THE AL RANDALL SHOW

MAY 23, 2026 - SPOTLIGHT YEAR 1965 WITH AL RANDALL

• AL RANDALL • Season 1 • Episode 5

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 Al Randall’s Spotlight Year 1965 — a smooth, nostalgic hour of soul, pop, and British Invasion classics. Era‑authentic storytelling, label trivia, and warm NYC radio swagger make this a must‑listen for fans of timeless hits. 

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Marvin Gaye — Ain’t That Peculiar (Tamla)

Len Barry — 1‑2‑3 (Decca)

Roger Miller — It Happened Just That Way (Smash)

The Dave Clark Five — Catch Us If You Can (Epic)

The Yardbirds — Still I’m Sad (Columbia UK)

The Changin’ Times — The Pied Piper (Philips)

The Righteous Brothers — Unchained Melody (Philles)

The Deep Six — Rising Sun (Liberty)

Gary Lewis & the Playboys — Everybody Loves a Clown (Liberty)

Patty Duke — Don’t Just Stand There (United Artists)

Billy Joe Royal — Down in the Boondocks (Columbia)

The Beatles — Day Tripper (Parlophone)

The Bobby Fuller Four — I Fought the Law (Mustang)

James Brown — I Got You (I Feel Good) (King)

Mike Douglas — The Men in My Little Girl’s Life (Epic)

The Byrds — I’ll Feel a Whole Lot Better (Columbia)

The Turtles — Let Me Be (White Whale)

Jay & the Americans — Cara, Mia (United Artists)

Cher — All I Really Want to Do (Imperial)

Barbara Mason — Yes, I’m Ready (Arctic)

Wilson Pickett — In the Midnight Hour (Atlantic)

Barbara Lewis — Baby, I’m Yours (Atlantic)

Donovan — Universal Soldier (Pye)

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For the millions listening worldwide, live from New York City, it's the Al Randall Show.

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And I can't do without you.

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Every tension yet you seem to hurt me more and more.

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But each hurt makes my love stronger than before. I know powers go to rain, but I can love both pain. I can start your S that excuse me. Oh me last we are so much you do and three I design to make a dog shame I love you all your life love to last Baby baby call so much I'm telling you everything they say But I can show much you don't see my wheat I don't love the left years But I can love the left to tears Marvin Gay nineteen sixty five, two, three I'm a little bit I take a beautiful one easy for me too it's easy to take a baby baby best about the free it's as easy as the hot heart just live in the I love the love baby out of the three What I wanna do I love you don't try to battle up to eat it I take a fine tree that's gonna be It happened just that way I was born in a boomer shack About that far from the railroad track Chew chew right on my window pane Sheet on roof telling me every time it rained Yeah yeah yeah yeah Yeah yeah yeah yeah Yeah yeah yeah yeah It happened just that way Well I went to unrue school Walked to and from the school I carried lunch in a paper sack was one mile over and two mile back Yeah yeah yeah yeah Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah It happened just that way and I'm a brother up to Hard in the grain Papa drove a choo choo train one sister was a Ratchet school the other was a woman of the room Hey yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah it happened just that way it happened just that way yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah it happened just that way it happened just that way Roger Miller the Nashville widow turn a phrase like nobody else from is the return of Roger Miller LP on the Smash record the British invasion keeps rolling in this year 1965 and I want to catch us if you can here they come again catch us if you can time to get a move on we were young all of our life catch us if you can catch us if you can catch us if you can catch us if you can Now we gotta run mmm no more time for fun mmm when we get angry mmm we we know it all about here we come again time to get a move on here we go with all of our life just if you can the yardbirds see the stars come from the sky gently passing make your tears when you cry see the wind come suddenly blowing your hair from your face see the rain highway this green flight fell myself my tears just fell and too dark day will dry them night will find they are lost now I find the wind blowing time into my heart let the rain fall for we are you can record and you always have to wait what to do case happiness found just all around you so follow this follow me I'm the five first I'm the whole first I'll show you where it has to see I'm the first I'm the whole life first I'll show you where I don't be scared to move it what are you trying to it ain't true that your life just takes you it's your mind and that's all that you can show so for this I'll show you where it's at me I the first I show you where I said I show you where it's at me Oh stop you're making my meat is wiggle so slow and do so much for you still in your love God speak your love to start to the same to the same to me open eyes of the sea with a sight wait for me wait for me I'll be coming home wait for me just before that you're the righteous brother I don't want to I don't want to

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Everybody loves a clown, so why don't you? Everybody laughs at the things that I say and do They all laugh when they see me coming. But you don't laugh, you just got around. Everybody loves a crown, so why can't you? A crown has feelings too.

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I joke around at a party when you are there.

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You don't laugh, you don't look, you just don't care. If you wonder why this clown is bright, look a little closer inside I'm dying. It's not easy to be in love, you see When you're a clown like me I don't know how to say that I love you wouldn't smile and say, tell what you're going to Yes, I'm a climber I don't wanna be Why can't you see the other side of me?

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Guess I'll be the guy who plays the part of a founder of the heart Dreamin' of your love and not knowing where to start Dreamin' of your love and not knowing where to start Dreamin' of your love and not knowing where to start Spotlight Hour 1965 cruise along with Al Randall on the Al Randall show. Gary Lewis and the Playboys, everybody loves it, Liberty Record label 1965. Gary Lewis is the leading one of the most important, don't just stand there, kiss me like before.

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Please, don't just stand there looking down at the floor.

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Give me just one side.

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Please tell me, tell me what? What? What? What's on your mind? Once when we'd meet you home, we're tight. Life is so sweet until tonight. Please, don't just stand there. Get it over with you. Please, don't just stand there while my heart braces too.

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How can you be so important? Please stop hurting me and help me.

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Tell me what, what, what, what's on your mind? If it's a game, I don't want to play it. And if it's goodbye, why can't you just say it?

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Why make me cry like you do? How can you be so fine? Or believe me? Tell me what? What? What?

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What's on your mind? Don't just stand there. Tell me what?

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What? What?

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What's on your mind?

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Don't just stand there.

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Tell me what?

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What? What?

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What's on your mind?

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Uh Patty Duke, don't just stand there, spotlight year 1965. Here's Billy Joe Royal down in the boondocks.

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Down in the boondocks. Down in the boondocks. People look me down on that side of town I was born in. I love her, she loves me, but I don't miss her society. God have mercy on the poor, down in the boondocks.

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Every night I watch the light from the house up on the hill.

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I love a little girl that lives up there, and I guess I'm always real. But I don't feel like all her dope. Cause her daddy is my most fair. So I'll just have to be content to stay whenever I care. Down in the boondocks, down in the boondocks. People put me down for that beside the town I was born in. I love her, she knows me, but I don't miser society. Lord, I first we all down in the boondocks. Down in the boom dog, down in the boom down. One fine day I'll find a way to move on the soul shack. I'll hold my head up like a teeth. I never never will look back. I kill that morning, I'll work in sleep, and I'll stay the reback. But the night you'll have to steal away. Just need one more time. Down in the moon dogs, down in the boondocks. People put me down on that, that's how I was born in. I love her, she loves me, but I don't give her society. Lord, but we all boy come down in the blue dots. For taking the easy way out. Got a good reason for taking the easy way out now. She was a deep trip up. One way to get it took me so long to find out I found out She's a big teacher. She took me up to eat her. She's a big cheese. She took me up to eat her now. She was a dead trip. One way to get yeah. It took me so long. I find out. I found out that you can't do it.

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The Beatles Day Tripper. A riff written during a London studio jam in late 65 with Lennon and McCartney at their cheeky best. Next to Bobby Fuller for Texas Garage Energy on Mustang Records with I Fought the Love.

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I pulled the lawn, Love One, I bought the line, love one I need, I pulled the lawn, love one, I bought the line, love one, I think, the law people, post the lap, no one post the laptop, post the lap, no one to play too. I post the lawn, I bought the lawn, no one stop, you're melting the transmitter.

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I feel good I knew that I wouldn't I feel good I knew that I wouldn't so good, so good, I got a year I feel nice by sugar as a fine so nice I got a year I know that I can't do the wrong I love more too, you know, and I feel nice I shouldn't respond I feel nice I shouldn't respond so nice so nice I got a year when I owe you and I know that I can't do no wrong that's when I owe you in wrong but I can't do but no harm and I feel nice I shouldn't respond I feel nice I shouldn't respond so nice so nice I got in you wow I feel good I knew that I wouldn't I feel good I knew that I would so good so good I got it so good so good I got in you so good so good I got it seems like only yesterday I can hear my little girl say Daddy there's a boy outside his name is Rod He wants to play in our backyard candy daddy candy daddy oh please daddy was it really so long ago she'd come to my hand she wanted all there's a boy outside his name is Lee he wants to carry my books for me candy daddy is it all right dad he's got freckles dad the man in my little girl's line the man in my little girl's life then came ponytails and jeans and my little girl was in her teens popsy there's a boy outside his name is Tom he wants to take me to the promo he's cute popsy looky home early popsy before I knew it time had flown and how my little girl had grown now it's Father there's a boy outside his name is Eddie he wants to know if we can go study can we father yes father oh can we buy the car pop yes it seems like only yesterday I heard my lovely daughter say Dad there's a boy his name is Jim he asked me if I'd marry him I said yes dad had something in your eye dad love him dad the man in my little girl's life a man in my little girl's life a child an adolescent a young lady a wife and oh yes there's another man in my little girl's life hi dad there's a boy outside his name is Tim I told him grandpa was gonna babysit with him thanks dad bless you dad night dad the man in my little girl's life the man in my little girl's you're listening to Oldies Radio Live 365 New York City be sure to call our 247 studio request line at 1646-5806991 for your requests, dedications shout-outs and suggestions for future shows

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The turtles Please don't mistake me or try to make me the shadow of anybody else I either him or who you think I am I'm just trying hard to be myself whole society's goal is to be part of the whole This may sound good to you not to me let me be, let me be Don't be like I want to do Let me be, let me be That's all that's good for you I don't want to care for That's all I never ever do Don't try to plan me or understand me I can't stand to be understood I can never give in to ever live up to be like you think I should I've got some enemy which I'm trying to be I can't take anything that's for me I let me be let me be Don't think I want to let me be let me be That's all I ask God for you I don't want to be Don't try to change me or rearrange me to satisfy the selfishness in you I'm not a piece of clay to mold to your moves each day And I'm not a pond to be told how to move I'm sorry I'm not the fool You thought we play by your rule But you wish philosophy Let me be let me be Let me like I want to Let me be let me be That's all I ask about you I am what I am and that's all I never can be I said that's all I never can be I said that's all I never can be I said that's all I the turtles let me be their second single on White Whale record the moment they shifted from folk rock to rebellion American your vocal drama from United Artists listen to them it's time we want to die five Now I look at the competing with you eat I cheat I mistreat you simplify you classify you identify I mystify you all I really wanna do is baby be friends with you baby be friends with you I ain't gonna get to fight with you right you are a tag you down or train you down chain you down or break you down all I really wanna do is baby be friends with you baby be friends with you I ain't looking to block you up to I go like you up analyze you categorize you analyze or advocates all I really wanna do yes baby different you baby befriend you I don't want to straight face you raise or change I track or taste you I display you I displaced you I defend you I'll defend you all wanna do yeah baby befriend you baby be friendly I don't want to make your kin make you kin or two I select you or dislect you I inspect you I'll get you I really want to do and play with friends all variety this is your favorite radio station Yes I'm ready yes I'm ready I don't even know how to love you just the way you want me to but I'm ready to learn yes I'm ready ready to learn to call to ball to bunt know how to hold your head just to make you understand but I'm ready ready to learn yes I'm ready ready to learn to hold you understand to hold your I don't even know how to kiss your lips your lips at a moment like this but I want to learn how to do all the things you want me to ready yes I'm ready I'm ready yes I'm ready to pause I want to know I ready yes I'm red I guess I'm red to kiss you kiss you listening to the Al Randall show Spotlight year nineteen sixty five this hour Barbara Lewis baby I'm yours on the Atlantic record label written by Van McCoy one of the most elegant love songs of 65 I do declare the wicked I'm gonna wait until the midnight hour that's when my love don't summer let it die I'm gonna wait until the midnight hour when there's no one else around I'm gonna take you home and do all the things I told you in the midnight hour yes I am oh yes I am one thing I just wanna stare at it I'm gonna wait till the stars come out and see that swing up in your eyes I'm gonna wait till midnight that's when my love begin to shine you're the only girl I know and relax Oh yeah in the midnight all right play with me one time I'm gonna wait till the midnight hour that's when I love showing it I'm gonna wait when the midnight hour that's when my love begins to shine just you and I just see you and I'll be around baby just you and I alright you know what I'm gonna hold you in my home just to you and I'm the mid and I'll be all yours until the stars fall from the sky until the rivers are run dry in other works until I die baby I'll be ours until the sun shines until the poets run out of rise in other works until the end of time I'm gonna stay like here by your side do my best to keep you satisfied nothing in the world can drive me away you hear me say baby I'm I'll be all too unto my street promise to the sea in other worlds until eternity baby I'm yours to start from the sky baby I was all he's five foot and he's six feet four He fights with missiles and with spears He's all of thirty one and he's only seventeen He's been a soldier for a thousand years He's a Catholic and an atheist a Jain A Buddhist and a Baptist and a Jew And he knows he shouldn't kill and he knows he always will kill you for me my friend and me for you And he's fighting for Canada He's fighting for France He's fighting for the USA And he's fighting for the Russians and he's fighting for Japan And he thinks we'll put an end to all this way And he's fighting for democracy he's fighting for the Reds He says it's for the peace of all He's the one who must decide who's to live and who's to die And he never sees the writing on the wall but without him how would Hitler have condemned him at La Ball Without him Caesar would've stood alone He's the one who gives his body as a weapon of the war And without him all his killing can't go on He's the universal soldier and he really is to blame His orders come from far away no more They come from here and there and you and me And brothers can't you see this is not the way we put the end to war