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...
NEW Vintage Vinyl and Artist Composite Page
Vintage Vinyl and Artist Pages New website features obscure album tracks taken directly from original vinyl – many in magnificent two track stereo- and LP artwork from these 50s and 60s ‘Golden Era’ gems > NEW Vintage Vinyl and Artist...
Jan and Dean Fans in for Double Treat- New Jan Bio and Unreleased Dean 60s-80s
Writer, arranger, and producer for the legendary JAN & DEAN N E W B I O G R A P H Y Order from Amazon.com Order from McFarland & Co. Reviews and Commentary Author Interviews Dead Man’s Curve: The Rock ’n’ Roll Life of Jan Berry By Mark A. Moore Jan...
DUANE EDDY’s Twangy Contribution to Rock and Roll
: Unchacined Melody as only Eddy could do it, instrumentally, from 1962 Twangy Guitar Silky Strings RCA LP -see more at Vintage Vinyl and Artists A Billboardobituary notes that Eddy was “the last surviving artist to chart in the top 10 of the inaugural Hot 100...
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- Remembering the genius of Brian Wilsonone of many aspects of Brian Wilson that we found interesting especially was his connection to Phil Spector, or maybe we should say his fascination with Phil Spector. Just as Brian Wilson was brought up on The Four Freshmen, Ryan Wilson became not only fascinated but almost obsessed with Phil Spector, particularly be my baby […]
- Mathis goes out in his usual classy romantic StyleClick here for final concert video Lucky for San Francisco Bay Area Johnny Mathis fans who were there to see the ‘ voice of romance’ in his second from Final concert of his long, illustrious career Saturday night May 10 at the Luther Burbank theater in Santa Rosa California. Unlike most concerts today, there […]
- 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 […]
