Cruisin with the Big Kahuna on KYOS

05/30/2023

Every woman wanted him and every guy wanted to be him! The King! 👑

05/30/2023

Girls in mini, 1960s. Remembering the Miniskirt - A Glimpse into 1960s Miniskirt Fashion and Feminine Rebellion: https://bit.ly/43wOP5Z

05/30/2023

It's Modesto's Graffiti Fest! Let's Rock and Roll!

09/04/2022

Happy 76th birthday to Barry Gibb, born 1 Sept 1946, singer, songwriter, producer, The Bee Gees, (1967 UK No.1 single 'Massachusetts', 1978 UK & US No.1 single 'Night Fever', plus over 30 other UK Top 40 singles & 9 US No.1's over 4 decades). In 1994, he was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame with his brothers. In 1997, as a member of the Bee Gees, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and received the Brit Award for Outstanding Contribution to Music.
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Maurice Gibb and his twin brother Robin were born in Douglas, on the Isle of Man (which is a very small island off the west coast of England). The family moved back to the mainland and lived in Manchester until in 1958, then emigrated to Australia where Maurice, Robin, and their older brother Barry formed the Bee Gees. They released their first hit “Spicks and Specks” in the early ’60s.
During the ’60s they were seen as a clean-cut family pop group; their 1967 hit “New York Mining Disaster 1941” saw them in the charts. Other hits followed: “Massachusetts”, “I’ve Gotta Get a Message to You”, “Words”, then it all went a bit quiet.
The turning point was the release of the movie soundtrack to Saturday Night Fever starring John Travolta. It was a massive film, but even bigger for the Gibb brothers, who saw the album sit at the top of the US album charts for almost half a year. The hits from the album kept coming, they were unstoppable: “Stayin’ Alive”, “Night Fever” and “How Deep Is Your Love”, “More Than a Woman”, “Jive Talkin'” and “You Should Be Dancing,” and the soundtrack also won a Grammy for Album of the Year.
The huge success of the album put the brothers back on top; everybody wanted a song penned by or produced by the Gibbs. The follow-up album, Spirits Having Flown, gave them three more No. 1 hits: “Too Much Heaven”, “Tragedy”, and “Love You Inside Out.”

The group sang three-part tight harmonies that were instantly recognisable; Robin’s clear vibrato lead was a hallmark of their earlier hits, while Barry’s R&B falsetto became their signature sound during the late 1970s and 1980s. The brothers wrote all of their own hits, as well as writing and producing several major hits for other artists.
During a career that spanned four decades, the Bee Gees sold more than 110 million albums. Maurice helped write and perform 19 British top ten hits, including five number ones. The Bee Gees released over 20 albums and have sold in excess of 220 million records worldwide. At one point at their peak in 1978, the Gibb brothers were responsible for writing and/or performing nine of the songs in the Billboard Hot 100.
Maurice sang harmony and backing vocals most the time, leaving the lead vocals to his brothers; an accomplished musician, he played keyboards, guitar and was always the guy in control in the studio.
In 1994, Maurice was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame, and in 1997 was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. In 2002, was made a Commander of the British Empire (CBE), along with his brothers.
Following Maurice’s unexpected death in January 2003, Barry and Robin retired the group’s name after 45 years of activity. In 2009, Robin announced that he and Barry had agreed that the Bee Gees would re-form and perform again. Robin died in May 2012 after a prolonged struggle with cancer.

09/03/2022

09/03/2022

Rocking in the 70's.

11/20/2021

11/20/2021

From Jason Isbell to Buck Owens, here are the five records you need to grab during Record Store Black Friday, which is set for Nov. 26.

10/30/2021

10/30/2021

🎉We have an exciting announcement from our Recreation and Community Events department here at the City of Atwater! We are currently implementing a brand-new software solution which is designed to make the process of signing up for programs easy, fast, and fun for our residents. We will be adjusting registration and timelines for some of our events to accommodate the software development process. The “Recreation Portal” will be your one stop for all things Recreation and Community Events. You can sign up for events, rent facilities, join sports activities, and much more. We will be posting to social media with updates. Watch Atwater.org for more information. We look forward to providing our amazing community with the best experience possible!

10/30/2021

Join us for our first annual Cops for Critters Car Show and Trunk or Treat, Saturday, October 30th from 10 am to 2 pm. Proceeds benefit Applegate Park Zoo. For more info, visit https://mercedcopsforcritters.eventbrite.com

10/30/2021

FAMILY FESTIVITIES

We are excited to team up with the Atwater Fire Department for a family fun event at the Police Department. The event will take place in the front public parking lot (750 Bellevue Road) on Halloween (October 31st) between 5:00PM to 8:00PM.

UPDATE:
Parking for this event will be designated to Redwood Avenue and the Citibank parking lot (700 Bellevue Road).

10/30/2021

~Noella🖤

08/21/2021

". The show must go on..."

On Aug. 20, 1966, The Beatles were due to have played an open-air show at Cincinnati's Crosley Field. However, the promoter failed to provide a cover for the group, and a heavy rain started shortly before they were due to take the stage.

The support acts on The Beatles' final tour were The Remains, Bobby Hebb, The Cyrkle and The Ronettes. The downpour began after each of the acts had completed their sets. The promoter originally insisted that The Beatles should perform, but they refused unless he could guarantee their safety. The decision to put off the bands appearance was made when their assistant, Mal Evans was thrown several feet across the stage while plugging into a wet amplifier.

George Harrison has said: "We were advised that touching any of the stage's rain-soaked electrical equipment could be lethal so Brian Epstein had no option but to call off the concert. It was so wet that we couldn't play. They'd brought in the electricity, but the stage was soaking and we would have been electrocuted, so we cancelled - the only gig we ever missed."

The decision was made to have the band play the following afternoon, which they did. Then….

After performing their postponed concert in Cincinnati at midday on the 21st, The Beatles flew 341 miles to St Louis, Missouri, where they performed one show at 8.30pm.

The concert took place at the Busch Stadium, and was seen by 23,000 people. The show took place in heavy rain, with a makeshift shelter over the stage to protect the musicians, although water still dripped onto the amplifiers. It was this incident which finally convinced Paul McCartney that The Beatles should cease touring.

Paul has said of the day: "It rained quite heavily, and they put bits of corrugated iron over the stage, so it felt like the worst little gig we'd ever played at even before we'd started as a band. We were having to worry about the rain getting in the amps and this took us right back to the Cavern days - it was worse than those early days. And I don't even think the house was full. After the gig I remember us getting in a big, empty steel-lined wagon, like a removal van. There was no furniture in there - nothing. We were sliding around trying to hold on to something, and at that moment everyone said, 'Oh, this bloody touring lark - I've had it up to here, man.'

I finally agreed. I'd been trying to say, 'Ah, touring's good and it keeps us sharp. We need touring, and musicians need to play. Keep music live.' I had held on that attitude when there were doubts, but finally I agreed with them.

George and John were the ones most against touring; they got particularly fed up. So we agreed to say nothing, but never to tour again. We thought we'd get into recording, and say nothing until some journalist asked, 'Are you going out on tour?' - 'Not yet.' We wouldn't make The Big Announcement that we'd finished touring forever, but it would gradually dawn on people: 'They don't appear to be going on tour, do they? How long was that? Ten years? Maybe they've given it up.'

That was the main point: we'd always tried to keep some fun in it for ourselves. In anything you do you have to do that, and we'd been pretty good at it. But now even America was beginning to pall because of the conditions of touring and because we'd done it so many times."

The Beatles did finish the tour.

We guess the question here is, 'Do you blame them"? The picture below was taken from onstage in St. Louis and shows John Lennon and the rain. 55 years ago tonight.