Great review - Love the photos! Glad we were
able to get you in for the show. See you in August, if not sooner!!
Donna
Thanks, Donna! (For the benefit of our readers, there was a little ticket
snafu at The Genesee the other night for the Jim Peterik / Carl Giammarese Show, but thankfully Donna and Larry Frievalt
were on the case and took care of things in time for us to catch the second
show. And The Genesee truly did a beautiful job of setting the mood for The Cabaret Room. (kk)
Jim Peterik joked about it
afterwards …
I’m so sorry,
Kent.
Thank you sooo much for coming to the show.
I’m so sorry, Kent … Sorry our wires got crossed …
Bob and I each
thought the other guy was doing it. Our bad! But All Good!
It was a fun intimate set and I thought Carl and I
were a nice contrast!
Thanks again for coming and Thank God you’re a
famous guy yourself! Lol!
Ba da ba ba ba. BA!!!!!
Much love
Jimbo
And then …
Thx for the excellent review, Kent! You’re
the best.
Thank you for coming ... You just made my day!
Jimbo
PS - And you are correct ... I LIVE to perform!
Jp
Rock on!!
Jimbo
I heard from Carl Giammarese,
too …
Kent,
Thank you and
Frannie for coming out and joining us. Sorry
we didn’t get to talk after the show but due to COVID they rushed everyone out
and wouldn’t let us visit with anyone.
It was a fun
night for me! It was nervous anticipation after more than a year away from the
stage and then that format. I really enjoyed it! Hopefully we can do more of
them so we can reach that comfort level. You learn from each show so you can
play off each other. Glad you came.
I appreciate
your perspective and review of the show. Yes, I am hoping we can do this again.
I actually had a lot more stories to tell but realized we were limited with
time.
All the best,
Carl
If by some chance you missed the review, scroll back to Monday's post to see it. (kk)
Hi Kent,
Your concert review of Carl
Giammarese and Jim Peterik – “Live at The Genesee Theatre Cabaret Room“ was fun
to read. Sounds like a great show.
It’s so great to see Carl and
Jimbo back where they belong -- performing on stage in front of a live
audience. "Live audience" never sounded so good. Thankfully,
things are opening up here in Chicago, and we are looking forward to many good
times ahead.
Hey, maybe we’ll be able to hold
our big fundraiser for the Dick Biondi documentary after all. Fingers
crossed. Thanks, Kent!
Pam Pulice
Director “The Voice That Rocked
America: The Dick Biondi Story”
https://www.dickbiondifilm.com/
Hi Kent,
Enjoyed reading about Carl and Jim's show. And the
photos you took were great to see!
Maybe more of our Chicago stars will have similar
shows in the near future if we can't go back to traditional concerts right
away?
Good seeing a music survey from 1971. My favorites
are a couple you don't hear that often … 'Stay Awhile' and 'Love Her Madly.'
Keep the Music Alive!!!!
Carolyn
Hey, kk, thanks for keeping the music, memories and the
spirit alive from the greatest period in music radio history ...
“And the hits just keep on coming!“
Cheers!
Ron Riley - WLS 1963 to 1969
And Former WLS DeeJay Chuck Buell saluted Former WLS DeeJay Ron Riley for his comical post the other day ...
Hey, Kent,
I loved the “We Are the Band” cartoon Former Great WLS Radio
Personality, Ron Riley, submitted to you the other day.
Because it was from him, and he and I worked together for a short
time at The Big 89 back in “THE Day,” his contribution inspired me to
manipulate it a bit for Fun!
Chuck Dah-Buell-Ell-Ess!
Lotsa love for
ALL the WLS Guys …
But it’s going
to take a lot to beat Clark Weber passing away at the age of The Big 89! lol
(kk)
And, while we're on the subject of live shows, you can
bring Dionne Warwick into your home for a special Mother’s Day concert. The one and only Dionne (currently up for
Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame consideration) will be performing two shows on
Sunday, May 9th … and you can watch the whole concert from the
comfort of your own home.
More details
below …
https://www.goldstar.com/events/online-stream/dionne-warwick-online-tickets?mal=1
If you missed Chicago’s May 4th
performance for Camping World’s 55th Anniversary (like I did), you
can still watch it here …
https://rv.campingworld.com/birthday55
These guys have got the whole
virtual concert concept down! Glad I got the chance to see this! (kk)
And a quick word to all our
Nashville readers (and we’ve got quite a few) …
Alan Parsons’ Live Project is
coming to The Ryman Theater on Wednesday, September 15th. (This is the new;y rescheduled show date and
previously purchased tickets will be honored … but there appear to be tickets
still available for this one.)
I can only tell you that
Parsons has made our Best Concerts List every time we’ve seem him … so this
comes highly recommended. (We even
thought about heading down there … but a Wednesday Night makes that extremely difficult. Worse yet, it ties in perfectly with Frannie’s
birthday … so it would have made for an EXCELLENT present this year!!! I’m just not sure how you socially distance
when you’re sitting in pews??? Anybody know
how they’re handling this?)
Anyway, all of the ticket
details can be found via the link below:
https://ryman.com/event/alan-parsons-project/?utm_campaign=ryman_shows&utm_medium=email&utm_source=ticketmaster&utm_audience=mofu_05_05_21_ryman_newsletter&utm_content=product_alan_parsons_091521&spMailingID=6872174&spUserID=OTEwNDgwNjYzODUS1&spJobID=1260133165&spReportId=MTI2MDEzMzE2NQS2
Readers were thrilled to see The Rascals "Once Upon A Dream" concert video we posted the other day. (Scroll back to Tuesday's This And That Page to find the link if you missed it.) kk
kk:
My friends went
to the Rascals concert and brought me back a T-Shirt.
Now, thanks to
you, I can say I saw the concert, without lying.
FB
Thank you for posting that Rascals concert video as
I had not seen that before. I loved it … and it was magical.
Karen Buckarma
I was there for the Rascals show at the Capitol Theater in
2012. Not on opening night, but during the week they were performing.
Needless to say, a fantastic show!
Never thought I'd see them perform, no way I was gonna miss it!
Thought I'd share with FH readers a cool rehearsal of the
four Rascals from 1997, reunited for a small private get together, sans any
backing help, except for Eddie's brother, David, helping out on backing vocals
just like on the records:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QOh8PnVfEA
Mike Markesich
Here’s our original review of the show we saw back in 2013
at The Cadillac Palace Theatre ...
https://forgottenhits60s.blogspot.com/2013/11/forgotten-hits-reviews-rascals-and-once.html
Same deal for me …
I never had the chance to see them in the ‘60’s … and there
was NO way I was going to miss what I felt would likely be my only chance to
see them in 2013 … SO glad we were able to go.
(And now we have the DVD and YouTube to watch whenever we like.)
The “rehearsal” clip is fascinating because it predates
their Broadway Show by sixteen years … so pretty cool to know that they were
still talking to each other even then … and contemplating another run
together. (Incredible to think that only
1300 people have watched this clip since it was first posted back in 2019!)
Thank you,
thank you, thank you for sharing that video of The Rascals’ ‘Once Upon A Dream’
concert video.
We missed the
show when it first came up and then, when the rest of the tour was scrapped,
figured we had missed our final chance to see the reunion. It was a long time coming and well worth the
wait. What a shame things couldn’t have
been worked out to keep this going.
The band is in
great form and sound as good as ever.
(And now I can watch them whenever I want.)
Thanks again …
very much appreciated … and very much enjoyed.
Ted
So many people never got the
chance to see this show when they did their limited run and tour … we need to get the word out that this clip is available so that more people can
see the show. (It’s a two hour
commitment … but well worth the time spent … plus, this is great PR for the
band, too. If this were properly
promoted, I could see Rascals cd sales very easily on the rise!)
Now, how do we get PBS to
pick this up and share it with the rest of the world? They put out a special staged performance for all that contributed to the Go Fund Me Page to help make this show happen in the first place ... and the quality is top notch. (Steven Van Zandt … this is
something you should have been working on for the past few years!!! When you consider all of the time, effort and expense involved to put this thing
together in the first place, only to have the rug pulled out from under us midway thru the tour, it's just a shame ... especially when there are other ways
to market and promote this concert video.
Plus, PBS could then offer the DVD to subscribers along with a special
Rascals Greatest Hits CD collection … I'm telling you, it’s a hit fund-raiser waiting to happen!!!)
And now imagine editing in
vintage video from some of their 60s television appearances! (Ironically,
we happened to catch them on “The Best of Sullivan” Tuesday night where they performed
three songs from 1967 – and looked and sounded GREAT!!!) This would do SO much to rejuvenate interest
in the band. We need to get somebody on
this … stat! (kk)
It would seem that, much like Chickenman, lately He’s
Everywhere! He’s Everywhere!
BRUCE MORROW
welcomes Monkee MICKY DOLENZ on his WABC show this weekend. The pair worked
together on CBS FM and famously were jettisoned when the station abruptly (and,
unsuccessfully) turned to the JACK-radio format.
Dolenz is
tub-thumping his new album DOLENZ SINGS NESMITH.
David Salidor
(Dolenz
presented the Lifetime Achievement Award to Morrow at Rockers On Broadway)
We’re going to try and catch
the guys in Milwaukee … no way we can miss the final tour! 55 Years … who would have EVER thought … a TV
show about a “pretend” band could have had this kind of lasting effect … and
still be just as newsworthy as ever.
EVERY major music publication ran the story of their final farewell tour
this week!!! (kk)
kk …
If you want to
know who Cousin Brucie’s guest will be on Saturday ---
Just Read
"FORGOTTEN HITS!"
Frank B.
https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=320458872770030&set=pcb.320457859436798
From Tom Cuddy
…
Marvin Gaye ‘What’s Going On’ TV Special Airs This Weekend …
https://www.udiscovermusic.com/news/marvin-gaye-cnn-whats-going-on/
>>>#1
Record back on 5/5/55: (kk)
Good stuff! I imagine there are many more of YOUR favorites to
look / list / listen to NEXT month on 6/6/66!
(And thank goodness there are FOUR Sixes there instead of three!
Chuck Buell
(Well,
you know Rock And Roll IS the Devil’s Music!!! – kk)
Meanwhile, I just want to get through today . . . it's
Star Wars "Revenge of the Sith" Day today! I think a
Celebratory "Cinco de Mayo" Margarita or two would be in order!
CB
And then …>>>May the 4th (Be
With You) kk
Thanx! But
what Day is today . . . ?
(In today's World,
I don't think you should even think about publishing this photo!)
Or even THIS one
while we're at it!
Our station helped promote several concerts last
summer with a local drive-in theater. A
group of families bought the theater property and reopened it after it had been
closed for a year. They made the deal right before the pandemic. The
concerts actually helped them greatly in their first season and may have saved
the business. I believe most of the concerts cost 100 bucks a car load to
attend. If you think about it, it isn't that bad, if four people each
threw in $25.00. Most sat outside their cars in lawn chairs. The
owners built a stage in front of the screen and have had regional bands play a
live set to open the show.
As I recall, the Garth Brooks concert was the most
successful showing. One of the concerts (Stevie Nicks, I think) was recorded four
years prior to the outdoor theater showing.
This kind of setup is not my thing, but I know that
it seems to go over well with a younger crowd. We’re looking forward to
promoting their Bon Jovi Encore Live showing on May 22nd.
Phil – WRCO
The first time I ever saw the
band Chicago in concert (and “saw” is a VERY loosely translated word here!) was
back in 1972 when they played at Ravinia, a beautiful outdoor venue that has
been around since the ‘60’s … and STILL books some of the biggest names in
music every year (except last year, of course!) to this day.
Fans go all out … bringing in
small dining tables and elegant silverware and glassware … drinking wine and dining
on whatever they brought with them from home.
(There is also a limited amount of pavilion seating … but as you can
imagine, the big drawing card here is putting a blanket on the lawn and
listening to the music under the stars on a cool summer night.)
As you can imagine, Chicago
was at the top of their game in 1972 … so the place was a complete
sell-out. Having never been there
before, I really didn’t know what to expect as about six of us made the trek to
see them.
We were SO far to the back,
we couldn’t even see the bandshell, much less the stage. We ended up sitting under a tree that had a
speaker nailed to it, offering intermittent sound that was completely out of
sync with all the OTHER speakers posted around the park, offering up a muffled
echo at best. I couldn’t believe we paid
all that money to go … and then saw … or heard … a single note the way it was
intended to be heard. Needless to say, we
all drove home quite frustrated, agreeing that it would have been a better experience
to listen to a Chicago album on your stereo in the backyard than this ended up
being!!!
Flashforward 40+ years and we
were the invited guests of the band to see Chicago perform again at Ravinia …
WITH excellent pavilion seats, backstage passes and even dinner with the band
before the show … and cocktails afterwards.
(They asked Forgotten Hits to help promote their third Christmas album
and, as such, we world premiered three tracks from the new album before anybody
else ever even had a copy of the new cd!)
Quite a different experience, to say the least!
I’ve had pavilion seats for
other shows there, too … most memorably Barry Manilow, when he filmed his live
concert television special (and we had to stick around for two hours after the
concert ended to the crew could film crowd shots and reactions while Barry was
already comfortably resting in his hotel room!
Lol)
And also Jim Croce, who I saw
there twice … an experience I wouldn’t trade for anything else in the
world. Sure, there have been plenty of
others … but THESE two are the major stand-outs for me.
That being said, paying $100
to sit on a lawn chair outside my car, watching a movie of a concert on the
drive-in screen and listening to the sound on my car radio holds absolutely NO
appeal for me. A live concert AT a
drive-in??? Now that’s a different story … but I’m gonna have to pass on this
one! (kk)
Producer / Recording Artist
Tommy West passed away on May 2nd from complications to Parkinson’s
Disease.
He probably achieved his
greatest fame as Jim Croce’s producer … but West also did some recording of his
own, scoring a Top 30 Pop Hit in 1972 with “American City Suite” with his then
recording partner Terry Cashman. (They
also recorded as Cashman, Pistilli and West … and as Gene and Tommy … and, as
The Buchanan Brothers in 1969, scored a Top 20 Hit with “Medicine Man.” Their follow-up single, “Son Of A Lovin’ Man”
was recently featured in the Quentin Tarantino film “Once Upon A Time In
Hollywood.” Tommy was also the lead
singer for a group called Salt Water Taffy.)
West’s production credits
also include our FH Buddy Henry Gross, Dion DiMucci and Mary Travers of Peter,
Paul and Mary. You’ll find a much more
detailed recap of Tommy’s career here:
https://bestclassicbands.com/tommy-west-producer-obituary-terry-cashman-5-3-21/
I asked our
long-time Forgotten Hits Buddy Henry Gross if he might like to say a few words
about Tommy …
Hi Kent –
Thanks so much for
thinking of me. We’re all fine here at Grossland.
Losing Tommy has
been quite a shock. He was a great guy and a huge talent. There’s really no way
to overstate his influence and help in making many musical dreams come true for
me and many others, aside from his timeless records as an artist. Medicine Man
and American City Suite are standouts. I’m still taking it in. You see the
train coming, but when it hits you, it’s still a shock. Beyond sad to lose him.
All of us who knew
and loved him are sad beyond words. He was a husband, a father, a top of the
line singer, songwriter, producer of Jim Croce, Maury Meulheisen, Anne Murray,
myself and so many others. He was a co-owner of Lifesong Records, where artists
as diverse as Crack the Sky, Dean Friedman, Jim Dawson and I had great chart
successes. He also ran MTM records in Nashville, signing many artists and
writers who lit up the country charts! A Renaissance Man is gone and I’ll
forever miss him!
I posted on Facebook
about him: It's with the greatest sadness I raise a glass to my friend and
mentor, the great Tommy West who passed away this past weekend. His successes
as a record producer are formidable. Jim Croce's records are national treasures
and the records I made with him and his partner, Terry Cashman, stand tall
today. He, Terry and Philip Kurnit founded Lifesong Records, supporting,
advising, releasing and promoting artists like myself, Crack The Sky, Dean
Friedman and Jim Dawson. He was a wonderful singer / songwriter as well as a
musical collaborator with Terry Cashman and the late Gene Pistilli on many
classic albums. The song and record "American City Suite" remains a
classic. Tommy pursued his love of country music, moving to Nashville to run a
successful label, MTM records. He produced artists as diverse as Anne Murray
and The Girls Next Door, while signing and supporting many songwriters who were
to become mainstays on the Nashville scene.
My heartfelt sympathy goes out to his wife Anne, daughter Cheyenne,
sons Brad and Blair and all whose lives were touched by his extraordinary
talent, vision and love. Thanks for the great ride old pal. May you Rest In
Peace in the place that's the best!!!
Henry
Apologies ...
There was definitely a glitch in
yesterday’s post …
I tried to edit and re-edit a
dozen times and STILL couldn’t get rid of that random type coming through Steve
Winwood’s “Roll With It” video …
Deleted and started from
scratch and still got the same result … and no idea why … so I apologize for
the error. Still, I think the jist of
what we were going for came through. (If
somebody out there knows how to fix it, please let me know … I spent over an
hour on it and still couldn’t get the mysterious type to go away, even do a
couple of reposts that displayed properly on preview … but then still suffered
from the rude interruption!)
Thanks! (kk)
More from Chuck Buell ...
Came across this
when I was "roving" around the Internet ~~~
Wait! What?
1995? Vintage???
Then what are the
1960’s???
CB
25 years old - so I guess it
qualifies
(Of course the socks I’m
wearing right now are older than that)
kk
HA!
But, I think, we
all have a favorite old pair of socks or two. It's "The Joy of
Sox!"
CB
If you, like so many millions
of others, have always had an uncontrollable urge to lick the back of Paul
McCartney’s head, then this brand new British Stamp Collection is for you!!!
https://shop.royalmail.com/special-stamp-issues/paul-mccartney?iid=HP_M1_PAULMCCARTNEY2021
While The Beatles had
commemorative stamps issued before, McCartney is now only the third solo artist
to be so honored. (He follows David Bowie and Elton John.)
As you can see via the link
above, there are literally DOZENS of options to choose from, most of which are
aimed at the collectors’ market … but still just one more honor for Sir Paul to
chalk up to his incredible career. (kk)
Another Funny from Frank B …
