1. You select the Inductess to be announced January 2010. 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.
Sisters Barbara Allbut and Phyllis "Jiggs" Allbut and Linda Jansen had their first hit in 1961, "Till," followed by "Cry Baby Cry."
Both songs were released on Gerry Granahan's Caprice label. Linda left and was replaced by Peggy Santiglia, (formerly with Denise Ferri in The Delicates, featured in my 1962 Twist-a-rama revue.) In 1963 , the trio then signed on to the Smash label and recorded
"My Boyfriend's Back," which reached # 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, and led to an appearance on the Ed Sullivan show. Go toANGELS PAGE
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TV Guide listing for April 8, 1967 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. That's star-power!
John Rook, lifelong radio programmer, creator of the Hit Parde Hall of Fame, announced "The Hit Parade Radio" is scheduled to debut this September.
The 24/7 live syndicated format will feature the music and artists you and I know so well but is seldom heard on radio these days."
Adults 50+ represent seventy million people - 28% of the entire population. Demographic trends associated with the aging of Boomers, plus gains in longevity will grow this market to over 106 million by 2015.
The demographic of today that supports talk radio hungers for the songs and recording artists who provide memories of better days. This music is only available from Hit Parade Radio!
Today the availability of the Internet and Wi-Fi makes internet radio a comfortable reality not only at home to millions but in automobiles for an estimated eighty million Americans.
With pleasant memories of the past, thanks to the Internet and Wi-Fi, Hit Parade Radio with no subscription fees is the future.
“With tough economic times ahead for the broadcast industry, providing a quality live music format targeted toward the 50+ audience, Hit Parade radio is a natural for broadcasters that are looking to cut costs, but still provide quality programming.
The Hit Parade Radio oldies format is now being broadcast on WiFi Radio; this is great exposure for Hit Parade Radio, as WiFi Radio reaches nearly 60 million monthly radio listeners.
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Les Paul, one of the most revered guitarists of all time and the forefather
of the electric guitar, passed away August 12, 2009 at the age of 94.
Paul died of respiratory failure.
An inductee of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and Grammy Hall of Fame, Paul is credited as the creator of the electric body guitar and the pioneer of recording techniques like electronic echo and multi-tracking.
Paul also had a celebrated career as both a solo artist and with singer Mary Ford, his wife until 1964. The early ’50s also found Paul experimenting with the electric guitar, building the Les Paul Recording Guitar, an instrument that allowed for “hot” pickups and “fatter” tone than the Fender on the market, with Paul linking up with Gibson Guitars on his new model.
Around this time, Paul also constructed the first-ever eight-track recording, as well as the dual-pickup guitar, the 14-fret guitar, and various types of electronic transducers used both in guitars and recording studios. For his achievements on the technical end of things, Paul was also inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 2005, joining Thomas Edison.
In the early ’50s, Les Paul and
wife Mary Ford had a string of No.1 hits including Vaya Con Dios, Mockin’ Bird Hill,How High the
Before Les, guitars were only amplified. Les made them truly electric. Les Paul joked, “Everybody thought I was a guitar." Each Monday evening, Les Paul would travel from his New Jersey home to play at the Iridium jazz club, way into his 90s. One thing is for certain: Les Paul is responsible for changing the way rock and roll sounds, thanks to his guitars, his studio innovations and his music.
The Malt Shop Memories Cruise from Tampa to Cozumel on the Carnival Inspiration.
Frankie Avalon, Bobby Rydell, Little Anthony and the Imperials, Lesley Gore, Lou Christie,
The Platters, The Drifters and host, Jerry Blavat, the 'Geator with the Heater.' Check out www.maltshopcruise.com Also appearing in one of the lounges will be Lou Rotondo & the Dell Rays. (Lou was a member of the Passions for over 45 years and lead singer for over 30 years.)
The Stooges, Genesis, ABBA, the Hollies and Jimmy Cliff will be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame at the shrine's 25th annual ceremony on March 15 at the Waldorf Astoria hotel in New York City. They'll be joined by David Geffen and a cadre of songwriters -- Barry Mann & Cynthia Weil, Ellie Greenwich & Jeff Barry, Jesse Stone, Mort Shuman and Otis Blackwell -- who will receive the Ahmet Ertegun Award for non-performers.
The ceremony will be broadcast live on Fuse TV.
Peter Gabriel has stunned the music world by announcing he won't be joining his former GENESIS bandmates onstage for the group's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction in March.
Hollies' Graham Nash calls the induction "well deserved," noting that "they were a very large part of the 1960s British
Invasion."
Genesis might not perform at the ceremony due to Phil Collins' recent dislocated vertebrae surgery. "Phil's got a few physical problems at the moment which means I don't think he'd be able to play; we'll see," says keyboardist Tony Banks.
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 Metro New York.
- Contributed by 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:
The Beatles Tribute Cruisesets sail from Fort Lauderdale, Fla., for six nights beginning March 28th aboard the Independence of the Seas from the Royal Caribbean cruise line. The cruise will make stops in Belize City, Cozumel and Costa Maya before returning to Fort Lauderdale.
The guests include authors May Pang and Nancy Lee Andrews ("A Dose of Rock 'n' Roll"), Paul Saltzman ("The Beatles in Rishikesh"), artist Shannon, who specializes in Beatles artwork, photographer Jorie Gracen ("I Saw Him Standing There") and the tribute band BritBeat.
