Who We Lost in 2019

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 Buy
1Dr. Hook & The Medicine Show Cover of the Rolling Stone The Essential Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show Amazon
2Ethel Ennis, Hank Jones, Eddie Briggs, Abie Baker & Kenny Clarke Lullaby for Losers Lullabies for Losers Amazon
3Carol Channing Diamonds Are A Girl's Best Friend Ultimate Broadway [Disc 1] Amazon
4Doris Day Perhaps Perhaps Perhaps Something For Everybody Amazon
5The McGuire Sisters Sugartime Your Hit Parade – 1958 Amazon
6The Lettermen The Way You Look Tonight Lifetime Of Romance: Secret Rendezvous [Disc 1] Amazon
7Leon Redbone My Little Grass Shack Whistling In The Wind Amazon
8Captain & Tenille Love Will Keep Us Together 70s Music Explosion Escape Amazon
9The Monkees Can You Dig It? Listen to the Band Disc 3 Amazon
10Danny & The Juniors Rock And Roll Is Here To Stay Hit The Road Jack: The ABC-Paramount Story Amazon
11Jack Scott Leroy Loud, Fast & Out of Control: The Wild Sounds of the '50s [Box] Disc 1 Amazon
12Sleepy Labeef Good Rockin' Boogie Sleepy Rocks Amazon
13Bonnie Guitar Dark Moon Dark Moon [Bear Family] Amazon
14The Grateful Dead Friend of the Devil American Beauty Amazon
1513th Floor Elevators You're Gonna Miss Me High Fidelity Amazon
16Quicksilver Messenger Service Who Do You Love Part 1 Happy Trails [Live] Amazon
17The Ronettes Be My Baby Back to Mono (1958-1969) Disc 2 Amazon
18The Honeycombs Have I The Right We Love Pirate Radio – 60s Favourites Amazon
19The Persuasions I'll Come Running Back to You Good News Amazon
20Andre Williams Jail Bait Artist's Choice: Rolling Stones Amazon
21Jackie Shane Any Other Way Any Other Way Amazon
22Donnie Fritts The Oldest Baby in the World Lucky 13 Amazon
23Eddie Money Baby Hold On Greatest Hits: The Sound of Money Amazon
24Art Neville All These Things Brother to Brother (Disc One:Art) Amazon
25Fats Domino I Hear You Knockin' They Call Me the Fat Man: The Legendary Imperial Recordings Disc 3 Amazon
26Dr. John Somebody Changed The Lock Definitive Pop Collection Amazon
27Ric Ocasek Bottom Dollar Nexterday Amazon
28Little Feat Dixie Chicken Hotcakes & Outtakes: 30 Years of Little Feat (1 of 4) Amazon
29The Amazing Rhythm Aces Third Rate Romance Stacked Deck Amazon
30Dick Dale & the Del-Tones King of the Surf Guitar Cowabunga! The Surf Box Disc 2 Amazon
31Earl Thomas Conley Holding Her And Loving You Superstars Of Country: Good Ol' Songs [Disc 1] Amazon
32Mac Wiseman Tis Sweet To Be Remembered Teenage Hangout Amazon

 

The Year 1952

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 Buy
1Ella Fitzgerald Goody, Goody 75th Birthday Celebration [Disc 2] Amazon
2Percy Faith Delicado 16 Most Requested Songs Amazon
3Willie Mabon I Don't Know Atlantic Blues: Piano Amazon
4Eddy Arnold A Full Time Job Eddy's Song: A Full Time Job Amazon
5Al Martino Here In My Heart Magic Moments: Best Of 50's Po Amazon
6Ruth Brown 5-10-15 Hours Ruth Brown: Mama He Treats Your Daugher Mean & Other Hits Amazon
7Hank Williams I'll Never Get Out Of This World Alive Fifty Years Of Hits – Vol 5 Amazon
8Patti Page I Went To Your Wedding The Patti Page Collection: The Mercury Years, Volume 1 Amazon
9The 5 Royales Baby Don't Do It The Complete Singles 1952-1962 Amazon
10Webb Pierce Back Street Affair All Hits! [Disc 1] Amazon
11Eddie Fisher Wish You Were Here The Great American Crooners [Disc 5] Amazon
12Little Walter Juke Blues Classics '27_'69 [Disc 2] Amazon
13Carl Smith (When You Feel Like You're in Love) Don't Just Stand There The Essential Carl Smith (1950-1956) Amazon
14Rosemary Clooney Half As Much Tenderly Amazon
15Fats Domino Goin' Home Rock And Rollin Amazon
16Lefty Frizzell Give Me More, More, More (of Your Kisses) Shine, Shave, Shower (It's Sat. Night) Amazon
17Vera Lynn Auf Wiedersehn, Sweetheart White Cliffs Of Dover [Disc 1] Amazon
18Johnny Ace My Song Memorial Album Amazon
19Webb Pierce That Heart Belongs To Me All Hits! [Disc 1] Amazon
20Jo Stafford You Belong To Me Your Hit Parade – 1952 Amazon
21The Clovers One Mint Julep Atlantic Rhythm & Blues: 1947-1974 [Disc 1] Amazon
22Slim Whitman Indian Love Call Golden Age of Country Volume 5: The Wild Side of Life Amazon
23Johnny Ray Cry The Best Jukeboxhits Amazon
24Jimmy Forrest Night Train Mambo Rumba Gone Mambo Amazon
25Kitty Wells It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels Decca Country Classics 1934-1973 [Disc 2] Amazon
26Kay Starr Wheel Of Fortune Shutter Island [Disc 2] Amazon
27Billy 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 Amazon
28Webb Pierce Wondering All Hits! [Disc 1] Amazon
29Leroy Anderson Blue Tango Instrumental Gold [Disc 1] Amazon
30Lloyd Price Lawdy Miss Clawdy Sound Of The City, The – New Orleans [UK] Disc 1 Amazon
31Hank Williams Jambalaya (On the Bayou) 24 Greatest Amazon
32Bull Moose Jackson Nosey Joe Badman Jackson Thats Me Amazon
33Nat King Cole Unforgettable Magic Moments: Best Of 50's Pop (Disc 3) Amazon