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WPGC Music Survey Weekly Playlist - 09/01/73 - Outside

 

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Caption reads: Join Bryan Lawrence (2-6a.m.) For Washington's only 'til-dawn Breakfast - Live from the Black Ulysses 21st. and M Streets, N.W.

Bryan started part time at WPGC while a student at the University of Maryland in August, 1971. By the following year he inherited the overnight shift and began live broadcasts at the Black Ulysses restaurant in the District. In 1973 he graduated from UMD and left WPGC for nights and later middays at KBEQ in Kansas City. Today, he is retired from radio in Waco, TX.

 

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Note: 'Brother Louie' by Stories below spends its second consecutive week at #1 and would go on to be the #1 song of the year on the WPGC Top 100 of 1973.

WPGC Music Survey Weekly Playlist - 09/01/73 - Inside

 

#1 on WPGC Today in 1973

Hot Chocolate would go on to have numerous hits in the US in the mid '70's. But before that, they scored big in their native UK with, 'Brother Louie', hitting #7 in 1973. Produced by Mickie Most, the song did not chart however on our shores. That is, until it was covered about six months later by a previously unknown band from New York, Stories. Keyboardist, Michael Brown had once been in the Left Banke, hitting with, 'Walk Away Renee' in 1966 and 'Pretty Ballerina' in 1967. Hear the original version of the tune.

Stardom eluded Stories until they released, 'Louie' by which time they had already had five singles and a couple of albums. Originally, the single did not appear on their second album but when the 45 hit big, it was tacked on to the end of side 2. Though the artwork on the sleeve was changed to reflect the new addition to the LP, many of the original discs without the song included on it were placed in the new sleeves by Kama Sutra, giving new meaning to 'hidden track'. The song spent two weeks at #1 on Billboard but was significantly bigger in DC where it spent its second of three consecutive weeks at #1 on the WPGC All Hit Music survey on 09/01/73, and finished the year as the #1 song on the WPGC Top 100 of 1973. See enlargement.

Though an interracial relationship had previously been covered by Janis Ian in, 'Society's Child' as early as 1967, about a White girl with a Black boyfriend, Stories switched the genders, focusing on White 'Louie' and his Black girlfriend. Despite the song's social relevance, it was not typical fare for the group who found it hard to follow up the tune with their own material that was far less controversial. Predictably, the band broke up after one more album and a few singles which failed to chart. Read more on the 'story' of the one-hit wonders.

 

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