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

[midnight johnny]

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 [[http://www.womr.org) Thanks! John

[Mark Desjardines]

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

[RossHolloway]

Should be another great show!

[midnight johnny]

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)

[midnight johnny]

Should be another great show! Well...since it's YOUR show....I couldn't agree MORE!

[RossHolloway]

Well...since it's YOUR show....I couldn't agree MORE!
It's YOUR show, I'm just your sidekick:D

[midnight johnny]

It's YOUR show, I'm just your sidekick:DMy Robin, eh?

[RossHolloway]

My Robin, eh?

Sure, why not! lol

[midnight johnny]

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

[Glenpwood]

Evening John & The Gang!

will be listening while packing for family vacation.

Lovely Elaine Stritch tribute so far

[midnight johnny]

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!

[144man]

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.

[MotownLover]

O Happy Day! TCMS is back!

Hi ya'll! Howard in Long Beach, CA:cool:

[RossHolloway]

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

[144man]

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

[RossHolloway]

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

[midnight johnny]

O Happy Day! TCMS is back!

Hi ya'll! Howard in Long Beach, CA:cool:

Howard....great to see you, sir!!!

[carole cucumber]

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

[RossHolloway]

Just A Touch of Brenda :)

[supremester]

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

[supremester]

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!!!!

[midnight johnny]

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!!!

[carole cucumber]

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.

[midnight johnny]

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!

[carole cucumber]

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

[RossHolloway]

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

[midnight johnny]

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!!!!!

[144man]

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

[carole cucumber]

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

[carole cucumber]

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

[carole cucumber]

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

[midnight johnny]

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


And Martin....you are a PEAR....i love pears!!!!

[RossHolloway]

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

[carole cucumber]

Mary & Cindy on "Sunny Boy'

[midnight johnny]

Mary & Cindy on "Sunny Boy'

Whoooooops!!!! They sang so few....I MUST give them credit!!! Thanks Carole!

[Glenpwood]

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....

[carole cucumber]

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-Maxine-Willard-Waters shows several of the Motown albums for which the Waters provided background vocals.

[RossHolloway]

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

[144man]

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

[midnight johnny]

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

[RossHolloway]

On their Facebook page, the Waters congratulate their cousin, Lamont Dozier!!!!!http://www.discogs.com/artist/441646-Maxine-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.

[Glenpwood]

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

[midnight johnny]

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!

[MotownLover]

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 :)

[carole cucumber]

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[carole cucumber]

http://www.discogs.com/viewimages?release=2742971

[MotownLover]

http://www.discogs.com/viewimages?release=2742971

That's it Carole! :-)

[franjoy56]

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

[midnight johnny]

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