Dig, Baby, Dig! The 60s Rock & Roll Excavation with John E. Midnight

1) MPD Limited “Her Favourite Song”
2) The Ugly Ducklings “Just In Case You Wonder”
3) Cuby & the Blizzards “Stumble and Fall”
4) Gonn “Blackout of Gretely”

Embryonic Heroes (Peter Cetera):
5) The Exceptions “As Far As I Can See”

6) The Cryan’ Shames “I Wanna Meet You”
7) The Esquires “These Are the Tender Years”
8) The Pastels “Yeah I Wanna Know”

Compare & Contrast:
9) The Swinging Blue Jeans “Hippy Hippy Shake”
10) Melvin & his Gentlemen “Hippy Hippy Shake”

11) The Moonjacks “Come On”
12) Dave Gordon & the Rebel Guys “Call Me”
13) Los Flippers “Flipprotesta”
14) Los Locos del Ritmo “Chica Alborotada (Tallahassee Lassie)”
15) Los Vikings “Tu Crees Mi”
16) The Difference “I Wonder Why”

Rock Block:
17) The Shadows of Knight “I’ve Got My Mojo Working”
18) The Shadows of Knight “Bad Little Woman”
19) The Shadows of Knight “Dark Side”
20) The Shadows of Knight “Let It Rock” (live)

Lousy Song of the Week:
21) The Bees “Trip to New Orleans”

22) The Wylde Heard “Take It On Home”
23) The Pulsating Heartbeats “Anne”
24) The Stone Cutters “Fellow Slave”

Shoulda Been a Hit:
25) 3’s a Crowd “I Don’t Wanna Drive You Away”

26) Bohemian Vendetta “Riddles & Fairytales”
27) Plant and See “Mrs. Tree”
28) Linn County “Think”

New Release of the Week:
29) The Contrast “Something Isn’t Right” Underground Ghosts CD

30) The Other Four “Searching For Your Love”
31) The Hard Times “There’ll Be a Time”
32) The Skunks “I Need No One”
33) John Carter “Waiting Here For Someone”
34) The Soul Proprietors “All”

A Note from the Archivist: For the sake of continuity, an unfettered spin of "Call Me" by Dave Gordon & the Rebel Guys has been included in this legacy podcast.

1) Thee Midniters “Everybody Needs Somebody to Love”
2) The Liverpool Set “Seventeen Tears to the End”
3) The Stags “Out of Our Tree”
4) The Twentieth Century Zoo “Rainbow”
5) West Five “She Mine”
6) Pete Tierney & the Nighthawks “That’s Too Bad”
7) The Knack (UK) “Take Your Love”
8) The Undertakers (UK) “Throw Your Love Away Girl”

Embryonic Heroes / Rock Block:
9) The Bee Gees “Could It Be”
10) The Bee Gees “I’ve Got to Learn”
11) The Bee Gees “Mrs. Gillespie’s Refrigerator”
12) The Bee Gees “Such a Shame”

Lousy Song of the Week:
13) The Underdogs (NZ) “There Will Come a Time”

14) Hal & the Prophets “Shame, Shame, Shame”
15) Keith Allison “Louise”
16) The Venturie ‘5’ “Good ‘n’ Bad”
17) The Doppler Effect “Memphis Woman”
18) The Buffalo Springfield “Go and Say Goodbye”
19) The Corvettes “Beware of Time”
20) Hearts and Flowers “Rock and Roll Gypsies”

Compare & Contrast:
21) The McCoys “Say Those Magic Words”
22) The Birds “Say Those Magic Words”

23) The Hooterville Trolley “No Silver Bird”
24) The Brass Buttons “Hell Will Take Care of Her”

Shoulda’ Been a Hit:
25) The Two of Each “Trust”

26) Michael Leslie “Make Up Or Break Up”
27) Hat & Tie “Finding It Rough”
28) The Shy Limbs “Reputation”

New Release of the Week:
29) The Royal Purple “Come On Home” Psycho Acoustic CD

30) The Characters “Tell Me”
31) The Private Property of Digil “To My Friends”
32) The Henchmen VI “Is Love Real?”

A Note from the Archivist: The Brian Bordon Tape Archive comes through again, providing a couple vital patches to restore this program to its unadulterated splendor.

1) The Hearsemen “I Get That Feeling”
2) Rhythm & Blues Inc. “Honey Don’t”
3) The Phantoms “Roadrunner”
4) The Haymarket Riot “Leaving”

Shoulda Been a Hit:
5) Jewel & Eddie “Opportunity”

6) The Chartbusters “Slippin’ Thru Your Fingers”
7) The Wailers “Do You Wanna Dance”
8) Karen Verros “You Just Gotta Know My Mind”

Lousy Song of the Week:
9) The Driving Stupid “The Reality of (Air) Fried Borsk” (2nd version)

10) The Seeds of Time “She’s Been Travelin’ ‘Round the World”
11) The Tropics “I Want More”
12) The Brain Train “Me"

Compare & Contrast:
13) The Hitmakers “What You Gonna Do About It”
14) The La De Da’s “Whatcha Gonna Do About It”

15) Danny Diaz & the Checkmates “It’s So Easy”
16) Erick Saint-Laurent “Vendredi M’obsede (Friday On My Mind)”

Rock Block:
17) The Troggs “Lost Girl”
18) The Troggs “From Home”
19) The Troggs “I Just Sing”
20) The Troggs “Cousin Jane”

B-Side / Flip Over the Record:
21) The Soul Survivors “Hey Gyp”

22) The City Squires “Is It Time"
23) The Common LTD “I’m Going to Change the World”
24) Max Frost & the Troopers “Shape of Things to Come”

New Release of the Week:
25) The Goldstars “D.M.V.” Purple Girlfriend CD

26) The Goldstar Brothers “May Be”
27) The Paramounts “About Girls”
28) The Zoo “Go”

Embryonic Heroes (Peter Frampton):
29) The Herd “I Can Fly”

30) Front Page News “Thoughts”
31) The Regiment “My Soap Won’t Float”
32) The Blackpools “I’m Wild About You”

1) The Cherokees “I’ll Give You Love”
2) I Barritas “Sa Pacchia”
3) Teddy & the Pandas “Running From Love”
4) The Mustangs “Never Fall In Love" (1st version)

Shoulda Been a Hit:
5) The Grassroots “Is It Any Wonder”

6) James T. & the Workers “I Can’t Stop”
7) This Side Up “Why Can’t I Dream?”
8) The Blues Invention “Mystery Man”

Lousy Song of the Week:
9) The Misterians “Intoxication”

10) Richie Knight & the Mid-Knights “Homework”
11) The Madhatters “Chicks Are For Kids”
12) The Newberry 4 “That’s Why I’m a Rolling Stone”
13) Mickie Most & the Gear “Sea Cruise”
14) Pat Wayne with the Beachcombers “Roll Over Beethoven”
15) The Mindbenders “All Night Worker”
16) The Artwoods “Things Get Better”

Compare & Contrast:
17) Donovan “The Fat Angel”
18) The Crystal Ball “Trans-Love Airways”

19) Dave Christie “Penelope Breedlove”
20) Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich “Master Lewellyn”

Embryonic Heroes (Andy Summers):
21) Dantalion’s Chariot “World War Three”

22) The Human Instinct “Rich Man”
23) Los Chijuas “El Sol Se Esta Obscureciendo”
24) Baris Manco & Kaygisizlar “Trip (Fairground)”

Rock Block:
25) The Peanut Butter Conspiracy “Eventually”
26) The Peanut Butter Conspiracy “The Most Up Till Now”
27) The Peanut Butter Conspiracy “Wonderment”
28) The Peanut Butter Conspiracy “Try”

New Release of the Week:
29) A Band of Bees “Hot One!” Octopus CD

30) The King-Beats “Same Way, Every Day”
31) The Petards “She Didn’t”
32) The Sheiks “Eusebio”

1) The Standells “Riot On Sunset Strip”
2) The King-Beezz “I Gotta Move”
3) Les 409 “They Say”
4) Euphoria’s Id “Deception’s Ice”

Compare & Contrast:
5) The Lions “Teenage Letter”
6) Les Ombres “Teenage Letter”

7) The Krauts (Beatchers) “A Lot of Love”
8) The Dukes “The Day That Changed My Life”

New Release of the Week:
9) The 1990s “See You at the Lights” CD single

10) The Rockin’ Berries “You’d Better Come Home”
11) Lindsay Muir’s Untamed “Daddy Long Legs”
12) The Loose Ends (UK) “I Ain’t Gonna Eat Out My Heart Anymore”
13) The Crabs “Chase Yourself”
14) The Rumors “Hold Me Now”
15) The Tikis “Pay Attention to Me”
16) The Ides of March “Girls Don’t Grow On Trees”

Lousy Song of the Week:
17) Sur Royal da Count & the Parliaments “Scream Mother Scream”

18) Dwight Douglas & the Jayhawkers “Interstate 45”
19) The Abstrak Sound “You’re Gona Break My Heart”
20) The Tidal Waves “Action (Speaks Louder Than Words)”

Shoulda Been a Hit:
21) The Fun and Games “It Must Have Been the Wind”

22) Fever Tree “Filigree & Shadow”
23) Tommy Boyce & Bobby Hart “Sometimes She’s a Little Girl”
24) The Band of Wynand “Day-time, Nite-time”

Embryonic Heroes (Nick Lowe):
25) Kippington Lodge “Rumours”

26) Christopher “The Race”
27) The Rainy Daze “What Do You Think”
28) Ways and Means “Breaking Up a Dream”
29) The Fender IV “Highway Surfer”
30) The Hombres “Let It Out (Let It All Hang Out)”
31) The Kix “What Would Life Be”

A Note From Your So-Called Host: The digital skip I refer to has since been corrected so as to maximize your enjoyment of said music. You're welcome.

1) The Delcords “I Got Wise”
2) The Chances “Get Out of My Life”
3) The Checkmates “It Ain’t Right”
4) The Rattles “Sticks and Stones”
5) The Dearly Beloved “I’m Not Coming Back”
6) The Original Sinners “I’ll Be Home”
7) The Jagged Edge “You Can’t Keep a Good Man Down”
8) Tony & the Vizitors “Saturday’s Son”

Embryonic Heroes (Creedence Clearwater Revival) / Rock Block:
9) Tommy Fogerty & the Blue Velvets “Have You Ever Been Lonely”
10) The Golliwogs “Try Try Try”
11) Creedence Clearwater Revival “Porterville”
12) Creedence Clearwater Revival “It Came Out of the Sky”

Compare & Contrast:
13) The Ivy League “My World Fell Down”
14) Sagittarius “My World Fell Down”

15) The Paisleys “Something’s Missing”
16) Tomorrow “My White Bicycle”

Lousy Song of the Week:
17) T. Zchien & the Johnny “I Find Only a Dream”

18) The Scalds (Skaldowie) “The Fair (Jarmark)”
19) The Tol-Puddle Martyrs “Nellie Bligh”
20) I Bisonti “Ma Se Ci Perso”

New Release of the Week:
21) The Leftovers "Dance With Me" On the Move CD

22) The Blizzards “I’m Your Guy” (single version)
23) The Tony Hendrik Five “I Ain’t Got You”
24) The Zeroes “Work All Day (Sleep All Night)”

Shoulda Been a Hit:
25) The Fireballs “Light In the Window”

26) The Brentwoods “Yeah, Yeah, No, No"
27) The Huns “Winning Ticket”
28) Buckwheat “Goodbye Mr. Applegate”
29) The Corvets “Please Don’t Go”
30) The Mourning Missed “I’m Not Your Brother”
31) The Raymarks “Feelin’ No Good”
32) Ray Sharp & the Soul Set “Earthquake”

1) The Exterminators “Voo-Doo”
2) The Chaparrals “So Good”
3) Powered By Love “Powered By Love”
4) Light “Back Up”

Compare & Contrast:
5) Fab “I Can Only Give You Everything”
6) The Little Boy Blues “I Can Only Give You Everything”

7) The Selfkick “Gosh! I'm Your Woman, Not Your Wife!”
8) The Ro-D-Ys “Bad Babe”
9) The Vagrants “Respect”
10) The Lovin’ Spoonful “Darling Be Home Soon”
11) The Royal Guardsmen “Leaving Me”
12) The Music Explosion “Patches Dawn”

Embryonic Heroes (Mick Fleetwood, drums):
13) The Cheynes “Respectable”

14) The Kirkbys “Don’t You Want Me No More”
15) The Pack “Things That Bring Me Down”
16) The David (UK) “Light of Your Mind”

Shoulda Been a Hit:
17) Five Steps Beyond “Don’t Let It Worry You”

18) Pussy “Come Back June”
19) The Dakotas “The Spider and the Fly”
20) Timebox “Gone Is the Sad Man”

Lousy Song of the Week:
21) The Bag “Incubatin' Middle of the Night Gyratin' Blues”

22) The Fabulous Prophets “Gertrude”
23) The Misty Blues “I Feel No Pain”
24) Dee Jay & the Runaways “He's Not Your Friend” 
25) The Speakers “Glendora”
26) Los Shakers “The Child and Me”
27) Os Selvagens “Tenho Que Esperar”
28) The Top Five “Esqueces Que Te Ami”

New Release of the Week:
29) The Blue Jackets “You Can Sing” Shadows of the City CD

1) Jimmy Powell & the 5 Dimensions “Sugar Babe”
2) The Mersey 5 “What It’s All About”
3) Los Saicos “El entierro de los gatos”
4) The Finders “I’m Crying”
5) The Walkers “Mona”
6) The Shivers “No, No, No, No”
7) Tony Worsley & the Blue Jays “Something”
8) Os Incriveis “Hold Tight”

Compare & Contrast:
9) The Righteous Brothers “Little Latin Lupe Lu”
10) Don & the Goodtimes “Little Latin Lupe Lu”

11) The Teardrops “Sweet Sweet Sadie”
12) The Last Word “Jump Point and Shout”

Shoulda Been a Hit:
13) Me & the Other Guys “I Don’t Care”

14) The Sons of Champlin “Say You Know”
15) Country Joe & the Fish “Thing Called Love”
16) The Other Half “Flight of the Dragon Lady”
17) Focal Point “Sycamore Sid”
18) The Turquoise “Woodstock”
19) Pussyfoot “Dee Dee Do Your Dance”
20) The Moody Blues “Peak Hour” (live BBC Easybeat 9/20/67)
21) Dave Berry “Don’t Gimme No Lip, Child”
22) The Druids “See What You’ve Done”
23) The Beatstalkers “You’d Better Get a Hold On”
24) Dean Ford & the Gaylords “He’s a Good Face, But He’s Down and Out"

Embryonic Heroes:
25) Ronnie Dio & the Redcaps “An Angel Is Missing”

26) The Niteriders “Whatever’s Right”
27) The Rockin’ Ramrods “She Lied”
28) The Voxmen “Time Won’t Change My Mind”

Lousy Song of the Week:
29) Fred Gartner & the Ferraris “A Good Girl Is a Pretty Girl”

30) The Missing Lynx “When a Woman Goes Bad”

New Release of the Week:
31) Auto Interiors “True Life In Cinema” Let’s Agree to Deceive Our Best Friends CD

1) The Snobs “Heartbreak Hotel”
2) The Changin’ Times “Thank You Babe”
3) The Olympics (Czechoslovakia) “O Pulnoci”
4) Sound of Imker “Train of Doomsday”
5) Tony Jackson & the Vibrations “This Little Girl of Mine”
6) Bill Kimber “Be Mine”
7) Tony Brook with the Breakers “Meanie Genie”
8) Brian Howard & the Silhouettes “Back In the U.S.A.”

Compare & Contrast:
9) Johnny Kidd & the Pirates “Shakin’ All Over”
10) Normie Rowe & the Playboys “Shakin’ All Over”

11) The Pussycats “Boom Boom”
12) The Shamrocks “Nursery Rhyme”

Shoulda Been a Hit:
13) The Choir “I’d Rather You Leave Me”

14) The Stillroven “Would You Believe”
15) The Live Five “Move Over and Let Me Fly”
16) The Undertakers (USA) “Rosalyn”

Rock Block / Four of a Kind:
17) The Pretty Things “Get Yourself Home”
18) The Pretty Things “Midnight to Six Man” (live)
19) The Pretty Things “LSD”
20) The Pretty Things “Walking Through My Dreams”

21) The Rock & Roll Dubble Bubble Trading Card Co. of Philadelphia – 19141 “Bubble Gum Music”
22) 1910 Fruitgum Co. “May I Take a Giant Step (Into Your Heart)”
23) The Lemon Pipers “Jelly Jungle (Of Orange Marmalade)”
24) The Ohio Express “Pinch Me (Baby, Convince Me)”

New Release of the Week:
25) The Maggots “Go Away” Monkey Time! CD

26) The German Bonds “We Are Out of Sight”
27) The Julian Kirsch “Clever Little Man”
28) The Barrier “Dawn Breaks Through”

Lousy Song of the Week:
29) Tony Burello “There’s a New Sound”

30) The Hollow Steps “Hung Up On You”
31) The Velveteens “Ching Bam Bah”
32) The Scoundrels “Up There”

Embryonic Heroes (Iggy Pop):
33) The Iguanas “Mona”

A Note From the Archivist: Once again, the Brian Bordon Archive comes through, helping restore a missing back-announcing break to this episode. Now if we can only convince him to hand over that print of London After Midnight.

1) The Fourmost “Heebie Jeebies”

2) The V.I.P.’s “She’s So Good”

3) The Preachers “The Zeke”

4) Kenny & the Kasuals “It’s Alright”

 

Embryonic Heroes (ZZ Top):

5) The Moving Sidewalks “99th Floor”

 

6) The Swamp Rats “It’s Not Easy” (1st version)

7) The Monocles “Psychedelic (That’s Where It’s At)”

8) The Electric Prunes “Hideaway”

 

Rock Block:

9) The Spencer Davis Group “Midnight Train”

10) The Spencer Davis Group “It’s Gonna Work Out Fine” (live: 1965)

11) The Spencer Davis Group “Oh! Pretty Woman” (BBC)

12) The Spencer Davis Group “Morning Sun”

 

Shoulda Been a Hit:

13) The Gremlins “The Only Thing On My Mind”

 

14) Larry’s Rebels “I’ll Make You Happy”

15) The Loved Ones “I Want You to Love Me”

16) The Brothers “Su Su Ragazzi”

17) Los Pacificos “All Day and All of the Night”

18) The Traffic Sound “Those Days Have Gone”

19) The Mops “Bera yo isoge”

20) The Dynamites “Otonono senso”

 

Compare & Contrast:

21) The Mystics “Snoopy”

22) The Remains “Hang On Sloopy”

 

23) The Hides “Don’t Be Difficult”

24) Sonny Flaharty & the Mark V “When I Close My Eyes’”

 

Lousy Song of the Week:

25) Pandora & the Males “Kiddie a Go Go”

 

26) The Gestures “Run, Run, Run” (demo version)

27) William Penn & his Pals “Gotta Get Away”

28) Kaleidoscope (USA) “Pulsating Dream”

 

New Release of the Week:

29) The Ugly Beats “Let Me Through” Take a Stand With CD

 

30) The Eccentrics “What You Got”

31) The Attack “Try It”

 

A note from your humbled host: Regrettably, I propagated misinformation via my Compare and Contrast segment. While it's true that the Mystics released "Snoopy" in late '64, a Los Angeles R&B group The Vibrations released the very first version of "Hang On Sloopy" (titled "My Girl Sloopy") earlier that year.

1) Los Brincos “Dance “The Pulga””
2) The Talismen “You Break My Heart”
3) The Worlocks “I Love You”
4) The Master’s Apprentices “Hot Gully Wind”

Embryonic Heroes (The Creation) / Rock Block:
5) The Mark Four “Hurt Me (If You Will)”
6) The Creation “Try and Stop Me”
7) The Creation “Painter Man” (unreleased stereo mix)
8) The Creation “How Does It Feel to Feel”

Geographic Rock Block (New Zealand & Australia):
9) The Breakaways “A Travelled Man”
10) Chris Hall & the Torquays “Don’t Ask Me Why”
11) The Allusions “Gypsy Woman”
12) The Twilights “Sorry She’s Mine”

Lousy Song of the Week:
13) The Belles “Melvin”

14) The Gants “I Wonder”
15) The Feathers “When Day Is Done”
16) Kama-Del-Sutra “She Taught Me Love”
17) The Jefferson Airplane “Blues From an Airplane”
18) H.P. Lovecraft “At the Mountains of Madness”
19) Gandalf “Can You Travel In the Dark Alone”
20) The Robbs “Write to You” 

Shoulda Been a Hit:
21) The Gents “Honor Bright”

22) The Namelosers “Suzie Q”
23) The Deejays “Dimples”
24) Pee White & the Magic Strangers “King Bee” 
25) The Soul Agents “I Just Wanna Make Love to You”
26) The Beat Merchants “Pretty Face”
27) The Peeps “The Loser Wins”
28) The Crescendoes “Heidi-Heidi-Ho (Minnie the Moocher)”

Compare & Contrast:
29) The Liverbirds “Diddley Daddy”
30) The British Walkers “Diddley Daddy”

31) The Koobas “You’d Better Make Up Your Mind”

New Release of the Week:
32) The Wildbirds “421 (Everybody Loves You)” Suzanna CD

33) Texao “Stone”

1) Revelation “Kiss Your Mind Goodbye”

2) The Ruins “The End”

3) The 49th Parallel “Citizen Freak”

4) The Spiders “Johnny B. Goode”

5) The Beaux Jens “Trouble Baby”

6) Theze Few “Dynamite”

7) The Shaggs “Sugar and Spice”

8) The Outsiders “Good Lovin’”

 

Embryonic Heroes (Chris Bell pre-Big Star & Bill Cunningham pre-Box Tops):

9) The Jynx “And My Baby’s Gone”

 

Rock Block:

10) The Box Tops “I’m Your Puppet”

11) The Box Tops “You Keep Tightening Up On Me”

12) The Box Tops “Got to Hold On to You”

13) The Box Tops “King’s Highway”

 

Shoulda Been a Hit:

14) Los Pasos “Tiempos Dificiles”

15) Los Sirex “Nobody But You”

16) Los Ovnis “Cuando Era Nino”

17) Almendra “Tema de Pototo (Para Saber Como Es La Soledad)”

 

New Release of the Week:

18) The Clutters “Rockaway” Don’t Believe a Word CD

 

19) The Favourite Sons “Walking Walking Walking”

20) Cliff Bennett & the Rebel Rousers”Ain’t Nobody Home”

21) The Ace Kefford Stand “This World’s an Apple”

22) The Berries “I’ve Been Looking”

23) The Tills “One Sided Love”

24) The 4 of Us “You’re Gonna Be Mine”

25) The Express “You Gotta Understand”

 

Compare & Contrast:

26) The Plague “Searchin’”

27) Mumbles Scott & the Esquires “Searchin’”

 

Lousy Song of the Week:

28) The Pipelines “Hey Baby, I Want to Dance With You”

29) The Camel Drivers “The Grass Is Greener”

 

A Note From the Archivist: As of right now, the second half of this show is only available as an MP3. I did my darnedest to upgrade the musical portions, but the rest will be noticeably low-fi. 

1) The Motions “You Bother Me”

2) The Buckinghams “Don’t Want to Cry”

3) The Roulettes “Bad Time”

4) The Jaybees “I’m a Loner”

 

Rock Block:

5) The Yardbirds “Got Love If You Want It”

6) The Yardbirds “Honey In Your Hips”

7) The Yardbirds “Train Kept a Rollin’”

8) The Yardbirds “Shapes of Things” (1st BBC version)

 

Compare & Contrast:

9) Freddie & the Dreamers “Money”

10) The Crickets “Money”

 

11) Karin Kent “Tired, Broke and Busted”

12) A Wild Uncertainty “Man With Money”

 

Embryonic Heroes (Robert Plant & John Bonham):

13) Band of Joy “Long Time Coming”

 

14) The Telstars “You’ve Got to Leave”

15) Them “Philosophy”

16) The Sons of Fred “Baby What You Want Me to Do?”

 

Shoulda Been a Hit:

17) The Wig/Wags “I’m On My Way Down the Road”

 

18) The Powder “Gladly”

19) The Sons of Adam “You’re a Better Man Than I”

20) The Rationals “I Need You”

 

New Release of the Week:

21) Superdrag “My Day (Will Come)” Changin’ Tires On the Road to Ruin CD

 

22) The A-Cads “Watch Your Step”

23) Dzikusy “Niefortunny Podrywacz (Unlucky Ladykiller)”

24) Sound LTD Set “Sunside World”

 

Geographic Rock Block (Australia):

25) Peter Briggs & the Vikings “Some Other Guy”

26) The Vince Maloney Sect “No Good Without You”

27) The D-Coys “You’re Against”

28) The Rockin’ Rogues “Loose From My Mind”

 

29) The Barracudas “I Can’t Believe”

 

A note from the archivist: A back-announcing / begging break is missing between tracks 20 and 21. You'll live.

Addendum (8/12/26): A full, riveting eight minutes of content has been restored, thanks again to a generous loan from the Brian Bordon Archive!

1) The Midnights “Show Me Around”
2) The Move “I Can Hear the Grass Grow” (BBC version: 4/10/67)
3) The Music Machine “The Eagle Never Hunts the Fly”
4) Richard Pash & the Back Door Society “I’m the Kind”

Embryonic Heroes (Kenny Loggins):
5) The Second Helping “Let Me In”

6) The Rustics “Can’t Get You Out of My Heart”
7) The Flowerz “Flyte”
8) Mark Markham & the Jesters “I Don’t Need You” 

Compare & Contrast:
9) Bobby & Laurie “I’m Not a Bad Guy”
10) Heinz & the Wild Boys “I’m Not a Bad Guy”

11) The Quakers “She’s Alright”
12)  The Action “Wasn’t It You”

Shoulda Been a Hit:
13) The Alan Price Set “Loving You Is Sweeter Than Ever”

14) Grapefruit “Yes”
15) The Orange Bicycle “Carpet Man”
16) The Actress “Good Job With Prospects”

United Nations of Rock 'n' Roll:
17) The Heralds “I Wish I Was Strong”
18) The Wizards “See You Tonight”
19) The Moonlights “I Should Go Now”
20) Os Lobos “Miragem”

Rock Block:
21) The Seeds “Pushin’ Too Hard” (rehearsal version)
22) The Seeds “You Can’t Be Trusted”
23) The Seeds “The Wind Blows Your Hair”
24) The Seeds “Satisfy You”

25) The David “I’m Not Alone”
26) The Mystery Trend “Carl Street” (alternate version)
27) The Lost “Violet Gown”
28) The Poor “She’s Got the Time (She’s Got the Changes)”

Lousy Song of the Week:
29) Night Patrol “Trippin’”

New Release of the Week:
30) The Fountains of Wayne “Revolving Dora” Traffic & Weather CD

A note from the embattled archivist: This aircheck exists incomplete from tracks 15 through 19, and has been meticulously reconstructed. Thus, Midnight's interjections between said music audio tracks are kaput.

Addendum (8/12/26): Thanks to a generous loan from the Brian Bordon Archive, the aforementioned bits have been fully restored from a cassette!

1) The Leaves “Too Many People”
2) “Wild” Bill Kennedy & the Twiliters “(Everybody’s Goin’ to) Rollerland”
3) The Jagged Edge “Gonna Find My Way”
4) The Litter “A Legal Matter”

Compare & Contrast:
5) Little Caesar & the Consuls “Poison Ivy”
6) The Hollies “Poison Ivy”
Rock Block:
7) The Hollies “Sweet Little Sixteen”
8) The Hollies “You Know He Did”
9) The Hollies “Set Me Free”

Shoulda Been a Hit:
10) Hank Shifter “Saturday Noontime”

11) Michael & the Messengers “Lies (Don’t Mean Nothin’)”
12) The Calico Wall “Flight Reaction”
13) The Hustlers “If You Try”

Embryonic Heroes (Grand Funk Railroad):
14) Terry Knight & the Pack “Numbers”

15) The Es-Shades “Anyday, Anywhere”
16) The Luv’d Ones “I’m Leaving You”
17) The Pussycats “I Want Your Love”
18) Beaver & the Trappers “Happiness Is Havin’”
19) Kit & the Outlaws “Don’t Tread On Me”
20) The Lost Generation “I’d Gladly Pay”
21) The Shames “Special Ones”

Lousy Song of the Week:
22) Daddy Lindberg “Wade In the Shade”

23) The Bootjacks “In the Circle”
24) Q65 “The Life I Live”
25) The Cougars “Aphrodite”

New Release of the Week:
26) The Stranglers “Barbara (Shangri-La)” Suite XVI CD

27) The Merseys “Sorrow” (alternate take)
28) The Mark Leeman Five “Work Song”
29) The Badd Boys “Never Going Back to Georgia”
30) The Clique “One Kinda Favour”
31) Ten Feet “Shoot On Sight”

1) Les Sauterelles “Janet”
2) The Dennisons “You Don’t Know What Love Is”
3) The Poor Boys Pride “The Place”
4) The Raves “She’s So Fine”

Embryonic Heroes (Mitch Ryder):
5) Billy Lee & the Rivieras “You Know”
Rock Block:
6) Mitch Ryder & the Detroit Wheels “Baby Jane (Mo-Mo Jane)”
7) Mitch Ryder & the Detroit Wheels “Ooh Poo Pah Doo”
8) Mitch Ryder & the Detroit Wheels “Just a Little Bit”
9) Mitch Ryder & the Detroit Wheels “I’d Rather Go to Jail”

10) The Game “Gotta Keep On Moving Baby”
11) The Strangers “Mary, Mary”
12) The Cherokees “Wondrous Place”
13) The Hi-Fi’s “Uwe Aus Duisburg”

Lousy Song of the Week:
14) The Misfits “Can’t You See”

15) We the People “She Does Everything For Me”
16) The Mojo Men “Somethin’ Bad”
17) The Skunks “A Girl Like You”
18) The Trackers “You Are My World”
19) The Touch “Not So Fine”
20) The “D” Men “So Little Time”
21) The Eccentrics “Baby I Need You”

Shoulda Been a Hit:
22) The Merry-Go-Round “You’re a Very Lovely Woman”

23) The American Breed “Take Me If You Want Me”
24) John Fred & his Playboy Band “Up and Down”
25) The Bards “Rainy Days I Had With You”

Compare & Contrast:
26) Plastic Penny “Nobody Knows It”
27) The Hi-Revving Tongues “Nobody Knows It”

28) The Open Mind “Try Another Day”
29) July “My Clown”

New Release of the Week:
30) The Griefs “It Was Another Time” Throwing a Tempo Tantrum CD

31) The Mascots “Goodbye”
32) Ola & the Janglers “My Mean Memory”

1) The Chocolate Watchband “Are You Gonna Be There?”
2) Mouse & the Traps “Maid of Sugar, Maid of Spice”
3) Alan Pounds Get Rich “Searching In the Wilderness”
4) Vince Taylor et Les Bobby Clark's Noise “My Baby Left Me”
5) The Grasshoppers “The Wasp”
6) The Highlights “Studio Blues”
7) The Dovells “Dragster On the Prowl”
8) The Trashmen “King of the Surf”

Embryonic Heroes (The Strangeloves):
9) The Sheep “Hide & Seek"

10) The Cellar Dwellars “Working Man”
11) The Last Exit “It’s the Same the Whole World Over”
12) The Bobby Fuller Four “Never to Be Forgotten”

Rock Block:
13) The Searchers “Sweets For My Sweet” (stereo)
14) The Searchers “Unhappy Girls” (stereo)
15) The Searchers “Tausend Nadelstiche (Needles and Pins)”
16) The Searchers “I’m Your Loving Man”

Compare & Contrast:
17) Gary Farr & the T-Bones “Jump Back”
18) The Chicago Line “Jump Back”

19) The Spinning Wheels “Shame Shame Shame”
20) The Wild Oats “You Can’t Judge a Book By Its Cover”
21) The Moquettes “You Came Along”
22) The Honeycombs “I Can’t Stop"
23) The Blue Beats “She’s Coming Home”
24) The Voids “I’m In a Fix”

Shoulda Been a Hit:
25) Sixth Day Creation “You’re Better By Far”

26) Dusty Springfield “If It Don’t Work Out”
27) The Yellow Payges “Slow Down”
28) King Harvest “Wichita Lineman”

New Release of the Week:
29) The Power Chords “Goodbye Polly Goodbye” Modern Day Noise CD

30) The Bluestars “ I Can Take It”
31) Billy Adams “Shirley Lee”
32) The Blue Rondos “Little Baby”

Lousy Song of the Week:
33) The Dragons “Because of a Man”

1) The Rebbels “Monkey Monkey”
2) Casey Jones & the Governors “Beautiful Delilah”
3) Our Plastic Dream “Someone Turned the Light Out”
4) The 7 Days “Do You Love Me (Si Me Quieres)”

Embryonic Heroes (6/62 debut single B-side):
5) The Dave Clark Five “That’s What I Said”
Rock Block:
6) The Dave Clark Five “Who Does He Think He Is”
7) The Dave Clark Five “I’m Thinking”
8) The Dave Clark Five “I Said I Was Sorry”
9) The Dave Clark Five “It Don’t Feel Good”

10) Tony & the Bandits “It’s a Bit of All Right”
11) The Changing Tymes “Try a Whole Lot Harder”
12) The Mysterions “Is It a Lie?”
13) The Crucibles “You Know I Do”

Compare & Contrast:
14) Bob Dylan “On the Road Again”
15) The Deverons “On the Road Again”

16) The Third Evolution “Gone, Gone, Gone”
17) The Chosen Few (Muncie, IN) “It Just Don’t Rhyme”*

Lousy Song of the Week:
18) The Flying Condors “Chip Chip”

19) Los Huracanes “Linda Lu”
20) Los Mockers “Girl, You Won’t Succeed”
21) The Big Bens “C’e Chi Per Amore”

New Release of the Week:
22) The Kaiser Chiefs “Everything Is Average Nowadays” Yours Truly, Angry Mob CD

23) Tony Rivers & the Castaways “She”
24) The North Stars “Eenie Meenie Minee Mo”
25) The Liverpool Five “She’s Mine”

Shoulda Been a Hit:
26) Homer “Sunrise”

27) The Next Exit “Break Away”
28) The Element “Open the Door to Your Mind”
29) The Frantics “Relax Your Mind”
30) The Scene “Scenes (From Another World)”
31) The Fantastic Zoo “Light Show”

*A note from the archivist: John E. would frequently brag that an artist would not make a repeat performance on his program for at least six months' time (not counting, of course, "rock blocks"). Behold a blunder of epic proportions: Muncie, Indiana's Chosen Few were awarded two spins, one on 3/18/07, and another herein. Our sloppy host insists, "I coulda sworn they were two different bands!". For shame.

1) The Outcasts (San Antonio, TX) “1523 Blair”
2) The Atlantics “Come On”
3) The Scorpions “Just Like Me”
4) The In Crowd “Things She Says”

Embryonic Heroes (The Who; 7/3/64):
5) The High Numbers “Zoot Suit”
Rock Block:
6) The Who “I Can’t Explain” (Shindig 8/3/65)
7) The Who “Heat Wave”
8) The Who “I Can’t Reach You”

Lousy Song of the Week:
9) The Rocks “Because We’re Young”

10) The Things “I Don’t Believe It”
11) Ian Whitcomb “Soho”
12) ? & the Mysterians “Can’t Get Enough of You, Baby”
13) The Spike-Drivers “High Time”
14) Silk Winged Alliance “Flashback”
15) The Chosen Few (Muncie, IN) “The Earth Above, the Sky Below"
16) Tea Company “Come and Have Some Tea With Me”

Compare & Contrast:
17) The Poets “That's the Way It's Got to Be”
18) Chants R&B “That’s the Way It’s Got to Be”

19) Peter & Gordon “Love Me, Baby”
20) The Loot “Baby Come Closer”

New Release of the Week:
21) The Love Me Nots “I Do” In Black & White CD

22) The Matadors “I Love Spring”
23) The Paupers “Magic People”
24) Wimple Winch “Atmospheres”

Shoulda Been a Hit:
25) The Brigands “(Would I Still Be) Her Big Man”

26) The Morticians “Now That You’ve Left Me”
27) Outer Limits (Las Cruces, NM) “Don’t Need You No More”
28) The Morning Dew “No More”
29) Mike Sheridan & the Nightriders “Please Mr. Postman”

1) Les Napoleons “Reviens”
2) Los Cheyenes “Conoces El Final”
3) The Odd Persons “Lucille”
4) Ray Hoff & the Off Beats “Bama Lama Bama Loo”

Compare & Contrast:
5) Them “I’m Your Witch Doctor”
6) Noel Deschamps “I’m Your Witchdoctor”

7) The Nightbirds “Quelli”
8) The Vanguards “Non Mi Sbagliavo”

Embryonic Heroes (1965 demo):
9) The Doors “Moonlight Drive”
Rock Block / Four of a Kind:
10) The Doors “I Looked at You”
11) The Doors “My Eyes Have Seen You”
12) The Doors “Wishful Sinful”

13) The Underbeats “Don’t You Lie to Me”
14) The Opposite Six “I’ll Be Gone”
15) The Torquays “Shake a Tail Feather”
16) The Jelly Bean Bandits “Salesman”

Lousy Song of the Week:
17) Luc Derdin “Disc-Jockey Sound”

18) The Shockers “Don’t Bring Me Down”
19) The German Blue Flames “From Home”
20) Conjunto Academico Joao Paulo “Hully Gully Du Montanhes”

Shoulda Been a Hit:
21) Steppenwolf “None of Your Doing”

22) The Wanted “Don’t Worry Baby”
23) The Emergency Exit “Happy Song”
24) Clockwork Orange “Do Me Right Now”
25) P.F. Sloan “It’s Too Late Baby”
26) The Palace Guard “A Girl You Can Depend On”
27) The Cobblestones “Flower People”
28) The Chessmen “No More”

New Release of the Week:
29) The Woggles ”Porridge” Rock and Roll Backlash CD

30) Kaleidoscope (UK) “Dive Into Yesterday”
31) Majority One “A Cigarette, a Cup of Tea”

1) The Merseybeats “I’m Gonna Sit Right Down and Cry”
2) Billy J. Kramer & the Dakotas “Sneaking Around”
3) The Troyes “I Don’t Need You”
4) The Sonics “You’ve Got Your Head On Backwards”

Compare & Contrast:
5) Carter-Lewis & the Southerners “Skinny Minnie”
6) Lee Curtis & the All-Stars “Skinny Minnie” (live 3/64)

7) The Big Three “What’d I Say” (live 11/1/63)
8) The First Gear “A Certain Girl”

Lousy Song of the Week:
9) The Fink Muncx Four “Coffee, Tea Or Me”

10) The Kingsmen “Jolly Green Giant”
11) Eddie & the Showmen “Danny Boy”
12) The Lavender Hour “So Sophisticated”

Shoulda Been a Hit:
13) The Odyssey (Los Angeles, CA) “Little Boy, Little Girl”

14) The Cyrkle “Why Can’t You Give Me What I Want”
15) Stone Country “Love Psalm”
16) Yellow Balloon “Yellow Balloon”
17) Nicky & the Shouts “Don’t Be a Fool”
18) The Ex-Checkers “Wooly Bully”
19) The Fabulous Four “Rotten Rats”
20) Group Therapy “Remember What You Said”

Embryonic Heroes (The Beach Boys):
21) The Pendeltones “Surfin’”

22) The Busters “Bust Out”
23) The Del-Vetts “I Call My Baby STP”
24) The Fireballs “Foot-Patter”
25) The Answer “I’ll Be In”
26) The Romans “I’ll Find a Way”
27) The Bytel Lums “Do You Know What It’s Like”
28) The Knickerbockers “The Coming Generation”

New Release of the Week:
29) The Charms “Here’s to You” Strange Music CD

1) The Vejtables “Better Rearrange”
2) Adrian Lloyd “Lorna”
3) Sandy Coast “I Want You For My Own”
4) The Others “If You Don’t Come Back”
5) The Kavern Four “I Want to Dance”
6) The UK’s “Your Love Is All I Want”
7) The Cedars / Sea-Ders “I Don’t Know Why”
8) P.J. Proby “Rockin’ Pneumonia and the Boogie Woogie Flu”

New Release of the Week:
9) Junkyard Todd / Mobile Crime Lab “Modern World” Last Perfect Summer CD

10) The Blues Magoos “The People Had No Faces”
11) Tony & Terry “I Want You”
12) The Beckett Quintet “No Correspondence”

Compare & Contrast:
13) The Fox Hunters “I’m Talking About You”
14) The Purple Hearts “Talkin’ ‘Bout You”

15) The Marks “Now She Cries”
16) Los Gatos Salvajes “Donde vas”

Shoulda Been a Hit:
17) Andwellas Dream “Take My Road”

18) The Strawberry Alarm Clock “Pretty Song From Psych-Out”
19) The Lollipop Shoppe “Mr. Madison Avenue”
20) The Fredric “Five O’Clock Traffic”

Embryonic Heroes:
21) The Golden Earrings “Now I Have”

22) The Darwin’s Theory “A Long Long Long Long Way”
23) The Lords “Boom Boom”
24) The Boots “Watch Your Step”
25) The Furys “Mary Anne”
26) The Triumphs “Brand New Baby”
27) Peter & the Prophets “Don’t Need Your Lovin’”
28) Casuals Incorporated “I Realize”

Lousy Song of the Week:
29) Fabien Collin “Mariwanamaruwana”