‘ Bring Back Those Memories of El Monte’ Recalls Los Angeles’ Doowop Era
Memories of El Monte – Zappa, Penquins Classic Nostalgic Tribute to Los Angeles’ ‘Happy Days’ Doowop Era Though the song ‘Memories of El Monte’ came out in 1963, after the doo-wop era, it was a perfect song...
‘Still the Best Standup Comedian Today’ , Overlooked MORT SAHL Reflects on JFK, Politics
‘Still the Best Standup Comedian Today’ , Overlooked MORT SAHL Reflects on JFK, Politics It wasn’t surprising to come across this great interview late (David Feldman) with the much overlooked/forgotten political comic/satirist MORT SAHL...
FINAL RICK NELSON ALBUM MAY SEE THE LIGHT, SON’S TRIBUTE
Rick Nelson had recently finished working on the Sun Reunion album with Orbison, Lewis, Cash and Perkins. Rockabilly was probably Nelson’s favorite music and the focus on his final album. FINAL RICK NELSON ALBUM MAY SEE THE LIGHT, SON’S TRIBUTE...
Radio Museum Moves from Vintage KRE Radio Station in Emeryville
Radio Museum Moves from Historic KRE Radio Station in Emeryville to Alameda 2-14 It doesn’t seem long ago we reported, below, the California Radio Historical Society in its ‘new’diggs at the beautiful old deco KRE radio station building in...
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- New Years Oldies Music Party, Fresh Start Resolutions, Overcoming (Dec.) Grief, Aging w/Willie Nelson, 91No better music to start off the year than with Oldies and Doowop! And now, you can have a ready-made singalong party concert better-than-karaoke program, courtesy of Oldies Country. The idea came about since there aren’t alot of doowop afficionados on the west coast, thus ‘the Wrong Coast Doowop Spectacular’ so for those of you […]
- Willie Nelson Words to Live by at 91Willie Nelson, at 91, Says He Doesn’t ‘Have Any Reason to Worry About Dying’ By Erin Doyle, 1 day ago 11-2-2 He may be 91, but Willie Nelson says he isn’t concerned about his mortality. The country singer shared his thoughts about dying in an interview with AP News on Friday, November 1. “Well, I’m 91 plus, so, you […]
- Jim Croce 50 Years Later – What a StoryAJ Croce singing Jim Croce’s ‘Leroy Brown’ at 50 th Year Tour Celebration San Jose 10-24 Something remarkable happened last night. I saw Jim Croce perform live (or does I?) What happened? Did I just see Jim Croce or or what tonight? Here it is 2024 , I think, and Jim Croce I thought passed in […]
- Not -so -forgotten Lou Alpert, Lani Hall wow local throngWhat a fantastic show. Herb Alpert may have long been forgotten by most people but a Full House of some 500 loyalists showed up on thurs night at Leshser theater in Walnut Creek to give him several standing ovations along with his wife Lani Hall. I hadn’t seen or even heard about the old Tijuana […]
- Memories-Do You Remember?Subject: Old Pictures from Time Passed ENJOY SOME OLD MEMORIES I’ve done this dozen of times My mother worked in a factory that made these… The ice cream guy on the 3 wheeled bike and cooler wore one of these. For MY LONE RANGER cap guns […]
