Big Daddy
The premise of Big Daddy was that this was a '50's band that got stranded on a desert island ...And weren't rescued until the 1980's.Once they got back home, they decided to pepper up their stage act...
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50 Year Flashback - June 22nd, 1965
This week's chart comes from KENO, the "official" top tunes survey of Las Vegas.Herman's Hermits top the chart this week with their version of the Sam Cooke classic "Wonderful World". (It would be a...
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Tuesday This And That
re: Father's Day / The First Day Of Summer:It doesn't happen every year ... sometimes not even every seven!!! So we thought we'd take advantage of this alignment of the planets and kill two birds...
View ArticleThe Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame Nominating Committee
We recently told you about The Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame eliminating SIXTEEN members of its Nominating Committee ... evidently in some not-so-hidden agenda move to further minimize any chance of...
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Thursday This And That
I got this notice last week from Charlie Gracie, Jr., but never had a chance to run it ... CHARLIE GRACIE and SIR PAUL McCARTNEY TO MEET AGAIN THIS WEEKENDSTANDING BY FOR DETAILS AND INSTRUCTION...
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The Friday Flash
Ron Onesti just scored another coup!Tonight, The Arcada Theatre will be broadcasting the Grateful Dead concert LIVE from Soldier Field! This is the last stop on their "Fare Thee Well" Tour and the...
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HAPPY TOGETHER - 2015
The reviews are starting to come in for this year's edition of The Happy Together Tour ... and, as usual, they're astouding.The show has expanded to SIX headliners this year: The Buckinghams, The...
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50 Year Flashback - June 29th, 1965
Check out the #2 song this week on the KEWB Survey ...It's Paul Revere and the Raiders' version of "Louie Louie", a record first released back in 1963 where it fell victim of the power of The...
View ArticleThe Best Music of the '60's ... (aka The World According To Chet!)
A short while back we did a #1 comparison list of records that topped the three most-prominent music trades, Billboard Magazine, Cash Box Magazine and Music Vendor / Record World Magazine. The series...
View ArticleA Fresh, Up-To-Date Look At The Wrecking Crew and Love And Mercy
Vintage Vinyl News is reporting that due to the overwhelming success of Brian Wilson's movie 'Love and Mercy' which has opened in the US to critical acclaim, Brian has had to postpone his current UK...
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Thursday This And That
re: Chet's Top 200 List: You and Chet on the radio? Now THAT would be a song! Your version needs to be 'Me and Chet and the radio'. If I can get that station, I would listen. You need some sort...
View ArticleBrian Wilson / Love And Mercy
Here is my take on today's revised review. To make a movie that is commercially successful in today's world, the movie has to be about two hours long. Just like a hit song in the early to mid 60s that...
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Happy Together, 2015
Saw the first Happy Together tour in 1984. Still have the program. sanvtoman Incredible to think that they've been doing this (and quite successfully, I might add!) for nearly thirty years now. (They...
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