10 SONGS: 8/22/2025

10 Songs is a weekly list of ten songs that happen to be on my mind at the moment. The lists are usually dominated by songs played on the previous Sunday night's edition of This Is Rock 'n' Roll Radio with Dana & Carl. The idea was inspired by Don Valentine of the essential blog I Don't Hear A Single.

This week's edition of 10 Songs draws exclusively from the playlist for This Is Rock 'n' Roll Radio # 1299.

JIM BASNIGHT: See It In Your Eyes

The music of Jim Basnight has found a welcoming berth on many a TIRnRR playlist over the years. Mr. Basnight's frequent rocker miles on this program include credits as a solo artist and with the Moberlys, the Meyce, the Jim Basnight Thing, and the Rockinghams, and the flight continues with this debut spin of his ace new digital single "See It In Your Eyes." As it oughta! We're gonna dip back into the archives for a slightly older Basnight track this Sunday, as part of the epic celebration of...wait, is this right? THIS IS ROCK 'N' ROLL RADIO # 1300...?! Jeez, we better turn things up a bit. And you can best be assured that ritual raising of the roof will include a Jim Basnight TIRnRR Fave Rave. As it oughta. As it oughta.

DIONNE WARWICK: Trains And Boats And Planes

I did a fair bit of traveling as a kid. My maternal grandparents lived in Southwest Missouri, so most summers found Mom and I leaving our suburban Syracuse home behind us and taking trains or buses or planes (never a boat, for some reason) to the Ozark region. There was also a 1966 family day trip to Ontario to see my sister's marching band, a Vermont vacation in 1967 (where my dad took me out fishing in a row boat--finally, a use for watercraft!), a car trip from Missouri to California and back in 1968 (as recounted as part of this autobiography of my life in the 1960s), and a visit to the Florida panhandle in 1970. All of these modest treks were accomplished before I entered sixth grade. As an adult, I've visited England, Belgium, and Spain, with very brief stopovers for dinners in France and Morocco. Plus, y'know, Jersey. And Disney World! I hope my future will include more opportunities for travel in this great big world of wonder.

For those of us who live in Syracuse, a visit to the great New York State Fair doesn't quite qualify as a travel plan. I was looking forward to seeing Dionne Warwick perform at the Fair on Labor Day this year, but alas, a scheduling conflict scotches that particular flight plan. Neither trains nor boats nor planes nor even a tricycle can get me to two places at once. 

And that's okay. We do what we can, and we acknowledge that we can't do everything. For now, we'll play Dionne Warwick singing somberly of modes of transportation as they pass her (and us) by. It be that sometimes. 

JOE JACKSON: Enough Is Not Enough

Pretty much all TIRnRR spins of Joe Jackson are offered as long-distance dedications to my dear pal Beth Woodell. I've known Beth since...er, she doesn't want me to complete that sentence. Suffice it to say we were teenagers when we met, and empirical evidence suggests we are not teenagers at this current point in time. I mean, if you're the sort of sucker who believes in math....

Today, Beth is celebrating her 23rd birthday. No, it's not the first (nor even just the fortieth) time she's observed her 23rd. Why limit such celebrations to a mere once? Happy Birthday, Beth! Birthday candles give off less heat when we limit 'em to 23. That's SCIENCE! If we can't believe math, man, let's at least follow the science!

THE TREMBLERS: I'll Be Taking Her Out Tonight

In the early '80s, former Herman's Hermits lead singer Peter Noone was trying to distance himself from his cute 'n' cuddly British Invasion image and establish a more mature rock 'n' roller persona. Toward that end, he formed a crack new wave pop combo called the Tremblers. The Tremblers recorded a very cool album called Twice Nightly, did a little TV (I recall catching them on The Midnight Special), and toured. I saw the Tremblers perform at a Rochester club show, and I can testify firsthand that this combo cooked. No Herman's Hermits songs! Just material from Twice Nightly, actually, including their cover of Elvis Costello's "Green Shirt." Herman had grown up!

But the Tremblers experiment was short-lived. If I have the chronology right, the Tremblers ended when Noone followed an opportunity to star in a production of The Pirates Of Penzance. As years may come and years may go, the lure of the oldies circuit proved more agreeable after Noone regained the right to bill himself as Herman's Hermits. Peter Noone is very, very good as this 'Erman fellow, and we're lucky to have him.

Still, some of us wish Noone could find room in his current second verse/same as the first repertoire for a nod to the Tremblers. Twice Nightly was wonderful, and "I'll Be Taking Her Out Tonight" in particular would have made a worthy big hit record. It's too bad Peter Noone hasn't seemed interested in revisiting that compelling portion of his career.

Hasn’t seemed.

Past tense. Phrased deliberately. 

I can say no more. Stay tuned. Maybe--just maybe--Peter will be taking her out tonight...again.

THE SPONGETONES: Honest Work

Second week in a row for TIRnRR airplay of "Honest Work," the third bonus studio single released in conjunction with the Spongetones' new live album The 40th Anniversary Concert...And Beyond. The Spongetones have certainly loomed large in this radio show's legend, so of course we'll be playing them again this Sunday on our 1300th show. Gotta go with one of the classics. Hey! Howzabout a LIVE version of a Spongetones classic for TIRnRR # 1300? As we try to get in as many songs as we possibly can, you'll understand why we've simply gotta include the Spongetones as part of Sunday's victory lap. YES!

THE GRATEFUL DEAD: Scarlet Begonias

And yeah, second week in a row of airplay for something from the Grateful Dead catalog. Across the veil of time, my late 1970s/early '80s self is seriously disgusted with me. I blame the local combination Delta Sonic/Tim Hortons, who lodged this Dead song "Scarlet Begonias" deep into my cranium by playing it over the sound system during two of my recent gasoline 'n' coffee acquisition safaris. It's...arghh, it's a really good pop track. I'm way more open to the Dead now than I was at 18-21 years of age. Hey, Beth! What would your 23-year-old self say? 

I...can't repeat that on the radio, Beth.

THE VERBS: I Need Glue

I continue to be knocked out by how radically the Verbs were able to revamp, restructure, and reimagine the Flashcubes' early punk stomper "I Need Glue" while still retaining a line of sight with the original's intent. One of my (many!) favorite tracks on Make Something Happen! A Tribute To The Flashcubes.

THE CYNZ: Can't Help Thinking About Me

I'm looking forward to hearing the entirety of the new tribute album Jem Records Celebrates David Bowie. I love what I've heard so far from Paul Collins ("Hang On To Yourself") and the High Frequencies ("Modern Love"), and I've been especially taken with this high-octane reading of early Bowie nugget "Can’t Help Thinking About Me" as performed by the Cynz. We're playing it again on the 1300th show this Sunday.

FONTELLA BASS: Rescue Me

The Greatest Record Ever Made!

THE FLASHCUBES: If These Hands

The culmination of a metric ton of work behind the scenes, the various-artists blockbuster Make Something Happen! A Tribute To The Flashcubes will finally see divine release on September 12th. Read about it here, buy it here. And stay close to the radio on Sunday night, as This Is Rock 'n' Roll Radio's 1300th show spins all three of the new Flashcubes singles attached to this project, programs non-Make Something Happen! treats by four of the Flashcubes tribute album's other participants, throws in a reprise of another group's 2017 cover of the album's title tune, and digs out a fab Flashcubes gem that was the most recent original song recorded and released by the Flashcubes prior to the trio of current Cubic singles. TIRnRR is synonymous with the Flashcubes. I'm a Cicero boy, and my friend Dana rocks. We're the kings of power pop! Join us Sunday as we proudly present exhibit # 1300 in support of that argument.

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POP-A-LOOZA: THE GREATEST RECORD EVER MADE! Fontella Bass, "Rescue Me"

Each week, the pop culture website Pop-A-Looza shares some posts from my vast 'n' captivating Boppin' (Like The Hip Folks Do) archives. The latest shared post is another chapter from the ongoing saga of The Greatest Record Ever Made!, this time celebrating "Rescue Me" by Fontella Bass.

Most of my recent posts regarding my long-threatened book The Greatest Record Ever Made! (Volume 1) have been kinda pessimistic. I've been working on this thing for a few years now, and my initial era of good feeling--starting to write the book, receiving encouragement from friends, securing an agent--gave way to diminished warmth and insufficient fuzzies. I lost my agent. I lost sight of a path forward. I believe there was some sort of pandemic in there, too. About a month ago, I took a swing for the fences and submitted the idea to a publisher; it was, alas, a swing and a miss. It depressed me to think that this book had no plausible path forward.

But I haven't given up on it. I'm proud of this thing, and I want you to be able to read it. I've been tweaking a slightly shorter version of the book, moving a bunch of its songs to a (very) hypothetical Volume 2. This week, a publisher agreed to give the project a look. I sense that it's really a courtesy look, granted because of other work I've done, so it remains a long shot. Still, it's something. The GREM! book ain't quite dead yet.

(And this week I also signed the agreement for the other as-yet unnamed book I finished writing in 2021. After years of appearing in other writer's books, this will be my first book. I'll tell you more about it as soon as its publisher says I can.)

But for today, we go back to the magic pop year of 1965, and an incredible hit from an incredible, underrated one-hit wonder named Fontella Bass. A Greatest Record Ever Made! spotlight on "Rescue Me" is the latest Boppin' Pop-A-Looza.

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THE GREATEST RECORD EVER MADE: Rescue Me

This entry is not currently part of the plan for my long-threatened book The Greatest Record Ever Made! (Volume 1).

An infinite number of rockin' pop tracks can each be the greatest record ever made, as long as they take turns. Today, this is THE GREATEST RECORD EVER MADE!

FONTELLA BASS: Rescue Me

Written by Carl Smith and Raynard Miner [possibly with Fontella Bass]

Produced by Billy Davis, Carl Smith, and Raynard Miner

Single, Chess Records, 1965

That most excellent year of 1965 rewarded singer Fontella Bass with a huge pop smash called "Rescue Me." It's a true classic, but believe it or not, I once read of someone shrugging it off as a mere attempt to imitate the Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin. That seems a little harsh, but it's also kind of impressive. I mean, Aretha didn't achieve any notable success until 1967, which would make Fontella's choice to imitate Aretha remarkably prescient. Gotta jump on these things early, I guess.

Seriously, no one should dismiss Fontella Bass. She was a one-hit wonder, sure, but there were many, many great acts that created a wealth of superlative material, but only found real commercial success with one, maybe two songs. Ask the Knickerbockers, or the Bobby Fuller Four. Hell, ask Sammy Ambrose, who didn't even get one frickin' hit record to call his own. 

Fontella Bass also deserved at least had one more hit. 1966's "I Surrender" is nearly the equal of "Rescue Me" without really sounding anything like it. Nor does it sound like Aretha, for that matter. 

It sounds like a hit.

But it wasn't. Nonetheless, presaging Aretha is itself a pretty neat accomplishment. If Fontella Bass had but one incredible hit that everyone knows, we know there were more obscure worthies that would have enriched us if we'd heard them. On the pop charts, though, rescue proved fleeting for Fontella Bass.

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10 SONGS: 8/18/2020: Dana's Funky Soul Pit!

10 Songs is a weekly list of ten songs that happen to be on my mind at the moment. Given my intention to usually write these on Mondays, the lists are often dominated by songs played on the previous night's edition of This Is Rock 'n' Roll Radio with Dana & Carl. The idea was inspired by Don Valentine of the essential blog I Don't Hear A Single.


This week's edition of 10 Songs draws exclusively from the playlist for This Is Rock 'n' Roll Radio # 1038: The Ninth Annual DANA'S FUNKY SOUL PIT.

SAMMY AMBROSE: This Diamond Ring


Gary Lewis and the Playboys had the hit with "This Diamond Ring," and it was a fine single. The forgotten original by Sammy Ambrose is well and truly THE version, and the contest is not even close. Here's an excerpt from the Sammy Ambrose entry in my book The Greatest Record Ever Made! (Volume 1):

Understand: there is absolutely nothing wrong with Gary Lewis & the Playboys' 1965 hit recording of "This Diamond Ring." Nothing. It's a stellar record, and an integral part of that year's rich musical majesty, contributing to my ongoing conviction that 1965 was pop music's best-ever year. 

Sammy Ambrose's original version destroys Lewis' take. Just destroys it, I tell ya...

...What became of Sammy Ambrose in the 23-year gap between the release of his last record "Welcome To Dreamsville" (also in '65) and his final discard of this mortal diamond ring in Florida in '88? It's tempting to make up a brighter story on his behalf, a tale of love found and fortunes won, of honor, of adventure, of goals met and vistas expanded. The fact of his death at the young age of 47 makes it difficult to pretend he found his happily-ever-after. 

We're left with a small cache of Sammy Ambrose's records, tracks which suggest the promise of a young soul singer who should have at least been allowed a brass ring if not a diamond one....

P. P. ARNOLD: (If You Think You're) Groovy

The fact that I introduced this song on Sunday's show as by "the lovely and talented and gorgeous P. P. Arnold" might be seen as evidence that I have a tiny crush on Ms. Arnold. Guilty as charged. My favorite Arnold track is her simply sublime rendition of Cat Stevens' "The First Cut Is The Deepest" (the definitive recording of that much-covered song, and the subject of a chapter in The Greatest Record Ever Made!), but this collaboration with The Small Faces is likewise magnificent.

FONTELLA BASS: I Surrender



Speaking of 1965 (as we were in our Sammy Ambrose section above), that most excellent year also rewarded singer Fontella Bass with a huge pop smash called "Rescue Me." It's a true classic, but believe it or not, I once read of someone shrugging it off as a mere attempt to imitate the Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin. That seems a little harsh, but it's also kind of impressive. I mean, Aretha didn't achieve any notable success until 1967, which would make Fontella's choice to imitate Aretha remarkably prescient. Gotta jump on these things early, I guess.

Seriously, no one should dismiss Fontella Bass. She was a one-hit wonder, sure, but there were many, many great acts that created a wealth of superlative material, but only found real commercial success with one, maybe two songs. Ask The Knickerbockers, or The Bobby Fuller Four. Hell, ask Sammy Ambrose, who didn't even get one frickin' hit record to call his own. 

Fontella Bass should have had at least had one more hit with "I Surrender" in 1966. It's nearly the equal of "Rescue Me" without really sounding anything like it. Nor does it sound like Aretha, for that matter. 

It sounds like a hit.

But it wasn't.

RICHARD BERRY AND THE PHARAOHS: Louie Louie


"Louie Louie" was written and first recorded by Richard Berry, a 1955 single credited to Richard Berry and the Pharaohs. I betcha you've heard some subsequent covers of the song more (a lot more) than you've heard the original, and The Kingsmen's triumphantly inept hit rendition is now rightly considered iconic. It's The Kingsmen's version that gets a chapter in The Greatest Record Ever Made!, but we must also acknowledge the spark provided by the original:

...Although a better'n decent R & B record, it was not a hit, and likely destined for the dustbin of obscurity. Long before '70s punks proclaimed the belligerent value of flowers in the dustbin, rock 'n' rollers in the late '50s and early '60s were searching pop music's castoffs for inspiration. It's how The Beatles got started. And in the Pacific Northwest, it's what lead to this obscurity called "Louie, Louie" being rediscovered, revived, and sent on its path to rule the world....

MERRY CLAYTON: Gimme Shelter


Slacker that I am, I have not yet seen 20 Feet From Stardom, the 2013 documentary about backup singers. But I do know that Merry Clayton is among the singers receiving an overdue spotlight in that film. Although Clayton also recorded as a solo artist, her biggest claim to fame is singing with The Rolling Stones on "Gimme Shelter," and her voice on that track is as essential an instrument as anything played by the Stones themselves. I'll stop just short of saying that her own 1970 version of "Gimme Shelter" surpasses the Stones, but the idea that it even comes close--and it does!--is impressive in its own right.

JIMMY CLIFF: Miss Jamaica


As I think back, I can't remember where I first heard the music of Jimmy Cliff. I've never seen the film The Harder They Come, and I don't know when I was first exposed to Cliff's classic tracks "Many Rivers To Cross" and "You Can Get It If You Really Want It." The latter was included on the mix tapes I made for my daughter Meghan when she was little. My first vicarious contact with Cliff was likely The Animals' cover of "Many Rivers To Cross" on their 1977 reunion album Before We Were So Rudely Interrupted.

But I do know that I first heard Cliff's 1962 ska tune "Miss Jamaica" in 1992, when Dana played it one week on our old TIRnRR precursor We're Your Friends For Now on WNMA. The song is certainly unlike Cliff's subsequent and better-known reggae sides; it's agreeably goofy, and I immediately found the difference between early Jimmy Cliff and later Jimmy Cliff noteworthy and fascinating. 

ISAAC HAYES: Title Theme (From Three Tough Guys)


I don't think I've ever seen a blaxploitation film. The latter-day parody/pastiche I'm Gonna Git You Sucka doesn't count. I've never seen Superfly, nor Blacula, nor Shaft or any of its sequels. I did watch some (diluted) small-screen iterations: Teresa Graves in Get Christie Love!, and big-screen John Shaft himself Richard Roundtree in the short-lived Shaft TV series. But I was too young to see the movies at the time of their release, and have never quite gotten around to checking them out after the fact.

I may also have a tiny crush on Teresa Graves

I knew some of the music, of course. I certainly heard the hit singles from Superfly (as mentioned below), and The Four Tops' "Are You Man Enough" from Shaft In Africa. And, by God, everyone knew "Theme From Shaft" by Isaac Hayes.

As great as that Shaft song is, Dana pulled a welcome switcheroo on this year's Soul Pit by selecting an Isaac Hayes theme from a different film, 1974's Three Tough Guys. Hayes appeared in that film, released the same year as his starring role in the movie Truck Turner. The title theme from Three Tough Guys echoes the feel of the earlier Shaft theme, albeit without the familiar Right ons, Damn right!s, and We can dig its. Shut your mouth? Just talkin' 'bout Three Tough Guys.



THE ISLEY BROTHERS: Summer Breeze


This is such an incredible record, and of course it earns a chapter in The Greatest Record Ever Made!

I don't remember the precise year, nor am I sure which TV show I was watching, and I can't even guarantee I have the right group. But I can tell you it was a Friday night, some time in the early-to-mid '70s. I think I was watching ABC's In Concert, a weekly live rock music showcase; I don't think it was Don Kirshner's Rock Concert or Midnight Special, the other two Friday night rock 'n' roll TV programs airing in that approximate time frame. But I vividly remember watching a black group perform a simply searing version of the Seals & Crofts pop hit "Summer Breeze." I mean, this version just cooked, and I was immediately impressed with it. I liked the Seals & Crofts hit just fine, mind you, but this? This was outta sight.

I didn't catch the name of the group performing this song on In Concert. Many years later, I would figure out that it was probably The Isley Brothers....

As a general preference, I don't like to play long songs on the radio. In a pop format, if a track goes on much beyond an already-lengthy 3:45, I say it's taking airspace away from other songs. The format itself thrives on the short 'n' sharp snap-snap-snap of song-song-song. It's a preference rather than a rule, and we frequently ignore it because, y'know, records! Gotta play records.

And we tend to ignore it for "Summer Breeze" by The Isley Brothers. We used to play the single version, and that's fantastic. The LP track is more than six minutes long--that's like four Ramones songs--but it's freakin' irresistible, and that's the version we've been more likely to play lately.

GLORIA JONES: Tainted Love



Though "Tainted Love" is best-known from Soft Cell's ubiquitous 1982 smash cover version, there is much to be said for the dynamic original by Gloria Jones. Gloria Jones' "Tainted Love" was recorded in 1964 and released in 1965--again, pop music's best year ever--and it should have been a hit, wailin' on the airwaves right along with The Kinks, James Brown, The Beau Brummels, Wilson Pickett, The Temptations, The Beatles, Adam Faith and the Roulettes, The Supremes, The Miracles, The Beach Boys...you get the idea. I dig both the original and the Soft Cell hit, even though my girlfriend became obsessed with the later during its top-of-the-pops reign in '82, and played the 45 over and over and over and...yeah, exactly. It's okay. The great pop records are supposed to be played that way.

(In the '70s, Jones worked with Marc Bolan and T. Rex, and she and Bolan became an item for a while, holding hands, making all kinds of plans. She was the driver in the 1977 crash that killed Bolan. She was also injured, but she survived.)

CURTIS MAYFIELD: Move On Up



In the '70s, "Superfly" and "Freddie's Dead" were the only Curtis Mayfield records I knew. I heard them on AM radio in Syracuse, WOLF and WNDR, and a bit later I owned my own copy of "Superfly" on a various-artists set called Dick Clark 20 Years Of Rock N' Roll. If I'd heard any of Mayfield's 1960s work with The Impressions, I did not remember it at the time, nor do I have any contemporaneous memory of any more of Mayfield's solo work during my adolescent and teen years.

"Move On Up" was released in 1970. It was not a hit, and I did not know it. Then.

The world has changed since the '70s--our world, your world, my world, all of it. As a clueless suburban white kid, I was certain that while racism was still present and active, it was in decline, an ugly anachronism, soon to be pushed into the abyss of history's discarded evils. The overt venom of hate groups like the KKK and the American Nazis, even the less violent (but still toxic) prejudice represented by the fictional Archie Bunker seemed poised to be swept away as unwelcome relics of a less enlightened past.

It didn't quite work out that way.

So yeah, things have changed, or really the perception of things has changed. Racists have become emboldened, proud of their twisted beliefs, encouraged by a morally (and often literally) bankrupt president eager to feign greatness while embodying the very worst of humanity. They pretend the Constitution was an early draft of Mein Kampf. If real life were a comic book, Captain America would punch each and every one of them square in their pseudo-Aryan noses. Justice would triumph.

But I guess maybe things didn't really change, did they? This poison was there all along, at times more clandestine than others, but there, sustaining itself, gathering support, gaining strength, oozing odious confidence as it became increasingly able to withstand the glare of the day, like a vampire suddenly granted the power to stalk in the bright light of the sun. Man, my kingdom for a really sharp, pointy stake.

Move on up.

It's time for change. It's time to vanquish would-be stormtroopers and the Füehrers and Grand Dragons they revere. At the conclusion of last week's joint address by presidential candidate Joe Biden and his running mate Kamala Harris, Curtis Mayfield's "Move On Up" played, a clarion call for positive action. It's what we need. It's what we'll get. It's what will win in November, and make January 20, 2021 the end of an error. Move on up. For God's sake--for our sake--move on up.

Move on up, or Christie Love will kick YOUR ass.

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