July 11th 2026

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Gold Star Oldies USA — your home for the greatest hits of the 50s, 60s, and 70s.

Dickie Lee and the Iceman Mornings, Monday, Wed, and Friday 7:00 AM

Scheduled Shows Through Out The Week and Weekends

Say hello, to our new Auto DJ'. Tee Mac Booth.

Welcome to our newest DJ. J. P. McCartney's show is called ABC Oldies JP. He will be airing on Thursday Morning 7:00 AM. His show features the 60's and 70's with a Beatles song each hour.

Kick off your weekend with Mickey Bo’s Rock ’n Roll Revue every Friday at 9: 00 PM, with an encore Sunday at 10:00 PM. Mickey Bo is a long‑time radio personality known for his high‑energy mix of early rock ’n’ roll, doo‑wop, and rare classics.

Join Dave Edwards, veteran broadcaster and host of the internationally syndicated show That Seventies Sound, every Saturday 9:00 AM with a replay at 10:00 PM. His show brings the stories, memories, and music that defined the decade.

Welcome to Dickie Lee and the Iceman, great shows of the 60's and 70's progressive rock and soul. Monday, Wednesday and Friday 7:00 AM. The shows are one hour .

When the scheduled shows are not being aired. Listen to our Auto DJ's . The Gold Star Oldies library cloud is full of the greatest. oldies 60's 70's and More and a few new ones.

JP McCartney the home of ABC Oldies Thursday Morning Show 3 hours 7:00 to 10:00 AM

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Playlist : Friday July 10th 2026 Let's Party

PLAYLIST: Friday, July 10, 2026

Elvis Presley — Party (1957)
Sam Cooke — Having A Party (1962)
Charlie Feathers — Wild Wild Party (1961)
Billy Brown — Did We Have A Party (1957)
Fats Domino — What A Party (1961)
Shep & The Limelites — Party For Two (1965)
The Cues — Crazy Crazy Party (1957)
Bernadette Carroll — Party Girl (1964)
Claudine Clark — Party Lights (1962)
Lesley Gore — It’s My Party (1963)
Buddy Knox — Party Doll (1956)
Annette — Beach Party (1964)
The Pixies Three — Birthday Party (1963)
Chubby Checker — Dancin’ Party (1962)
Smiley Lewis — Caldonia’s Party (1953)
Amos Milburn — Let’s Have A Party (1953)
Sonny Knight — Teenage Party (1958)
Billy Adams — Peggy’s Party (1960)
Johnny Fallin — Party Kiss (1958)
The Show Stoppers — Ain’t Nothin’ But A House Party (1968)
Big Sambo & The Housewreckers — At The Party (1962)
Red Prysock — Rock And Roll Party (1956)

Broadcast Bulletin (Daily Updates)

This week, Mickey "velcomes" you to a show of '50s-'60s oldies by doo wop groups with names starting with VEL — many being the same or similar. You didn't know there were so many VELS, did you? It's a "veluva" show.THIS WEEK IN ROCK HISTORY
Events involving 1950s & '60s performers & their influences
July 10, 1941 — Ferdinand "Jelly Roll" Morton, whose "Jelly Roll Blues" in 1915 is considered the first published jazz composition, dies in Los Angeles at age 50 of heart failure. Born in New Orleans, Morton is a ragtime and pre-boogie woogie pianist, composer and self-described Originator of Jazz, Stomps, and Blues. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducts him in 1998 in the Early Influence category.
  1979 — One month after performing for President Jimmy Carter at the White House, Chuck Berry is sentenced to four months in prison for evading $200,000 in taxes. It is the last of the rock star's three imprisonments.
  1987 — John Hammond, one of the most influential figures in 20th century popular music and scion of the New York Vanderbilt railroad family, dies at 76 after a series of strokes. A civil rights activist and Benny Goodman's brother-in-law, Hammond promoted racial integration in music and produced the important 1938 From Spirituals to Swing concert at Carnegie Hall in New York City, which greatly influenced the broader acceptance of blues, jazz, boogie woogie, and gospel music with a bill that included rock 'n' roll forerunners Big Joe Turner, Pete Johnson, Albert Ammons, Meade "Lux" Lewis, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, and Big Bill Broonzy. He discovered a teenaged Billie Holiday in the 1930s and later at Columbia Records, brought aboard Bob Dylan, Aretha Franklin, and Bruce Springsteen.July 11, 1897 — Blind Lemon Jefferson, an innovative singer/guitarist and founder of the Texas blues style, is born in Wortham, Texas. One of the earliest rural blues singers to record, his Paramount Records catalog amounts to nearly 90 singles between 1926-29, a vast number for the time. Among his best-known songs is "Matchbox Blues," from which Carl Perkins borrows some lyrics in his 1957 recording, "Matchbox," later covered by the Beatles.
  1951 — Disc jockey Alan Freed broadcasts his first "Moondog House Rock and Roll Party" over WJW Radio in Cleveland, Ohio, marking the first radio show with the phrase "rock and roll" and giving Freed a claim as the first to apply the term to rhythm and blues. Freed is among the first disc jockeys to introduce the sound to a new, mostly young white audience.

July 12, 1962 — The Rolling Stones make their debut at the Marquee Club in London substituting for Long John Baldry's Blues Incorporated. The band members are Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Brian Jones, Dick Taylor, Ian Stewart and a future Kink, Mick Avory.

July 13, 1897 — A U.S. patent is granted to Italian inventor Guglielmo Marconi for transmitting electrical signals, leading to the invention of radio.

July 15, 1952 — Eight-year-old Gladys Knight wins $2,000 and a gold cup for her rendition of "Too Young" on Ted Mack's Amateur Hour on NBC-TV. Later that year, she forms the Pips with her siblings and cousins.

July 16, 1955 — Elvis Presley makes his first appearance on the U.S. national music charts as "Baby, Let's Play House" enters the Cash Box country listing at #15.
1972 — Smokey Robinson performs his final show with the Miracles at a Washington, D.C. concert, leaving to pursue a solo career after 18 years. At the end of the performance, Robinson introduces his replacement, 20-year-old Billy Griffin.

Sources:
Eight Days a Week (Ron Smith)
Eight Days a Week (Kenneth Best)
On This Day in Black Music History (Jay Warner)
Chronology of American Popular Music, 1900-2000 (Frank Hoffman)
calendar.songfacts.com
onthisday.com/music

Birthdays Singers and Song Writers

1951 - Bonnie Pointer

Bonnie Pointer, singer with American R&B singing group The Pointer Sisters who had the 1981 US No.2 single, 'Slow Hand' and the 1984 UK No.2 single 'Automatic'. The Pointer Sisters have won three Grammy Awards and had 13 US top 20 hits between 1973 and 1985. She died on 8 June 2020 from a cardiac arrest aged 69.

1946 - Peter Pye

British guitarist Peter Pye from beat, pop group The Honeycombs who scored the Joe Meek produced 1964 UK No.1 single 'Have I The Right’.

1931 - Tab Hunter

American actor, singer, film producer, Tab Hunter. He starred in more than 40 films and was a well-known Hollywood star of the 1950s and 1960s. His 1957 hit 'Young Love,' was No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart for six weeks and seven weeks on the UK Chart. He died on 8 July 2018, three days before his 87th birthday.

Early Beatles News

1964 - The Beatles

The Beatles appeared live on the ABC Television program "Lucky Stars (Summer Spin)", performing ‘A Hard Day's Night’, ‘Long Tall Sally’, ‘Things We Said Today’ and ‘You Can't Do That’. To avoid the crowd of fans waiting for them, The Beatles arrived at the Teddington Studio Centre by boat, traveling down the River Thames.