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This Week In '66

 

With Lynn Peril

SHOW NOTES

The death of the fifth Mrs. Mickey Rooney in a shocking murder-suicide was in the headlines This Week in ‘66! 

Great video here:  The Murder of 1954 Miss Muscle Beach Beauty Contest Winner Barbara Thomason

Abramson, Rudy, “New ‘Pep Pill’ Control Law Going Into Effect; Druggists Must Keep Records Showing All Sales of Amphetamines and Barbiturates,” Los Angeles Times, January 31, 1966, 11. 

Ames, Walter, “Actress’ Friends Insist Rooney Was Her Suitor,” Los Angeles Times, August 13, 1958, 2. 

Ames, Walter, “Mickey Rooney’s Fifth Marriage Disclosed,” The Los Angeles Times, June 4, 1959, 47. 

Bigart, Homer, “Peace Groups Begin Protests Against Resumption of Bombing in North Vietnam,” New York Times, February 1, 1966, 14. 

“Denies Marriage to Eighth Wife Yesterday; Mickey Rooney Does It Again,” The Indiana Gazette, July 29, 1978, 1. 

Graham, Rubye, “One Girl in Paris; Saint Laurent Builds Smash Collection on Sailors’-wear Theme,” Philadelphia Inquirer, February 1, 1966, 1. 

Jaediker, Kermit, “The Murder the French Won’t Forget,” New York Daily News, December 9, 1973, 133. 

Johnson, Pete, and Paul Houston, “Mickey Rooney’s Wife Shot to Death in Brentwood Home; Young Actor Found Slain Beside Her,” Los Angeles Times, February 1, 1966, 3. 

“Mickey Rooney’s Wife Found Slain,” Newsday, February 1, 1966, 4. 

“Rooney Plans Sixth Marriage,” Honolulu Star-Bulletin, “September 5, 1966, 50. 

Sease, Glenn, “People,” Pittsburgh Press, December 15, 1967, 2. 

Shearer, Lloyd, “Elaine Devry: What it Means to Be One of Mickey Rooney’s Six Wives,” Parade, January 29, 1967.

“Starlet Takes Sleeping Pills and Nude Dunk at Rooney’s Home,” The Tampa Times, August 12, 1958, 16.

“Tape Recording Sealed Death of Mrs. Rooney,” The Independent (Long Beach, CA), February 2, 16.

Terms Of Endearment

 

With Mark Ehmcke

1. Hey Baby - Maggie Estep

2. She's My Baby Doll - Terry Clements and the Twin Tones

3. Sugar Sugar - The Archies

4. Rock With Me Baby - Billy Lee Riley

5. Cara Mia - Jay and the Americans

6. Mean Little Mama - Roy Orbison

7. Baby, Bye Bye Bye - Jerry Lee Lewis

8. Baby Don't You Do It - Marvin Gaye

9. Boppin' High School Baby - Don Willis

10. Baby, Baby - The Vibrators

11. Yes Baby - Big Mama Thornton and Johnny Ace

12. Honey Don't - Carl Perkins

13. Shoot 'Em Up Baby - Andy Kim

14. Come On Little Mama - Ray Harris

15. Hi Ho Baby - Jackie Brenston

16. Goodbye Little Darlin' - Johnny Cash

17. Rock Me Baby - Louie and the Lovers

18. Everybody's Lovin' My Baby - Charlie Feathers

19. Baby It's You - Smith

20. Come Back Baby - Doctor Ross

21. Blue Moon Baby - Dave "Diddle" Day

22. Baby That's Good - Edwin Bruce

23. Darling Be Home Soon - The Lovin' Spoonful

24. Love My Baby - Hayden Thompson

25. Love My Baby - Little Junior Parker

Monday Sun Coming Up

 

With Dusty Digger

1. No Me Pidas (Don't Ask Me) (1971) -- Grupo de Experimentación Sonora Sonora del ICAIC (Cuba)

2. Dance Of The Talking Flowers (1969) -- Peter Howell & John Ferdinando (England)

3. Some Velvet Morning (1968) -- Gabor Szabo (Hungary)

4. Carnival Of Love (1969) -- Stone Circus (Canada)

5. Colinda (1969) -- Pugh Rogefeldt (Sweden)

6. Make-A-Love (1965) -- Little Frankie & The Country Gentlemen (England)

7. Witchitai-To (1971) -- Jim Pepper (USA)

8. From Saturday To Sunday (1970) -- No To Co (Poland)

9. Il Part En Californie (1969) -- Bernard Chabert (France)

10. Watcha (1965) -- Quinteto Académico (Portugal)

11. Time Will Show The Wiser (1967) -- The Merry-Go-Round (USA)

12. There Ain't No Use In Hanging On (1967) -- The Marmalade (Scotland)

13. Grey Seal (1969) -- Elton John (England)

14. No Me Gusta Decir Sí (1967) -- Los Pasos (Spain)

15. Heaven Is In Your Mind (1967) -- Traffic (England)

16. Seagull's Song (1970) -- Tim Hollier (England)

17. Magdalena (1969) -- Lasting Weep (Canada)

Kogar's Jungle Juice 010

 

With Kogar the Swinging Ape

This Week In '66

 

With Lynn Peril

Adults trying to control teens’ bodies are in the news This Week in ‘66! A Chicago judge decided whether or not a boy needed a haircut, and judges and a school board duked it out over a married teen mom’s right to an education—which brings us to the moral panic over teenage marriage.

SHOW NOTES:

“Enrollment Challenged; School Balks at Mom, 16,” The Morning News (Wilmington, Delaware), January 27, 1966, 16. 

“Kathy Returns to Alvin High School,” The Brazosports Facts, January 27, 1966, 10. 

“Young Mother Gets Court Okay to Be Student,” Albuquerque Journal, June 4, 1966, 7. 

“Oust Haters GOP is Urged,” New York Daily News, January 27, 1966, 12. 

Stanford, Nancy, “Community Crisis–The Teenage Marriage,” Corpus Christi Times, March 13, 1966, 46. 

“Teenage Marriage Gets Expert Eye,” Austin American, April 17, 1966, 1.

Smokes

 

With Mark Ehmcke

1. Tobacco Road - The Nashville Teens

2. Smoke! Smoke! Smoke! (That Cigarette) - Johnny Bond and his Red River Valley Boys

3. Wacky Tabacky - NRBQ

4. (As Long As They've Got) Cigarettes In Heaven - Oasis

5. Smoking In The Boy's Room - Brownsville Station

6. Wildwood Weed - Jim Stafford

7. When I'm In My Tea - Jo-Jo Adams

8. Nicotine - Vikings

9. Illegal Smile - John Prine

10. Cigarette - Ben Folds Five

11. Let's Quit Smoking - Super Furry Animals

12. Marijuana Hell - Ron Nagle

13. Cigarettes and Coffee - Otis Redding

14. Dad Blame Anything A Man Can't Quit - Roger Miller

15. Three Cigarettes In An Ashtray - k.d. lang

16. Cigarette Of A Single Man - Squeeze

17. Nicotine Fit - The Society

18. Last Cigarette - Dramarama

19. Smoke! Smoke! Smoke! (That Cigarette) - Commander Cody and his Lost Planet Airmen

DJ Roulette

 

With Andrew Cartwright

Songs From The Back Of The Station Wagon

 

With Tom Hanks

Grey Zone

Joe Bushkin: Hard Candy

Half-Japanese: Hey Laurie

Dead C: Heat

Catherine Ribeiro & Alpes: Le Kleenex, Le Drap De Lit En L'Etenard

Catherine Ribeiro & Alpes: Roc Alpin

Dyke & The Blazers: Funky Bull (pt. 1)

Dyke & The Blazers: Bring It On Back

Carol Jones: Don't Destroy Me

Smith Vinson: Hallucinations

The Fog: Grey Zone

Pierre Didy Tchakounte et Les Tulipes Noires: Monde Moderne

Ndenga Andre Destin et Les Golden Sounds: Ngamba

Johnny Black et Les Jokers: Mayi Bo Ya?

Damas Swing Orch.: Odylife

Joseph Latek Quintet: Sister Mamie (pt. 1)

The Beach Boys: Do It Again

The News: Ya Ya Da Da

Kenneth Deal: Go Go Jumbo

Garry Warren: Midnight Rain

The Invaders: Shock Treatment

Pearlean Gray: For Your Love

Anthony & The Sophomores: Get Back To You

Carl Walden & The Humans: I'll Never Let You Go

Songs From The Back Of The Station Wagon

 Tune in Friday, January 21st at Noon EST for the latest from DJ Tom Hanks!  And be sure to pick up a Songs From The Back Of The Station Wagon T-Shirt in the Boss Radio 66 shop!

Michael Lynch - Tom Hanks!

The Trade Winds -New York's a Lonely Town

The Westwoods - I Miss My Surfer Boy Too

Dave Edmunds - London's a Lonely Town

The Beach Girls - Sking in the Snow

Jan Davis - Snow Surfin' Matador

The Strangeloves - No Jive

Dave Clark Five - Concentration Baby

Brenda Lee - Is It True?

Four Seasons - Brunswick Bowling Spot

Jimmy Fraser - Of Hopes & Dreams & Tombstones

The Beatles - Cry For A Shadow

The Barbarians - What The New Breed Say

Cliff Richard & The Shadows - Shooting Star

Elvis Presley with the Jordanaires - Spinout

Roy Lee Johnson - Busybody

Larry Williams - Boss Lovin'

Hank Jacobs - Hank's Groove

The Mynah Birds - It's My Time

The Barons - Hope I Please You

The Mothers Of Invention - Anyway The Wind Blows

The Uptowners - You're A Habit

Rich Clayton and the Rumble - Flip Side

Johnny Otis - Castin' My Spell

Thee Sixpence - Fortune Teller

Los Doble R - Estas Botas Son Para Andar

Ray Charles - You Be My Baby

The Avantis - Wax 'Em Down

Ronny & The Daytonas - Hey Little Girl

Gary Lewis & The Playboys - Little Miss Go Go

The Shangri-Las - Give Him A Great Big Kiss

The Remains - Why Do I Cry?

Michael Lynch - Untitled Instrumental

Tatsuro Yamashita - Tokyo's A Lonely Town

This Week In '66 with Lynn Peril - Marie Mulder

 

With Lynn Peril

A missing H-bomb and “the schoolgirl sensation of American track” were in the news This Week in ‘66!

SHOW NOTES:

Szulc, Tad, “Learning to Live with the Bomb,” Express and News (San Antonio, TX), February 26, 1966, 7. 

Ziff, Sid, “Marvelous Marie,” Los Angeles Times, January 17, 33. 

https://www.newspapers.com/image/382385901

Grose, Peter, “Girl Quarterback Now a Top Runner,” New York Times, August 1, 1965, S4. 

Gardner, Paul, “Marie Mulder: A New Look in Women’s Track,” Parade Magazine, May 15, 1966, 8. 

Davidson, Joe, “Hometown Report,” Sacramento Bee, June 4, 2013, C2. 

Roberts, Rich, “Marie Mulder, Social Worker; A Look Back at Track: Racism, Ribbons, and Pot,” Independent (Long Beach, California), July 5, 1970, 23. 

LeBlanc, Pete, “Mulder Talks of Cover Girl Days,” Sacramento Bee, August 16, 1992, 155.