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THE SUNDAY COMMENTS ( 12 - 18 - 22 )
Rascals Drummer Dino Danelli passed away on Thursday, December 15th. He had not been well for a while … Felix Cavaliere disclosed a few months ago that he had first approached Dino about joining him...
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1972 Coast-To-Coast Surveys: WEST VIRGINIA - December 18th
"Crocodile Rock," Elton John's latest, leaps into the #1 spot this week (up from #10) to lead the pack in Charleston, West Virginia. Billy Paul's "Me And Mrs. Jones," which we've already seen top the...
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Forgotten Hits Remembers Charlie Gracie
We were VERY sad to hear that early rock pioneer Charlie Gracie passed away on Saturday, December 17th. He was 86. Charlie and his son, Charlie, Jr., were long-time friends of Forgotten Hits … and we...
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Insights Into ... Our 2022 Insights Feature
INSIGHTS INTO FINAL CHAPTER:Last week we wrapped up the final chapter in our special "Insights Into" Series, all based on the EXCELLENT book series put together by Jeff March and Marti Smiley Childs,...
View ArticleGood Old-Fashioned Forgotten Hits
The other day I mentioned that I have been listening to more of the Rewound Radio WLS / WCFL Labor Day Weekend radio special and enjoying hearing some of these songs that were new at the time ......
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The Friday Flash
Here’s a great way to kick off Christmas Eve Eve … FH Geoff Lambert (who publishes his own weekly oldies news sheet on the weekends) ran this story about the origins of Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer …...
View ArticlePhil Nee Shares Another Series of Great Interviews With Us on Christmas Eve!
Happy Holidays to all from Richland Center, Wisconsin. Today I have three gifts from the treasure trove off tapes. We begin featuring a cut from a 1996 interview with Brenda Lee. She began...
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MERRY CHRISTMAS! (Part One)
Rewound Radio celebrates Christmas by counting down The Big 89 of 1969 from WLS ...It all kicks off at Noon Eastern TODAY, Christmas Day ... and you can listen along...
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MERRY CHRISTMAS! (Part Two)
Just in case you missed any of the Rewound Radio rebroadcast of The WLS Big 89 of 1969 ...Or just want to see where some of your favorites landed ...Here is a copy of their special Year-End Survey...
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Coast To Coast Surveys - 1972 - DECEMBER 24th - OREGON
Looks like that affair between Billy Paul and Mrs. Jones is still going strong this week in '72. (Wonder what he got her for Christmas!)Some big movers on this week's KGW Music Machine Chart ...The...
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Tuesday This And That
All hail to Kent, who makes this happen. Super Scribe! Happy Holidays! And thank you for all you do!Mike DeMartino A great piece on the late Thom Bell...
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Me-TV’s got a great programming idea planned for New Year’s Day … An all-day salute to “Firsts on the First” … pilot episodes from some of your favorite television shows from the ‘60’s. These include...
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Today Chuck Buell Asks The Musical Question: What Are You Doing New Year's...
Whatever your plans are for celebrating New Year’s Eve, going out, staying home or a combination of both … ( By the Way, nobody ever told me that 20-20 was going to be a Trifecta! ) I hope you and your...
View ArticlePhil Nee Interviews Randy Bachman
2022 draws to a close with one last interview by Phil Nee, who has graced this column nearly every Saturday this past year, sharing conversations from his archives of nearly forty years with WRCO Radio...
View ArticleThe Top 72 Songs of 1972
As we do every year (as part of our Fifty Year Flashback Series), today we are featuring THE TOP 72 SONGS OF 1972, compiled by data accumulated from all of the major trade publications (as well as also...
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Coast-To-Coast Surveys - 1972 (into 1973) - December 31st - ALASKA
Wrapping up this year's special survey features, we make our final stop in Alaska to look at this KNOM chart from Nome, Alaska And who would have thought that Country Music would be so big in Alaska...
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Tuesday This And That
A nice New Year’s message from Al Jardine’s main man … Sending you good vibes and the warmth of the sun in 2023 –Happy New Year, everyone, and thanks for all your support of Al Jardine this year!Enjoy...
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You'll ALWAYS Find Something Worth Reading in FORGOTTEN HITS!
Even when there's nothing new posted to the site, you've still got PLENTY of options for reading what's already here ...Literally THOUSANDS of articles from the past 24 years ...And ALL kinds of ways...
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The Sunday Comments ( 01 - 08 - 23 )
It's our first SUNDAY COMMENTS Page of the new year ...(Time's been scarce ... and so have we ... but as pointed out yesterday, there are still THOUSANDS of articles here on the site available to read...
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Good morning, Kent:Just a minor correction for you and your readers:Kent wrote:>>>While Bowie never got the chance to sing with Elvis, he DID do a very memorable duet with Bing Crosby in 1982!...
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