Reader Concert Review: DARYL HALL and TODD RUNDGREN
Daryl Hall – Todd Rundgren review I was pleasantly surprised last Thursday to find that my wife had just purchased tickets to Friday night’s Daryl Hall – Todd Rundgren concert at the Auditorium Theater...
View ArticlePHIL NEE - April 9th
Today we head to the tape archives to share the backgrounds of two of the 'kookiest' records to come out of the Midwest in the 1960's. With Easter approaching, I thought it might be appropriate to...
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THE SUNDAY COMMENTS ( 04 - 10 - 22 )
MORE BOBBY: kk … I GIVE UP ... WE’VE LOST THE BATTLEScott Shannon Had To Explain To His Co-Host, Patty, Who Bobby Rydell Is.WCBS-FM, Once One Of The Greatest Oldies Stations In The Nation, Has An...
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1972 Surveys - April 8th - Louisiana
This somewhat soulful survey from WTIX features some rather high-charting titles you don't always see on a 1972 Top 40 list ...Tracks like "Help Me Make It Through The Night" by Gladys Knight and the...
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Tuesday This And That
Tossing my 98 cents in here (plus the 4 cents tax) ...In the late 1950s, my cousin, who is ten years my senior and lived upstairs of me, would give me his 45s when he grew tired of them.A few examples...
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MAGICAL MONKEES MOMENTS - April, 1969
Monkees archivist Gary Stobl once again shares some Magical Monkees Memory Moments with our Forgotten Hits Readers ... MAGICAL MONKEES MOMENTS
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HENRY DILTZ's JOURNAL - April 15th, 1970
They say that timing is everything ...And, as it turns out this month, we end up with back-to-back MAGICAL MONKEES MOMENTS!!! (I say, You Can't Beat That!!!)This time around, Legendary Rock...
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Insights Into ... ANNE MURRAY
Each and every month this year we'll be bringing you interviews that Jeff March and Marti Smiley-Childs have done in their excellent book series "Where Have All The Pop Stars Gone."One of my personal...
View ArticleSWEET 16 - This Month Asking The Musical Question ... "Well, Do Ya, Punk???"
BONUS TRACK:Does this one count???
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THE (Easter) SUNDAY COMMENTS
Voting for the Fan Ballot for this year’s Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame Nominees ends on Friday, April 29th… but you can vote once daily between now and then if you choose...
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1972 SURVEYS: April 15th - CHUM / Canada
In order to fill 53 Mondays this year with only 50 states to choose from, we've had to "expand" our base. As such, you'll find TWO charts from Chicago this year, a chart from Washington, D.C. and...
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Our LONG Overdue Review of HAPPY GO LUCKY ME - The Paul Evans Biography That...
I say long overdue because we've been talking about doing this review for at least eight or nine months now!While I've mentioned the book several times in Forgotten Hits during that period ... even...
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The Forgotten Hits / Paul Evans Interview - Part One
Which hopefully reads more like a conversation ...Which essentially is exactly what it was ...(The interview part comes later!) KENT KOTAL / FORGOTTEN HITS: Hey Paul, great to talk to you again ... I...
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The Forgotten Hits / Paul Evans Interview - Part Two
More of our EXCLUSIVE interview with Paul Evans, today in Forgotten HitsIn addition to having his own hits, Paul Evans was successfully placing songs with other artists as a songwriter.The biggest, of...
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PART THREE: Forgotten Hits Interviews Paul Evans
Today in Forgotten Hits, we wrap up our four part series with Paul Evans, talking about his new book "Happy Go Lucky Me: A Lifetime Of Music" by having a very candid conversation addressing where I...
View ArticleThis Week Phil Nee Talks to Duane Eddy!
Today we honor the great Duane Eddy. He was born April 26th, 1938, and rose to fame in the early days of American Bandstand. In a 2005 interview on my WRCO radio show, I asked him about his early...
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THE SUNDAY COMMENTS ( 04 - 24 - 22 )
DICK CLARK:Hard to believe, but Dick Clark has been gone ten years now.Here is just one of several tributes we saw to America’s Oldest Teenager...
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1972 SURVEYS: April 27th - Chicago (Part 2)
As explained last week, in order to come up with 53 different charts from all 50 states, we had to "double up" on Chicago, where TWO great Top 40 giants ruled the airwaves in 1972.We featured the WLS...
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Some of Your PAUL EVANS Feedback
It looks like our 4-Part PAUL EVANS Series was a hit!!! DAY ONE: Not Bad!!!The very first day our Paul Evans Series ran, we were able to get Paul on the radio on Ken “Kojak” Rappaport’s “1960’s Jukebox...
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New Music From TOMMY ROE
One of the nicest guys I have ever met in the music business has got to be Tommy Roe ...Between 1962 and 1971, Tommy placed fifteen songs in The National Top 40. These include the #1 Hits "Sheila"...
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