2001-10-13
The earliest show of Rory’s currently in the archive…featuring way too much Zager & Evans.
- Preshow: You Got To Wash Yo Ass – Redd Foxx (10 years gone)
- Opening Theme
- Dagmar daid.
- Mama Will Bark – Frank Sinatra & Dagmar
- Diggy Liggy Li – Jimmy C. Newman
- Edgar Allen Poe is still dead
- B.A.B.Y. Baby – Rachel Sweet
- I’m Gonna Be Warm This Winter (nm) – Connie Francis
- E O Eleven – Sammy Davis Jr.
- Sponsored this half hour by Andy’s Restaurant
- The Israelites – Desmond Dekker & the Aces
- Gee Baby, Ain’t I Good To You – Eva Cassidy with Chuck Brown
- Itchin’ For My Baby – Porter Wagoner
- This half hour sponsored by Collin’s Drive-In
- Rory Rides Me Raw – The Vaselines
- Behave Yourself – Booker T & the MG’s
- Mario Lanza is also still dead…as is Nigel Bruce
- Fred – Zager & Evans
- Two Little Girls – Jimmy Witherspoon
- It Was Awful – Dan Blocker
- Shenandoah – The Goldebriars
- (Open Up The Door) Let The Good Times In – Dean Martin
- The Witch – The Rattles
- Carry Lynn Javes – Zager & Evans
- Atlantis – Donovan
- Orson Wells, Yul Brynner, Connie Boswell, Redd Foxx, Sonja Henie, and Gene Vincent are all still daid
- High Blood Pressure – Gene Vincent
- Sponsor: Rusty’s Hamburgers
- Eccentric (with a big crack in it) – The Three Suns
- Louisiana Hay Ride – The Boswell Sisters
- Heartbreak Hotel – The Cadets
- The Rohrmobile (1964 Buick Wildcat) springs a leak
- Johnny Olson, Alf Landon, Jay Ward, John Denver, Wilt Chamberlin, Ed Sullivan, Bea Benedict, Clifton Webb…yep…all still room temperature…
- Easter Parade – Clifton Webb
- Don’t Ever Leave Me – Connie Francis
- The Race Track – Redd Foxx (awful)
- Didn’t It Rain – Sister Rosetta Tharpe
- When I Grow Too Old To Dream – Joanie James
- This last half hour brought to you by Golden Chicken
- Yoga Is As Yoga Does – Eblis
- Bettina – The Hilltoppers
- The Turkey (45/78 rpm dual-speed rarity) – The Raiders (for some guy named Karl)
- Rory explains the preshow and brags about his strong stomach
- Taxi Man – Zager & Evans
- Paxico (Land Of Beauty) – The Diamonds
- Rory’s Gone – Christy Moore
- Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep – Mac & Katie Kissoon
- Love Theme From Spartacus (Golden Skillet memories…practically a Don Frey Moment)
- Closing Theme
I remember Rory’s first broadcast: “Jarvis, come here. I need you.”
I remember too…Rory spilled a Big Orange on himself.