WFMU: Bob Brainen: Playlist from August 20, 2022

Listener comments!
	11:00am dan: Good morning
	♥ 11:00am Andrew in Toronto: Good morning Bob, Pete and all other listeners!
	11:00am Robbie White: good morning Wally
	11:01am Robbie White: good morning Bob
	11:01am Jeff: Hey Bob + Pete, looking forward to looking backwards!
	♥ 11:01am Wendy S: Good morning Bob ❤️, Pete and all! I’m really looking forward to today’s show!
	♥ 11:01am WR: Hi Bob, Pete and drummer streamers.
	♥ 11:02am listener james from westwood: Morning, Bob and Pete and all!
	♥ 11:02am doctorjazz: Hi, Bob, Pete, Braniacs! What Wendy S said!
	♥ 11:02am wmfromD: Hey Bob and Pete. Looking forward to today's excursion.
	♥ 11:03am Will thee Sound Guy: Good morning Bob, PT, and all!!!
	11:03am PT: Good Morning, everyone! Bob's workin' the Webcors (show period-specific AND Beefheart reference!) hard this morning, so I'll be on the comments board in his place, but he'll chime in from time to time. And now, it's Madison Time!
	11:03am CalZone!: HIT IT!
	11:03am adamdoesit: Hi Bob, Pete, and everybody. Get in that Madison line!
	♥ 11:04am Pauly from Clifton: Good morning, Bob, Pete, gang! What a way to kick-off my vaco!
	♥ 11:04am luka: saturday people
	11:04am Bob Brainen: Morning everyone!
	♥ 11:05am steveo: Hey good morning. Glad to be listening.
	11:05am PT: Hey dan, Andrew in Toronto, Robbie White, Jeff, Wendy S, WR, listener james from westwood, doctorjazz, wmfromD, Will thee Sound Guy, CalZone, adamdoesit, Pauly from Clifton, luka, and steveo...Good Morning ! (Whew!)
	11:07am (Mr) Bill: Good morning, Pete, Bob, and other Brainiacal friends of distinction. Today is my 22nd wedding anniversary. My wife’s, too. Funny how that works.
	♥ 11:07am WR: Have vested interest in today's subject. One of my father's co-workers back in the early 60s was Jimmy Gilmore's father. Heard him complaining to my dad about how the Beatles etc. destroyed his son's career. Also there is an interesting book about pop music written by Elijah Wald: "How the Beatles Destroyed Rock 'n' Roll".
	11:08am dan: Sounds like an album cut of Green Onions
	♥ 11:08am DonJuanTijuana: Hiya Bob! Greetings to all fellow Brainiacs!
	11:08am PT: (Mr) Bill, Good Morning and a very Happy Anniversary! I just passed #27, as did my wife. Bada-BOOM!
	♥ 11:08am spodiodi: good morning, Bob and all!
	♥ 11:09am spodiodi: good morning, Pete!
	11:10am PT: @WR: Do you mean Jimmy Gilmer of Sugar Shack fame? I actually remember hearing that maybe a day before I first heard I Want To Hold Your Hand, and he's right...the Jimmy Gilmers et al were immediately yesterday's news.
	11:11am PT: spodiodi!
	♥ 11:11am chresti: Morning Bob and PT and braineniacs!
	11:11am PT: DonJuanTijuana: Hola!
	♥ 11:11am coelacanth∅: Orlons!
	♥ 11:12am coelacanth∅: 'morning Bob & Pete and all
	11:12am PT: coelacanthø! Orlon is truly a wonder product.
	♥ 11:12am spodiodi: good morning, chresti!\\// gm, coelacanthØ!
	♥ 11:13am chresti: good morning spodi!\\//
	11:15am adamdoesit: Easy, Action!
	♥ 11:15am coelacanth∅: PT it's the fabric of the future! 'morning spodiodi!
	11:15am gene sculatti: You're off and running!
	♥ 11:16am spodiodi: snaps
	11:16am Robm: Well fellow listeners since i see a few people bashing the Beatles, i too think they are overrated and overplayed and if I don’t hear another beatles song it will not bother me at all
	11:16am PT: @adamdoesit: Think Alice Cooper got their album title from that? They did a West Side Story pastiche on one of their albums IIRC
	♥ 11:16am Gina Bacon: Morning, Bob & Pete & all!
	♥ 11:16am doctorjazz: So cool!
	11:16am PT: Hey Gene! And it gets better (we hope)
	11:17am PT: Hi Gina Bacon!
	11:17am gene sculatti: It will, I'm sure.
	♥ 11:17am chresti: Falcons!
	11:18am PT: @Robin! Why, I am shocked! Shocked, I tells ya!
	♥ 11:18am doctorjazz: I went through a long "No Beatles" stage, decades actually, bit I can listen to and enjoy them again after the hiatus (had a similar Grateful Dead pause, couldn't listen for a long time, now back in the rotation).
	11:19am PT: @Robm: So shocked I misspelled your name!
	11:19am dan: The man who did the cover of the West Side Story film soundtrack album is still alive and over 100 years old
	♥ 11:21am doctorjazz: Hey, man...
	11:21am Robm: @PJ don’t worry about it:) @Doctor jazz maybe in 10 years i will right now i can do without them
	11:21am (Mr) Bill: Thanks, Bob. Three to the third power years of marriage. Not too shabby.
	11:22am Robm: Oh no mr bill:)
	♥ 11:22am doctorjazz: Nice transition!
	11:22am (Mr) Bill: From my personal point of view, I’m glad to have spurned Jimmy Soul’s advice.
	11:23am PT: @(Mr) Bill: Me too, but I appreciate Jimmy Soul's interest.
	11:24am CalZone!: Who needs the Beatles!?!?! We booked Gary US Bonds at my college in 1980 or 81 as he was coming off his revival via Bruce. He was a fantastic performer, and a super cool cat!
	11:25am Robm: @WR just put that book on hold at my local library, can’t wait to read it.
	♥ 11:25am doctorjazz: We're getting into Beatles territory (time wise)
	11:27am (Mr) Bill: I’ll remain neutral (for now) on the Beatles’ musical value. Does anyone question their influence on American music?
	♥ 11:27am Wendy S: I was born in ‘61, so it’s cool to hear what was being played then. One of the first songs I remember hearing on the radio was Yesterday. At 4 years old I dug it and still do :)
	11:28am PT: @doctorjazz: We did throw that ringer in, I confess. But Freddie Boom Boom Cannon probably recorded Abigail Beecher in late 63, doncha think?
	♥ 11:28am wmfromD: People like Del Shannon suffered greatly post Beatles. Too bad. A great talent.
	♥ 11:29am listener james from westwood: Aw, was just thinking of this Ronnie one earlier today, in conjunction with Mean Streets.
	♥ 11:29am Will thee Sound Guy: soo many amazing tunes
	11:29am (Mr) Bill: I’ll stay neutral for now on the Beatles’ musical value. Does anyone question their influence on American music?
	♥ 11:30am Will thee Sound Guy: Ronnie 💔🌠
	11:30am PT: @wmfromD: Yet Del was the first US artist to cover a Beatles song (From Me To You, mid-63). It charted, too.
	11:30am Robm: @Mr bill i sure do, everyone thought they were such a wonderful group, it got to the point where other people could not get much airplay, they were the Donald Trump of that era.
	11:30am CalZone!: I would argue that the Beatles pressured Del to stretch and make more adventurous and interesting records in the mid-late 60s! Big fan of DS!
	♥ 11:31am Will thee Sound Guy: 🐸 🐸 🐸
	11:32am dan: Any Brian Hyland or Tommy Roe on the show? Both were recent guests on Mike Huckabee’s talk show and they still have the energy and stamina after all these years.
	♥ 11:32am doctorjazz: The Beatles LISTENED TO all this music; they tried to play it early on.
	♥ 11:36am chresti: The teen idol machine took over
	♥ 11:37am wmfromD: Jann Wenner sucks.
	11:38am Dean: We had screamers and honkers. Big Jay McNeely!
	11:47am Dean: That Orlons tune was adapted as a radio jingle in the '80s or '90s by a local Southern California auto dealer in Cerritos, which also has a South Street.
	♥ 11:50am chresti: I like this song at this speed!
	11:51am redkayak: Happy Saturday all!
	11:51am PT: Hey @redkayak!
	11:52am redkayak: @PT - Howdy :)
	♥ 11:52am chresti: @Land of a 1000 dances
	11:52am Gerry from Miami: "I think it's neat, I dig the beat, I'd give it a 98!" Often heard on American Bandstand with Dick Clark during the show's "Rate the Record" segment.
	♥ 11:53am wmfromD: Chubby cut some good sides at this time. I love "Twenty Miles".
	11:55am Gerry from Miami: A Carole King classic! Go, Little Eva!
	12:00pm Dean: The image on the playlist reminds me of the long gone Wenzel's Music Town in Downey, CA, home of Downey Records. What a store, packed to the rafters with 45s!
	12:01pm Gerry from Miami: BOB & PETE, this period was all about dancing! And Clark led the trends that many DJs and show hosts followed. Lloyd Thaxton, the Real Don Steele, among others.
	♥ 12:02pm doctorjazz: I remember the scoring on American Bandstand being surprisingly tough, "it had a great beat, you can dance to it, I'll give it a 75". Maybe they were channeling their school grades...
	12:03pm Gerry from Miami: Met Len Barry during my college years in Philly. A legend!
	12:08pm Gerry from Miami: The Cameo-Parkway label really had a juggernaut going in the pre-Beatle era.
	♥ 12:08pm coelacanth∅: Isleys!
	12:08pm dan: Always preferred the Beatles version of Twist and Shout to the original
	12:08pm Dean: Uncle Michael played The Crystals, "Let's Dance (The Screw), pt. II," yesterday.
	♥ 12:09pm doctorjazz: As I said, the early Beatles wanted to BE these guys.
	♥ 12:09pm doctorjazz: And Little Richard
	♥ 12:10pm coelacanth∅: i'm hugely into the Isleys, but yeah the beatles version kicks serious ass! 1 take at the end of a long recording session, no overdubs.
	♥ 12:11pm doctorjazz: One of the masterpieces of Western Music (with Surfin Bird)!
	♥ 12:12pm chresti: I remember this song from when a babysitter brought her records over.
	12:14pm Listener Robert: Can we discern any pattern to the styles of American pop pre- vs. post-Beatles?
	12:14pm neveract: John Waters used Surfin Bird.. right?
	♥ 12:14pm chresti: * also a song where they sang "hum gully gully, etc.
	♥ 12:16pm coelacanth∅: the beatles brought sophistication into rock & roll. from the instrumental arrangements to the harmonies. but they weren't alone in doing it. it was about time teenagers (did that term exist then?) started thinking.
	12:17pm Dean: "Surfin' Bird," "Papa-Oom-Mow-Mow," progenitors of The Cramps' "Human Fly," et al.
	♥ 12:17pm coelacanth∅: (and later, the lyrics)
	♥ 12:18pm doctorjazz: Had to sit still...
	♥ 12:18pm coelacanth∅: the Great Contours! another Berry Gordy casualty
	12:18pm neveract: cool chresti .. and hi! Maybe someone could do a show with all the music John Waters used in his films.
	♥ 12:18pm adamdoesit: This is pure pleasure.
	12:19pm Gerry from Miami: Wasn't Joe Jackson, father of the Jackson 5, a one-time member of the Contours?
	12:19pm Dean: OED shows "teenager" emerging around 1913, but: "In early use the word seems to have been used particularly in connection with churches."
	♥ 12:19pm doctorjazz: The Beatles were listening to Dylan ands how's their lyrical game accordingly.
	♥ 12:20pm doctorjazz: *Hard to sit still...
	12:20pm dan: Do You Love Me is one of the first songs to have a false ending
	♥ 12:21pm coelacanth∅: Dean, i don't doubt it. i was a little surprised when i read that credit for that term was taken in just the past few decades -i think by a dj?
	♥ 12:23pm chresti: hi neveract! Cha Cha Heels is inspired by John Waters films.
	12:26pm Dean: Ngram viewer suggests radio could have had something to do with growing use of the term: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=teenager&year_start=1900&year_end=2019&corpus=26&smoothing=3
	12:26pm dan: The chorus of Peppermint Twist makes it sound like they’re saying “Jew Boy, Motherfucking Jew Boy”
	♥ 12:27pm coelacanth∅: ...1940s -when there was a fairly quick transition of people in that age group to be now treated as children; when prior to that they were expected to start pretending they were grown-ups. (which people don't start to pretend now until they're... 35?!)
	♥ 12:29pm coelacanth∅: hey, grand funk's alright!
	♥ 12:29pm coelacanth∅: (okay, maybe not their cover of locomotion)
	12:32pm Gerry from Miami: @dan. Not what I hear! Bop-shoo-bop, boppa boppa shoo bop is more like it.
	12:33pm Dean: And Rich in Washington played Divine covering "Walk Like a Man" yesterday.
	12:35pm Gerry from Miami: Any Brainiacs still have that double gatefold LP of the Beatles vs the Four Seasons on Vee-Jay? Worth quite a bit if in excellent condition, I hear.
	12:36pm neveract: @Dean .. Thanks for that Divine reminder!!
	12:38pm Dean: @coelacanth∅: Ain't that the truth?! Is it because our life expectancy has increased that we're compelled to treat full grown adults as kids? Unless, of course, an actual kid, 15 or 16, commits a heinous crime, in which case we're eager to treat him (usually) as an adult.
	♥ 12:39pm coelacanth∅: well, supposing for a second that peppermint twist even has a chorus, which it doesn't, there's nothing in the song that could be imagined to sound like that unless you already have that on your mind.
	12:43pm Dean: There's the Downey label! Wenzel's, RIP.
	12:44pm Dean: Did you hear the show yesterday, @neveract? Or had you heard the Divine track long ago?
	♥ 12:44pm coelacanth∅: i think i almost bought that beatles vs 4 seasons boot. i have a fairly low tolerance for the 4 seasons so i don't think i did. i have some interesting beatleboots, but i can't sell them on discogs and i wont sell on ebay or amazon or etsy... so you can toss 'em onto my decaying body one day.
	12:49pm Gerry from Miami: @coelacanth. The Beatles/Four Seasons double LP on Vee-Jay is NOT a bootleg!
	12:49pm Noel: A lot of this music is extremely popular around Myrtle Beach/Wilmington.
	♥ 12:50pm spodiodi: love the pink sand at myrtle beach (other things too)
	♥ 12:51pm coelacanth∅: oh i misunderstood! Gerry, and i can picture it... but still, i don't think i have it
	12:54pm neveract: Is this Brook Benton singing with Dinah?
	12:54pm Gerry from Miami: BOB and PETE, surely you have the Surfaris' "Wipe Out" in your stack!
	12:56pm neveract: @Dean .. I didn't hear the show yesterday. I'm still exploring the shows on WFMU. I have a friend from NYC who was friends with Divine. And since I loved Waters' films I've been "exposed" to a lot of stuff along the way thru that connection. I never got to meet Divine tho.
	♥ 12:56pm WR: @11:10 @PT: Sorry Pete, got pulled away. Yes, Jimmy Gilmer of Sugar Shack fame.
	12:57pm Dean: @neveract: Best keynote speech at an annual conference of an association to which I belong was delivered by Waters. He pissed off a number of the attendees, which is probably one reason I admired it.
	12:58pm Gerry from Miami: WFMU's Uncle Michael played Marty Robbins's ""El Paso" on his show yesterday. Both these Robbins records are classics.
	♥ 12:59pm coelacanth∅: i think he played "you win again" too, which is the same melody as don't worry, basically
	♥ 1:00pm coelacanth∅: i wouldn't mind hearing a program of songs the beatles covered, all versions from before they did
	1:01pm neveract: @Dean .. Divine made those "pissed off" people THINK .. something most people aren't very comfortable doing .. lol
	1:03pm Dean: Still her legacy.
	1:03pm SecretSquirrel: Walk Don’t Run – at the time, prob my fave pre-British Invasion tune!
	1:04pm Dean: I remember when gasoline (in Southern California) was $0.35/gal.
	1:05pm Listener Robert: Pack of cigs and a gallon of gas were about the same price. Still are.
	♥ 1:05pm Wendy S: I’m in the Bay Area but there used to be a local movie theater that played this John Waters’ thing about not smoking before the start of the movie. Was this just a Bay Area thing or nation wide I wonder.
	1:07pm Dean: Evidently nationwide: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnpofBtijF8
	1:08pm Gerry from Miami: I turned 12 in February of 1959 and my mom gave me my first record player(a Sears Silvertone, of course!). The store threw in 6 free 45s as a bonus. Sheb Wooley's "Purple People Eater" was one of them and I made a drawing of the "one-eyed, one-horned flying" monster for my mom's birthday 17 days later.
	♥ 1:08pm Wendy S: @Dean - 😂 Thanks for sharing. Brings back memories.
	1:10pm Dean: Earliest occurrence of "single" as a reference to "A gramophone record having only one item (typically, of popular music) on each side; an item of music on such a record" is from Billboard, 1949.
	1:13pm Dean: ^in OED, I mean. @Wendy S.: Waters is involved with a new bar in Oakland: https://www.berkeleyside.org/2022/04/11/thee-stork-club-oakland-new-bar-john-waters
	♥ 1:14pm Wendy S: @Dean - thanks for sharing this! I’ll definitely check it out!
	1:15pm neveract: @Dean .. forgot to ask .. what show yesterday were you talking about? I wanna listen next time. Thanks!
	1:15pm Dean: Are you sure about that backstory of Downey Records? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downey_Records
	1:16pm dan: Saw Darlene Love a few years ago in concert and she still sounds amazing
	1:16pm Gerry from Miami: I see that Barry and the Tamerlanes and the Cascades both recorded for Valiant. The Association's first album and single("Along Comes Mary) were on Valiant. Same label??
	1:16pm Dean: @neveract: Rich in Washington filled in for a show for two hours, then continued with his own show, Cratedigger's Lung, on the Sheena stream. https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/118857
	1:17pm neveract: Thanks Dean!
	1:17pm Dean: Dig it!
	1:19pm (Mr) Bill: “Tell Him” is one of the greatest post-Bach works of music.
	1:20pm Pax: We're the 'pattern people' 5th Dimension v Bystanders. U pick. Why? Just because the song is on my brain, so what better place to bring it to than the Bob brainen show.
	1:20pm Listener Robert: Thanks, Dean. I would've thought more likely someone would've tried to connect it to Morton Downey SENIOR.
	1:21pm Dean: I dunno, @Listener Robert. Seems the history of Downey Records is complicated: http://mortondowneyjrshow.com/mortmusic.html
	1:23pm PT: @Pax: I'll take either the Bystanders or the 5th Dimension re: Pattern People. Both great!
	♥ 1:23pm Michael 98145: Enjoying the show. Thank you, Gents.
	♥ 1:24pm Doug Schulkind: Bob & Pete, you had better air another of these fabulous BTB specials PDQ.
	1:26pm PT: @Doug Schulkind: Our pleasure!
	1:27pm Gerry from Miami: "I Can't Stay Mad at You" i by Skeeter Davis is a record that Bunny, the artificial intelligence robot, can't play on the Rock 'n' Soul stream. I have requested it several times, but apparently Skeeter isn't in his library of artists. Thanks for playing it! An all-time fave.
	1:27pm Bob Brainen: Thanks Doug, Part 2 coming up in Sept.!
	1:32pm Gerry from Miami: Betty Everett shoop-shoopin' it in the same month that the Beatles made their first appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show.
	1:33pm PT: @Everyone: Hey, my apologies for messing up the Pipeline/Wipe Out/Morton Downey Jr tale so thoroughly! When I screw up, I really...
	1:33pm ?: Any chance of playing "Freddie" by Connie Francis?
	1:34pm Dean: Billboard, March 2, 1963: "Dot Records President Randy Wood has concluded a release arrangement with Bill Wenzel of Downey Records whereby Dot will issue Downey's "Pipe Line," by the Chantays." No mention of Morton Downey, neither Jr. nor Sr.
	1:35pm Dean: Oops, just saw correction above.
	1:37pm (Mr) Bill: “Shoop Shoop” another as-good-as-it-gets pop song. Cher was born to sing it. Betty Everett, too, I reckon. I see from Wikipedia that the original release was by Merry Clayton; it didn’t chart.
	♥ 1:37pm chresti: Love the Ikettes!
	1:40pm Gerry from Miami: Got any 45s from the pride of Tenafly, NJ, Miss Lesley Gore?
	♥ 1:40pm Wendy S: My Boyfriend’s Back - an “earworm” if there ever was.
	♥ 1:45pm Michael 98145: They won't tell your secret
	1:48pm Jeff: https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/latimes/name/abner-spector-obituary?id=32855842
	1:48pm Gerry from Miami: Brit folk group Pentangle did a great cover of "Sally, Go 'Round the Roses" featuring Jackie McShea on vocals.
	1:49pm SecretSquirrel: Sally Go Round the Roses – regarding “keep your secrets,” there was a persistent rumor that the lyrics referenced a lesbian relationship. Or a teen pregnancy. Or an ancient nursery rhyme…
	♥ 1:53pm Wendy S: Love these special shows; l always learn a lot. Kitty cat DJ was an added bonus 🐱
	♥ 1:54pm spodiodi: thanks a lot, Bob and Pete! loved today's show
	♥ 1:54pm adamdoesit: Bob and Pete, great show! you made your case joyously. I coulda listened all day.
	♥ 1:54pm Andrew in Toronto: Thanks for the great show!
	1:55pm (Mr) Bill: Many thanks for the anniversary gift, Bob and Pete.
	1:56pm Dean: 1974, the Summer of Love
	1:56pm Jeff: Thanks Bob + Pete! This one went by too quickly.
	1:56pm PT: Thanks for listening, everyone! Part Deux coming up next month...
	1:56pm Gerry from Miami: I'm banking on you two putting "Wipe Out" and Lesley Gore in your stack for the next time you do a pre-Beatles show. Thanks for today's superb show. I can see your follow-up being even better!
	♥ 1:57pm WR: Thank you! Thank you!
	♥ 1:57pm wmfromD: Excellent show Bob and Pete!
	♥ 1:58pm Michael 98145: over too soon
	1:58pm listener James from Westwood: Thanks, you two!
	♥ 2:00pm coelacanth∅: Thanks Bob! Thanks Pete!
	2:00pm Bob Brainen: Thanks all!
	♥ 2:02pm Gina Bacon: Thanks, you guys!
	5:18pm Robbie White: Excellent show. I look forward to part 3.
	♥ 5:33pm doctorjazz: Had to run before the last set, ,but great show, thanks, Bob and Pete!
	♥ 11:00am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ~ TY Always DJs BB & PT ~

Bob Brainen: Playlist from August 20, 2022

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August 20, 2022: Bob Brainen & Pete Tomlinson Present American Music Before The Beatles

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Artist	Track	Album	Year	Comments	Approx. start time
Hank Levine & His Orchestra	Image, Part One		1961	ABC-Paramount	0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Ray Bryant Combo	Madison Time Part One		1960	Columbia	0:02:33 (Pop-up)
Booker T. & The MGs	Green Onions "Green Onions" by "Booker T. & The MGs"		1962	Stax	0:05:26 (Pop-up)
Clarence "Frogman" Henry	(I Don't Know Why) But I Do		1960	Argo	0:08:18 (Pop-up)
Orlons	South Street "South Street" by "Orlons"		1963	Cameo	0:10:37 (Pop-up)
Riff & The Jets	Cool "Cool" by "Riff & The Jets"	West Side Story (Film Soundtrack)	1961	Columbia	0:12:49 (Pop-up)
Falcons	You're So Fine "You're So Fine" by "Falcons"		1959	Flick	0:17:07 (Pop-up)
Jimmy Soul	If You Wanna Be Happy "If You Wanna Be Happy" by "Jimmy Soul"		1963	S.P.Q.R.	0:19:34 (Pop-up)
Gary "U.S." Bonds	Quarter To Three		1961	Legrand	0:21:46 (Pop-up)
Freddy Cannon	Abigail Beecher "Abigail Beecher" by "Freddy Cannon"		Jan. 1964	Warner Brothers	0:24:12 (Pop-up)
Del Shannon	Hats Off To Larry "Hats Off To Larry" by "Del Shannon"		1961	Big Top	0:26:34 (Pop-up)
Ronettes	Be My Baby "Be My Baby" by "Ronettes"		1963	Philles	0:28:29 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: "frogs and more frogs" @ Joe Bauer's Ranch"					0:31:04 (Pop-up)
It's Dancin' Time! "It's Dancin' Time!"
Chris Kenner	Land of 1000 Dances "Land of 1000 Dances" by "Chris Kenner"		1962	Instant	0:49:02 (Pop-up)
Chubby Checker	The Twist "The Twist" by "Chubby Checker"		1960	Parkway	0:51:26 (Pop-up)
Little Eva	The Locomotion "The Locomotion" by "Little Eva"		1962	Dimension	0:54:02 (Pop-up)
Dee Dee Sharp	Mashed Potato Time "Mashed Potato Time" by "Dee Dee Sharp"		1962	Cameo	0:56:17 (Pop-up)
Miracles	Mickey's Monkee "Mickey's Monkee" by "Miracles"		1963	Tamla	0:58:40 (Pop-up)
Dovells	Bristol Stomp "Bristol Stomp" by "Dovells"		1961	Parkway	1:01:19 (Pop-up)
Joey Dee & The Starliters	The Peppermint Twist, Part One		1961	Roulette	1:03:31 (Pop-up)
Orlons	Wah-Watusi "Wah-Watusi" by "Orlons"		1962	Cameo	1:05:30 (Pop-up)
Isley Brothers	Twist & Shout "Twist & Shout" by "Isley Brothers"		1962	Wand	1:07:59 (Pop-up)
Rivingtons	Papa-Oom-Mow-Mow "Papa-Oom-Mow-Mow" by "Rivingtons"		1962	Liberty	1:10:25 (Pop-up)
Sherrys	Pop Pop Pop Pie "Pop Pop Pop Pie" by "Sherrys"		1962	Guyden	1:13:07 (Pop-up)
Sam Cooke	Twistin' The Night Away		1962	RCA Victor	1:14:42 (Pop-up)
Contours	Do You Love Me "Do You Love Me" by "Contours"		1962	Gordy	1:17:17 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: "frogs and more frogs" @ Joe Bauer's Ranch"					1:20:08 (Pop-up)
Beach Boys	Be True To Your School (single version)		1963	Capitol	1:30:37 (Pop-up)
Four Seasons	Walk Like A Man "Walk Like A Man" by "Four Seasons"		1963	VeeJay	1:32:34 (Pop-up)
Dion	Ruby Baby "Ruby Baby" by "Dion"		1962	Columbia	1:34:59 (Pop-up)
Impressions	It's Alright "It's Alright" by "Impressions"		1963	ABC-Paramount	1:37:18 (Pop-up)
Chantays	Pipeline "Pipeline" by "Chantays"		1962	Downey	1:40:03 (Pop-up)
Jan & Dean	Surf City "Surf City" by "Jan & Dean"		1963	Liberty	1:42:19 (Pop-up)
Cascades	Rhythm Of The Rain "Rhythm Of The Rain" by "Cascades"		1962	Valiant	1:44:52 (Pop-up)
Barry & The Tamerlanes	I Wonder What She's Doing Tonight		1963	Valiant	1:48:19 (Pop-up)
Bruce Channel	Hey Baby! "Hey Baby!" by "Bruce Channel"		1962	Smash	1:49:10 (Pop-up)
Ventures	Walk Don't Run "Walk Don't Run" by "Ventures"		1960	Dolton	1:51:27 (Pop-up)
Dinah Washington & Brook Benton	A Rockin' Good Way (To Mess Around And Fall In Love)		1960	Mercury	1:53:27 (Pop-up)
Marty Robbins	Don't Worry "Don't Worry" by "Marty Robbins"		1960	Columbia	1:55:42 (Pop-up)
Bobby Rydell	Wild One "Wild One" by "Bobby Rydell"		1960	Cameo	1:58:57 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: "frogs and more frogs" @ Joe Bauer's Ranch"					2:01:14 (Pop-up)
The Girl Group Sound "The Girl Group Sound"
Crystals	Da Doo Ron Ron (When He Walked Me Home)		1963	Philles	2:15:45 (Pop-up)
Exciters	Tell Him "Tell Him" by "Exciters"		1962	United Artists	2:17:54 (Pop-up)
Chiffons	One Fine Day "One Fine Day" by "Chiffons"		1963	Laurie	2:20:30 (Pop-up)
Skeeter Davis	I Can't Stay Mad At You		1963	RCA Victor	2:22:31 (Pop-up)
Shirelles	Foolish Little Girl "Foolish Little Girl" by "Shirelles"		1963	Scepter	2:24:36 (Pop-up)
Cookies	Don't Say Nothin' Bad (About My Baby)		1963	Dimension	2:26:53 (Pop-up)
Betty Everett	The Shoop Shoop Song (It's In His Kiss)		Feb. 1964	VeeJay	2:29:29 (Pop-up)
Girlfriends	My One & Only, Jimmy Boy		1963	Colpix	2:31:41 (Pop-up)
Essex	Easier Said Than Done "Easier Said Than Done" by "Essex"		1963	Roulette	2:33:50 (Pop-up)
Ikettes	I'm Blue (The Gong Gong Song)		1961	Atco	2:36:00 (Pop-up)
Angels	My Boyfriend's Back "My Boyfriend's Back" by "Angels"		1963	Smash	2:38:20 (Pop-up)
Murmaids	Popsicles & Icicles "Popsicles & Icicles" by "Murmaids"		1963	Chattahoochee	2:40:30 (Pop-up)
Jaynetts	Sally Go Round The Roses		1963	Tuff	2:42:55 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: "frogs and more frogs" @ Joe Bauer's Ranch"					2:46:06 (Pop-up)
Dr. Jack Van Impe	An Importat Message		195?		2:55:07 (Pop-up)
Showmen	It Will Stand "It Will Stand" by "Showmen"		1961		2:55:41 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: "frogs and more frogs" @ Joe Bauer's Ranch"					2:57:55 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	11:00am dan: Good morning
	♥ 11:00am Andrew in Toronto: Good morning Bob, Pete and all other listeners!
	11:00am Robbie White: good morning Wally
	11:01am Robbie White: good morning Bob
	11:01am Jeff: Hey Bob + Pete, looking forward to looking backwards!
	♥ 11:01am Wendy S: Good morning Bob ❤️, Pete and all! I’m really looking forward to today’s show!
	♥ 11:01am WR: Hi Bob, Pete and drummer streamers.
	♥ 11:02am listener james from westwood: Morning, Bob and Pete and all!
	♥ 11:02am doctorjazz: Hi, Bob, Pete, Braniacs! What Wendy S said!
	♥ 11:02am wmfromD: Hey Bob and Pete. Looking forward to today's excursion.
	♥ 11:03am Will thee Sound Guy: Good morning Bob, PT, and all!!!
	11:03am PT: Good Morning, everyone! Bob's workin' the Webcors (show period-specific AND Beefheart reference!) hard this morning, so I'll be on the comments board in his place, but he'll chime in from time to time. And now, it's Madison Time!
	11:03am CalZone!: HIT IT!
	11:03am adamdoesit: Hi Bob, Pete, and everybody. Get in that Madison line!
	♥ 11:04am Pauly from Clifton: Good morning, Bob, Pete, gang! What a way to kick-off my vaco!
	♥ 11:04am luka: saturday people
	11:04am Bob Brainen: Morning everyone!
	♥ 11:05am steveo: Hey good morning. Glad to be listening.
	11:05am PT: Hey dan, Andrew in Toronto, Robbie White, Jeff, Wendy S, WR, listener james from westwood, doctorjazz, wmfromD, Will thee Sound Guy, CalZone, adamdoesit, Pauly from Clifton, luka, and steveo...Good Morning ! (Whew!)
	11:07am (Mr) Bill: Good morning, Pete, Bob, and other Brainiacal friends of distinction. Today is my 22nd wedding anniversary. My wife’s, too. Funny how that works.
	♥ 11:07am WR: Have vested interest in today's subject. One of my father's co-workers back in the early 60s was Jimmy Gilmore's father. Heard him complaining to my dad about how the Beatles etc. destroyed his son's career. Also there is an interesting book about pop music written by Elijah Wald: "How the Beatles Destroyed Rock 'n' Roll".
	11:08am dan: Sounds like an album cut of Green Onions
	♥ 11:08am DonJuanTijuana: Hiya Bob! Greetings to all fellow Brainiacs!
	11:08am PT: (Mr) Bill, Good Morning and a very Happy Anniversary! I just passed #27, as did my wife. Bada-BOOM!
	♥ 11:08am spodiodi: good morning, Bob and all!
	♥ 11:09am spodiodi: good morning, Pete!
	11:10am PT: @WR: Do you mean Jimmy Gilmer of Sugar Shack fame? I actually remember hearing that maybe a day before I first heard I Want To Hold Your Hand, and he's right...the Jimmy Gilmers et al were immediately yesterday's news.
	11:11am PT: spodiodi!
	♥ 11:11am chresti: Morning Bob and PT and braineniacs!
	11:11am PT: DonJuanTijuana: Hola!
	♥ 11:11am coelacanth∅: Orlons!
	♥ 11:12am coelacanth∅: 'morning Bob & Pete and all
	11:12am PT: coelacanthø! Orlon is truly a wonder product.
	♥ 11:12am spodiodi: good morning, chresti!\\// gm, coelacanthØ!
	♥ 11:13am chresti: good morning spodi!\\//
	11:15am adamdoesit: Easy, Action!
	♥ 11:15am coelacanth∅: PT it's the fabric of the future! 'morning spodiodi!
	11:15am gene sculatti: You're off and running!
	♥ 11:16am spodiodi: snaps
	11:16am Robm: Well fellow listeners since i see a few people bashing the Beatles, i too think they are overrated and overplayed and if I don’t hear another beatles song it will not bother me at all
	11:16am PT: @adamdoesit: Think Alice Cooper got their album title from that? They did a West Side Story pastiche on one of their albums IIRC
	♥ 11:16am Gina Bacon: Morning, Bob & Pete & all!
	♥ 11:16am doctorjazz: So cool!
	11:16am PT: Hey Gene! And it gets better (we hope)
	11:17am PT: Hi Gina Bacon!
	11:17am gene sculatti: It will, I'm sure.
	♥ 11:17am chresti: Falcons!
	11:18am PT: @Robin! Why, I am shocked! Shocked, I tells ya!
	♥ 11:18am doctorjazz: I went through a long "No Beatles" stage, decades actually, bit I can listen to and enjoy them again after the hiatus (had a similar Grateful Dead pause, couldn't listen for a long time, now back in the rotation).
	11:19am PT: @Robm: So shocked I misspelled your name!
	11:19am dan: The man who did the cover of the West Side Story film soundtrack album is still alive and over 100 years old
	♥ 11:21am doctorjazz: Hey, man...
	11:21am Robm: @PJ don’t worry about it:) @Doctor jazz maybe in 10 years i will right now i can do without them
	11:21am (Mr) Bill: Thanks, Bob. Three to the third power years of marriage. Not too shabby.
	11:22am Robm: Oh no mr bill:)
	♥ 11:22am doctorjazz: Nice transition!
	11:22am (Mr) Bill: From my personal point of view, I’m glad to have spurned Jimmy Soul’s advice.
	11:23am PT: @(Mr) Bill: Me too, but I appreciate Jimmy Soul's interest.
	11:24am CalZone!: Who needs the Beatles!?!?! We booked Gary US Bonds at my college in 1980 or 81 as he was coming off his revival via Bruce. He was a fantastic performer, and a super cool cat!
	11:25am Robm: @WR just put that book on hold at my local library, can’t wait to read it.
	♥ 11:25am doctorjazz: We're getting into Beatles territory (time wise)
	11:27am (Mr) Bill: I’ll remain neutral (for now) on the Beatles’ musical value. Does anyone question their influence on American music?
	♥ 11:27am Wendy S: I was born in ‘61, so it’s cool to hear what was being played then. One of the first songs I remember hearing on the radio was Yesterday. At 4 years old I dug it and still do :)
	11:28am PT: @doctorjazz: We did throw that ringer in, I confess. But Freddie Boom Boom Cannon probably recorded Abigail Beecher in late 63, doncha think?
	♥ 11:28am wmfromD: People like Del Shannon suffered greatly post Beatles. Too bad. A great talent.
	♥ 11:29am listener james from westwood: Aw, was just thinking of this Ronnie one earlier today, in conjunction with Mean Streets.
	♥ 11:29am Will thee Sound Guy: soo many amazing tunes
	11:29am (Mr) Bill: I’ll stay neutral for now on the Beatles’ musical value. Does anyone question their influence on American music?
	♥ 11:30am Will thee Sound Guy: Ronnie 💔🌠
	11:30am PT: @wmfromD: Yet Del was the first US artist to cover a Beatles song (From Me To You, mid-63). It charted, too.
	11:30am Robm: @Mr bill i sure do, everyone thought they were such a wonderful group, it got to the point where other people could not get much airplay, they were the Donald Trump of that era.
	11:30am CalZone!: I would argue that the Beatles pressured Del to stretch and make more adventurous and interesting records in the mid-late 60s! Big fan of DS!
	♥ 11:31am Will thee Sound Guy: 🐸 🐸 🐸
	11:32am dan: Any Brian Hyland or Tommy Roe on the show? Both were recent guests on Mike Huckabee’s talk show and they still have the energy and stamina after all these years.
	♥ 11:32am doctorjazz: The Beatles LISTENED TO all this music; they tried to play it early on.
	♥ 11:36am chresti: The teen idol machine took over
	♥ 11:37am wmfromD: Jann Wenner sucks.
	11:38am Dean: We had screamers and honkers. Big Jay McNeely!
	11:47am Dean: That Orlons tune was adapted as a radio jingle in the '80s or '90s by a local Southern California auto dealer in Cerritos, which also has a South Street.
	♥ 11:50am chresti: I like this song at this speed!
	11:51am redkayak: Happy Saturday all!
	11:51am PT: Hey @redkayak!
	11:52am redkayak: @PT - Howdy :)
	♥ 11:52am chresti: @Land of a 1000 dances
	11:52am Gerry from Miami: "I think it's neat, I dig the beat, I'd give it a 98!" Often heard on American Bandstand with Dick Clark during the show's "Rate the Record" segment.
	♥ 11:53am wmfromD: Chubby cut some good sides at this time. I love "Twenty Miles".
	11:55am Gerry from Miami: A Carole King classic! Go, Little Eva!
	12:00pm Dean: The image on the playlist reminds me of the long gone Wenzel's Music Town in Downey, CA, home of Downey Records. What a store, packed to the rafters with 45s!
	12:01pm Gerry from Miami: BOB & PETE, this period was all about dancing! And Clark led the trends that many DJs and show hosts followed. Lloyd Thaxton, the Real Don Steele, among others.
	♥ 12:02pm doctorjazz: I remember the scoring on American Bandstand being surprisingly tough, "it had a great beat, you can dance to it, I'll give it a 75". Maybe they were channeling their school grades...
	12:03pm Gerry from Miami: Met Len Barry during my college years in Philly. A legend!
	12:08pm Gerry from Miami: The Cameo-Parkway label really had a juggernaut going in the pre-Beatle era.
	♥ 12:08pm coelacanth∅: Isleys!
	12:08pm dan: Always preferred the Beatles version of Twist and Shout to the original
	12:08pm Dean: Uncle Michael played The Crystals, "Let's Dance (The Screw), pt. II," yesterday.
	♥ 12:09pm doctorjazz: As I said, the early Beatles wanted to BE these guys.
	♥ 12:09pm doctorjazz: And Little Richard
	♥ 12:10pm coelacanth∅: i'm hugely into the Isleys, but yeah the beatles version kicks serious ass! 1 take at the end of a long recording session, no overdubs.
	♥ 12:11pm doctorjazz: One of the masterpieces of Western Music (with Surfin Bird)!
	♥ 12:12pm chresti: I remember this song from when a babysitter brought her records over.
	12:14pm Listener Robert: Can we discern any pattern to the styles of American pop pre- vs. post-Beatles?
	12:14pm neveract: John Waters used Surfin Bird.. right?
	♥ 12:14pm chresti: * also a song where they sang "hum gully gully, etc.
	♥ 12:16pm coelacanth∅: the beatles brought sophistication into rock & roll. from the instrumental arrangements to the harmonies. but they weren't alone in doing it. it was about time teenagers (did that term exist then?) started thinking.
	12:17pm Dean: "Surfin' Bird," "Papa-Oom-Mow-Mow," progenitors of The Cramps' "Human Fly," et al.
	♥ 12:17pm coelacanth∅: (and later, the lyrics)
	♥ 12:18pm doctorjazz: Had to sit still...
	♥ 12:18pm coelacanth∅: the Great Contours! another Berry Gordy casualty
	12:18pm neveract: cool chresti .. and hi! Maybe someone could do a show with all the music John Waters used in his films.
	♥ 12:18pm adamdoesit: This is pure pleasure.
	12:19pm Gerry from Miami: Wasn't Joe Jackson, father of the Jackson 5, a one-time member of the Contours?
	12:19pm Dean: OED shows "teenager" emerging around 1913, but: "In early use the word seems to have been used particularly in connection with churches."
	♥ 12:19pm doctorjazz: The Beatles were listening to Dylan ands how's their lyrical game accordingly.
	♥ 12:20pm doctorjazz: *Hard to sit still...
	12:20pm dan: Do You Love Me is one of the first songs to have a false ending
	♥ 12:21pm coelacanth∅: Dean, i don't doubt it. i was a little surprised when i read that credit for that term was taken in just the past few decades -i think by a dj?
	♥ 12:23pm chresti: hi neveract! Cha Cha Heels is inspired by John Waters films.
	12:26pm Dean: Ngram viewer suggests radio could have had something to do with growing use of the term: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=teenager&year_start=1900&year_end=2019&corpus=26&smoothing=3
	12:26pm dan: The chorus of Peppermint Twist makes it sound like they’re saying “Jew Boy, Motherfucking Jew Boy”
	♥ 12:27pm coelacanth∅: ...1940s -when there was a fairly quick transition of people in that age group to be now treated as children; when prior to that they were expected to start pretending they were grown-ups. (which people don't start to pretend now until they're... 35?!)
	♥ 12:29pm coelacanth∅: hey, grand funk's alright!
	♥ 12:29pm coelacanth∅: (okay, maybe not their cover of locomotion)
	12:32pm Gerry from Miami: @dan. Not what I hear! Bop-shoo-bop, boppa boppa shoo bop is more like it.
	12:33pm Dean: And Rich in Washington played Divine covering "Walk Like a Man" yesterday.
	12:35pm Gerry from Miami: Any Brainiacs still have that double gatefold LP of the Beatles vs the Four Seasons on Vee-Jay? Worth quite a bit if in excellent condition, I hear.
	12:36pm neveract: @Dean .. Thanks for that Divine reminder!!
	12:38pm Dean: @coelacanth∅: Ain't that the truth?! Is it because our life expectancy has increased that we're compelled to treat full grown adults as kids? Unless, of course, an actual kid, 15 or 16, commits a heinous crime, in which case we're eager to treat him (usually) as an adult.
	♥ 12:39pm coelacanth∅: well, supposing for a second that peppermint twist even has a chorus, which it doesn't, there's nothing in the song that could be imagined to sound like that unless you already have that on your mind.
	12:43pm Dean: There's the Downey label! Wenzel's, RIP.
	12:44pm Dean: Did you hear the show yesterday, @neveract? Or had you heard the Divine track long ago?
	♥ 12:44pm coelacanth∅: i think i almost bought that beatles vs 4 seasons boot. i have a fairly low tolerance for the 4 seasons so i don't think i did. i have some interesting beatleboots, but i can't sell them on discogs and i wont sell on ebay or amazon or etsy... so you can toss 'em onto my decaying body one day.
	12:49pm Gerry from Miami: @coelacanth. The Beatles/Four Seasons double LP on Vee-Jay is NOT a bootleg!
	12:49pm Noel: A lot of this music is extremely popular around Myrtle Beach/Wilmington.
	♥ 12:50pm spodiodi: love the pink sand at myrtle beach (other things too)
	♥ 12:51pm coelacanth∅: oh i misunderstood! Gerry, and i can picture it... but still, i don't think i have it
	12:54pm neveract: Is this Brook Benton singing with Dinah?
	12:54pm Gerry from Miami: BOB and PETE, surely you have the Surfaris' "Wipe Out" in your stack!
	12:56pm neveract: @Dean .. I didn't hear the show yesterday. I'm still exploring the shows on WFMU. I have a friend from NYC who was friends with Divine. And since I loved Waters' films I've been "exposed" to a lot of stuff along the way thru that connection. I never got to meet Divine tho.
	♥ 12:56pm WR: @11:10 @PT: Sorry Pete, got pulled away. Yes, Jimmy Gilmer of Sugar Shack fame.
	12:57pm Dean: @neveract: Best keynote speech at an annual conference of an association to which I belong was delivered by Waters. He pissed off a number of the attendees, which is probably one reason I admired it.
	12:58pm Gerry from Miami: WFMU's Uncle Michael played Marty Robbins's ""El Paso" on his show yesterday. Both these Robbins records are classics.
	♥ 12:59pm coelacanth∅: i think he played "you win again" too, which is the same melody as don't worry, basically
	♥ 1:00pm coelacanth∅: i wouldn't mind hearing a program of songs the beatles covered, all versions from before they did
	1:01pm neveract: @Dean .. Divine made those "pissed off" people THINK .. something most people aren't very comfortable doing .. lol
	1:03pm Dean: Still her legacy.
	1:03pm SecretSquirrel: Walk Don’t Run – at the time, prob my fave pre-British Invasion tune!
	1:04pm Dean: I remember when gasoline (in Southern California) was $0.35/gal.
	1:05pm Listener Robert: Pack of cigs and a gallon of gas were about the same price. Still are.
	♥ 1:05pm Wendy S: I’m in the Bay Area but there used to be a local movie theater that played this John Waters’ thing about not smoking before the start of the movie. Was this just a Bay Area thing or nation wide I wonder.
	1:07pm Dean: Evidently nationwide: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnpofBtijF8
	1:08pm Gerry from Miami: I turned 12 in February of 1959 and my mom gave me my first record player(a Sears Silvertone, of course!). The store threw in 6 free 45s as a bonus. Sheb Wooley's "Purple People Eater" was one of them and I made a drawing of the "one-eyed, one-horned flying" monster for my mom's birthday 17 days later.
	♥ 1:08pm Wendy S: @Dean - 😂 Thanks for sharing. Brings back memories.
	1:10pm Dean: Earliest occurrence of "single" as a reference to "A gramophone record having only one item (typically, of popular music) on each side; an item of music on such a record" is from Billboard, 1949.
	1:13pm Dean: ^in OED, I mean. @Wendy S.: Waters is involved with a new bar in Oakland: https://www.berkeleyside.org/2022/04/11/thee-stork-club-oakland-new-bar-john-waters
	♥ 1:14pm Wendy S: @Dean - thanks for sharing this! I’ll definitely check it out!
	1:15pm neveract: @Dean .. forgot to ask .. what show yesterday were you talking about? I wanna listen next time. Thanks!
	1:15pm Dean: Are you sure about that backstory of Downey Records? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downey_Records
	1:16pm dan: Saw Darlene Love a few years ago in concert and she still sounds amazing
	1:16pm Gerry from Miami: I see that Barry and the Tamerlanes and the Cascades both recorded for Valiant. The Association's first album and single("Along Comes Mary) were on Valiant. Same label??
	1:16pm Dean: @neveract: Rich in Washington filled in for a show for two hours, then continued with his own show, Cratedigger's Lung, on the Sheena stream. https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/118857
	1:17pm neveract: Thanks Dean!
	1:17pm Dean: Dig it!
	1:19pm (Mr) Bill: “Tell Him” is one of the greatest post-Bach works of music.
	1:20pm Pax: We're the 'pattern people' 5th Dimension v Bystanders. U pick. Why? Just because the song is on my brain, so what better place to bring it to than the Bob brainen show.
	1:20pm Listener Robert: Thanks, Dean. I would've thought more likely someone would've tried to connect it to Morton Downey SENIOR.
	1:21pm Dean: I dunno, @Listener Robert. Seems the history of Downey Records is complicated: http://mortondowneyjrshow.com/mortmusic.html
	1:23pm PT: @Pax: I'll take either the Bystanders or the 5th Dimension re: Pattern People. Both great!
	♥ 1:23pm Michael 98145: Enjoying the show. Thank you, Gents.
	♥ 1:24pm Doug Schulkind: Bob & Pete, you had better air another of these fabulous BTB specials PDQ.
	1:26pm PT: @Doug Schulkind: Our pleasure!
	1:27pm Gerry from Miami: "I Can't Stay Mad at You" i by Skeeter Davis is a record that Bunny, the artificial intelligence robot, can't play on the Rock 'n' Soul stream. I have requested it several times, but apparently Skeeter isn't in his library of artists. Thanks for playing it! An all-time fave.
	1:27pm Bob Brainen: Thanks Doug, Part 2 coming up in Sept.!
	1:32pm Gerry from Miami: Betty Everett shoop-shoopin' it in the same month that the Beatles made their first appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show.
	1:33pm PT: @Everyone: Hey, my apologies for messing up the Pipeline/Wipe Out/Morton Downey Jr tale so thoroughly! When I screw up, I really...
	1:33pm ?: Any chance of playing "Freddie" by Connie Francis?
	1:34pm Dean: Billboard, March 2, 1963: "Dot Records President Randy Wood has concluded a release arrangement with Bill Wenzel of Downey Records whereby Dot will issue Downey's "Pipe Line," by the Chantays." No mention of Morton Downey, neither Jr. nor Sr.
	1:35pm Dean: Oops, just saw correction above.
	1:37pm (Mr) Bill: “Shoop Shoop” another as-good-as-it-gets pop song. Cher was born to sing it. Betty Everett, too, I reckon. I see from Wikipedia that the original release was by Merry Clayton; it didn’t chart.
	♥ 1:37pm chresti: Love the Ikettes!
	1:40pm Gerry from Miami: Got any 45s from the pride of Tenafly, NJ, Miss Lesley Gore?
	♥ 1:40pm Wendy S: My Boyfriend’s Back - an “earworm” if there ever was.
	♥ 1:45pm Michael 98145: They won't tell your secret
	1:48pm Jeff: https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/latimes/name/abner-spector-obituary?id=32855842
	1:48pm Gerry from Miami: Brit folk group Pentangle did a great cover of "Sally, Go 'Round the Roses" featuring Jackie McShea on vocals.
	1:49pm SecretSquirrel: Sally Go Round the Roses – regarding “keep your secrets,” there was a persistent rumor that the lyrics referenced a lesbian relationship. Or a teen pregnancy. Or an ancient nursery rhyme…
	♥ 1:53pm Wendy S: Love these special shows; l always learn a lot. Kitty cat DJ was an added bonus 🐱
	♥ 1:54pm spodiodi: thanks a lot, Bob and Pete! loved today's show
	♥ 1:54pm adamdoesit: Bob and Pete, great show! you made your case joyously. I coulda listened all day.
	♥ 1:54pm Andrew in Toronto: Thanks for the great show!
	1:55pm (Mr) Bill: Many thanks for the anniversary gift, Bob and Pete.
	1:56pm Dean: 1974, the Summer of Love
	1:56pm Jeff: Thanks Bob + Pete! This one went by too quickly.
	1:56pm PT: Thanks for listening, everyone! Part Deux coming up next month...
	1:56pm Gerry from Miami: I'm banking on you two putting "Wipe Out" and Lesley Gore in your stack for the next time you do a pre-Beatles show. Thanks for today's superb show. I can see your follow-up being even better!
	♥ 1:57pm WR: Thank you! Thank you!
	♥ 1:57pm wmfromD: Excellent show Bob and Pete!
	♥ 1:58pm Michael 98145: over too soon
	1:58pm listener James from Westwood: Thanks, you two!
	♥ 2:00pm coelacanth∅: Thanks Bob! Thanks Pete!
	2:00pm Bob Brainen: Thanks all!
	♥ 2:02pm Gina Bacon: Thanks, you guys!
	5:18pm Robbie White: Excellent show. I look forward to part 3.
	♥ 5:33pm doctorjazz: Had to run before the last set, ,but great show, thanks, Bob and Pete!
	♥ 11:00am Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ~ TY Always DJs BB & PT ~

Bob Brainen: Playlist from August 20, 2022

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