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Tuesday This And That
Best Classic Bands has come up with an interesting concept …The Top Ten Best SECOND Albums by a Recording ArtistWe’ve seen it more times than we can count …A brand new, breakthrough artist releases...
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Another Anniversary
Much attention was paid to the 50th Anniversary of the premier of the landmark television series "All In The Family" yesterday ... and deservedly so. The Norman Lear comedy set new standards for what...
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THE FRIDAY FLASH
BATMAN:>>>Never before in prime time was a series able to commandeer an audience for two nights a week ... and keep them coming back for more again and again and again (kk)In the early to...
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The Weekend Comments
Man, I just LOVE it when all this stuff times out together … with virtually NO input from me whatsoever! (lol)First, I got this email from FH Reader Mike Lane …Hi Kent -I'm still a daily visitor to...
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1971 SUPERCHART: Week Ending January 23rd
This week's top three songs hold their positions from the week before ... while "Lonely Days" and King Floyd's "Groove Me" move into The Top Five.Elton John's first US Hit "Your Song" climbs from #9 to...
View ArticleSoulful Monday
We're doing something just a little bit different today for MLK Day ... and with Black History Month only two weeks away.We took a look at every #1 Hit from 1960 - 1980 that topped Billboard's R&B...
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Tuesday This And That
Of course the lead story this weekend was the death of famed Record Producer Phil Spector.Spector created “The Wall Of Sound” by massively layering multiple instruments on top of each other, often...
View ArticleJIMMIE RODGERS
Popular '50's / '60's Singer Jimmie Rodgers passed away on Monday, January 18th. No official cause of death was given.Signed to Morris Levy’s Roulette Records, Rodgers hit #1 with his very first...
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Thursday This And That
It isn’t very often that you see Forgotten Hits and Rolling Stone Magazine mentioned in the same sentence … I think it’s maybe happened three or four times over the past 22 years (!) … so it was...
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The Friday Flash
I missed Elvis on ‘Sullivan’ – was only five years old. My parents watched the show religiously; I usually took a pass. But after February 9, 1964, when I was 12 ½, I became a regular viewer. It wasn’t...
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The Weekend Comments
We lost another major baseball icon yesterday when Henry “Hank” Aaron passed away at the age of 86. Aaron was a one-of-a-kind player that fans knew early on would be the one to break the great Babe...
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1971 SUPERCHART: Week Ending January 30th
As we close out the month of January, "Knock Three Times" notches its third week at #1 while "Lonely Days" moves up a couple of places to now rank at #2. "My Sweet Lord" is still hanging on, spending...
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Monday Morning
Kent, A very nice tribute to Hank Aaron, back when ball players still had to work in the off season to help feed their families. By the way, my dad and I were in attendance in 1973 when Hammerin' Hank...
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SOME OF YOUR MID-WEEK COMMENTS
I don’t know if we’ve ever started a posting with The Clip Of The Week before or not … but THIS one’s just TOO good to pass up! (kk)Hi Kent,With all the deaths lately, be it Covid, other illness, or...
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THE FRIDAY FLASH
>>>As most of you already know, we just LOVE 1967!!! We even devoted an entire YEAR to celebrating the sights, sounds and events of our all-time favorite year in music. (Scroll back to the...
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COVEN
We have covered the rock group Coven a few times before in Forgotten Hits ... but always as more of a "One Hit Wonder" salute than anything deeper in the way of a profile of the band. Their hit, "One...
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1971 Super Chart: WEEK ENDING FEBRUARY 6th
"Knock Three Times" notches its fourth consecutive week at #1, thus tying it with George Harrison's "My Sweet Lord" for the most weeks at #1 in this relatively new year. (So far these are the ONLY two...
View ArticleBLACK HISTORY MONTH
We salute Black History Month with a look back at the biggest #1 Hits of EVERY February, 1950 - 2000 ...50+ Years of #1 Hits, as reported on Billboard Magazine's R&B Soul ChartsFebruary, 1950 - I...
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Tuesday This And That
Got this from FH Reader Bob Merlis, on behalf of The ABKCO Family …Sadly, more sad news as another one of our musical heroes leaves us …Hilton ValentineMay 21, 1943 – January 29, 2021We, along with all...
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Remembering Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and The Big Bopper - On The 62nd...
Rather than even attempt to come up with something new after all this time ... when there is really nothing I can add in any way, shape or form to all that has already been said ...I decided instead...
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