Jim in the book on  history of AT40 it mentions they did  find Joan Weber.  She had been in a mental hospital many years, rather than broadcast her circumstances they just decided to say they couldn't locate her. 

Time Is Tight -  Booker T and MG's
Soul Coaxing - Raymond LeFerve
Theme From Endless Summer - Sandals
Telstar -   Tornados
Pipeline - Chantays

 

What a life he led.  The fact that he was a Rhodes Scholar and had a MA in English came through strongly in the songs, pure poetry. You can pick out lines from each song "  Trade all of my tomorrows for a single yesterday "    "   Echoing through the  canyons like the disappearing dreams of yesterday "   " Stumbled to the closet looking for my cleanest dirty shirt "  More poetry to me than Wordsworth ever was.
Glad I got to see Highwaymen in 1990, now only Willie of the four legends left.

 

Not sure how it started but it sure began a kerfuffle on old board  when I posted that.      The daughter of all people happened to read it , went ballsitic and threatened to sue the Oldies Board and myself.   Had an e - mail from Ron  Smith saying he had apoligised for both of us and smoothed it over eventually.  Shows be careful you never know who is reading something posted. What upset her most apparently was the fact that her mother was   a Cohen, Jewish and wouldn't be caught near a ham sandwich.  This even though my old Jewish  pal  loved them and always said " What the Rabbi can't see won't hurt him "   He wasn't very devout obviously. 

 Kris Kristofferson  -  " Waking in the morning to the  feeling of her fingers on my skin, wiping out the traces of the people and the places that I've Been "    - Loving Her Was Easier. 

Just looking at 1959, would have thought Here Comes Summer by Jerry Keller would be there but not at all, Three Bells instead.   Somehow can't see that as Summer song. 

If there is one artist  I would be loathe to label a one hit wonder ( and this creates  all hell let loose when this subject comes up  )  it is Jimi Hendrix.    Technically he is , and he is listed in One Hit Wonders Billboard book but it takes a brave man to mention him.    The leading example of a artist who had heaps of hits outside US and sometimes sanity has to prevail.   An example is when I was taken to task on a NZ board when labelling Zager And Evans one hit wonders as they had another big hit in NZ with Mr Turnkey. Come on,,, there has to be some international base line,  as someone could bring up some artist that had another hit in Turkey, so generally Billboard rules.   When Casey Kasem did his one hit wonders special way , way back Zager and Evans were # 1 as they only hit Top 100 once.  I wonder now if they have been overtaken by Los Del Rios and the Macarena. 

Turned story telling into art form.    RIP Gordon. 

Thin Line Between Love And Hate by the Persuaders "  I woke up in the  hospital bandaged from head to toe "
Warning for any philanderer to take onboard.

Lorraine Ellison (  Stay With Me ), just blows me away
Aretha
Gladys Kinight

Waayy back when  Kasey did his Top 40 one hit wonders, # 1 was Zagar And Evans who never hit Top 100 again, let alone Top 40.   In more recent times did   Los  Del Rios ever chart again after Macarena ?

He did have some other reasonable size hits Hang On Sloopy reached # 11, Wade In The Water # 19.  17 Top 100 hits in all.

For anyone that knew him from the old board, my mate Jim Barnes,  or Jimbo,  as I called him for 20 years, passed away in June.   Just found out yesterday.    He was compiler of Australian chart books and had a knowledge like no one else of music of that country.     A great man with so much wit and joy of life.   Will be sorely missed by his friends.
Go easy mate !

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Mark H. wrote:

Interesting that you picked up on punk. The Cars Just What i Needed bsasically steals the intro. Also the lyrics of Yummy Yummy Yummy are interesting. Ooh you're such a sweet thing, good enough to eat thing. In case you think that is innocent, take Chewy Chewy. Do it to me, Chewy, chew me out of my mind.

I was exactly  at the age then  those records where aimed  at and of course sailed over my 9  /  10 year old head, I read once that when they were put together the writers would have a real laugh thinking how many double entendres they could throw in there.  From my point of view  have carried them with me from that age and love them all, es 1-2 -3 Red Light which is another one with hidden meaning.