00:03 Freddy "Boom Boom" Cannon
00:05 Svengoolie
00:10 Joe Mantegna & Rick Baker
00:20 Doug Graves & Anita X. Orcist
00:23 George Thorogood
00:27 Dana Gould
00:52 The Sven Squad: Gwengoolie, Nostalgiaferatoo and IMP
00:57 Joe Bob Briggs & Darcy
01:02 Michael McKean & Annette O'Toole
01:11 Bill Mumy
01:16 Daniel Roebuck
01:19 Frank Conniff
01:25 Frank Ferrante
01:34 Gena Schock
01:48 Billy Gardell
01:56 Trace Beaulieu
02:12 Lisa Marie Varon
02:59 David Dastmalchian
>>>Today's presentation is a Clark / Kent Production!!! (kk)
What a production!
That's just Super, Man!
Shelley
http://forgottenhits60s.blogspot.com/2024/11/happy-birthday-to-jim-peterik.html
Unreal from 1966 Kent!!!
I didn’t ever know we cracked Billboard in ‘66!!!
And thanks to you for the wishes on my 74th time around the sun. You’re the best. Hi to Frannie.
Rock on!!
Jimbo
For the record, “You Wouldn’t Listen” peaked at #42 in Billboard and #41 in Record World. (It seems nearly all of our Chicagoland groups performed a little better in Record World than they did anywhere else … I think they gave more consideration to our two AM powerhouse stations at the time, WLS and WCFL.)
The follow-up, “Roller Coaster,” peaked at #92 in Billboard (it bubbled under in Cash Box and Record World) and then “Vehicle” made The Top Ten in all three, rising highest in Billboard, where it peaked at #2.
Hope you had a Happy Birthday celebration! (kk)
Speaking of 1966, that's the year MOST of us discovered Nancy Sinatra for the very first time ...
And Nancy Sinatra fans now have a couple of expanded reissues to look forward to …
(OK, now that just may be my SECOND favorite album cover from the '60's!!!) kk
I had a front row balcony seat for the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band’s Farewell Tour at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville last night.
The band now includes Jeff Hanna and Jimmy Fadden who founded the group in 1966, and Bob Carpenter on keyboards, who joined in 1980, as well as Jeff’s son Jaime Hanna (Mavericks) on guitar, Ross Holmes (Mumford and Sons) fiddle and songwriter Jim Photoglo (Dan Fogelberg) bass.
The trio of Nashville’s premier female songwriters, known as Wine Women and Song, composed of Jeff’s wife Matraca Berg, Gretchen Peters and Suzy Bogguss opened the show. Duo Larkin Poe, who appear with the band and the trio on the group’s most recent album “Dirt Does Dylan,” were also part of the show. Emmylou Harris made a guest appearance.
Highlights included the band’s biggest hits, “Mr. Bojangles,” “Fishin’ In The Dark” (written by Jim Photoglo) and “American Dream,” as well as Bob Carpenter singing the Rascal Flatts hit “Bless The Broken Road,” which was originally recorded by the Dirt Band and Emmylou Harris’ singing her hit “Two Moe Bottles Of Wine.”
Ed Salamon
NGDB founder Jimmy Fadden and
Jeff Hanna /
NGDB’s Jimmy Fadden, Jeff Hanna and Bob Carpenter “Bless The Broken Road”
While it seems that Roger Daltrey and Pete Townshend may team up again for a 2025 Who tour, Roger is first going to take his idea of a stripped down, much more acoustic set on a solo run through Great Britain in the spring.
Announced dates thus far include:
April 20th – Brighton – Brighton Dome
April 21st – London – London Palladium
April 23rd – Southend-on-Sea – Cliffs Pavilion
April 24th – Wolverhampton – Univ. of Wolverhampton at the Halls
April 26th – Dundee – Caird Hall
April 28th – Glasgow – SEC Armadillo
April 30th – Edinburgh – The Usher Hall
May 1st – Gateshead – The Glasshouse
May 4th – Manchester – The Bridgewater Hall
Neil Young turns 79 today! 79!!! Hard to think of him that old. Odd fellow often, but hope he is doing well. Love lots of his music. Hope he keeps on "Rockin in the FREE world! "
Clark Besch
Old man ... take a look at his life!
Harvey Kubernik sent us a nice piece commemorating Neil's 79th birthday ...
Too long to run here ...
But if anybody wants a copy, shoot me an email and I'll be happy to send it along!) (kk)
From Timmy …
Linda LaFlamme, a songwriter and keyboardist who helped found the San Francisco folk-rock band It’s a Beautiful Day in 1967 and co-wrote the band’s soaring “White Bird,” an enduring anthem of the psychedelic era, died on October 23rd in Harrisonburg, Va. She was 85.
“White Bird” is one of those timeless Classic Rock songs that deserves a better legacy than it’s gotten.
True connoisseurs of the genre seem to agree …
In our TOP 3333 MOST-ESSENTIAL CLASSIC ROCK SONGS Poll taken a few years ago, it finished at #763, ahead of classic rock radio staples like “Breakfast In America” by Supertramp, Neil Young’s “Old Man,” “My Old School” by Steely Dan, “I’m Just A Singer In A Rock And Roll Band” by The Moody Blues and “The Living Years” by Mike and the Mechanics … and that’s just thru #800.
This is a GREAT track that radio programmers may need to be reminded of from time to time in order to keep it on the airplay radar. Her husband at the time, singer and violinist David LaFlamme (who cowrote the song and also cut a solo version a few years later) died last year. (kk)
The Songwriters Hall Of Fame just announced their candidates for 2025 … and it is QUITE a list!!! (The very idea that some of these names have never been recognized before is just staggering!)
The Songwriters Hall of Fame has revealed a full slate of nominees for induction to its Class of 2025. And as so often happens, many of the names on the list—revealed on November 12, 2024—elicit a “how is s/he not already in?” response. Steve Winwood, Janet Jackson, David Gates (best known for his years with Bread), Tommy James, and the Doobie Brothers’ Tom Johnston, Michael McDonald and Patrick Simmons are among those nominated.
Want more? Sheryl Crow, Bryan Adams, George Alan O’Dowd (p/k/a) Boy George, funk legend George Clinton, Mike Love, Alanis Morissette, are also on the nominees list, among many more.
Performing songwriters include Bryan Adams (“Heaven,” “Summer of ’69”), George O’Dowd (Boy George), “Karma Chameleon,” George Clinton (“Atomic Dog”), Sheryl Crow (“All I Wanna Do,” “Every Day Is A Winding Road”), Doobie Brothers Tom Johnston, Michael McDonald and Patrick Simmons (“Listen to the Music,” “What a Fool Believes”), Marshall Mathers (Eminem), “Lose Yourself,” David Gates of Bread (“Make It With You”), Janet Jackson (“Black Cat”), Tommy James (“Crimson and Clover,” “Mony Mony”), Mike Love (“California Girls”), Alanis Morissette (“You Oughta Know,” “Hand in My Pocket”), N.W.A.’s Dr. Dre, Easy E, Ice Cube, Mc Ren and DJ Yella (“Straight Outta Compton”) and Steve Winwood (“Gimme Some Lovin’,” “Higher Love”).
In addition, the non-performing songwriters list includes Walter Afanasieff (“All I Want For Christmas Is You”), Steve Barri and P.F. Sloan (“Eve of Destruction,” “Secret Agent Man”), Mike Chapman (“Love Is A Battlefield,” “Stumblin’ In”), Sonny Curtis (“I Fought the Law”), Tom Douglas (“I Run to You”), Franne Golde (“Nightshift”), Ashley Gorley, Rodney “Darkchild” Jenkins (“Say My Name”), Dennis Lambert and Brian Potter (“One Tin Soldier [Theme From Billy Jack]”, “Don’t Pull Your Love”), Tony Macaulay (“Build Me Up Buttercup,” “Love Grows [Where My Rosemary Goes]”), Roger Nichols (“We’ve Only Just Begun,” “Rainy Days and Mondays”), Dan Penn and Spooner Oldham (“Cry Like a Baby,” “I’m Your Puppet”) and Narada Michael Walden (“How Will I Know,” “Freeway of Love”).
How do you narrow it down to less than 25 deserving nominees?!?! (kk)
In other Hall of Fame news, David Salidor tells us that The Monkees have just been nominated for The New England Music Hall Of Fame …
https://nemhof.com/nemhof-news/f/the-monkees-2025-new-england-music-hall-of-fame-nominees
And, speaking of The Monkees, Andrew Sandoval wanted us to let you know that the brand new, highly-anticipated Monkees coffee table book, “Smoke-Filled Dreams,” has just come in and is starting to ship. If you preordered your copy, it should be arriving shortly. (kk)
We’re getting closer …
The Day After Thanksgiving, Disney+ will premier a new Beatles documentary that examines the year 1964 … and the impact it had when America discovered The Beatles.
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Harvey Kubernik sent us this new interview to share …
Beatles ’64 Documentary
By Harvey Kubernik Copyright 2024
Scheduled for late November is a new documentary on the Beatles. Disney+ announced that Beatles ’64, an all-new documentary from producer Martin Scorsese and director David Tedeschi, will stream exclusively on Disney+ beginning November 29, 2024. The film captures the electrifying moment of The Beatles’ first visit to America. Featuring never-before-seen footage of the band and the legions of young fans who helped fuel their ascendance, the film gives a rare glimpse into when The Beatles became the most influential and beloved band of all time.
On February 7, 1964, The Beatles arrived in New York City to unprecedented excitement and hysteria. From the instant they landed at Kennedy Airport, met by thousands of fans, Beatlemania swept New York and the entire country. Their thrilling performance on The Ed Sullivan Show captivated more than 73 million viewers, the most watched television event of its time. Beatles ’64 presents the spectacle, but also tells a more intimate behind the scenes story, capturing the camaraderie of John, Paul, George, and Ringo as they experienced unimaginable fame.
The film includes rare footage filmed by pioneering documentarians Albert and David Maysles, beautifully restored in 4K by Park Road Post in New Zealand. The live performances from The Beatles first American concert at the Washington, DC Coliseum and their Ed Sullivan appearances were demixed by WingNut Films and remixed by Giles Martin. Spotlighting this singular cultural moment and its continued resonance today, the music and footage are augmented by newly filmed interviews with Paul and Ringo, as well as fans whose lives were transformed by The Beatles.
Beatles ’64 is directed by David Tedeschi and produced by Martin Scorsese, Margaret Bodde, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Olivia Harrison, Sean Ono Lennon, Jonathan Clyde, Mikaela Beardsley, with Jeff Jones and Rick Yorn serving as executive producers.
Portions of the Maysles brothers seminal 1964 Beatles' undertaking Here’s What’s Happening, Baby - The Beatles!, will be incorporated into the upcoming Beatles '64 film coming in November.
Two of America's foremost non-fiction filmmakers, Albert Maysles and his brother David (1932-1987) are recognized as pioneers of "direct cinema," the distinctly American version of French "cinema verité." It is a method in documentary where events are recorded that couple naturalistic techniques without pre-planned set-ups or agenda.
They earned their distinguished reputations by being the first to make non-fiction feature films- films in which the drama of human life unfolds as is, without scripts, sets, or narration.
The Maysles team were the first to capture the Beatles first U.S. visit, chronicling the remarkable two weeks in February, 1964, that began America's still-enduring love affair with the group in their Here’s What’s Happening, Baby - The Beatles!
The celluloid document caught the two-week hysterical reaction to the Beatles that was the real-life inspiration for the subsequent Beatles movie A Hard Day’s Night.
David and Albert were granted all-area access to the lads from Liverpool who had just conquered America with “I Want To Hold Your Hand” sitting at No. 1 in the U.S. charts. Manic moments as the Beatles arrived to America on Pan Am Flight 101 to New York are woven around frenzied fans
In this seminal film, the Maysles Brothers shadow the band in dressing rooms, hotels, press conferences, outdoor photo sessions, as they travel from New York to Washington, D.C., and Miami.
This is an intimate portrait of a musical band pulling America through the despair of a slain President a few months earlier in November, 1963, that in the process established the benchmark for rock ‘n’ roll cinematography.
The Maysles 1964 footage is now incorporated into a more recent retail DVD, The Beatles The First U.S. Visit.
In 1960, Albert was co-filmmaker of Primary, a film about the Democratic primary election campaigns of Kennedy and Humphrey. The use of hand-held cameras and synchronous sound allowed the story to tell itself.
With their fine-tuned sense of the scene-behind-the-scene, the Maysles brothers made Meet Marlon Brando (1965) and With Love From Truman (1966).
Then they came out with the landmark non-fiction feature film Salesman (1968), a portrait of four door-to-door Bible salesmen from Boston. It won an award from the National Society of Film Critics and is regarded as the classic American documentary. In 1992, the Library of Congress saluted the film for its historical, cultural and aesthetic significance.
Albert was made a Guggenheim Fellow in 1965. His next three films became cult classics. Salesman (1968), Gimme Shelter (1970) is the dazzling portrait of the Rolling Stones on their 1969 American tour.
Albert Maysles and Harvey Kubernik - 2014 Interview on the Beatles in America, 1964
Q: Your Here’s What’s Happening, Baby - The Beatles! 1964 documentary movie captured the inside story of the band’s first two frenzied weeks in America during February, ’64. It chronicled the hysterical reaction to the Beatles’ United States debut, glimpsed on television by a The Ed Sullivan Show booking. You and your brother were granted all-area access. Hotel rooms, a trek to a discotheque together. It obviously serves as the real-life inspiration for the movie A Hard Day’s Night. This century your original documentary was integrated into a new retail DVD from Apple / Capitol, The Beatles The First U.S. Visit.
A: On February 7, 1964, I got a telephone call from Granada Television, whom I never had worked with, but I think they had seen my first film Showman about Joseph E. Levine. And they said, “The Beatles are arriving in two hours at JFK Airport. Would you like to film them?” So, I put my hand over the phone and immediately turned to my brother David and asked him: “Who are the Beatles? Are they any good?” Fortunately, David knew. “Oh. They’re great.” And he had a big smile on his face.
“We both got on the phone and made a deal for TV and rushed out to the airport just in time to see the plane coming in to land. David had his sound recorder and I had my camera. We jumped in the limo with them and off we were running, so to speak. We drove with them into New York City and spent the next four or five days with them.
“When the Beatles actually went to The Ed Sullivan Show, I didn’t go inside and watch the performances. Better than that, when they walked into CBS to do ‘Sullivan,’ we realized there was no point in going with them. Because to film them we would have to go through the whole union process. And by the time we started on that, they would be out of there. So instead, we just walked down the street, got into an ordinary tenement building, we’re on the 3rd floor, heard music from a household, knocked on the door, and filmed a family watching the Sullivan’ Show. So that was much better.
“It’s always trying to get behind the scenes to get close towards what is going on. We did go to the Beatles’ Washington, D. C. show. There were two versions of the film. That wasn’t the Beatles. That was their management, “Make it more commercial.” That was broadcast in 1964 on CBS-TV as The Beatles In America.
Q: What was going through your mind during your time with the Beatles? Did you have any clue you’d be talking about them 50 years later?
A: (laughs). I was as mystified as the public was. People have said when they arrived at the airport maybe 10 or 20 people would show up. But instead, 5,000 were there when they got off the plane.
Q: You and David captured so many aspects of their initial U.S. landing. Footage of their manager Brian Epstein in action, the very popular New York DJ Murray The K conducting and broadcasting a live hotel room interview with the lads, and then over to the discotheque. Plus, you got things like fans at the hotel corridor and the fascination of the Beatles by the print and photographers.
A: Yes. We had access but we had confidence that no matter what, no matter whom, if I should film, I’ll get the OK and to film it. But we weren’t aware at the time we were a witness to history.
Q: You and your brother were a filmmaking team and collaborators. You had an almost telepathic relationship with him.
A: Well, I think we had it and always will have it. It’s sort of a special talent I guess for access. Everything seemed to be a natural process for us of becoming friends simultaneously with the filming. But more than that, I think we really like people and they see it right away in our eyes. There’s a constant empathy, an empathizing process that goes on.
“He was very important. He would sometimes come across the subject matter and get the deals made. He was very good on the phone. When people saw me, I was behind the camera they could hardly make me out. So that David was sort of the intervening force. I never had to worry about him being an extra person and some kind of distraction. Because we saw eye to eye. And there were some occasions where I was so locked behind the camera that I might not notice something.
“He was a visual sound guy. And when people looked at me, they often times couldn’t see me because I’ve got the camera hiding my face and it was very important when they looked at my brother that they looked at somebody who was as loving as I was. And he was always a positive thing that emanated from both of us. He also supervised the editing."
In other Beatles news, we told you the other day about “Now And Then” earning a couple of Grammy nomination nods …
Well, the New York Fest For Beatles Fans has started its 7-day presale for their 51st Annual convention. (Next year, it’ll run March 28th – March 30th)
More information can be found here:
https://mailchi.mp/thefest.com/httpswwwthefestcom2023-festsnew-york-metro-17080223?e=19876060a1
And, as always, more events will be added as we move closer to the date. (kk)
Meanwhile, how about a trip to Liverpool in 2025 to visit all of the old Beatle-haunts?!?! Charles Rosenay is now accepting reservations for THEIR 42nd trek thru Liverpool and London, August 18th thru August 27th! Reservations now being accepted for the 2025 Magical History Tour to Liverpool & London!
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Hey Kent,
Towards the end of today's FH, the song IF YOU WANT THIS LOVE by Sonny Knight was mentioned. In my opinion, this was a big record here in OKC. I checked and it was on the local survey some seven weeks, peaking at #11 for the week of December 31, 1964. I can't remember why, but for some reason, I have two copies of the record.
I would tell you more about the record but what I know is purely CONFIDENTIAL.
Larry Neal
It charted here in Chicago, too, but only reached #31. Still, I had never heard it before … but was immediately hooked! Downloaded it right away.
Sammy is ALWAYS full of surprises … you should check out his shows on MixCloud! (kk)
Jim Roup just sent us this …
Wishing Booker T. Jones a happy 80th birthday! 🎉 Seen here at The Rhythm and Blues Awards at The Palace Theater in Hollywood.
I am very happy to report that rocker Dave Mason is doing well after having heart valve replacement surgery this past week. (Mason was sidelined mid-tour for some surgery that required “immediate attention” a few weeks ago.)
In a statement, Mason said “I am so lucky to have caught this, as I was unknowingly on the brink of heart failure.” When first diagnosed, Dave said “I’m heartbroken to have to cancel these dates, but it’s doctor’s orders. I’ll be back, and better than ever, in 2025.”
Wishing him a continued speedy recovery. (kk)
And from the For God’s Sake, Get Over It Department, comes this news from Tom Cuddy that Engelbert Humperdinck and Tom Jones STILL can’t seem to get along, even some 40 years later!!!
60 YEARS AGO TODAY:
11/13/64 – Bob Pettit of The St. Louis Hawks became the first player in NBA history to score 20,000 points. (It happened during his 11th season in a game against The Cincinnati Royals.) Today, he ranks 43rd on the all-time list. (Players with over 30,000 points include Wilt Chamberlain, Dirk Nowitzki, Michael Jordan, Kobe Bryant, Karl Malone, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and LeBron James, who has 38,799 points … or nearly twice as many as Pettit.)
