WOLFMAN JACK Presents 45 Of The Best 45s

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"Land Of 1000 Dances" vs. "Don't You Just Know It" vs. "Ya Ya" is gonna be tough, I gave us two weeks on this one.

Sunday bump, lol poor Wolfman

A lot of good-to-great ones on there, including (I think) at least four that are in American Graffiti or Mean Streets.

1. "For Your Precious Love," Impressions
2. "Since I Don't Have You," Skylines
3. "A Sunday Kind of Love," Harptones (there's a typo there from either you or them)
4. "Duke of Earl," Gene Chandler
5. "Endless Sleep," Jody Reynolds

Jody Reynolds has this great song in The Leftovers called "The Girl from King Marie" that isn't even remotely like "Endless Sleep" (more like Trini Lopez).

Speaking of typos...Skyliners.

lol

this was just C&P'd from Discogs so the typo is prob there and not the record itself

lots of amazing music here, went with Maurice Williams

Endless Sleep or Western Movies of Suspicion imo but it’s wall to wall bangers.

It's kinda nice to see that there are still so many oldies to discover, there's like ten here I'd never even heard of.

Unless you were there, it's hard to appreciate how famous American Graffiti made Wolfman Jack for the next few years. Both the Guess Who and Todd Rundgren wrote songs about him (Rundgren's actually preceeded the movie), he appeared on The Odd Couple and Emergency! (reading his Wikipedia, not like I remembered that) and other TV shows, plus the Sgt. Pepper movie. And I figure he must have been on Hollywood Squares.

Well into the '80s! He had a Saturday Morning cartoon that ultimately got recycled into another Saturday Morning cartoon

Though it was a huge ratings disaster and that probably was just part of the Big Chill-i-fication of all kids media around that time

I was curious as to whether he's in the HOF--no. The only radio DJs I can see are Alan Freed and Tom Donahue. Sam Phillips and Don Cornelius and Johnny Otis are also listed, but they're more famous for other things (ditto Alice Cooper, who's on the list I'm looking at--maybe he did a show before forming a band? Sly Stone, also).

Wolfman hosted The Midnight Special for most (or maybe all) of its run.

Alice Cooper has hosted a couple syndicated Classic Rock radio show series since the 2000s.

Yeah, just looked that up--Cooper turns up because of a syndicated show he launched in 2004. May as well include Bob Dylan on the list, too.

Of course, forgot all about The Midnight Special. He probably turned up on Battle of the Network Stars one year!

DJ/mob consigliere Steven Van Zandt also in the Hall.

re-listening to this and damn I might have to vote "Tutti Frutti", what an achievement

Well, of course.

part of the Big Chill-i-fication of all kids media around that time

Whiney I wanna know more about this, got a link or pdf or something?

somebody actually found an episode, i think previously it was difficult or impossible to track down

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqgJjbeFFXE

dee clark "raindrops" pour moi.

part of the Big Chill-i-fication of all kids media around that time

Whiney I wanna know more about this, got a link or pdf or something?

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Nah, it was just the era where like the Fat Boys did song with the Beach Boys, and the California Raisins sang Marvin Gaye and Little Richard was singing Mother Goose songs with Shelley Duvall

ah gotcha, the sixties crossover comeback

Guessing this is one of the worst things to come out of that (pretty sure I've never heard it, although I was working at a big-chain record store at the time):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Return_of_Bruno_(album)

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The Tee Set are so fish-out-of-water here...How do you even describe "Ma Belle Amie"? No connection at all to anything else on the album that I can see--I sort of group them in my mind with Zager & Evans, Mashmakhan, and Mouth & MacNeal. One of the 8-tracks I had as a kid.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bioah3q7JOk

"Dedicated To The One I Love"

I'm pretty sure this song was used in a key scene in a 1980's horror movie called House and it made a big impression on me. I should probably vote for Little Richard but I won't.

if it was the 5 royales version i might have considered it

Went with my favorite of the Girl Group group--Shoop Shoop!

All-time favorite from this list would be Since I Don't Have You, but I voted for The Shepherd Sisters - Alone, which is my favorite that I've discovered from this comp (I have vol 1 and 3 just from dollar bin scores). Love the la las and ya yas, and the reverb takes the cake.

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