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CD SHOWCASE MEMORIES

2 songs from my Monday, 04/01/1996, “CD Showcase” (12p-1p) college radio show: Ronnie McDowell’s “You Made A Wanted Man Of Me” & a special tune from Steve Goodman. As an April Fool’s joke, I launched this particular Monday show by playing a cart with which I usually began my “Saturday Evening Mostly Country Music Show”: about kick-starting your weekend! Also featured, a “stripped” barn on Allen Rd near Burlington & Hampshire IL, which I 1st noticed during some of my area explorations; I took this OC,SH original pic 10/09/2011, ~1 month before my 11/11/2011 open heart surgery.

#1
“You Made A Wanted Man Of Me”
Ronnie McDowell
[For more info about RM’s hits & history, check out the 01/09/2016 “CarTunes Saturday” entry via THIS LINK HERE & the 05/20/2017 “Smorgasbord Saturday” entry via THIS LINK HERE.] For some inexplicable reason, I absolutely LOVED this song when I was a kid. I can’t say I understood exactly what it meant back then, but it just sounded upbeat & cool to me … & it still has the same feel to me today … even though I haven’t found that person to make a wanted man of me…. Debuting 10/15/1983, this single spent 23 weeks on the country charts & peaked at #3. It was the follow-up to another childhood favorite of mine, 1983’s “You’re Gonna Ruin My Bad Reputation” (#1).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2r3L59Hj8qQ

#2
“Go Cubs Go”
Steve Goodman
Yes, I played this song on my show. Why? In honor of MLB’s Opening Day that afternoon, with the Chicago Cubs hosting the San Diego Padres at Wrigley Field, 04/01/1996, at 1:20p US central! I didn’t get to hear it, but that was Pat Hughes’ 1st broadcast as the Cubs’ new radio play-by-play broadcaster. ~20.5+ years later, Hughes got to become the 1st Cubs broadcaster to proclaim the Cubs the World Series Champions, live, on the air. Goodman, a life-long die-hard Cubs fan & known for writing great tunes such as “City Of New Orleans”, wrote this song per request of the Cubs’ former flagship station, which wanted a more upbeat song than what Goodman had written & recorded in 1981: “A Dying Cub Fan’s Last Request”. Recorded (with some Cubs players singing the refrain in the background) & released in 1984, “Go Cubs Go” 1st aired on the Opening Day broadcast that year & became a staple during that magical 1984 season, which saw the Cubs win the then-National League Eastern division, a victory not seen by Goodman, who died of leukemia 4 days before the Cubs clinched the Division title. With the team’s decline in the mid-late 1980s, the song fell out of favor & gave way to The Beach Boys’ “Here Come The Cubs”. Then, with the release of Steve Goodman’s biography in early 2007, coupled with the Cubs playoff run that same year, the song once again became the song played after every Cubs win at Wrigley Field, & it continues in that role today. A year later (2008), prompted by the Cubs’ back-to-back NL Central Division Championships, Red Pajamas Records issued a 4-single EP, ‘The Baseball Singles’, which featured Goodman’s performances of “Go Cubs Go”, “A Dying Cub Fan’s Last Request”, “When The Cubs Go Marching In” & “Take Me Out To The Ball Game”. That same year, an officially-licensed MLB music CD, ‘Take Me Out To A Cubs Game’, featured “Go Cubs Go” along with the 09/21/1997 Harry Caray performance (his last) of “Take Me Out To The Ballgame”.

After the Cubs 2016 World Series win, “Go Cubs Go” debuted at #22 on Spotify’s Viral 50 & #3 on Billboard’s Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles charts, sparking several other versions. This rendition, performed as a skit with Cubs fan Bill Murray, quickly became a fan favorite:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YreZRQupCYk