Offering up a few more "short takes" with your pancakes this morning ...
CB ( which stood for "Clueless Boy!" )
LOL ... I Love It!!!
(Yep ... who knew that we were going to come along all these years later!!!)
But the truth of the matter is, this has been the premise ... and the purpose ... of Forgotten Hits all along ...
Since Day One, we have always maintained that those of us who listened to the radio back then DO remember what we heard ... it made that big of an impression on us ... and my argument and plea since Day One was that Oldies Radio today (meaning 1999 when Forgotten Hits first launched) was insulting their listeners' intelligence on a daily basis by believing that their audience "couldn't handle" more than the same 200-300 songs they kept feeding them every single day.
Thankfully, Oldies Radio has improved light years since then thanks to the Internet and outlets like Me-TV-FM and The True Oldies Channel ... Rewound Radio and several others who have committed themselves to keeping this great music alive ... and NOT just the "obvious" hits that everyone else is playing. (I can't tell you how many times we heard, "Well, if everyone else is playing these, they must be the tunes folks want to hear" ... or "Our researchers and consultants tell us ...." ... ALL just an ENORMOUS crock of crap that we have helped to prove wrong over the past 25 years.
So yes ... we DO care ... and we most certainly DO remember!!! (kk)
More from the Micky front ...
David Salidor sent us "the first review" of Micky Dolenz's new concert tour ...
Along with a couple of pics!
photos by Josh Bradley / Creative Loafing
Seymour Stein, one of the founders of Sire Records, died on Sunday, April 2nd, after a long battle with cancer.
Stein, 80, had an ear for innovative “new” hit music, signing Madonna and Talking Heads. The Ramones, Depeche Mode, Echo and the Bunnymen, The Cult, k.d. lang, Seal, Madness, Modern English and many others to his new label. (When he signed The Talking Heads, he referred to them as being part of the “new wave” in music, a catch-phrase term that stuck and soon became the genre for many of these new artists that were taking rock music to a new level.)
Along the way, he helped promote everything from the #1 Hit “Pop Muzik” by M to Soft Cell’s revival of “Tainted Love,” all with great success. He spent 40 years with the label and was inducted into The Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame in 2005 in the Lifetime Achievement category. (Stein was also a co-founder of The Hall.) kk
From Andrew Loog Oldham ...
Keith and I trolled the Brill Building for songs in the summer of '64. Nobody would see us except Seymour. He was at Red Bird Records doing promo for Leiber and Stoller. He gave us 'Down Home Girl' by Alvin Robinson. We cut it with the Stones. Seymour had the ears of an angel and vinyl blood.
And a nice tribute from Joe Marchese ...
https://theseconddisc.com/2023/04/03/in-memoriam-seymour-stein-1942-2023/
The list of music industry people we’ve already lost during the first quarter of 2023 is staggering.
Best Classic Bands paid tribute when we flipped the calendar page to April:
https://bestclassicbands.com/musician-deaths-2023-4-2-23/
Foreigner posted an April Fools message, thanking The Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame for FINALLY recognizing the band and honoring them with a special induction into their hallowed halls.
Although intended as a spoof, the sentiment was no joke … these guys belong in there as much (and, in many cases, more) than an awful lot of artists who are currently enshrined.
Their April 1st Facebook Page read:
“In an unprecedented move, the entire board of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame met especially to nominate Foreigner. The board recognized that Mick Jones’ and Foreigner’s major contribution to music over the years warranted a very special place in the history of the Hall Of Fame. Said manager Phil Carson, ‘Needless to say, we are all delighted to learn of this unique privilege. I believe that the entire board realized that Foreigner had as many hits as Fleetwood Mac, just one less than the Eagles, and more than Journey and many other Hall Of Fame alumni. We are greatly looking forward to the induction ceremony.”
Perhaps the attention it draws will open the eyes of some of the members of the nominating committee, who thus far have never recognized Foreigner with so much as a nomination. (kk)
Paul McCartney has produced a track on the new Michael Buble album “Higher.”
It’s a reworking of McCartney’s own “My Valentine” (which certainly fits the Buble comfort zone!) The two reportedly got along famously … and the new album was just released at the end of March. (kk)
From Bob Lind, who is returning to one of his favorite performance venues ...
We're still singing the praises of "Daisy Jones and the Six," whose album is doing so well right now that there are actually rumors about have the band hit the road and do some REAL concerts!!! (Could this be The Monkees reborn?!?!)
I say the get Eddie and the Cruisers back together to serve as their opening act!!!
Seriously, tho, it is a VERY well done mock-rockumentary about a fictitious '70's band that looks SO authentic, you genuinely begin to care about these characters. (Episode Eight was the series' only weak moment ... I felt like it could have been eliminated completely without damaging the story in any way ... but the final "tug-at-the-heartstrings" episode MORE than made up for it.) HIGHLY recommended. (kk)
NOT recommended ... "Agent Elvis" ... probably the WORST things I've seen on TV in ... well, maybe forever. (We didn't even make it all the way thru the first episode. Man, this is bad!)
How Priscilla, who is one of the ones behind the making of this God-awful animated series, felt that THIS is the light she wanted Elvis portrayed in, only makes me further question her sanity these days. Avoid at all costs. (Which I know will only make you want to check it out more to see for yourself how really bad it is ... and that's a shame ... but it's kinda like not being able to look away at the scene of an accident I guess. And THIS one is a MAJOR catastrophe!!!) kk
