A Happy New Year! The first show for 2013.......

Well, let's hope that Lucy is totally wrong and that 2013 is a great year for everyone......we'll give it a bit more than a couple of days to make an evaluation, I think!

Kicking off the program for 2013 on Friday between 2:00 and 5:00 PM, I am featuring the Top 20 (more, if time permits) from the first week of 1963 - a return to the Hits of exactly fifty years ago.
The list includes such gems as......................

•   Tell Him - The Exciters
•   Pepino the Italian Mouse - Lou Monte
•   Limbo Rock - Chubby Checker
•   Bobby's Girl - Marcie Blane
•   Telstar - The Tornadoes
•   Up On the Roof - The Drifters
•   Big Girls Don't Cry - The 4 Seasons
•   Go Away Little Girl - Steve Lawrence
•   Zip-a-Dee Doo-Dah - Bob B. Soxx & the Blue Jeans
•   Two Lovers - Mary Wells
•   Release Me - Little Esther Phillips
•   Everybody Loves a Lover - The Shirelles
•   You Are My Sunshine - Ray Charles
•   Return to Sender - Elvis Presley
•   Loop de Loop - Johnny Thunder
•   Hotel Happiness - Brook Benton
•   Fly Me to the Moon Bossa Nova - Joe Harnell
•   Don't Hang Up - The Orlons
•   Keep Your Hands Off My Baby - Little Eva
•   The Lonely Bull - The Tijuana Brass
•   Popeye (The Hitchhiker) - Chubby Checker
•   You've Really Got a Hold On Me - The Miracles
•   See See Rider - LaVern Baker
•   My Coloring Book - Kitty Kallen
•   All Alone Am I - Brenda Lee
•   Chains - The Cookies
•   Walk Right In - The Rooftop Singers
•   Gina - Johnny Mathis
•   Love Came to Me - Dion
•   (Dance With the) Guitar Man - Duane Eddy
•   Rumors - Johnny Crawford    
•   James, Hold The Ladder Steady - Sue Thompson
•   Happy Guitar - Reg Owen Orchestra
•   Spanish Lace - Gene McDaniels

Note that there is not one Beatles track amongst that lot; they had not yet appeared on the international charts and it wasn't until (approximately) February of this year that "Love Me Do" charted at #17 in Britain.
So this first week of 1963 was Beatles-free. What became known as the "British Invasion" had yet to occur.

The Comedy Spot following the 3:00 PM news & weather will feature Tony Hancock, Sid James and Bill Kerr in a gem from 1959 - "The Elopement".

UPDATE:
In memory of the wonderful Miss Patti Page, who died at age 85 on January 1st., I will be playing two of her hits - from 1950, "Tennessee Waltz" and from 1953, "(How Much Is) That Doggie In The Window".

I look forward to your company.