'50s On 5 Playlist, Version 2.0

[Thomps2525]

"Subscription numbers are surging, they say. Prove that the tight playlists don't have anything to do with it." I shall try. People are subscribing because they want to hear Stern and Oprah and Dr. Laura and because they hate all the commercials heard on FM and because they want to get all those exciting baseball games and football games and NASCAR races (where lots of little cars go round and round and round).

And new subscribers have no knowledge of the huge playlists of 2001-2008. They doesn't know what they is missing, now does they?

[Tony1948]

[radioguy1007]

[AZjoe]

Addrisi Brothers -Cherrystone ('59)

[Thomps2525]

Don and Dick Addrisi were better known for We've Got To Get It On Again in 1972 and Slow Dancin' Don't Turn Me On in 1977. If you didn't know, they both graduated from Boston's prestigious School Of Using Contemporary Clichés In Songwriting. The Addrisi Brothers also wrote the Association's Never My Love.

I had never heard Cherrystone. Here is a clip of them lip-synching it on the Juke Box Jury tv show...and they're doing their very bestest Everly Brothers impression, I might add.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qhHqOFz6D0

[AZjoe]

Cherrystone is a great uptempo tune, I have the song and have loved it for years.

[Thomps2525]

My mistake. A few years ago I thought you said you had a kidney stone.

[Mr. D.T.]

"Cherrystone" (1959) U.S. #62[4]

That's a breath of fresh air on a station that has turned into a predominately Time-Life Top-10 playlist. Worse off, 60s still emphasizes and romances the Brown-Eyed Girl. How old is she today?

I'm sure 50s pre-merger and even half into 2009, you can hear barely a repeat for the next three days. It all spiraled down the chute after that... FM lives on...

[AZjoe]

[Thomps2525]

Mr. D.T. wonders how old the "brown-eyed girl" is. I'm assuming that the "stadium" near which Van Morrison and the girl made love is a college stadium, since few high schools have an actual stadium. If both were college students at the time, that would likely make Morrison between 18 and 22. The girl would probably, but not necessarily, be one or two years younger. I'm also assuming that the typical male begins thinking of a marriage partner around age 21, so Morrison would probably have been younger at the time of the affair. The line, "I saw you just the other day; my, how you have grown", tells me that Morrison never married that girl. Further, if she's "grown", she was obviously fairly young and not fully developed at the time they made love. I'm going to speculate---and you all know I'm not the speculator that I used to be---that Morrison was 18 and the girl was 16. The song is from 1967 and the tryst was obviously several years earlier. Morrison was born in 1945, so I'm figuring the tryst took place in 1963 when Morrison was 18. The girl was probably 16. So...in 2011, the brown-eyed girl will be 64.

And will he still need her, will he still feed her, when she's 64?

[AZjoe]

[Thomps2525]

I don't remember which magazine I was reading, nor do I remember what year it was---which gets this post off to a good start, eh?---but many many years ago a magazine had an article about famous actresses and their self-esteem. One of the questions asked was, "What part of your body do you think is the most beautiful?" Raquel Welch's answer: "My back." Umm.....okay.

We now return you to your regularly scheduled '50s Channel discussion.

[Tony1948]

[Thomps2525]

The last independently-owned AM station in Los Angeles plays a mix of pop hits, MOR and adult standards from the 1930s to today. You can hear KGIL "Retro 1260" online at http://1260.am/

They play a lot of 1950s, even obscurities such as Santo & Johnny's Tear Drop.

[Tony1948]