HAPPY SUNDAY!
Kicking things off with another friendly reminder from Mike Riccio to get YOUR votes in for the annual Rewound Radio Top Songs of All-Time list …
Hi!
Time's running out!
If you still haven't voted for your favorite in our once-a-year vote for the
Top Songs of All-Time, we want your opinion ... so please vote today!
Voting will be ending within a few weeks ... so get your vote in ASAP for the 27th
edition of the Top Songs of All-Time at OldiesBoard.com.
You can choose from one to ten of your favorite songs
to determine the results.
Once the results are tabulated you can see where yours
placed at OldiesBoard.com and even have your own copy of the list of all the songs that
votes, in order of their popularity.
So if you haven't already voted this year, please email your choices.
Remember, you can vote for any artist, any era, any style ... and we NEED YOUR
VOTE THIS YEAR to make this the best year ever!
Go to OldiesBoard.com for details or just vote at the following link
(It's a 100% safe and secure link.
https://musicradio77.com/voting2024.html
Feel free to invite family or friends to vote, too.
Than YOU so much for helping to make this so much fun for all these years.
Sincerely,
Mike Riccio
OldiesBoard.com moderator
And a reminder from us, too, that we’ll be celebrating our THIRD Annual JOEL WHITBURN DAY later this week on Friday, the 29th. Please feel free to share a thought, appreciation or memory with our readers. (How appropriate that this falls the Day After Thanksgiving this year!) We’ll also be sharing a few more photos from our visit up to the Music Vault a few months ago. (kk)
We’re still waiting for information as to the official release date for “Let It Be” on home video.
Hopefully, this will keep you till we have more news to share …
Stephen Bishop, who recently announced his retirement from touring, is now offering his services to record up to a 30-second message of your choosing … and it’ll only cost you $399!!! (Say what?!?!? I’ll bet you 99% of the people you tell this to will respond “Stephen who?!?!?”)
But hey, if you’ve got Christmas money to burn, here’s the link …
https://www.stephenbishopmerch.com/products/stephen-bishop-personalized-audio-message
It’s the Christmas gift that goes on and on … well, for up to 30 seconds anyway …
Or, if you prefer, you can just save it for a rainy day. (Guy’s gotta make money SOMEHOW, right???) kk
A few more deaths to acknowledge …
Mike Pinera, guitarist for Blues Image (“Ride Captain Ride”) and The Iron Butterfly (“In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida”), passed away on November 20th of liver disease
https://stpetecatalyst.com/tampa-rocker-mike-pinera-ride-captain-ride-dies/
And Alice Brock passed away on November 22nd.
“Who???” you may ask?
Well, she was the real-life restaurant owner Alice that Arlo Guthrie immortalized in his classic “Alice’s Restaurant” back in 1967. Appropriately, she died just before Thanksgiving.
Here is a photograph taken just a couple of Thanksgivings ago, taken by Marti Guthrie …
Arlo Guthrie with Alice Brock and Rick Robbins, Thanksgiving 2022
Here’s a feel-good story I heard about on Phlash Phelps’ ‘60’s Gold radio program last week … talk about your long lost hits …
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=9260310607430933
And how about this …
72 YEARS after it was first recorded, there’s a brand new holiday release by DEAN MARTIN!!!
That’s right … Dino’s 1952 recording of the holiday classic “It’s Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas” debuted at #30 on this week’s Adult Contemporary Chart in Billboard … 60 years, four months and three weeks after his FIRST chart hit there, “Everybody Loves Somebody,” which topped their chart in 1964, the first of FIVE AC chart-toppers for the crooner.
They’ve even released a new animated video to celebrate this release which, according to the press release, is Martin’s earliest known holiday recording, and his only recorded version of the classic carol. The performance comes from a radio broadcast on December 16, 1952, as part of NBC’s The Martin and Lewis Show that starred Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis. (Their guest that week: Ginger Rogers.)
In our Sunday Comments Page seemingly chock-full of timely coincidences, Martin died on Christmas Day in 1995 at age 78.
And, since we’re talking long-lasting hits, Billboard is reporting that Shaboozey’s current #1 Hit “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” is on the verge of tying the record for most weeks ever at #1 if it holds on to record its 19th week at the top on next week’s chart. (This would tie the record set five years ago by Lil Nas X’s hit (featuring Billy Ray Cyrus), “Old Town Road.”) Shows you the sheer lack of good, competitive music being released these days!!! (kk)
19 weeks at #1 ... and this is the first time I've ever heard it!
Yeah, I guess I really AM stuck living in the past! (kk)
