The Quest for Silver with Chris Tuffer Episode 32

South street by The Orlons was the first number two song on our podcast and next The Cascades sing the Rythmn of the rain.  He's so fine by the Chiffons precedes Andy Williams and his song Can't get used to losing you.  Little Peggy March has a silver song for us called I will follow him.  In Dreams is a number two song by Roy Orbison and after that is a song by the Drifters Up on the Roof.  There is much more this hour for you to enjoy.

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This is the Quest for Silver with Chris Tucker on Lifestyle 55 Podcast. Hi folks. How have you been? This is Chris Tuffer on Lifestyles 55 and the Quest for Silver. Songs from our past that place at our second best. Only in terms of the recorded chart. There are songs we remember and love very much, right? Right, let's recognize our first number two song today, which was a trip down South Street with the Orlons. 1963. And it is an actual street in Philadelphia. And it was, and for all intents and purposes, still is, the hippest street in town. Now we keep the nostalgia ball rolling with a song by the Cascades. And it's called The Rhythm of the Rain. And appropriately begins with a thunderstorm.

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Telling me just what a fool I've been. And let me be alone again. The only girl I care about has gone away. Looking for a brand new start. But little does she know that when she left that day, along with her she took my heart. For her to steal my heart away when she don't care. I can't love another when my heart's somewhere far away. The only girl I care about is gone away. Looking for a brand new start. But little does she know that when she left that day, alone with her, she took my heart, won't you tell her that I love her so? Please as the sun has set her heart a glow. Rain in her heart and let the love we do start to grow Listen to the rhythm of the falling rain. Telling me just what a fool I've been. And let me be alone again. Oh, listen to the falling rain. Oh, listen, let's listen to the falling rain.

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I imagine you know very well what it's like when you get stuck with an association. Something like peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. Or this song. A song by George Harrison, who lost a court battle, suggesting that he plagiarize the song by the chiffons, He's So Fine, when he wrote My Sweet Lord. Well, I used to really like the song by the Chavans. But now Because there is just no way that George stole the musical phrase. He's too good for that. But be that as it may, here's the song that broke the bank, if I dare say so. We are L55 and the Q for S with me, Mr. T.

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He's so fine. Like the body with the wave. I don't know how I'm gonna do it. But I'm not gonna make a mind. We gotta get together all the girls. I just get away, I just get away, to be held in his own. I won't we dangly thank you make it my own.

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It kinda goes without saying that the next tune was a number two hit. But Andy Williams recorded this song in 1963 in both the US and the UK. It spent a month there on both charts directly behind He's So Fine by the Chiffons. And we're playing Andy's song ironically directly behind the Chiffons. He's so fine. What a coincidence. Having just played that song. Well, whatever. The song was a favorite for over a dozen other artists who took a crack at covering it through the years.

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I guess I'll get the rest into the town. I'll find some crowded avenues. Loving you. Call up some girl I used to know. After I heard her say hello. Couldn't think of anything to say. Since you're gone, it happens every day. Can you use to lose in you no matter what I try to do? Gone to live my whole life through. Loving you. So I'll start as a late. Who am I kidding? Only need. Cause no one else could take your place. Guess that I am just a hopeless case. Can't get used to losing you no matter what I try to do. Gonna live my whole life through. Loving you. I can't get used to losing you no matter what I try to do. Gonna live my whole life through. Loving you.

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Little Peggy marched right up to the cusp of the center with I Will Follow Him. How about this factoid? Paul Moriatt had a hand in the instrumentation of this big hit and later released an instrumental version of it. Many other stars have done a cover version of this song, but no one did as well as Little Peggy March on L55 and the Q4S with me, Mr. T.

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I love him, I love him, I love him, and where he goes, I'll follow, I'll follow, I'll follow. Follow him wherever he may go. There isn't an ocean to deep a mountain so I can keep me away. Ever since he touched my hand, I knew I knew him I always must be And nothing can keep him from me. He's my destiny I love him, I love him, I love him, I may, I follow him, my child, my child, my child, I love me I will follow him Follow him, whatever he goes, you can keep me on. I want to follow, I follow, I follow, I know I'll always love it, I love it, I love it, and why because I follow, I follow, I follow, I know I'll always love it.

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I love it.

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Roy Arbison has a great number on our show right now called In Dreams. It is the fourth LP record by Roy Orbison with Monument Records recorded at the RCA Studio B in Nashville, Tennessee, and released in 1963. It is named after the hit 45 RPM single in Dreams that same year, L55, and a Q for S with me, Mr. T in Dreams by Roy Orbison.

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A candy colored clown they call a sandman. Tiptoes to my room every night, just to sprinkle stardust and to whisper, go to sleep, everything is all right. I close my eyes, and I drift away, and to magic nice, I saw this face of trees, all this.

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Well, they're not literally on the roof. The next song title is Up on the Roof. Just needed to clarify that. Jerry Goffin cited Up on the Roof as his all-time favorite with the lyrics he's written. After Carol King suggested that he write lyrics for the tune, which had occurred to her while she was out driving. That's how great songs are created, and this is one of them.

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When this soul starts getting me down, and people are just too much for me to face.

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According to Jason Ankeny at AllMusic, the Exciters' version of Tell Him boasted an intensity that signified a sea change in the presentation and perception of femininity in popular music, paving the way for such tough sexy acts as the Shangri-Laws and the Ronette. This is the recording of Tell Him from 1962. The song is entitled The End of the World and was originally by Skeeter Davis and was a number two song in 1962, but I always was struck by the skill of Peter Noon, the lead singer of the Herman's Hermits, when he recorded this song. It was never released as a single, but I suspect that it would have done very well. Let's just sit back and relax and enjoy his skilled presentation of The End of the World on L 55 and the Q for S with me, Mr. T.

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Why does the sun brush? I we do why everything's the same as it was. And I can understand. Why life goes on the way? Why do the birds come on? Why do the stars shine? It's the when you said goodbye.

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But lived a relatively short life prior to his life-ending coronary at 48. He had one song that was certainly correct to label as a signature song called Mr. Basseman. During a 33-year career, Cymbal made an impact on popular music worldwide as a songwriter, singer, performer, and record producer. He was born in Scotland in 1945, but his parents moved to Goderich, Ontario, when he was young, then Cleveland, Ohio. Cymbal was recognized as a teen star in 1963 with the hit song Mr. Bass Man.

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Mr. Bass Man, you've got that certain something, Mr. Basseman. You set that music thumping to you, it's easy. When you go one, two, three, ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba. You mean ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba? Yeah, Mr. Basseman. You're on all the songs. Ritha ba-bo-ba-boom-boom. And the boom-boom-boom. Hey, Mr. Basseman. You're the hidden king of rockin' roll, but don't mean a thing when the leaders sing. Or when he goes, I ain't. Hey, Mr. Basseman. I'm asking just one thing. Will you teach me? Yeah, all the way you sing. Cause Mr. Basseman. I won't be a face man.

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I just bubba. Mr.

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Bassman, I really think I'm with it. Oh, Mr. Basseman. Now I'm a baseman.

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That's it.

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Now you're always don't mean a thing when the leaders sing.

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Or when he goes, I'm going to go. Hey, Mr. Baceman. I'm asking just one thing. Will you teach me? Yeah, the way you sing. Cause Mr. Baceman. I wanna be a bass man.

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That is the ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-fabi.

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I think I'm really with it. With the bit-boom boom. Oh, Mr. Basseman. Now I'm a basement.

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Now you bum the thumb.

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Ruby and the Romantics did not have many songs in the top ten, in fact. Only two. But despite their relative obscurity compared to many of their 1960s contemporaries, Ruby and the Romantics reign as one of the most covered and influential RB vocal groups of the nineteen sixties. It was released in nineteen sixty-two, but peaked in early sixty-three. Our day will come was their biggest impact on the decade of the sixties.

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No tears for us.

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Whereas this one is begging the girl to go away. It took four weeks to climb the Billboard Hot 100 chart on 1964, prevented from going higher by the Beatles. I Wanna Hold Your Hand and She Loves You, which became the top two singles of 1964.

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Pretty as a midsummer's mor.

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I want you to what your family would say.

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It was a top ten song in 1966, and was one of Wonder's first songs to contain social commentary. A dozen other artists have covered this song over the years, including Engelbert Humberting, The Supremes, The Four Tops, and Glenn Campbell to mention a few.

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Moving on, moving on, like a branch on a tree, I keep reaching to be free, moving on, moving on, there's a place in the sun where there's hope for everyone where my poor restless heart gotta run. There's a place in the sun, and before my life is done, gotta find me a place in the sun, like an old dusty road, I get away with from the load, moving on, moving on, like this tight tread. Moving on, moving on there's a place in the sun where there's hope for everyone where my forest is hard. Gotta run. I don't know there's a place in the sun. If before my life is done, gotta find me a place in the sun. You know when times are bad and you're feeling sad. I want you to always remember, yes, there's a place in the sun, where there's home for everyone, where my poor got along.

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Ruby Baby by Dion was originally recorded by the Drifters. Their version was released as a single by Atlantic Records in 1956. It peaked at number 10 on the U.S. Hot RB chart. Columbia Records released a remake by Deon in 1962, which was a worldwide success. The single reached number two on the Billboard Hot 100.

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Hear me talking. What I say, whoa, Ruby Ruby, I want you like a ghost come a card on you. Ruby, Ruby, Ruby, where are you man? Sometimes each time I see you baby in my heart prize. I tell ya, I'm gonna steal you away from all those gas. I didn't want you from the happy day I met you now. I made a fair that I was going to get you now. Ruby, Ruby, Ruby, will you be mad? Give me talking in time now. I love this girl, I see the ruby is her name. Believe me now When this girl looks at me, she just upset My Soul Flay Don't you know what Jesus do you and I'm gonna give a lamo All of you know listen up Ruby Ruby when will you be mad?

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Wanna catch you some time Hey hey hey that's it now Ruby Ruby Ruby Ruby will you be my From a Jack to a King is a country music song originally a crossover hit for artist Ned Miller, who also wrote Dark Moon and A Falling Star, and a few other country songs. It has been covered extensively by country music artists. Miller's version was unsuccessful in 1957 until he persuaded his label to re-release it five years later. Upon re-release, the song became a crossover hit, charting in the top ten on the billboard US country at number two.

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I played an ace and I won a queen and walked away with your heart from a jack to a king With no regret I slacked the cards last night And Leila played her hand just right to make me king of your heart for just a little white I thought that I might lose the game In just in time I saw the twinkle in your eye From a jack to a king From loneliness to a wedding wing I played an ace and I won a queen You made me king of your heart For just a little while I thought that I might lose the game Then just in time I saw the twinkle in your eye From a Jack to a king From loneliness to a wedding wing I played an ace and I won't a queen You made me king of your heart The Lovin' Spoonful is an American folk rock band formed in Greenwich Village, New York City, 1964.

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The band was among the most popular groups in the US for a short period in the mid-1960s, and their music and image influenced many of the contemporary rock acts of their era. Beginning in 1965, around summertime, with their debut single, Do You Believe in Magic? The band had seven consecutive singles reach the top ten of the U.S. charts in the 18 months that followed, including the number two hits Daydream and Did You Ever Have to Make Up Your Mind, and the chart topping Summer in the City. Nashville Cats was a number two song in Canada, but nowhere else did it reach so high on any chart. Anywhere. L55 and the Q for S with me, Mr. T.

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Nashville Cats, play clean as country water, Nashville cats, play wild as Mountain Dew, Nashville cats, been playing since Ace Babies. Nashville Cats Get work before that two There's 1,352 guitar pickers in Nashville. And they can pick more notes than the number of ants on the Tennessee anthill. Yeah, there's 1,352 guitar cases in Nashville. And anyone that unpacks his guitar could play twice as better than I will. Yes, I was just 13. You might say I was a musical proverbial knee-high. When I heard a couple new sounding tunes on the tubes, and they blasted me sky high. And the record man said everyone is a yellow sun record from Nashville. And up north here ain't nobody buys them. And I said, But I will. And it was Nashville, cats, playing clean's country water, Bill Cats, playing mom's mountain, Bill Cats, been playing since babies, Nash, Bill Cats, get working for the two 16,821 mothers from Nashville. All the friends play music and they ate uptight. If one of the kids will Because it's custom made for any mother's son to be a guitar picker in Nashville. And I sure am glad I got a chance to say a word about the music in the mothers from Nashville. And Nashville Cats. Play Queen's Country Water Nashville Cats. Play Wild's Mountain Dune. Nashville Cats. Been playing since Ace Babys. Nashville Cats. Get work before the tune pickets.

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One of the songs by Gary Lewis and the Playboys that had more airplay than some of the other songs. Gary confirmed She's Just My Style is the song of his that he told interviewer Ray Sashow in 2013 that they sought to emulate the style of the Beach Boys with the recording. That's exactly what we were going for. Even before we started writing it, we said let's go for the Beach Boys thing. A little rock and roll with a lot of harmony. And I was really happy the way we pulled it off.

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Every time I see her, she don't even love my way.

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They were an active musical act for the decade from 1957, and for about thirty weeks each year, they're still banging out the tunes that we remember with affection. We are Lifestyles 55, and our show is The Quest for Silver. I'm Christopher, and I want to thank you for listening. And until we meet again, be cool and stay warm.

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Oh yeah. I don't give a damn about a green icon. And as fast as I can. The only things that I understand. Oh boy. The only things that I understand.

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When I was a little baby, my mama said, Hey son, drive away your will and grow to be a man. And sing what must be sung. Oh boy. Sing what must be sung.

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And I don't give a damn about a green back guitar. And as fast as I can, all away in a song and a good guitar. The only things that I understand. Oh boy. The only things that I understand. Now that I'm a grown man, I've traveled here and there. I've learned that a bottle of brandy and a song. The only ones who ever care. Oh boy. The only ones who ever care. And I don't give a damn about a green machadara. Send as fast as I can. For a railing song and a good guitar. The only things that I understand. Oh boy. The only things that I understand. Some people say I'm a no-cal. Others say I'm no good. But I'm just a natural bone traveling man. Doing what I think I should. Oh yeah. Doing what I think I should. And I don't give a damn about a green icon. The only thing that I only think that I only think that I'm the only thing that I'm doing.