I was VERY sad to hear about the passing of Jerry Moss, one half of the "M" in A&M Records.
There is no question that Herb Alpert garnered the lion’s share of the attention (the fact that he was one of the label’s most celebrated and successful artists certainly didn’t hurt!), but together they made a dynamic team … building a company that put the artists first ... and, along the way, became one of the largest independent record labels of that era.
A concert honoring and celebrating the life of Jerry Moss has been rescheduled for January … with a virtual Who’s Who of former A&M artists participating …
From Ken Voss …
A&M’s line-up boasted a wide variety of musical styles …
everything from Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass and Sergio Mendes and Brasil
66 to Peter Frampton, Free and Joe Cocker … The Carpenters and The Police … Cat
Stevens, Bryan Adams and The Captain and Tennille … Sheryl Crow, Styx and Amy
Grant … Rita Coolidge, Janet Jackson and Billy Preston … Supertramp … the list
goes on and on. (kk)
On the mend, Madonna has now rescheduled her “Celebration” tour.
Because of the lengthy delay due to recent health issues, more shows had to be cancelled due to scheduling conflicts … and many others (including some of her postponed dates) have been rescheduled for new dates and, in some cases, new venues.
The announcement comes exactly one month after the show was originally scheduled to kick off (July 15th) in Vancouver.
Now set to kick off with four sold-out shows in London beginning on October 14th, Mags will spend most of the rest of 2023 in other countries … including Belgium, Denmark, Sweden, Spain, Portugal, France, Germany, Italy and the Netherlands.
Her first US concert will take place on December 13th in Brooklyn … followed by shows in Boston, Seattle, Chicago, Las Vegas, Atlanta and Los Angeles. (Some of the new cancelled shows, due to scheduling conflicts, include Tulsa, Nashville, San Francisco, Las Vegas and Phoenix.
Madonna’s full, updated itinerary is shown below:
December 13th, 14th and 16th — Brooklyn, N.Y. — Barclays Center
December 18th and 19th - Washington, D.C. — Capital One Arena
January 8th and 9th — Boston, Mass. — TD Garden
January 11th and 12th — Toronto, Canada — Scotiabank Arena
January 15th — Detroit, Mich. — Little Caesars Arena
January 18th and 20th — Montreal, Canada — Bell Centre
January 22nd and 23rd — New York, N.Y. — Madison Square Garden
January 25th — Philadelphia, Penn. — Wells Fargo Center
January 29th — New York, N.Y. — back to Madison Square Garden
February 1st and 2nd — Chicago, Ill. — United Center
February 5th — Pittsburgh, Penn. — PPG Paints Arena
February 8th — Cleveland, Ohio — Rocket Mortgage Field House
February 13th — Saint Paul, Minn. — Xcel Energy Center
February 17th and 18th — Seattle, Wash. — Climate Pledge Arena
February 21st — Vancouver, Canada — Rogers Arena
February 24th — Sacramento, Calif. — Golden 1 Center
February 27th and 28th — San Francisco, Calif. — Chase Center
March 1st and 2nd — Las Vegas, Nev. — T-Mobile Arena
March 4th, 5th, 7th, 9th and 11th — Los Angeles, Calif. — Kia Forum
March 13th — Palm Desert, Calif. — Acrisure Arena
March 16th — Phoenix, Ariz. — Footprint Center
March 19 — Denver, Colo. — Ball Arena
March 24th and 25th — Dallas, Texas— American Airlines Center
March 28th and 29th — Houston, Texas — Toyota Center
April 1st — Atlanta, Ga. — State Farm Arena
April 4th — Tampa, Fla. — Amalie Arena
April 6th and 7th — Miami, Fla. — Kaseya Center
April 14th and 15th — Austin, Texas — Moody Center
April 20th, 21st, 23rd and 24th — Mexico City — Palacio De Los Deportes
Shania Twain is returning to Las Vegas next year for a 24-show residency at The Bakkt Theater at Planet Hollywood Resort and Casino.
Shows kick of in May. (This will be Shania’s THIRD residency in Las Vegas since 2012.) kk
I just discovered your website and wanted to make a correction to your Carpenters narrative …
In The Category: More Stories Behind the Songs ... and the Remakes
Under The Entry: The Carpenters
A Correction Regarding: We've Only Just Begun
The song was written by Paul Williams as a musical background for a Crocker Bank (wedding themed) commercial. Crocker Bank was a chain of financial banking institutions in southern California. Crocker Bank was not an insurance company, as stated in the Carpenters narrative. Perfectionist that he is, I'm surprised Richard Carpenter hasn't written to you about the origin of "We've Only Just Begun." :)
Thanks and take care,
Glenn Potkowa
Orchard Park, New York
P.S. I will be sending in "My First 45" story in the near future.
Unfortunately, everything on that website is now “frozen in time” …
The service no longer allows me to make changes to it … so I can’t correct The Carpenters piece or add your First 45 to our long list of entries.
However, I have been looking at other options regarding moving all of this information to another site … it just requires hundreds of hours of work to do so. (And I don’t want to shut the old one down because it is thru that site that I am able to use my kk@forgottenhits.com email address!)
Stuck between a rock and a hard place for right now …
But hopefully things will change.
Meanwhile, I will be happy to run your First 45 story as part of our on-going, damn-near daily blog! (Hope you’re liking what you see … and, if you are, please tell a friend … or two … or twenty!!!) kk
Kent:
I am always fascinated by the charts around the country ... which is why I enjoyed the year of weekly charts that you ran ... always fun to find records that didn't hit any national charts but hit the local chart.
Back in the day mainly in the late ‘50’s and early ‘60’s, KIMN (who I grew up listening to) would change around the Top 10 frequently and, of course, there were always the local artists (i.e. Gary Stites, the Astronauts, Sugarloaf, Moonrakers, Soul Survivors (not the black group but a local white group) would end up at least in the Top 10.
Thanks for all you do ... it's amazing.
Ted Scott
My two fave Record Research books are Across
The Charts - the 1960s and the Chart Comparison book.
I'd love for Paul and company to undertake another Across The Charts book for
the 1970s!
And has it been discussed here before - that we should have an annual Joel
Whitburn day or better yet, week on Forgotten Hits!
Mike Markesich
We did celebrate Joel Whitburn Day last November …
https://forgottenhits60s.blogspot.com/2022/11/joel-whitburn-day.html
And I’d be all for doing it again this year … or turning it into an annual event … as long as readers continue to contribute material that we can run. (Record Research has a new publication coming out in September featuring all of the charted hits from 1990 – 2022 … maybe Paul Haney would even be interested in doing some type of give-away in conjunction with more celebration of all the ways that Joel’s books enriched our lives. (I have said at least 50 times … there is not a single day that goes by where I don’t consult at least one of them for one reason or another … they’re invaluable to me!)
So Readers (and Paul!), kick it around and see what kind of celebration we can kick up for this November! (kk)
“ABBA – The Movie” is coming back to selected cinemas throughout Europe for two days only (September 17th and 19th).
With a fully-restored soundtrack (and additional bonus footage that includes ABBA – The Museum and ABBA – The Voyage … as well as some recently added archival footage), it’ll be like seeing the movie again for the very first time (which, hopefully, will lead to a far better experience THAN seeing it for the first time … because it was really pretty awful! And I like these guys!) kk
Our FH Buddy Billy James (of Glass Onyon Productions) sent us THIS promotional piece about ANOTHER one of our FH Buddies, Tommy Roe …
Sixties Hitmaker Tommy Roe Releases New Album “From Here to Here”
American Singer/Songwriter Tommy Roe had several top hits in the 60’s and 70’s starting in 1962 with “Sheila.” That same year, Tommy headlined a British Tour with Chris Montez - their warmup band was called The Beatles! After that tour, other hits followed: “Everybody” (1963), “The Folk Singer” (1964), “Sweet Pea” (1966), “Hooray for Hazel” (1966), The Worldwide #1 Hit “Dizzy” (1969) and “Jam Up and Jelly Tight” (1970). Tommy also wrote other hits for other artists.
He continued to write throughout the 70’s, 80’s, 90’s and 2000’s, many times with songwriting partners Mac Davis and Freddy Weller of Paul Revere and The Raiders fame. Tommy’s catalog continues to be recorded by artists worldwide.
This new album is called “From Here to Here” and it is a collection of new songs recorded at Solar Studios and produced by Michael Franklin. Tommy and Michael have been lifelong friends and the band on many of the tracks, Paul Parker, Tim Franklin and Michael Franklin, were in Tommy’s touring band for many years. Four of the songs were originally recorded in 2012, including “Devil’s Soul Pile,” which went to #1 on the Adult Contemporary charts.
Track
listing:
Devil's Soul Pile
Traffic Jam
Midnight Lights
Without Her
A Rose, A Candle and You
Frenchy and The Cowboy
If I were a Carpenter
Heather Honey
LA I Belong to You
Kick Me Charlie
Tommy
Roe - Guitar and Vocals.
Tommy Calton - Acoustic 6 String and 12 string Guitar, Electric Guitars
Tim Franklin - Electric Bass and String Bass,
Michael Franklin - Wurlitzer, Bosendorfer Grand, Kurzweil and B-3
Paul Parker - Drums
Matt Brown - Drums on “Heather Honey,” “Frenchy” & “Traffic Jam”
Steady Joseph - Percussion on “Midnight Lights”
Randie Paul - Backing Vocals on “Devil’s Soul Pile”
Suzie Parks Hosmer - Backing Vocals on “Traffic Jam”
Charlie DeChant - Harmonica on “Kick Me Charlie,” and Sax on “Traffic Jam”
Danny Jordan - Sax on “Midnight Lights”
Brian Snapp - Flute on “If I Were a Carpenter”
Benoit Lajeunesse - Violin on “A Rose A Candle” and “Heather Honey”
Olga Kopalova - Violin on “If I Were a Carpenter”
Paul Fleury - Cello on “If I Were a Carpenter”
Tim Franklin - String bass on “Traffic Jam” and “If I Were A Carpenter.”
Recorded
at Solar Studios, Recorded, Mixed and Mastered by Matt Brown
Produced and arranged by Michael Franklin for Solar Music.
“Devil’s Soul Pile,” “Without Her”, “If I Were A Carpenter” & “Kick Me
Charlie” Mastered by Rodney Mills
“Traffic
Jam” written by Tommy Roe and Mac Davis, published by Bike Music
“If I Were A Carpenter” written by Tim Hardin, published by Faithful Virtue
Music, BMI
Frenchy & Cowboy written by Tommy Roe & Mike Stewart, published Roeboat
Music, BMI
All other songs written by Tommy Roe and published by Roeboat Music BMI
Solar Music @2022
To purchase: https://solarmusic.com/tommy-roe/
I just love it when artists show just how cool they really are.
Case in point: Michael Buble (of all people!) joining Dave Grohl and The Foo Fighters live on stage to sing his hit “Haven’t Met You Yet.”
The set-up was hilarious … but the guys pulled it off … and had a blast doing so … and the entire audience was taken along for the ride. (Between this and Grohl’s tribute to The Bee Gees a year ago or so, this guy just continues to win me over with not only his charisma, but also his deep love and appreciation for all things music.)
You can read the full account (and catch the video) here:
