Phantom Tracks

Did you know that one of The Who's best songs, gave Pete major grief and inspired the Beatles to write Helter Skelter? Or which song by the Beatles is considered to be the loudest most aggressive song they ever wrote? All kinds of neat stuff this week.
I Can See for Miles - The Who
Lets Stay Together - Al Greene
Play Something Sweet - 3 Dog Night
Just What I Needed - The Cars
The End - The Doors
Revolution - Beatles
Turn Back the Hands of Time - Tyrone Davis
I Just Can't Help Believing B.J. Thomas
Heard It In a Love Song - Marshal Tucker

Hey do you know who the Angie is in the Stone's song? How about where Denver's Country Road really is? Or the weirdness behind Floyd's Wish you were Here... that and plenty more....

Starland Vocal Band - Afternoon Delight
Rolling Stones - Angie
The Guess Who - No Time Left For You
The Byrds - Hey Mr. Tambourine Man
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
The Pharaohs - Little Red Riding-Hood
Monkees - Last Train to Clarkesville
Mamas and the Papas - This is Dedicated
Little River Band - lonesome Loser
John Denver - Take Me Home Country Road

How about a CCR song inspired by Dr. Seuss! Or a CSN song written in 15 minutes on a bet? Or the hit song that John Lennon got writing credit for and no its not a Beatles tune.....That and more

CCR - Looking out my BackDoor
Chicago - I've Been Searching So Long
Coasters - Poison Ivy
Cornelius Brothers & Sister Rose - It's Too Late
Crosby Stills & Nash - Just a Song Before I Go
David Bowie - Fame
Dr Hook - Slyvia's Mother
Eagles - I Can't Tell You Why
Eddie Money - Two Tickets To Paradise
ELO - Don't Bring Me Down

better late...well....anyway, here is number 22
Did you know that the best song of Nancy Sinatra's career almost was the end of her career? Or AC/DC highway to hell is not about a lifestyle...but something ummm a bit closer to home? Or the singer that had throat surgery and was even more popular afterwards?! Yep, that and more!!

Live and Let Die - Wings
Wooly Bully - Sam the Sham
These Boots - Nancy Sinatra
Make it with You - Bread
Use Me Up - Bill Withers
Highway To Hell - ac/dc
Movin out - Billy Joel
We've Got Tonight - Bob Seger
Its a Heartache - Bonny Tyler
Its Too Late - Carol King
Help - Beatles

Did you know Rich Girl was based on a rich brat...but a guy instead? Hall thought Rich Boy didn't work quite right...lol and a spree killing may have been motivated by the song? Did you know the person who wrote Woodstock....never attended the concert? Or that Brown Sugar might have been a thinly veiled song about drugs? Yep, that and more weirdness!

Hall and Oats - Rich Girl
The Foundations - Build Me Up Buttercup
Crosby Stills & Nash - Woodstock
Queen - We Are the Champions
Rolling Stones - Brown Sugar
The Monkees - I'm a Believer
The Turtles - So Happy Together
Badfinger - Baby Blue
Association - Windy
Looking Glass - Brandy

Elton John - Don't Let the Sun
England Dan - I'd Really Love to See You
Foreigner - Cold As Ice
Gilbert O'Sulivan - Alone Again Naturally
Gordon Lightfoot - If You Could Read My Mind
Harry Chapin - Cat's in the Cradle
Heart - Straight On For You
Jim Croce - Operator
Rupert Holmes - Escape

Beatles - Do You Want to Know a Secret
Billy Joel - Only the Good Die Young
Bob Seger - Main Street
Carly Simon - Your So Vane
Carole King - You Got a Friend
Captain and Tennille - Love Will Keep Us Together
CCR - I Heard it Through The Grapevine
Eagles - Take it to the Limit
ELO - Livin Thing

Johnny Rivers - Secret Agent Man
KC & the Sunshine Band - That's the Way I Like It
Beatles - I Am the Walrus
Santana - Black Magic Woman
Joe Cocker - Feelin All Right
Cream - Strange Brew
Carpenters - Rainy Days and Mondays
Andy Kim - Rock Me Gently
Bad Company - Can't Get Enough of Your Love
Tom Jones - It's Not Unusual
Sonny and Cher - The Beat Goes On

Did you know Sweet Home Alabama was an rebuttal to Neil Young's Southern Man? Or that Jimmy Page played session on Them's Gloria?
or that Break on Through is supposed to have backward masking? who knew?!

Neil Young - Southern Man
Lynard Skinner - Sweet Home Alabama
The Trogs - Wild Thing
Thin Lizzy - The Boys Are Back in Town
Them - Gloria
Temptations - Papa Was A Rollin Stone
Greatful Dead - Truckin
The Fortunes - Here Comes That Rainy Day feeling
Doors - Break on Through to the Otherside

Did you know that Dusty Springfield changed how she sang Son of a Precher? Why? Or that Procul Harum's name is mangled latin? Or the song you thought the Stones was playing at Alamonta wasn't! Was it artistic or did they just screw up on Maria's song? That and more!

Peter Frampton - Baby I Love The Way
Little River Band - A Long Way There
Maria Muldaur - Midnight at the Oasis
Nick Guilder - Hot Child in the City
Dusty Springfield - Son of a Precher
Otis Redding - Sitting on the Dock of the Bay
Procol Harum - Conquistordor
Rolling Stones - Sympathy for the Devil
Redbone - Come and Get Your Love

I think you will find this one of the better mixes. Not so much of the software games, pretty much a straight read with so neat trivia. I thought it was interesting how many people Carol King wrote for, or what Elton John's Someone Saved my live is about. Or what ACDC went through to get the bell sample for Hell's Bells? And some of the facts behind Chicago by CSN. Interesting stuff. Enjoy!~

Bread - Baby I'm a Want You
AC/DC - Hells Bells
Carol King - So Far Away
CCR - Someday Never Comes
Crosby Stills Nash - Chicago
John Dever - Sunshine On My Shoulder
Eagles - Take It To the Limit
Elton John - Someone Saved My Life
Buffalo Springfield - For What its worth

Ok, I know...too much software last week. I will do better this week.
But it's a good mix, I can assure you. Here is some trivia questions,
Did you know that Badfinger and the Beatles had a connection? Who was Bobby MaGee? Name the rocker who would deliberately set his head on fire!, What song did Stevie Wonder write for Smokey Robinson? and what song did Paul Revere write that wasn't a hit in the US that the Monkees did take high on the charts? That and more!

Arthur Brown - I Am the God of Hell-fire
Jerry Reed - When Your Hot
Smoky Robinson - The Tears of a Clown
Paul Revere - I'm Not Your Steppin' Stone
Neil Young - Hey Hey My My
Jimmy Buffet - Margaritaville
Janis Joplin - Me and Bobby McGee
Ben E. King - Stand By Me
Diana Ross - I Hear a Symphony
CCR - Up Around the Bend
Badfinger - Come and Get It
B.J. Thomas - Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head

Really good mix with this broadcast. Still playing with software at this time...ehhhhh....not sold yet! lol Wow what a load of fun facts this time. A song that was supposed to be about a science fiction rock concert! One hit inspired by an almost beating! Or how about a song about wishing your wife would hurry up and get dressed?! Oh yeah, the thing that great music is born from! Enjoy!

Bill Withers - Aint No Sunshine
Wonderful Tonight - Eric Clapton
Beatles - Strawberry Fields
Who - We Won't Get Fooled Again
Van Morrison - Domino
Tommy James -Criminson and Clover
Monkeys - Sleepy Jean
Paul Simon - Kodacrome
The Guess Who - No Sugar Tonight

Little bit more of a mix this week. On the first broadcast, those that heard it, knew that I screwed up a couple of songs, so this is a new remix of that show. I did use the same effects though. Not sure I will stick with them, but it was interesting and the software has some potential. The mix speaks for itself.

The Beatles - Come Together
The Byrds - Turn Turn Turn
Cornelius Brothers - Treat Her Like a Lady
Fifth Dimension - Aquarius
The Hollies - The Air That I Breathe
Chicago - 25 or 6 to 4
America - Horse With no Name
Doors - Riders on the Storm
Billy Joel - Piano Man

The things you find out with a bit of research!
Like the origins of the Righteous Brother and Three Dog Night's names or some really interesting ideas on the meaning of the lyrics of American Pie. How about Cream's White Room ... about a guys apartment?! Who needed help in the Beatles song Help! The history behind Creeque Alley plus some other good stuff. Have fun!

Righteous Brothers - Unchained Melody
Three Dog Night - Joy to the World
Don Maclean - Bye Bye Miss American Pie
Cream - White Room
Ringo Star w/Badfinger - It Don't Come Easy
Beatles - Help
Mamas and the Papas - Creeque Alley(TV appearance)
Gorden Lightfoot - Wreck of the Edmond Fitzgerald
Jim Croce - Time in a Bottle
Paul Revere - Cherokee Nation

Curious mix this week. There are three fake bands offered up. Two of the bands had some of the same people! Plus, what is Brown Eyed Girl really about? What pop song was based on the song "The Dying Man"? What song could be a tribute to 3 different women? and some of the story behind Rick Nelson's Garden Party. (talk about caustic!) Good stuff this week, enjoy!
Archies Sugar Sugar
Jigsaw Sky High
Steam na na Hey Hey Goodbye
Terry Jacks Seasons in the Sun
Edison Lighthouse Nobody Knows Where My Rosemary Goes
Player Baby Come Back
Elton John Candle in the Wind
Tony Orlando Knock Three Times
Van Morrison Brown Eyed Girl
Roy Oberson Pretty Woman
Ricky Nelson Garden Party

Whiter Shade of Pale Procol Harum
We Gota Get out of This Place Animals
Another Brick in the Wall Pink Floyd
My Sweet Lord George Harrison
Magic Man Heart
White Rabbit Jefferson Airplane
Born To Be Wild Steppenwolf
Draggin the Line Tommy James
Band on the Run Wings
Drift Away Doobie Gray

I really enjoyed this mix. And before any of you jump me for Southern Cross, yes I know it was on a 1980 album, but the recording was done much earlier and the album was delayed because Crosby was not included due to low productivity and drug uses. The others proceeded without him and the record company would not release the album until Stills and Nash reinstated Crosby. Who knew!?

Mellow Yellow - Donavan
Sothern Cross - Crosby Still Nash
Dirty Deeds - AC/DC
I'm Burning for You - Blue Oyster Cult
Turn the Page - Bob Seager
Don't Look Back - Boston
Have you Ever Seen the Rain - CCR
Brick House - Commodores
Mama Don't Dance - Dr. Hook
Urgent - Foreigner

This mix settled in really well. No real tech problems and the song mix I think really works this week. I think you will like it.
Remember, if you have song requests, or song triva/facts, please send them in!

Venus - Shocking Blue
Baby Love - Supremes
Maggie May - Rod Stewart
Daniel - Elton John
When will I See You Again - Three Degrees
Evil Woman - ELO
War - Edwin Star
Signs - Five Man Electric Band
Stuck in the Middle with You - Steelers Wheel
Hooked on a Feeling - BJ Thomas
Rhythm of the Rain - Cascades

Got a good mix this week. Sthow is starting to tighten up. Some future ones may need some help, but this one is good. so what do The Spencer Davis Group and Cream have in common. What does Ry Cooder have against Keith Richards, The Ray Davies Quartet were better known as who? and what is meant by Blind Faith?

Hitchin a Ride - Vanity Fair
Imagine - John Lennon
It never Rains in Souther CA - Albert Hammond
Sweet City Woman - Stampeders
Cant find My Way Back Home - Blind Faith
More Than a Feeling - Boston
Honky tonk Woman - Stones
All Right Now - Free
Lola - Kinks
Teenage Wasteland - The Who

Time of the Season - Zombies
Brandy - Looking Glass
Barracuda - Heart
Diamond Girl - Seals & Crofts
Bang a Gong - Trex
You Aint Seen Nuthin Yet - BTO
While My Guitar Weeps - George Harrison
Twilight Zone - Golden Earing

I know some of you have heard this mix before, but I want to get them all up here at least for a time. So this is a remix of #4, though no different music was included. Just finetuned it a bit. Here is the list.
Heard it in a Love Song - Marshal Tucker
Margaritaville - Jimmy Buffet
Night Moves - Bob Seager
Double Vision - Foreigner
Gimmie Three Steps - Lynard Skynard
Please come to Boston - Dave Loggins
Walk on the Wild Side - lou Reed
Godzilla - Blue Oyster Cult
Taking Care of Business - BTO
Dream Weaver - Gary Wright

Long Cool Woman - The Hollys
Sounds of Silence Simon and Garfunkel
Me and You and a Dog Named Boo - Lobo
Time Passages - Al stewart
Bend Me Shake Me - American Breed
Condition - Big Lewbowski (Kenny Rogers & the First Edition)
Watch Tower - Jimmi Hendrix
Crystal Blue Persuasion - Tommy James
Dream On - Areosmith
Stairway to Heaven Led Zepplin

Ok, this was my second try at putting together something that would be fun and informative. I was still working out the kinks. And remember it was suppose to be kinda tongue in cheek. Never thought it would get to a regular show. Who knew?! So, I decided to always open with Here I Come and close with GreenTambourine. Some pretty good facts and other stuff, but I am always open for more. If you have 60s or 70s rock facts about songs or band, let me know!

Hold on loosely - 38 Special
Spirit in the Sky - Norm Greenbaum
Smoke on the Water - Deep Purple
Dont fear the Reaper - Blue Oyster Cult
Radar Love - Golden Earring
Magic Carpet - Ride Steppenwolf
Ramblin Man - Allman Brothers
Hold your Head - Up Argent
Sweet Home Alabama - Lynyrd Skynyrd

Ok, here we go! Now, relax, this was my first try. I have played with this program on WRFR for a couple of months and got some laughs and got some fans. But instead of doing what I did with my first podcast (starting in with the latest episode) I thought that I would start right from the very first mix. So the facts and info are terse, but still interesting. The mix was right off some of the old mix cds I used to make. Enjoy here is the list
Monday Monday
Sleeping Bag
You Shook Me All Night Long
School Out
House of the Rising Sun
Paranoid
Down on the Corner
Smoking Gun
I love you to want me
Nights in White Satin

And just so you don't get confused in the coming weeks...I always open with Here I Come and close with Green Tambourine