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Favoriting August 30, 2020: Beach Blanket Bingo

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Artist Track Album Label Year Comments Images Approx. start time
Cattanooga Cats  Cattanooga Cats Theme   Favoriting Cattanooga Cats  Forward  1969  Does the LP's typography design look a bit familiar? Where have we seen that before, gatos? Any guesses, just for sport? 
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The Bugaloos  Gna Gna Gna Gna Gna   Favoriting           0:01:20 (Pop-up)
The Monkees  You Bring The Summer   Favoriting       Written by Andy Partridge!    0:03:51 (Pop-up)
The Sunny Four  Goodie Good Ice Cream Man   Favoriting       We ALL scream for ice cream. Now that is something we can all agree on...    0:06:51 (Pop-up)
Wendy Rene  Bar-B-Q   Favoriting       Who doesn't like BBQ? Preach!    0:09:16 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
Lady Nelson & The Lords 
Sunny   Favoriting
 
 
 
Mother Superior, I have sinned... 
 
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The Archies  Hot Dog   Favoriting Everything's Archie          0:13:55 (Pop-up)
The Lee Kings  Hot Dogs   Favoriting           0:17:21 (Pop-up)
Ohio Express  Hot Dog   Favoriting           0:21:42 (Pop-up)
1910 Fruitgum Company  Hot Diggity Dog   Favoriting           0:21:52 (Pop-up)
Led Zeppelin  Hot Dog   Favoriting       One of my fave BG groups. 
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Keil Isles  Bittersweet Samba   Favoriting           0:27:32 (Pop-up)
Gary & the Hornets  Oscar Mayer Wiener commercial   Favoriting       I [heart] baby bands. Thanks, Skinny Robbie, for this tune.    0:28:32 (Pop-up)
The Hot Dog Stand  C'mon, Summer's Happening   Favoriting           0:30:08 (Pop-up)
Jim Nabors  Hot Dog Heart   Favoriting           0:32:24 (Pop-up)
Squiddly Diddly  Hot Doggin' Man   Favoriting       He only has six arms, not eight.    0:33:46 (Pop-up)
Pierre Guitare  Oui Je L'aime   Favoriting       aka I Want Candy. Thank you, Glynis Ward!    0:36:02 (Pop-up)
The Bermudas  Chu Sen Ling   Favoriting       So sweet yet so sad...    0:37:10 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
Esso Trinidad Steel Band + DJ Bronco 
I Want You Back   Favoriting
 
 
 
Take the hotel's cruise and see it live! 
 
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The Sunrays  I Live for the Sun   Favoriting       Take this, Brian!    0:40:57 (Pop-up)
The Stephen Crane Village  Hey Summer   Favoriting       Sounds like a cool tiki-themed apartment complex...    0:44:10 (Pop-up)
The Bedrock Rockers  Summertime Girl   Favoriting       Absolutely everyone was into Pet Sounds. Even Pebbles & Bamm-Bamm.    0:46:54 (Pop-up)
Donovan Memorial United Methodist Church  Beach Be-Attitude   Favoriting       Pray for Surf    0:47:51 (Pop-up)
The Archies  It's the Summertime   Favoriting       Ron Dante's voice sounds like pure summer. Hey, we should get that guy on this show...    0:50:48 (Pop-up)

Music behind DJ:
The Beach Boys 
Pet Sounds   Favoriting
 
 
 
for Nick Walusko and all fans of the Wondermints 
 
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Les Poppys  Laissez Entrer Le Soleil   Favoriting Les Poppys      French version of Let the Sunshine In by 17-member municipal boy chorus    0:57:26 (Pop-up)


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Becky Ebenkamp:

B7
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neko:

N12
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CAD:

testing, testing, this is cad
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Jessie3000:

I brought my picnic basket.
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neko:

i brought my timothy carey blow-up doll
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:01pm
Becky Ebenkamp:

Howdy!
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neko:

idk about the typography, looks like saturday night special neon to me
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:01pm
Becky Ebenkamp:

Dreamy, Neko! Hi Chris and Jessie!
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CAD:

mary tyler moore show opening for the same logo as the catt. cats?
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ohcarrots:

gnagnagnagna
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:02pm
Becky Ebenkamp:

Hi, Carrots!
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Jessie3000:

Hi Becky! Love the Bugger-boos.
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neko:

greetings to all!!!!!
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Becky Ebenkamp:

This would be my campaign anthem
  7:03pm
DA The DJ:

Hello Becky!
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Candy-O'67:

Hey Becky and everybody!
  7:03pm
Dolemite:

This show is keen
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ohcarrots:

hi!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:04pm
Becky Ebenkamp:

Candy! Dolemite! Hi, DA!
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Jessie3000:

Monkeeshines.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:04pm
Becky Ebenkamp:

OK, so I was involved with this Monkees project. I thot this should be the lead single ; )
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:05pm
Becky Ebenkamp:

Andy Partridge!
  7:06pm
Dolemite:

Is it gross to request 80s? Wouldn’t It Be Good by Nik Kershaw is so Gum that it’s root-canal-inducing.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:07pm
Becky Ebenkamp:

I am not opposed to '80s, D. I did a whole '80s set at tiki Oasis last year. Totally fun! Don't know the song but will look.
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Jessie3000:

I loved "Birth of an Accidental Hipster"
  7:08pm
Spacecowboy:

Monkees ! Can't go wrong with that
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:09pm
Becky Ebenkamp:

Hey, Maurice!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:10pm
Becky Ebenkamp:

I wish I owned this 45. Every time I hear a song I like and look it up, it's a $100 or more record. I guess I have good taste.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:11pm
Becky Ebenkamp:

Now THIS record I own and it's also great. It was a $1 record. My voice "normalizes" after this segment, btw. I have no idea what I am doing.
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Jessie3000:

How are you achieving this vocal sound?
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neko:

you were in the beach cabana changing into your swimsuit, becky, so you would sound different then
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:14pm
Becky Ebenkamp:

Tin can
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CAD:

great archies track -- you could do an all 'hot dogs' show -- easily 100 great wiener-related songs
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:14pm
Glynis GirlGroupGirl:

My tail's a waggin!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:15pm
Becky Ebenkamp:

My computer is haunted. It sounded normal until playback. Other VOs are fine, I think.
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neko:

i vote for a wiener-related show also
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:16pm
Becky Ebenkamp:

Nobody else recognizes the Cattanooga Cats logo? They stole it from some pretty famous iconography. From the year before the show debut.
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Jessie3000:

Hi Neko!
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Becky Ebenkamp:

Hi, Glynis!
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neko:

hi jessie!!!!
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CAD:

it's not the MTM show? darn. i'm outta guesses.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:17pm
Becky Ebenkamp:

Guess where this band is from?
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neko:

woodstock album? or is that later? that font is so iconic now
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CAD:

sweden for the lee kings?
  7:18pm
Dolemite:

Thanks Miss! Pop nirvana.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:18pm
Becky Ebenkamp:

Ding! Ding! Ding!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:19pm
Becky Ebenkamp:

All good guesses, Neko. It is something on an international scale.
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neko:

hmmmm
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Jessie3000:

The Zep!!!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:23pm
Becky Ebenkamp:

I just added it.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:24pm
Becky Ebenkamp:

The answer is, Lance Wyman's iconic Mexico '68 Olympics design. There is no limit to Mike Curb's thievery. He did not even try to change it up!
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Jessie3000:

Led Zeppelin on Bubblegum_OD!! Why not?!
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neko:

explains it. not font of knowledge about led zep. dread zep, yes. led zep, no.
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neko:

base is the slave that pays, becky
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:25pm
Becky Ebenkamp:

Well, they don't write their own songs...
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CAD:

part of the '70s-love-the-'50s... who knew?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:25pm
Becky Ebenkamp:

JK, I just thot it would be funny to put this in my Hot Dog set.
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neko:

it's a great addition
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:26pm
Becky Ebenkamp:

Right, Chris? That whole glam 50s thing... about half a decade late.
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Glynis GirlGroupGirl:

"Not Dogs!"
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Jessie3000:

Sounds like Robert Plant was ready for The Honeydrippers after Zep.
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neko:

WEINER!!!!!!!!
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neko:

had to do it. i'll see myself out
  7:29pm
Domenic:

Howdy Friends... the ACTUAL Ice Cream truck passed in front of our house when "Goody Goody Ice Cream Man" came on earlier! For real! He was playing "Love Is Blue"!!!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:30pm
Becky Ebenkamp:

Chongo!
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Becky Ebenkamp:

Did you get anything?
  7:30pm
Domenic:

Hi Becky!
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CAD:

ha, domenic, that's funny. they still play civil war-era songs here in ny. so weird... like oh, susanna
  7:31pm
Domenic:

I can never flag that guy down for some reason...
  7:31pm
Dolemite:

Now I want a Bomb Pop
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:31pm
Becky Ebenkamp:

I know, huh, Jessie? We used to laugh so hard when Hot Dog came on the radio. We did not understand that shit in context to Zep.
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neko:

ours does "turkey in the straw" OH GOD A BOMB POP
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ohcarrots:

I too have a hotdog heart
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Jessie3000:

Is this Gomer??
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:32pm
Becky Ebenkamp:

Yep
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neko:

he sings that like having a hotdog heart is a bad thing
  7:33pm
Dolemite:

Gol-LEEEEE
  7:33pm
Domenic:

That's typical New York, CAD... often lovingly backward. Like when you watch a Yankee game and Ethel Merman was still played until last year... and they seem to only honor World War 2 vets! I love the hardcoreness of that.
  7:33pm
Domenic:

Hi Neko! good to see you again
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neko:

hi domenic!
  7:34pm
Domenic:

Hello, Glynnis!...
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Glynis GirlGroupGirl:

Hey Dom!

This is one of my fave 45's!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:34pm
Becky Ebenkamp:

They always play these sappy late '60s tunes here live "Love is Blue" and "Theme From Love Story"
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Becky Ebenkamp:

Thank you Glynis for this song!
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CAD:

yup, domenic, the place has still got a hard retro heart of gold if you know where to look...
  7:35pm
Domenic:

I liked hearing "Bar-B-Que" Becky!!! Sitting next to where Mike Bar-B-Q's in the atrium
  7:36pm
Domenic:

CAD even when Becky and I would watch NY1 every morning there was always at least 5 minutes of New York History EVERY HOUR. Farmlands in Queens etc on TV
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Glynis GirlGroupGirl:

Thanks for giving it a spin Becky!!! I have a good Canadian hot dog song too!!
  7:38pm
Domenic:

CAD plus they used to run "Car 54, Where Are You" after all the morning news broadcasts had run their thing. They gave you a half hour break that way. How perfect is that?
  7:39pm
Domenic:

The KON TIKI Motel in Pismo Beach... the band!!! LIVE!!!
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CAD:

mmm NY ain't quite that cool anymore, dom, sadly :(
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Glynis GirlGroupGirl:

Rickie did sing on Chu Sen Ling!
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Jessie3000:

Love this as well as the Surf Punks version.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:41pm
Becky Ebenkamp:

Rickie is the mom, right. Becky was the 12 year old. The mom had two names. Confusing
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CAD:

great summer song - thanks becky :)
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Becky Ebenkamp:

I think this is my fave summer song.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:43pm
Becky Ebenkamp:

Sorry, Brian.
  7:43pm
Richard Whig:

living for the sun and having fun!
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Glynis GirlGroupGirl:

Rickie Page (Ricky Page) is the Mom's real name.
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Jessie3000:

"Listen bud, don't be a dud".
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:44pm
Becky Ebenkamp:

And she was gorgeous!
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Glynis GirlGroupGirl:

Well real showbiz name. Her hubby was a producer, Motola I think. Anyway she's in Nashville singing country now.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:46pm
Becky Ebenkamp:

I guess everyone was inspired by Pet Sounds. Even Pebbles & Bamm-Bamm
  7:46pm
Domenic:

Hi Richard Whig!!!
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CAD:

bedrock rockers!! ahhhh!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:46pm
Becky Ebenkamp:

Oh, hi, Richard!
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ohcarrots:

oh wow!
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ohcarrots:

I'd like for this to be my theme song when I walk around outside.
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Becky Ebenkamp:

For Domenic!
  7:48pm
Domenic:

My Favorite
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Becky Ebenkamp:

And Carrots!
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neko:

blessed are the meek, for they get to go to the beach
  7:48pm
Domenic:

Confirm for people, Becky, that I have a dance for this song
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Eric R:

better late than never! Hey all!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:49pm
Becky Ebenkamp:

Dolemite, if you are still among us, this seems pretty '80s
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:49pm
Becky Ebenkamp:

We have a convert!
  7:49pm
Domenic:

If we were on camera I would show you all the dance
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:49pm
Becky Ebenkamp:

Yeah
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neko:

i would indeed like to know about such a dance
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CAD:

thots and prayers for surf in this difficult time :)
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Eric R:

I've been thinking a zoom chat room would be fun
  7:50pm
Domenic:

Neko it is kind of like The Swim
  7:51pm
Domenic:

... and kind of like the Bunny Hop
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neko:

makes sense, one does not expect polka moves with a dance involving water/beach. OR DO THEY
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:51pm
Becky Ebenkamp:

Ron's voice is healing to me, Chris. He'll be on a show soon.
  7:52pm
Domenic:

Yeah, this is a great Archies song
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:52pm
Becky Ebenkamp:

"Like the summer sunshine..."
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CAD:

cannot wait, becky! my no. 1 fave singer...
  7:53pm
Domenic:

Neko, the only problem for me with that dance is I don't have bangs and a pony tail...
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neko:

my mom back in the day had all that stuff ready in a box & she'd just clip it on. blammo! bangs, pony tail, whatever
  7:56pm
Domenic:

Yeah and I don't know... I'd have to teach the dance to someone for it to look right
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Glynis GirlGroupGirl:

Thanks for the tunes Becky!!
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CAD:

super show, becky. wish we had you for a longer time. aloha!
  7:57pm
Domenic:

Great Show, Becky!!!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:58pm
Becky Ebenkamp:

Oops, I signed out by accident! Thanks you guys and gals!
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Jessie3000:

Great show! Goodbye Summer. We hardly knew ya.
  7:59pm
Domenic:

I'll say
  7:59pm
Richard Whig:

hey summers not quite over just yet!!
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ohcarrots:

thank you becky!!!
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