The North Coast airwaves of 1965 to 1971 featured genre-free wall-to-wall Top 40 hits spun by AM powerhouses CKLW (Windsor, Ontario) and WIXY 1260 (Cleveland). They were the stations of choice at the city pool and, when we were old enough to drive our girlfriends, blankets and radios there, at the beach.

Along with the British Invasion groups and the Folk Rockers, these were the singers that grabbed my soul and gonads when I was a hopelessly romantic – and terminally horny – adolescent:

Marvin Gaye

Stevie Wonder

Eddie Floyd

O.V. Wright

Solomon Burke

Al Green

Whaddya got?