WILLIE MAYS Remembered- Celebration of Life at San Francisco Oracle Park
Juan Marichal, Joey Amafitano, Felipe Alou were the surviving teammates along with many other acquaintances who came out luly 8, 2024 to pay tribute to one of the the greatest baseball players in history. Here are opening highlights from Mays’ career...World Day of Music – June 21, 2024 (and a chance to Celebrate my Music-Loving Sister on her Burtday*):
*My sister Joan and I would ‘cruise’ for hours listening to our fave music, which seemed to dovetail…Gene Pitney, Roy Orbison, Jerry Butler, Elvis, Buddy Holly, Aretha Franklin, etc. Here’s one of our favorites, Gene Pitney with ‘Every...Remembering the Say Hey Kid- When He and Baseball Were King
In the 1950s and 60s It was ‘Mom, Apple pie and Willie Mays.’ There was nobody More beloved then . He was in movies . They made songs after him . He personified the American Spirit Playing the game Of baseball like Nobody eplse, like with his hat...Top 40 Radio, Notable ‘Color Radio’ KEWB, Came to Oakland 65 Years Ago
(top)The initial KEWB Top 40 survey as we can tell – for the week of June 20, 1959 , transitioning from DJ Ted Randal’s ‘Bay Area’s Most Authentic Top Tunes’ Survey -week of June 5, 1959 (bottom). Credit Walt ‘Survey Man’ Hurd...
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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 […]
