The Little River Band ... The Saga Continues
It's been an interesting week ... and a lot has changed ... but the story is now complete so we wanted to share it with you ... Kent,According to Little River Band's Facebook page today, they have...
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50 Year Flashback - January 12th, 1965
We stop next in Detroit where we find a drastically different WKNR chart than the WLS list we featured last week.For starters, The Beatles don't even make The Top 31! And "This Diamond Ring" by Gary...
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Check Out This Canadian Chart!
While working on our brand new chart feature "Flashback 50 Years", I came across this Canadian Chart from 1965 ... I found it unusual in that it showed both The "Canadien" Top 40 AND the "Americain"...
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Some Of Your Mid-Week Comments
re: Paul Revere's Raiders:We all know how bad radio is in not playing all the great hits we grew up with ... but it is extremely sad that a band doesn't play all their hits. Too Much Talk and Don't...
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ELVIS!
Last Thursday we celebrated what would have been Elvis Presley's 80th Birthday ... Today we share with you some of the feedback we received ... Enjoy! >>>SO many favorite and timeless...
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The Friday Flash
Haven't done one of these in a while!!! Here's what I could pull together quickly this morning before I had to run out the door!re: Elvis:Heard about this too late to include it in yesterday's piece...
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re: Are You A Fan Of Chicago '60's Rock?: Boy, what a time we had!!! The Buckinghams ... The Cryan' Shames ... The New Colony Six ... The Ides Of March ... The Shadows Of Knight ... in the...
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50 Year Flashback - January 19th, 1965
Here's a WHK Tunedex Chart from Lorain, Ohio.Check out Robert Goulet at #3!!! Frank Sinatra (#12), Ronnie Dove (#27), Bobby Vinton (#28), Dean Martin (#30), Jerry Vale (#36), Mel Carter (#38) and even...
View ArticleIt's Another Edition of Coppock's Topics!
The beauty of Rock' n Roll is that it creates vibrancy, energy, moods, expressions of feelings and constant reminders of moments that folks treasure in one form or another. It's also a genre that...
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re: Coppock's Topics: We called it! "Let the controversies and debates begin!!!" Our latest edition of "Coppock's Topics" spurred a few immediate responses, most of which came to the defense of Paul...
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The Forgotten Hits "Pledge Of Allegiance" to Paul Evans / And Music...
I've gotta tell you ... even after fifteen years of doing Forgotten Hits, I'm STILL surprised by which topics trigger our readers' hot button ... I would have NEVER expected this to be one of them ......
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50 Year Flashback - January 26th, 1965
Here's a look at what was popular down in Nashville, Tennessee, on this date in 1965, according to the WKDA Good Guys Survey.Joe Tex holds down the #1 spot (for at least the second week in a row) with...
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Hey, Buddy ...
re: The Surf Ballroom Winter Dance Party: Our buddies The Cadillac Casanovas are off to Clearlake, Iowa, for the annual Surf Ballroom Winter Dance Party ... they'll be appearing this Friday Night...
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A Few Of Your Mid-Week Comments
re: Super Bowl: This just in to the Bronco Buelly Sports Department! Super Bowl Officials are contemplating changing the Half Time Show Performance by Katy Perry to a more timely and relatable group...
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Thursday This And That
Still sorting through about the last 12 days of mail ... Here are a few that caught my eye ... they might catch yours, too! re: This And That: Gloria Estefan and The Miami Sound Machine are...
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50 Year Flashback - February 2nd, 1965
Here's an in-store chart published by Shoppers World / Record Center USA, spotlighting their 30 biggest sellers for the week, February 1st, 1965.Petula Clark replaces The Searchers at #1 with...
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56 Years Ago Today
re: The Day The Music Died:Today marks the 56th Anniversary of the plane crash that took Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and The Big Bopper from us. February 3, 1959 ... forever immortalized in Don...
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The Marty Grebb Benefit Concert Update
The Benefit Concert For Marty Grebb is now being calledCHICAGO MUSIC 60's STYLE!A Fundraiser for Chicago Musician Marty Grebb The performing line-up is still be finalized (and more acts are expected to...
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Feedback On The Chicago Music '60's Style / Fundraiser For Marty Grebb
Reaction was good ... and immediate ... those of us who grew up here in Chicago LOVE the music created by our Local Heroes ... and we can't wait to see them perform many of their hits once again. To...
View ArticleBowzer's Doo-Wop Concert
As promised yesterday, here is a review of Bowzer's Doo-Wop Concert, submitted by Forgotten Hits Reader Shelley Sweet-Tufano ... Bowzer is very proud of the fact that his idea of presenting a Doo Wop...
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