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WQXI Hit Parade 1968 - 2007/12/07 20:39
Ok, here’s a little goodie I pulled out of an expandable file marked “HISTORY” that I started in 1968 and kept up for about four years...
While you read this list, just remember – this was AM radio... Little plastic boxes with little speakers in the front. Music coming out of a little box in the front dash. If you were lucky, you had a “Hi-Fi” stereo, but it was probably a console in the living room with the speakers two feet apart.
I don't think guys had started hooking up speakers in the back window yet either, had they? 
We grew up with WQXI 79 – it’s where I first listened to The Beatles! This little “Quixie” handout featured Pat Hughes, but the name Skinny Bobby Harper meant Quixie to me...
Anyway, ya’ll have at it -- we couldn’t believe the diversity of music, but then again, about the only other station you could listen to then was WSB, until FM came into our lives with a rock program on _______ (Hank and I have not reached agreement on this...I say WREK or WPLO, he says WQXI). It's where they first played Innagoddadavida(sp?)... I’m sure somebody out there can fill in the blanks!
WQXI HIT PARADE
October 6-12, 1968
1. Little Green Apples, O.C. Smith
2. Hey, Western Union Man, Jerry Butler
3. I’ve Got Dreams to Remember, Otis Reading
4. Hold Me Tight, Johnny Nash
5. Revolution Hey Jude, The Beatles
6. Those Were The Days, Mary Hopkin
7. Over You, Union Gap
8. Midnight Confessions, Grass Roots
9. I’ve Gotta Get A Message To You, Bee Gees
10. I Found A True Love, Wilson Pickett
11. Shapes of Things To Come, Max Prost & Troopers
12. The Funky Judge, Bull & Matadors
13. Girl Watcher, O’Kaysions
14. Fool For You, Impressions
15. Shoot ‘Em Up Baby, Andy Kim
16. My Special Angel, Vogues
17. White Room, Cream
18. Bang-Shang-A-Lang, Archies
19. Elenore, Turtles
20. Sweet Blindness, The 5th Dimension
Also heard on WQXI:
Mr. Mailman, Ronnie Milsap
Do The Choo Choo, Archie Bell & The Drells
Court Of Love, Unifics
Shake, Shadows of Knight
Do Your Own Thing, Brook Benton
Where Do I Go, Carla Thomas
You Need Me, Baby, Joe Tex
Need Your Love So Bad, Fleetwood Mac
I’m In A Different World, Four Tops
Magic Carpet Ride, Steppenwolf
Do Something To Me, Tommy James & Shondells
Hi-Heel Sneakers, Jose Feliciano
I Couldn’t Spell!!, Sam The Sham
Slide, Howard Johnson
Always Together, Dells
How Lucky (Can One Man Be), Uniques
Chewy, Chewy, Ohio Express
Keep On Lovin’ Me Honey, Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell
Pickin’ Wild Mountain Berries, Peggy Scott & Jo Jo Benson
Ride My See-Saw, The Moody Blues
Abraham, Martin And John, Dion
Harper Valley P.T.A., Dee Mullins
Fire, Arthur Brown
Take Me For Little While, Vanilla Fudge
All Along The Watchtower, Jimi Hendrix
Lucky for you, you can’t hear me bursting into song as I type each title! (Well, maybe just some of them...) 
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GailHullingsCobleigh
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Re:WQXI Hit Parade 1968 - 2007/12/07 20:47
Well, you don't know what we can find
Why don't you come with me little girl
On a magic carpet ride
You don't know what we can see
Why don't you tell your dreams to me
Fantasy will set you free
Close your eyes girl
Look inside girl
Let the sound take you away
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Re:WQXI Hit Parade 1968 - 2007/12/07 21:27
Wow! What a list! I would love to have ALL of those songs on a CD to listen to in my car!
Magic Carpet Ride is STILL one of my favorites! In fact, just two weeks ago it came on the radio as I was driving to school. I had it cranked up and was enjoying the song when the blue lights came on behind me! OOOOOOOPS!!! The Officer asked me if I was in a hurry. I answered, "No, just got carried away listening to some old tunes!" It's gonna cost me $93.00!!!! Oh well...I STILL love the song! Hehehehe!
~~ Dragon #9 Susie
It's never too late to have a happy childhood, but the second one is up to you and no one else.
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Re:WQXI Hit Parade 1968 - 2007/12/07 21:36
Ok Gail now you are showing our age. My father was quite the nut so in 1969 he purchased posh restaurant that went out of business on Chesire Bridge and turned it into a teenage nightclub. I think back then you had to be 21 to drink so he saw a need. At first the interior decoration was too nice and business floundered. He then let some hippies decorate it and it took off. Spray painted the walls black florescent paint and black lights. Live bands and they would pack in about 1000 kids a night. It made for a crazy childhood as my parents would keep me in the back office until my homework was done. To reach the teen crowd they advertsed on WQXI so I remember Skinny Bobbie Harper and I think a DJ named Dr. Don Rose who would come to the club. They were big celebrities as that was THE radio station. Some of the live bands made it big but I lost most of the pictures when my parents passed. It was a special time to be alive and experience. The music, WQXI, the Catacombs on 14th Street.
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Re:WQXI Hit Parade 1968 - 2007/12/07 22:26
Who remembers when "Skinny Bobby Harper" visited Mrs. May's Journalism class and let us interview him? I thought that was too COOL.
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Re:WQXI Hit Parade 1968 - 2007/12/08 00:01
OK heres what I remember...WQXI and WPLO were the 2 "rock" am stations but WQXI was the more top 40 and WPLO was the more progressive. However it WRAS on the FM side that had the biggest influence on me. That was the station that was playing Iron Butterfly,Black Sabbath and Led Zepplin and Jimi Hendrix and the very off the wall bands of the time. I went from seeing Paul Revere and the Raiders to The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Vanilla Fudge, Ted Neugent and the Amboy Dukes and The Soft Machine. Not a bad line up for $3.50.
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Re:WQXI Hit Parade 1968 - 2007/12/08 08:03
Regarding Magic Carpet Ride: I was in an herb program 9 years ago with a woman who didn't want to tell us who her husband was because she didn't want to make us think she was trying to impress us. He was one of the memebers of Steppenwolf, and nephew of a blues man. His name is Bobby Cochran, and I met him at our class Christmas party. We have stayed in touch, and I get crazy emails from him regularly. I hear the song in my head every time his name pops up in my inbox.
-- Jane Nelson '73
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Re:WQXI Hit Parade 1968 - 2007/12/08 09:22
Jane,
What do you think of when you hear The Doors "Light My Fire"?? It was wither late '67 or early '68 that myself, Jane Nelson, Lynne Marshall & Christy Culpepper did a dance at one of my church events to "Light My Fire". We all wore flourescent colors striped dresses (minis, of course) with matching bright colored stocking and bright dangly earrings. At the time we didn't think anything of it, but when I look back that probably wasn't an appropriate song to play in a church. The picture I have of the four of us is just hilarious. Lynee told me recently that every time she hears the song she either has to get up and do our dance steps or in her mind she is thinking "One, two, three, kick" as the song plays.
Karen Cagle
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Marshall71
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Re:WQXI Hit Parade 1968 - 2007/12/08 16:53
thats too cool Karen...I can see you dancing to light my fire. Every time I look at your daughter in fact I see you from back then. It is spooky how much she looks like you back then.
I keep having these memory flashbacks trying to remember the WQXI/WPLO days. I remember how mad I was when WPLO went country. I remember being in some club the WPLO commandos or something like that. I did like that station over WQXI.
what was that teen club that was mentiomed? The Stingray maybe.
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GailHullingsCobleigh
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Re:WQXI Hit Parade 1968 - 2007/12/08 19:22
rlewis wrote:
Ok Gail now you are showing our age. My father was quite the nut so in 1969 he purchased posh restaurant that went out of business on Chesire Bridge and turned it into a teenage nightclub....
Rick! We're all showing our age here...it's inescapable! 47,48,49,50,51,52,53,54!
So Marshall beat me to the question...what was the name of this club?
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Re:WQXI Hit Parade 1968 - 2008/01/10 05:46
Wasn't ther also a station on am radio WPLO? I remember listening every morning as Doris Gober, my neighbor took Kathy, her daughter and me to school and most mornings as we pulled up to Rehoboth School, Kathy would start crying and holding her stomach, so Doris would just take her back home. Thanks Doris for at least giving me a ride to school.
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Re:WQXI Hit Parade 1968 - 2008/01/10 07:10
I have to admit that I had my days when school made me sick. I remember feeling quite ill on the third day of my senior year, so I just quit.  I went to Clarkston Adult for a few months to get my diploma.  I have mixed emotions about it all now.  But done is done. I know that had nothing to do with radio. I am not very satisfied with radio these days. I think I just need to get satellite radio. No doubt WPLO and quixie ruled in their day.
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Re:WQXI Hit Parade 1968 - 2008/01/10 15:54
Byron wrote:
I have to admit that I had my days when school made me sick. I remember feeling quite ill on the third day of my senior year, so I just quit. I went to Clarkston Adult for a few months to get my diploma. I have mixed emotions about it all now. But done is done. I know that had nothing to do with radio. I am not very satisfied with radio these days. I think I just need to get satellite radio. No doubt WPLO and quixie ruled in their day.
Well, do you know what Byron?!? We will just have to do all the things you missed out on....Like Senior Skip day and the Senior Prom! What other activities can we shamrockers do to complete Bryon's senior year? Any suggestions? Class? Anyone?
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GailHullingsCobleigh
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Re:WQXI Hit Parade 1968 - 2008/01/10 16:15
I call skipping out to lunch at BK with Byron!
And maybe those of us who couldn't get up the spirit to show up for the grad ceremony could have a graduation party!
And I wanna dance on top of St. Mtn. (but I'm too old to walk, and too scared to ride)! 
I think I found the atmosphere at Shamrock less than healthy...too many people in too small a space for me...I went from perfect attendance in 7th grade to "laying out" every chance I got in the 8th (all documented in that little diary of mine). Of course one week in January a whole busload of us didn't show -- had some sort of kissing disease going around! (I'll name no names...) 
Truth is, I'm not sure what Seniors did...I feel deprived of the total experience somehow.
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Re:WQXI Hit Parade 1968 - 2008/01/10 16:19
OH, I REMEMBER! I missed the Senior Class trip to Panama City...let's all get together and take a Senior trip to the beach (after all, we qualify...)! 
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