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.
Check this out:
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?
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 now calls the 1,350-seat Neil Simon Theatre home, scheduled to last until Jan. 9. "Rain: A Day In the Life"
targets the Fab Four’s later years.
For Bithorn, it will be homecoming — he grew up on 54th Street in NYC.
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
Rock Hall Announces
2011 Inductees
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. "The Al Rucker Show" was
his stepping stone to stardom in New York.
From Bob DuCharme
• Alice Cooper
• Neil Diamond
• Dr. John
• Darlene Love
• Tom Waits
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.
"Reminising" -- Little River Band
... Del-Satins are now being filmed for an up-coming documentary on their 50 year career
... and the Brooklyn Bridge have announced a new lead singer, Roy Michaels . . .
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Beatles' Catalogue Now On iTunes
Joey Curatolo, Joe Bithorn, Steve Landes
and Ralph Castell star in the Broadway show, Rain: A Day In the Life."
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 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.
“I’ve been reading the (New York) Times every Sunday,” Bithorn offered. The critics, he suggested, “are pretty tough". For the Big Apple, “you add a few bells and whistles.”
Mostly, it’s just one Beatles song after another — there is no attempt to tell a story, as in “Lennon,” which had a brief Broadway run in 2005, or reinvent the music, as in the hit Cirque du Soleil show, “Love.” Rain website
Ray Davies' new CD release,
"See My Friends," is classic Kinks songs turned into friends collaborations on Universal UK to be released in the US early next year or on-line from the UK. Artists on tracks from his incredible songwriting career, revisiting his back catalogue and crafting new versions of his classic songs. Highlights include: ''Better Things' with Bruce Springsteen, 'You Really Got Me' with Metallica and a Bon Jovi track.
Ballots were sent to more than 500 voters, who selected the five artists to be inducted at the 26th Annual Ceremony. These performers had to release their first recording no later than 1985, or 25-years after their first release.
The 2011 individual inductions of Non-Performerts will be selected by a the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Foundations panel in Manhattan. The Induction Ceremony will take place on March 14, 2011 at the Waldorf Astoria in New York City.
The five 2011 inductees into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame were announced December 15th.
Fifteen were nominated; the ten
nominees overlooked this year:
Ringo, Paul, George, John with Chris Montez
("The More I See You"), Tommy Roe "Dizzy")
Bronx Blues: Dion DiMucci has just finished a collaboration with Mike Aquilina on a book he always wanted to write,
"Dion, the Wanderer, Talks Truth" due out in the Spring.
Dion says: " I met Mike Aquilina in Rome in 2005 and we became fast friends. The manuscript is filled with short stories, humor, music and lots of heart. Just today we finished our collaboration."
So watch here for updates. And look to the New York Times for Dion's account of meeting Mike -- and the musical fallout! ...
Marcia Habib returned from Wildwood, NJ Fabulous Fifties weekend with 350 new names on her petition to induct me into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in the category of Non-Performers. The nominating committee choses music-biz members who contributed to the advancement of rock 'n' roll: songwriters, producers, executives and disc jockeys.
Fats Domino as their 15th annual American Master award, a five day event, culminating with a three hour concert with Lloyd Price, Dr John, Dixie Cups, Dave Bartholomew and more. Unfortunately, Fats didn't make it. . .
Beatles. The band that changed everything
is now on iTunes. Get all of the band's 13 studio albums, each with iTunes LP, featuring lyrics, liner notes, a mini-documentary about the album, and more. You can also download the Past Masters collection and the famed "Red" and "Blue" compilations. Also available: The Beatles Box Set, which includes the group's catalog, documentaries, photos, and a video of the band's first U.S. concert, the 1964 show at Washington Coliseum.
iBooks requires an iPad or an iOS 4 device, and is not compatible with original iPhone or iPod touch (1st generation). Full terms apply, available at: www.apple.com/legal/itunes/us/terms.html. For more information see www.apple.com/itunes/. Content prices and availability subject to change.
Aretha Franklin Update: The Times-Picayune, The Huffington Post, Channel 3 News in Detroit, and the National Inquirer report that soul icon Aretha Franklin has pancreatic cancer.
Ms Franklin, 68, has remained in the hospital after surgery last week. A community prayer vigil was held in Detroit for Franklin a day before the singing legend underwent a medical procedure. No one has yet identified her illness.
Her publicist announced that she is canceling all appearances for the next six months, per doctor's orders. Franklin has been hospitalized for several days and remains in a Detroit hospital.
Proud to Be Obese? Aretha Franklin is a hell of a singer. All hail the queen of soul.
Yet at a recent appearance she declared herself "proud" to be a large woman. Proud?
The self-esteem movement has gotten way out of hand. While I don't believe one should necessarily be ashamed of being obese (reasons for it are far more complex than "gluttony"), there is no reason to be proud of it. Its not an accomplishment, and it will kill you. Before it does that though, it will destroy your quality of life.'ve known a number of people who have died young from complications of obesity--and those who die from heart disease are probably the lucky ones. The complications of Type II (adult onset) diabetes are horrifying and include blindness and circulatory problems that can make amputation necessary. The mother of a good friend passed recently while praying for death as relief from her suffering. I wouldn't wish life like this on my worst enemy, much less on Aretha Franklin.
-- Mick Stockinger
Aretha Franklin Out for Six Months
Who's
Zoomin'
Who?
Commentary:
Aretha Franklin is one of the giants of soul music, and indeed of American pop as a whole. More than any other performer, she epitomized soul at its most gospel-charged. Her astonishing run of late-'60s hits with Atlantic Records--"Respect," "I Never Loved a Man," "Chain of Fools," "Baby I Love You," "I Say a Little Prayer," "Think," "The House That Jack Built," and several others--earned her the title "Lady Soul," which she has worn uncontested ever since.
Aretha made her first recordings as a gospel artist at the age of 14. Franklin ended up with Columbia, but her work at Columbia was considerably tamer than what was to follow, and suffered in general from a lack of direction and an emphasis on trying to develop her as an all-around entertainer, rather than as an R&B/soul singer.
In the late '60s, with Atlantic Records, Franklin became one of the biggest international recording stars in all of pop. The chart statistics are impressive in and of themselves: ten Top Ten hits in a roughly 18-month span between early 1967 and late 1968, for instance, and a steady stream of solid mid-to-large-size hits for the next five years after that. Her Atlantic albums were also huge sellers, and far more consistent artistically than those of most soul stars of the era.
Critically, as is the case with many '60s rock legends, there have been mixed responses to her later work. Some view it as little more than a magnificent voice wasted on mediocre material. Others seem to grasp for any excuse they can to praise her whenever there seems to be some kind of resurgence of her soul leanings. Most agree that her post-mid-'70s recordings are fairly inconsequential when judged against her prime Atlantic era. The blame is often laid at the hands of unsuitable material, but it should also be remembered that -- like Elvis Presley and Ray Charles -- Franklin never thought of herself as confined to one genre. She always loved to sing straight pop songs, even if her early Atlantic records gave one the impression that her true home was earthy soul music. If for some reason she returned to straight soul shouting in the future, it's doubtful that the phase would last for more than an album or two. In the meantime, despite her lukewarm recent sales record, she's an institution, assured of the ability to draw live audiences and immense respect for the rest of her lifetime, regardless of whether there are any more triumphs on record in store.
