In which Ginger Baldy plays Hide & Seek, watches the golden sparks from the Smokestack, and won’t keep away from Runaround Sue.

1.   Hide & Go Seek - Bunker Hill with Link Wray & The Raymen

2.   Cryin’ & Pleadin’ - GA-20

3.   Smokestack Lightnin’ - Howlin’ Wolf

4.   Evil (Is Going On - Canned Heat

5.   You Can’t Judge A Book By It’s Cover - Dion

6.   Runaround Sue - Dion   (This month’s earworm)

7.   Steamboat - The Drifters

8.   Run, Run, Run - The Supremes

9.   Run, Run, Run - The Third Rail

10. Good Lovin’ - The Young Rascals

11. I’ve Got My Mind Set On You - James Ray with Hutch Davie Ork. & Chorus

12. St James Infirmary - Bobby Bland   (This month’s death song)

13. My Boy Lollipop - Millie

14. Boogie Rock - Laurel Aitken

15. At The Party -  Derrick Morgan

Theme song: Small Town Talk - Bobby Charles 

Track 6  “Runaround Sue” -  Dion DiMucci (1961)

Listen in to Johnny Corsair’s “Bright Lights Big City” podcast.at:

https://johnnycorsair9.podbean.com/

He plays old stuff like me, but if you wanna hear something a bit more current, he’s the man for you.

Also visit the brilliant Ace records:

https://www.acerecords.co.uk/

Small Town Talk plays a track from an Ace album every month. Track 11 comes from the  brilliant 24 track “You Heard It Here First,  Vol 2” - The more obscure, but often better originals of hit songs. Volumes  1 & 2 still available here!

https://www.acerecords.co.uk/you-heard-it-here-first

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Episode 70 illustration: Small Town Talk digs out a Bunker Hill 7 inch.

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