TJ Lubinsky, not an oldie himself, keeps the oldies alive… resurrecting forgotten artists and programs, latest being 5 shows, which debuts this Sat. Night on PBS > oldiescountry.com/
Loved hearing how this ‘under age’ lover of his father’s music went and found older, original rock and R&B singers who hadn’t sung in 40 years and brought them back for one last hurrah in his fabulous doowop, etc. PBS series’ as well as Ed Sullivan, and now Murray K revivals…talking To George Noory on Coast to Coast, even young Lubinsky dismisses modern ‘music’ (‘no harmony,no melody,etc’) and remains lost in the 50s and 60s he never knew growing up.
Lubinsky tells the story of ‘unearthing’ (if you will) people like Betty Everett, down and out but who managed to get it together to reunite with Jerry Butler for one last performance 40 years later; she would pass two weeks later. https://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/16/nyregion/in-person-he-may-be-golden-but-he-s-no-oldie.html
Okay, who stopped the payment on my reality check?
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Now ‘Under-age’ Lubinsky Resurrects Old ‘Murray The K’ Oldies Shows
22. ”I’m like a one-eyed cat…..”(a) can’t go into town no more(b) sleepin’ on a cold hard floor(c) peepin’ in a seafood store
23. ”Sometimes I wonder what I’m gonna do…….”(a) cause there ain’t no answer for a life without booze(b) cause there ain’t no cure for the summertime blues(c) cause my car’s gassed up and I’m ready to cruise
24. ”They often call me Speedo, but my real name is……”(a) Mr. Earl(b) Jackie Pearl(c) Milton Berle
25. ”Be Bop A Lula ….”(a) she’s got the rabies(b) she’s my baby.(c) she loves me, maybe
26. ”Fine Love, Fine Kissing …..”(a) right here(b) fifty cents(c) just for you
27. ”He wore black denim trousers and …..”(a) a pink carnation(b) pink leotards…
DON’T CHEAT… ANSWERS BELOW
Buddy Holly and Little Richard in 1959. What advice did Richard give to Buddy?
Answers:Scroll Down so you aren’t tempted to cheat (as if cheating were needed here).* * * * * * * * * * * *1. (c) The movie’s over, it’s 4 o’clock2. (b) Blackboard Jungle3. (a) Angel4. (c) Blueberry Hill5. (a) Mr. Sandman6. (c) Sun7. (b) Charlie Brown8. (a) Mac Heath9. (c) Tutti Fruitti10 (c) Alan Freed11 (a) Little Richard12 (c) Annette Funicello13 (b) Don and Phil14 (a) Jiles P. Richardson15 (c) Motown16 (a) 77 Sunset Strip17 (b) Sandra Dee18 (b) The Monotones19 (b) Kissed20 (c) Maybelline21 (b) Bully22 (c) peepin’ in a sea food store23 (b) cause there ain’t no cure for the summertime blues24 (a) Mr. Earl25 (b) she’s my baby26 (a) right here27 (c) motorcycle boots28 (c) Boney MaroneySend this to everyone lucky enough to be teenagers in the Doo Wop era…… or who wishes they had been.
7.He asked, ”Why’s everybody always pickin’ on me?” Who was he?
(a) Bad, Bad Leroy Brown
(b) Charlie Brown
(c) Buster Brown
8.In Bobby Darin’s ”Mack The Knife,” the one with the knife, was named:
(a) Mac Heath
(b) Mac Cloud
(c) McNamara
9.Name the song with
”A-wop bop a-loo bop a-lop bam boom.”
(a) Good Golly, Miss Molly (b) Be-Bop-A-Lula (c) Tutti Fruitti
Can you name these two friends?
10.Who is generally given credit for originating the term ”Rock And Roll”?
(a) Dick Clark (b) Wolfman Jack (c) Alan Freed
11.In 1957, he left the music business to become a preacher:
(a) Little Richard (b) Frankie Lymon (c) Tony Orlando
12.Paul Anka’s ”Puppy Love” is written to what star?
(a) Brenda Lee (b) Connie Francis (c) Annette Funicello
13.The Everly Brothers were…..
(a) Pete and Dick (b) Don and Phil (c) Bob and Bill
14.The Big Bopper’s real name was:
(a) Jiles P. Richardson (b) Roy Harold Scherer Jr. (c) Marion Michael Morrison
15.In 1959, Berry Gordy, Jr., started a small record company called…
(a) Decca (b) Cameo (c) Motown
16.Edd Brynes had a hit with ”Kookie, Kookie, Lend Me Your Comb”. What TV show was he on?
(a) 77 Sunset Strip (b) Hawaiian Eye (c) Surfside Six
17.In 1960 Bobby Darin married:
(a) Carol Lynley (b) Sandra Dee (c) Natalie Wood
18.They were a one hit wonder with ”Book Of Love”
(a) The Penguins (b) The Monotones (c) The Moonglows
Famous cameo role by who and on what show?
19.The Everly Brothers sang a song called ”Till I ______ You.”
(a) Loved (b) Kissed (c) Screwed (d) Met
20.Chuck Berry sang ”Oh, ___________, why can’t you be true?”
(a) Suzie Q (b) Peggy Sue (c) Maybelline
21.”Wooly _______”
(a) Mammouth (b) Bully (c) Pully
22.”I’m like a one-eyed cat…..”
(a) can’t go into town no more (b) sleepin’ on a cold hard floor (c) peepin’ in a seafood store
23.”Sometimes I wonder what I’m gonna do……..”
(a) cause there ain’t no answer for a life without booze (b) cause there ain’t no cure for the summertime blues (c) cause my car’s gassed up and I’m ready to cruise
24.”They often call me Speedo, but my real name is……”
(a) Mr. Earl (b) Jackie Pearl (c) Milton Berle
25.”Be Bop A Lula ….”
(a) she’s got the rabies (b) she’s my baby. (c) she loves me, maybe
26.”Fine Love, Fine Kissing …..”
(a) right here (b) fifty cents (c) just for you
27.”He wore black denim trousers and …..”
(a) a pink carnation (b) pink leotards (c) motorcycle boots
28.”I got a gal named………”
(a) Jenny Zamboni
(b) Gerri Mahoney
(c) Boney Maroney
where did Beatles final concert take place with these accompanying acts: Extra points for knowing the year , exact date even better?
Answers:
Scroll Down so you aren’t tempted to cheat (as if cheating were needed here).
* * * * * * * * * * * *
1.(c) The movie’s over, it’s 4 o’clock
2.(b) Blackboard Jungle
3.(a) Angel
4.(c) Blueberry Hill
5.(a) Mr. Sandman
6.(c) Sun
7.(b) Charlie Brown
8.(a) Mac Heath
9.(c) Tutti Fruitti
10.(c) Alan Freed
11.(a) Little Richard
12.(c) Annette Funicello
13.(b) Don and Phil
14.(a) Jiles P. Richardson
15.(c) Motown
16.(a) 77 Sunset Strip
17.(b) Sandra Dee
18.(b) The Monotones
19.(b) Kissed
20.(c) Maybelline
21.(b) Bully
22.(c) peepin’ in a sea food store
23.(b) cause there ain’t no cure for the summertime blues
24.(a) Mr. Earl
25.(b) she’s my baby
26.(a) right here
27.(c) motorcycle boots
28.(c) Boney Maroney
Send this to everyone lucky enough to be teenagers in the Doo Wop era…… or who wishes they had been.
San Francisco Celebrates KYA Top 40 Day with DJs Norman Davis, Tommy Saunders, Gary Mora
Legends in Broadcasting is a fine organization that celebrates its own radio personalities in the San Francisco Bay Area. It meets each quarter for a luncheon to honor a personality or radio station . June 23, 2016 was KYA Day, featuring DJs NORMAN DAVIS (known as Lucky Logan when he first came aboard in 1959), TOMMY SAUNDERS from 1962-1965 and GARY MORA from the late 60s and 1970s with noted DJ and media mogul BEN FONG-TORREZ as moderator. MORA continues to keep KYA alive with an internet version of the station with lots of memorabilia, concentrating on his era of the late 60s
From 1958 to 1963, KYA was the biggest radio thing in San Francisco with popular DJs including those pictured above including ‘all night’ JOHNNY HAYES, PETER TRIPP, BOB MITCHELL, LUCKY LOGAN (Norman Davis) and TONY TREMAIN. GENE NELSON. TOMMY SAUNDERS and RUSS (The Moose) SYRACUSE joined the staff in 1962 coming from noted broadcasting school in Syracuse. KYA was so popular several albums were produced with songs from the era and DJs pictured (partial) on cover (as at left)
VIDEO:Tommy Saunders and Norman Davis talk about the ‘happy days’ at KYA, circa 1959-1965.
They describe how the station’s popularity was driven by the new ‘TOP 40’ format, which was sweeping the nation, thanks to Bill Drake and Bartell family. Top 40 was the rock and roll of the day but would hardly be considered rock and roll by today’s standards , what with the wide variety of music as shown on the survey below…everything from Frank Sinatra to instrumentals with backing vocals by Anita Kerr Singers and novelty songs. Everything was fast-paced so as to cram as much as possible around a fast-talking DJ…jingles, weather, newscast along with the great (in our opinion) music (even if Saunders and Davis weren’t big fans of it at the time). Sorry, time restraints don’t allow us to include the entire lunch presentation. In another segment the guys talk about one of the real ‘characters,’ one DJ named Harry Stevens (1959–1963) and his stories including one about a playmate bunny.
We’ll try to put up some radio airchecks, too, if possible… the great Russ ‘the Moose’ and others
Top 40 (or Top 60 for awhile) was the rage in the 1950s and 1960s thanks to Bill Drake, Bartels family and others who introduced the format that combined a wide variety of the music of the day still called ‘rock and roll’ though it was a stretch (Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett were played along side Elvis, Bobby Darin and the like. DJs generally talked fast so as to squeeze in as much ‘patter’ along with the ‘platters,’ jingles, weather reports and news as possible. DJs of the time included Tony Tremayne and Jolly Rogers. See if you can’t make out some of those memorable songs from the day, above, by enlarging this official ‘Hit Parade’ survey from July 10, 1959.
Visable from left are NORMAN DAVIS (Lucky Logan), TOMMY SAUNDERS and Ben Fong-Torres (back)
Held at the Basque Cultural Center in So. San Francisco, the event featured a nice display of KYA memorabilia (see more on accompanying videos and photos . A few hundred radio contemporaries joined the KYA folks to honor them and the legendary station 6-23-16
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Great writeup by cofounder of Steely Dan about a pioneer of talk radio, when radio was still real fun and the ‘friend’ you’d take under your covers via transistor and go to sleep with. Didn’t know until now that Jean Shepherd has since become, perhaps, more known for his connection to The Christmas Story movie than the wildly popular ‘hip’ early talk show on NEW YORK’ s powerhouse, WOR. We grew up 3,000 miles away from where Shepherd reigned and never heard the man until recently, though we had many of our own out West ( Bob Sherwood, Al Jazzbeaux Collins, Russ the Moose Ssyracuse, Bobby Dale, even Ira Blue, but perhaps no one person who could put it all together in one ascerbic session like Jean Shepherd.Here’s Fagen, who can talk much more intelligently about Shepherd than we can
On Christmas Eve, TBS will again present its annual 24-hour marathon of Bob Clark’s modern classic, A Christmas Story. Wrapping presents while watching Ralphie pine for a Red Riding BB gun has become a holiday tradition as beloved and durable as candy canes and eggnog. Yet the author and narrator of A Christmas Story, Jean Shepherd, had a deeper legacy of enchanting, subtly barbed storytelling as a longtime voice on nightly radio. In this piece from December 2008, Steely Dan co-founder Donald Fagenrecounts growing up in suburban New Jersey enthralled by Shepherd’s radio show.
Remembering JEAN SHEPHERD and his Christmas (Eve) Story
Jean Shepherd
If you know Jean Shepherd’s name, it’s probably in connection with the now-classic film A Christmas Story, which is based on a couple of stories in his book In God We Trust: All Others Pay Cash. He also does the compelling voice-over narration. On Christmas, TBS will continue its tradition of presenting a 24-hour Christmas Storymarathon. There are annual fan conventions devoted to the film— released 25 years ago this Thanksgiving— and the original location in Cleveland has been turned into a museum. But long before A Christmas Story was made, Shepherd did a nightly radio broadcast on WOR out of Manhattan that enthralled a generation of alienated young people within range of the station’s powerful transmitter. Including me: I was a spy for Jean Shepherd.
In the late ’50s, while Lenny Bruce was beginning his climb to holy infamy in jazz clubs on the West Coast, Shepherd’s all-night monologues on WOR had already gained him an intensely loyal cult of MORE
