1. You select the Inductess to be announced January 2011. 2. You suggest future Nominees, your favorites for next year.
This past year over a quarter-million Internet fans voted. I encourage you to invite your friends to cast their votes for their favorites and they'll also be able to suggest recordings stars who might be honored in the future by the Nominating Committee.
Qualifications for nomination require an artist to have had at least two top ten hits of any genre during a thirty year period beginning in 1950.
It is the vote of fans, coupled with other factors such as career longevity, record sales and concert success that are then voted on by the nominating committee at the end of each year with inductees and nominees for the New Year announced shortly thereafter.
Brian Gari found this listing in a vintage edition of TV Guide. What a lineup! Wouldn't you just love to sit back and see that show today?
They don't make 'em like that anymore.
Beatles to Broadway as 'Rain' creates in "A Day In the Life"
Mom! There's a weed in
the garden
Joe Bithorn, who is a dead ringer for George Harrison, earns a living covering songs from The Beatles as part of the tribute band “Rain.”
Rain will call the Neil Simon Theatre home for 11 weeks beginning in mid-October as part of a show expected to focus on the Fab Four’s later years.
For Bithorn, it will be homecoming — he grew up on 54th Street in Manhattan. Jazz legend Thelonious Monk grew up across the street. The Beatles did make it into Manhattan during their career — they performed in Carnegie Hall in conjunction with
Sixty-four recording stars have been inducted into the 2009 Hit Parade Hall of Fame, the largest group of inductees of any given year since the formation of the Hit Parade Hall of Fame in 2006. You are urged to nominate your favorites. Artists must have at least two Top 10 hits, singles or album of any genre.
To celebrate the Hot 100 chart's 50th anniversary,Billboardreveals the top 100 songs of all time. Chubby Checker's "Twist" named as the biggest selling single of all time, topping Bing Crosby.
Clay Cole
Exposed!
Baby Clay Cole,
(b) Jan 1, 1938
CRUISE NEWS
An East Side Kid's Essay: "Stoop to Nuts"
ABBA
A long-forgotten photo feature, Al Rucker on WJAR-TV in Providence, RI, in 1958, one year before he became "Clay Cole" and signed on to Ch 13 in New York as host of "Rate the Records." The half-hour pop music show was televised live at 7:30 on Friday night, following Rin Tin Tin. "The Al Rucker Show" was his stepping stone to stardom in New York. From Bob DuCharme
"Mom's got that crazy hair dryer going that comes out of a little hard plastic suitcase. It's larger than a portable typewriter, but smaller than a day tripper. Regardless, it looks like a heart lung machine to me. Dad's loiters with a scotch as Mom gets ready. I want them gone. Cindy, my babysitter, is the prettiest girl in St. Stephen's eighth grade and for a whole night she's mine and Rory's.
As Mom & Dad walk out the door the Clay Cole Show comes on Channel 11. He's cool, he's handsome as James Bond, and everybody in music comes and sings on his show. I'm 8 yrs old. I'm in heaven."
"The center of a kid's universe is never longer than one city block."
That's the point-of-view of stories written by New York writer Thomas Pryor on his website: Yorkville: Stoop to Nuts. Among his brilliantly written nuggets is a reminiscence of the Clay Cole Show:
Thomas Pryor
2010 Nominees: Hit Parade Hall of Fame
The nominating committee of the Hit Parade Hall of Fame has announced the 2010 nominees. They are Gordon Lightfoot, Tommy Roe, Steve Miller band, Martha &
the Vandellas, the Chipmunks, Santana,
Bill Withers, the Shirelles, Gerry & the Pacemakers and James Brown.
Fans are encouraged to vote for their favorite nominees that have had two or more top ten hits in the 1950’s, 1960’s and/or 1970’s at the website of the Hit Parade Hall of Fame.
Saturday, September 18 to be “Tommy James Day” in Morristown, NJ
Mayor Timothy P. Dougherty is honoring both Tommy and former James' drummer and Morristown resident Peter
"Reminising" -- Little River Band
Introducing the new 'Chaperones'
The Chaperones were one of my favorite vocal harmony groups, performing with me on television and numerous times on the Free Act Stage at Palisades Park. Formed in Long Island in the late 1950s, the original members were Tony Amato (lead), Roy Marchesano (first tenor), Tommy Ronca (second tenor), Nick Salvato (baritone) and Dave Kelly (bass).
Nick Salvato moved from Long Island to Las Vegas, and is the key to The Chaperones success, keeping the name and music alive. The Chaperones' hit songs still selling on over 30 Oldie Albums around the world.
The Chaperones were signed by Josie Records in 1959 and their initial recording, "Cruise to the Moon" was produced by my pal, Mickey Eichner. "Cruise to the Moon" was released in 1960, and
Tony Amato and Nick Salvato kept the group going for many years until Amato's death in the late 1980s. The new Chaperones are rehearsing a stage
"July 21, 1958, and I was on the air with a request show at a radio station in Visalia, California. DJs had weird on-air names back then, and mine was Art King on KONG.
Many people just called in, but suddenly there was this nice voice on the phone
Sunday, Sept 19, Joey Dee Day in Passaic, NJ
The corner of Washington Place & Columbia Avenue (where Joey spent the first 18 years of his life), to be named Joey Dee, on the 50th year of his "Peppermint Twist."
Nielsen says that by overly focusing on the 18-to-34 and 18-to-49 demographic, advertiser are overlooking a group that has tremendous buying power. We're talking about 78 million baby boomers ranging from 46-to-64 yet it's a virtually untapped demo. Boomers are part of the 35-to-64 demo that gets less than 5% of the overall ad dollar pie.
submitted by Ray D'Ariano
c-notes
clay cole
Email: theclaycoleshow@yahoo.com
Dwayne Eddy
requesting, "Would you please play "Rebel Rouser" by Duane Eddy? Thank you."
I was so taken aback by someone saying "Thank you" that I thanked the female caller in return. Well, she called back, one thing led to another, and we ended up spending the evening talking about what we wanted out of life and everything under the sun.
Joanna and I were married on April 18, 1959, and we have been going strong for 51 years.
Just before I retired in 2007 after 50 years in the business, the Fresno Bee ran a story about my career and mentioned the song that brought Joanna and me together. Well, someone who happened to know Duane Eddy faxed him the story.
On my last day, Joanna was at the radio station, and to our surprise, Dwayne Eddy called to congratulate us, and we had a nice visit. He said he’d never thought of his twangy recording of "Rebel Rouser" as a love song, but he said he would from now on!" —Art Nugent Visalia, California
-- submitted by Andy Merey
In only two minutes and 42 seconds Chubby rocked the music world. It was that short time frame—the length of a song called "Twist”— that revolutionized how people viewed social interaction on the dance floor.
Billboard magazine named Chubby's "Twist" -- which reached #1 on the Hot 100 twice in two different years -- as the best-selling single ever toppling Bing Crosby's "White Christmas."
No other record has accomplished that feat.
It is an outrage that Chubby has never been considered for a place in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. (He remains one of the "good guys.")
After all these years, Chubby deserves a note thanks from his fans, for his spectacular 50-year career. Take a quick minute and send
Tributes are planned all year, including a Wildwood, NJ "Twist" Weekend in October.
CHUBBY CHECKER
50 years of twistin'
This is Chubby Checker's year, celebrating 50 years of "The Twist" -- the dance that launched a thousand hips. In 1960, adults began dancing to teenage music for the very first time ... ever!
Lucia, who passed away in 1987, and who made an historic appearance with Tommy James on the Ed Sullivan Show. The Shondels and Tommy will headine a concert at 8:00pm
Joe Bithorn plays as George Harrison in the tribute band 'Rain.' The group is headed for an 11-week Broadway run.
an appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show. In “A Day in the Life,” a 29-song show, one may notice his electric guitar has a switch that enables him to plug into what is known as the piezo system. “It gets a much better acoustic sound,” Bithorn remarked. Bithorn and his bandmates basically study anything and everything Beatles to tweak the show. At present, Bithorn is reading the autobiography of
Beatles promoter Sid Bernstein. So, how does one get ready for the spotlight of New York City?
“I’ve been reading the (New York) Times every Sunday,” Bithorn offered. The critics, he suggested, “are pretty tough.”
Out-of-town tryouts are now underway to refine the music of the Beatles early days; they played Philadelphia last week.
Musically, “you just keep doing what you do best.” For the Big Apple, “you add a few bells and whistles.” Rain website
Dear Clay: Your 1960 Christmas Show was my very first concert and what a show it was. It has become a major influence in my life and still is. I was 15 and had moved to White Plains from the Bronx. We had to take a bus and then a subway to Brooklyn. Brooklyn? I had never been there. It was like a foreign country. It was a good thing the theater was right at the subway station. We were not looking forward to combat patrol. No seats were empty so we stood in the far house right side aisle. Then the show came on. This particular show was the one that Bo Diddley couldn't play because he had fallen backstage and broken his leg as he was finishing his set the show before.
Of course we were disappointed.
I think Neil Sedaka closed that show. He came on right after Bo's spot. Neil is performing and my friend introduces me to the woman standing next to us in the aisle. It was Neil's mother who came out from backstage. She was proudly showing off her new mink coat that her Boychick bought for her. That was pretty cool. We took the subway to the Bronx and a bus to White Plains. We wanted to see the last show of the day but the busses would have stopped by then and we were 15.
Now the story gets interesting. In 1975, I started working for Neil as his sound engineer and met his mother. I told them about that show and Leba, Neil's wife exclaimed that they were actually relieved that Bo broke his leg because he was so hard to follow.
About ten years after that I was having dinner in a Chinese joint near Grauman's Theater in Hollywood, and sitting about three feet from me was Bo Diddley. I told him the story about being there 25 years earlier when he broke his leg. His eyes got large at that memory. Then I told him Neil's wife's reaction. He was so grateful for that story that he autographed a poster for me.
A few years later, I started working for BobbyVinton. I told him the Sedaka story. Then the Bo Didley story. He thought it was a great story, especially that I could tell his son, who was playing bass on his show, how great the shows were and how good he was. So, that Christmas show changed my life and you were a big part of it. I have told this story many, many times. Your name is constantly in my life and life is grand. I still love what I do. Thanks for the memories.
As reported here last month, and confirmed to me by Gene Cornish at Rock Con, the four original Rascals have reunited
for a tour. Little Steven Van Zandt was the main force in getting the Rock and Roll Hall of Famers together onstage for only the second time in 40 years. The first was when the band was inducted into the Hall in 1997, and on April 24 when the band performed a 15-song set at a charity event.
