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06/02/2026

WDGY’s Doctor Don presents the Top 5 songs this week in 1969:

1 GET BACK –•– The Beatles with Billy Preston
2 LOVE (Can Make You Happy) –•– Mercy
3 AQUARIUS / LET THE SUNSHINE IN (The Flesh Failures) (Medley) –•– The 5th Dimension
4 OH HAPPY DAY –•– The Edwin Hawkins Singers Featuring Dorothy Combs Morrison
5 HAIR –•– The Cowsills

HIGH DEBUT OF THE WEEK AT NO. 60 — TOMORROW TOMORROW –•– The Bee Gees

DIDN’T CRACK THE TOP 40. WOULD ONLY GET AS HIGH AS #54 See less

06/02/2026

Music notes for June 2:

Happy birthday David Dundas, or should I say Lord David Dundas. Yep, he is royalty. In 1976 he scored a hit with “Jeans On”, which started out as acommercial jingle for Brutus Jeans. A few months ago Wrangler Jeans used the song in their TV commercial.

1981 - Prince made his live British debut at The Lyceum Ballroom, London, part of a short, three-date European promotional tour at the end of his Dirty Mind era (he would not play the UK again for five years). Prince stepped out in a legendary look featuring a studded beige trench coat, black bikini briefs, thigh-high stockings, and fringed heels.

1979- Donna Summer started a three-week run at No.1 on the singles chart with 'Hot Stuff', the lead single from Summer's seventh studio album, Bad Girls and second No.1. The song produced by English producer Pete Bellotte and Italian producer Giorgio Moroder, showed a significant rock direction, including a guitar solo by ex-Doobie Brother and Steely Dan guitarist Jeff "Skunk" Baxter.

1978 - Bruce Springsteen releases Darkness On The Edge Of Town. It's his first album in almost three years due to a legal dispute with his ex-manager. The album featured the Top 30 hit “Prove it All Night”.

1973- Paul McCartney had both the No.1 positions on the charts when the second studio album Red Rose Speedway by the British-American rock band Wings, (although credited to "Paul McCartney and Wings"), went to the top of the album chart and 'My Love', started a four week run as the No.1 single. 'My Love' was written by McCartney as a love song to his wife and Wings bandmate Linda.

1964 - The day after arriving for their first US tour, The Rolling Stones appear on American TV for the first time when they are interviewed on The Les Crane Show. When Crane asks if they are excited to be making their first TV appearance, Keith Richards sarcastically replies, "Yeah, it knocks me out

06/02/2026

Music notes for June 2:

Happy birthday David Dundas, or should I say Lord David Dundas. Yep, he is royalty. In 1976 he scored a hit with “Jeans On”, which started out as acommercial jingle for Brutus Jeans. A few months ago Wrangler Jeans used the song in their TV commercial.

1981 - Prince made his live British debut at The Lyceum Ballroom, London, part of a short, three-date European promotional tour at the end of his Dirty Mind era (he would not play the UK again for five years). Prince stepped out in a legendary look featuring a studded beige trench coat, black bikini briefs, thigh-high stockings, and fringed heels.

1979- Donna Summer started a three-week run at No.1 on the singles chart with 'Hot Stuff', the lead single from Summer's seventh studio album, Bad Girls and second No.1. The song produced by English producer Pete Bellotte and Italian producer Giorgio Moroder, showed a significant rock direction, including a guitar solo by ex-Doobie Brother and Steely Dan guitarist Jeff "Skunk" Baxter.

1978 - Bruce Springsteen releases Darkness On The Edge Of Town. It's his first album in almost three years due to a legal dispute with his ex-manager. The album featured the Top 30 hit “Proove it All Night”.

1973- Paul McCartney had both the No.1 positions on the charts when the second studio album Red Rose Speedway by the British-American rock band Wings, (although credited to "Paul McCartney and Wings"), went to the top of the album chart and 'My Love', started a four week run as the No.1 single. 'My Love' was written by McCartney as a love song to his wife and Wings bandmate Linda.

1964 - The day after arriving for their first US tour, The Rolling Stones appear on American TV for the first time when they are interviewed on The Les Crane Show. When Crane asks if they are excited to be making their first TV appearance, Keith Richards sarcastically replies, "Yeah, it knocks me out."

06/01/2026

Music notes for June 1:

Temptations lead singer David Ruffin passed away. It’s his amazing voice you hear on “My Girl”, “Just My Imagination”, ”I Know I’m Losing You”, “Beauty’s Only Skin Deep” and “Since I Lost My Baby”.

1985 - Prince & The Revolution started a three-week run at No.1 on the album chart with their seventh studio album Around The World In A Day. Two of its four singles reached the top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100: 'Raspberry Beret' and 'Pop Life’.

1972 - The Eagles released their debut studio album. The album was recorded at London's Olympic Studios with producer Glyn Johns and was an immediate success. David Geffen had invited Johns to see the band perform at a club called Tulagi in Boulder, Colorado, in December 1971, Johns, however, was not impressed by the band's live performance, thinking that it sounded confused and lacking in cohesion, so Johns declined to produce the album at first. It produced three top 40 singles: 'Take It Easy', 'Witchy Woman' and 'Peaceful Easy Feeling’.

1972 - Aretha Franklin's live album Amazing Grace, a collection of spirituals recorded at a church in January, is released. Anchored by Franklin's stunning rendition of "Amazing Grace," it becomes her best-selling album.

1968 - Simon And Garfunkel went to No.1 on the singles chart with 'Mrs Robinson'. Featured in the Dustin Hoffman and Ann Bancroft film 'The Graduate', the song earned the duo a Grammy Award for Record of the Year in 1969.

1964 - The Rolling Stones were met by over 500 fans as they arrived on BA flight 505 at Kennedy Airport for their debut US tour. The Stones held a press conference and then guested on the prestigious "5th Beatle", DJ Murray The K's radio show. The first date took place on 5th June in San Bernardino, California

05/30/2026

Music notes for May 30:

2017 - Bob Seger's Greatest Hits album, released in 1994, is certified Diamond for sales of 10 million copies. His music was kept off streaming services until 2017, which helped boost sales, at least half of which came after 2002.

2014 - Aretha Franklin received an honorary degree from Harvard University. The Soul legend became an honorary doctor of arts at the Harvard ceremony, which came a year after she was forced to cancel a string of concerts due to ill health.

2009 - Mick Jagger offered to buy an ice cream van but was turned down by its owner - who'd promised his daughter he would drive her to her wedding in it. Guiseppe Della Camera, had spent ten years restoring the rusting van to perfection after he spotted it on a farm - being used as a chicken shed. The restoration was such a success Sir Mick offered to buy the vehicle when he saw it at a show on Wandsworth Common. Camera said, 'Jagger told me he'd really fallen in love with my van and asked me if I would consider selling it. I was stunned when he offered me over $100,000!’

1973 - George Harrison releases his second post-Beatles album, Living In The Material World. It goes to #1 where the single "Give Me Love (Give Me Peace On Earth)" also hits the top spot. Publishing royalties from that song and others on the album go to Harrison's Material World Charitable Foundation.

1970 - Ray Stevens went to No.1 on the ‘singles chart with 'Everything Is Beautiful’. The children singing "Jesus Loves the Little Children" at the beginning of the song were from Oak Hill Elementary School in Nashville, Tennessee. The group included Stevens' own two daughters, Suzi and Timi.

1968 - The Beatles began recording what became known as The White Album. The double-LP whose official title was simply ‘The Beatles’ became the first Beatles album released with the Apple label. The first track they recorded was ‘Revolution’.

05/29/2026

WDGY’s Doctor Don presents the Top 5 songs this week in 1982:

1 EBONY AND IVORY –•– Paul McCartney with Stevie Wonder
2 DON’T TALK TO STRANGERS –•– Rick Springfield
3 I’VE NEVER BEEN TO ME –•– Charlene
4 867-5309/JENNY –•– Tommy Tutone
5 THE OTHER WOMAN –•– Ray Parker, Jr.

HIGH DEBUT OF THE WEEK AT NO. 52 — DO I DO –•– Stevie Wonder

IT WOULD PEAK AT #13

05/29/2026

Music notes for May 29:

2024 - A guitar used by John Lennon became the most expensive Beatles instrument ever sold at auction. The Framus 12-string Hootenanny acoustic guitar was found in an attic after being presumed lost for more than 50 years. It sold for $2.9m via a telephone bid at the Hard Rock Cafe in New York. Lennon played the song 'You've Got To Hide Your Love Away' on the guitar in the 1965 film Help! and it was also used on recordings on the album of the same name.

2021 - B.J. Thomas passed away. Among his many hits were “Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head”, “I Just Can’t Help Believin”,
“Hooked on a Feeling” and “Rock and Roll Lullaby”.

1984 - Tina Turner releases “Private Dancer” her big comeback album. It was nominated for six Grammys and woin four.

1982 - Paul McCartney's Tug Of War begins a three-week run at #1 : it's his first album to top the chart since Wings broke up. The album features the chart-topping hit "Ebony And Ivory," a duet with Stevie Wonder, as well as the #10 single "Take It Away" .
1976 - Diana Ross' "Love Hangover" hits #1. It's the first disco hit for Motown Records, which is slow to embrace the sound.

1969 - Crosby, Stills & Nash released their self-titled debut. It spawned two Top 40 hits: 'Marrakesh Express' and 'Suite: Judy Blue Eyes'. So many other great songs like “Wooden Ships”, “Long Time Gone”.

1965 - The Beach Boys started a two week run at No.1 on the singles chart with 'Help Me Rhonda', the group's second No.1.

05/28/2026

Music notes for May 28:

Happy birthday John Fogarty. Together with Doug Clifford, Stu Cook, and his brother Tom Fogerty, he founded Creedence Clearwater Revival. Too many Top 10 hits to list here, but oddly none of them hit #1. After the group broke up in 1972, John went on to asuccessful solo career. The band was inducted into the Rock Hall of Fame in 1993.

Happy birthday Gladys Knight, the Empress of Soul. Along with The Pips they had 22 Top 20 hits including 1973’s #1 “Midnight Train to Georgia”. Gladys also did some acting appearing in the the TV shows Hot in Cleveland, Hawaii 5-0 and The Jeffersons.

1983 - Actress and singer Irene Cara started a six week run at No.1 on the singles chart with 'Flashdance...What A Feeling'. Taken from the film 'Flashdance'. Cara had also appeared in TV's 'Roots' and 'The Next Generation'.

1982 - Rocky III hits theaters. This one features a new theme song written around a key line of dialogue in the film: "Eye of the Tiger." Sylvester Stallone asked the upstart Chicago band Survivor to write and record the song when he couldn't get permission to use the Queen song "Another One Bites The Dust."

1977 - Sting, Stewart Copeland and Andy Summers played together for the first time when they performed in Paris France. Emerging in the British new wave scene Sting, Copeland and Summers formed The Police and became globally popular from the late 1970s to the mid-1980s.

1966 - All four Beatles spent the day with Bob Dylan in his room at the Mayfair hotel in London, watching scenes of D.A. Pennebakers's forthcoming documentary film, Dont Look Back, which covered Dylan's 1965 concert tour of the United Kingdom.

1966 - Percy Sledge started a two week run at No.1 on the singles chart with 'When A Man Loves A Woman'. Before the recording session, the song had no title or lyrics. The session proceeded with the expectation that Sledge would produce them for the vocal takes. When it came time to record the vocals, Sledge improvised the lyrics with minimal pre-planning, using the melody as a guide for rhythm and phrasing. The performance was so convincing that others working on the session assumed Sledge had the lyrics written down.

05/27/2026

Music notes for May 27:

Gregg Allman, founding member of The Allman Brothers Band passed away. They are considered one of the best southern rock bands of all time. Primarily an album group, they did hit the to top 5 with the single “Ramblin’ Man” and Gregg had a solo hit with “Midnight Rider”.

2004 - The Bee Gees were made Commanders of the Order of the British Empire. The surviving brothers, Barry and Robin, received their medals from Prince Charles at Buckingham Palace. Due to Maurice's tragic passing in early 2003, his son, Adam, collected his father's posthumous award.

1994 - After a 14-year hiatus, the Eagles reunite for a show in Burbank, California, closing the show with "Desperado." They soon launch their "Hell Freezes Over" tour, which becomes the first tour to charge more than $100 for a substantial number of tickets. That’s $225 today.

1964 - Eleven male stiudents are suspended from a grammar school in Coventry, England, for showing up with Mick Jagger-style haircuts

1963 - His second album, The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan was released by Columbia. Establishing Dylan as a leader in the singer-songwriter genre and a supposed spokesman for the youth-orientated protest movement, it reached No.22. The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan showcased Dylan's songwriting talent for the first time and propelled him to national and international fame. The album featured the classic “Blowin’ in the Wind”.

05/26/2026

WDGY’s Doctor Don presents the Top 5 songs this week in 1974:

1 THE STREAK –•– Ray Stevens
2 DANCING MACHINE –•– The Jackson 5
3 THE ENTERTAINER –•– Marvin Hamlisch
4 THE SHOW MUST GO ON –•– Three Dog Night
5 BAND ON THE RUN –•– Paul McCartney and Wings

HIGH DEBUT OF THE WEEK AT NO. 70 — ON AND ON –•– Gladys Knight and the Pips

IT WOULD PEAK AT #5

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