The Quest for Silver with Chris Tuffer Episode 49

Randy and the Rainbows started our podcast today with Denise and next is Kai Winding with the theme song More from the movie Mondo Cane.  Barbara Lewis with Hello Stranger is just ahead of Bobby Vee and his number two The Night has a thouasnad eyes.  You will find much more to hear as you discover our latest podcast.

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This is the Quest for Silver with Chris Tuffer on Lifestyles 55 podcasts. I'm in love with the body to be I love with you to be loved with the mean open I've got a touch on you to me I'm not big Open me long It might be paradise Open It opened up the night I'm loving you I'm in love with the body S I'm in love with the bodies to do I'm in the Hi folks I'm Chris Tuffer and you are listening to Lifestyles 55 and our show called The Quest for Silver Randy and the Rainbow was formed in nineteen sixty two in New York name Randy and the Rainbows was chosen by the owners of Lori Records after the group recorded our opening song previously been called Junior was written by the late ninety seven obviously needed Randy and the Rainbow Single. Why do we roll out early on to the top chart at number ninety-seven and the group never charted again? We turn our attention now to one of the few songs that had no lyrics, which also made it to the top ten. It was the theme music from the motion picture Mondocani, which was recorded by some artists with lyrics. But now this number two, Kai Winding from back in nineteen sixty-three. The title is simply more on L fifty five DR in the Q for S with me, Mr. T. Hello, stranger. A song written and performed by Barbara Lewis, which has been covered by many other artists. One of the earliest covers was by Martha Reeves and the Vandelas from their 1963 album Heat Wave. Barbara was inspired to write a song with that title while working gigs in Detroit with her father, who was a musician. She said, I would make the circuit with my dad, and people would yell out, Hey stranger, or Hello Stranger. It's been a long time. The song is notable because its title comprises the first two words of the lyrics, but it is never repeated at any point in the rest of the song.

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Hello, stranger. It seems so good to see you back again. How long has it been?

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It seems like a money long time.

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It seems like a money long time. You stepped by to say hello to me. Never that's the way it's been like a money long time. Chibactiba, my baby. It seems like a mighty long time. Chibabi chibab my baby. It seems like a mighty long time.

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Chubaco my bell. Oh my chib, my baby. Chubaco. I'm so happy my day.

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Our next offering is from 1962, The Night Has a Thousand Eyes by Bobby V. And if it had not been for the day the music died, we may never have heard about Bobby V. That night, less than two months prior to his 60th birthday. Bobby, along with his older brother Bill and his friends, were thrust into the limelight to fill in for the three headliners of the show on February 3rd, 1959. None other than Buddy Holly, Richie Mallens, and the big bother, who were all killed in the crash of a detailed 1947 beechcraft Finanza airplane, along with the 21-year-old pilot, Roger Peterson. Folks, we are L-55DR and the Q for S with me, Mr. T.

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They say that you're a runaround lover. Oh you say it isn't so But if you put me down for another, I'll no believe me, I'll know. Cousin I have a thousand eyes, and a thousand eyes Can't help but see if you are true to me. So remember when you tell those little eyes at the night Has a thousand eyes You say that you're at home when you own me And how much do you really care? So you keep telling me that you're lonely I'll know if someone is there Other night Has a thousand eyes and a thousand eyes Can help but see if you are sure to me So remember when you tell those days Oh I like that the night Has a thousand eyes One of these days you're gonna be sorry Because you're game I'm gonna play And you might not really try Each time that Mike is free Covenant Will see me too And I do Remember these guys on my little Wild Catholic As a thousand eyes So remember when you tell those little Why lies at the night as a thousand eyes Peter, Paul, and Mary were known for many folk hits in the mid-20th century, and this song is entitled Puff the Magic Dragon, and despite rumors that the song refers to drugs, it is actually about the lost innocence of childhood.

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Puff the magic dragon lived by the sea and frolicked in the autumn mist in a land called Hanali. Little Jackie Paper loved that Jurassic puff and brought him strings and sealing wax and other fancy stuff. Oh, puff the magic dragon lived by the sea, and frolicked in the autumn mist in a land called Hanalek. Puff the magic dragon lived by the sea, and frolicked in the autumn mist in a land called Hanale. Together they were traveled on a bow to its billowed sails. Jackie kept a lookout perched on Puff's gigantic tail. Noble kings and princes would bow when e'er they came. Irish ships would lower their flags when Puff roared out his name. Oh, puff the magic dragon lived by the sea, and frolicked in the autumn mist in a land called Hanna Lee. Puff the magic dragon lived by the sea, and frolicked in the autumn mist in a land called Hanna Lee. A dragon lives forever, but not so little boys. Tainted wings and giant's rings make way for other toys. One great eye did happen. Shaggy paper came no more. And puffed that mighty dragon. He ceased his fearless arch. His head was bent in sorrow. Green scales fell like a rage. Puff no longer went to play along the cherry lane. Without his life, range, puff could not be raised. So puff that mighty dragon sadly slipped into his cage. Oh, puff the magic dragon lived by the sea, and frolicked in the autumn mist in a land called Hanal. The magic dragon live by the sea, and frolict in the autumn mist in a land called Hanali.

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Songs without lyrics rarely make it to the top of the charts, or even the top ten. But now and then it does happen. And the Shantae is accomplished just that with this stereo remix of the tune entitled Pipeline. Although they had a myriad of surf tunes, Pipeline was the Shantae's only hit single, and is considered one of the landmarks of the surf genre. Elvis recalled that the performance didn't work for his reputation. I failed music. And then they entered me and then I came on stage I heard people rumbling and whispering and so forth. Nobody knew I even said It was amazing how popular I became in school after that. And yet, not long after one of his profile performances, the New York Times wrote that Mr. Presley has no discernible singing ability. His phrasing, if it can be called that, consists of the stereotyped variations that go on in a beginner's area in a bathtub.

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You look like an angel, look like an angel, walk like an angel, walk like an angel, talk like an angel, but I got a while.

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You're the devil in the sky, for as you are the devil in the sky.

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You fool me with your instance, you cheated at steam. Hell no time to me.

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You look like an angel, look like an angel. Walk like an indoor, walk like an angle, talk like an indoor, but I got I thought that I was to be, but I always choose to fight. Look like end, look like an anger, walk like end, walk like an anger, talk like an end, but I got one.

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Oh, yes, we are in the sky, oh yes we are, devil in the sky, oh yes we are in the star.

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Let us now go down under for the next performance of Timey Kangaroo Down Sport by Rolf Harris. He wrote the song in 1957, three years prior to its limited release, and then another year before we heard it in North America.

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There's an old Australian stockman lying, dying. And he gets himself up on one elbow and he turns to his mates who gathered round. He says, Watch me wall the beast beats, mate. Watch me wall the beast beats. They're a dangerous breeze, mate. So watch me wall the beast beats all together now. Time and the room down, time to hang the room down, time again, speaking of the two, speaking of the coast. So tight be called the back, falling elements, time to room down, time girls, time we can make anger, let me ever go loose, loose, let me ever go loose. There are no further use loose, so let me ever go loose, falling every time, hangaroo, time guru, time guru, time to let the stuff fill, find me flexible stuff, time just finding flexible stuff, falling, time again, time again, time again, time again, play and victory to blue, fly in victory, blue, all right, keep playing till I should throw blue play in victory, on again, time again, one more time and the room down, time again, one more time and the room down. Can me hide when I'm dead, Fred. Can me hide when I'm dead. How he can meet hide when he died five, and let me hangin' on the shed all together now.

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The crystals and the do run wrong. The song relates the joy of a gal who has found the guy. And it's done with appropriate good rock feeling, calling it a solid follow-up to the crystals previous hit, He's sure the boy I love. We are L55 DR and the Q for S with me, Mr. T.

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Somebody told me that a name spill.

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And he recorded it as an energetic instrumental takeoff on Chuck Berry's Memphis, Tennessee. He had improvised it a few years earlier when his keyboardist Denzel Dumpy Rice, who normally sang and played the Barry Tune, missed a performance. And Mac didn't know the tune's lyrics, but when the audience called for it, he improvised a highly embellished electric guitar instrumental loosely based on Barry's melody. And of course, surfing tunes held a prominent place on the charts. This is the big one, and their first top ten appearance with our surfin USA.

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If everybody had a nose across the USA, then everybody be served. Like California. We're Auntie Sandos too. A bushy bushy bon here. Servin USA.

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You'll catch them serving at least. You better be lying. And that's a meaning wake inside outside.

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Everybody's gonna serve serving USA. We'll all be planning out a room. We're gonna take real soon. We're waxing down our skirt. We can't wait for June. We'll all be gone for the summer. We're on Sephora stay. Tell the teacher we're served. Serving USA. And I can be outside.

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You had on the baby inside outside. You all why they sign outside. Serving you as a dancer.

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Serving USA.

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Everybody's dancer.

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Serving USA.

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Everybody's dancing.

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Serving USA. Serving USA.

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Vince Garrowled in the trio. With their 1962 composition, Cast Your Fate to the Wind, became a radio hit and won a Grammy Award in 1963 for Best Original Jazz Composition. Unfortunately, Vince died of a sudden heart attack on February 6, 1976, at age of 47. Moments after concluding a nightclub performance in Menlo Parker, California. And by the way, the song was featured in the 1987 film Good Morning Vietnam. With his 1960-head cover of Hank Ballard and Midnighters, RB song The Twist and The Pony with the 1961 cover of the song Pony Time. His biggest UK hit, Letter Twist again, was released one year later in 62 that year. He also popularized the song Limbo Rock. Originally a previous year instrumental hit by The Camp, to which he added lyrics and its trademark limbo dance, as well as other dance styles such as the fly. Here's Chubby with the limbo rock.

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Every limbo boy and girl all around the limbo world, gonna do the limbo rock, all around the limbo flop, Jack the Limbo Jack the quick, Jack go up the limberstick, all around the limbo flock. Limbo lower now. Limbo lower down. Hello and you go beat. Then you move the limple bee. Limple and the limbo dick. Then back like a limple beat. Jack the limple jack the quick. Jack go on the limbo stick.

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All around the limbo.

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Get jumped up the limbable. Get that chick a little world. You will fall in the lap. Jack the limple jack quick. All the down. Don't put the limple stop. Hello, can you go?

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And this one, called Killer Joe by the Rocky Fellers, a Filipino-born pop rock band discovered by Stanley Kahn in the 1960s, who signed them to Separate Records. The group was composed of four brothers, Tony, Jr., Eddie, and Albert Madler, and their father, Dorothea. They had a hit single called Killer Joe, written by Bert Russell, Phil Medley, and Bob Elgin in 1963. The song was inspired by a famed dance instructor and king of the discotheque, Killer Joe Pyro.

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Woo, no.

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Woo, yeah. Look at Dilla Joe. Dancing with Mauri. He don't act like he no. He belongs to me. Look at how they wapble. He's the best in town. I think I'm a dramble. Oh I'm so jealous. Is your mom me down with me? Look at the job.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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Look at the job, please.

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So much better belongs to me.

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No, no, no, no, come back to me. No, no, no, no, come back, Marie. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, Marie.

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It's Over is an American song composed by Roy Orbison and Bill Dees, and of course sung by Roy. The single was produced by Fred Foster and engineered by Bill Porter. It's Over typifies the operatic rock ballad. The song also appears on Orbison's 1964 album, More of Roy Orbison's Greatest Hit, and his 1989 posthumous album, A Black and White Night Live, from the 1988 HBO television special.

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It's all in too.

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When she says to you, it's all the rainbows in the sky.

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Start to weep and say goodbye. That's all that's all. But you see lonely something after all.

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It's over and over and the four seasons, with lead by Frankie Valley, had dozens of hit singles and a lot of songs that made them famous, especially by the use of Frankie's falsetto singing. He yearned to prove that he could carry the human without the use of that high-range horror. He did indeed prove it. Undoubtedly. And that, my friends, was Don Jaconi of the Critters. Here is Candy Girl by the Four Seasons on L55DR in the Q for S with me, Mr. T.

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I've been searching all this wide world. Now finally I found my girl.

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She that's my hotel word.

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She wants to win.

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We want to see the glow with the glow of the block. And it's like a sea. Our lovers be.

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Another super fast collection of great secondary songs from the nineteen sixties. And we have time now for one last instrumental. And this tune, both the Safari's version as well as other cover versions, has been featured in over 20 films in the television series since 1964. We are a lifestyle 55, and I'm Christopher. And our quest for silver has come to the point of concluding. So remember, folks, be cool and stay warm.