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The Rock & Roll Diner - hosted by C.A. Wood - was an internet radio show from 2007 to 2014. Today it serves as a source for music news and interviews.

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Chris Frantz The Rock & Roll Diner was an internet radio show on ShockNet Radio and iTunes from 2007 to 2014. Today it is a source for music news and interviews.

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01/11/2024

Jim Croce (January 10, 1943 - September 20, 1973).

01/11/2024

Pat Benatar.

01/11/2024

Rod Stewart. Photo by David Gahr back in the day.

01/11/2024

Last year, a whole lot of people were reminded that Stop Making Sense, the 1984 film where Jonathan Demme captured Talking Heads onstage, remains arguably the greatest concert film of all time. A24 acquired the rights to Stop Making Sense and put the remastered movie on IMAX screens for its 40th ann...

01/11/2024

On January 10, 1979: Triumph released the album "Just A Game"

01/10/2024

There are always people in our lives that we have spent time with that have left us and we wish we could have saved that time in a bottle….

With that said, Jim Croce, if he were still with us, would have been celebrating his 81st birthday today.

On Thursday, September 20, 1973, during Croce's Life and Times tour and the day before his ABC single "I Got a Name" was released, Croce, his musical partner Muehleisen, and five others were killed when their chartered Beechcraft E18S crashed into a tree, while taking off from the Natchitoches Regional Airport in Natchitoches, Louisiana. Others who died in the crash were charter pilot Robert N. Elliott, comedian George Stevens, manager and booking agent Kenneth D. Cortose, and road manager Dennis Rast. Croce had just completed a concert at Northwestern State University's Prather Coliseum in Natchitoches and was flying to Sherman, Texas, for a concert at Austin College. The plane crashed an hour after the end of the concert.

Jim was one of those talented songwriters who wrote stories in his songs. Croce was only 30 years old when we lost him.

Happy Birthday Jim. We can only imagine the music you would have made.

01/10/2024

January 10: On this day in 1964, Introducing The Beatles was released

01/10/2024

Do you own this Album?
Happy 40th anniversary to Van Halen's 1984 album released on January 9, 1984 …
1984 such a awesome year for music!!!

#1984

01/10/2024

Remembering singer, songwriter Scott McKenzie who was born Philip Wallach Blondheim III on this date January 10, 1939 in Jacksonville, FL.

His family moved to Asheville, North Carolina, when he was six months old. He grew up in North Carolina and Alexandria, Virginia, where he became friends with John Phillips, the son of one of his mother's friends. In the mid-1950s, he sang briefly with Tim Rose in a high-school group named The Singing Strings. He graduated high school from St. Stephens School for Boys in Alexandria.

Later, with Phillips, Mike Boran and Bill Cleary, he formed the doo w*p band The Abstracts.

In New York City, The Abstracts became The Smoothies and recorded two singles with Decca Records, produced by Milt Gabler. During his time with The Smoothies, Blondheim decided to change his name.

In 1961, Phillips and McKenzie met Dick Weissman and formed the folk group The Journeymen at the height of the folk music craze. They recorded three albums and seven singles for Capitol Records. After The Beatles became popular in 1964, The Journeymen disbanded. McKenzie and Weissman became solo performers, while Phillips formed the group The Mamas & the Papas with Denny Doherty, Cass Elliot, and Michelle Phillips and moved to California. Two years later, he left New York and signed with Lou Adler's Ode Records.

John Phillips wrote and co-produced "San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair)" for McKenzie. It was released on May 13, 1967, in the United States and was an instant hit, reaching number 4 on the Billboard Hot 100 and number 2 in the Canadian RPM Magazine charts. It was also a number 1 in the UK and several other countries, selling over 7 million copies globally.

McKenzie released the single "Like an Old Time Movie", which Phillips wrote, composed, and produced, and which was a top-40 hit (number 24 on Billboard; number 27 in Canada). His first album, "The Voice of Scott McKenzie", was followed with an album titled "Stained Glass Morning". He stopped recording in the early 1970s.

He wrote the song "What About Me" that launched the career of Canadian singer Anne Murray in 1968.

In 1986, he started singing with a new version of The Mamas and the Papas. With Terry Melcher, Mike Love, and John Phillips, he co-wrote "Kokomo" (1988), a number 1 single for The Beach Boys.

By 1998, he had retired from the road version of The Mamas and the Papas, and resided in Los Angeles until his death August 18, 2012, at the age of 73.

01/10/2024

Please join the Albumism team in celebrating Pat Benatar’s musical legacy and share your personal memories of her with us.

01/10/2024

Master drummer & bebop innovator Max Roach was born 100 years ago today in 1924! Max was a frequent & significant presence on Blue Note recordings of the 1950s including dates with Bud Powell, Thelonious Monk, Sonny Rollins, Johnny Griffin, Thad Jones & Herbie Nichols!

01/10/2024

Remembering
JIM CROCE
January 10, 1943 – September 20, 1973
American Folk and Rock Singer-Songwriter

01/10/2024

Selena Gomez will play Linda Ronstadt in an upcoming biopic.

01/10/2024

retrozest.com/podcast - 120 years ago today, the late, great RAY BOLGER was born. He was an American film and television actor, vaudevillian, singer, dancer (particularly of tap) and stage performer (particularly musical theatre) who started in the silent film era. He was a major Broadway performer in the 1930s and beyond (see below). He is best known for his role as the Scarecrow and his Kansas counterpart farm worker "Hunk" in MGM's classic The Wizard of Oz (1939) and the villainous Barnaby in Walt Disney's musical fantasy Babes in Toyland. He was also the host of his eponymous television show, The Ray Bolger Show.

01/10/2024

Happy 79th Birthday
ROD STEWART
January 10, 1945

01/10/2024

Happy birthday PAT BENATAR!!
Patricia Mae Andrzejewski
(January 10, 1953)
Hard rocking singer, songwriter, guitarist and bandleader, "Hit Me With Your Best Shot" ( #9, 1979) plus 18 other Top 40 hits

01/10/2024

Happy Birthday Patricia Mae!
My muse, wife, and yes best Mother and 71 year old Grand Mother!
“71” wow what da what da!
Hope your day is as beautiful as the day you were born!
To 100 more,
Love
Neil

01/10/2024

HAPPY BIRTHDAY! Rod Stewart (Shotgun Express, The Steampacket, The Jeff Beck Group, The Hoochie Coochie Men, Faces, solo) (79)

01/10/2024

Plans are still coming together, but two up-and-coming names on Broadway are already attached to the Prince project: playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins and director Lileana Blain-Cruz.

01/10/2024

Happy 79th Birthday to Rod Stewart

01/10/2024

Happy Birthday to American musician & cofounder of the band Steely Dan, Mr. Donald Fagen!!! He is 76 years old today. Let’s wish Donald a Happy 76th Birthday!!!

01/10/2024

Happy 71st Birthday!
PAT BENATAR
January 10, 1953

01/10/2024

Happy Birthday to the Beautiful Pat Benatar!!! The songstress is 71 years old today!!! Join us in wishing this beauty a very Happy & Healthy 71st Birthday!!!🎂🎂

01/10/2024

Remembering Max Roach on his Birthday !! 💙

Maxwell Lemuel "Max" Roach (January 10, 1924 – August 16, 2007) was an American jazz percussionist, drummer, and composer.

A pioneer of bebop, Roach went on to work in many other styles of music, and is generally considered alongside the most important drummers in history. He worked with many famous jazz musicians, including Coleman Hawkins, Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, Thelonious Monk, Charles Mingus, Billy Eckstine, Stan Getz, Sonny Rollins, Clifford Brown, Eric Dolphy and Booker Little.

Roach also led his own groups, and made numerous musical statements relating to the African American civil rights movement.

Photo by Francis Wolff in 1956

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01/10/2024

Jazz Drummer Gene Krupa playing drum at Gjon Mili’s studio, 1941

01/10/2024

Crystal Gayle.

01/10/2024

Happy 83rd Birthday
JOAN BAEZ
January 9, 1941
Singer/Songwriter

01/10/2024

"James was a wonderful human being, a great musician and loving family man" - the Scorpions

01/10/2024

Magnum guitarist and co-founder Tony Clarkin has passed away, it has been confirmed

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