Affter you've enjoyed Come By The Hills with Sara Hillis tomorrow afternoon from 02:00 to 05:00, don't touch that dial, device, PC, Mac or smart speaker and join me in The Early Years where and when you'll hear the best music from Rock and Roll's Golden Age (its first quarter century) with an occasional nod to other decades and genres.
"What," you say, "No tributes"? In a word, no; primarily because Tom T. Hall, Don Everly and Charlie Watts, who passed away in the past week, have already been well tributed on Mushroom FM by conscientious fun guys. Perhaps when the immediacy of the deaths has passed, I'll do something for Don Everly at least.
But I am remembering a significant event that took place 58 years ago tomorrow, August 28, 1963, the March on Washington, by playing the full "I Have A Dream" speech that Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered on that occasion. An edited version actually charted in May 1968 reaching #88 and spending five weeks on the chart. Who knew!
After that, a single year, 1961, will once again be in the spotlight. After I concluded the countdown of the top 100 of 1961 two weeks ago, I played songs from 1961 that didn't make either the annual chart or the weekly chart. That continued last week and then I played some songs that did make the chart between January and April. I continue the survey this week and will get to August. I'll get to December either next week or the week after. If you have any favourite 1961 songs, send them along.
You can contact me any time by email at steve at mushroomfm.com with comments about the show and suggestions for future shows.
So join me, Steve Cutway, in The Early Years for more 1961 music, tomorrow afternoon at 05:00, after Come By The Hills with Sara Hillis and before Dan Sweeney's One Hit Wonders. The show replays Wednesday morning at 07:00 AM after Deep Dive with Graeme Innes and before Anthony Unleashed with Anthony Horvath, only on Mushroom FM, the home of the fun guys, making four decades of magic mushroom memories!
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