For those of you who loved The Olympics -- And their music
Online Oldies station Rock-it Radio is currently this week playing a
Tribute to there music and an interview with original member -- Eddie
Lewis.
To Tune in go to our archive programming webpage at:
http://www.palmsradio.com/rockittext.htm
and click to the speaker next to show #2603.
Below is the cut out description of the show from the
Rock-it Radio Listeners club newsletter.
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TRIBUTE TO THE OLYMPICS ON RADIOACTIVE GOLD
SHOW ON ROCK-IT RADIO #2603.
On this edition of RadioActivE Gold you'll hear 'The Olympics' Story'
as told by 1st tenor Eddie Lewis--the last surviving original member
of the group. Eddie traces the group's beginnings as 'The
Challengers',
and talks about the Olympics songs, and even reflects on 'Peanut
Butter'--which was supposed to be recorded by them, but was given
instead to 'The Vibrations'who were moonlighting as 'The Marathons.'
It was 'The Olympics' who arranged and recorded the first version of
'Good Lovin', and Eddie regretfully tells how 'The Young Rascals'
wound up with the hit,even though The Olympics release sold 22,000
copies the first day of it's release and was climbing the charts.
1. Western Movies
2. I Wanna' Dance With The Teacher
3. Private Eye
4. Big Boy Pete
5. The Bounce
6. Baby Hully Gully
7. Dance By The Light Of The Moon
8. 'Good Lovin'
9. Little Pedro
10. Dancin' Holiday
11. The Slop
12. ****mmy Like Kate
13. Dooley
14. The Duck
All the above songs of course were played by The Olympics.
The Olympics have always been one of my favorites and what
a wonderful interview by Eddie Lewis!
We sincerely hope you enjoy this interview and feature of The Olympics
Story.
All the very best,
Bennie Dingo
Rock-it Radio
http://www.rockitradio.net
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