Wdas - philadelphia soul sounds october 27, 1969

[frankm]

Welshman tops R&B Chart with Song written by a Scotsman.


WDAS - PHILADELPHIA
SOUL SOUNDS
WEEK OF OCTOBER 27, 1969

1. I'll Never Fall In Love Again - Tom Jones
2. A House Is Not A Home - Mavis Staples
3. The Sweeter He Is - The Soul Children
4. Baby, I'm For Real - The Originals
5. Going In Circles - Friends Of Distinction
6. Your Good Thing - Lou Rawls
7. Hot Fun - Sly & The Family Stone
8. Let A Man Do The Popcorn - James Brown
9. Kool & The Gang - Kool & The Gang
10. Wedding Bell Blues - 5th Demension
11. Crumbs Off The Table - The Glasshouse
12. Four Piece Funky, Nitty Gritty - Bobby Freeman
13. Take A Letter Marie - R.B. Greaves
14. Can't Get Next To You - Temptations
15. We'll Cry Together - Maxine Brown
16. Yesterday, Yesteryear - Stevie Wonder
17. These Eyes - Jr. Walker
18. Friendship Train - Gladys Knight & The Pips
19. What's The Use/A Brand New Me - Jerry Butler
20. Everything Is Alright - Bill Moss & The Celestials
21. Just A Little Love - B.B. King
22. Walk On By - Isaac Hayes
23. Doing Our Thing - Clarence Carter
24. You've Got Latin Soul - Mongo Santamaria
25. I'm So Lost - The Moments
26. Moment Must Be Your Thing - 103rd Watts Band
27. We're Only Human - Bunny & Cindy
28. I Want You Back - Jackson 5
29. Here I Go Again - Miracles
30. My Baby Loves Me - David T. Walker

PICK OF THE WEEK
Anyway That You Want It - Walter Jackson
ALBUM CUTS
Got To See If I Can't Get Mommy - Jerry Butler
Message From A Blackman - Temptations
I'm Not The Same Person - Johnny Taylor
A Little Understanding - The Dells

NOTE: The song titles and artists shown above are presented exactly
as they are shown on the printed survey. Any typos, spelling
errors and/or other anomalies are as they appear on the printed
sheet.


With thanjks to Gary Pfeifer of Broadcast-Airchex [[subscribe http://www.broadcast.net/mailman/lis...adcast-airchex)

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and the Scotsman is Lonnie Donegan who'd entered the US pop charts in 1956 with his version of Leadbelly's Rock Island Line.

[randy_russi]

Thanks so much for sharing! Interesting that Tom Jones hit the #1 spot. We'll Cry Together by Maxine Brown was big
here in Orlando also on WOKB, Tiger Radio, our local R&B station.

[nosey]

Oh the memories. Sitting on the steps listening to Georgie Woods and Jimmy Bishop!

[gary_james]

What a great time musically, and 1969 is a favorite year of mine. Tom Jones at #1 on WDAS--- that's wild! I need to have some of those unknown songs now, i followed the pop chart then and they didnt make it there.

[randy_russi]

It is also interesting that the Mavis Staples record is a big hit, but wasn't a big national hit. The same can be said with
a few others as well. However, I don't even recall the Tom Jones version of "I'll Never Fall In Love Again", but then
I never really paid attention to Tom Jones.
Maxine Brown's record wasn't a national hit either. Neither was Bobby Freeman's or the record by Bill Moss & the
Celestials or Bunny & Cindy [[Bunny Sigler & Cindy Scott).
There were always records that did well here in Orlando, but didn't chart big nationally. "A Woman Will Do Wrong"
was a big R&B hit in Orlando for Dee Dee Sharp and had also hit here by Helene Smith [[original) and Irma Thomas.
Great song, but never a real hit. It was written in part by Paul Kelley.

[gary_james]

How about Sally Sayin' Something by Billy Harner from 1967? It didn't chart on Billboard, but was big here in the northeast. He was from Philly, i was 60 miles north of Philadelphia and knew the song very well, heard it all the time.
But, i don't think it hit nationally.