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WDAM Radio's History of Paul Revere & the Raiders WDAM Radio's Hit Singles History Of Paul Revere & The Raiders # Artist Title Chart Comments Position/Year 01 Paul Revere & The Raiders “Beatnik Sticks” – /1961 Boogie-woogie version of Chopsticks – this was their first single release. 02 Paul Revere & The Raiders “Like Long Hair” #38/1961 Based on Rachmaninoff’s Prelude In C-Minor – arranged by Gary Paxton of Hollywood Argyles and Skip & Flip, as well as myriad other production fame. 03 Paul Revere & The Raiders “Midnite Ride” – /1961 “Semi-auto-bio-graphical.” Gary Paxton – producer. This and the above two songs were released on the small/obscure label, Gardena. 04 Paul Revere & The Raiders “Louie, Louie” #103/1963 Recorded April 25. 1963. Initially released on Sande – their first hit single for Columbia. 04A Kingsmen “Louie, Louie” #2/1963 & Recorded April 6, 1963. #97/1966 04B Richard Berry & The “Louie, Louie” –/1957 West coast regional hit – never Billboard Pharoahs charted. 05 Paul Revere & The Raiders “Louie – Go Home” #118/1964 06 Paul Revere & The Raiders “Over You” #133/1964 06A Aaron Neville – “Over You” “Over You” #111-Rock & #21/R&B/1960 07 Paul Revere & The Raiders “Sometimes” #131/1965 07A Gene Thomas “Sometime” #53/1961 08 Paul Revere & The Raiders “Ooh Poo Pah Do” “Breakout Hit- Seattle”/1965 08A Jessie Hill “Ooh Poo Pah Do, Part 1” #28/1962 09 Paul Revere & The Raiders “Steppin’ Out” #46/1965 10 Paul Revere & The Raiders “Just Like Me” #4/1966 Featuring Mark Lindsay 10A Wilde Knights “Just Like Me” –/1965 This act wrote it – Paul Revere bought the song from them. 11 Paul Revere & The Raiders “Action” #5-Albums/1966 From Just Like Us. Featuring Mark Lindsay 11A Freddy Cannon “Action” #13/1965 Theme from the Dick Clark ABC-TV show – Where The Action Is (1965-1967), which was the replacement for American Bandstand weekday afternoon broadcasts. Paul Revere & The Raiders were the “de facto” house band for the show (1965-1966). Tommy Boyce & Nick Venet – composers. 11B Ricky Lyons “Shim-Sham-Shuffle” #104/1960 Same melody as Action. 12 Paul Revere & The Raiders “Kicks” #4/1966 Barry Mann & Cynthia Weil – composers. Featuring Mark Lindsay 13 Paul Revere & The Raiders “Hungry” #6/1966 Barry Mann & Cynthia Weil – composers. Featuring Mark Lindsay 14 Paul Revere & The Raiders "(I'm Not Your) Steppin' #9-Albums/1966 Tommy Boyce & Bobby Hart – composers. Featuring Mark Lindsay Stone" Album version from Midnight Ride pre-dated the Monkees single. 14A Monkees "(I'm Not Your) Steppin' #20/1966 Stone" 15 Paul Revere & The Raiders "Melody For An Unknown #9-Albums/1966 From Midnight Ride. Featuring Mark Lindsay Girl” 15A Unknowns "Melody For An Unknown #74/1966 This was a “side project” for Steve Alaimo + Girl” Paul Revere & The Raiders members Mark Lindsay, & Keith Allison. Paul Revere & Mark Lindsay – composers. 16 Paul Revere & The Raiders “The Great Airplane Strike” #20/1966 Featuring Mark Lindsay 17 Paul Revere & The Raiders “Good Thing” #4/1966 Featuring Mark Lindsay 18 Paul Revere & The Raiders “SS 396” –/1967 Two-sided promotional record for Chevrolet. Featuring Mark Lindsay 19 Paul Revere & The Raiders “Corvair Baby” –/1967 Two-sided promotional record for Chevrolet. Featuring Mark Lindsay 20 Paul Revere & The Raiders “Ups And Downs” #22/1967 Featuring Mark Lindsay 21 Paul Revere & The Raiders “Him Or Me – What’s It #5/1967 A-side. Featuring Mark Lindsay Gonna Be?” 22 Paul Revere & The Raiders “The Legend Of Paul –/1967 B-side. Autobiography of the band. Featuring Mark Lindsay Revere” 23 Paul Revere & The Raiders “I Had A Dream” #17/1967 Featuring Mark Lindsay 24 Paul Revere & The Raiders “Peace Of Mind” #42/1967 A-side. Featuring Mark Lindsay 25 Paul Revere & The Raiders “Do Unto Others” #102/1967 B-side. Featuring Mark Lindsay 26 Paul Revere & The Raiders “Too Much Talk” #19/1968 A-side. Mono version. Featuring Mark Lindsay 27 Paul Revere & The Raiders “Happening ‘68” –/1968 B-side. Theme from their 1968/1969 Saturday Featuring Mark Lindsay morning TV show, Happening [later called It’s Happening] that also later ran weekdays in 1968. Mono version. 28 Paul Revere & The Raiders “Don’t Take It So Hard” #27/1968 Mono version. Featuring Mark Lindsay 29 Paul Revere & The Raiders “Cinderella Sunshine” #58/1968 Mono version. Featuring Mark Lindsay 30 Paul Revere & The Raiders “Judge GTO Breakaway” –/1969 Pontiac commercial. Freddy Weller (group Featuring Mark Lindsay member who would go to solo Country & Western success) – composer. 31 Paul Revere & The Raiders “Mr. Sun, Mr. Moon” #18/1969 Featuring Mark Lindsay 32 Paul Revere & The Raiders “Let Me” #20/1969 Featuring Mark Lindsay 33 Paul Revere & The Raiders “We Gotta All Get #50/1969 Freddy Weller – composer. Featuring Mark Lindsay Together” 34 Raiders “Just Seventeen” #82/1970 35 Raiders “Indian Reservation (The #1/1970 Lament Of The Cherokee Reservation Indian)” 35A Don Fardon “(The Lament Of The #20/1968 & #5- U.K. success of this song inspired Raiders to Cherokee) Indian U.K./1970 record it for U.S. release. Reservation” 35B Marvin Rainwater “The Pale-Faced Indian” –/1959 35C John D. Loudermilk “The Lament Of The –/1971 Composer Cherokee Reservation Indian” 36 Raiders “Gone Movin’ On” #120/1970 37 Raiders “Birds Of A Feather” #23/1971 37A Joe South “Birds Of A Feather” #108/1968 & #96/1969 38 Raiders “Country Wine” #51/1972 39 Raiders “Powder Blue Mercedes #54/1972 Queen” 40 Raiders “Song Seller” #96/1972 This song mentions the Beatles. Jimmy Webb – composer. 41 Raiders “Love Music #97/1973 This is the original version – the next two songs are covers. 42 Lloyd Price “Love Music” #102/1973 43 Sergio Mendes & Brasil ‘77 “Love Music. #113/1973 .
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