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Spring had arrived in 1981 and while dad was planting oats, I was feeling mine.  Young love was blooming everywhere and my first steady girl friend was my primary focus.  Attempting to play baseball and socializing by the bleachers in the old Ithaca gymnasium were among my favorite things.  I was the designated hitter for Coach Elroy Pampuch's Varsity baseball team.  As I made the pitching in the Ridge and Valley conference look better, I had lots of songs playing in my head. Even though I was true to her, my girl friend bought me the REO Speedwagon album 'High Infidelity'  as a present.  I still have the album today, but she and I broke up when she went away to college that fall.  It was a good move for her but she didn't get any more cool mix tapes from me.   Back to the music...some of my favorite tunes from the Spring of '81 include:  I Can't Stand It-Eric Clapton,  Just Between You and Me-April Wine,  Too Much Time On My Hands-Styx,  Hearts On Fire-Randy Meisner,  You Better You Bet-The Who,  Turn My Loose-Loverboy, and I Love You-Climax Blues Band.

Go back with me to the Spring of 1981 this Saturday night during Those Were the Days on WRCO FM 100.9 and wrco.com.  I will be spinning all of your favorites from the fifties through the early 1990s (the original vinyl era).  You could win some cool prizes during our trivia games between six and midnight Saturday night.  Saturday will be April Fools day.  I sure hope you don't fall for any tomfoolery.  

Phil-IHS Designated Hitter 1981 Ithaca Bulldogs

During this weekends Those Were the Days, we will pay homage to songs about birds.  There is a long list of tunes with titles that pay tribute to our winged buddies including:  Blackbird-Beatles,  Rockin' Robin-Bobby Day/Michael Jackson,  Fly Robin Fly-Silver Convention,  White Bird-Its A Beautiful Day,  And Your Bird Can Sing-Beatles,  On the Wings of A Nightingale-Everly Brothers,  The Bird-The Time, and  Surfin Bird-The Trashmen.  Now that Spring has successfully arrived, we can  welcome back our rockin' birds to our neighborhoods.  Saturday nights' Those Were the Days program will provide you with the best of the fifties through the eighties Top 40 tunes, audience participation trivia, and a fun party with friends.  It takes a group effort to program a six hour show.  Thanks to everyone who contributed to the sound last week.

Our program received one of the highest possible honors this week when we were mentioned in the obituary of Beverly Pittman Burns.  As I said on the air last Saturday, Beverly has been one of our most thoughtful and dedicated listeners for many years.  By request of her family, an aircheck of Those Were the Days on WRCO will play during her visitation this weekend.  I am so honored. She had such a positive attitude and always mentioned how grateful she was and how great her life was. We can all take lessons from her attitude.   If there is a way to live stream in heaven, I am sure Bev will find a way to listen to Saturdays With Simo and Saturday nights' Those Were the Days.  

I hope you will hang out with us on Sautrday night between six and midnight during Those Were the Days radio show (the best of the fifties through the eightis)  on WRCO FM 100.9 and wrco.com.

Phil

When Spring arrived on the family farm, it was a new beginning.  The cows, chickens, pigs, and ducks, all would have babies and young Philip would ride his Huffy bike around to visit all of his friends from the animal kingdom.  On his handle bars was an AM radio/bike light so Philip could hear the latest tunes from 1975.  As the 'Black Water' flowed by in the Willow Creek, the Doobie Brothers were enjoying their first number one song.  The farm animals, their babies, and the boy with the high water pants also enjoyed these songs...Lady Marmalade-LaBelle,  Lady-Styx,  Don't Call Us, We'll Call You-Sugarloaf,  Best of My Love-Eagles,  No No Song-Ringo Starr,  Chevy Van-Sammy Johns,  Emma-Hot Chocolate,  Movin On-Bad Company,  Killer Queen-Queen,  and Have You Never Been Mellow-Olivia Newton-John.

I hope that you will listen Saturday night to Those Were the Days on WRCO FM 100.9 and wrco.com.  We will be spinning from this weekends flashback 1975 chart and we will be also playing all of your favorite tunes from the fifties through the early '90's. We will be featuring trivia and having a radio party between six and midnight.  

Philip

P.S. I wish I still had my Huffy bike with the banana seat and sissy bar!

During Saturday nights' Those Were the Days radio show, Electric Light Orchestra will be the guest band.  They have long been one of our most requested groups.  It will be great to visit a playlist that includes 27 songs that made the U.S. charts from 1973 through 1986.  You will be able to hear insight from an interview I did with founding member and drummer Bev Bevan.  ELO was a favorite of mine when I was young.  I bought a Greatest Hits album that came out on Jet records and it included all of their hits through 1978.  This gave me a bunch of songs that I could record on my mix tapes.  Some of my favorites include: Strange Magic,  Livin Thing,  Do Ya, Turn To Stone,  Sweet Talkin Woman,  Mr. Blue Sky,  and Roll Over Beethoven. The Xanadu movie soundtrack featured great tracks including: I'm Alive,  All Over the World, and the title cut. Rock and Roll is King is a very underated song that was released in 1983.   The back window of my '75 Ford Maverick car would really vibrate when I would crank up Evil Woman. The stereo speakers that I cut off  from our old record changer would rattle with the beat as they rested on a piece of green shag carpet which adorned the back window well....'hey ladies'!

In addition to the music of ELO, Those Were the Days will be blasting all kinds of music from the fifties through the eighties from Six until Midnight.  Thanks to all of our loyal listeners.  Hats off to those that checked in last week from the Florida Gulf Coast and Arizona.  Locally the Lone Rock party crowd was jamming,  the 'Blue House' gang called in with two awesome requests, and the 'Wild Woman of Woodman' really enjoyed the tribute to 1969.  Tell your friends that Those Were the Days can be heard world wide.  I hope you will join us for old school radio featuring music, trivia, and fun, Saturday night.

Phil

I believe the line is actually 'spring forward', however, on WRCO Saturday nights we always go back.  This weekend we will land in 1969.  These songs were on the radio when I was a 'wee nee'.  On a beautiful Spring day, young Phil Nee went outside to play in his sandbox that his dad had made out of an old tractor tire.  While pretend farming, young Philip got bold and raised up the ear flaps on his aviator hat.  The sun was bright that day and the warmth of the son burned his protruding ears.  Even though his ears were itching and peeling, Philip was able to hear radio hits in the Spring of 1969 including:  Crimson and Clover-Tommy James,  Build Me Up Buttercup-Foundations,  Touch Me-Doors,  Proud Mary-CCR,  Ramblin Gamblin Man-Bob Seger System,  Traces-Classics IV,  Things I'd Like To Say-New Colony Six,  Time of the Season-Zombies,  I Heard It Through the Grapevine-Marvin Gaye, and I Got A Line On You-Spirit.  This Saturday on WRCOs' Those Were the Days, much older Philip will be spinning a few of these favorites.  It is suppose to be nice Saturday, but I better not lift my ear flaps for fear of burning my ears!  I want to look good on the radio.

It will be great to be back in the studio.  All of the regular features will return to the six hour Those Were the Days radio show.  You might be the winner of a great prize when we feature the great hits from the fifites through the eighties between six and midnight.  Lets have a radio party together!

Phil

This Saturday night on Those Were the Days, I will be presenting blocks of songs that are played strictly from vinyl.  You may hear a few pops but hopefully no skips.  If that happens, I may need to put a nickle on the tone arm!  I will also spotlight a couple of good years for popular music.  In the early days of 1973  there were many great hits and all kinds of styles from hard rock to singer/songwriter soft rock.  Ten years later, music was vastly different with a nod toward the hit making MTV.  There were lots of British groups that became popular because of the constant video rotation on that music channel.  Both 1973 and 1983 will be highlighted on Those Were the Days throughout this year as we recognize the 50th and 40th anniversaries respectively.  

We will not be taking your requests on the show this Saturday night.  I have many irons in the fire this week and a big family birthday this weekend. Happy birthday to Granddaughter #1 Oaklee June.  I hope you will continue to listen.  There are some big shows coming up in March.  Tune in Saturday night to Those Were the Days on WRCO FM 100.9 and wrco.com. and tell your worldwide friends to join us!  It is amazing to hear from people that hear us all over the globe.

Phil

I know that when we live in the past we can sometimes forget the times we are living.  Today will someday be the 'good old days'.  That being said, if I could travel in the 'time tunnel', it would be awesome to spend a day back in 1978.  Since the technology of traveling back has not yet been developed, we will have to settle for classic songs taking our mind away to some good times.  This week on Those Were the Days, I will be pulling out a classic radio chart from 1978 and we will be picking favorites.  Many of my favorite groups were having hits including: Foreigner, Styx,  Bee Gees,  and more!  It will like playing an old K-tel record Saturday night.

Between six and midnight on WRCO FM 100.9 and wrco.com we will be playing the hits from the fifties through the eighties.  You can request a song and we will be playing trivia whenever the 'magic cow bell' rings. Each week we make new friends.on the phone and through this site and email.  Tell your friends about us and request a song for them.  All the cool kids will be hanging out with us Saturday night.

Phil

Saturday night on WRCOs' Those Were the Days,  I will feature a topic that has not been featured in our 37 years.  We talk about shredding guitars and cow bells, however, we have never payed tribute to the flute!  Many classic songs have featured the wind instrument, although we don't think of it as a part of a rock and roll band.  Some of my favorite groups to feature the flute include:  Jethro Tull,  Firefall,  Chicago, Marshall Tucker Band, and Men At Work.  Songs with flute solos include:  Undun-Guess Who,  Going Up the Country-Canned Heat,  Mighty Quinn (Quinn the Eskimo)-Manfred Mann,  Ruby Tuesday-Rolling Stones,  Moondance-Van Morrison,  and Hocus Pocus-Focus.  Can you think of some classic songs that have featured the flute?  Let me know by leaving a message on this site or by calling me on Saturday.

The request line will be open for the six hours of the show Saturday night on WRCO FM 100.9 and wrco.com.  I will be spinning all of the requested songs I can find whether they have a flute in the background or not.  We had a blast last week hearing from new friends and some folks that have been listening since we started in 1986.  You could be the winner of a great trivia prize if you can come up with the answer to pop culture questions.   Let's get together on Saturday night.

Phil

In the deep Winter of 1965, there were many hot hits happening in rock and roll music.  Television was playing a big role with the Ed Sullivan show at its peak featuring top artists, and other shows like Shindig and Hullabaloo.  They brought music to mid America as did many other network variety shows.  Radio was doing its part and many stations would have countdowns strictly dedicated to the British Invasion artists.  This Saturday night on the radio I will try to recreate some of that musical excitement during Those Were the Days on WRCO FM 100.9 and wrco.com.  A few of my favorite tunes from the first weekend of February 1965 include:  This Diamond Ring-Gary Lewis and the Playboys,  Love Potion Number Nine-Searchers,  All Day and All Of the Night-Kinks,  Keep Searchin-Del Shannon,  Heart of Stone-Rolling Stones,  I Feel Fine-Beatles,  Laugh, Laugh-Beau Brummels, Look Of Love-Lesley Gore,  and Can't You Hear My Heartbeat-Hermans Hermits.

Please give me a call and keep me awake.  I will be tired from covering an all day wrestling tournament and would enjoy the company.  I will sip a Ski soda pop, put my feet in the air, and relax the rest of the night while listening to the greatest music from the fifties through the eighties.  You could be the winner of prizes including tickets to a comedy show.  Join us Saturday night between 6 and midnight for Those Were the Days.

Phil

Saturday night during our classic rock n' roll radio show, Those Were the Days, the topic will be songs about letters, the mail, and the lost art of the written word.  There have been a great deal of songs on the subject.  The Box Tops had a number one tune called 'The Letter' in 1967.  It was famously covered by Joe Cocker a couple of years later.  There are not as many personal letters sent anymore.  In the days before social networking took over,  you either paid long distance phone fees or put a stamp on the envelope and waited a day or so for your loved one to recieve a letter. When my first 'real' girl friend was away at a summer activity we both sent letters every day.  She even wrote a hidden message under the stamp, however, the adhessive from the stamp tore the envelope and I could not read it.  I wonder what the message was?  This 43 year old mystery will probably never be solved. 

Songs about letter writing will be the theme Saturday night during our salute to classic rock n' roll radio.  Some of my favorties include:  Return to Sender-Elvis,  Rock and Roll Love Letter-Bay City Rollers,  Signed Sealed and Delivered-Stevie Wonder,  Please Mr. Postman-Marvelettes/Beatles,  Roll Over Beethoven -Chuck Berry,  Strawberry Letter #23-Brothers Johnson, Take A Letter, Maria-R.B. Greaves, Dear Eloise-Hollies,  and Already Gone-Eagles.  We will be spinning some of these tunes along with all of your requests on Those Were the Days on WRCO FM 100.9 and wrco.com.    Our longest long distance request last week came from Mesa, Arizona.  Tell all of your far out friends that they can hear us everywhere through this website.  

Phil

In January of 1983 I was attending Trans American School of Broadcasting in Wausau learning to be a disc jockey.  Along with my schoolmate Marty Richards it was a first time off the farm experience. It is still not safe to mention some of the tomfoolery that happened because the statute of limitations has not expired yet.  Mornings were spent making aircheck tapes and writing news and commericals. We practiced trying to do 'man on the street' interviews but noone would talk with us.  The rest of the day was spent playing all of the classic arcade games at the Shopko Mall,  gorging on the $5.00 buffet at Shakey's Pizza (or the 4 for 1 dollar hamburgers at Burger Chef),  and watching MTV.  We listened to a lot of radio as well and on the weekends it was time to mobile d.j. at high schools and bars.   The music was very good in that era.  There were a lot of very danceable tracks. Some of the early '83 tunes that made it to the mix tapes I made for my girl friend include:  Rock the Casbah-The Clash,  The Other Guy-Little River Band,  You Got Lucky-Tom Petty,  Your Love is Driving Me Crazy-Sammy Hagar,  Stray Cat Strut-Stray Cats,  Hand to Hold On To-John Mellencamp,  You Can't Hurry Love-Phil Collins,  Gloria-Laura Branigan,  Africa-Toto,  Dirty Laundry-Don Henley, and Down Under-Men At Work.  

This Saturday night during my Those Were the Days radio show, I will spin some hits from early '83 and all of your requests from the fifties through the early '90's.  It is a rare time when the old and young can agree on a song being great.  We talked with more new friends last Saturday and I hope more will join the Saturday night  'cool kids club'.  Check out WRCO FM 100.9 and wrco.com Saturday night from six to midnight.

Phil

Through the years there have been many songs written about the medium of radio, d.j's, dedications,  listening to the radio, and radio stations.  Saturday night on WRCOs'  Those Were the Days, I will dig out a few of those tunes.  I am a radio geek and have been since the early 70's.  My Panasonic AM radio was my night time friend.  I would attempt to find a cool sounding station and mark where it was on the dial.  Many times the next night that station was not there.  It had just faded in from somewhere in North America.  On cold winter nights I could sometimes hear signals out of Canada with French speaking announcers who would play English singing artists and groups. Even better than the music of the time was the d.j.'s with their frantic deliveries. 

Many have written tunes about listening to the radio.  Some of my faves include:  Life Is A Rock (but the radio rolled me)-Reunion,  Clap For the Wolfman-Guess Who,  Last D.J.-Tom Petty,  Yesterday Once More-Carpenters,  FM (No Static)-Steely Dan,  Radio Ga Ga-Queen,  Pilot of the Airwaves-Charlie Dore,  Do You Remember Rock and Roll Radio?-Ramones,  The Spirit of the Radio-Rush,  and Video Killed the Radio Star-Buggles.  I will play a few of these on Saturday night on FM 100.9 and wrco.com between six and midnight.  If you have any suggestions for radio related songs, please give me a call.  I will be playing all of your requested hits Saturday night during Those Were the Days.  

While I wish the green and gold had one more NFL game this season, they would have blocked our TWTD show because they would have played late Saturday afternoon if they had beaten the Lions.  On the bright side, we will be on with our full six hour rock and roll party!   I will look forward to it all week!

Phil

The new year has arrived.  Now that it is 2023, my favorite 1973 songs are fifty years old!  That year was prime time radio listening and record buying time for me.  Music motivated me to do extra chores so that when I was able to scrape together 80 cents, I could go to Saffels' and purchase a new 45 rpm record.  My friend Kent Kotal from the website forgottenhits.com is not a big fan of that year in music.  He and I will have to agree to disagree because I think 1973 music is pretty cool.  There were some stinkers that have not stood the test of time, but for the most part the music was awesome.  Top albums included:  Dark Side of the Moon-Pink Floyd,  Houses of the Holy-Led Zepplin,  Goodbye Yellow Brick Road-Elton John,  Band on the Run-Wings,  and Innervisions-Stevie Wonder.  Saturday night during Those Were the Days, we will stop and park for a while in January of 1973.  We wont have to run the heater because the music will keep us warm.  Some of my faves from that chart include:  You're So Vain-Carly Simon,  Your Mama Don't Dance-Loggins and Messina,  Crocodile Rock-Elton John,  Sweet Surrender-Bread,  I Wanna Be With You-Raspberries,  Do It Again-Steely Dan,  Dancing In the Moonlight-King Harvest, Peaceful Easy Feeling-Eagles,  Big City Miss Ruth Ann-Gallery,  and Superstition-Stevie Wonder.  These were songs that I listened to while I was riding the bus, helping in the barn, pretending to do homework, and what was playing on my AM Panasonic radio under my covers in January of 1973.

Saturday night will be the first show in 2023 and the request/contest line will be open for you to put in a dedication for a favorite from the fifties through the eighties.  This past Saturday night we had a blast with Triviathon revisited.  Nearly 40 teams played along with us.  Thanks to everyone involved.  We are already thinking about doing another one at the end of 2023!  Give me a call and we will talk this Saturday night during Those Were the Days on WRCO Fm 100.9 and wrco.com

Phil

You can spend your New Years Eve with WRCO FM 100.9 and wrco.com as we will be bringing back one of our favorite radio events.  Triviathon began airing in the late 80's.  It was a spinoff of the long and successful radio trivia game that originated at UW Stevens Point.   Here in Southwest Wisconsin it became a yearly event.  After a few years off,  Triviathon returns to the radio this weekend.  It happens to be a Saturday night so that means I will be spinning all of our Those Were the Days favorites from the fifties through the eighties in between questions.  There will be a question approximately every ten minutes.  Teams have been registering this week.  If you would like to offically play along, you can call us at 608 647-2111 this week and we will get your info and give you your team i.d. number.  Many have told me that they are less competitive and would rather just play along at their leisure.  Some of the long time tenured teams are returning to play along with us.  It is so great to see those familiar team names!

The questions will come from various topics.  Entertainment, Sports, Music, and questions with local ties will be featured.  There might be one or two where you have to phone a friend instead of using your search engine.  All answers will be phoned in.  Our Solid Gold Dancers will be operating the phones and scoring.  They include: Beau Hinrichs,  Adam Hess, Chris Simonson,  Jo Ann Krulatz,  Todd Allbaugh, and Ken Thiede.  That is quite a crew!!!

It is going to be a blast and I hope that you can tune in between six and midnight Saturday when Those Were the Days meets Triviathon. 

Phil

On behalf of the Solid Gold Dancers, I would like to wish one and all the best this holiday season.  It has been such a blessing to be able to celebrate the music we love each and every week during Those Were the Days Saturday nights on WRCO FM 100.9 and wrco.com.  After being in the hospital for 4 1/2 weeks earlier this year, I was able to crawl back on the air.  That ordeal made me more grateful for the job that I have and the loyal listeners that the radio station has.

Saturday night will be Christmas Eve and Those Were the Days will feature some of the best known and a few of the rarest Christmas records of all time.  Between six and midnight I will be spinning songs from the fifties through the nineties that will help us celebrate Christmas.  We will not be taking requests or playing trivia.  That will allow the Solid Gold Dancers to be able to celebrate with their families.  

I hope you will join us New Years Eve for Triviathon.  We will ring in 2023 with a salute to the popular radio contest that we first aired in the late '80's.  It will air during Those Were the Days Saturday night December 31st.  It you would like to register a team to officially play along, you can call WRCO at 608 647-2111 during business hours and we will get you set.  

Merry Christmas from all of our staff at WRCO.

Phil

Christmas of 1971 I got a G.I. Joe for Christmas.  It wasn't your average action figure (we didn't call them dolls).  He was the first with life like hair and beard. There were several members of the Adventure Team that you could collect.  My Joe would also say several different phrases such as: "I've got a tough assignment for you",  "Set up team headquarters here",  "We must get there before dark, follow me", or "Mission accomplished, good work men".  He was a good friend of mine and he still sits on the shelf of my man cave and has not lost his voice yet.  Songs that Joe and I were listening to in late 1971 include:  Brand New Key-Melanie, Two Divided By Love-Grass Roots,  Theme From Shaft-Isaac Hayes,  Family Affair-Sly and the Family Stone,  Sunshine-Jonathon Edwards,  I'd Like to Teach the World To Sing-Hillside Singers and Have You Seen Her-Chi-Lites.  The last two songs were two of the first new records in my collection.  I have mentioned on this blog before that Have You Seen Her was the first 45 that I purchased.  The Hillside Singers version of a popular Coca-Cola commercial was most likely my 2nd 45.  I owned several records at that time but they were all hand me downs and I played my dad's collection of '78's.  The chance to have my own records is what my wife calls and addiction.  I call it a hobby and I can play what I collect on my radio show, Those Were the Days on WRCO FM 100.9 and wrco.com.  Saturday night you can hear the best of this weekends chart in 1971 during our salute to the rock and roll made during or before 1992.

I will be back in the studio this Saturday night to take requests and to play trivia.  I hope you enjoyed our salute to the great albums of 1977 and Otis Redding tribute last week.  The Solid Gold Dancers and me were guests at the Civic Media holiday party.  A good time was had by all.  Everyone was well behaved as far as I know.  I hope you will check in this Saturday night between six and midnight.  You can reach me at 608 647-4155 or contact me through this website.  

Phil

Saturday night during Those Were the Days, I will pay tribute to the best albums of 1977.  In that era vinyl records and 8-track tapes were still the biggest selling champions at the record stores.  Cassette tapes were making a big push.  The biggest year for 8-track tapes was 1978 and just a year later cassettes ruled.  During our Those Were the Days radio show Saturday night between six and midnight, we will fill up your fake alligator 8-track tape case with the best albums of 1977.  I will play tracks from my top 20 faves of that year that will include :  Rumours-Fleetwood Mac,  Aja-Steely Dan,  Slowhand-Eric Clapton,  Book of Dreams-Steve Miller Band,  News of the World-Queen,  The Grand Illusion-Styx,  Foreigner-Foreigner,  and The Stranger-Billy Joel.

It will also be an honor to pay tribute to Otis Redding this Saturday night. He and members of his backup band, the Bar-Kays were killed in a plane crash in Madison December 10th of 1967.  He has always been a favorite of mine with his incredible range and energy.  Hear a few 'Otis' classics during the 2nd half of Those Were the Days.  I will not be taking your requests this week.  Please save those for next Saturday night.  Have a great weekend with your radio.

Phil

Saturday night on Those Were the Days, I will feature 2 of my favorite bands.  The Dave Clark Five and Bread.  It was an honor to interview Mike Smith of the DC5 in 2003.  Sadly it would be one of his last as he was injured in a fall at his home in Spain later that year.  Favorite segments of that rare interview will be posted Saturday on Kent Kotal's Forgotten Hits website.  That night I will feature more of the interview and outtakes with the legendary Mike Smith.  During our talk, I even had the chance to talk to Mike about my favorite DC 5 flip side.  Find out what it is during Those Were the Days.  The group Bread dominated the early '70's charts.  Many music lovers that are my age remember having an 8-track or cassette that contained the Best of Bread.  It was a must have during my dating years.  I was ready in case I got a date!   Group leader and principle songwriter David Gates joined me on the show in 1994.  David is now retired from music and this is another interview that I am proud to have conducted.   Forgotten Hits recently posted highlights of this interview and it will be a pleasure to revisit it on the radio and play a few hits from Bread.

I hope that you will join the rock and roll party Saturday night during Those Were the Days on WRCO FM 100.9 and wrco.com.  It will be a great chance to hook up with great friends and music.  There is such a wide range of ages that listen to our show.  I know for a fact that one requester last week recently turned 85.  We had a trivia winner that is 11 and another requester that is a freshman in high school and asked for a song from the Doors!  It is so great to know that my favorite music is going to live on for more generations.  I will be waiting all week for Saturday night.

Phil

Saturday night during my Those Were the Days radio show, I will happily go back to my favorite music year of all time (1967).  The fact that I love the music from that era has been well documented in this column.  I could easily pick a favorite 100 from every year from 1964 through 1989, but I would be hard pressed to limit 1967 to just 100 songs.  It was the start of FM radio and you had groups like the Doors, and the Who,which had songs that were played on both sides of the dial.  The Top 40 AM survey was chocked full of tunes from the Monkees,  Spanky and Our Gang,  the Turtles,  and the Cowsills.  Some of my favorites from this weekends '67 survey include:  Incense and Peppermints-Strawberry Alarm Clock,  Soul Man-Sam & Dave,  I Can See For Miles-the Who,  Daydream Believer-Monkees,  Everlasting Love-Robert Knight,  Summer Rain-Johnny Rivers,  Beautiful People-Bobby Vee,  and Itchycoo Park-Small Faces.

When you tune in to Those Were the Days Saturday night from six to midnight, you will hear some of the greatest pop radio tunes ever.  I will be in the studio to take your requests for fiftes through the early nineties tunes.  You could win a ticket for the upcoming For Kids From 1 to 92 concert in Richland Center featuring Steve March Torme.  There are other great prizes that could be yours!  I hope you will join me this holiday weekend for some radio mischief.  We are planning to end the year strong with guests and themes.We will cap off 2022 with our Those Were the Days Christmas party and listen for details on a special New Years Eve broadcast of Those Were the Days on WRCO FM 100.9 and wrco.com.

Phil

In November of 1979, I was a high socks, tight shorts, pimple faced, forward on the Ithaca junior varsity basketball team.  That season I was the leading scorer during warm ups!   We did not win much.  I have heard that sometimes you can learn more from a loss.  If that is the case, that team should have been brilliant.  We were not.  We were good at making mix tapes that we could listen to in the locker room.  Favorite tunes from November of 1979 include:  Bad Case Of Loving You-Robert Palmer,  Cruel To Be Kind-Nick Lowe,  One Way Or Another-Blondie,  Lovin', Touchin', Squeezin',-Journey,  Heartache Tonight-Eagles,  Good Girls Don't-Knack,  Dream Police-Cheap Trick,  Drivers Seat-Sniff n the Tears, Don't Bring Me Down-E.L.O.  and Lets Go-Cars.   Those songs made up much of the soundtrack for my formative years.  This week I will be going back to 1979 and I will have a fun time although my 1979 shorts wont fit (they were tight back in the day).

Not only will I be playing hits from the last month of the 70's, but we will also spin all of the tunes you love from the fifties through the eighties during Those Were the Days on WRCO FM 100.9 and wrco.com from six until midnight Saturday night.  I hope you will make a request.

Phil