Still no heat. Hope the service technician gets here before nightfall.
My 8:00 call for service wasn’t logged! So, when I called at 2:00 they didn’t know I had no heat. This is the sort of screw-up that makes customers look elsewhere. A technician is here now.
Looking at the charts Denro provided in the previous post, I see ‘Nothing But a Heartache’ by the Flirtations. A powerful, catchy record that deserved to do better, it peaked at #34, even lower than ‘Will You Be Staying After Sunday’.
How did a 1968 Psychedelic UK record that didn’t chart in America (was it even released here?) …
… get reworked into the Soul Pop sound of ‘Nothing But a Heartache’?
Here’s the explanation. Its history starts with a former Beatle.
Five years later came this Sugar Pop classic.
Denro has replied to my recent request for clarification on two favorite singles from ’69 — ‘Will You Be Staying After Sunday’ and ‘Morning Girl’. The big surprise for me was that WABC didn’t play the Peppermint Rainbow’s record. Doing well in Los Angeles and Boston apparently wasn’t enough to compensate for the lack of airplay in New York.
It may have only hit #32 on Billboard, but ‘Will You Be Staying After Sunday’ peaked at #12 on WRKO and #11 on WMEX. I know, because I bought the original 45, probably at Woolworths in the Falmouth Plaza.
Later, when I started getting Joel Whitburn’s books, I was always confused by lower charting songs that I knew were “hits” in my mind. Then I discovered the treasure trove of local Radio Charts!
Of course, if you had stayed in Norwalk and listened to WABC, you were out of luck. It never charted – nor was it apparently played – on WABC. But it was big on local CT stations!
It reached #4 on KHJ – 3 weeks before! The week that WYBSAS peaked on RKO, Morning Girl was making its debut.
It’s ten degrees outside, and I’m heatless! The control module for the furnace is flashing red, indicating an ignition problem.
Will the service technician find a clogged nozzle from that stupid bio-fuel? Almost certainly. I have the same active dislike for ethanol being a gasoline additive.
I’m in Brookline/Boston, waiting for a routine retina checkup. As I said, I’ve been going into Boston more over the past year. I’m posting this from my phone. Isn’t technology amazing? At least when it works.
I’ve had a couple of scans, so now I’m waiting for the consultation. This is a good time to contemplate any slights or snubs I’ve suffered lately, so I can plot my relentless retaliation. Lashing out at the slightest perceived provocation works so well for our fearless leader, everybody should give it a try.
“Normal age-related changes” in my retinas. I’m home now. Not that you can see any difference from where you are.
Before the Electric Light Orchestra in England, there was America’s Neon Philharmonic. ‘Morning Girl’, was released on April 5, 1969, just one week before ‘Will You Be Staying After Sunday’. The Neon Philharmonic peaked at #17 on Billboard, compared to #32 for the Peppermint Rainbow.
Forty years ago, Tipper Gore put attention on song lyrics in popular songs.
Songs from the Sixties about sex had lyrics that were coded, rather than explicit: “How’d you sleep last night? You’re several ages older now.”
My father would immediately turn off the car’s AM radio when Gary Puckett’s ‘Young Girl’ started playing on WABC. A #2 hit that debuted in March, 1968, what I paid attention to weren’t the lyrics, but the record’s sound.
