Firstly apologies to regular listeners for the lack of a Jocknroll special last week. The weather put paid to it. I shall instead be using it to celebrate Burns Night in January 2011. I did, however, manage to get to the studio to record this week’s show. I’ll be in the Wild West at the third and final day of the Glasgow Popfest at Stereo, featuring the very wonderful The Orchids, so you’ll have to put up with me on tape.
This week on Where the Action Is we celebrate the music of those from the world of rock and pop who have passed away in 2010 with a special edition of the show entitled “Gone But Not Forgotten”.
As usual we’ll have two slightly different games of Connect 3, where the three tracks will each involve someone who died this year. There’s also the Half-Time Instrumental and Two of a Kind from Big Star, who lost two members this year, as did The Action.
The Action – Love is All (Unreleased 1967/1968)
Floyd Cramer – On The Rebound (RCA 1961) (show theme)
Stone Poneys/Linda Ronstadt – Different Drum (Capitol 1967)
The Isley Brothers – Take Me In Your Arms (Rock Me a Little While) (Tamla Motown 1968)
Lesley Duncan – See That Guy (Mercury 1965)
The Kinks – Tired of Waiting for You (Pye 1965)
The Kinks – Dead End Street (Pye 1966)
The Free Design – Bubbles (Project 3 1970)
Johnny Kidd & The Pirates – Hungry for Love (HMV 1963) (Connect 3)
Billy J Kramer and the Dakotas – Chinese Girl (Reaction 1967) (Connect 3)
The Dakotas – The Spider and the Fly (Philips 1968) (Connect 3)
Willie Mitchell – That Driving Beat (London 1965)
Bobby Hebb – Love Love Love (Philips 1966)
Reg King & BB Blunder – Little Boy (United Artists 1971)
The Carpenters – Goodbye to Love (A&M 1972)
The Essex featuring Anita Humes – A Walkin’ Miracle (Roulette 1963)
Redbone – The Witch Queen of New Orleans (Epic 1971)
Neil Christian and the Crusaders – The Road To Love (Columbia 1962) (Foreign Language)
The Kinks – Village Green (Pye 1966/1967) (Half-Time Instrumental)
Eddie Fisher – The Chase (Ramrod 1960)
Crispian St. Peters – You’re On My Mind (Decca 1965)
The Action – Twenty Fourth Hour (Parlophone 1967)
The Action – Never Ever (Parlophone 1967)
The Supremes – Someday We’ll Be Together (Motown 1969)
Marvin Gaye/Tammi Terrell – If I Could Build My Whole World Around You (Tamla 1967)
The Boston Dexters – What Kind of Girl Are You? (Contemporary 1964)
The Buzz – I Gotta Buzz (Columbia 1966)
The Showmen – It Will Stand (London 1962)
Chairmen of the Board – Give Me Just a Little More Time (Invictus 1970)
The Action – Mine Exclusively (BBC 1966) (Connect 3)
The Action – Interview with Reg King (BBC 1966) (Connect 3)
The Action – Baby You Got It (BBC 1966) (Connect 3)
The Action – Shadows and Reflections (Parlophone 1967) (Connect 3)
Big Star – Daisy Glaze (Stax 1973) (Two of a Kind)
Big Star – When My Baby’s Beside Me (Stax 1972) (Two of a Kind)
Solomon Burke – Home in Your Heart (Atlantic 1962)
Floyd Cramer – On The Rebound (RCA 1961) (show theme)
So it’s goodbye and thanks for the memories to Mike “Ace” Evans (The Action), Reg King (The Action), Kenny Edwards (Stone Poneys), Lesley Duncan, Pete Quaife (The Kinks), Chris Dedrick (Free Design), Mick Green, Willie Mitchell, Bobby Hebb, Tony Peluso, Anita Humes, Lolly Vasquez, Neil Christian, Eddie Fisher, Harvey Fuqua, Tam White, Norman Johnson, Solomon Burke, Alex Chilton and Andy Hummel. God bless you all.
Next week’s show, weather permitting, will be the first of two Christmas specials, full of weird and wonderful festive tunes.
Don’t forget, if you’re in the Victoria Hospital in Kirkcaldy you can hear Where The Action Is on Channel 3 on your bedside headphones or on 1287AM on the Medium Wave between 1702 and 1900 every Sunday.
That’s it for this week. Until next time, it’s good day and good health.
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