Surf's Up!

On this episode, we’ll dive into the complete hit singles history surf music. It made its biggest splash on the rock music scene in the early 1960s, and there’s a strong undercurrent of it still around in the ocean of rock music we enjoy today.

Thousands of surf music releases rode the waves, but surprisingly, most wiped out in terms of sales. According to the Rare & Scratchy Rock ‘N Roll Research Department, only 48 ever floated on the Billboard rock and pop singles charts.

We’ll sample all of them for you, including a disco surfing hit from the 1970s and a rap surfing hit from the 1980s. Then there’s the first surfing single ever. No, it wasn’t by Jan and Dean or the Beach Boys, but it might have been by a future member of the Beach Boys or maybe a group inspired by the ghost of Buddy Holly.

So grab your surfboard, and catch a wave with Rare & Scratchy Rock 'N Roll host Radio Dave.

This episode traces 15 rock and pop star love affairs and how those romances inspired some memorable songs. These range from tunes about teenage infatuation to tempestuous love triangles.

They include a wife who asked her faded rock star husband to write her a song that sold millions. And the jilted girlfriend of another rock icon who sued him for millions over one of his songs.

Some of these stories are heart-warming, and some of these stories are heart-breaking.

And they all involve names you know, including Eric Clapton, George Harrison, John Lennon, Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, the Mamas and the Papas, Paul Anka, Annette Funicello, Ritchie Valens, Marvin Gaye, Rod Stewart, Roy Orbison, Bobby Darin, Connie Francis, and John Denver among others. There’s passion in their music and music in their passion.

And all of us at Rare & Scratchy Rock 'N Roll think you’ll love hearing all about it all right here.

This episode highlights the history of a rock group that made history in the late 1960s. They were the Lovin' Spoonful.

Their first seven single releases on 45 rpm records were top ten hits on Billboard. They called their tunes "good time music." And we'll have a good time sampling everyone of their hits, including the originals by other artists that they covered, as well as hit versions of their songs by other artists.

Plus we'll track the Lovin' Spoonful and their leader, John Sebastian's connections to famous rock and roll acts that were their contemporaries. They included the Grateful Dead, Jimi Hendrix, Bob Dylan, Judy Collins, the Beach Boys, and the Doors, among many others ... along with some legendary Hollywood film makers such as Woody Allen and Francis Ford Coppola, too.

And we'll speculate on how the Lovin' Spoonful got their name.

There's a lot to love about the Lovin' Spoonful, and you'll hear it all here.

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Race relations in the U.S. have come a long way during the

Featured artists include Three Dog Night, the Beatles, Paul

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EXPLICIT - ADULTS ONLY - SOME PROFANITY AND ADULT SEXUAL CONTENT. This episode reviews risque records and profane platters that were widely heard on the radio during the past 60 years or so. Most of them are still played now on oldies and classic rock stations. But many have been edited for airplay and others just banned. Some dirty ditties just slipped by, and no one knows why. These range from songs with curse words and swear words to songs with conjugal content...and believe it or not, one record that was partially banned because it mentioned a popular candy bar.

Featured artists include the Kingston Trio, Van Morrison, the Raspberries, Meatloaf, Johnny Cash, Charlie Daniels, the MC5, Pearl Jam, the Who, the Rolling Stones, the Steve Miller Band, Pink Floyd, Bill Haley & His Comets, Lou Reed, Billie Holiday, Donna Summer, Sting and the Police, Rod Stewart, Janet Jackson, Elton John, and Duran Duran.

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Celebrate the way Top 40 radio was in 1962. Mythical DJ Johnny Lizard from the legendary Wonderful WORM Radio travels 54 years into the future from 1962 to 2016 to be Radio Dave's co-host on this special edition of Rare & Scratchy Rock 'N Roll. Sample the patter and the platters when personality DJ's really mattered in the golden age of AM rock station.

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Nobody does it better than James Bond. He’s the world’s most famous super–spy. He’s also a rock and pop music star thanks to the unforgettable music in his more than two dozen memorable feature films. We’ve gone under cover to uncover the top secret stories behind those songs. And our dossier of ditties also includes classified files on tunes that were submitted to the James Bond film producers, but rejected. That’s even though a few of them might have been even better than the ones that survived the final cut. On this Part 2 of a 2–part podcast series – “James Bond Rocks” – we’ll spy on his music from 1985 to 2016. This includes his surprising connections with other superstars you wouldn’t think of connecting with James Bond. Those stories and those songs are for your ears only … and you’ll hear all about them all right here.

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Nobody does it better than James Bond. He’s the world’s most famous super–spy. He’s also a rock and pop music star thanks to the unforgettable music in his more than two dozen memorable feature films. We’ve gone under cover to uncover the top secret stories behind those songs. And our dossier of ditties also includes classified files on tunes that were submitted to the James Bond film producers, but rejected. That’s even though a few of them might have been even better than the ones that survived the final cut. On this Part 1 of a 2–part podcast series – “James Bond Rocks” – we’ll spy on his music up to and through the year 1983. This includes his surprising connections with other superstars you wouldn’t think of connecting with James Bond. Those stories and those songs are for your ears only … and you’ll hear all about them all right here.

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We're really going to have lots of fun on this episode of this podcast series. That's because you get to play along with the snippets of tunes Radio Dave will be playing. Here's how it all works. Radio Dave will track the secret rock 'n roll performances of some legendary solo singers, groups, and even a major symphony orchestra. These acts had made up stage names or their real names did not appear on their records. But Radio Dave will give you a chance to guess who they are before he plays one of their obvious hits. Then Radio Dave will reveal their covert roles in hit music history and provide some insights into why their real identities were kept out of sight. Listen and see how many you know. It's no mystery how fascinating these secret songs are!

This is the second of two podcasts presenting some little-known sides of Motown Records -- such as more big-name acts you might not know were on the Motown family of labels. And even though Motown Records is best known for its Black performers, it created a successful label just for White rock artists, too (and it was named after one of those acts). The Motown Records roster also included a television and movies action hero who found a way to make hit records when he wasn't hitting bad guys. And there's the only top 200 Billboard-charted album by someone who has a United States national holiday named in his honor -- that famous and revered someone was on Motown, too.  For more information - www.rareandscratchy.com - email - [email protected]