Johnny K's Way Back Play Backs - March 2013

Welcome to Johnny K's Way Back Play Backs  and join the groovy adventure with Johnny K as he jumps in his "Way Back Machine" and takes a trip back to yesteryear.

This is a place where great moments in music and pop culture are celebrated and remembered.

So pull up a beanbag chair, turn on your lava lamp and take a trip back to a groovier time!

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March 2013

March 31:  Today's "Way Back Play Back" takes us back 38 years to 1975 and the Billboard number 1 song on this date by LaBelle and "Lady Marmalade"

 
March 30:  Today's "Way Back Play Back" takes us back 29 years to 1984 and the Billboard number 1 song on this date by Kenny Loggins and "Footloose"

March 29: Today's "Way Back Play Back" takes us back 48 years to 1965 and the Billboard number 1 song on this date by The Supremes and "Stop! In the Name of Love"

March 28: Today's "Way Back Play Back" takes us back 32 years to 1981 and the Billboard number 1 song on this date by Blondie and "Rapture"

March 27: Today's "Way Back Play Back" takes us back 46 years to 1967 and the Billboard number 1 song on this date by The Turtles and "Happy Together"

March 26: Today's "Way Back Play Back" takes us back 41 years to 1972 and the Billboard number 1 song on this date by America and "Horse With No Name"

 
March 25: Today's "Way Back Play Back" takes us back 29 years to 1984 and the Billboard number 1 song on this date by Van Halen and "Jump"

March 24: Today's "Way Back Play Back" takes us back 39 years to 1974 and the Billboard number 1 song on this date by Cher and "Dark Lady"

March 23: Today's "Way Back Play Back" takes us back 44 years to 1969 and the Billboard number 1 song on this date by Tommy Roe and "Dizzy"

 
March 22: Today's "Way Back Play Back" takes us back 34 years to 1979 and the Billboard number 1 song on this date by Gloria Gaynor and "I Will Survive"

March 21: Today's "Way Back Play Back" takes us back 41 years to 1972 and the Billboard number 1 song on this date by Neil Young and "Heart of Gold"

 March 20: Today's "Way Back Play Back" takes us back 46 years to 1967 and the Billboard number 1 song on this date by The Beatles and "Penny Lane"

 
March 19:  Today's "Way Back Play Back" takes us back 30 years to 1983 and the Billboard number 1 song on this date by the late Michael Jackson and "Billie Jean"

 
March 18: Today's "Way Back Play Back" takes us back 45 years to 1968 and the Billboard number 1 song on this date by the late Otis Redding and "(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay." Redding was killed in a plane crash on December 10, 1967 however his song became the first posthumous number-one record on both the Billboard Hot 100 and R&B charts after his death.

  
March 17: Today's "Way Back Play Back" pays homage to the Irish and all those who celebrate the four-leaf clover with the Irish Rovers and their favorite, "Wasn't That a Party"

  
March 16: Today's "Way Back Play Back" goes back to 1975 with television's Good Times star Ralph Carter and his hit, "When You're Young and in Love"

March 15: Today's "Way Back Play Back" takes a break from this week's theme with the apropos 1970 hit, "Vehicle" from the Ides of March

 
March 14:  Today's "Way Back Play Back" goes back to 1978, six years before she would be recognized as one of television's best TV mom's, with Phylicia Rashad (credited then as Phylicia Ayers-Allen) and her disco hit, "J'ai Deux Amours (Two Loves Have I)"

March 13: Today's "Way Back Play Back" looks to the star of The Tracy Ullman Show with her 1983 hit, "They Don't Know" to continue this week's theme of TV stars who've released an album.

  
March 12: Today's "Way Back Play Back" continues with TV stars who've released an album and the Brady Bunch Kids with their 1973, "It's a Sunshine Day"

 
March 11: Today's "Way Back Play Back" kicks off a new theme of TV stars who have released an album; with his 1977 "Da Doo Ron Ron" here is The Hardy Boys Mysteries' Shaun Cassidy.

 
March 10: Today's "Way Back Play Back" is the last in the series of country music duets; with their 1984 hit, "The Yellow Rose" here is Johnny Lee & Lane Brody

March 9: Today's "Way Back Play Back" is considered one of the best country music duets of all time; with their 1983 hit, "Islands in the Stream" is Kenny Rogers & Dolly Parton

 
March 8: Today's "Way Back Play Back" goes back to 1981 with David Frizzell & Shelly West and their country music duet, "You're the Reason God Made Oklahoma"

 
March 7: Today's "Way Back Play Back" looks to the country music duet of George Jones & Tammy Wynette with their 1976 classic, "Golden Ring"

 
March 6: Today's "Way Back Play Back" continues to honour country music duets with Conway Twitty & Loretta Lynn and their 1973 hit, "Louisiana Woman, Mississippi Man"

 
March 5: Today's "Way Back Play Back" is the first in a new theme of country duets with Johnny Cash & June Carter Cash and their hit, "If I Were a Carpenter"

  
March 4: Today's "Way Back Play Back" looks to The Bee Gees for the last in a series of disco classics with their 1976 hit, "Nights on Broadway"

 
March 3: Today's "Way Back Play Back" goes back to 1976 with ABBA and their only #1 US hit, the disco favorite, "Dancing Queen"

 
March 2: Today's "Way Back Play Back" takes us back to 1975 with the instrumental disco hit "The Hustle" by Van McCoy

  
March 1: Today's "Way Back Play Back" continues with the disco theme and the 1978 hit, "YMCA" from The Village People