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02/03/2024

Newly elected Rock and Roll Hall of Fame member Dusty Springfield died of breast cancer on March 2, 1999 at her Henley-on-Thames home, just west of London. She was due to accept an honor from the queen of England on the day she passed away. Dusty was fifty-nine. Born Mary O'Brien in London, the blue-eyed soul singer started out as a member of the folk trio, The Springfields. "I Only Want To Be With You" ( #12) was her first solo hit on Philips early in 1964. She had a wonderful career....it's sad that it was cut short. ♥😢

Re-upped & tweaked, Dusty's first hit from 1963, with my remastering of the stereo mix and special video tribute. I hope you enjoy it! also, "Dusty Day" in...

01/03/2024

Roger Daltrey was born in London on March 1, 1944. Not only was he the lead singer of "The Who", he also appeared in several motion pictures...the most notable being "Tommy." It was a bit of a stretch having Ann-Margret play the role of his mother, as she is only THREE years older than Daltrey in real life!
HAPPY 80th BIRTHDAY ROGER DALTREY!🤔🎂🥳🤩🤪

Roger Daltrey interviewed about, and hosting, "Tommy" on TNT circa 1994. Thanks to WeHo Steve for providing this clip

29/02/2024

HAPPY "21st" BIRTHDAY to Gretchen Christopher of The Fleetwoods! Our friend was born on "leap day" February 29, 1940 so she "officially" only gets to celebrate once every four years! Marty Natchez and I had the opportunity to interview Gretchen on my WFNT radio show "Song Encyclopedia" in 2008, just before she celebrated her 17th. We talked about how she formed the group with Barbara Ellis while the two were still seniors at Olympia High School in Washington. They soon added Gary Troxel to the mix and they were on their way. "Come Softly To Me" was #1 for four weeks in the spring of 1959; "Mr. Blue" also went to #1 later that year and numerous hits followed. We also wish a belated Happy Birthday to Barbara who was born on February 20, 1940. -bill pearson

Iz emisije Blue Moon

28/02/2024

Brian Jones, original second guitarist for The Rolling Stones, was born on February 28, 1942. He organized the band in 1962 and played on all of their hits through 1969 when he left due to poor health. The clip which follows says that he was actually fired. Brian Jones died in his swimming pool twenty-six days after leaving the group. 🤔😮😢

Brian Jones formed The Rolling Stones but his career in the band would be cut short along with his life.

28/02/2024

Frankie Lymon was only 13 years old when he skyrocketed to fame. Along with his group, The Teenagers, Frankie established the "Kiddie" lead sound that was copied by hundreds of artists of the era. Known for classics like "Why Do Fools Fall In Love" and "I Want You To Be My Girl," Lymon and company were the first American rock 'n' roll group to have a #1 hit in England. They were inducted into The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 1993. Lymon died of a drug overdose at his grandmother's house on February 28, 1968. He was only twenty-five.

28/02/2024

The late Aretha Franklin made her pop-chart debut on Columbia records with "Won't Be Long" on February 27, 1961. It reached #76 on Billboard and became the first of seventy-four hits for the "Queen Of Soul" over the next thirty-three years. 🤔😮😢🥰

28/02/2024

THE STONES MAKE HEADLINES ON FEBRUARY 27TH: "19th Nervous Breakdown" debuts in 1966 (eventually reaching #2 on the national charts)♪♪Mick Jagger is hospitalized in New York with a respiratory infection in 1976♪♪ Keith Richards is arrested for he**in possession in Toronto (he is given a suspended sentence and one year probation) in 1977.

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26/02/2024

Columbia Records President Clive Davis signed Janis Joplin to an exclusive recording contract on February 26, 1968. She became one of the most successful and widely known rock performers of her era, she was noted for her powerful mezzo-soprano vocals, as well as her "electric" stage presence. Sadly, her star burned out way too soon as Janis Joplin died of a he**in overdose in 1970, at the age of 27, after releasing three albums (two with Big Brother and the Holding Company and one solo album). A second solo album, Pearl, was released in January 1971, just over three months after her death.

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26/02/2024

George Harrison, (born February 25, 1943, Liverpool, England—died November 29, 2001, Los Angeles, California), British musician, singer, and songwriter, who gained fame as the lead guitarist of the Beatles, one of the most important and influential bands in the history of rock music. A good deal of confusion as to his real birthday was solved when a family birth record noted him as being born shortly before midnight around 11:50 P.M. on February 24th, 1943. He had believed his birthday was February 25th for his entire life...most rock historians are sticking with the 25th, and so will we:

"My Sweet Lord" is a song by English musician George Harrison, released in November 1970 on his triple album All Things Must Pass. It was also released as a ...

24/02/2024

Rupert Holmes was born as David Goldstein on February 24, 1947, in England, but was raised in Manhattan. He wrote the Broadway musical "Drood" and created the cable TV show "Remember WENN"...and, of course, gave us the million-seller, "Escape (The Pina Colada Song)" late in the fall of 1979. His follow-up song "Him" was a #6 charter as well. Here's a 77th birthday toast to Rupert Holmes...CHEERS!🍾🥂🎂🥳😁😉

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23/02/2024

Better late than never!♥☺

23/02/2024

Simon & Garfunkel sang together for the first time in ten years as they received a Lifetime Achievement Grammy Award on February 23, 2003:

++ Standing audition at the end.Enjoy!~

22/02/2024

Florence Ballard, who was briefly the original lead singer of The Supremes, died of a heart attack on February 22, 1976, nine years after being forced out of the trio. Although she sang on numerous hits, including nine #1 singles, Flo passed away penniless while living on welfare with her three children. She was only thirty-two.
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flo sings "goin out of my head"

22/02/2024

James Hugh Loden ( May 1, 1929 - Feb 22, 2016 ), known professionally as Sonny James, was an American country music singer and songwriter best known for his 1957 hit, "Young Love". Dubbed the Southern Gentleman, James had 72 country and pop charted releases from 1953 to 1983, including an unprecedented five-year streak of 16 straight Billboard #1 singles among his 26 #1 hits. Twenty-one of his albums reached the country top ten from 1964 to 1976. In May 2007 Sonny, accompanied by his Southern Gentlemen, walked the red carpet and were inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame. James died eight years ago today at the age of 87. 🤔😮😢

Sonny James, 1958

21/02/2024

Although "My Generation" was a stiff ( #74) nationally at this time back in 1966, Program Director Bob Dell had it flying high on the WeeTac Fab 40! The late Keith Moon's motel antics in Flint are legendary, but it was February 21st in 1965 that Moon broke his manager's dishwasher when he used it to wash fruit! I wouldn't k-k-kid you! 🤪

Poco conocido clip de una aparición de The Who interprentado My Generation en la televisión francesa

20/02/2024

Born on an Indian reservation (Piapot Reserve) in Saskatchewan on February 20, 1941, folk singer/songwriter Buffy Sainte-Marie had her biggest commercial success with the Mickey Newbury/Townes Van Zandt written "Mister Can't You See"( #38) in the spring of '72 from the Vanguard album "Moonshot". In 1983, Buffy became the first indigenous person to win an Oscar. Her song "Up Where We Belong", co-written for the film An Officer and a Gentleman, won both the Academy Award for Best Original Song at the 55th Academy Awards and the Golden Globe for Best Original Song.
In 1997, she founded the Cradleboard Teaching Project, an educational curriculum devoted to better understanding Native Americans. HAPPY 83rd BIRTHDAY, BUFFY SAINTE-MARIE! 😉🎂😍

1972 Buffy Sainte-Marie performed three songs on the Underground News Show.This particular song "Mister Can't Y...

19/02/2024

FIFTY YEARS AGO: Smokey Robinson, Helen Reddy and Roger Miller were the co-hosts of the first American Music Awards show from Hollywood on February 19, 1974. The event was broadcast live on ABC-TV...on Smokey's 34th birthday!

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18/02/2024

It's hard to believe, but today John Travolta turns 70! 🤔😮🥳🤩 Born February 18, 1954, the actor, film producer, dancer, and singer first became known in the 1970s, appearing on the television series Welcome Back, Kotter (1975–1979) and starring in the box office successes Saturday Night Fever (1977) and Grease (1978). Although Travolta's biggest hits were duets with Olivia Newton-John, he had one solo top ten tune, "Let Her In" ( #10) in the summer of '76 on Midland Int'l.:

17/02/2024

Gene Pitney never recorded a bad record...while some charted higher than others, they all had that same powerful delivery. The kid from Connecticut was born on February 17, 1940. His first single under his own name, "I Wanna Love My Life Away," was issued around Thanksgiviing of 1960...eventually reaching #39 on Billboard. He recorded in the late '50s as Billy Bryan and in a duo as Jamie of Jamie & Jane. He went on to have twenty-four hits between 1961 and 1969, including "Only Love Can Break A Heart", "It Hurts To Be In Love", and "(The Man Who Shot) Liberty Valance." Gene was inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame in 2002 and died from a heart attack four years later at the age of 66. Here's a medley of some of his greatest hits:

Gene Pitney-Medley of Hits

16/02/2024

Decca Records felt that they had the answer to The Everly Brothers when the Kalin Twins roared out of the gates in the summer of 1958 with a Paul Evans penned tune called "When". It reached #5 on the Billboard Hot 100, but subsequent singles (with the exception of their follow-up "Forget Me Not" at #12) failed to make it into the coveted top 40. Herbie & Hal were born 90 years ago today: February 16, 1934 in Port Jervis, NY. Harold died in a car crash in 2005 and his twin brother Herbert died of a heart attack a year later:

15/02/2024

Connie Francis, Pat Boone and Jerry Lee Lewis performed on the first prime-time ABC-TV "Dick Clark Show" on February 15, 1958.

The Dick clark show 1958 live

14/02/2024

No mention of The Jones Boys on this WTRX Million $ Survey dated February 14, 1964. Do you recall the years that 1330 billed themselves as "The Home of The Jones Boys"? 🤔🙄🥹

14/02/2024

Here's a beautiful bouquet of tuneful treats for Valentine's Day! 🎼🎵🎶💓💌😍🥰

13/02/2024

Whether you grew up listening to WTAC during the 1960s, '70s or '80s...the one true constant was Johnny Cole, "The Merry Ole' Soul". We remember the 24 year voice of Big 600 radio today on his birthday: RIP JOHN ("Johnny Cole") CANTELON: February 13, 1933-October 10, 2017. ♪♪♥♪♪

13/02/2024

On February 13, 1981 Pink Floyd's "Dark Side Of The Moon" LP became rock's longest running chart album at 402 weeks. It went on for another 158 weeks (580 total)...That's almost eleven years! (Artwork courtesy of Hannah Florek)

12/02/2024

We were sure havin' fun back in '71🤔😲🥳🤩😉!

11/02/2024

Songwriter Gerry Goffin was born on February 11, 1939. Writing initially with his then wife Carole King, he co-wrote many international pop hits of the early and mid-1960s, including the No.1 hits "Will You Love Me Tomorrow", "Take Good Care of My Baby", "The Loco-Motion", and "Go Away Little Girl". It was later said of Goffin that his gift was "to find words that expressed what many young people were feeling but were unable to articulate." The Goffin/King relationship with the late Bobby Vee paid off big time as Vee cranked out hit after hit, including the double-sided hit "Run To Him" ( #2) b/w "Walkin' With My Angel" ( #53) late in 1961. During his career Goffin penned over 114 Billboard Hot 100 hits, including eight chart-toppers. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1990, with Carole King. Sadly, Bobby Vee died in October of 2016 without achieving his deserved RRHOF status. Gerry Goffin died in the summer of 2014 at the age of 75.

Bobby Vee performing "Take Good Care Of My Baby", released originally in 1961.It reached #1 in the US Billboard Hot 100, #1 in US Cash Box Top 100, #1 in the...

10/02/2024

"Those were the days, my friend...I thought they'd never end"🤔😲🤩🥰😉! (photo courtesy of Dean Sherwood)

10/02/2024

After composing the song "The Night The Lights Went Out In Georgia" on February 10, 1973, Bobby Russell offered the tune to Cher, who turned it down. Russell then gave it to his then wife, Vicki Lawrence, who had the #1 hit and sold well over a million copies! The song was a hit all over again when covered on the country charts by Reba McEntire in 1992.

cause the judge in the town has blood stains on his hands........

09/02/2024

To dismiss Barry Mann as a "One-Hit-Wonder" with "Who Put The Bomp" ( #7) in the summer of '61 on ABC-Paramount would be a terrible injustice to one of pop music's most prolific songwriters. In a partnership with Cynthia Weil, they wrote "You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'," "(You're My) Soul & Inspiration," "Kicks," "We've Gotta Get Out of This Place," "Hungry" and MANY others. Born Barry Iberman on February 9, 1939 in Brooklyn, he was part of "The Brill Building Sound" that produced so much of the great music that we grew up with! Have a happy #85, Barry...here's to many more! 🎂🥳🤩😁😉

Remix with the bass centered & boosted. A doo-wop style song with lyrics sending up some of the other songs of the era. This was a hit for Barry in Augus...