18 January 2008--it's...1968!!

[urth]

another BOS BBs -- oh WTF -- 10-way tie.  Dave's making up for the rest of the week today.

Yeah, that's fer sure. Hope the rest of the gang is listening 'cause this has been a fab set. And I Second that Emotion! Dave's R&B selections today have been superlative!

[ggould]

01/18/2008 - FRIDAY!!! Time Spent in...1968!!
 
1.   Marvin Gaye - Heard it Through the Grapevine      
2.   Crazy World of Arthur Brown - Fire      
3.   Vanilla Fudge - You Keep Me Hangin' On (BEST OF SET!!)      
4.   Mason Williams - Classical Gas      
5.   Delphonics - La La Means I Love You      
6.   Turtles - Elenore      
7.   Beach Boys - Friends      
8.   Troggs - Love is All Around      
9.   Beatles - Lady Madonna      
10.   Smoky & the Miracles - I Second That Emotion

[Gazoo]

Chicago is a "Toddlin'" town, actually.  Y'know that Spielberg is filming "Trial of the Chicago Seven" next", right? With Philip Seymour Hoffman as William Kunstler and (gulp) Willl Smith as Bobby Seale.

"FIE-uh!"  BOS CWOAB.

Gets my BOS.  That may be the single greatest opening ever.  (I'd love to undertake this countdown someday.)

But isn't "FIE-uh!" more the Ohio Players inflection?

[RGMike]

Meant to take note of this earlier, but Dave referred to "shoop-shoop orchestra leader's batons by Wham-O", obviously a tip o' the hat to the founder of Wham-O (makers of hoola-hoops and frisbees) who died yesterday.  Also liked his reference to Friday as "the best day" on 10@10. (well, unless Dave's on vacay and we get a late-'80s "classic")

Glad Gaz is here for the replay and "Elenor", really.

[Gazoo]

holy crap! BOS5 "Elenor", my pride and joy etc.  proxy of Gaz.

Gee, I think it's swellenore.  (Did John McLaughlin really say this to Eleanor Clift on his show once, or is that an invented memory on my part?)

[Gazoo]

a tip o' the hat to the founder of Wham-O (makers of hoola-hoops and frisbees) who died yesterday.

I'd missed this bit of news.

[RGMike]

holy crap! BOS5 "Elenor", my pride and joy etc.  proxy of Gaz.

Gee, I think it's swellenore.  (Did John McLaughlin really say this to Eleanor Clift on his show once, or is that an invented memory on my part?)

and she told him he was all wet wet wet.

[Gazoo]

"Love is All Around".  The Wet Wet Wet cover was #1 in the UK for something like 4 MONTHS.

Second-biggest hit in UK chart history.  Five frink points for Number One?

[RGMike]

One of my all-time fave lines: "Sunday morning creeping like a nun" Or at least like Eric Idle and Robbie Coltrane dressed as nuns.

Gaz, I hope tomorrow is a good year on AT40; I'll be listening in bed and drifting in-n-out of consciousness. 

[RGMike]

"Love is All Around".  The Wet Wet Wet cover was #1 in the UK for something like 4 MONTHS.

Second-biggest hit in UK chart history.  Five frink points for Number One?

EJ's Princess Di "Candle..."?  I know that's up there sales-wise, if not weeks-at-#1-wise.

[Gazoo]

"Love is All Around".  The Wet Wet Wet cover was #1 in the UK for something like 4 MONTHS.

Second-biggest hit in UK chart history.  Five frink points for Number One?

EJ's Princess Di "Candle..."?  I know that's up there sales-wise, if not weeks-at-#1-wise.

You're correct, of course, but I'm going for the weeks-at-#1 record.

And I'll be doing the same kinda drifting tomorrow a.m.

[RGMike]

"Love is All Around".  The Wet Wet Wet cover was #1 in the UK for something like 4 MONTHS.

Second-biggest hit in UK chart history.  Five frink points for Number One?

EJ's Princess Di "Candle..."?  I know that's up there sales-wise, if not weeks-at-#1-wise.

You're correct, of course, but I'm going for the weeks-at-#1 record.

well, I couldn't go to bed without looking up the answer, and actually there are two answers:

Most Weeks at Number 1 --
18 - by Frankie Laine's "I Believe". It topped the UK chart on three separate occasions (all in 1953).

Most Consecutive Weeks at Number 1 --
16 - by Bryan Adams' "(Everything I Do) I Do It For You" (1991).

(The Wet Wet Wet cover of "Love is all Around" was #1 for a mere 15 weeks)

[mshray]

Ack! Poorly timed phone call from my sis, so I missed everything from the Toddlin town clip until mid-Classical Gas. What'd I miss besides Crazy Arthur?

The thing you really missed is that Dave spliced the end of the 'Toddlin town clip' such that Da Mayor's rant went seamlessly into the words "I am the God of Hellfire!".  I was driving at the time & rang Dave up to say that was brilliant how he turned Richard J. Daley into the God of Hellfire, and he was cracking himself up over it.