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                FEATURED SHOWS

Mickey Bo. The Roots of Rock N' Roll 

To paraphrase an old dairy ad, You Never Outgrow Your Need for Rock 'n' Roll. Let this week's show quench your thirst for real ‘50s-‘60s oldies. As usual, you'll also hear some rock roots tunes from the late '40s and early '50s.

Dickie Lee and the Iceman, great shows of the 60's and 70's progressive rock and soul. Sunday 5:00 PM 

Thursday Mornings with JP Mc Cartney 8:00 -11:00 AM Each hour One Beatle Single 45. , each hour specials. The Show is Three Hours Long. 

• Saturday Mornings:   Dave Edwards "That Seventies Sound" 9:00 AM  (Great Sounds)

Monday evenings 9:00 PM The Rewind Jo Shannon Classic Solid Rock Encore Wednesday 9:00 PM 

   BROADCAST BULLETIN (Daily Updates) 

September 11, 1962 — The Beatles record their first British single, "Love Me Do" b/w "P.S. I Love You." "Love Me Do" peaks at #17 later that fall, but isn't released in the U.S. until mid-1964, when it reaches #1.


                                                                    2001 — Most U.S. radio stations replace music with news after a terrorist attack brings down the World Trade Center in New York. Many stars cancel concerts, but music proves vital when the healing begins. A number of benefit concerts take place, including America: A Tribute to Heroes, which is broadcast on all four major TV networks on September 21, 2001.

 

September 12, 1966 — The Monkees TV show makes its debut in the U.S. with four actors chosen to portray a pop band based on the Beatles. Although they begin as a fictional group, they become very real, eventually replacing studio musicians and making their own recordings.
 September 13, 1960 — The U.S. broadcast regulator, the Federal Communications Commission,  bans "payola," the controversial practice of paying disc jockeys for playing songs. The decision is the result of a major scandal involving top air personalities, including Dick Clark and Alan Freed, that led to Congressional hearings. Many in the music industry consider the events an attack on rock 'n' roll pushed by the big music publishing firm ASCAP to help it to maintain its dominance over smaller competitor BMI, which has a near-monopoly in the youth music market.

September 14, 1955 — Little Richard records "Tutti-Frutti" in New Orleans for Specialty Records. Originally an obscene ditty called "Tutti-Frutti, Good Booty" that Richard wrote and performed in nightclubs around the southern U.S., a female lyricist at the label rewrites it to take out the prurient references. The record, Richard's first for the Los Angeles company, reaches #17 pop, #2 R&B and helps take him from a struggling southern U.S. R&B artist to the pinnacle of fame. It is enshrined in the Grammy Hall of Fame, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Rolling Stone's 2010 list of  the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time at #43, and the Record Industry Association of America's top 365 Songs of the Century at #130.



September 15, 1915 — Ferdinand "Jelly Roll" Morton's "Jelly Roll Blues" is published in Chicago, apparently the first published jazz arrangement. (Morton would be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1998 as an early influence on rock.)



September 17, 1931 — RCA Victor unveils its new invention, the 33⅓ r.p.m. long-playing record, at the Savoy Plaza Hotel in New York. (See RCA's magazine ad below) The company badly overprices the record players themselves, however, leaving the new format dormant until Columbia Records revives it in 1948.
                            1955 — Pat Boone earns his first #1 on the U.S. pop charts when "Ain't That A Shame" hits the top spot. Some folks think it's a shame that his sterilized version is far more popular than Fats Domino's original, but Boone's cover draws lots of attention to Domino and earns the New Orleans singer substantial royalties. (Boone tells of how Domino once invited him onstage at a concert and displayed his big gold ring to the crowd, graciously quipping, “Pat Boone bought me this ring.”)

 

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Sources:
Eight Days a Week (Ron Smith)
Eight Days a Week (Kenneth Best)
On This Day in Black Music History (Jay Warner)
Chronology of American Popular Music, 1900-2000 (Frank Hoffman)
calendar.songfacts.com
onthisday.com/music

 

 

 

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 Gold Star Oldies USA

• Gold Star Oldies USA is a classic‑hits radio station built around the timeless music of the 60s, 70s, and 80s. It focuses on feel‑good nostalgia, surf‑rock energy,  R& B , and the warm sound of early American pop radio. The station blends daily features, curated shows, and upbeat presentation to recreate the golden era of broadcasting. It’s designed as a clean, friendly, and always‑on destination for listeners who love the music that never fades.

 

 

                   DJ SPOTLIGHT 

• • •               Early Beatles 

      1965 - Paul McCartney

      The Paul McCartney song 'Yesterday' was released as a Beatles single in the US. McCartney's vocal and acoustic guitar together with a string quartet essentially made for the first solo performance of the band. The final recording was so different from other works by The Beatles that the band members vetoed the release of the song as a single in the United Kingdom. (However, it was issued as a single there in 1976.)

      1969 - John Lennon

      John Lennon & Yoko Ono flew to Canada to perform at the Rock & Roll Revival Show in Toronto, Canada. The band members Eric Clapton, Klaus Voormann and drummer Alan White were put together so late that they had to rehearse on the plane from England. Also making an appearance at the concert were Chuck Berry, Gene Vincent, Bo Diddley, The Doors and Alice Cooper. Lennon later released his performance as the Live Peace in Toronto 1969 album.

      1967 - The Beatles

      The Beatles formed an electronics company called Fiftyshapes, Ltd. appointing John Alexis Mardas (Magic Alex) to be the company's director. Alex claimed he could build a 72-track tape machine, instead of the 4-track at Abbey Road (this never materialised). One of his more outrageous plans was to replace the acoustic baffles around Ringo Starr's drums with an invisible sonic force field. George Harrison later said that employing Mardas was "the biggest disaster of all time."