Another year passes and with each year we take stock of the legacies that are not ‘left behind’ but live on in their contributions. The past century of America’s music has brought talent, wit and wisdom, and the artists’ take on arrangement, delivery, and rhythm. This was another year of profound loss including contemporaries like Daniel Johnston and Ric Ocasek, studio production legends Hal Blaine and Dave Bartholomew, songwriting greats Robert Hunter and Donnie Fritts, and prolific performers like Fats Domino, Doris Day, and Art Neville. Two hours means we draw the line and that’s never easy. Tune in for a look back at who we lost in 2019. www.kowsfm.com/listen is the stream.
No. |
1 | Artist |
Title |
Album |
Buy |
2 | Dr. Hook & The Medicine Show |
Cover of the Rolling Stone |
The Essential Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show |
|
3 | Ethel Ennis, Hank Jones, Eddie Briggs, Abie Baker & Kenny Clarke |
Lullaby for Losers |
Lullabies for Losers |
|
4 | Carol Channing |
Diamonds Are A Girl's Best Friend |
Ultimate Broadway [Disc 1] |
|
5 | Doris Day |
Perhaps Perhaps Perhaps |
Something For Everybody |
|
6 | The McGuire Sisters |
Sugartime |
Your Hit Parade – 1958 |
|
7 | The Lettermen |
The Way You Look Tonight |
Lifetime Of Romance: Secret Rendezvous [Disc 1] |
|
8 | Leon Redbone |
My Little Grass Shack |
Whistling In The Wind |
|
9 | Captain & Tenille |
Love Will Keep Us Together |
70s Music Explosion Escape |
|
10 | The Monkees |
Can You Dig It? |
Listen to the Band Disc 3 |
|
11 | Danny & The Juniors |
Rock And Roll Is Here To Stay |
Hit The Road Jack: The ABC-Paramount Story |
|
12 | Jack Scott |
Leroy |
Loud, Fast & Out of Control: The Wild Sounds of the '50s [Box] Disc 1 |
|
13 | Sleepy Labeef |
Good Rockin' Boogie |
Sleepy Rocks |
|
14 | Bonnie Guitar |
Dark Moon |
Dark Moon [Bear Family] |
|
15 | The Grateful Dead |
Friend of the Devil |
American Beauty |
|
16 | 13th Floor Elevators |
You're Gonna Miss Me |
High Fidelity |
|
17 | Quicksilver Messenger Service |
Who Do You Love Part 1 |
Happy Trails [Live] |
|
18 | The Ronettes |
Be My Baby |
Back to Mono (1958-1969) Disc 2 |
|
19 | The Honeycombs |
Have I The Right |
We Love Pirate Radio – 60s Favourites |
|
20 | The Persuasions |
I'll Come Running Back to You |
Good News |
|
21 | Andre Williams |
Jail Bait |
Artist's Choice: Rolling Stones |
|
22 | Jackie Shane |
Any Other Way |
Any Other Way |
|
23 | Donnie Fritts |
The Oldest Baby in the World |
Lucky 13 |
|
24 | Eddie Money |
Baby Hold On |
Greatest Hits: The Sound of Money |
|
25 | Art Neville |
All These Things |
Brother to Brother (Disc One:Art) |
|
26 | Fats Domino |
I Hear You Knockin' |
They Call Me the Fat Man: The Legendary Imperial Recordings Disc 3 |
|
27 | Dr. John |
Somebody Changed The Lock |
Definitive Pop Collection |
|
28 | Ric Ocasek |
Bottom Dollar |
Nexterday |
|
29 | Little Feat |
Dixie Chicken |
Hotcakes & Outtakes: 30 Years of Little Feat (1 of 4) |
|
30 | The Amazing Rhythm Aces |
Third Rate Romance |
Stacked Deck |
|
31 | Dick Dale & the Del-Tones |
King of the Surf Guitar |
Cowabunga! The Surf Box Disc 2 |
|
32 | Earl Thomas Conley |
Holding Her And Loving You |
Superstars Of Country: Good Ol' Songs [Disc 1] |
|
33 | Mac Wiseman |
Tis Sweet To Be Remembered |
Teenage Hangout |
|
A good year…if I do say so myself. We’re going to count down the top ten of the year 1952…in pop, country, and R&B. The music that year featured sounds that portended the birth of rock ‘n roll, the blossoming of the Golden Age of Country, and the droll mainstream charts couldn’t have been more ripe for steamrolling. Webb Pierce and Hank Williams dominated the country charts while the white bread pop charts found Al Martino, Johnny Ray, and Rosemary Clooney. But it was the R&B charts that mirrored the emerging energy of swing, rhythm and blues, and rock with the likes of The Clovers, Ruth Brown, and The Five Royales. The DOW Jones average closed at an all-time high of (a whopping) 269.86. Tune in for the countdown. 67 years in the rear-view on Sonoma County Community Radio.
No. |
1 | Artist |
Title |
Album |
Buy |
2 | Ella Fitzgerald |
Goody, Goody |
75th Birthday Celebration [Disc 2] |
|
3 | Percy Faith |
Delicado |
16 Most Requested Songs |
|
4 | Willie Mabon |
I Don't Know |
Atlantic Blues: Piano |
|
5 | Eddy Arnold |
A Full Time Job |
Eddy's Song: A Full Time Job |
|
6 | Al Martino |
Here In My Heart |
Magic Moments: Best Of 50's Po |
|
7 | Ruth Brown |
5-10-15 Hours |
Ruth Brown: Mama He Treats Your Daugher Mean & Other Hits |
|
8 | Hank Williams |
I'll Never Get Out Of This World Alive |
Fifty Years Of Hits – Vol 5 |
|
9 | Patti Page |
I Went To Your Wedding |
The Patti Page Collection: The Mercury Years, Volume 1 |
|
10 | The 5 Royales |
Baby Don't Do It |
The Complete Singles 1952-1962 |
|
11 | Webb Pierce |
Back Street Affair |
All Hits! [Disc 1] |
|
12 | Eddie Fisher |
Wish You Were Here |
The Great American Crooners [Disc 5] |
|
13 | Little Walter |
Juke |
Blues Classics '27_'69 [Disc 2] |
|
14 | Carl Smith |
(When You Feel Like You're in Love) Don't Just Stand There |
The Essential Carl Smith (1950-1956) |
|
15 | Rosemary Clooney |
Half As Much |
Tenderly |
|
16 | Fats Domino |
Goin' Home |
Rock And Rollin |
|
17 | Lefty Frizzell |
Give Me More, More, More (of Your Kisses) |
Shine, Shave, Shower (It's Sat. Night) |
|
18 | Vera Lynn |
Auf Wiedersehn, Sweetheart |
White Cliffs Of Dover [Disc 1] |
|
19 | Johnny Ace |
My Song |
Memorial Album |
|
20 | Webb Pierce |
That Heart Belongs To Me |
All Hits! [Disc 1] |
|
21 | Jo Stafford |
You Belong To Me |
Your Hit Parade – 1952 |
|
22 | The Clovers |
One Mint Julep |
Atlantic Rhythm & Blues: 1947-1974 [Disc 1] |
|
23 | Slim Whitman |
Indian Love Call |
Golden Age of Country Volume 5: The Wild Side of Life |
|
24 | Johnny Ray |
Cry |
The Best Jukeboxhits |
|
25 | Jimmy Forrest |
Night Train Mambo |
Rumba Gone Mambo |
|
26 | Kitty Wells |
It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels |
Decca Country Classics 1934-1973 [Disc 2] |
|
27 | Kay Starr |
Wheel Of Fortune |
Shutter Island [Disc 2] |
|
28 | Billy Ward & the Dominoes |
Have Mercy Baby |
Doo Wop Box, Vol. 3: 101 More Vocal Group Gems from the Golden Age of Rock-N-Roll Disc 1 |
|
29 | Webb Pierce |
Wondering |
All Hits! [Disc 1] |
|
30 | Leroy Anderson |
Blue Tango |
Instrumental Gold [Disc 1] |
|
31 | Lloyd Price |
Lawdy Miss Clawdy |
Sound Of The City, The – New Orleans [UK] Disc 1 |
|
32 | Hank Williams |
Jambalaya (On the Bayou) |
24 Greatest |
|
33 | Bull Moose Jackson |
Nosey Joe |
Badman Jackson Thats Me |
|
34 | Nat King Cole |
Unforgettable |
Magic Moments: Best Of 50's Pop (Disc 3) |
|
A Century of America's Music