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    "Nightflight" Tue July 22, 9P-12M ET: Finally...TCMS 1969 Continues!

    Howdy, Nightfliers! After a very long break, it's time to continue The Complete Motown Singles collection. We left it in the midst of 1969, and that's where we'll pick it back up. And just a reminder...SDF's own rossholloway [[aka Bobby Gardner) has been responsible for most all that you have heard...and is responsible for ALL that you will hear from here on out of this amazing collection. Thanks so much Bobby, couldn't have done it without you. SO do join me tonight for TCMS...and a whole lot more...on "Nightflight"...on WOMR 92.1 FM Provincetown and WFMR 91.3 FM Orleans and streaming live worldwide at www.womr.org Thanks! John

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    It's been a long road to get here, John!

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    Should be another great show!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mark Desjardines View Post
    It's been a long road to get here, John!
    Mark...you mean the long, long, ever-so-LONG break I took from TCMS? [[*smile)

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    Quote Originally Posted by RossHolloway View Post
    Should be another great show!
    Well...since it's YOUR show....I couldn't agree MORE!

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    Quote Originally Posted by midnight johnny View Post
    Well...since it's YOUR show....I couldn't agree MORE!
    It's YOUR show, I'm just your sidekick

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    Quote Originally Posted by RossHolloway View Post
    It's YOUR show, I'm just your sidekick
    My Robin, eh?

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    Quote Originally Posted by midnight johnny View Post
    My Robin, eh?
    Sure, why not! lol

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    .....in the studio....Howdeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!

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    Evening John & The Gang!

    will be listening while packing for family vacation.

    Lovely Elaine Stritch tribute so far

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    Quote Originally Posted by Glenpwood View Post
    Evening John & The Gang!

    will be listening while packing for family vacation.

    Lovely Elaine Stritch tribute so far
    Glen....great to see you...have a wonderful vacation!!! And thank you re: Elaine....RIP!
    Last edited by midnight johnny; 07-22-2014 at 09:30 PM.

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    Good evening, John. The heat wave here goes on.

    I used to watch Elaine Stritch in the 70s in the TV series "Two's Company". I don't know if you got it in America.

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    O Happy Day! TCMS is back!

    Hi ya'll! Howard in Long Beach, CA

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    I'm late, but Atlanta is in the house!!

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    I also like the Jr Walker B-side better than the A-side.

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    And why is it that Friendship Train RARELY ever gets played?

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    Quote Originally Posted by motownlover View Post
    O Happy Day! TCMS is back!

    Hi ya'll! Howard in Long Beach, CA
    Howard....great to see you, sir!!!

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    Friendship Train was first assigned to the Temptations, who of course did have their later, longer version included as an lp track.

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    Just A Touch of Brenda

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    Thank You Brian!
    Thank You Johnny!
    Thank You Brenda & The Andantes!!!

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    Fall of '69 was AMAZING Motown for me. I bought a ton of 45's that fall: Friendship, These Eyes, Someday, J5, Tops, Tempts, Marvin, Stevie - all in a 2 month period........ Nice to be back here. MJ - Love your show!!!!

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    Quote Originally Posted by supremester View Post
    Fall of '69 was AMAZING Motown for me. I bought a ton of 45's that fall: Friendship, These Eyes, Someday, J5, Tops, Tempts, Marvin, Stevie - all in a 2 month period........ Nice to be back here. MJ - Love your show!!!!
    Gregg....a pleasure...great to see you! Yes.....a cornucopia of classics in late '69!!!

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    It would be interesting to hear some of the other leads Michael recorded for I Want You Back - especially the Wilson Pickett style mentioned in the libretto.

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    Quote Originally Posted by carole cucumber View Post
    It would be interesting to hear some of the other leads Michael recorded for I Want You Back - especially the Wilson Pickett style mentioned in the libretto.
    Carole...thanks for the tid bits!

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    Absolutely, positively right, Johnny.... Nature Planned It

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    If You Let Me should have been a hit for Jimmy. Greatly overlooked song.

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    Quote Originally Posted by carole cucumber View Post
    Absolutely, positively right, Johnny.... Nature Planned It
    Thank you a LOT, Carole! BTW.....can you tell me anythigng about who the hell is Dorothy, Oma and Zelpha....I will PAY you!!!!!

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    "Farewell Is A Lonely Sound" was a Top 10 hit in the UK in 1970.

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    Oma=Oma Drake; Maiden name Heard
    Dorothy= Dorothy Adams berry, wife of Richard Berry [[composer of Louie Louie)
    Zelpha Crawford was a classmate of Oma's

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    Dorothy Berry leads the A -side'; Oma, the B-side

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    Wayne Henderson brought them from Watts to Stewart Levine's Chisa label.

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    Carole....you are a PEACH!!!! THANK YOU!!!!!


    And Martin....you are a PEAR....i love pears!!!!
    Last edited by midnight johnny; 07-22-2014 at 10:46 PM.

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    Does anyone know how the Watts Sister's got to Motown and what other songs they sang on?

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    Mary & Cindy on "Sunny Boy'

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    Quote Originally Posted by carole cucumber View Post
    Mary & Cindy on "Sunny Boy'
    Whoooooops!!!! They sang so few....I MUST give them credit!!! Thanks Carole!

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    Always had a soft spot for DLHTYLFM. I got this Tops 45 at Goodwill for twenty cents in the eighties and about wore it out. Its no Ask The Lonely but a nice performance nonetheless....

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    Quote Originally Posted by RossHolloway View Post
    Does anyone know how the Watts Sister's got to Motown and what other songs they sang on?
    On their Facebook page, the Waters congratulate their cousin, Lamont Dozier!!!!!http://www.discogs.com/artist/441646...Willard-Waters shows several of the Motown albums for which the Waters provided background vocals.

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    This is a different version of My World Stood Still than the Anthology version by Chuck Jackson.

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    There is a longer [[and superior) version of "The Day My World Stood Still" on the Going Back to Chuck Jackson album.

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    Thanks Guys!!!! I really enjoyed that song!

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    Quote Originally Posted by carole cucumber View Post
    On their Facebook page, the Waters congratulate their cousin, Lamont Dozier!!!!!http://www.discogs.com/artist/441646...Willard-Waters shows several of the Motown albums for which the Waters provided background vocals.
    Interesting blog. I see where they sang on Mary Wilson's Motown solo album. Talk about going in a full circle.

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    I will say that Valerie did a better job at impersonating Tammi than Syreeta did at imitating Martha Reeves

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    Quote Originally Posted by Glenpwood View Post
    I will say that Valerie did a better job at impersonating Tammi than Syreeta did at imitating Martha Reeves



    Glen.....you leave me speechless with laughter!!!!!!! I will always remember that!

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    I had the privilege of personally knowing the late Glynna Session, the writer of "I'm So Glad I Fell For You". She was a beautiful woman who happened to live in Carson, California [[Dominguez Hills) back in the late 1960s and into the 1970s. She was a choir director at one time, and the most lovely person one could know. I have a gospel album she did back in the late 1970s.

    Howard in Long Beach, CA
    Last edited by MotownLover; 07-22-2014 at 11:52 PM.

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    Quote Originally Posted by carole cucumber View Post
    That's it Carole! :-)

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    Quote Originally Posted by midnight johnny View Post
    Glen.....you leave me speechless with laughter!!!!!!! I will always remember that!
    Thanks midnight johnny for a wonderful show of 1969 the complete singles. my first time listening on my tablet, and thanks for playing the extended version of "up the ladder to the roof"at the end of your show I never heard it before and listening g to your show enlightened me on whats in those vaults that needs to be unearth. Thank you

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    Franjoy....thank you! Glad you enjoyed the show. And what a truly nice surprise to get your call at the station. See you next week...I hope! John

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