It's back! Every morning at 7:15, we play songs from the horrible iPod Kitty found while dumpster diving.
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It has nothing to do with Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, but it's still pretty scary.
Do you miss the days of crossover country songs like this? "Elvira" made it all the way up to #5 on the pop chart in 1981and was a jukebox favorite at seemingly every bar!
The Pipkins took it all the way to #9 in the summer of 1970. The Pipkins weren't a real group..they were Roger Greenaway and Tony Burrows, who took care of lead vocals on songs for other groups around the same time: Edison Lighthouse, White Plains and The First Class.
We'll have to look...but he may have made more than one appearance on that ridiculous iPod.
It was the summer of 1979, and this song was on the radio pretty much non-stop. It got all the way to number 1, which is much better than Robert John's followup did. "Lonely Eyes" just didn't have the same ring to it.
Don't you just love it? Wait, don't ya jes' love it?
Daddy Dewdrop was the stage name for a guy from Cleveland, named Richard Monda, and this was huge in the spring and summer of 1971. Chick-a-boom, chick-a-boom-boom-boom!
Yeah, Cleveland rocks!
The song was so awesome, it made it onto an episode of the Saturday morning cartoon show "Groovie Goolies."
Kiss is not usually thought of as a disco band. But that didn't stop them from cashing in on the craze. This song was co-written by guitar player Paul Stanley to show how easy it was to write a hit disco song.
It may have been one of the reasons lead guitar player Ace Frehley quit the band, but it did give them a #11 hit in 1979.
Kitty's favorite line: "I wanna give it all to you, in the darkness!"
The 1970s were great for leisure suits, gas shortages, and really bad music.
Eric Carmen was the lead singer of the Beatle-esque pop band The Raspberries, who brought us the song "Please Go All the Way." But he decided to break off on his own.
That resulted in the song that we found on the iPod, "All By Myself" and some other really dreary tunes. Anybody remember "Never Gonna Fall in Love Again" or "Hungry Eyes" from the 1980s?
In the pre-Beatles world, Neil Sedaka was a pretty big deal, with hits like "Oh, Carol," "Calendar Girl," "Happy Birthday Sweet Sixteen," and a peppy little break-up song "Breaking Up is Hard to Do."
He had a slump for a decade or so, but then roared back on the scene in the mid-70's, with hits which included this one, that we heard on the radio all the time in late 1975 and 1976.
The song may be drippy, but what do you think of Neil's sweater?
Let's go back, way back to 1972 for this song that featured great lines like "sock it to me sock it to me" and "gotta find a woman," and tells us all about Bertha Butt, "one of the Butt Sisters." It made it up to #6 on the billboard pop charts, and #4 on the R& B charts.
This got just about the best reaction of any of the iPod songs so far. And by that we mean worst.
I'm not sure why Pete Yorn decided to name his new music project after a European cave dwelling aquatic salamander, but if he stops by to play us some songs in Studio M, we'll have to ask him.
The Olms is a collaboration between Pete Yorn and...
Today's song was written by Peter Yarrow of Peter, Paul and Mary. It was inspired by the 1957 novel Doctor Zhivago. No one was inspired by the song this morning. It was rejected by almost all the listeners.
Today is World Goth Day, a day to celebrate the post-punk, anti-establishment, dark clothes-wearing subculture.
I'm pretty sure I was a Goth for at least for little while, for two reasons.
1) I almost hardly ever wear pastels.
2) I used to...
Hello to all from Nfusion. Another round of challenges has moved beyond us all. Congrats to those of us lucky enough to have survived to this point. Sad to see the others eliminated as they were all very creative and talented. Good Bye to our new friends...
This morning it seemed like just about everyone was in the mood for some Funky Cold Medina...except Kitty. This ridiculous song made it all the way to number 3 in 1989. Jonathan says any song that references advertising dogs from the 80's has got...
Madison's summer music festival season kicks off this weekend with Brat Fest at Willow Island, where there are more bands than you can shake a bratwurst at! Check out the Brat Fest website to plan your itinerary.
Next up is the Marquette...
John Fogerty is making the talk show rounds this week, stopping in to see David Letterman Tuesday and Wednesday, and the ladies of "The View" on Thursday.
He's promoting his new album, "Wrote a Song For Everyone" which comes out next Tuesday...
It's a miracle that both Jonathan and KItty wanted to hear Barry Manilow this morning. They were not alone. Plenty of Fanilow's called in to vote yes. One caller claimed to have seen Manilow in concert 25 times!
