For Tack, it means the longest, most frustrating summer of his life. For Dayna, it means a sure-fire way to get back on her feet– and back at her ex. The boss warns that sleeping together will kill the sexual tension that drives listeners to tune in to their show – then clamps down with a chastity belt of an offer: stay out of bed until the ratings period ends in exchange for a big, fat bonus. Wake Up with Tack and Dayna kicks into high gear and so does the duo’s mutual lust. But when her new boss reassigns her to co-host Hot Country 103’s morning show with irresistible Tack Collins, Dayna’s hormones start backpedaling. But you two hit the sheets, and bam! It’s over.” MORNING MANĪfter draining her savings, moving 300 miles and then being dumped on arrival by her boyfriend, Dayna Cook vows to stop falling for the radio jocks she works with. It was a major cut out in the day, now a collectors item, but deservedly so, if just for the '60s kitsch.“People tune in to hear you tease and tantalize each other. Mike Curb's instrumentals sound like they were auditions for the '70s soap opera Dark Shadows. Iron Butterfly sound absolutely lightweight in comparison, and Barbara Kelly is lucky for the claim to fame. The sad thing about The Savage Seven score, though, is that even with its moments, it's the Felix Pappalardi production of Cream which is the only track of real note. This was all the rage in the '60s with Dick Clark, who produced this film, also having the Strawberry Alarm Clock and the Seeds on his Psych-Out soundtrack for American International. Barbara Kelly & the Morning Good, who equal Iron Butterfly for tracks, they both get two, perform 'Maria's Theme,' and yet another 'theme' from the movie, 'Ballad of the Savage Seven.' Yep, it's produced and directed by Mike Curb, the man who brought you the film score to Riot on Sunset Strip with the Standells, and the Barry Mann/ Cynthia Weil/ Les Baxter soundtrack to the Shelly Winters movie Wild in the Streets, on Tower Records, like The Savage Seven, an American International picture released in 1968. There is, of course, the 'Iron Butterfly Theme' to close out side one, and believe it or not, it's a winner, the Butterfly getting very psychedelic here, something they should've done on their own albums instead of descending into the heavier depths.

The year before the Easy Rider film soundtrack made its mark, this precursor to the famous Peter Fonda flick, a motorbike gang title with a ring like The Dirty Dozen, must've given Steve Barri a good idea of what not to do, and maybe that's why Easy Rider is such a classic and this a collectors item only for the interesting theme song, Jack Bruce and Cream performing 'Anyone for Tennis.' The song is interesting, but no 'Tales of Brave Ulysses' or 'White Room,' a point that should be settled from the get go.

Morning Man by Barbara Kellyn