are in for a real treat (or shock). Choose your medicine wisely. 



Meanwhile, as we wrap up a difficult year, what better time to remind us of the original?


 

Here's another of Phil Spector's productions. Spector shared writing credits with Toni Wine and Irwin Levine. This was "Sonny Charles and The Checkmate Ltd's" only major singles hit, reaching #8 on the R&B Chart, and #13 on the Billboard Pop Chart in 1969.

Also, reached #74 on RPM's Top 100 in Canada for 1969.



 

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