This week in celebration of her 50th anniversary at WXRT, Terri Hemmert hosted a Flashback to 1973. The year the Sears Tower was completed and began its 25-year rein as tallest building in the world, the first successful handheld mobile phone call was made with the Motorola DynaTAC 8000X (it weighed five pounds, took 10 hours to charge, and had a 30 minute battery life), and the American League adopted MLB Rule 5.11 - the designated hitter. Here’s everything Terri played:
Dr. John - “Right Place, Wrong Time”
The Who - “Love, Reign o’er Me”
John Prine - “Please Don’t Bury Me”
Paul McCartney - “Nineteen Hundred And Eighty Five”
Mott The Hoople - “All The Way From Memphis”
Bruce Springsteen - “Rosalita (Come Out Tonight)
Little Feat - “Dixie Chicken”
Marvin Gaye - “Let’s Get It On”
Mike Oldenfield - “Tubular Bells”
Beach Boys - “Sail On, Sailor”
Todd Rundgren - “Just One Victory”
Procol Harum - “Grand Hotel”
Elton John - “Goodbye Yellow Brick Road”
Sly & The Family Stone - “If You Want Me To Stay”
Pink Floyd - “Great Gig In The Sky”
David Bowie - “Panic In Detroit”
George Harrison - “Give Me Love (Give Me Peace)”
Joe Walsh - “Rocky Mountain Way”
Bob Marley & The Wailers - “Stir It Up”
Genesis - “I Know What I Like (In Your Wardrobe)”
Rolling Stones - “Dancing With Mr. D.”
David Essex - “Rock On”
Stevie Wonder - “Higher Ground”
Roxy Music - “Do The Strand”
Rick Derringer - “Rock And Roll, Hoochie Koo”
Isley Brothers - “That Lady”
John Lennon - “Mind Games”
Led Zeppelin - "Dancing Days"
Tom Waits - "Ol' 55"
Paul Simon - "American Tune"
Next week, Johnny Mars revisits 1985 when Nintendo Entertainment System and two classic games, Super Mario Bros. and Duck Hunt, arrived just in time for the holidays, Live Aid concerts in Philadelphia and London raised more than $50 million for famine relief in Ethiopia, and Route 66 was officially removed from the U.S. Highway System which effectively brought the Mother Road to an end.