Hooray. It’s nice and cool in the studio, so we are live this week.
Once a quarter all the DJs at WNCU have to keep detailed music logs for Sound Exchange, which is the entity that collects/distributes song revenues for music streamed on the Internet. This is for a two week period, and this and next weekend are the dates that I need to do this.
So I am doing two playlists, one for the station and one for you. So the updates here on the site may be delayed some.
An interesting song, Do I Love You, by Frank Wilson was recorded by Motown, but was never a hit in the US. But in England, it is a “Northern Soul Classic”. Northern Soul in the UK (Like Beach Music in the US) is a regional phenomenon centered around dance clubs where DJs play high energy soul records from the US, often very rare and obscure material by US standards. There is also a growing group of UK artist that record in that style, much as there are Beach Music bands here in the Carolinas.
Sam Cooke was one of the most astute of the fifities and sixties artists from a business sense. He started his own music publishing company as well as Sar Records, and it was on Sar that he recorded Johnny Taylor singing the Sam Cooke song “I’ll always be in love with you” That same song was recorded by the Hollywood Flames (Atco) and Jackie Wilson (Brunswick), but none of the versions charted. So we started out the 1pm hour with Sam’s “Another Saturday Night” and Johnny Taylor with “I’ll always be in love with you”. Johnny’s first chart record came on Sar in late 1963.