Face The Music: An Electric Light Orchestra Song-by-song Podcast

What's funnier than Santa Claus coming down with a deadly disease? Happy holidays!

It's the tragic tale of a songwriter and dental replacements.

Most of Herb Alpert's albums are thrift store mainstays, with Whipped Cream and Other Delights being the most recognizable. However, the reason there are so many is because the music, unlike a lot of easy listening at the time, was enjoyable to a wide arrange of listeners and of consistent quality from album to album. Still, 1965 seemed like one of the best years for Alpert, as his band, originally session musicians, became an actual unit. !!Going Places!!, Alpert's second release in 1965 and follow-up to Whipped Cream, is one of the best examples of his sound and managed keep those hits coming. 

The top 40 songs for December 15, 1958.

Alice comes back to a cacophony at the farm. We're taking two weeks off for the holidays. We'll be back on January 4, 2025. Donate to the podcast through Patreon... https://www.patreon.com/ELOPod Or PayPal eloftmpodcast@gmail.com P.O. Box 1932 Superior, AZ 85173.

We close out the series with the epic 90 minute Mike & Eric show The Mask of the Loon! A radio show done in the style of bad B-movies from the '50s.

The Screen Director's Playhouse shows how you take a 2 hour, 10 minute movie, and whittle it down to 25 minutes. As a bonus, it's got Jimmy Stewart! May 8, 1949

'Twas the night before Christmas, and Santa impaled a naked lady on a pair of antlers by the chimney with care.

The little drummer boy grew up to be the drummer for Iron Butterfly. True story!

Recently Kate Bush's 1985 single "Running Up That Hill (A Deal with God)" has gained renewed attention due to the show Stranger Things. It was, in fact, her only top 40 hit in the United States, and the album it came from, Hounds of Love, was also her highest charting here as well.  In the UK it spawned three other singles that made the UK top 40 as well. After a compilation album, a duet with Peter Gabriel and a song for a John Hughes film, Bush came back in 1989, this time prepared to take over the American alternative charts with The Sensual World.

The top 40 songs for December 8, 1958.

What's not on second, What? is on the third track of Looking On. Donate to the podcast through Patreon... https://www.patreon.com/ELOPod Or PayPal eloftmpodcast@gmail.com P.O. Box 1932 Superior, AZ 85173.

December 3: Eric gets a girlfriend. December 10: Live Christmas show.

Fibber McGee's light display stops traffic. December 21, 1955

What does this have to do with ELO? Nothing. But you go where the audience and money is. And it's only four episodes over Christmastime.

Back when Christmas started in December?

Aerosmith, in the mid-1970s, was hated by critics and loved by their loyal fans, the Blue Army. They were one of the biggest hard rock acts of the time, selling millions of records and having back-to-back platinum albums with Toys in the Attic and Rocks. Unfortunately, not only was success going to their heads, but plenty of other things were going into their veins and up their noses. As a result, Draw the Line would be a laborious recording process, and almost the end of the band.  Background music: "Organ" by Eric Fourman

The top 40 songs for December 1, 1958

A 2013 Christmas message from The Eric Paul Johnson Radiotrola Program. The names have changed, but the sentiment is the same. (Just to give you a heads up, there are some very unChristmas words in this.)

It's a cornucopia of guest stars. Eric's young cousins, and The Mike & Eric & Kim & Tammy in the Morning Without Tammy Show, plus many other goodies.