Wednesday, June 09, 2010

KFXM June 9, 1961

Raindrops-Dee Clark #1
Highest debut Down On My Knees-Walter Vaughn #29
Big jump Stand By Me-Ben E. King #9
Three versions of Yellow Bird-Welk/Lyman/Williams #40 New
Raining In My Heart-Slim Harpo/Dorsey Burnette
POW! Right In The Kisser!-Larry Verne
Till the End Of Time-The Spinners
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12 comments:

  1. AnonymousWed Jun 09, 01:23:00 PM PDT

    Debut @ #29 "Down On My Knees" by
    Walter Vaughn Not a national hit, but was huge in Dallas #1 at KLIF. Got some airplay in LA.

    Great sounding record!

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  2. AnonymousWed Jun 09, 01:26:00 PM PDT

    Debut @ #29, "Down On My Knees" by Walter Vaughn, a great sounding record! Not a national hit, but got to #1 @ KLIF in Dallas. Some airplay in LA on KRLA.

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  3. AnonymousWed Jun 09, 08:30:00 PM PDT

    But how about Down On My Knees by Walter Vaughn?

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  4. Lord Darth RageousThu Jun 10, 04:57:00 AM PDT

    UNDER 'WAX TO WATCH': a very early entry by then-R&B/Gospel (later Soul) group The Spinners with their version of "Till The End Of Time" who would have to wait 9 more years before their big breakout hit "It's A Shame" on the pop charts.

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  5. AnonymousThu Jun 10, 03:50:00 PM PDT

    The double "Down On My Knees" poster must have been Bob Harlow ! Jonny Bruce

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  6. AnonymousThu Jun 10, 07:32:00 PM PDT

    Jonny,

    I knew you'd know it was me!

    Bob Harlow

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  7. megabloggerThu Jun 10, 10:41:00 PM PDT

    Sorry, Lord...wrong Spinners. This is a white pop group...I know, I have the 45...unfortunately.

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  8. Lord Darth RageousThu Jun 10, 11:35:00 PM PDT

    TO MEGABLOGGER: YOU ARE CORRECT, although the BLACK Spinners group
    also hit in 1961 under Harvey Fuqua's direction with "That's What
    Girls Are Made For" and "Love (I'm So Glad) I Found You"...
    so, how does your white bread one-shot artist known as The Spinners compare???

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  9. AnonymousFri Jun 11, 06:52:00 AM PDT

    DOWN ON MY KNEES was a good
    AM radio tune. I listen to it now and it's not as fun as on AM radio. It sounds
    like a garage production. But then
    many other garage records have been
    great.
    NEW ORLEANS by Bonds sounds like
    one and it's simply great.

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  10. MegabloggerFri Jun 11, 11:08:00 AM PDT

    To Lord,

    Not well. In fact, there were several "Spinners" groups in this era, including one on Capitol that did "Lover's Prayer' - another pop group.

    BTW, Doc Rock, supposed expert on Liberty Records, who wrote a book on the subject thought the Spinners were the soul group too. Also Liberty had an Imperials group (not Little Anthony) and a Lettermen (not the Capitol group), but Doc Rock thought they were. So even the "experts"...

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  11. Lord Darth RageousFri Jun 11, 11:17:00 AM PDT

    TO MEGABLOGGER: thanks for setting the record straight about the multi-proliferation of well-known recording group names under the various disk labels back then...
    even today, there are reportedly numerous touring musical artists all using the same or variations of original hit-making group names from the 1950's and 1960's.
    does tend to make it difficult to keep track of it all!

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  12. Lord Darth RageousFri Jun 11, 11:19:00 AM PDT

    JUST AN OBSERVATION about the irregular frequency of commentaries made lately on this blog:
    "It never rains but, it pours" yes?

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