Well, I received my CD copy of Cruisin' 1965 from an Amazon.com vendor but I'm a bit disappointed that it's missing several of the songs that were on the original vinyl version. (According to a Web site, the record company lost the rights to many of the songs in the series, which features classic top-40 radio shows from major U.S. cities.)
Fortunately I still have my patched-up cassette made from the vinyl LP, and I managed to copy it to a new cassette with little trouble. Crusin' 1965 is DJed by Robert W. Morgan of KHJ-Los Angeles.
I may or may not order any further CDs from the series, but they're good listening and readily available (unlike the vinyl records), so I recommend 'em. A few tapes from the series are still being sold, too, but I think they're abridged like the CDs.

Still playing with this one; not sure if I dare post it to Jellytown; feeling outclassed with all the top-notch tributes I've seen so far.

Sign on door: PSYCHIC FAIR
sign pasted over top of it: CANCELED DUE TO PREDICTED LACK OF INTEREST

May as well make it 10. Here's number 9 on my song list. I seem to be stuck in 1965:

WOOLY BULLY (by Domingo Samudio, aka Sam the Sham, and the Pharaohs)


lyrics:

Uno, dos, one, two, tres, quatro
Matty told Hatty about a thing she saw.
Had two big horns and a wooly jaw.
Wooly bully, wooly bully.
Wooly bully, wooly bully, wooly bully.
Hatty told Matty, "Let's don't take no chance.
Let's not be L-seven, come and learn to dance."
Wooly bully, wooly bully
Wooly bully, wooly bully, wooly bully.
Matty told Hatty, "That's the thing to do.
Get you someone really to pull the wool with you."
Wooly bully, wooly bully.
Wooly bully, wooly bully, wooly bully.



video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJOvCHD1uHY

history:

http://www.classicbands.com/samsham.html

trivia:

http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=4366

(Apparently "L-seven" in the lyrics was an expression for being "square."

No. 8 in a series of 7:
Another one from 1965, this time by the Fortunes. This song, which I've always liked, for some reason, still strikes me as a polite way of telling a pal to get lost. The video, according to the Youtube posts, is from some 1980s British film.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oit1i21i7Jw

Couple throwing rice at newlyweds outside church:
"This IS the gift. Do you realize how much this stuff costs?

I just ordered a CD of this to replace my worn (and repaired) audiocassette copy. Notice the Marvel Comics reference (the stack of books on the left). According to the Web site this came from, Mike Royer drew these album covers, which starred a character named Eddie. (Most of the series was released, on vinyl, around 1970.) Cruisin' was a tribute to AM radio from the '50s to the early '70s, featuring programs from top-40 stations from each year.



The whole groovy, boss shu-bop shebang is here:

http://leemichaelwithers.tripod.com/cruisin.htm

Angels looking down from clouds at rainbow signed "Bestimost." One says: "See how much brighter it is? The new colorist is a genius with Photoshop."

Hmm. One song to go on my Top 7 list (but I'll probably list more as the spring and summer progress because this fun, and, to quote the man who accidentally sat on his coffee-break snack: I'm on a roll. (Sorry.))

In light of my past six choices, here's the one I SHOULD be listing, but am not:

http://www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu/~norm/TakeMeAway.html

(the classic 1966 novelty song by Napoleon XIV)

Instead, my last-but-not-least is the sign-off song on one of the "Cruisin'" albums in my collection. (Remember? Those discs and tapes of Baby Boomer-era radio shows, commercials and all, with jackets illustrated in pop art/romance comics style.)

This was the fadeout track played by Robert W. Morgan of KHJ Los Angeles on the show featured in "Cruisin' 1965": A pop reworking of Bach's "Minuet in G major" as a hit single by the Toys.


Lyrics

http://www.geocities.com/lyricalmusings/lyrics/a_loversconcerto.htm

sound

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abimoWemAjs&feature=related

This work, of course, was referenced in the movie "Mr. Holland's Opus," in a scene where music teacher Holland (Richard Dreyfuss) is promoting classical tradition to his mid-1960s high-school class.

Not sure where these ideas for the seven songs are coming from, but for No. 6 (maybe inspired by the brotherhood of the Internet) I just thought of this number from "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying," a show I've seen performed live twice: in the 1980s by a professional touring company and in the 1990s in a local high-school version. (Kim got me involved in shows when we started dating in 1993. I've had bit parts in a few. Fun but tiring.)

Also it's no coincidence that any day now (ulp!) I'm supposed to see my annual job-performance review.

This clip is from the movie:

http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=l_29IeEeZqo

Here are the lyrics:


http://www.stlyrics.com/lyrics/howtosucceedinbusinesswithoutreallytrying/brotherhoodofman.htm

Gym workout fact 1:
Ten minutes of vigorous effort on a rowing machine or treadmill is 3,000 times longer than 10 minutes of sleeping in.

They should measure that sometime and prove me right.

Gym workout fact 2:
If you yell at a barbell or dumbbells, the weight goes up easier but people look at you funny.

Gym workout fact 3:
I always feel better after a gym workout. Partly that's due to the fact that it's over; but probably only, say, 25%.

Here's an example of an old trick I often employ: using a photocopy of an old image in a new cartoon. (I had drawn the TV newscaster for something else, but for this I just photocopied him, glued down the copy at an angle, and attached the new caption. In all this scanning I have also been erasing (in Microsoft Paint) all the nasty blobs and spots that seem to get all over my work. One time, by the way, a recycled drawing of mine (unsold one, photocopied with new caption) sold to the National Enquirer for over $200. (Unfortunately they no longer publish cartoons.)

This one still hasn't sold but it's the type of cartoon quite a few mags still use. (Today I'm scanning some of my more recent stuff and posting it here and in the community called "cartooning" on LJ. Procrastinating about drawing any new material.)

Thought I'd throw this one into the mix, though I haven't played it lately. It's a famous 1950s novelty record from a collection Steve had in the late '70s (Kenny Everett's "YUK") and it was put on cassette for me by Steve (in a low-tech manner elsewhere described) among a bunch of tunes during my 1979 visit.

And it reminds me of how people in this town drive.

http://www.lyricsandsongs.com/song/548931.html

This guy's sort of interesting:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nervous_Norvus

I'm not a major fan of Billy Joel, but I sort of like the lyrics and tune of this one when I hear it (again, usually, at the gym, where the classic-rock station Zee-Ninety-Three is the standard background fare. I don't own an Ipod or anything.)

http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/You-May-Be-Right-lyrics-Billy-Joel/73086F9B26BE24944825687000208E40

This turned up in my search last night for some Steve Whitaker letters: My X-Men Fan Club membership card from 1981 (when I lived in Johnson City, NY, near Binghamton.)

Look what we bought at the post office today. (Kim needed to mail a package and a letter and I noticed the stamp the clerk put on the letter was a vintage Hulk cover. So I pleaded enough and Kim bought me a sheet of these.) I probably won't use them, just keep 'em as souvenirs. Just as well. The price of a first-class letter goes up a penny next month.

I just remembered this one, which I have been listening to (via reruns on the American Life cable TV channel) since December: The "Flight-of-the Bumblebee" theme tune, orchestrated by Billy May and played by trumpeter Al Hirt, for the old "Green Hornet" TV show starring Van Williams and Bruce Lee (as Kato).


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1Zm54tGCHo

I was going to mention to this to Steve Whitaker in our next conversation, which sadly was not to happen. I somehow missed the Green Hornet in its original airings (maybe it wasn't shown in the UK, where I then lived; anyone?) Anyway, its similarities to Batman (by the same people) are apparent, but I'm glad they played it as a straightforward (if low-budget) action series and not "Pow-Zap"-style.

Martin: So far this has been fun; never thought of it as a chore at all. It's an interesting springboard for more blog material and it gets me thinking about my musical tastes (which have been dormant of late). Sorry that so far I haven't listed anything I own on CD, record or cassette, though. Will get to some of those soon.

My musical tastes are a bit off the wall (PTHEGHH!) Maybe that's why they taste like wallpaper paste.

More later.

And while I'm in a link-posting mood, here's the online edition of the paper I work for:

http://www.watertowndailytimes.com/