Listening to Marshall Crenshaw's show from last week and it's a salute to Mosrite Guitars...
http://www.mosriteguitars.com/
I got curious about his podcast so I found the archive page (http://wfuv.streamguys.us/cgi-bin/colinker.cgi?colink=130825094932285) and am listening to the July 16th show, the one that started off w four Roy Orbison songs (in mono). He just played the Fleet Foxes -- I have to check out more of their stuff. Their song sounded really good.
I've become quite a fan of his show -- it's Little Steven without the shtick (not that there's anything wrong with LS's shtick).
meanwhile, 2NG's retro-chart is from July 1962 today. Wow, a vocal version of Acker Bilk's "Stranger on the Shore" by Andy Williams. Gonna be some weird-ass shit here today.
oo! Richard Chamberlain's "Theme From
Dr Kildare" -- swoon!
Wacky Sedaky, "Breaking Out of the Closet is Hard to Do". OMFG: "Palisades Park"!
NTM: the UK version of "Cindy's Birthday" by Shane Fenton and the Fen-Tones (love that name!).
OMGWTFLOL: Pet Clark's "Ya Ya Twist", which is Lee Dorsey's "Sittin in La la..." --
en Francais! zut alors!
Even more WTF: someone named Bernard Cribbins (the actor?) doing a song called ... "Right Said Fred". And it's not too sexy for anything.
awww... the Top 2 singles were Ray Charles' "I Can't Stop Loving You" and Frank Ifield's "I Remember You". I was 7 years old.
ETA: post-countdown, we're getting a fairly long loooong version of "Tubular bells". Nice.
wow, they just played the '80s remake of Traffic's "Hole in My Shoe" by "Neil", the character from the
Young Ones Britcom. Clever and hilarious. And here's EJ's lovely "Song For Guy" -- a *huge* UK hit that did nothing over here.