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CD SHOWCASE MEMORIES

2 songs from my Friday, 04/12/1996, “CD Showcase” (12p-1p) college radio show: Southern Pacific’s “Reno Bound” & Elvis Presley’s “Moody Blue”. Also featured, an abandoned (now leveled) IL Route 64 Motor Court, just east of Sycamore IL & the Sycamore Speedway, which I saw during my area explorations; I took this OC,SH original photo 10/09/2011, ~1 month before my 11/11/2011 open heart surgery.

#1
“Reno Bound”
Southern Pacific
[For more info about SP’s hits & history, check out the 06/18/2016 “CarTunes Saturday” entry via THIS LINK HERE & the 07/01/2017 “Smorgasbord Saturday” entry via THIS LINK HERE.] This song hit the airwaves 04/19/1986, spent 17 weeks on the country charts & peaked at #9, becoming the band’s 1st Top 10 tune. 2 of their 1st 3 releases had reached the Top 20: 1985’s “Thing About You” (#14, with Emmylou Harris) & 1985-6’s “Perfect Stranger” (#18). When I was a kid, I changed the lyric “cleanest Eldorado” to “cleanest Monte Carlo”….

#2
“Moody Blue”
Elvis Presley
This song debuted 12/25/1976, spent 16 weeks on the country charts & claimed #1; on the pop side, it only managed #31 on the Billboard Hot 100. This well-documented Tupelo MS-native artist, known as “The King Of Rock & Roll”, 1st recorded for Sun in 1954 & switched to RCA a year later. He was in the US Army (1958-1960), starred in 33 movies & died of heart failure, 08/16/1977. His list of hits is quite extensive, but some familiar favorites include 1956’s “Heartbreak Hotel” (#1 for 17 weeks country, #1 for 8 weeks BH 100), 1956’s “Don’t Be Cruel” (#1 for 10 weeks country, #1 for 11 weeks BH 100), 1969’s “In The Ghetto” (#60 country, #3 BH 100), 1970’s “Kentucky Rain” (#31 country, #16 BH 100; co-written by Eddie Rabbitt) & 1981’s “Guitar Man” (#1 country, #28 BH 100; written by Jerry Reed).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wx4Qh0W13sk