STUCK IN THE VINYL AGAIN - WAKY (THE BIG 79) (22 SUPER GIANTS) - VARIOUS ARTISTS

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Good Monday morning gang and welcome back to Stuck In The Vinyl Again. Today our record of choice is this 1969 Post Records compilation called WAKY  (The Big 79) (22 Super Giants). It is a radio station compilation from WAKY in Louisville, Kentucky compiled from listeners surveys. WAKY, called Wacky but it's fans was first broadcast in 1936 and went through many music formats since it's inception, including Top 40, Adult Contemporary, Country, Oldies, Talk, and now Sports. It is the home of Mason Lee Dixon (who passed away last year) and Weird Beard. 

Here is the right up on the back of the record concerning this grouping of songs :

Every year WAKY surveys its listeners by way of its 24 hour request lines to determine its Top All Time Favorite Records. It is interesting to note as years pass some songs that were favorites fade in memory and some are replaced by others. It is also interesting to note that certain tunes that achieve hit status in a given year cannot lay claim to a position among the All Time Favorites. Yet year after year certain records gain permanent places in our hearts and minds of WAKY Super Weekend Listeners. Their names reappear in survey after survey. They are requested often. Their appeal ranges from those who remember them in the years they became hits to those who are hearing them for the first time. 

Included in this LP are twenty-two such giants. These are the Original hits by the Original Artists. They cover the full spectrum of musical tastes are representative of all of the forms popular music has taken. Without any doubt, they can be categorized as WAKY's "Super Giants."

- Bob Todd

Produced by Buzz Curtis

A1 Tommy James & Shondells*– Crimson & Clover

A2 Johnny Nash– Hold Me Tight

A3 Ohio Express– Yummy, Yummy, Yummy

A4 James Brown– Papa's Got A Brand New Bag

A5 Lemon Pipers*– Green Tambourine

A6 Brenton Wood– The Oogum Boogum Song

A7 Count Five– Psychotic Reaction

A8 Ad Libs*– The Boy From New York City

A9 Neil Diamond– Cherry, Cherry

A10 Billy Stewart– Summertime

A11 Surfaris– Wipeout

B1 B.J. Thomas– Billy & Sue

B2 The Dells– There Is

B3 Strawberry Alarm Clock– Incense & Peppermints

B4 Dixie Cups– Chapel Of Love

B5 Buckinghams*– Kind Of A Drag

B6 Dobie Gray– The "In" Crowd

B7 Cascades*– Rhythm Of The Rain

B8 James & Bobby Purify– I'm Your Puppet

B9 Frankie Avalon– Venus

B10 Esquires*– Get On Up

B11 Uniques*– All These Things

I'll include a link here for tons of more info on WAKY :

http://www.79waky.com/promotionalmaterials.htm