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  • America’s Home for the Greatest Hits of the 50s, 60s & 70s

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    TODAY’S FEATURED SHOWS

Welcome to Dickie Lee and the Iceman, great shows of the 60's and 70's progressive rock and soul. Monday,  Tuesday ,Wednesday and Friday  7:00 AM Morning Drive. 

Thursday Mornings with JP Mc Cartney  8:00 -11:00 AM Each hour  One Beatle Single 45. , each hour specials. 

  • Saturday Mornings:   Dave Edwards "That Seventies Sound" 9:00 AM and 10:00 PM (Great Sounds)

   BROADCAST BULLETIN (Daily Updates) 

 

 

   MUSIC NEWS

July 25, 1956 — Composer Mike Stoller, half of the famous Lieber-Stoller songwriting team, survives the collision between the Italian luxury liner Andrea Doria and the Swedish liner Stockholm, which kills 52 people and sinks the Italian boat. When Stoller (photo, right) is safely off the Italian boat, partner Jerry Leiber (photo, left) greets him on the dock and reveals that they have a hit with "Hound Dog." Stoller asks, "Big Mama Thornton?" (who recorded the original version in 1953). "No," Leiber replies, "Some white kid named Elvis Presley."

July 27, 1976 — Tina Turner files for divorce from her husband Ike after 16 years of marriage. It is granted two years later. In her 1986 autobiography, I, Tina, she claims Ike was physically abusive to her. She goes on to a successful solo career while he dies of a cocaine overdose in 2007.
 



July 28, 1957 — Jerry Lee Lewis makes his U.S. national TV debut on NBC-TV's Steve Allen Show. The piano survives.


July 29, 1916 — Pioneering electric guitarist Charlie Christian is born in Dallas, Texas. Playing an amplified Gibson acoustic guitar with Benny Goodman, Lionel Hampton, and others, he helps create the style of jazz he names bebop and inspires untold numbers of jazz, blues, and rock guitar players with his heavy, front-loaded attack underlining an aggressive beat. He dies of tuberculosis in 1942 at age 25 after years of abusing his body with alcohol, lack of sleep, and promiscuous behavior.
                   1959 — The Drifters record the samba-styled "Dance With Me" (#2 R&B, #15 pop), a composition by Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller, and Lewis Lebish that heralds the Latin influence on future Drifters hits and those by others.

July 30, 1954 — Elvis Presley makes his first professional appearance. Billed in ads as "Ellis Presley," he is the opening act of a country music concert starring Slim Whitman at a park in his hometown, Memphis, Tennessee. As he sings tunes from his just-released first record, "That's All Right," his nervous leg shakes incite screams and applause from teenaged girls in the audience.


Song Information and Trivia 

 

 

Birthdays Singers and Song Writers :

  • 1971 - Alison Krauss

    Alison Krauss, bluegrass-country singer, songwriter and fiddler. She released her first solo album in 1987 and then was invited to join the band with which she still performs, Alison Krauss and Union Station. Winner of 1996 Rolling Stone's critic's choice best country artist. Krauss recorded Raising Sand with Robert Plant in 2007 which was nominated for and won 5 Grammys at the 51st Grammy Awards.

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    1947 - Tony Joe White
    Tony Joe White, US singer, songwriter, best known for his 1969 US No.8 single, 'Polk Salad Annie' (also recorded by Elvis Presley and Tom Jones) and ‘Rainy Night in Georgia’ which he wrote but was first made popular by Brook Benton in 1970. He also wrote 'Steamy Windows' a UK No.13 single for Tina Turner. White died of a heart attack on October 24, 2018, at the age of 75.

     

     

    1947 - David Essex
    David Essex, UK singer, actor, (1974 UK No.1 single 'Gonna Make You A Star', plus 18 other UK Top 40 singles, 1974 US No.5 single, 'Rock On').

     

 

 

 

Early Beatles News :   

1968 - The Beatles

Working at Abbey Road studios in London, The Beatles recorded 'Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except Me And My Monkey' for their forthcoming double album The Beatles.

1964 - The Beatles

The Beatles were at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'A Hard Day's Night', the group's fifth UK No.1.

 

Single 45:  having a birthday on July  22nd Carpenters "Close To You"

Album:  Having  A Birthday on July 20  Beatles "Why Something New"

 

 
 
 

 

   ABOUT GOLD STAR

 Gold Star Oldies USA

  • Gold Star Oldies USA is a classic‑hits radio station built around the timeless music of the 50s, 60s, and 70s. It focuses on feel‑good nostalgia, surf‑rock energy, 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.

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   DJ SPOTLIGHT

  • Dick and his partner in crime, The Iceman, have been broadcasting for a number of years and do some incredible shows covering everything from the famous ‘Summer of Love’ to ‘Woodstock’, the Monterey Festival as well as band and musician feature shows. Tune in…you’re guaranteed to learn something as well as be fantastically entertained every morning except Thursday. 

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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