The Top 40 Time Machine/ CORE- Colorado Recording Endeavor Group

CORE presents the show of the hour hosted by Park Peter's with Richard Arnold Beattie. The Top 40 Time Machine! 

In cooperation with Sound Century Academy, the University of Colorado and The Harry Tuft Collection. 

Transcript

SPEAKER_11 0:36

Hello all, and welcome to the Top 40 Time Machine. Who am I, you ask? Well, I'm the keeper of the keys to the Time Machine and all things trivial. What is the Top 40 Time Machine, you might ask? Well, I might tell you that the Top 40 Time Machine is a device that I designed with the help of several of my friends, and some spare parts from old George's garage that takes us back into that magical era of Top 40 radio. With the help of the Time Machine, I can actually go back and play you songs the way that you remember hearing them on the radio. No, I don't mean how you heard it on AM radio coming out of your little transistor, but rather the way the artists intended you to hear them when they left the studio. If you are paying close attention, you might notice that some of these songs sound considerably different than the CDs you have at home. Or you might not notice any difference at all. Either way, it's still good music. Coming up later in the show, we'll listen to some songs that came out differently on 45s, we'll visit the technical corner, and we'll check out some songs that were bammed. But for now, let's give the old time machine a spin and see where she takes it. I have my synthetic studio audience here to tell me what year we've landed the Time Machine in. So, Synthetic Studio Audience, where are we?

SPEAKER_17 1:53

1967.

SPEAKER_11 1:54

Hmm, 1967. There are lots of good songs I can play from this year. Let's kick things off with the Beatles in Penny Lane. Pay close attention to the end of this one, folks.

SPEAKER_02 2:04

Penny Lane, there is a barber showing photographs. Of every head he's had the pleasure to know. And all the people that come and go. Stop and say hello. On the corner is a banker with a motor car. The little children having him behind his back. And the banker never wears a mask. In the pouring rain. Very strange. Penny Lane is in my ears and in my eyes. I sit and meanwhile back in Penny Lane, there is a fireman with an hourglass. And in his pocket is a portrait of the Queen. He likes to keep his fire engine clean. It's a clean machine is in my ears and in my eyes. All of fish just being used pies in summer. Behind the shelter in the middle of the roundabout. Pretty Ness is selling puppies from a tray. She is anyway. In Penny Lane, the barber shaves another customer. We see the banker sitting waiting for the tremors. Then the fireman rushes in From the pouring rain. Very strange. And in my eyes Beneath the blue suburban skies, I said I'm being wild. Penny lace is in my ears and in my eyes.

SPEAKER_11 5:00

That was the Beatles with Penny Lane on the top 40 time machine. Did you catch those extra few horn notes on the in? Apparently the trumpet player didn't know the song was over. Well, you won't find those on your CD at home, ladies and gentlemen. That's because that version was only issued to radio stations in the United States. You know, from my vantage point, sitting here entombed in the secret vault that contains the top 40 time machine, I can see into the future, and I can see into the past. For example, when Penny Lane became number one, it bumped the Supremes out of the number one spot with their hit, Love Is Here and Now You're Gone, in March of 1967. Boy, the Supremes could do no wrong in 1966 and 1967. That was one of their many number one hits, Love is Here and Now You're Gone. Now let's roll that time machine forward a couple of weeks, past when Penny Lane was number one, to when the Turtles took over the top spot with their song about an imaginary lover. Happy Together.

SPEAKER_05 8:46

I think about you day and night. It's only right to think about the girl you love and hold her tight. So happy together. If I should call you up, invest a dime, and you say you belong to me, so lose my mind. Imagine how the world could be So weary fine, so happy together.

SPEAKER_02 9:15

I can't say we love and nobody but you for all my life When your birthday babe the skies will be blue for all my life Me and you and you and me No matter how they tossed the dice It had to be the only one for me is you and you for me So happy together I can't see love and nobody but you for all my life When you're with me babe the skies will be blue for all my life Me and you and you and me No matter how they tossed the dice it had to be the only one for me is you and you for me so happy together and you and me No matter how they tossed the dice it had to be the only one for me is you and you for me So happy together So happy together How is the weather So happy together We're happy to Turtles on the Top 40 Time Machine with Happy Together.

SPEAKER_11 11:30

Did you notice the first line of the song said, Imagine me and you? I know I did. Personally, if it was me, I think I'd want to get to know somebody first before I decide if I want to spend the rest of my life with them. Moving right along and looking further into the future, I noticed that the next number one song is by Frank and Nancy Sinatra called Something Stupid.

unknown 11:50

Oh no!

SPEAKER_11 11:51

Oh yes. You don't really want me to play that, do you? Aw come on, it was a number one song in 1967 for six weeks. But I'll skip it for now. But rest assured, one of these days, it will get played. Looking further into the future past when something stupid was number one, I see that the Supremes had the number one song again with the happening. But since we already played the Supremes, let's continue through time a couple more weeks until the young rascals had a great number one hit with Groovin.

SPEAKER_02 12:34

On a Sunday afternoon, really couldn't get away too soon. I can't imagine anything that's better. The world is ours whenever we do In a place I like to be instead of moving down a crowded avenue. Anything we like to do. Couldn't get away too soon. We're gonna talk and laugh all time. I feel it coming closer day by day Haven the ecstasy You and me endlessly on a Sunday afternoon.

SPEAKER_11 14:36

Couldn't get away too so no no no groovy was a pretty big word back in 1967, and there were the young rascals with grooving on the top 40 time machine. Coming up after a bit of shameless promotion, we'll listen to some songs that came out differently on 45s here on the Top 40 Time Machine.

SPEAKER_15 15:03

Hi Gene, where the monkeys? Did you tell him about the TV show yet, Matt? No, man. I was gonna sneak it in. You gotta be very subtle about these things. You're gonna tell them that we'll be on NBC TV starting September 12th at 7.30 p.m. in colors?

SPEAKER_01 15:17

What's more fun than a barrel full of monkeys?

SPEAKER_15 15:19

Gosh a Rooney, Mike! I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 15:21

What is more fun than a barrel full of monkeys? A train full of monkeys. Dig. KHJ's charted the last train to Clarksville, and they're gonna take hundreds of lucky listeners on a trip September the 11th. Yeah, it's gonna be a blast. The KHJ happening to wrap up the summer of 66. And us monkeys want to meet you at the station in Clarksville.

SPEAKER_12 15:38

Yeah, each of us will give away a color TV set, so enter now. All you do is send a postcard to Monkey Trip, Box 38130 Hollywood. Starting Tuesday morning, the bus jocks draw a winner every hour. And each winner gets to bring a friend.

SPEAKER_00 15:50

Mail your card in and ride with the monkeys on the last train of Clarksville. Hi everybody, it's Richard Beattie, the Seventh Century Academy for Recording Arts and Broadcasting is enrolling students for 2026-2027 classes online.

SPEAKER_11 16:31

I am the keeper of the keys to the Time Machine and all things trivial. This time around, let's listen to some songs that came out differently on 45. Let's spin the old Time Machine around and see if we can make it land in 1970. The version of this next song was mixed entirely differently for Top 40 Radio and only released on 45. Here's free with All Right Now, she's good in the street for my head.

SPEAKER_03 18:10

Why she never move on her face?

SPEAKER_02 18:14

She said, Look, what's your baby? I tell you, don't be that love. She said, Lo, love you're trying to trick me in a love.

SPEAKER_11 20:56

That was the band Free with All Right Now from the fall of 1970. Let's spin the old time machine again and get our synthetic studio audience to tell us where we've landed.

SPEAKER_17 21:07

1966.

SPEAKER_11 21:08

Well, here's a song that could fit into a couple of different sections of our show today. This song was banned by many radio stations, and the single was shortened considerably. Here's Bob Dylan with Rainy Day Women No. 12 and 35 on the top 40 time machine. That was Bob Dylan with the unlikely title Rainy Day Women No. 12 and 35, or more commonly known as Everybody Must Get Stoned. Gee, I hope he didn't live in a glass house, or maybe that's not what he was talking about at all. I mean, after all, it was the 1960s. Well, I see the time machine has taken us to the summer of 1968. When we find this severely edited version of Sunshine of Your Love by Cream in the top 10. Check it out.

SPEAKER_02 24:01

It's getting a dark. The light shining blue on you stop with you, my love. I'm still with you just now I'm still with you too. I skipped by been waiting so long. I've been waiting so long. I've been waiting so long To be well in the sunshine of your love.

SPEAKER_11 26:49

That was cream with Sunshine of Your Love, a drastically edited, perhaps even butchered version. You know they had to make them short because many radio stations wouldn't play songs over three minutes. Coming up after a few words from the sponsors that make us possible, we'll visit the technical corner on the top 40 time machine. Now, Jefferson Airplane.

SPEAKER_06 27:18

Right now with the old white levies.

SPEAKER_00 27:33

Right now with the all-white leave eyes Right now with some cactus in blue and white Crashing Rodiness Right now with some white leave eyes Bird Whiskey play at the end of the day right now with the wide You're listening to the top 40 time machine from Audio Park and the courtroom Studio Alliance recording in Devon featuring John Burr.com Century Originals at Gmail.com Sit back and relax, but not too much, and let me take you to a place I call the Technical Corner.

SPEAKER_11 29:10

Here in the Technical Corner, I hope to explore some of the tricks of the trade that have prompted you to say to yourself, How did they do that? This week, let's take a look at an effect called flanging. The first thing I need is two reel-to-reel tape recorders. Then I'm gonna record myself onto both of them at the same time. When I play them back, all I have to do is drag my fingers on the sides of one of the reels, usually called flanges, and I get this sound. Makes my voice sound kind of funny, doesn't it? Well the earliest song that I've found that incorporates flanging comes from 1960. And it's called The Big Hurt by Miss Tony Fisher on the Top 40 Time Machine.

SPEAKER_19 30:04

Now that you're gone eels and pins why that you're gone watching the car you return.

SPEAKER_16 30:23

I'm watching her Now it begins Day of today.

SPEAKER_19 30:39

This is my night kicking away to hear what steps to say And this time to stay Oh each time you go I try to pretend it's over at last This time I'll be cut the land Now it begins Now let you gone needs a pin Why let you know? What if you don't come back again I wonder when Oh when will it end up bigger 1968 Wasn't that a neat trick?

SPEAKER_11 32:03

Well see if you can spot the flanging in Ichiko Park by the small faces here on the top 40 time machine Overbridge of sights to rest my eyes in shades of green On the dreaming spots to Itchiko Park, that's where I've been What did you do there?

SPEAKER_02 32:26

I got high What did you feel there? Where I cry the cheese there It's all too beautiful It's all too beautiful It's all too beautiful It's all too beautiful Thanks for the mind I tell you what I'll do what's good I'd like to go get out with you You can miss out school Watch that be we go to learn the word to do that We don't get high we touched it We touch the sky while the tea is dead I tell you why It's all too beautiful It's all too beautiful It's all too beautiful It's all too beautiful It's all too beautiful It's all too beautiful It's all too beautiful It's all too beautiful It's all too beautiful It's all too beautiful It's on to beautiful It's on the top 40 time machine Here's another song from 1968 with some flanging in it from the group status quo with their top ten hit Pictures of Matchstick Men Say that ten times fast Welcome to the Sky A funny kind of yellow I just want to find that stuff I do that I need to talk about shop when I look at my option Well to stop me All I say is the sky the sky when I die the sky when I could die 1971 Spinning that old time machine back around to the Supremes one more time with Nathan Jones you've been gone too long as I recall And you walk slowly down the hall You said you had to get away to ease your mind And all you needed was just a little time Oh but just have a spring and all You never run me You never hope you may want to know Give a woman with diet It's a job I would be lucky that you hope it would be my dog There's no room in my heart Do you know I just have spring and all You never know me when you want to know the children spring anymore Make you now happy on the blow on the road In the show Jim and Bonto The Supremes with Nathan Jones from the winter of 1971 Well that does it for the Technical Corner this time.

SPEAKER_11 40:52

Hope you enjoyed our little look at flanging. We'll visit the Technical Corner from time to time on the Top 40 time machine. Coming up, songs that were banned. Not songs that were by a band, not songs about my band, but songs that were banned. Banned with an E and an extra M. Banned from Top 40 Radio. Next on the Top 40 Time Machine.

SPEAKER_13 41:20

This is the big old is ready. I was just standing here thinking about you. Take a listen. If you didn't go back to school this year, you're really not moving. Maybe you feel that school is a dragon, just don't move you. But did you ever think about how square you look standing in an employment line because school didn't enter shit, you really hard to think about it. Without an education, you could only be a tramp. No guy and shoes, no haircut, just pain old country. Don't worry about the fellas on the corner calling you green because you're bearing no future condition. You really hard to think about it. And furthermore, tell them that hold is red and say you're very wide, because you'll be at the top when they get there, and if they make it, when they get there, if they make it, when they get there, if they make it, you really think about working with the city.

SPEAKER_11 43:15

That means you're still listening to the top forty time machine. Well, this time up, I thought I'd play some songs that were banned from the top forty over the years. And what better way to kick it off than with the Beatles from 1966. This song, along with the entire Beatles catalog, was banned throughout most of the South and other parts of the country because of John Lennon's comments regarding Christianity. Here's Paperback Writer.

SPEAKER_02 44:02

So I wanna be a bit black light. I just cleaned my Sunday job. It wants to be a black rise.

SPEAKER_11 46:00

Well, they were the Beatles with their number one hit, Paperback Rider, in case you were under a rock. What's next indeed? Let's give the Time Machine another spin and see where it takes us.

SPEAKER_17 46:12

1973.

SPEAKER_11 46:13

1973. Oh, here's a great song that was banned, Paul Simon's Codacrome. See if you can figure out why.

SPEAKER_02 46:32

When I think back on all the crap that I learned in high school It's a wonder I can think at all I know my life of education hasn't hurt enough. I can read the writing along the wall. Give us the nice bright colors. Give us the green to summers. Makes you think all the words. Oh yeah. I got a knack on camera. I love to take a photo black. So mama don't take my code from over. And brought them all together for one night. I know they never match my sweet imagination. Everything looks worse than black and white. Oh yeah. I got an eye on the camera. I love to take the four rap. So mama don't take my code from Mamma, don't take my code, from the way.

SPEAKER_11 49:54

But a far more significant ban was that of the BBC, who banned the song because of the mention of Nikon cameras? Seriously, the BBC had then and still has a policy prohibiting the mention of brand names and products within a program. Because they consider that to be advertising. The single in England flopped, not even making the top 100. Well this time, I'm gonna manually override the time machine, because I can, and spin it back to the summer of 1967 for a song by a group from England that was banned by many radio stations because of the perceived drug references. Here's Procol Harem with whiter shade of tail on the top 40 time machine.

SPEAKER_02 51:07

The crowd called out for more. The room was coming harder as a sea lead. When we call out the tree, the way to draw the tree just go see.

SPEAKER_11 54:18

Now, if we'd back the time machine up just about a year, we'd find another band song on the charts that did quite well for itself by Napoleon the Fourteenth. Here's they're coming to take me away! Haha! On the top 40 Time Machine.

SPEAKER_18 54:36

Remember when you ran away and I got on my knees and begged you not to leave because I go burst. Well, you left me anyhow, and then the days got worse and worse, and now you see I've gone completely out of my mind. They're coming to take me away, haha. They're coming to take me away. Oh, funny one.

SPEAKER_09 55:01

Where life is beautiful all the time, and I'll be happy to see those nice young men in their big white coats and they're coming to take me away.

SPEAKER_18 55:12

You thought it was a joke, and so you laughed. You laughed when I had said that losing you would make me flip my lip. Right. You know you laughed. You laughed. You laughed, you laughed, and laughed, you laughed. They're coming to take me away. They're coming to take me away. I called your food, I called your house, and this is how you pay me back for all my kind, unselfish loving peace. Well, you just wait, they'll find you yet. When they do, they'll find you in the They're coming to take me away. They're coming to take me away.

SPEAKER_09 56:09

Oh, my life is beautiful all the time, and I'll be happy to see those nice young men in the way.

SPEAKER_10 56:26

Smile and twiddle in the Well, that's probably one of the strangest songs.

SPEAKER_11 56:38

Napoleon the Fourteenth, they're coming to take me away on the top forty time machine. You're probably asking yourself, why the heck was that song banned? Well, as it happened, the ASPCA petitioned the FCC to have that song removed from New York Radio to ASAP in the summer of 1966. Staying in 1966, here's a song that was banned throughout the world on United States Armed Forces Radio Animals with We've Gotta Get Out of This Place.

SPEAKER_08 57:28

Now my girl, you're so young and pretty. And one thing I know is true. You be dead before your time is due. I know Watch my daddy bride. Watch his hair and turn his brain.

SPEAKER_02 57:51

He's been working and slaving his life away. Oh yes, I know him. He's been working so hard. Every time he did. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We gotta get out of this place. If it's the last thing we ever do, we gotta get out of this place.

SPEAKER_08 58:25

This girl has a better life for me and you're my girl, you're so young and pretty. And one thing I know is true. Yeah, you'll be dead before your time is due. Know it Watch my daddy hit Watch his hair being a turn and gray Yeah He's been working and slaving in life away.

SPEAKER_11 59:04

I know he's been working so hard I've been working too every day We gotta get out of this place If it's the last thing we ever do We gotta get out of this place Ga there's a better life for me and you Somewhere, baby Somehow I know We gotta get out of this place If it's the last thing we ever do We gotta get out of this place Get the man for me and you leave me baby I know it maybe You know it too The animals with We've Gotta Get Out of This Place And speaking of getting out of this place We've gotta get out of this place because the time on the Top 40 Time Machine says we're out of time. Tune in next time when I and the Time Machine will take you on another ride through the glorious years of Top 40 Radio. Special thanks go to the kind folks at Audio Park Recording, Nate Lee, Peggy Johnson, Patty and Steve Dawson, Margie Shorey, Eric Allen, and Eric Sati. And to George Sollenberger wherever you are. The Top 40 Time Machine is Copyright 2009 Audio Park Recording, where it was recorded. All rights are reserved. Most of all, thank you for listening!