December | 2019 | Deeper Roots

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.	Artist	Title	Album
1	Dr. Hook & The Medicine Show	Cover of the Rolling Stone	The Essential Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show
2	Ethel Ennis, Hank Jones, Eddie Briggs, Abie Baker & Kenny Clarke	Lullaby for Losers	Lullabies for Losers
3	Carol Channing	Diamonds Are A Girl's Best Friend	Ultimate Broadway [Disc 1]
4	Doris Day	Perhaps Perhaps Perhaps	Something For Everybody
5	The McGuire Sisters	Sugartime	Your Hit Parade – 1958
6	The Lettermen	The Way You Look Tonight	Lifetime Of Romance: Secret Rendezvous [Disc 1]
7	Leon Redbone	My Little Grass Shack	Whistling In The Wind
8	Captain & Tenille	Love Will Keep Us Together	70s Music Explosion Escape
9	The Monkees	Can You Dig It?	Listen to the Band Disc 3
10	Danny & The Juniors	Rock And Roll Is Here To Stay	Hit The Road Jack: The ABC-Paramount Story
11	Jack Scott	Leroy	Loud, Fast & Out of Control: The Wild Sounds of the '50s [Box] Disc 1
12	Sleepy Labeef	Good Rockin' Boogie	Sleepy Rocks
13	Bonnie Guitar	Dark Moon	Dark Moon [Bear Family]
14	The Grateful Dead	Friend of the Devil	American Beauty
15	13th Floor Elevators	You're Gonna Miss Me	High Fidelity
16	Quicksilver Messenger Service	Who Do You Love Part 1	Happy Trails [Live]
17	The Ronettes	Be My Baby	Back to Mono (1958-1969) Disc 2
18	The Honeycombs	Have I The Right	We Love Pirate Radio – 60s Favourites
19	The Persuasions	I'll Come Running Back to You	Good News
20	Andre Williams	Jail Bait	Artist's Choice: Rolling Stones
21	Jackie Shane	Any Other Way	Any Other Way
22	Donnie Fritts	The Oldest Baby in the World	Lucky 13
23	Eddie Money	Baby Hold On	Greatest Hits: The Sound of Money
24	Art Neville	All These Things	Brother to Brother (Disc One:Art)
25	Fats Domino	I Hear You Knockin'	They Call Me the Fat Man: The Legendary Imperial Recordings Disc 3
26	Dr. John	Somebody Changed The Lock	Definitive Pop Collection
27	Ric Ocasek	Bottom Dollar	Nexterday
28	Little Feat	Dixie Chicken	Hotcakes & Outtakes: 30 Years of Little Feat (1 of 4)
29	The Amazing Rhythm Aces	Third Rate Romance	Stacked Deck
30	Dick Dale & the Del-Tones	King of the Surf Guitar	Cowabunga! The Surf Box Disc 2
31	Earl Thomas Conley	Holding Her And Loving You	Superstars Of Country: Good Ol' Songs [Disc 1]
32	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.	Artist	Title	Album
1	Ella Fitzgerald	Goody, Goody	75th Birthday Celebration [Disc 2]
2	Percy Faith	Delicado	16 Most Requested Songs
3	Willie Mabon	I Don't Know	Atlantic Blues: Piano
4	Eddy Arnold	A Full Time Job	Eddy's Song: A Full Time Job
5	Al Martino	Here In My Heart	Magic Moments: Best Of 50's Po
6	Ruth Brown	5-10-15 Hours	Ruth Brown: Mama He Treats Your Daugher Mean & Other Hits
7	Hank Williams	I'll Never Get Out Of This World Alive	Fifty Years Of Hits – Vol 5
8	Patti Page	I Went To Your Wedding	The Patti Page Collection: The Mercury Years, Volume 1
9	The 5 Royales	Baby Don't Do It	The Complete Singles 1952-1962
10	Webb Pierce	Back Street Affair	All Hits! [Disc 1]
11	Eddie Fisher	Wish You Were Here	The Great American Crooners [Disc 5]
12	Little Walter	Juke	Blues Classics '27_'69 [Disc 2]
13	Carl Smith	(When You Feel Like You're in Love) Don't Just Stand There	The Essential Carl Smith (1950-1956)
14	Rosemary Clooney	Half As Much	Tenderly
15	Fats Domino	Goin' Home	Rock And Rollin
16	Lefty Frizzell	Give Me More, More, More (of Your Kisses)	Shine, Shave, Shower (It's Sat. Night)
17	Vera Lynn	Auf Wiedersehn, Sweetheart	White Cliffs Of Dover [Disc 1]
18	Johnny Ace	My Song	Memorial Album
19	Webb Pierce	That Heart Belongs To Me	All Hits! [Disc 1]
20	Jo Stafford	You Belong To Me	Your Hit Parade – 1952
21	The Clovers	One Mint Julep	Atlantic Rhythm & Blues: 1947-1974 [Disc 1]
22	Slim Whitman	Indian Love Call	Golden Age of Country Volume 5: The Wild Side of Life
23	Johnny Ray	Cry	The Best Jukeboxhits
24	Jimmy Forrest	Night Train Mambo	Rumba Gone Mambo
25	Kitty Wells	It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels	Decca Country Classics 1934-1973 [Disc 2]
26	Kay Starr	Wheel Of Fortune	Shutter Island [Disc 2]
27	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
28	Webb Pierce	Wondering	All Hits! [Disc 1]
29	Leroy Anderson	Blue Tango	Instrumental Gold [Disc 1]
30	Lloyd Price	Lawdy Miss Clawdy	Sound Of The City, The – New Orleans [UK] Disc 1
31	Hank Williams	Jambalaya (On the Bayou)	24 Greatest
32	Bull Moose Jackson	Nosey Joe	Badman Jackson Thats Me
33	Nat King Cole	Unforgettable	Magic Moments: Best Of 50's Pop (Disc 3)

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