Way Back 2026

October 28, 2026 - Pickett, Rivingtons and Hendrix Have World Series Songs While Gore, Supremes and Tempts Augment Current Movies

Baseball's World Series has climaxed with a Milwaukee Brewers victory over the Tampa Bay Rays...and some oldies energy was evident on the TV broadcast. "Land of 1000 Dances" by Wilson Pickett served as the leadoff song in game one, The Rivingtons' "Papa-Oom-Mow-Mow" opened the tenth inning of game four, and the classic Jimi Hendrix Experience take on Bob Dylan's "All Along the Watchtower" was a bumper tune for the sixth inning of game five.

Sci-fi film Klara and the Sun starring Jenna Ortega includes Lesley Gore's hit "Sunshine, Lollipops and Roses" and "I'm Gonna Make You Love Me" by Diana Ross and the Supremes and The Temptations found its way into Clayface, the latest movie set in Batman's home base, Gotham City.


October 16, 2026 - Between Show Segments on TV Now: Two Songs from 1962 Involving Five Recording Acts...plus a Bobby Goldsboro Hit

Ford Motors has a current commercial featuring "Get a Little Dirt on Your Hands," recorded in 1962 by The Delltones of Sydney, Australia. The song was composed by South Carolina country singer Bill Anderson, whose original version was released earlier that year. A Fanduel ad makes rocking good use of "I've Been Everywhere" by The All-American Rejects, a remake of the rapid-fire location-dropping 1962 hit by country legend Hank Snow (originally by another popular singer from Sydney, Lucky Starr...a hit "down under" earlier that same year). And a commercial for United Airlines has a strictly American origin: Bobby Goldsboro's "Little Things."



Land of 1000 Dances Papa-Oom-Mow-Mow Sunshine, Lollipops and Rainbows I'm Gonna Make You Love Me

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