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11-24
60 YEARS AGO TODAY:11/24/63 – Jack Ruby shoots and kills Lee Harvey Oswald, the man accused of assassinating President Kennedy, as he is walked through a basement hallway en route to another holding...
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THE SATURDAY SURVEY
The Saturday Survey is back in Forgotten Hits ...THE CHART: 60 YEARS AGO TODAY ... 11/25/63 – The funeral for President John F. Kennedy is held in Washington, DC, after which his body is moved to...
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Happy Anniversary, Baby!
Hard as it is for me to believe, today we begin our 25th year of doing Forgotten Hits.It all started out innocently enough over Thanksgiving Weekend, 1999, as an emailed newsletter to 35 friends I'd...
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Monday Morning Madness
Our new 60 YEARS AGO TODAY feature kicked off on November 22nd in honor of the 60th Anniversary of the assassination of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy … (hardly a celebartory event, but we had to...
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Concert Review: Jay and the Americans (Rich Turner)
Kent, I saw recently you had a post about the upcoming Happy Together Tour scheduled for next summer and you mentioned that it is a shame that most of these bands do not have many original members...
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It's Our Second Annual JOEL WHITBURN DAY
We lost Joel Whitburn a couple of years ago and have been celebrating his birthday to honor the man who started the Record Research Company, responsible for all the great chart books produced over the...
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Shelley and Chicago!
Me: I'm sorry, I can't tonight. I'm going to see Chicago.Friend: You're going to Chicago? We have school tomorrow!Me: No. Not the city, the band. Remember Chicago Transit Authority?Friend: You're at...
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Chuck Buell Wants To Know: How Was YOUR Thanksgiving Dinner?
Did you dine out for Thanxgiving this year! You weren’t seen at THE Place to be seen! Were you at the Forgotten Hits Café? If so, you already know that while you were waiting for your Dessert to be...
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Rock Royalty ... And Another Concert Review From Shelley ...
... and this sounds like a GREAT one! Here I am, back at the Toyota Oakdale Theatre on a Wednesday night. Highly against my teaching work ethic, so why? It is not very often that The Beach Boys are 25...
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Monday Massive Mega Mucho Material For Your Consideration (12-4)
We're going to spend a few days catching up to do again this week ... So let's get right to it! Demand was so great for presale tickets to The Rolling Stones’ concerts that they jammed the AARP site …...
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Tuesday This And That (12-5)
THE COWSILLS ROAR INTO HOLIDAY SEASON WITH A CHRISTMAS OFFERING 2024 TOUR DATES BOOKING NOW INCLUDE THE CUTTING ROOM (NYC) FEBRUARY 11 AND A RETURN TO HAPPY TOGETHER TOUR NEXT SUMMER In the wake of the...
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12/6
60 YEARS AGO TODAY: 12/6/63 – The first Beatles Fan Club Christmas Record is sent out to members of The Beatles' fan club in England.It was a five minute romp of clowning around and saying "thank you"...
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Thursday This And That
We've got a little old AND new for you again today ... The Kennedy Honors took place on Sunday, December 3rd, and Billy Crystal, Renée Fleming, Barry Gibb, Queen Latifah and Dionne Warwick were...
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December 8th, 1963
60 YEARS AGO TODAY:12/8/63 – Frank Sinatra, Jr. is kidnapped at Harah's Lake Tahoe (Room 417.) He is safely returned three days later after the ransom of $240,000 was paid. (This is the equivalent of...
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THE SATURDAY SURVEY: 12-9
THE CHART: 60 YEARS AGO TODAY: 12/9/63 – Hot on the heels of his Top Three Hit, "Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport," the REAL Rolf Harris stands up on “To Tell The Truth” Watch it here:...
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The Sunday Comments ( 12 - 10 - 23 )
Sharing a very old Christmas photo ... Now we all know that Bob Dylan’s no dummy … But based on this picture sent in by Timmy, the guy he’s hangin’ out with sure is! (kk) Wait a second ... isn't he...
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The Great FRANKIE VALLI
FRANKIE VALLI: "The Last Encores Tour"I know Frankie Valli has stated that (at age 89), this is his last tour. However, with this being his last ENCORE tour, he can use this phrase to adapt the tour...
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A Cornerstones of Rock Extravaganza!!!
Hey Kent, So I have been following your blog since around 2013 and through it I have learned about a lot of concert happenings in your neck of the woods, the Chicago area. I see a lot of concerts down...
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12-13
From our "Hot Hollywood Starlets" monitor, Chuck Buell, we just got this ...Taylor Swift just realized this morning that she’s 34 today!( I have Lady Friends who say they should look so good at her...
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