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06/23/2026

WDGY’s Doctor Don presents the Top 5 songs this week in 1981:

1 MEDLEY: INTRO VENUS/SUGAR SUGAR/NO REPLY/I’LL BE BACK/DRIVE MY CAR/
DO YOU WANT TO KNOW A SECRET/WE CAN WORK IT OUT/I SHOULD HAVE KNOWN
BETTER/NOWHERE MAN/YOU’RE GOING TO LOSE THAT GIRL/STARS ON 45 –•– Stars On 45

2 BETTE DAVIS EYES –•– Kim Carnes
3 SUKIYAKI –•– A Taste Of Honey
4 A WOMAN NEEDS LOVE –•– Ray Parker, Jr. and Raydio
5 ALL THOSE YEARS AGO –•– George Harrison

HIGH DEBUT OF THE WEEK AT NO 76: TOUCH ME WHEN WE’RE DANCING –•– The Carpenters

IT WOULD PEAK AT NUMBER 16

06/23/2026

Music notes for June 23:

2004 - Bob Dylan was awarded an honorary degree by the University of St. Andrews Scotland's oldest University and made a "Doctor of Music“.

1990 - Actor Gary Busey, best-known for his lead role in the controversial 1978 biopic The Buddy Holly Story, purchases one of Buddy's guitars, complete with tooled leather case made by the rocker, in auction for approximately $240,000. That $615,000 today!

1987 - 15-year-old Tiffany starts her Mall Tour at the Bergen Mall in Paramus, New Jersey, performing what in November will be her #1 hit, "I Think We're Alone Now”

1984 - Duran Duran started a two week run at No.1 on the singles chart with 'The Reflex', the group's first No.1, was taken from their third album, Seven and the Ragged Tiger.

1976 - Paul McCartney and Wings played the last date on their Wings Over America tour at the Forum in Los Angeles. More than 600,000 people attended Wings' 31 shows in the United States and Canada, held between 3 May and 23 June 1976.

1975 - During his Welcome To My Nightmare tour in Vancouver, Canada, Alice Cooper fell from the stage and broke six ribs. The singer fell into the photo pit in front of the stage and attempted to continue the show but passed out and was taken to hospital. Photos exist of Alice trying to continue the show with his head wrapped in a bandage.

1973 - George Harrison started a five-week run at No.1 on the album chart with 'Living In The Material World', his second No.1.
The album featured the #1 single “Give Me Love”.

1972 - Smokey Robinson appears onstage for the last time with his group The Miracles in Washington, DC.

06/22/2026

Music notes for June 22:

Happy birthday Cyndi Lauper. She exploded onto the music with her 1983 album :”She’s So Unusual” which featured the hits “Girls Just To Have”, “She Bop” and “Time After Time”. In 1984 she won Grammy Awards for Best Album and Best New Artist. Last year she was inducted into the Rock Hall of Fame.

Happy birthday singer/songwriter/producer Todd Rundgren. He scored hits with “Hello it’s Me”, I Saw the Light” and “We Gotta Get You a Woman”. Todd wrote “Love is the Answer” which was a big hit for England Dan & John Ford Coley, and ”Can We Still be Friends”, a moderate hit for Robert Palmer. Todd was inducted into the Rock Hall of Famer in 2021.

Happy birthday Howard Kaylan. He was the lead singer for all of
The Turtles hits. They are not in the Rock Hall of Fame, but many critics think they should be.

Happy birthday Peter Asher, one half of the British Invasion duo Peter & Gordon. Peter went on to become a successful for Linda Ronstadt, JD Souther and Bonnie Raitt among others.

2012 - The Olivia Newton-John Cancer Wellness and Research Centre opens in Melbourne. Newton-John, who was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1992, started raising funds to develop the project in 2003.

1985 - Bryan Adams started a two week run at No.1 on the singles chart with 'Heaven', his first No.1 single, The song had been featured in the film 'Night In Heaven'.

1971 - Joni Mitchell released her fourth studio album Blue. The album is now generally regarded by music critics as one of the greatest albums of all time.

1968 - Herb Alpert started a four week run at No.1 on the singles chart with 'This Guys In Love With You'. His first No.1 plus first No.1 for writer's Bacharach and David's first chart topper. Herb hit #1 again in 1979 with the instrumental “Rise”.

1963 - 13-year old Stevie Wonder first entered the singles chart as Little Stevie Wonder with 'Fingertips Parts One and Two. He remains the youngest solo singer to hit #1.

06/21/2026

Music notes for June 21:

Happy birthday Ray Davies (pronounced Davis) of The Kinks. Lots of big hits including ”You Really Got Me”. “Tired of Waiting””Lola”, “All Day and All of the Night and “Come Dancing”. The Kinks have sold over 50 million records worldwide and among numerous honors. They were inducted into the Rock Hall of Fame in 1990 and they received the Ivor Novello Award for "Outstanding Service to British Music".

1981 - Walter Becker and Donald Fagen announce the split of Steely Dan and begin work on solo projects. They re-form in 1993 but don't put out another album until 2000.

1975 - The Captain and Tennille started a four week run at No.1 on the singles chart with the Neil Sedaka song 'Love Will Keep Us Together'. The duo of husband and wife "Captain" Daryl Dragon and Cathryn Antoinette "Toni" Tennille had worked as backup musicians for Elton John and Neil Sedaka.

1973 - The group Bread, already having decided to break up, play their last live gig ever in Salt Lake City after one of its tour trucks flips over and destroys most of its gear.

1970 - Art Garfunkel makes his acting debut in the movie Catch-22. Paul Simon was also slated for a role in the film, but was dropped, leading to a rift that broke up Simon & Garfunkel.

1967 - Must be the Summer of Love: There's a free concert in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park celebrating the Summer Solstice. The Grateful Dead, Big Brother & the Holding Company, and Quicksilver Messenger Service all perform.

1962 - The "James Bond Theme", first heard in the 1962 film Dr. No. The Bond Theme was recorded using five saxophones, nine brass instruments, a solo guitar and a rhythm section

06/20/2026

Music notes for June 20:

Happy birthday Lionel Richie. one of the founders of The Commodores who produced like “Brickhouse”, ”Easy”, “Three Times a Lady” and “Sweet Love”. The hits continued for Richie after he went solo: “All Night Long”, “Hello”, “Dancing on the Ceiling” and “You Are”.

Happy birthday Anne Murray, often called the Canadian songbird.
Among her hits were “Shadows in the Moonlight”, “You Needed Me”, “Danny’s Song”, and “Snowbird”.

The late Brian Wilson born this date. The Beach Boys produced 26 top 40 hits. . The 1966 classic album Pet Sounds is widely considered to be one of the most influential albums in music history and inspired The Beatles to record “Rubber Soul”.

1972 - The Tallahatchee Bridge in Money, Mississippi, made famous in Bobbie Gentry's "Ode To Billie Joe," collapses (it is later rebuilt).

1969 - The first of a three day Festival in Newport, California, featuring: Ike and Tina Turner, Marvin Gaye, Creedence Clearwater Revival, The Byrds, The Rascals, Steppenwolf, The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Janis Joplin, Johnny Winter, Eric Burdon and Love. A three day ticket cost $15 ($137 today) Jimi Hendrix received $125,000 for his appearance. At the time it was the highest fee ever paid to a rock act for a single appearance. That is over one million dollars today.

1966 - Bob Dylan releases the "thin, wild mercury" sound of Blonde on Blonde, rock's first double album.

06/19/2026

WDGY’s Doctor Don presents bthe Top 5 songs this week in 1976:

1 SILLY LOVE SONGS - Paul McCartney & Wings
2 GET UP AND BOOGIE (That’s Right) –•– Silver Convention
3 MISTY BLUE –•– Dorothy Moore
4 LOVE HANGOVER –•– Diana Ross
5 SARA SMILE –•– Daryl Hall and John Oates

HIGH DEBUT OF THE WEEK AT NO. 55 — IF YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN –•– Neil Diamond

IT WOULD PEAK AT #11

06/19/2026

Music notes for June 19:

Happy birthday Ann Wilson, lead singer of Heart. They has sold over 35 million records worldwide, placed 29 singles on the Billboard Hot 100, and have scored top 10 albums on the Billboard 200 in the 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, and 2010s.

Happy birthday Elaine McFarlane of S***k & Our Gang. She has been referred to as The Queen of Sunshine Pop. The group. had three hits: “Sunday Will Never Be the Same”, “Lazy Day”, and “Like top Get to Know you.

2014- The late Gerry Goffin passed away. With this then wife Carole King, they wrote so many great songs, too many to list here. Gerry wrote the words, Carole composed the music. It may surprise you to know that Gerry wrote the lyrics to “You Make Me Feel Like a Natural Woman”.

1973 - Edgar Winter's No.1 hit 'Frankenstein' was awarded a Gold record. Winter named the song because of how many cuts and patches were contained in the original studio tape.

1971 - Carole King started a five week run at No.1 on the singles chart with 'It's Too Late / I Feel The Earth Move'. Both songs were from her million selling Tapestry album.

1965 - The Four Tops went to No.1 on the Usingles chart with 'I Can't Help Myself'. Lead singer Levi Stubbs had not been satisfied with the recording session and was promised that he could do it again the following day, but no other session ever took place. The track that became a hit was just the second take of the song

06/18/2026

Music notes for June 18:

Happy birthday Sir Paul McCartney. The most successful rock composer of all time. McCartney first met John Lennon on July 6th 1957, who was impressed that Paul could tune a guitar. With The Beatles he scored 21 singles plus McCartney has scored over 30 solo Top 40 hit singles. He has written and co-written 188 charted records, of which 91 reached the Top 10 and 33 made it to No.1 totalling 1,662 weeks on the chart.

1977 - Fleetwood Mac went to No.1 on the singles chart with 'Dreams', the group's first and only No.1. Stevie Nicks has stated she wrote the song at the Record Plant studio in Sausalito, California, in about 10 minutes.

1976 - ABBA perform for Sweden's king on the eve of his wedding.

1974 - Rare Earth's drummer Peter Rivera is arrested after tossing his drumsticks into the crowd at the end of a concert.

1964 - Touring Australia The Beatles played at Sydney Stadium. This was Paul McCartney 22nd birthday and after the show his guests included 17 teenage girls who were winners of the Daily Mirrors 'Why I would like to be a guest at a Beatles birthday party' competition

06/17/2026

Music notes for June 17:

Happy birthday Barry Manilow. He has scored over 25 Top 40 singles selling over 75 million records worldwide. He hit #1 with “Mandy” and “I Write the Songs”.

1987 - Rod Stewart becomes the proud parent of his fourth child, daughter Ruby, from his girlfriend, model Kelly Emberg.
1979 - Anita Ward was at No.1 on the singles chart with 'Ring My Bell'. The only hit for the gospel singer from Memphis, making her a One Hit Wonder.

1978 - Andy Gibb became the first solo artist in the history of the charts to have his first three releases reach No.1, when 'Shadow Dancing' hit the top of the chart.where it stayed for seven weeks. It was preceded by
“I Just Want to Be Your Everythhin” and “Love is Thicker Than Water”. Spending seven weeks at No.1 it became the best selling single of the year. All three songs were written by his older brothers, the Bee Gees.

1972 - The Rolling Stones album Exile on Main Street started a four-week run at the top of the charts. The double album, regularly regarded as one of the band's best, features 'Happy' and 'Tumbling Dice'.

1972 - The Spinners, recently signed to Atlantic after a decade on Motown, record at Sigma Sound Studios in Philadelphia for the first time with producer Thom Bell. The session is very productive, yielding "Could It Be I'm Falling In Love," and I'll Be Around,"

1971 - Carole King went to No.1 on the album chart with Tapestry for the first of 15 consecutive weeks. The album contained ‘It's Too Late’, ‘I Feel the Earth Move’, ‘So Far Away”. The cover photograph taken at King's Laurel Canyon home shows her sitting in a window frame, holding a tapestry she hand-stitched herself, with her cat Telemachus at her feet. The album stayed on the Billboard chart for six years.

1964 - Elvis’ 15th movie, Viva Las Vegas, co-starring Ann-Margret, opens nationally. In it he plays a race car driver named Lucky Jackson.

06/16/2026

WDGY’s Doctor Don presents the Top 5 songs this week in 1965

1 I CAN’T HELP MYSELF –•– The Four Tops (Motown)-6 (1 week at #1) (1)
2 MR. TAMBOURINE MAN –•– The Byrds (Columbia)-6 (2)
3 WOOLY BULLY –•– Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs (MGM)-12 (2)
4 CRYING IN THE CHAPEL –•– Elvis Presley (RCA Victor)-9 (3)
5 BACK IN MY ARMS AGAIN –•– The Supremes (Motown)-8 (1)

HIGH DEBUT OF THE WEEK AT NO 79 — WHAT’S NEW PUSSYCAT –•– Tom Jones

IT WOULD PEAK AT #3

HIS SECOND BIGGEST HIT AFTER SHE’S A LADY

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