200TH WEEK SPECIALS-ALL WOMEN, ALL THE TIME

This program celebrated this important milestone by presenting two programs featuring 1970s music by women.  The week also marked an important milestone for the host/creator/producer of the show- his parents celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary on July 20.  Congratulations, Daddy and Mama in South DeKalb County, Georgia!!

The Main Event (Fight)-Barbra Streisand 1979 (from movie of the same name, co-starring Babs and Farrah Fawcett's surviving significant other, Ryan O'Neal)

Feel Like Making Love-Roberta Flack 1974 (one of three #1 singles in the '70s by a former schoolteacher from North Carolina)

Barracuda-Heart 1977 (from Little Queen, led by Ann and Nancy Wilson from Seattle)

Band of Gold-Freda Payne 1970 (from Detroit; no, she was not singing about Cleveland.  But Halle Berry would not dedicate this to LeBron James, because she's left Cleveland, too.)

Half Breed-Cher 1973 (by request)

Stoned Love-The Supremes 1970-1971 (one of their hits without Diana Ross)

We Are Family-Sister Sledge 1979 (Kathy, Carol, Kim and Joni from Philadelphia recorded one of the Nile Rodgers//Bernard Edwards compositions from the album by the same name; one of the African American anthems of the '70s)

Long, Long Time-Linda Ronstadt 1970 (the first hit away from the Stone Ponys by the lovely Mexican American from a Tucson ranching family)

Take A Chance On Me-ABBA 1978 (Frida and Agentha and their two ex-husbands were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2010.)

Boogie Oogie Oogie- A Taste Of Honey 1978 (Janice Johnson, Hazel Payne and two guys from Los Angeles with this across-the-board #1 single)

Midnight Blue-Melissa Manchester 1975 (a famous graduate of the New York City High School of the Arts with the first of her three Top Ten singles)

Want Ads-The Honey Cone 1971 (Carolyn Willis, who later helped Seals and Crofts "Get Closer" in 1976, sang lead on this #1 single.)

'70s OUT OF THE BOX TRACK-Cherry Bomb-The Runaways (subject of 2010 movie starring Dakota Fanning as Cherie Currie and Kristen Stewart as Joan Jett, leaders of this all-women new wave group)

Jolene-Dolly Parton 1973 (one of her many #1 country singles)

'70s ALABAMA SALUTE- EVANGELIST CANDI STATON-SUSSEWELL from Hanceville (Clarence Carter's ex-wife)- Young Hearts Run Free in 1976

Rock Steady-Aretha Franklin 1971 (recorded almost four decades before The Queen of Soul appeared in a Snickers candy commercial which first aired during Super Bowl 44 telecast on CBS; the Snickers ad with Betty White and Abe Vigoda is the best remembered Super Bowl 44 TV commercial.)

I Am Woman-Helen Reddy 1972 (one of the women's liberation anthems of the 1970s by the Australian beauty who recognized God as "She" after winning a Grammy for this #1 single, which was out during the Punt, Bama, Punt Game weekend in December 1972)

Best Of My Love-The Emotions 1977 (The Hutchinson Sisters from the First Lady's hometown got help from Maurice White on this across-the-board #1 single.)

'70s ALABAMA SALUTE-BIRMINGHAM'S EMMYLOU HARRIS- "If I Could Only Win Your Love" from Pieces of the Sky in 1975; her first Top Ten country single was a remake of a Louvin Brothers tune.

Touch Me In The Morning-Diana Ross 1973 (her #1 single from the movie Lady Sings The Blues, where she co-starred with Billy Dee Williams)

Turn The Beat Around-Vicki Sue Robinson 1976 (the bi-racial disco starlet from Philadelphia who died too young)

Me and Bobby McGee-Janis Joplin 1971 (In his 2004 book The Cheating Culture, author David Callahan wrote that former conservative bureacrat/author/talk radio commentator William Bennett once dated Ms. Joplin.  Imagine that!!!)

On and On-Gladys Knight and The Pips 1974 (The converted Mormon and co-owner of Chicken and Waffles restaurants led this family group, discovered at Atlanta's Mount Moriah Baptist Church and on Ted Mack's Original Amateur Hour)

SPECIAL READING FROM GIRLS LIKE US, the New York Times bestseller by Sheila Waller about Carole King, Joni Mitchell and Carly Simon (preface and last paragraph of Chapter 1)

It's Too Late-Carole King 1971 (from her #1 album Tapestry, which helped bring in the singer-songwriter era of the 1970s)

Help Me-Joni Mitchell 1974 (her Top Ten single from Court and Spark, from the lady originally from Alberta, Canada who's battling illness right now)

Nobody Does It Better-Carly Simon 1977 (from the James Bond 007 movie The Spy Who Loved Me, starring Roger Moore in the title role and Mrs. Ringo Starr-Barbara Bach)

'70s OUT OF THE BOX TRACK- No Charge by Pastor Shirley Caesar (The First Lady of Gospel Music remade this #1 country single by Melba Montgomery into a classic spiritual.  Rev. Caesar did not get married and earna B.A. in business administration from Shaw University until she was well into her 40s.  And she pledged Delta Sigma Theta!  She's still married, by the way, to Bishop Harold Williams out in Raleigh, NC.)

Bad Girls-Donna Summer 1979 (the #1 title track from her second #1 album by the Queen of Disco, who evolved as time went along.  She did the CD Crayons not too long ago.)

If You Love Me (Let Me Know)-Olivia Newton-John 1974 (from Let Me Be There, which helped introduce countrypolitan music, to the displeasure of country music purists.  I wonder what they thought of the retiring Brooks and Dunn.)

after a recap and more public service announcements.  .  .

'70s ALBUM SPOTLIGHT-RICKIE LEE JONES BY Rickie Lee Jones - A lady from the First Lady's hometown of Chicago got hooked up professionally and perhaps romantically with Tom Waits and songwriter Charles Weiss (Chuck E.), whom she sings about in "Chuck E.'s In Love."  She also sang about the 'hood in "Young Blood."

I'm Every Woman-Chaka Khan 1978-1979 (the diva herself from the First Lady's hometown- she did it first and better than Whitney Houston did it in The Bodyguard.)

Background music for the specials were provided by Bob James ("Angela," theme from the TV series Taxi), Britney Spears (instrumental for her remake of Joan Jett and the Blackhearts' "I Love Rock and Roll"), Vince Guaraldi ("Linus and Lucy," "Peppermint Patty," "Frieda," and "Sally's Blues" from Peanuts Portraits CD), Herbie Hancock ("Rock It"), and CBS Television Distribution (Entertainment Tonight theme)