K/MEN 45 Years Ago April 19 - May 10, 1963

Up to date for K/men 1963
Three weeks Surfin' USA-Beach Boys #1 being knocked out by It's My Party-Leslie Gore
on May 10th
How about the Beach Boys related Surfin' Down The Swanne River-Honeys?

Hey! It looks like the K/men are going surfin'!

New in the Top Ten Ain't That A Shame-Four Seasons remaking Fats domino

Both Frank Sinatra-Call Me Irresponsible and Marvin Gaye-Pride and Joy have new songs this week

New this week, two completely different styles of male vocals. Bobby Vinton-Blue On Blue and Lou Christie-Two Faces Have I

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K/MEN May 16, 1970

Top Ten of the 1969 Soundathon
More 1970 Beatle news.


#1 Viva Tirado-El Chicano

#29 The Wonder Of You-Elvis Presley on KFXM Elvis had Mama Liked The Roses this week

Hit Bound

For You Blue/The Long and Winding Road-Beatles

KFXM May 15, 1970

Dated May 11, but should have been May 15 OK #27 For You Blue-George Harrison Predicting thefuture when George will have some hits on the Tiger Thirty

Future Hits

If I want to drive my wife crazy, I can play Gimme Dat Ding by the Pipkins

Follow Me-John Denver This is about a year before Take Me Home Country Roads hits the charts

KFXM 1963 Four weeks April 19 through May 10

There was a request for returning to 1963. Since I've been putting up the 1962 K/men I've been neglecting the 1963 surveys. Catch up time for KFXM today, KMEN later this week.



The first three weeks Surfin' USA-Beach Boys #1
Under Wax to Watch
Great song by Dion- This Little Girl This week Shutdown the flip side of Surfin' USA added as the co-number one song
Little Latin Lupe Lu-Righteous Bros debuting at #38
How about The Pick Hit Of The Week?: How Do You Do It-Gerry & The Pacemakers. Remember this is April 1963, this was before The Beatles (well at least a week before The Beattles) Wax To Watch
Surfer Joe-Surfaris, the flip side of Wipeout being the choice this week

The week of April 27-May 3 survey is very unusual (in more ways than one). I have two copies of the survey. One is the normal survey with nothing on the back. The second has REQUEST-ABLE SMASHBACKS listed on the back, with 59 songs listed with Moody River by Pat Boone at #1. Anyone else have any other surveys like this, or even know the story behind this?

Unusual item #2: #40 is Please, Please Me-The Beattles

Highest debut #32 Da Do Ron Ron-Crystals

King Of The surf Guitar/Hava Nagila-Dick Dale jumped from #32 to #1!

Please Please Me-Beatles still #40 on the survey

Highest debut It's My Party-Leslie Gore. Looks like this song is catching on really fast.

Wax To Watch

I like Daughter-Blenders

KFXM Tiger Mag May 10, 1968

Dionne Warwick on the cover of the Tiger Mag with article inside. Picture of Jimmy Mack and Dick Lyons

#1 The Good, the Bad & The Ugly-Hugo Montenegro

New in the top ten Here's To You-Hamillton Camp at #9

Highest Debut This Guy's In Love With You-Herb Alpert

How about Yummy Yummy Yummy-Ohio Express as a Personal Pick

Two personal picks with interesting titles I'm Sorry and Coming On Strong and neither is by Brenda Lee!

K/mentertainer May 11, 1962

How about #1 Twistin' Maltilda-Jimmy Soul?
Highest debut in the top ten The Stripper-David Rose at #5

Little Richard new on the survey, He Got What He Wanted

How about a new twist song, Bristol Twisting Annie-The Dovels

There are still songs under the Honorable K/mention that show a debut date of 3/10. What is interesting is that none of them were the big hits from two months ago. They are still playing The Prince by Jackie DeShannon

K/MEN May 9, 1970

Paul McCartney without the Beatles
K/men Heavy hitters

Soundathon Coming!
#1 Somethings Burning-First Edition

Hitbound Couple interesting songs.

Into The Mystic-Johnny Rivers MISSISSIPPI-John Phillips

KFXM May 8, 1970

#1 Cecilia-Simon & Garfunkel
I heard #2 Viva Tirado-El Chicano on KRTH yesterday
My favorite debut at this time was Go Back-Crabby Appleton #25 Future Hits
For You Blue-Beatles George Harrison gets the spotlight on this survey.
You, Me & Mexico-Edward Bear, a minor hit making way for Last Song in the distant future.
It Ain't Easy-Three Dog Night Was KFXM predicting (incorrectly) their next single?

K/mentertainer May 4, 1968

#1 The Good, The Bad & The Ugly-Hugo Montenegro

Looks like San Bernardino-Lemonade Charade is also getting played on K/MEN

K/mentertainer May 4, 1962

Black & White copy, but you get to see the whole thing! The back side is stil advertising Art Laboes Oldies But Goodies.
#1 Stranger On The Shore-Mr Acker Bilk
#7 Cindy's Birthday-Johnny Crawford Highest debut in the top ten.
New on the Honorable K/mention
Too Many Teardrops-Bobby Hart He was trying for a long time before he had a hit with Tommy Boyce
Three big hits debuting: Born to Lose-Ray Charles, Palisades Park-Freddie Cannon, The Stripper-David Rose
In the 1970s, Dave Sebastion on his morning show did a bit on his morning show playing The Stripper where you would Flex along with Dave. Early morning exercise.
Someone else who had to wait a few years for a hit debuts a song here Jerry Reed-Goodnight Irene.

A few Twist songs high on the survey. The highest is Twistin' Maltilda-Jimmy Soul at #2 Also #4 Surfer's Twist-The Defiants. Teach Me To Twist-Bobby Rydell/Chubby Checker, Honorable K/mention. Slow Twistin'-Chubber Checker fell off from last week.

KFXM.com "Callifornia Connection"

How many songs can you think of with a "California Connection"?

Today, (Sunday, May 4th), from noon 'til one o'clock pacific time, I'll be playing songs with a California connection.

I was surprised to find that I couldn't play them all in only one hour! Hope your readers will tune in to KFXM.com and enjoy the songs!
Johnny Helm

KFXM Tiger Mag May 3, 1968

Simon & Garfunkel on the cover Article about a local rock group The Caretakers



Bits & Pieces has an interesting "bit" about the Doors "Video" Unknown Soldier

#1 Good, Bad & The Ugly-Hugo Montenegro

#7 Sky Pilot-Animals. Intereting is that it states From LP. So I'm assuming at this point it hasn't even been released as a single yet.

Monkees also have a new song at #23 Dream World. This one I don't even think was ever a single. 1968 and KFXM is putting out album tracks on their survey.

I have copies of a lot of the local 45s, but one I don't have is Good Inside-Caretakers, #20. One of these days I would like to get a copy of that one

San Bernardino by Lemonade Charade appears to be a Future Hit
Favorite Personal Pick How'd We Ever Get this Way-Andy Kim

K/MEN May 2, 1970

Mark Ford Ready For Racing Season The winner of Win A Date With Johnny Helm-- Mary Jones.


How about 4-D Movies?

This is just the beginning of the Beatles breakup, and efforts to get them to reunite.

#1 ABC-Jackson 5

KFXM May 1, 1970

#1 Up Around The Bend-Creedence Clearwater Revival They can manage a #1 in the Inland Empire!
Biggest jump into the top ten #9 Viva Tirado-El Chicano, up from #25


Under Famous 59 News, there is a welcome to Phil Knight, the new all night guy. Don't ever remember seeing a picture of him on the Tiger survey.

Baby Hold On-Grassroots, my favorite Future Hit I remember buying a copy of this in the summer of 1970, at Thrifty's. The nice thing about it was that it was one of their sales, where they had cutout 45s for a nickel.

The Hollies were one of my favorite groups at the time, but I really din't care for their future hit, I Can't Tell The Bottom From The Top