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Gary The History Guys News Events Of The Month

May 25 – U.S. President Gerald Ford defeats challenger Ronald Reagan in 3 Republican presidential primaries: Kentucky, Tennessee and Oregon.Jimmy Carter would go on to win the Election.

May 30 – Indianapolis 500-Mile Race: Johnny Rutherford wins the (rain-shortened) shortest race in event history to date, at 102 laps or 255 miles (408 km).

Lowell Jackson Thomas (April 6, 1892 – August 29, 1981) was an American writer, broadcaster, and traveler, best known as the man who made Lawrence of Arabia famous. So varied were Thomas’s activities that when it came time for the Library of Congress to catalog his memoirs they were forced to put them in “CT” (“biographies of subjects who do not fit into any other category”) in their classification.Lowell Thomas retired from broadacsting in May 1976.

Sid James was a British-based South African actor and comedian. He made his name as Tony Hancock’s co-star in Hancock’s Half Hour and also starred in the popular Carry On films. He was known for his trademark “dirty laugh” and lascivious persona. Bruce Forsyth described him as “a natural at being natural.Sid James died on stage late in April 1976.

FOSTER D MOOS & THE TV SHOWS FROM 1976

The Six Million Dollar Man is an American television series about a former astronaut with bionic implants working for the OSI (which was variously referred to as the Office of Scientific Intelligence, the Office of Scientific Investigation or the Office of Strategic Intelligence). The show is based on the novel Cyborg by Martin Caidin, and during pre-production, that was the proposed title of the series. It aired on the ABC network as a regular series from 1974 to 1978, following three television movies aired in 1973. The title role of Steve Austin was played by Lee Majors, who subsequently became a pop culture icon of the 1970s. A spin-off of the show was produced, The Bionic Woman, as well as several television movies featuring both eponymous characters.

Rhoda is an American television sitcom, starring Valerie Harper, which ran for five seasons, from 1974 to 1978 airing in 109 episodes.The show was a spin-off from The Mary Tyler Moore Show, in which Harper between the years 1970 and 1974 had played the role of Rhoda Morgenstern, a spunky, weight-conscious, flamboyantly fashioned Jewish neighbor and native New Yorker in the role of Mary Richards’ best friend. After four seasons, Rhoda left Minneapolis and returned to her original hometown of New York City. The series was a huge ratings success (even beating its parent show) and was the winner of two Golden Globes and two Emmy Awards. Two of its first-season episodes broke numerous television records, and created one of the most iconic moments in television.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071040/

Starsky and Hutch is a 1970s American cop thriller television series, which consisted of a 90-minute pilot movie (originally aired as a Movie of the Week entry) and 92 episodes of 60 minutes each. The show was created by William Blinn, produced by Spelling-Goldberg Productions, and broadcast between April 30, 1975 and May 15, 1979 on the ABC network. It was distributed by Columbia Pictures Television in the United States and, originally, Metromedia Producers Corporation in Canada and some other parts of the world. Sony Pictures Television is now the worldwide distributor for the series

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072567/

Welcome Back, Kotter was an American television sitcom starring Gabe Kaplan and featuring a young John Travolta. It originally aired on the ABC network from September 9, 1975 to June 8, 1979.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072582/

Kojak is an American television series starring Telly Savalas as the title character, bald New York City Police Department Detective Lieutenant Theo Kojak. It aired from October 24, 1973, to March 18, 1978, on CBS. It took the time slot of the popular Cannon series, which was moved one hour earlier. Kojak’s Greek American heritage, shared by actor Savalas, was prominently featured in the series.

In 1999 TV Guide ranked Theo Kojak number 18 on its 50 Greatest TV Characters of All Time list.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069599/

BIG DADDY’S BIG 5 COUNTDOWN!

Top 5 songs from the Cashbox Chart from May 1976. Join this Facebook Group populated by old CHUM employees and fans and folks that love discussing musical trivia

http://www.henrygross.com/

Henry Gross (born April 1, 1951, Brooklyn, New York), is an American singer-songwriter best known for his association with the group, Sha Na Na, and for his hit song, “Shannon”. He is the youngest person, at age 18, to play on the main stage at the Woodstock Music & Art Fair in 1969.

He produced the single, “Shannon”, a song written about the death of Beach Boy Carl Wilson’s Irish setter of the same name. The single went gold based on US sales alone,and became a worldwide hit, reaching #6 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1976. In Canada, it reached #1 in May of the same year

Love Hangover” was the fourth number one single for Motown singer Diana Ross. It was released in March 1976, and rose to number one on the Billboard Hot 100, Hot Soul Singles and Hot Dance Club Play charts simultaneously.

Written by Pamela Sawyer and Marilyn McLeod as a disco number, the Motown staff believed that it would be perfect for Ross to record. Ross, like her soul contemporaries Aretha Franklin and Marvin Gaye, initially resented the new musical movement but eventually agreed to record the song.

http://www.facebook.com/DianaRoss

“Fooled Around and Fell in Love” was a single by blues guitarist Elvin Bishop. It appeared on his 1975 album Struttin’ My Stuff and was released as a single the following year. Bishop does not sing lead vocals on the track; feeling that his gravelly voice didn’t do the song justice, he invited vocalist Mickey Thomas who was a background singer in his band at the time, to sing it. The song peaked at #3 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart in May 1976.The record was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America on June 23, 1976

http://www.elvinbishopmusic.com/

“Silly Love Songs” is a song written by Paul and Linda McCartney and performed by Wings. The song appears on the 1976 album Wings at the Speed of Sound. It was also released as a single in 1976. The US single was released on 1 April 1976 and reached #1 on the Billboard Hot 100. The UK single was released on 30 April 1976 and reached #2 on the UK Singles Chart.The single was certified Gold by the Recording Industry Association of America for sales of over one million copies

http://store.paulmccartney.com/ram/usd.php

Welcome Back” is a popular record that was the theme song of the 1970s American television sitcom Welcome Back, Kotter. Written and recorded by former Lovin’ Spoonful frontman John Sebastian, it reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart for one week in May 1976 after only five weeks on the chart (the show itself had become an instant ratings success upon its premiere the previous Fall). The song also topped the Easy Listening chart and reached number 93 on the Country chart

http://www.johnbsebastian.com/

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Sidekick Scotty’s Sports Headlines of May 1976!

The 1976 Stanley Cup Final NHL championship series was contested by the defending champion Philadelphia Flyers, making their third-straight Final appearance and the Montreal Canadiens. This was the Canadiens first appearance in the Final since their Cup win in the 1973 Final. The Canadiens would win the best-of-seven series four games to none.

The Boston Celtics were NBA Champions in 1976.

The Phoenix Suns finished the season with 42 wins and 40 losses, but beat the defending NBA champion Golden State Warriors in the playoffs and went on to play the Boston Celtics in the NBA Finals, giving the Celtics a tough battle before falling in six games.

The 1976 NBA Finals also marked the first time that NBA games of any kind were being played during the month of June.

The 1976 FA Cup Final took place on 1 May 1976 at Wembley Stadium. It was contested between Manchester United and Southampton.

United had finished third in the First Division that season, and were strong favourites, while unfancied Southampton had finished sixth in the Second Division. In one of the biggest shocks in the history of the final, Southampton won 1–0 through an 83rd-minute goal from Bobby Stokes. It was the first time Southampton won a major trophy.

The 1975–76 season of the European Cup (now Champions League) football club tournament was won by for the third consecutive time by Bayern Munich in the final against Saint-Étienne.

Bud The Spud On A Stick’s Favorite Movies from May 1976!

Taxi Driver is a 1976 American psychological thriller film directed by Martin Scorsese and written by Paul Schrader. The film is set in New York City, soon after the Vietnam War. The film stars Robert De Niro and features Jodie Foster, Harvey Keitel, and Cybill Shepherd. The film was nominated for four Academy Awards, including Best Picture, and won the Palme d’Or at the 1976 Cannes Film Festival. The American Film Institute ranked Taxi Driver as the 52nd greatest American film on their AFI’s 100 Years…100 Movies (10th Anniversary Edition) list. The film was considered “culturally, historically or aesthetically” significant by the US Library of Congress and was selected to be preserved in the National Film Registry in 1994.

Robin and Marian is a 1976 British/American co-produced romantic adventure period film filmed in Pamplona, Spain starring Sean Connery as Robin Hood, Audrey Hepburn as Lady Marian, Nicol Williamson as Little John, Robert Shaw as the Sheriff of Nottingham and Richard Harris as King Richard. It also features comedian Ronnie Barker in a rare film role as Friar Tuck. The film marked Hepburn’s return to the screen after an eight year absence

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075147/

All the President’s Men is a 1976 Academy Award-winning political thriller film based on the 1974 non-fiction book of the same name by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, the two journalists investigating the Watergate scandal for The Washington Post. The film starred Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman as Woodward and Bernstein, respectively; it was produced by Walter Coblenz, written by William Goldman, and directed by Alan J. Pakula.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074119/

Marathon Man is a 1976 suspense/thriller film directed by John Schlesinger. It was adapted by William Goldman from his novel of the same name and stars Dustin Hoffman, Laurence Olivier, Roy Scheider, William Devane and Marthe Keller. The music score was composed by Michael Small.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074860/

The Enforcer is a 1976 American film, and the third in the Dirty Harry film series. Directed by James Fargo, it stars Clint Eastwood as Inspector “Dirty” Harry Callahan, Tyne Daly as Inspector Kate Moore and DeVeren Bookwalter as terrorist leader/main antagonist Bobby Maxwell.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074483/

JC LEGENDS CARS OF 1976!

The Ford T Bird..Buick Riviera..The AMCs..Chevrolet Chevette

Get Up and Boogie (sometimes also known simply as Silver Convention) was the second album by German euro-disco group Silver Convention, and perhaps best known for including the song “Get Up and Boogie”, which hit #1 on June 15, 1976 in Canada and charted in the top 5 in the United States. As with their previous album, the lyrics are minimalistic.Released in 1976, it proved popular on the dance floors and experienced some commercial success as well, reaching number 9 on the Billboard Black Albums chart and number 13 on the Billboard Pop Albums chart.Critical reception of the album was mixed, both back then and today, although an Allmusic review called it “a respectable, if uneven, Euro-disco effort that boasts the disco smash ‘Get up and Boogie’”. The album has since been released on iTunes in several countries, sometimes under the title Silver Convention.

http://surf.to/silverconvention

Pratt & McClain was a 1970s-era rock and roll band, originally called Brother Love, consisting of Jerry McClain and Truett Pratt, along with various sidemen. They scored a Billboard #5 hit in 1976 with Theme to Happy Days.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pratt_%26_McClain

‘“Misty Blue”‘ is a song written by Bob Montgomery in 1966 which has become a hit in the pop, C&W and soul fields through various versions, the most successful being the 1976 pop/soul hit by Dorothy Moore.

Dorothy Moore (born 13 October 1946, Jackson, Mississippi) is an American pop, R&B, and soul singer best known for that song.

http://www.soulwalking.co.uk/Dorothy%20Moore.html

”Boogie Fever” is the title of a song recorded by Los Angeles, California-based R&B group The Sylvers, from their 1975 album Showcase. Their most lucrative single, it reached number one in the U.S. on both the Billboard Hot 100 and Hot Soul Singles charts as well as reaching number one in Canada on the RPM national singles chart in 1976,^[1] and was their third of nine Top 20 R&B hits and first top 40 pop single

http://www.soulwalking.co.uk/The%20Sylvers.html

“Tryin’ to Get the Feeling Again” is a song written by David Pomeranz. It was sung by ’70s superstars Barry Manilow and the Carpenters. Manilow’s version was included on his album, Tryin’ to Get the Feeling, and the Carpenters’ version wasn’t released until 1995, on their 25th anniversary CD, Interpretations: A 25th Anniversary Celebration.

http://www.manilow.com/

Kenneth Wayne Paul Tobias (born July 25, 1945) is a Canadian singer-songwriter. He is noted for penning a chart-topping hit for The Bells and for several top-selling recordings of his own.”Give A Little Love” was a charted hit in May 1976.

http://www.kentobias.ca/

Rhiannon” is a song written by Stevie Nicks and originally recorded by Fleetwood Mac. First released on their self-titled album in 1975, it was subsequently issued as a single the following year.

“Rhiannon” was voted #488 in The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time by Rolling Stone magazine. Its US chart peak was in June 1976, when it hit #11.^[1] It reached #46 in the UK singles chart after re-release in February 1978.

http://www.fleetwoodmac.com/

“Sara Smile” is the title of a song written and recorded by the American musical duo Hall & Oates. It was released in January 1976 as the second single from their album Daryl Hall & John Oates. The song was the group’s first Top 10 hit in the US, reaching number four on the Billboard Hot 100. In late 2009, American country music singer Jimmy Wayne released a cover version with a backing vocal from the duo

http://www.hallandoates.com/

“Show Me the Way” is a song written by Peter Frampton, which was originally released on his 1975 album Frampton and as a single, but gained its highest popularity as a song from his 1976 live album Frampton Comes Alive!. The song reached number 6 on the Billboard Hot 100 and number 10 on the UK Singles Chart, becoming his biggest hit until “I’m in You” in 1977.

http://www.frampton.com/

“Fool to Cry” is a song by English rock and roll band The Rolling Stones from their 1976 album Black and Blue.

Recorded in December 1974, the song was written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards. It is a slow-paced ballad. Mick Taylor had just left the band and the rest of the Stones were left without a lead guitarist. The recording of Black and Blue acted as a sort of audition for new guitarists which is why session man Wayne Perkins plays guitar on this track. Jagger plays electric piano and Nicky Hopkins performs regular piano on the track, with Hopkins also playing the string synthesizer

http://www.rollingstones.com/

Let Your Love Flow” is the title of a pop song written by Larry E. Williams, a former roadie for Neil Diamond, and made popular by the American country music duo The Bellamy Brothers. It was offered to Neil Diamond first, but he turned it down. ^[1]

This record was a crossover hit in the United States, reaching Number One on the 1976 Billboard Hot 100 charts, #2 on Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks, and #21 on Hot Country Singles. It was also an international hit, landing on the charts in the UK, Scandinavia and West Germany, where the Bellamy Brothers’ record spent five weeks at #1 followed by “Ein Bett im Kornfeld”, a German language adaptation of the song recorded by Jürgen Drews, which spent the next six weeks at #1.In 2008 the song was used in an advert in the United Kingdom for Barclaycard. Subsequently, the song re-entered the UK Singles Chart and peaked at #21

http://bellamybrothers.com/

Billy Ocean (born Leslie Sebastian Charles; 21 January 1950)is a British recording artist who had a string of R&B international pop hits in the 1970s and 1980s. He was the most popular British-based R&B singer-songwriter of the early to mid-1980s. After scoring his first four UK top 20 successes, seven years passed before he accumulated a series of transatlantic successes, including three U.S. number ones.In 1985, Ocean won the Grammy Award for Best Male R&B Vocal Performance for his worldwide hit, “Caribbean Queen”>”Love Really Hurts Without You” charted in 1976.

http://www.billyocean.co.uk/

More, More, More” is a song written by Gregg Diamond and recorded by American disco artist Andrea True, who performed under the name “The Andrea True Connection”. It was released in February 1976 as the third single from the album of the same name, and became her signature track and one of the most popular songs of the disco era.

True died on November 7, 2011, at a hospital in Kingston, New York near her home in Woodstock. She was 68 years old. A longtime friend, Louise Marsello Landham, said the cause was heart failure. In line with her wishes, she was cremated.She left behind no immediate family

http://www.70disco.com/andtruec.htm

Neil Sedaka is an American pop/rock singer, pianist, and composer. His career has spanned nearly 55 years, during which time he has sold millions of records as an artist and has written or co-written over 500 songs for himself and other artists, collaborating mostly with lyricists Howard Greenfield and Phil Cody.”Love In The Shadows” charted in 1976.

http://www.neilsedaka.com

“Shop Around” is a 1960 single by The Miracles (credited as “The Miracles featuring Bill ‘Smokey’ Robinson”) for the Tamla (Motown) label, catalog number T 54034. It is notable as being the label’s first #1 hit on the Billboard magazine R&B singles chart, and also hit #2 on the Hot 100.. “Shop Around” also reached #1 on The Cash Box magazine Top 100 pop chart and is also noted for being the first million-selling record for The Miracles and for The Motown Record Corporation, as well as a 2006 Grammy Hall of Fame inductee.The Captain & Tennille covered the song in 1976.

http://captainandtennille.net/

Strange Magic” is a song written and performed by the Electric Light Orchestra. It can be found on the 1975 Face the Music LP.

Released as a single in 1976. The single was edited in the USA, whereas in the UK the song appeared as the album cut minus the orchestral intro. The US single edit can be found on the remastered Face the Music released in September 2006 . The song was also included on the band’s 1978 ELO EP. A remastered version was included on the box set Flashback in 2000. The ‘weeping’ guitar lick was provided by Richard Tandy.

http://www.elo.biz/

Young Hearts Run Free” is a disco song by American soul singer Candi Staton. Released in 1976 from the album of the same title, it spent a week at number one on the Hot Soul Singles chart. It also peaked at number twenty on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart.Along with the tracks: “Run To Me” and “Destiny”, “Young Hearts Run Free” went to number eight on the dance disco charts. “Young Hearts Run Free” was one of only two songs by Staton to reach the top 10 on the UK Singles Chart, it peaked at number two behind The Real Thing’s “You to Me Are Everything”.

http://www.candi-staton.com/

“Afternoon Delight” is a song recorded by Starland Vocal Band, featuring close harmony and sexually suggestive wordplay. It was written by Bill Danoff, one of the members of the band. It became a number-one U.S. Billboard Hot 100 single on July 10, 1976.The song also reached number-one in Canada and peaked at number 5 in New Zealand.

http://www.billdanoff.com/

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Issue #13 MAY 1964 – Canada’s Boomers Website and Radio Show

This week its May 1964 this month in history is relived in News Items..Old TV Clips ..Songs from the Chart and of course Big Daddy,Foster D Moos,Gary The History Guy,JC Legend,Sidekick Scotty The Homey Boys Harry The Hippo Bud The Spud On A Stick and the usual cast of characters.Its like reliving a moment in history all over again.

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TOP 40 TIMELINE HOSTS …Gary The History Guy..JC Legend and Big Daddy at the D-Moos Radio Productions studios inside the world famous McGibbon Hotel in Georgetown,Ontario Canada.

Gary The History Guys News Events Of The Month

May 24–25 – The crowd at a football match in Lima, Peru riots over a referee’s decision in the Peru-Argentina game; 319 are killed, 500 injured.

Malcolm X also known as El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz was an African-American Muslim minister and human rights activist. To his admirers, he was a courageous advocate for the rights of African Americans, a man who indicted white America in the harshest terms for its crimes against black Americans. Detractors accused him of preaching racism, black supremacy, antisemitism, and violence. He has been called one of the greatest and most influential African Americans in history.He gave a famous speech in May 1964.

This was the beginning of Beatlemania and the British Invasion as we will hear a portion of David Frost’s Interview with Paul McCartney in May 1964.

May 27 – Prime Minister of India Jawaharlal Nehru dies; he is succeeded by Lal Bahadur Shastri.

FOSTER D MOOS & UNCLE GEORGE FROM THE McGIBBON HOTEL SHARE THE FAVORITE TV SHOWS FROM MAY 1964!

The Beverly Hillbillies is an American situation comedy originally broadcast for nine seasons on CBS from 1962 to 1971, starring Buddy Ebsen, Irene Ryan, Donna Douglas, and Max Baer, Jr.

The series is about a poor backwoods family transplanted to Beverly Hills, California, after striking oil on their land. A Filmways production created by writer Paul Henning, it is the first in a genre of “fish out of water” themed television shows, and was followed by other Henning-inspired country-cousin series on CBS. In 1963, Henning introduced Petticoat Junction, and in 1965 he reversed the rags to riches model for Green Acres. The show paved the way for later culture-conflict programs such as McCloud, The Nanny, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, and Doc. Panned by many entertainment critics of its time, it quickly became a huge ratings success for most of its nine-year run on CBS

The Dick Van Dyke Show is an American television sitcom that initially aired on CBS from October 3, 1961, until June 1, 1966. The show was created by Carl Reiner and starred Dick Van Dyke and Mary Tyler Moore. It was produced by Reiner with Bill Persky and Sam Denoff. The music for the show’s theme song was written by Earle Hagen. A three-camera/studio audience format was used during production.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054533/

Lassie is an American television series that follows the adventures of a female Rough Collie dog named Lassie and her companions, human and animal. The show was the creation of producer Robert Maxwell and animal trainer Rudd Weatherwax and was televised from September 12, 1954, to March 24, 1973. One of the longest running dramatic series on television, the show chalked up seventeen seasons on CBS before entering first-run syndication for its final two seasons. Initially filmed in black and white, the show transitioned to colour during 1965.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046617/

Candid Camera is an American hidden camera/practical joke reality television series created and produced by Allen Funt, which initially began on radio as Candid Microphone June 28, 1947. After a series of theatrical film shorts, also titled Candid Microphone, Funt’s concept came to television on August 10, 1948. Its last original broadcast was on May 5, 2004.

The format has appeared on U.S. TV networks and in syndication (first-run) in each succeeding decade, as either a regular show or a series of specials. Funt himself hosted or co-hosted almost all of the TV versions until a 1993 stroke from which he never recovered. His son Peter Funt, who had co-hosted the specials with his father since 1987, became the producer and host.

http://www.candidcamera.com/

The Walt Disney anthology television series refers to a television series which has been produced by the Walt Disney Company under several different titles from 1955 to 2008. These include Disneyland (1954–1958), Walt Disney Presents (1958–1961), Walt Disney’s Wonderful World of Color (1961–1969), The Wonderful World of Disney (1969–1979), Disney’s Wonderful World (1979–1981), Walt Disney (1981–1983), The Disney Sunday Movie (1986–1988), The Magical World of Disney (1988–1996), then finally back to The Wonderful World of Disney (1997–2008), and The Magical World of Disney Junior (2012–present)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046593/

BIG DADDY’S BIG 5 COUNTDOWN!

Top 5 songs from the CHUM Chart from MAY 18,1964 Join this Facebook Group populated by old CHUM employees and fans and folks that love discussing musical trivia

http://www.tsimon.com/everett.htm

The Shoop Shoop Song (It’s in His Kiss)” is a song written by Rudy Clark. The song was made a hit when recorded by Betty Everett, who hit #1 on the Cashbox magazine R&B charts with it in 1964. Recorded by dozens of artists and groups around the world in the decades since, the song became an international hit when remade by Cher in 1991.

“Hello, Dolly!” is the title song of the popular 1964 musical of the same name. Louis Armstrong’s version was inducted in the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2001.

The music and lyrics were written by Jerry Herman, who also wrote the scores for many other popular musicals including Mame and La Cage aux Folles.

http://www.legacyrecordings.com/artists/louis-armstrong

Gerry and the Pacemakers were a British beat music group prominent during the 1960s. In common with the Beatles, they came from Liverpool, were managed by Brian Epstein and recorded by George Martin. They are most remembered for being the first act to reach number one in the UK Singles Chart with their first three single releases. It was a record that was not equalled for 20 years,until the mid-1980s success of fellow Liverpool band Frankie Goes to Hollywood. According to Billboard Magazine, the group is the second most successful group to originate from Liverpool next to the Beatles.”I’m The One” charted in 1964!

http://www.gerryandthepacemakers.co.uk/

“Hippy Hippy Shake” is a song written and recorded by Chan Romero in 1959. That same year, the song reached number three in Australia.

A cover version by Italian rocker Little Tony appeared in the same year and found moderate success in the United Kingdom and Italy.

A version by UK-based band The Swinging Blue Jeans was released in December 1963. This single reached the British top 5 and just missed the Top 20 (#21) on the United States charts in early 1964.

http://www.swingingbluejeans.co.uk/SBJWeb/Home.html

“Bits and Pieces” is a song by 1960s quintet The Dave Clark Five. The single hit number two in the UK and number four in the US. The song was a success in other countries too. It was number two in Australia and number one in Canada and Ireland. It reached number four in the Netherlands.In Germany it only reached the 20th place though.

Lead vocals are sung by Mike Smith. He and Dave Clark had written the song together. The song is in antiphonal style, Mike Smith singing a solo line and the rest of the group responding. Dave Clark’s drums play a very prominent part in the accompaniment.

http://www.daveclarkfive.com/daveclarkfive/index2.htm

Special thanks for the chart information researched entirely every week through this WONDERFUL website.

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Sidekick Scotty’s Sports Headlines of May 1964!

The 1964 Stanley Cup Final was contested by the defending champion Toronto Maple Leafs and the Detroit Red Wings for the second straight year. The Maple Leafs would win the best-of-seven series four games to three to win the Stanley Cup, their third-straight championship. There would not be another Game 7 at Maple Leaf Gardens for almost three decades

The 1964 NBA Finals was the championship series of the 1963-64 National Basketball Association season, and was the conclusion of the 1964 NBA Playoffs. The best-of-seven series was played between the Western Conference champion San Francisco Warriors and the Eastern Conference champion Boston Celtics. This was the Celtics’ 8th straight trip to the championship series, and they won the series over the Warriors, 4-1.

The 1964 FA Cup Final was contested by West Ham United and Preston North End at Wembley. West Ham won 3–2, with goals from John Sissons, Geoff Hurst and Ron Boyce. Doug Holden and Alex Dawson scored Preston’s goals.

Preston’s Howard Kendall became the youngest player to play in a Wembley FA Cup Final, aged 17 years 345 days.

The 1964 European Cup Final (now Champions League)was a football match between Internazionale and at that time, the five time winners Real Madrid, held at the Prater Stadium, Vienna. Inter went on to lift the trophy for the first time, by beating Real Madrid 3-1.

Bud The Spud On A Stick’s Favorite Movies from May 1964!

The Pink Panther is a 1964 American comedy film directed by Blake Edwards and co-written by Edwards and Maurice Richlin, starring David Niven, Peter Sellers, Robert Wagner, Capucine, and Claudia Cardinale. The film introduced the cartoon character of the same name, in an opening credits sequence animated by DePatie-Freleng Enterprises

The Carpetbaggers is a 1964 American film based upon the best selling novel The Carpetbaggers by Harold Robbins.

The film stars George Peppard as Jonas Cord, a character based loosely on Howard Hughes, and Alan Ladd as former western gunslinger turned actor Nevada Smith, featured the following year in a prequel starring Steve McQueen in the part. Carroll Baker portrayed an actress inspired by Jean Harlow, who appeared in Hughes’ film epic Hell’s Angels.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057917/

From Russia with Love is the second in the James Bond spy film series, and the second to star Sean Connery as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond. Released in 1963, the film was produced by Albert R. Broccoli and Harry Saltzman, and directed by Terence Young. It is based on the 1957 novel of the same name by Ian Fleming. In the film, James Bond is sent to assist in the defection of Soviet consulate clerk Tatiana Romanova in Turkey, where SPECTRE plans to avenge Bond’s killing of Dr. No.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057076/

What a Way to Go! is a 1964 American comedy film directed by J. Lee Thompson and starring Shirley MacLaine, Paul Newman, Robert Mitchum, Dean Martin, Gene Kelly, Margaret Dumont, Bob Cummings and Dick Van Dyke.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058743/

Viva Las Vegas (Aka: Love in Las Vegas) is a 1964 American romantic musical movie starring music icon Elvis Presley and actress/dancer Ann-Margret. The film is regarded by fans and by film critics as one of Presley’s best movies, and it is noted for the on-screen chemistry between Presley and Ann-Margret. It also presents a strong set of ten musical song-and-dance scenes choreographed by David Winters and featuring his dancers, and a reasonably interesting story. Viva Las Vegas was a hit at movie theaters, becoming the number 11 movie in the list of the Top 20 Movie Box Office hits of 1964

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058725/

JC Legends Cars ..1964..the El Camino!

Thr REST of 1964!

”Kiss Me Quick” is a song written by Doc Pomus and Mort Shuman, recorded by Elvis Presley on June 25, 1961, and released on June 5, 1962 through RCA as a part of the album Pot Luck. The song, backed by “Something Blue”, was released in the United Kingdom and Europe as a single by Elvis Presley with The Jordanaires on December 1962 through RCA Victor. It was listed as number-one single for eight weeks, from June until July 1963, in Europe.It was on the CHUM Chart in 1964.

http://m.elvis.com/

Suspicion” is a song written by Doc Pomus and Mort Shuman. It was one of 25 songs Pomus and Shuman wrote for Elvis Presley.

“Suspicion” featured on Presley’s 1962 album Pot Luck with Elvis. The song became a hit in 1964, through an Elvis sound-alike cover version by Terry Stafford. The Stafford version of “Suspicion” peaked at No. 3 in the US Billboard Hot 100 chart, and No. 31 in the UK Singles Chart. Presley’s version was eventually a hit in the UK, reaching No. 9 in 1976.

In a 2002 interview with journalist Mick Brown, record producer Phil Spector claimed he wrote and/or produced “Suspicion”, but did not receive credit: “I made ‘Suspicion’ for Terry Stafford — I didn’t get any credit or any money. I didn’t care. I just loved making records.However, in the same interview, Spector also made claims of producing records by Elvis Presley without credit, and acting as a translator for the United Nations while a teenager; none of these unlikely claims have been corroborated by anyone else.

http://keepkey.yochanan.net/terry.htm

The Serendipity Singers were a 1960s American folk group, similar to The New Christy Minstrels.

This nine-member folk-oriented group started at the University of Colorado with seven original members of a group called the Newport Singers. The members (Bryan Sennett, Brooks Hatch, Mike Brovsky, John Madden, Jon Arbenz, Bob Young and Lynne Weintraub) had, with the exception of Weintraub, all previously worked together in various trios before coming together to form the Newport Singers.”Don’t Let The Rain Come Down” charted in 1964.

http://www.allmusic.com/artist/serendipity-singers-p25355

“A World Without Love” is a song recorded by the English duo Peter and Gordon and released as their first single in February 1964, reaching number one in the UK Singles Chart in April. The song was written by Paul McCartney and attributed to Lennon–McCartney. The B-side was “If I Were You” written by Peter and Gordon. In June 1964, “A World Without Love” topped the Billboard Hot 100 in the US. It also reached number one on the Cash Box chart in the U.S. for one week. It was included on the duo’s debut album in the UK, and in the US on an album of the same name. It is one of two songs written by Lennon–McCartney to reach number one in the US by an artist other than the Beatles. The other is “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds” by Elton John.

http://www.peterandgordon.net/

“Glad All Over” is a song written by Mike Smith and recorded by The Dave Clark Five. In January 1964, it became the British group’s first big hit, reaching number one on the UK Singles Chart. In April 1964, it reached number 6 on the American U.S. pop singles chart, becoming the first British Invasion hit by an artist other than The Beatles. It was also number one in Ireland, number 3 in Australiaand number 2 in Canada. It reached number 4 in the Netherlands and number 16 in Germany

http://www.daveclarkfive.com/daveclarkfive/index2.htm

“My Guy” is a 1964 number-one hit single recorded by Mary Wells for the Motown label. Written and produced by Smokey Robinson of The Miracles, the song is a woman’s dedication to the goodness of her man (“There’s not a man today who could take me away from my guy”).

The single became the biggest hit ever for Wells, Motown’s first female star, and reached the top of the Billboard Hot 100 pop singles chart. The song led the Cashbox magazine R&B chart for seven weeks ^[1]. “My Guy” also happened to be Wells’ last hit single for Motown, excepting duets she recorded with label mate Marvin Gaye. An option in her recording contract allowed Wells to terminate the contract at her discretion after she reached her twenty-first birthday on May 13, 1964. Encouraged by her ex-husband, Wells broke her Motown contract and signed with 20th Century Fox in hopes of higher royalties and possible movie roles. However, Wells’ career never again reached the heights it had at Motown, and she never again had a hit single as big as “My Guy”.

http://www.history-of-rock.com/mary_wells.htm

“Can’t Buy Me Love” is a song composed by Paul McCartney(credited to Lennon–McCartney) and released by The Beatles on the A-side of their sixth British single, “Can’t Buy Me Love”/”You Can’t Do That”.

http://www.thebeatles.com/

The Swinging Blue Jeans were a four piece 1960s British Merseybeat band, best known for their hit singles with the HMV label; “Hippy Hippy Shake”, the follow-up, Little Richard’s “Good Golly Miss Molly”, and “You’re No Good”, a Clint Ballard song that provided a change of pace and furnished the group’s most enduring achievement. But subsequent singles released that year and the next made no impression. In 1966 their version of Burt Bacharach and Hal David’s “Don’t Make Me Over” peaked at #31 in the UK Singles Chart, but the group never charted again.

http://www.swingingbluejeans.co.uk/SBJWeb/Home.html

“All My Loving” is a song by The Beatles, written by Paul McCartney(credited to Lennon–McCartney), from the 1963 album With The Beatles. Though it was not released as a single in the United Kingdom or the United States, it drew considerable radio airplay, prompting EMI to issue it as the title track of an EP.The song was released as a single in Canada, where it became a number one hit. The Canadian single was imported into the US in enough quantities to peak at number 45 on the Billboard Hot 100 in April 1964.

“This Boy” is a song by English rock band The Beatles released in November 1963 as the B-side of the British Parlophone single “I Want to Hold Your Hand”. The Beatles performed it live on 16 February 1964 for their second appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show. It also appears as the third track on side one of the American release, Meet The Beatles!. “This Boy” was remastered for compact disc by George Martin and released in 1988 on the Past Masters, Volume One compilation. On 9 September 2009 it was re-released on the two CD set Past Masters, as part of the remastering of the original Beatles’ catalogue, and was included in The Beatles Stereo Box Set and in The Beatles in Mono box set.This song was on the flip of “All My Loving” in Canada.

“Twist and Shout” is a song written by Phil Medley and Bert Russell. It was originally titled “Shake It Up, Baby” and recorded by the Top Notes and then covered by The Isley Brothers. It was covered by The Beatles with John Lennon on the lead vocals and originally released on their first album Please Please Me.

http://www.thebeatles.com/

“Little Children” is a song written by J. Leslie McFarland and Mort Shuman. It was recorded by Billy J. Kramer & The Dakotas, which reached number one in the UK Singles Chart in March 1964, and number seven in the US Hot 100 singles chart later the same year.The B-side of “Little Children”, “Bad to Me” peaked at number nine on the US charts as well.

http://billyjkramer.com/

Do You Love Me” is a 1962 hit single recorded by The Contours for Motown’s Gordy Records label. Written and produced by Motown CEO Berry Gordy, Jr., “Do You Love Me?” was the Contours’ only Top 40 single on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in the United States. Notably, the record achieved this feat twice, once in 1962 and again in 1988. The main point of the song is to name the Mashed Potato, The Twist, and many other fad dances of the 1960s.The Dave Clark Five covered the song in 1964.

http://www.daveclarkfive.com/daveclarkfive/index2.htm

“Ronnie” is a song by Bob Gaudio and Bob Crewe. The Four Seasons recorded and released the original version in 1964. The recording reached the #6 position on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart.

http://www.frankievallifourseasons.com/

Lucille Starr (born May 13, 1938) is a Franco-Manitoban / British Columbian singer, songwriter, and yodeler best known for her 1964 hit single, “Quand Le Soleil Dit Bonjour Aux Montagnes” (“The French Song”).

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Lucille-Starr/104060096297282

The Simon Sisters was a band of two sisters, Carly Simon and Lucy Simon. They were signed up by Kapp Records in 1964. That same year Kapp released their only albums with the record label: Meet The Simon Sisters (also released as “The Simon Sisters – Winkin’ Blinkin’ and Nod”) and later Cuddlebug. They had one minor hit with the single “Winkin’ Blinkin’ And Nod”, a children’s poem by Eugene Field that Lucy had put to music. In 1969, the duo was signed by Columbia Records and released a third album, The Simon Sisters Sing The Lobster Quadrille And Other Songs For Children, later re-released by Columbia in 1973 as Lucy & Carly – The Simon Sisters Sing For Children. They performed Turn! Turn! Turn! on the Hootenanny TV series, and that performance was selected for inclusion in the DVD set with selected performances from that program. The duo disbanded when Lucy left to get married. Lucy had a minor solo career and released 2 albums in the seventies before having more recent success writing music for Broadway plays. Carly, beginning in 1971, went on to a very successful solo career that continues to this day.

http://www.allmusic.com/artist/p125425

Billy J. Kramer (born William Howard Ashton, 19 August 1943, Bootle, Liverpool, England) is a British Invasion/Merseybeat singer. In the 1960s he was managed by Brian Epstein, who also managed The Beatles, and he recorded several original Lennon and McCartney compositions.”Bad To Me” charted in 1964.

http://billyjkramer.com/

“Needles and Pins” is a song written by Jack Nitzsche and Sonny Bono. In his autobiography, Bono states that he sang along with Nitzsche’s guitar-playing, thus creating both the tune and the lyrics, being guided by the chord progressions.

The song was originally recorded by Jackie DeShannon. Other hit versions of the song were recorded by The Searchers, Cher, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers with Stevie Nicks, Willie DeVille, Gary Lewis & the Playboys, Smokie and by the Ramones

http://www.the-searchers.co.uk/

“Ebb Tide” is a popular song, written in 1953 by the lyricist Carl Sigman and composer Robert Maxwell. An instrumental version by organist Kenneth W. Griffin was played in the fifth season premiere of the TV drama Mad Men.

It was recorded by the Righteous Brothers and in 1964 Lenny Welch.

http://www.lennywelch.com/

The Wailers, often credited as The Fabulous Wailers, were an American rock band from Tacoma, Washington. They became popular around the United States Pacific Northwest around the late 1950s and the start of the 1960s, performing saxophone-driven R&B and Chuck Berry rock and roll. Their biggest hit was “Tall Cool One”, first released in 1959, and they have been credited as being “one of the very first, if not the first, of the American garage bands.”

It charted on CHUM in 1964.

http://www.thefabulouswailers.com/

Rick Nelson, was an American singer-songwriter, instrumentalist, and actor. He placed 53 songs on the Billboard Hot 100 between 1957 and 1973 including “Poor Little Fool”, which holds the distinction of being the first #1 song on Billboard magazine’s then newly created Hot 100 chart. He recorded nineteen additional top-ten hits, and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on January 21, 1987.”The Very Thought Of You” charted in 1964.

http://www.ricknelson.com/

The Reflections were a blue-eyed soul/doo-wop group from Detroit, Michigan. They had one hit single in 1964 called “(Just Like) Romeo and Juliet”, written by Bob Hamilton and “Please Mr. Postman songwriter Freddie Gorman. The song was produced by Rob Reeco on Golden World Records. The disc reached #6 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and #9 on the Cash Box magazine chart. The record was even more popular in rhythm and blues locations, reaching #3 on that Cashbox chart. After a few more records that were moderate successes on the national charts, Ray Steinberg left the group for other interests. As a foursome, The Reflections continued recording and making TV appearances. In 1965, they made their one-and-only movie appearance in Winter-A-Go-Go, performing “I’m Sweet On You

“Love Me with All Your Heart” is a popular song, based on the Spanish language song “Cuando calienta el sol”. The music was written by Rafael Gaston Perez, a Nicaraguan songwriter and bandleader, and made famous first by the Rigual Brothers. The English lyrics are sometimes credited to Michael Vaughn (or Maurice Vaughn) and sometimes to Sunny Skylar. The song was published in 1961. Although both the Spanish and the English versions are love songs, the lyrics are not translations of each other. The Spanish title translates as “When the sun heats (or warms) up”. A version recorded by The Ray Charles Singers went to number three on the Billboard Hot 100 and spent four weeks at number one on the Pop-Standard singles chart in June 1964.

http://www.discogs.com/artist/Ray+Charles+Singers,+The

“Chapel of Love” is a song written by Jeff Barry, Ellie Greenwich and Phil Spector, and made famous by The Dixie Cups in 1964, spending three weeks at number one on the Billboard Hot 100. There have also been many other versions of this song. This was also the debut release of the new Red Bird Records run by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller along with George Goldner.

http://lpintop.tripod.com/thedixiecups/

The Searchers are an English beat group, who emerged as part of the 1960s Merseybeat scene along with The Beatles, The Fourmost, The Merseybeats, The Swinging Blue Jeans, and Gerry & The Pacemakers.

The band’s hits included a remake of the Drifters’ 1961 hit, “Sweets for My Sweet”; remakes of Jackie DeShannon’s “Needles and Pins” and “When You Walk In The Room”; an original song written for them, “Sugar and Spice”; The Orlons’ “Don’t Throw Your Love Away”; and a cover of The Clovers’ “Love Potion No. 9″. They were the second group from Liverpool, after the Beatles, to have a hit in the United States when “Needles and Pins” charted during the first week of March 1964.

Aint That Just Like Me” charted in 1964.

http://www.the-searchers.co.uk/

“Dead Man’s Curve” is a 1964 hit song by Jan and Dean detailing a teen street race gone awry. It reached number eight on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart.

http://www.jananddean.com/

Bruce & Terry were Bruce Johnston and Terry Melcher. The pair were instrumental in the development of surf rock, recording under a variety of names and created the band The Rip Chords.

They began working together while Johnston was a well-known session musician and Melcher, the son of actress/singer Doris Day and producer of The Byrds recordings, had a minor solo career as Terry Day before becoming the youngest staff record producer in Columbia Records’ history. Together, they began recording as Terry recorded and also helped produce the 1963 album “Surfin’ Round the World”.

“Three Window Coupe” charted in 1964.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_%26_Terry

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Issue #12 MAY 1955 – Canada’s Boomers Website and Radio Show

This week its May 1955 this month in history is relived in News Items..Old TV Clips ..Songs from the Chart and of course Big Daddy,Foster D Moos,Gary The History Guy,JC Legend,Sidekick Scotty The Homey Boys Harry The Hippo Bud The Spud On A Stick and the usual cast of characters.Its like reliving a moment in history all over again.

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Gary The History Guys News Events Of The Month

On May 25, 1955, the deadliest tornado to ever hit the state of Kansas struck Udall at 10:35 p.m. The town was demolished. No building within the city limits was untouched, including the grain elevator and water tower. 77 people lost their lives and another 270 were injured. 192 buildings, including 170 homes were destroyed. Before striking Udall, there were no warnings issued by the Weather Bureau. Unknown to them, the same tornado had just laid waste to the city of Blackwell, Oklahoma, where 20 died and 250 were injured.

Donald John Cockell (22 September 1928 – 18 July 1983) was an English boxer. He fought for most of his career as a light-heavyweight and became the British and European champion at that weight. Later in his career he moved up to heavyweight and held the British and Commonwealth heavyweight titles. He is best remembered for fighting against Rocky Marciano in May 1955 for the world heavyweight championship. Cockell defeated a number of top heavyweights in his career, including Roland La Starza.

Elvis Presley performs on the Hank Snow All Star Jamboree and we have a captured interview from May 1955 in Jacksonville,Florida plus you will hear 2 of his Country Hit before Elvis broke worldwide.

The Cold War ran from roughly1945 through 1991 was a continuing state of political and military tension between the powers of the Western world, led by the United States and its NATO allies, and the communist world, led by the Soviet Union, its satellite states and allies. Tension was high in the 1950s as we replay an actual News Broadcast from May 6,1955 from MIami,Florida explaining the power of Nucleur Bombs.

FOSTER D MOOS & UNCLE GEORGE FROM THE McGIBBON HOTEL SHARE THE FAVORITE TV SHOWS FROM MAY 1955

I Love Lucy is an American television sitcom starring Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz, Vivian Vance, and William Frawley. The black-and-white series originally ran from October 15, 1951, to May 6, 1957, on the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS). After the series ended in 1957, however, a modified version continued for three more seasons with 13 one-hour specials, running from 1957 to 1960, known first as The Lucille Ball-Desi Arnaz Show and later in reruns as The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour.

You Bet Your Life is an American quiz show that aired on both radio and television. The original and best-known version was hosted by Groucho Marx of the Marx Brothers, with announcer and assistant George Fenneman. The show debuted on ABC Radio in October 1947, then moved to CBS Radio in September 1949 before making the transition to NBC-TV in October 1950. Because of its simple format, it was possible to broadcast the show simultaneously on the radio and on television. In 1960, the show was renamed The Groucho Show and ran a further year. Most episodes are in the public domain

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0042171/

The Jackie Gleason Show is the name of a series of popular American network television shows that starred Jackie Gleason, which ran from 1952 to 1970.The show was very popular in 1955.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0044272/

Dragnet is a radio and television crime drama about the cases of a dedicated Los Angeles police detective, Sergeant Joe Friday, and his partners. The show takes its name from an actual police term, a “dragnet”, meaning a system of coordinated measures for apprehending criminals or suspects.The first series ran from 1951 to 1959.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0043194/

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Top 5 songs from the CASHBOX Chart from MAY 14,1955 Join this Facebook Group populated by old CHUM employees and fans and folks that love discussing musical trivia

http://www.crazyotto.com/

“The Crazy Otto Medley” is a 1955 ragtime recording made by pianist Johnny Maddox.

The song is actually a medley of several pieces of music originally recorded by the German comic performer Fritz Schulz-Reichel under the pseudonym of Otto der Schrage.

The opening song is “Ivory Rag” by Lou Busch and Jack Elliott. The closing song is “Play a Simple Melody” by Irving Berlin. The songs sandwiched in between these two are pop songs from Germany. The first of them is “In der Nacht ist der Mensch nicht gern alleine” by Franz Grothe. The second is “Das machen nur die Beine von Dolores” by Michael Jary. The third is “Was macht der alte Seemann”.

“The Wallflower” (also known as “Roll With Me Henry” and “Dance With Me Henry“) is a popular song. It was one of several answer songs to “Work With Me Annie” and has the same 12-bar blues melody.

It was written by Johnny Otis, Hank Ballard, and Etta James. Etta James recorded it for Modern Records, with uncredited vocal responses from Richard Berry, under the title “The Wallflower” and it became a rhythm and blues hit, topping the U.S. R&B chart for 4 weeks. It was popularly known as “Roll with Me Henry”.

In 1955, the song was covered for the pop market by Georgia Gibbs with the title “Dance With Me Henry”. That version charted, hitting the top five of several pop charts, including number one on the Most Played In Juke Boxes chart on May 14, 1955, spending three weeks on top of that chart.

http://www.oldies.com/artist-view/Georgia-Gibbs.html

Cereza rosa“, or “Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White” or “Gummy Mambo” is the English version of “Cerisier rose et pommier blanc”, a popular song with music by Louiguy written in 1950. French lyrics to the song by Jacques Larue and English lyrics by Mack David both exist and recordings of both have been quite popular. However, Perez Prado’s recording of the song as an instrumental with his orchestra featuring trumpeter Billy Regis, whose trumpet sound would slide down and up before the melody would resume, was the most popular version in 1955, reaching number one on the Billboard charts. The most popular vocal version in the U.S. was by Alan Dale, reaching #14 on the charts in 1955.

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0702000/

“Unchained Melody” is a 1955 song with music by Alex North and lyrics by Hy Zaret. It has become one of the most recorded songs of the 20th century, by some estimates having spawned over 500 versions in hundreds of different languages.

In 1955, Alex North used the music as a theme for the prison film Unchained, hence the name. Todd Duncan sang the vocals for the film soundtrack. Les Baxter (Capitol Records catalog number 3055), released an instrumental version which reached #2. Then song recordings were released by Al Hibbler (Decca Records #29441) reaching #3 on the Billboard charts, Jimmy Young which hit #1 in the United Kingdom, and Roy Hamilton (Epic Records no. 9102) reaching #1 on the R&B Best Sellers list and #6 on the pop chart^] Hundreds of other recordings followed.

It was the July 1965 version by The Righteous Brothers that became a jukebox standard for the late 20th century, regaining massive popularity when used in the 1990 blockbuster film Ghost.We chose the Al Hibbler version.

http://www.arjazz.org/artists/hof/1995/95_al_hibbler.html

“The Ballad of Davy Crockett” is a song with music by George Bruns and lyrics by Thomas W. Blackburn.

The first recording of the song was made by Fess Parker, quickly followed by versions by Bill Hayes and Tennessee Ernie Ford (recorded February 7, 1955). All three versions made the Billboard charts: Hayes’ version made #1 on the weekly chart (from March 26 through April 23, 1955) and #7 for the year, Parker’s reached #6 on the weekly charts and #31 for the year, while Ford’s peaked at #4 on the weekly country chart and #5 on the weekly pop chart and charted at #37 for the year. A fourth version, by bluegrass singer Mac Wiseman, reached #10 on the radio charts in May 1955. The song also reached #1 on the Cash Box charts, from March 26 through May 14, 1955. A contemporary version also exists of the famous Western singing group the Sons of the Pioneers. Over ten million copies of the song were sold.WE chose the Bill Hayes version on the show.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Hayes_(actor)

Special thanks for the chart information researched entirely every week through this WONDERFUL website.

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Sidekick Scotty’s Sports Headlines of May 1955!

The 1955 Stanley Cup Final NHL championship series was contested by the Montreal Canadiens, appearing in their fifth of ten straight Finals and the defending champion Detroit Red Wings, in the fourth Detroit-Montreal Final series of the 1950s and the second consecutively. The Wings would win the series 4–3 to win their second consecutive Stanley Cup and fourth in six seasons. It would be 42 years before Detroit would win another cup.

The 1955 NBA World Championship Series was the championship round of the 1954-55 NBA season. The best-of-seven series was won by the Syracuse Nationals, who defeated the Fort Wayne Pistons in the final game when Syracuse’s George King made a free throw with 12 seconds left to put the Nationals up 92-91. King then stole the ball from Fort Wayne’s Andy Phillip with three seconds remaining to clinch the victory for Syracuse.Because of the arena not believing Fort Wayne would make the NBA Finals, the arena was booked and not available, and the Fort Wayne home games were played in Indianapolis.Today the franchise is in Philadelphia as the 76ers.

The 1955 FA Cup Final was contested by Newcastle United and Manchester City at Wembley. Newcastle won 3–1, with goals from Jackie Milburn in the first minute (after 45 seconds, a record in a final at Wembley, a record he held until 1997), Bobby Mitchell and George Hannah. Bobby Johnstone scored City’s goal. The game was virtually decided when Man City fullback Meadows was turned inside out by the elusive and mercurial Bobby Mitchell and after 22 minutes was stretchered off with a bad leg injury. No replacements in those days. Toon were already on top and this just added to City’s woes, as their much-vaunted Revie Plan (based on a deep-lying centre-forward in Don Revie, later to be England manager) failed to fire. Man City had flashy tracksuits (virtually unheard-of at the time), so the game was “the Gaudies v the Geordies”.

Bud The Spud On A Stick’s Favorite Movies from 1955!

Lady and the Tramp is a 1955 American animated film produced by Walt Disney and released to theaters on June 22, 1955, by Buena Vista Distribution. The 15th animated film in the Walt Disney Animated Classics series, it was the first animated feature filmed in the CinemaScope widescreen film process.^[2] The story centers on a female anthropomorphic American Cocker Spaniel named Lady who lives with a refined, upper middle-class family, and a male stray mutt called the Tramp. A direct-to-video sequel, Lady and the Tramp II: Scamp’s Adventure, was released in 2001.

Mister Roberts is a 1955 CinemaScope comedy-drama film directed by John Ford and Mervyn LeRoy, and starring Henry Fonda as Mister Roberts. Based on the 1946 novel and 1948 Broadway play, the film was nominated for the Best Picture and Best Sound, Recording (William A. Mueller) Oscars; Jack Lemmon received the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0048380/

Guys and Dolls is a 1955 musical film starring Marlon Brando, Jean Simmons, Frank Sinatra and Vivian Blaine. The film was made by Samuel Goldwyn Productions and distributed by MGM. It was directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, who also wrote the screenplay. The film is based on the 1950 Broadway musical by composer and lyricist Frank Loesser, with a book by Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows based on “The Idyll Of Miss Sarah Brown” and “Blood Pressure”, two short stories by Damon Runyon

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0048140/

Rebel Without a Cause is a 1955 American drama film about emotionally confused suburban, middle-class teenagers. Directed by Nicholas Ray, it offered both social commentary and an alternative to previous films depicting delinquents in urban slum environments.Over the years, the film has achieved landmark status for the acting of cultural icon James Dean, fresh from his Academy Award nominated role in East of Eden and who died before the film’s release, his most celebrated role. In 1990, Rebel Without a Cause was added to the preserved films of the United States Library of Congress’s National Film Registry as being deemed “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant.”

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0048545/

The Seven Year Itch is a 1955 American film based on a three-act play with the same name by George Axelrod. The film was co-written and directed by Billy Wilder, and starred Marilyn Monroe and Tom Ewell, reprising his Broadway role. It contains one of the most iconic images of the 20th century – Monroe standing on a subway grate as her white dress^[2] is blown above her knees by a passing train. The titular phrase, which refers to declining interest in a monogamous relationship after seven years of marriage, has been used by psychologists.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0048605/

JC Legends Cars ..1955!

like …the Chevrolet Bel Air

MORE SIGHTS & SOUNDS OF 1955

“Sincerely” is a popular song written by Harvey Fuqua and Alan Freed and published in 1954.

It was originally recorded by The Moonglows, who scored a #1 one single on the Billboard Juke Box and #20 on the Billboard Hot 100 charts. The best-selling version was a cover recorded by The McGuire Sisters, entering the charts in 1954 and reaching number one the next year. Many R&B collectors decry the cover version by the McGuire Sisters which kept the Moonglows off the Pop charts, but the Moonglows’ version stole lyrics from a 1951 Dominoes tune, “That’s What You’re Doing To Me”. The bridge in both songs is almost identical: “Lord, won’t you tell me/ Why I love that woman so?/ She doesn’t want me/ But I’ll never let her go”. In 1988 the country quartet Forester Sisters reached #8 on the Billboard Hot Country chart with their remake of the song.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_McGuire_Sisters

Clarence Eugene “Hank” Snow (May 9, 1914 – December 20, 1999) was a Canadian-American country music artist. He charted more than 70 singles on the Billboard country charts from 1950 until 1980. This total includes the number 1 hits “I’m Moving On”, “The Golden Rocket”, “I Don’t Hurt Anymore”, “Let Me Go, Lover!”, “I’ve Been Everywhere”, and “Hello Love” as well as other top ten hits. He is a member of both the Canadian Country Music Hall of Fame and the Music Hall of Fame.”Yellow Roses” charted in May 1955 on the Country Charts.

http://www.hanksnow.com/

Art Mooney (4 February 1911, Brooklyn, New York – 1993, Florida) was an American popular bandleader. His biggest hits were “I’m Looking Over a Four Leaf Clover” and “Baby Face” in 1948 and “Nuttin’ For Christmas,” with Barry Gordon, in 1955. His fourth million selling song “Honey Babe” (1955) was used in the motion picture, “Battle Cry,” having reached the Top 10 in the United States.

He also made a very popular 1948 recording of “Bluebird of Happiness”, but it could not compete with Jan Peerce’s best-selling 1945 version.

Mooney’s name, as well as his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, was prominently featured in the motion picture The Adventures of Ford Fairlane.” “Honey Babe” charted in May 1955.

http://home.earthlink.net/~v1tiger/artmooney.html

Elvis Presley had a County Hit as early as May 1955 with “Baby Lets Play House” and “I’m Left Your Right She’s Gone”

http://m.elvis.com/

Georgia Gibbs (August 17, 1919 – December 9, 2006) was an American popular singer and vocal entertainer rooted in jazz. Already singing publicly in her early teens, Gibbs first achieved acclaim (and notoriety) in the mid-1950s interpreting songs originating with the black rhythm and blues community and later as a featured vocalist on a long list of radio and television variety and comedy programs. Her key attribute was tremendous versatility and an uncommon stylistic range from melancholy ballad to uptempo swinging jazz and rock and roll.”Tweedlee Dee” was a hit for her in 1955.

“My Babe” is a blues song and a blues standard written by Willie Dixon for Little Walter. Released in 1955 on Checker Records, a subsidiary of Chess Records, the song was the only Dixon composition ever to become a #1 R&B single and it was one of the biggest hits of either of their careers

http://www.littlewalter.net/

Sarah Lois Vaughan (March 27, 1924 – April 3, 1990) was an American jazz singer, described by Scott Yanow as having “one of the most wondrous voices of the 20th century.”

Nicknamed “Sailor” (for her salty speech), “Sassy” and “The Divine One“, Sarah Vaughan was a Grammy Award winner.The National Endowment for the Arts bestowed upon her its “highest honor in jazz”, the NEA Jazz Masters Award, in 1989.”Whatever Lola Wants” charted in 1955.

Carl Milton Smith (March 15, 1927 – January 16, 2010) was an American country music singer. Known as “Mister Country,” Smith was the husband of June Carter (later June Carter Cash) and Goldie Hill, and the father of Carlene Carter. He was one of country’s most successful male artists during the 1950s, with 30 Top 10 Billboard hits, including 21 in a row. Smith’s success continued well into the 1970s, when he had a charting single every year except one. He is a member of the Country Music Hall of Fame.”kisses Don’t Lie was on the charts in May 1955.

http://countrymusichalloffame.org/full-list-of-inductees/view/carl-smith

Johnny Desmond (November 14, 1919–September 6, 1985), born Giovanni Alfredo De Simone, was a popular American singer.”Play Ne Heart and Flowers” charted in 1955.

http://www.liddell.uk.com/

Jimmy Yves Newman (born August 27, 1927), better known as Jimmy C. Newman (the C stands for Cajun), is an American singer and a long time star of the Grand Ole Opry.”Daydreaming” charted in May 1955.

http://www.opry.com/artists/n/Newman_JimmyC.html

The Crew-Cuts were a Canadian vocal quartet, that made a number of popular records that charted in the United States and worldwide. They named themselves after the then popular crew cut haircut, one of the first connections made between pop music and hairstyle. They were most famous for their recording of a cover version of The Chords hit record, “Sh-Boom.”They recorded the Pop Version of “Dont Be Angry”:in 1955

http://blackcat.nl/references/messages/crew_cuts.htm

Napoleon Brown Goodson Culp(October 12, 1929 – September 20, 2008) better known by his stage name Nappy Brown, was an American R&B singer. His hits include the 1955 Billboard chart #2, “Don’t Be Angry” and “Night Time Is the Right Time”. His style is instantly recognizable; Brown used a wide vibrato, melisma, and distinctive extra syllables, in particular, “li-li-li-li-li.”He recorded the R&B Version of “Don’t Be Angry”

http://blues.about.com/od/artistprofile1/p/NappyBrown.htm

“It’s a Sin to Tell a Lie” is a 1936 popular song by Billy Mayhew. Originally introduced by Fats Waller on the 78 rpm record Victor 20-1595, it was revived in 1955 by Somethin’ Smith and the Redheads, reaching #7 on the Billboard charts in that year. John Denver tells a story about the song and does a cover in his 1978 album, Live at the Sydney Opera House (RCA Victor VPL1-7167). Other artists who have recorded versions include Billie Holiday, The Ink Spots, Tony Bennett, Bobbi Martin, Gerry Monroe, Brent Spiner, Lenny Breau, Buddy Greco, Steve Goodman, Ann Breen, Slim Whitman, Jerry Murad and the Harmonicats, Bobby Vinton, Patti Page, and Vera Lynn

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somethin%27_Smith_and_the_Redheads

Ellen Muriel Deason (born August 30, 1919), known professionally as Kitty Wells, is an American country music singer. Her 1952 hit recording, “It Wasn’t God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels”, made her the first female country singer to top the U.S. country charts, and turned her into the first female country star. Her Top 10 hits continued until the mid-1960s, inspiring a long list of female country singers who came to prominence in the 1960s.Her hit in May 1955 was “Makin’ Believe”

http://www.kittywells.com/

“I Got a Woman” (originally titled “I’ve Got a Woman“) is a song co-written and recorded by American R&B/soul musician Ray Charles and released as a single in December 1954 on the Atlantic label as Atlantic 45-1050 b/w “Come Back Baby.” Both sides later appeared on his 1957 album Ray Charles (subsequently reissued as Hallelujah I Love Her So).

http://raycharles.com/

“Darling, Je Vous Aime Beaucoup” is a popular song with words and music by Anna Sosenko in 1935.

It was introduced in the film Love and Hisses by Hildegarde and charted by Hildegarde at # 21 in 1943.

The best-selling version of the song was recorded by Nat King Cole in 1954 which reached a peak Billboard position # 7 in 1955.

http://www.nat-king-cole.org/

In 1955, Stuart Hamblen had a hit single with “Open Up Your Heart (And Let the Sunshine In),” along with his family under the name “Cowboy Church Sunday School.” Hamblen was accompanied by wife Suzy, daughters Veeva Suzanne and Obee Jane (Lisa), and two of the girls’ friends. The song was recorded at the 33 RPM speed so that it sounds like children singing at the normal 7-inch single phonograph speed of 45 RPM. The tune hit No. 8 on the Billboard Hot 100 pop charts in 1955. “Open Up Your Heart (And Let the Sunshine In)” was sung on an episode of the television cartoon series The Flintstones in the mid-1960s by characters Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm.

http://www.rockabilly.nl/references/messages/stuart_hamblen.htm

Caterina Valente (born 14 January 1931, Paris) is a singer, dancer, and actress. She was born into an Italian artist family; her father Giuseppe was a well-known accordion player, her mother, Maria Valente, a musical clown. She had three siblings, of whom Silvio Francesco was also active in show business.”The Breeze and I” was in the charts in 1955.

http://caterinavalente.com/

“How Important Can It Be” also was on the May 1955 Chart along with her other release “Whatever Lola Wants” for Sarah Vaughan.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Vaughan

The Four Aces is an American male traditional pop music quartet, popular since the 1950s. Over the last half-century, the group amassed many gold records. Its million-selling signature tunes include “Love is a Many-Splendored Thing”, “Three Coins in the Fountain”, “Stranger in Paradise”,”Tell Me Why”, and “(It’s No) Sin” Other big sellers included “Shangri-La”, “Perfidia”, and “Sincerely”. The original members, responsible for every song made popular by the group, included Al Alberts, Dave Mahoney, Lou Silvestri, and Rosario “Sod” Vaccaro.”Heart” charted in 1955.

http://www.thefouraces.org/

Charles Eugene “Pat” Boone (born June 1, 1934) is an American singer, actor and writer. He was a successful pop singer in the United States during the 1950s and early 1960s. Among his hit songs were cover versions of black R&B artists’ songs (when parts of the country were segregated). He sold over 45 million albums, had 38 Top 40 hits and appeared in more than 12 Hollywood movies. Boone’s talent as a singer and actor, combined with his old-fashioned values, contributed to his popularity in the early rock and roll era.”Two Hearts” was a hit in 1955.

http://www.patboone.com/

It was also covered as “Dance With Me Henry” by Peter Sellers and Spike Milligan as the characters Henry Crun and Minnie Bannister from the BBC radio comedy series The Goon Show in 1955.

Etta James and the Peaches Had the R&B hit in May 1955.

Hank Snow was riding the Country Charts and on toour with Elvis Presley in 1955..another hit for him was “Would You Mind”

http://www.hanksnow.com/

Ferlin Eugene Husky (December 3, 1925 – March 17, 2011) was an early American country music singer who was equally adept at the genres of traditional honky honk, ballads, spoken recitations, and rockabilly pop tunes. He had two dozen Top 20 hits in the Billboard country charts between 1953 and 1975; his versatility and matinee-idol looks propelling a seven-decade entertainment career.FErlin Husky recorded under the bame Simon Crum in 1955.

http://www.ferlinhusky.com/

http://simoncrum.com/

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Issue #11 MAY 1990 – Canada’s Boomers Website and Radio Show

This week its May 1990 this month in history is relived in News Items..Old TV Clips ..Songs from the Chart and of course Big Daddy,Foster D Moos,Gary The History Guy,JC Legend,Sidekick Scotty The Homey Boys Harry The Hippo Bud The Spud On A Stick and the usual cast of characters.Its like reliving a moment in history all over again.

THE TOP 40 TIMELINE

http://shows.mraircheck.com/cgi-bin/upload.cgi?view=Russ_Horton

DOWNLOAD OUR PODCAST HERE FROM MR AIRCHECK

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LISTEN TO THE SHOW SUNDAY 9am WEDNESDAY 7pm “SWISSSH RADIO” ORILLIA,ON

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086687/

TOP 40 TIMELINE HOSTS …Gary The History Guy..JC Legend and Big Daddy at the D-Moos Radio Productions studios inside the world famous McGibbon Hotel in Georgetown,Ontario Canada.

Gary The History Guys News Events Of The Month

A House committee approved President Bush’s urgent request for aid to Panama and Nicaragua on Tuesday, but not before nearly tripling to $2.4 billion the overall cost of the bill containing the aid.

May 15 – Portrait of Doctor Gachet by Vincent van Gogh is sold for a record $82.5 million.

Samuel George “Sammy” Davis Jr. was an American entertainer and was also known for his impersonations of actors and other celebrities and he passed away in May 1990

James Maury “Jim” Henson (September 24, 1936 – May 16, 1990) was an American puppeteer, best known as the creator of The Muppets. As a puppeteer, Henson performed in various television programs, such as Sesame Street and The Muppet Show, films such as The Muppet Movie and The Great Muppet Caper, and created advanced puppets for projects like Fraggle Rock, The Dark Crystal, and Labyrinth.JIm Henson passed away in May 1990.

WrestleMania VI was the World Wrestling Federation’s (WWF) sixth WrestleMania professional wrestling pay-per-view event and the first to be held outside of the U.S. It took place on April 1, 1990 at the SkyDome in Toronto, Ontario with an announced attendance of 67,678.Hulk Hogan lost his title to the Ultimate Warrior.

The Cosby Show is an American television situation comedy starring Bill Cosby, which aired for eight seasons on NBC from September 20, 1984 until April 30, 1992. The show focuses on the Huxtable family, an affluent African-American family living in Brooklyn, New York.

The Wonder Years is an American television comedy-drama created by Carol Black and Neal Marlens. It ran for six seasons on ABC from 1988 through 1993. The pilot aired on January 31, 1988 after ABC’s coverage of Super Bowl XXII

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094582/

America’s Funniest Home Videos (often simply abbreviated to AFHV, or its current on-air abbreviation of AFV) is an American reality television program on ABC in which viewers are able to submit humorous homemade videos. The most common videos usually feature slapstick physical comedy arising from incidents, accidents and mishaps. Other popular videos include humorous situations involving pets or children, while some are staged practical jokes. The show is based on the Japanese television series Fun TV with Kato-chan and Ken-chan, which aired on the Tokyo Broadcasting System

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098740/

Empty Nest is an American sitcom that originally aired on NBC from 1988 to 1995. The series was created as a spin-off of The Golden Girls by creator and producer Susan Harris. For its first three seasons, Empty Nest was one of the year’s top 10 most-watched programs. It was produced by Touchstone Television

Roseanne is an American sitcom that was broadcast on ABC from October 18, 1988 to May 20, 1997.Starring Roseanne Barr, the show revolved around the Conners, an Illinois working class family. The series reached #1 in the Nielsen ratings becoming the most watched television show in the United States from 1989 to 1990, and remained in the top four for six of its nine seasons, and in the top twenty for eight.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094540/

BIG DADDY’S BIG 5 COUNTDOWN!

Top 5 songs from the CHUM Chart (Toronto,Ontario) April 1986 Join this Facebook Group populated by old CHUM employees and fans and folks that love discussing musical trivia

http://www.janechild.com/

“Don’t Wanna Fall in Love” is a 1990 hit song for Toronto-born singer/songwriter/musician Jane Child. Released as the second single from her self-titled debut album, the single went to number two for three weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart in late April and early May 1990, kept out of the top spot by Sinéad O’Connor’s ballad “‘Nothing Compares 2 U”. In addition, a “New Jack Swing” remix of the song was produced by Teddy Riley and reached number six on the R&B chart, and number eleven on the dance chart.. Shep Pettibone also remixed the single, but was only released to DJ’s. When released around Europe it also became successful. In the UK, the single peaked at a low #22, because Child refused to appear on the popular British TV program Top of the Pops while the single was climbing the charts due to considering appearing on that program a “sellout”.

“How Can We Be Lovers?” is a song written and composed by Michael Bolton, Diane Warren and Desmond Child and recorded by Michael Bolton. Released as a single from Bolton’s album, Soul Provider, it peaked at number three on the Billboard Hot 100 in April 1990.

http://www.michaelbolton.com/

All Around the World” is a song by Lisa Stansfield released in late 1989 for her album Affection. It is her biggest hit to date. Written and produced by Lisa Stansfield, Ian Devaney and Andy Morris, the debut solo single by Stansfield became a massive international hit.

http://lisa-stansfield.com/

Alannah Myles (born December 25, 1958, Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian singer-songwriter, the daughter of Canadian broadcast pioneer William Douglas Byles. In 1989, she released her eponymous debut album. In 1990, “Black Velvet”, a single from that album, was a worldwide hit and won a Grammy Award for Best Rock Vocal Performance, Female.

“Lover Of Mine” hit in 1990!

http://www.alannahmyles.com/

“Nothing Compares 2 U” is a song written by Prince for his side-projects, The Family. He recorded all by himself. Later The Irish recording artist Sinéad O’Connor, covered the song and released it as the second single from her second studio album, I Do Not Want What I Haven’t Got. However, it wasn’t until O’Connor recorded and produced the version along with Nellee Hooper when it became a worldwide hit. An iconic music video was shot and received heavy rotation on MTV.

http://www.sineadoconnor.com/

Special thanks for the chart information researched entirely every week through this WONDERFUL website.

To listen and learn about the amazing radio of yesterday we recommend the following two sites.

A cool site

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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099088/

Sidekick Scotty’s Sports Headlines of May 1990!

In the 1990 Stanley Cup Final, the Edmonton Oilers defeated the Boston Bruins four games to one. For the Oilers, it was their fifth Cup win in seven years, and the only one without Wayne Gretzky. It would turn out to be the last of eight consecutive Finals contested by a team from Alberta and the last of nine consecutive Finals contested by a team from Western Canada.

The 1990 NBA Finals was the championship round of the 1989-90 NBA season. The series pitted the Detroit Pistons (the previous year’s champions) against the Portland Trail Blazers. This was the first NBA Finals since 1979 not to involve either the Lakers or the Celtics, effectively marking the end of an era for both franchises.

The Pistons became the just the third franchise in NBA history to win back-to-back championships, joining the Los Angeles Lakers and Boston Celtics.

The 1990 FA Cup Final was a football match contested by Manchester United and Crystal Palace at Wembley Stadium, London, England. The match finished 3–3 after extra time. Bryan Robson and Mark Hughes (2) scored for United; Gary O’Reilly and Ian Wright for Palace. Ian Wright had only recently returned from a broken leg that kept him out of the semi-final.

In the replay, United won 1–0 with a goal from Lee Martin – only the second goal he would score for the club. It saw them match Aston Villa and Tottenham Hotspur’s record of seven FA Cup triumphs. Crystal Palace, in contrast, had never played in either an FA Cup or Football League Cup final before.

The 1990 European Cup Final (now Champions League) was a football match between Milan of Italy and Benfica of Portugal, played on 23 May 1990 at the Praterstadion in Vienna, Austria. The winning goal came in the 68th minute for Milan when Alessandro Costacurta passed the ball to Marco van Basten, who slotted it to Frank Rijkaard, who ran through the defense and scored.

Bud The Spud On A Stick’s Favorite Flicks in May 1990!

Back to the Future Part III is a 1990 American science fiction comedy Western film. It is the third and final installment of the Back to the Future trilogy. The film was directed by Robert Zemeckis and starred Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Mary Steenburgen, Thomas F. Wilson and Lea Thompson. The film takes place immediately after the events of Back to the Future Part II. While stranded in 1955, Marty McFly discovers that his friend Dr. Emmett “Doc” Brown was killed by Biff Tannen’s great-grandfather Buford. Marty decides to travel to 1885 to rescue Doc and return to his own timeline.

Bird on a Wire is a 1990 feature film starring Mel Gibson and Goldie Hawn, directed by John Badham, and shot mainly in British Columbia, Canada.^[1] The title refers to the Leonard Cohen song “Bird on the Wire”. The alley motorcycle chase scene was filmed in Victoria BC, Chinatown in Fan Tan Alley.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099141/

Cadillac Man is a 1990 comedy film directed by Roger Donaldson, starring Robin Williams and Tim Robbins

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099204/

The First Power is a 1990 American horror film/neo-noir, directed by Robert Resnikoff and starring Lou Diamond Phillips, Tracy Griffith, Jeff Kober and Mykelti Williamson.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099578/

The Guardian is a 1990 American horror film directed by William Friedkin and starring Jenny Seagrove, Dwier Brown and Carey Lowell. A cable television version of the film was credited to “Alan Von Smithee”, indicating that Friedkin wished to disassociate himself from its release.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099710/

JC Legends Cars ..1990!

1990 Trans Am GT..Buick Reatta..Acura BSX..Cadillac Allante

More sights and sounds of 1990!

This Old Heart of Mine (Is Weak for You)” is an Isley Brothers song from 1966 that was a hit for them during their brief tenure on Motown’s Tamla label. Featuring Ronald Isley on lead vocal, “This Old Heart of Mine” peaked at number twelve on the Billboard Hot 100, and at number six on the Billboard R&B Singles chart.It was covered by Rod Stewart in 1990.

http://www.rodstewart.com/us/home

Tommy Page (born Thomas Alden Page, May 24, 1970, Glen Ridge, New Jersey) is an American singer, best known for his 1990 hit single, “I’ll Be Your Everything.”

http://www.tommy-page.com/

“All I Wanna Do Is Make Love to You” (also titled “All I Wanna Do“) is a song recorded by American rock band Heart. It was composed by veteran songwriter and producer Robert Lange and released as the first single from the band’s tenth studio album Brigade, as well as their first hit single of the 1990s. The song was first recorded as “All I Want to Do Is Make Love to You” by Dobie Gray in 1979

http://www.heart-music.com/

“Blue Sky Mine” is a song by Australian rock band Midnight Oil released as the first single from their album Blue Sky Mining. It peaked at #8 in the ARIA Singles Chart, #7 on Canada’s Top 100 Singles Chart, #66 in the UK Singles Chart, #47 on the Billboard Hot 100, and #1 on both the Billboard Album Rock and Modern Rock charts.

The song was inspired by the experiences of workers at the Wittenoom asbestos mines who contracted various asbestos-related diseases. The “blue” refers to blue asbestos, and the “sugar refining company” refers to the Colonial Sugar Refining company, the owner of the mines.

http://www.midnightoil.com/

“I Wish It Would Rain Down” is a song by Phil Collins from his 1989 album …But Seriously, and it included the guitar playing of Eric Clapton. It was also a departure from the dance-pop music style of No Jacket Required. The song was a top ten hit in many countries, including Canada where it topped the chart.

http://philcollins.co.uk/us

The Box is a Canadian New Wave group from Montreal. Founded in 1981, they achieved commercial success in Canada, recording four charting albums and 10 charting singles between 1984 and 1990. “Carry On” charted in 1990.

http://theboxband.com/

http://www.coreyhart.com/

Love Will Lead You Back” is a song performed by Taylor Dayne. Released as the second single from Dayne’s second album Can’t Fight Fate (following the more uptempo “With Every Beat of My Heart”), the ballad debuted on the Billboard Hot 100 chart on January 27, 1990. It reached number one on April 7 that same year and spent 15 weeks in the Top 40. It also reached number one on the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart and was certified Gold in the U.S. by the RIAA

http://www.taylordayne.com/

Save Me” is a single released by British-American band Fleetwood Mac from their album Behind the Mask. It was the group’s last top 40 hit in the U.S.

http://www.fleetwoodmac.com/

“Hold On” is the title of a song recorded by American vocal group Wilson Phillips. It was released in February 1990 as the lead single from their album, Wilson Phillips. The song won the Billboard Music Award for Hot 100 Single of the Year for 1990. At the Grammy Awards of 1991, the song received a nomination for Song of the Year, losing to “From a Distance” by Julie Gold and performed by Bette Midler

http://www.wilsonphillipsmusic.com/

“Vogue” is a song by American singer-songwriter Madonna from her soundtrack album I’m Breathless (Music from and Inspired by the film Dick Tracy) and was released on March 20, 1990, by Sire Records. Madonna was inspired by vogue dancer and choreographers Jose and Luis Xtravaganza from the Harlem “House Ball” community, the origin of the dance Vogue, and they introduced “Vogueing” to her at the New York City club “Sound Factory”. Jose Xtravaganza is featured in the Historic Art Documentary How Do I Look, directed by Wolfgang Busch. The song also appears on the 1990 greatest hits compilation The Immaculate Collection and Madonna’s third greatest hits album, Celebration.

http://www.madonna.com/

Alright” is the fourth single from American R&B and pop singer Janet Jackson’s fourth studio album, Janet Jackson’s Rhythm Nation 1814 (1989).

http://www.janetjackson.com/

“Forever” is a Kiss song from the Hot in the Shade album. It peaked at number 8 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, making it the band’s first American Top 40 single since “I Was Made for Lovin’ You” reached number 11 in 1979. It was the band’s seventh and, to date, last Top 20 US single. It also reached number 17 on Billboard’s Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks. The song was co-written by guitarist/vocalist Paul Stanley and American singer/songwriter Michael Bolton, who was then at the peak of his commercial popularity, and with whom guitarist Bruce Kulick had played previous to Kiss

http://www.kissonline.com/

Bonnie Lynn Raitt (born November 8, 1949) is an American blues singer-songwriter and a renowned slide guitar player. During the 1970s, Raitt released a series of acclaimed roots-influenced albums which incorporated elements of blues, rock, folk and country, but she is perhaps best known for her more commercially accessible recordings in the 1990s including “Nick of Time”, “Something to Talk About”, “Love Sneakin’ Up on You”, and the slow ballad “I Can’t Make You Love Me”. Raitt has received nine Grammy Awards in her career and is a lifelong political activist.”Have A Heart” charted in May 1990.

http://www.bonnieraitt.com/

Basia Trzetrzelewska(born September 30, 1954) is a Polish singer-songwriter and record producer. She established a successful international recording career featuring characteristically Latin-flavoured jazz-pop crossover songs during the late 1980s and early 1990s and the late 2000s and 2010s, particularly in the United States, the United Kingdom, France, and Japan. She is noted for possessing a wide vocal range, approximately three octaves that span from contralto to soprano tessituras, as well as her singular jazz-influenced stylings and multi-layered harmonies.”Cruising For Bruising” was out in 1990.

http://www.basiasongs.com/

Burton L. Cummings, OC,OM (born December 31, 1947, in Winnipeg, Manitoba) is a Canadian musician and songwriter.

He was the lead singer and frequent keyboardist for the Canadian rock band The Guess Who. During his 10 years in The Guess Who, from 1965 to 1975, he sang and wrote or co-wrote many songs including “American Woman,” “No Time,” “Share the Land,” “Hand Me Down World,” “Undun,” “Laughing,” “Star Baby”, “New Mother Nature,” and “These Eyes.” His solo career includes many Canadian singles including “Stand Tall”, “My Own Way to Rock” and “You Saved My Soul.”

“Take One Away” charted in 1990.

http://burtoncummings.net/

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Issue #10 APRIL 1986 Canada’s Boomers Website and Radio Show

This week its April 1986 this month in history is relived in News Items..Old TV Clips ..Songs from the Chart and of course Big Daddy,Foster D Moos,Gary The History Guy,JC Legend,Sidekick Scotty The Homey Boys Harry The Hippo Bud The Spud On A Stick and the usual cast of characters.Its like reliving a moment in history all over again.

THE TOP 40 TIMELINE

http://shows.mraircheck.com/cgi-bin/upload.cgi?view=Russ_Horton

DOWNLOAD OUR PODCAST HERE FROM MR AIRCHECK

Simply look up the files Apr86 and download the 2 files and takes us with you!

LISTEN TO THE SHOW SATURDAYS 10am (EASTERN) ON “RTDS” TORONTO,ON

LISTEN TO THE SHOW SUNDAY 9am WEDNESDAY 7pm “SWISSSH RADIO” ORILLIA,ON

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083473/

TOP 40 TIMELINE HOSTS …Gary The History Guy..JC Legend and Big Daddy at the D-Moos Radio Productions studios inside the world famous McGibbon Hotel in Georgetown,Ontario Canada.

Gary The History Guys News Events Of The Month

April 26 – The Chernobyl disaster: A mishandled safety test at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Pripyat, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union “killed at least 4056 people and damaged almost $7 billion of property”.Radioactive fallout from the accident concentrated near Belarus, Ukraine and Russia and at least 350,000 people were forcibly resettled away from these areas. After the accident, “traces of radioactive deposits unique to Chernobyl were found in nearly every country in the northern hemisphere

April 15 – Operation El Dorado Canyon: At least 15 people die after United States planes bomb targets in the Libyan capital, Tripoli, and the Benghazi region.

April 21 -The Mystery of Al Capone’s Vaults was a one-time live American television special broadcast in syndication in April 1986 hosted by Geraldo Rivera. The program was centered around the opening of a secret vault once owned by noted gangster Al Capone. The program is now perhaps best-known for the vault being ultimately empty except for debris.

April 27 – “Captain Midnight” interrupts the HBO satellite feed.

John R. MacDougall (born c. 1961) also known as Captain Midnight, is a Florida electronic engineer and business owner who jammed HBO’s satellite signal in 1986 to broadcast a message protesting their rates for satellite dish owners.

FOSTER D MOOS & TV’S FAVORITES FROM 1986!

Ripley’s Believe It or Not! aired from 1982 to 1986 on the American ABC television network. Based on three pilots/specials conceived, produced and directed by Ron Lyon and Jack Haley, Jr, (1980–81) the series was a Haley/Lyon/Rastar production in association with Columbia Pictures. Featuring film star Jack Palance who hosted the popular series throughout its run, the series had three different co-hosts, who appeared from season to season, initially actress Catherine Shirriff followed by Palance’s daughter, Holly Palance, later singer Marie Osmond. The 1980s series reran on the Sci-Fi Channel (UK) and Sci-Fi Channel (US) during the 1990s; it is currently airing on NBC Universal’s horror/suspense-themed cable channel Chiller

The Golden Girls is an American sitcom created by Susan Harris, which originally aired on NBC from September 14, 1985, to May 9, 1992. Starring Bea Arthur, Betty White, Rue McClanahan and Estelle Getty, the show centers on four older women sharing a home in Miami, Florida. It was produced by Witt/Thomas/Harris Productions, in association with Touchstone Television, and Paul Junger Witt, Tony Thomas, and Harris served as the original executive producers.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088526/

Family Ties is an American sitcom that aired on NBC for seven seasons, from 1982 to 1989. The sitcom reflected the move in the United States from the cultural liberalism of the 1960s and 1970s to the conservatism of the 1980s. This was particularly expressed through the relationship between young Republican Alex P. Keaton (Michael J. Fox) and his ex-hippie parents, Elyse and Steven Keaton (Meredith Baxter-Birney and Michael Gross). The show won multiple awards, including three consecutive Emmy Awards for Michael J. Fox as Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083413/

Murder, She Wrote is an American television mystery series starring Angela Lansbury as mystery writer and amateur detective Jessica Fletcher. The series aired for 12 seasons from 1984 to 1996 on the CBS network, with 264 episodes transmitted. It was followed by four TV films and a spin-off series, The Law & Harry McGraw. It is one of the most successful and longest-running television shows in history, with close to 23 million viewers in its prime, and was a staple of its Sunday night lineup for a decade. The series is also successful around the world

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086765/

Miami Vice was an American television series produced by Michael Mann for NBC. The series starred Don Johnson and Philip Michael Thomas as two Metro-Dade Police Department detectives working undercover in Miami. It ran for five seasons on NBC from 1984–1989. The USA Network later began airing reruns the next year, in 1990, and actually broadcast an originally unaired episode during its syndication run of the series on January 25, 1990.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086759/

BIG DADDY’S BIG 5 COUNTDOWN!

Top 5 songs from the CHUM Chart (Toronto,Ontario) April 1986 Join this Facebook Group populated by old CHUM employees and fans and folks that love discussing musical trivia

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“Johnny Come Home” was the debut single release by British band Fine Young Cannibals, taken from their debut album Fine Young Cannibals.

It is similar to the style of many other of the band’s hits, a mixture of rock and ska with Roland Gift’s distinctive vocals, as well as a Jazz-type trumpet solo. It was released in 1985 and was one of the group’s most popular hits. The song tells the gritty realistic story of a runaway youth, and alternates from the first-person narrative, explaining how his arrival in the big city has not turned out as he expected, to the view of the parents in the chorus, expressing their wish that he would come home.

Although it failed to reach the top 40 in the United States, stalling at No. 76, it was a good start for the group in their native United Kingdom, peaking at No. 8 on the UK Singles Chart in July 1985. Along with the track “Blue”, “Johnny Come Home” did reach No. 9 on the dance chart in the USA>

“Harlem Shuffle” is an R&B song written and originally recorded by the duo Bob & Earl in 1963. The tune has been covered by; Booker T and the MG’s, The Boogie Kings on their self-titled album on the Montel Michelle label (1965), The Fabulous Flippers, a regional band out of Kansas (1966), The Traits, Roy Head’s band (Treat her Right), (1967), by John Fred and his Playboy Band on their album Vigon (1967), by The Righteous Brothers on their album Sayin’ Somethin (1967), by Johnny and Edgar Winter on their album Together (1976), and by The Belle Stars on their 1983 self-titled album. More recently, it was covered by The Rolling Stones on their album Dirty Work (1986), and by the 5.6.7.8′s in 2002 on their Teenage Mojo Workout album. Pete Townshend also performed the song with his short-lived band Deep End.

http://www.rollingstones.com/

“Nikita” is a song by English singer Elton John about the Cold War from his 1985 album Ice on Fire. Released in late 1985, the song achieved success in many countries, becoming a top ten hit in almost all of them.

In the song, Elton John describes his crush on a beautiful GDR borderguard whom he cannot meet because he is not allowed into the country. It features George Michael on backing vocals, and is notable for a distinctive synthesizer solo.The song charted at #3 on the UK Singles Chart and also made the top 10 in the US, charting at #7.

http://web.eltonjohn.com/index.jsp

“The Power of Love” is a song co-written and originally recorded by Jennifer Rush. It has been covered by several artists, most notably by Laura Branigan, Air Supply, and Céline Dion, and translated into several languages, becoming a pop standard.

http://www.jennifer-rush.com/en/news/index.html

“Secret Lovers“, released in 1985, was the third single from As the Band Turns, the sixth album from R&B group, Atlantic Starr. “Secret Lovers” was Atlantic Starr’s true breakthrough hit on the pop charts in both the US and UK, though the group had previously minor pop and R&B hits in both countries.

http://www.allmusic.com/artist/p3585

Special thanks for the chart information researched entirely every week through this WONDERFUL website.

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Sidekick Scotty’s Sports Headlines of April 1986!

The Playoffs were underway and the 1986 Stanley Cup Final NHL championship series was contested by the Calgary Flames in their first Final appearance and the Montreal Canadiens in their 32nd. The Canadiens would win the best-of-seven series four games to one, to win their twenty-third Stanley Cup, and their seventeenth in their last eighteen Finals appearances dating back to 1956. It was the first all-Canadian finals since 1967, the last year of the original six era.

The season was winding down and the 1986 NBA Finals was the championship round of the 1985-86 NBA season. It pitted the Eastern Conference champion Boston Celtics against the Western Conference champion Houston Rockets. The Celtics defeated the Rockets four games to two to win their 16th NBA championship. The championship would be the Celtics’ last until the 2008 NBA Finals. Larry Bird was named the Finals MVP.

The 1986 FA Cup Final to be played in a few weeks was a Merseyside derby between Liverpool and Everton at Wembley. The match was played seven days after Liverpool had secured the league title, with Everton finishing as runners-up. Liverpool went on to win this match 3–1, with two goals from Ian Rush, and one from Craig Johnston after Gary Lineker had put Everton ahead in the first half.

Soon to happen ..The 1986 European Cup Final ((Champions League) was a football match held at the Estadio Ramón Sánchez Pizjuán, Seville, on 7 May 1986, that saw Steaua Bucureşti of Romania defeat Barcelona of Spain in an extraordinary penalty shoot out, after 120 minutes of play could not separate the two sides. Barcelona had all of their spot-kicks saved by Steaua goalkeeper Helmuth Duckadam, who was later dubbed “The Hero of Seville.”^[1] It remains Steaua Bucureşti’s only European Cup triumph, and the only one by any Romanian team.

The 1986 Masters Tournament was the 50th Masters Tournament, and was the first golfing major of 1986. Jack Nicklaus won his record 18th professional major with a historic victory in which he shot 65 (including a back nine 30) during the final round for a final tally of 279 (-9). At age 46, his win made him the oldest winner of the Masters and the second oldest winner of any major championship behind Julius Boros, who was 48 when he captured the 1968 PGA Championship. The win also gave him a record six Masters victories. His first was in 1963 and his first major win was the 1962 U.S. Open. The 23 years between Masters victories and 24 years between major victories are also records. The runners-up were Tom Kite and Greg Norman, whose near-misses at the Masters are also noteworthy. Nicklaus won $144,000 for his first place finish.

Bud The Spud On A Stick’s Favorite Flicks in April 1986!

Police Academy 3: Back in Training is the third film in the Police Academy film series, released on March 21, 1986.

The film begins in a large garage structure, where Lt. Proctor (Lance Kinsey) and Commandant Mauser (Art Metrano) meet up with former Police Academy cadets, (now Sgts.) Chad Copeland (Scott Thomson) and Kyle Blankes (Brant van Hoffman). It seems one of the two Police Academy schools is getting the axe, and Mauser wants Copeland and Blankes to make sure Lassard screws up.

The Money Pit is a 1986 comedy film. Directed by Richard Benjamin and executive produced by Steven Spielberg, the film stars Tom Hanks and Shelley Long as a couple who attempt to renovate a recently purchased house. The Money Pit was filmed in New York City and Lattingtown, Long Island, New York. Villa Vizcaya in Miami, Florida was used for the epilogue scene set in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091541/

Gung Ho is a 1986 Ron Howard comedy film, released by Paramount Pictures, and starring Michael Keaton and Gedde Watanabe. The film’s story portrayed the takeover of an American car plant by a Japanese corporation (although the title of the film is actually an Americanized Chinese expression, for “work” and “together”). The film was rated PG-13 in the US and certified 15 in the UK.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091159/

A Room with a View is a 1985 British drama film directed by James Ivory and produced by Ismail Merchant. The film is a close adaptation of E. M. Forster’s novel of the same name, and even uses his chapter titles to divide the film into sections.

The film stars Helena Bonham Carter as a young woman in the restrictive Edwardian culture of turn-of-the-twentieth-century England and her love for a free-spirited young man. Maggie Smith, Denholm Elliott, Julian Sands, Simon Callow, Judi Dench, Daniel Day-Lewis, and Rupert Graves round out the principal cast. Elliott and Smith were nominated for Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor and Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, but lost to Michael Caine and Dianne Wiest from Hannah and Her Sisters

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091867/

The Critters film series, from New Line Cinema, comprises four movies that combine elements of horror, science fiction and comedy. The first film, called simply Critters, was released in 1986 and received “two thumbs up” from Siskel and Ebert.

Althoughly widely believed to have been made to cash in on the success of the similarly themed Gremlins, director Stephen Herek has refuted this in interviews, pointing out that the first Critters script was written by Domonic Muir long before Gremlins went into production and subsequently underwent rewrites to reduce the apparent similarities between the two films.In any case, the basic plotline of the first film – mysterious strangers arrives in small town to repel marauding invaders – is more like a classic Western narrative.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090887/

JC Legends Cars ..1986!

1986 Chevrolet Celebrity (#1)

1986 Ford Escort (#2)

1986 Chevrolet Cavalier (#3)

More sights and sounds of 1986!

Addicted to Love” is a song by Robert Palmer released in 1986. The song has now become known as his signature song,thanks in part to a highly popular video featuring high fashion models. Other artists have released versions since.

This is the third song on the Riptide album. The most commonly heard version runs around four minutes, but the full album version runs a little over six minutes.

http://robert-palmer.over-blog.com/article-1514914.html

“Don’t Forget Me (When I’m Gone)” is a 1986 song by Canadian pop-rock band Glass Tiger, from their debut album, The Thin Red Line. Released as the band’s first single, it reached #1 in Canada and #2 in the United States. The song features backing vocals by rock singer Bryan Adams.

http://www.glasstiger.ca/

Feargal Sharkey (born Sean Feargal Sharkey, 13 August 1958) is a singer from Northern Ireland who first found fame as the lead vocalist of pop punk band The Undertones. Since moving away from performing in the early 1990s, he has performed various roles supporting the UK’s commercial music industry, winning several awards and honors for his work in that area.

http://www.theundertones.com/_/Home.html

“Bop” is the second single released from Dan Seals’ 1985 album Won’t Be Blue Anymore. It reached #1 on the Country singles chart in early-1986 – his second number one hit, but his first as a solo artist. It was a major crossover hit as well, peaking at #42 on the US Hot 100, and at #10 on the US Adult Contemporary Chart.

http://www.allmusic.com/artist/p1804

“R.O.C.K. in the U.S.A.“, subtitled “A Salute to ’60s Rock“, is a rock song written and performed by John Mellencamp as John Cougar Mellencamp. It was the third single from his 1985 album Scarecrow and a top-ten hit on both the Billboard Hot 100 and Top Rock Tracks charts.

“Under the Boardwalk” is a hit pop song written by Kenny Young and Arthur Resnick and recorded by The Drifters in 1964.John Mellencamp charted both tunes in April 1986.

http://www.mellencamp.com/

Johann (Hans) Hölzel (19 February 1957 – 6 February 1998), better known by his stage name Falco (help·info), was an Austrian pop and rock musician and rapper. He had several international hits: “Der Kommissar”, “Rock Me Amadeus”, “Vienna Calling”, “Jeanny”, “The Sound of Musik”, “Coming Home (Jeanny Part 2)” and posthumously, “Out of the Dark”. He is the first and only artist to date whose principal language was German to score a number-one hit in the United States with “Rock Me Amadeus”. His estate claims he has sold 20 million albums and 15 million singles to date, which makes him the best selling Austrian singer of all time.”Vienna Calling” charted in 1986.

http://www.officialfalco.com/

Sly Fox was a short-lived American 1980s duo, consisting of Gary “Mudbone” Cooper, an African American funk session musician and former vocalist with Parliament-Funkadelic, and Michael Camacho, a Puerto Rican vocalist.

The duo was assembled by the British producer, Ted Currier, and presented as wholesome, clean living teen idols, an image that contrasted sharply with the perceived sexual connotation of the title of their lone hit.

“Lets Go All The Way” charted in April 1986.

http://www.myspace.com/michaelcamachomusic

“Manic Monday” is a song by the American pop rock band The Bangles, and the first single released from their second studio album Different Light (1986). It was written by Prince, using the pseudonym “Christopher”. Originally intended for the group Apollonia 6 in 1984, he offered the song to The Bangles two years later. The song is based on his character of the movie Under the Cherry Moon (1986). Lyrically it describes a woman who is waking up on Monday, wishing it was still Sunday.

http://thebangles.com/_index.php

“Silent Running (On Dangerous Ground)” is a pop rock song performed by Mike + The Mechanics. Written by Mike Rutherford and B. A. Robertson, it was the first track from their 1985 self-titled debut album. It was also released as the band’s first single, reaching number 6 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, and number 1 on Billboard‘s Mainstream Rock Tracks chart, where it stayed for five weeks.It reached number 21 in the band’s native United Kingdom

http://www.facebook.com/mikeandthemechanics?sk=wall&filter=1/

“Move Away” is the first single from Culture Club’s fourth album, 1986 From Luxury to Heartache. The song became the group’s eighth top-ten hit on the UK Singles Chart, peaking at number seven.^[1] It reached number twelve on the Billboard Hot 100,being their last chart success in USA and hit the top ten in many countries including Canada (#4), Italy (#10) and Australia (#10).

http://culture-club.co.uk/

“Kiss” is a 1986 single by Prince and The Revolution, from the album Parade. “Kiss” started as a short acoustic demo, about a minute in length, with one verse and the chorus. Prince gave the song to the funk band Mazarati for their debut album. Mazarati and producer David Z. drastically reworked the song, giving it its stripped-down minimalist sound. When Mazarati delivered the song to Prince, he was amazed at their work and decided to take back the song for himself. He replaced their lead vocal, added the guitar break in the chorus and edited the song to its present form. Mazarati were credited for their backing vocals, which Prince left intact.

http://www.allmusic.com/artist/p5182

Corey Mitchell Hart (born May 31, 1962) is a Canadian musician, best known for such hit singles “Sunglasses at Night” and “Never Surrender”. He has sold over 15 million records worldwide and scored nine consecutive US Billboard Top 40 hits. In Canada Hart has amassed 29 Top 40 hits, including 11 in the Top 10, over the course of his nearly 30 years in the music industry. Nominated for the Grammy Award for Best New Artist in 1984, Hart is also a multiple Juno award nominee and winner in Canada. He has also been honored by the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) and the Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada (SOCAN)

http://www.coreyhart.com/

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Issue #9 APRIL 1973 Canada’s Boomers Website and Radio Show

This week its April 1973 this month in history is relived in News Items..Old TV Clips ..Songs from the Chart and of course Big Daddy,Foster D Moos,Gary The History Guy,JC Legend,Sidekick Scotty The Homey Boys Harry The Hippo Bud The Spud On A Stick and the usual cast of characters.Its like reliving a moment in history all over again.

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Gary The History Guys News Events Of The Month

April 3 – The first handheld cellular phone call is made by Martin Cooper in New York City

April 5 -Pioneer 11 is launched on a mission to study the solar system.

As of February 8, 2012, Pioneer 11 is about 85.013 astronomical units (1.27178×10¹⁰ km) from the Sun. It is at an elliptic latitude of 14.3 degrees and at a declination of -8.82 degrees. It is traveling at about 11.391 km/s relative to the Sun and is traveling outward at about 2.403 AU per year. Pioneer 11 is at a right ascension of 18.763 hours, and at an ecliptic latitude of 14.3 degrees. Sunlight takes 11.9 hours to get to Pioneer 11 at its approximate distance. Pioneer 11 is traveling in roughly the opposite direction from Pioneer 10. Pioneer 11 is heading in the direction of the constellation Scutum. Whereas Pioneer 10 is moving away from the center of the galaxy, Pioneer 11 is moving towards it

April 30 – Watergate Scandal: President Richard Nixon announces that top White House aides H.R. Haldeman, John Ehrlichman, and others have resigned.

Nutopia is a conceptual country, sometimes referred to as a micronation and it was founded by John Lennon and Yoko Ono in Apil 1973. One of the reasons that the country was founded was address Lennon’s then-ongoing immigration problems though satirical means. There is no leadership and not all citizenships have been recorded. As a result, the population is unknown.

FOSTER D MOOS & TV’S FAVORITES FROM 1973

All in the Family is an American sitcom that was originally broadcast on the CBS television network from January 12, 1971, to April 8, 1979. In September 1979, a new show, Archie Bunker’s Place, picked up where All in the Family had ended. This sitcom lasted another four years, ending its run in 1983.

Produced by Norman Lear and Bud Yorkin, it is based on the British television comedy series Till Death Us Do Part. Despite being considerably softer in its approach than its BBC predecessor, the show broke ground in its depiction of issues previously considered unsuitable for U.S. network television comedy, such as racism, homosexuality, women’s liberation, rape, miscarriage, abortion, breast cancer, the Vietnam War, menopause, and impotence.

The show ranked #1 in the yearly Nielsen ratings from 1971 to 1976. It became the first television series to reach the milestone of having topped the Nielsen ratings for five consecutive years, a mark later matched by The Cosby Show and surpassed by American Idol, which notched its sixth consecutive year at #1 in 2010 and whose streak is still ongoing. The episode “Sammy’s Visit” was ranked #13 on TV Guide’s 100 Greatest Episodes of All Time.TV Guide’s 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time ranked All in the Family as #4. Bravo also named the show’s protagonist, Archie Bunker, TV’s greatest character of all time.

Hawaii Five-O is an American police procedural drama series produced by CBS Productions and Leonard Freeman. Set in Hawaii, the show originally aired for twelve seasons from 1968 to 1980, and continues in reruns. The show featured a fictional state police unit run by Detective Steve McGarrett, portrayed by Jack Lord. The theme music composed by Morton Stevens became especially popular. Most episodes would end with McGarrett instructing his subordinate to “Book ‘em, Danno” sometimes specifying a charge such as “murder one.”

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062568/

Maude is an American television sitcom that was originally broadcast on the CBS network from September 12, 1972 until April 22, 1978.

Maude stars Beatrice Arthur as Maude Findlay, an outspoken, middle-aged, politically liberal woman living in suburban Tuckahoe, Westchester County, New York with her fourth husband, household appliance store owner Walter Findlay (Bill Macy). Maude embraced the tenets of women’s liberation, always voted for Democratic Party candidates, strongly supported legal abortion, and advocated for civil rights and racial and gender equality. However, her overbearing and sometimes domineering personality often got her into trouble when speaking out on these issues

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068103/

Sanford and Son is an American sitcom, based on the BBC’s Steptoe and Son, that ran on the NBC television network from January 14, 1972, to March 25, 1977.

In 2007, Time magazine included the show on their list of the “100 Best TV Shows of All Time”.

http://www.imdb.com/media/rm305967872/tt0068128

M*A*S*H is an American television series developed by Larry Gelbart, adapted from the 1970 feature film MASH (which was itself based on the 1968 novel MASH: A Novel About Three Army Doctors, by Richard Hooker). The series is a medical drama/black comedy that was produced in association with 20th Century Fox Television for CBS. It follows a team of doctors and support staff stationed at the “4077th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital” in Uijeongbu, South Korea, during the Korean War. M*A*S*H’s title sequence featured an instrumental version of the song “Suicide Is Painless”, which also appears in the original film. The show was created after an attempt to film the original book’s sequel, M*A*S*H Goes to Maine, failed. It is the most well known version of the M*A*S*H works.

The series premiered in the US on September 17, 1972, and ended February 28, 1983, with the finale becoming the most watched television episode in U.S. television history at the time, with a record breaking 125 million viewers, according to the New York Times

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068098/

BIG DADDY’S BIG 5 COUNTDOWN!

Top 5 songs from the CHUM Chart (Toronto,Ontario) April 21,1973 Join this Facebook Group populated by old CHUM employees and fans and folks that love discussing musical trivia

http://www.richardandkarencarpenter.com/

“You Are the Sunshine of My Life” is a 1973 pop single released by Stevie Wonder. The song became Wonder’s third number-one pop single on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and his first number one on the easy listening chart.^[1] It won Wonder a Grammy Award for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance. This song was the second single released from the album Talking Book. The song opened 194 Radio City on 21 October 1974.

http://steviewonder.net/

“Sing” is a popular song created for Sesame Street that gained popularity when performed by The Carpenters, who made it a #3 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 Charts in 1973. It has become one of the most performed songs on Sesame Street, sung in English, Spanish, and sign language.

“Sing” was written by Joe Raposo, the staff songwriter for the popular children’s TV show Sesame Street. In its initial appearance, the song was sung by adult human cast members of the show (the most frequent lead singer was Bob McGrath, and Muppets, including Big Bird. “The Kids” sang “Sing” for The Sesame Street Book & Record, a recording re-released on the 2003 Songs from the Street CD set.

“The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia” is a Southern Gothic song written by songwriter Bobby Russell and performed in 1972 by his then-wife Vicki Lawrence. Reba McEntire later covered it in 1991.

Recorded in late October 1972 in United/Western Studios on Sunset in Hollywood and released less than two weeks later in November 1972, the song centers around the older brother of the narrator, falsely convicted of and executed for a murder, which the narrator herself has committed

http://www.vickilawrence.com/

“Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree” is a song by Dawn featuring Tony Orlando, written by Irwin Levine and L. Russell Brown and produced by Hank Medress and Dave Appell. It was a worldwide hit for the group in 1973.

It reached number one on both the US and UK charts for four weeks in April 1973, number one on the Australian charts for seven weeks from May to July 1973 and number one on the New Zealand charts for ten weeks from June to August 1973. It was the top-selling single in 1973 in both the US and UK. In 2008, Billboard ranked the song as the 37th biggest song of all time in its issue celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Hot 100

http://www.tonyorlando.com/

“The Twelfth of Never” is a popular song recorded by Johnny Mathis and later by artists including Cliff Richard and Donny Osmond. The song’s title comes from the popular expression “the 12th of Never,” which is used as the date of a future occurrence that will never come to pass. In the case of the song, the 12th of Never is given as the date on which the singer will stop loving his beloved, thus indicating that he will always love her/him. The song draws a similar link between the cessation of love and a number of other events expected never to happen.

The song was written by Jerry Livingston and Paul Francis Webster, the tune (except for the bridge) being adapted from “The Riddle Song” (also known as “I Gave My Love a Cherry”), an old English folk song. Mathis’s original version reached #9 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the USA in 1957. A version by Cliff Richard was released in 1964 and reached #8 in the UK. Donny Osmond’s version, produced by Mike Curb and Don Costa, was his second #1 single in the UK, spending a single week at the top in March 1973. In the U.S. it peaked at #8.

http://donny.com/

Special thanks for the chart information researched entirely every week through this WONDERFUL website.

To listen and learn about the amazing radio of yesterday we recommend the following two sites.

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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070510/

Sidekick Scotty’s Sports Headlines of April 1973!

The Playoffs had begun ..leading to

The 1973 Stanley Cup Final NHL championship series was contested by the Chicago Black Hawks and the Montreal Canadiens, a rematch of the 1971 championship series. The Canadiens would win the best-of-seven series four games to two.

For the third time in four seasons, the New York Knicks of the Eastern Conference met the Los Angeles Lakers of the Western Conference for the NBA World Championship in the 1973 NBA Finals. The series was an exact reversal of the prior year, with the Lakers winning Game 1 and the Knicks taking the next four games.

The 1973 Masters Tournament was a golf tournament held April 5-8 at the Augusta National Golf Club. It was the 37th Masters, and Tommy Aaron won his first Masters title.

Before his 1973 Masters triumph, Aaron was probably best known as the golfer who kept Roberto DeVicenzo’s wrong scorecard at the 1968 Masters. Ironically, Aaron’s 4th round playing partner in 1973, Johnny Miller, recorded a higher score when keeping Aaron’s card. Aaron caught the mistake.

Just a month away..

The 1973 FA Cup Final took place on 5 May 1973 at Wembley Stadium. It was the 92nd final and the 45th to be played at Wembley, which was celebrating its 50th anniversary year. The final was contested between the previous season’s winners Leeds United, who were one of the dominant teams at the time, and Sunderland, a second division side. The result was one of the biggest shocks in the history of the competition, with Sunderland winning 1–0, becoming the first Second Division side to lift the Cup since West Bromwich Albion in 1931.

It remains Sunderland’s only major trophy since the Second World War

Bud The Spud On A Stick’s Favorite Flicks in April 1973!

Paper Moon is a 1973 American comedy film directed by Peter Bogdanovich and released by Paramount Pictures. The screenplay was adapted from the novel Addie Pray by Joe David Brown, and the film was shot in black-and-white. The film is set during the Great Depression in the U.S. states of Kansas and Missouri. It starred the real life father and daughter pairing of Ryan and Tatum O’Neal, as on-screen father and daughter Moze and Addie

A Touch of Class is a 1973 British romantic comedy film which tells the story of a couple having an affair, who find themselves falling in love. It stars George Segal, Glenda Jackson, Hildegarde Neil, Paul Sorvino and K Callan.

It was adapted by Melvin Frank and Jack Rose from the story “She Loves Me, She Told Me So Last Night” by Frank, who also directed.

The lead role of Steve was originally offered to Cary Grant, with a promise by Frank to rewrite the script to play up the age difference between Steve and Vicky. However, Grant opted to remain in retirement from filmmaking, and he turned the role down. He did remain connected to the film, however, as it was produced by Fabergé’s Brut Productions, and Grant was on the board of directors for Fabergé

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070819/

Battle for the Planet of the Apes is a 1973 science fiction film directed by J. Lee Thompson. It is the fifth and last entry in the original Planet of the Apes series produced by Arthur P. Jacobs.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069768/

The Last Detail is a 1973 American comedy-drama film directed by Hal Ashby with a screenplay adapted by Robert Towne from a novel of the same name by Daryl Ponicsan. The film became known for its frequent use of profanity

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070290/

JC Legends Cars ..1973

1973 Gremlin

1973 Plymouth Duster

1973 Corvette Stingray

MORE SIGHTS & SOUNDS OF 1973!

Sweet (also referred to as the Sweet) were a British rock band that rose to worldwide fame in the 1970s as one of the most prominent glam rock acts, with the classic line-up of lead vocalist Brian Connolly, bass player Steve Priest, guitarist Andy Scott, and drummer Mick Tucker.”Little Willy” charted in 1973.

http://thesweet.com/

War (originally called Eric Burdon and War) is an American funk band from California, known for the hit songs “Low Rider”, “Spill the Wine”, “The Cisco Kid”, “The World is a Ghetto”, and “Why Can’t We Be Friends?”. Formed in 1969, War was a musical crossover band which fused elements of rock, funk, jazz, Latin, rhythm and blues, and reggae. The band also transcended racial and cultural barriers with a multi-ethnic line-up. The band has sold over 50 million records to date

http://www.wartheband.com/home.html

Eumir Deodato (full name Eumir Deodato de Almeida, born 22 June 1943, Rio de Janeiro^[1]) is a Brazilian pianist, composer, record producer and arranger, primarily based in the jazz realm but who historically has been known for eclectic melding of big band and combo jazz with varied elements of rock/pop, R&B/funk, Brazilian/Latin, and symphonic or orchestral music.^[2] Mainly, his records can be categorized as pop/jazz or crossover jazz. His successes as an original artist (keyboards) occurred mainly in the 1970s. Since then, he has produced or arranged music in more than 500 albums for acts ranging from Kool and the Gang to Björk, Christophe and k.d. lang. His daughter, Kennya Deodato, is married to American actor Stephen Baldwin.”Theme from 2001″ charted for Deodato in 1973.

http://www.eumirdeodato.com/ed/dtct_true.php

Stir It Up” is a song composed by Bob Marley in 1967, written for his wife Rita, and first made popular by Johnny Nash. Nash’s recording hit the top 15 in both Britain and America in 1972.

When Bob Marley returned to Jamaica from the United States in 1967, The Wailers started their own label, ‘Wail’n Soul’m’ records, and released their first independent single “Freedom Time” backed with “Bend Down Low.” “Nice Time,” “Hypocrites,” “Mellow Mood,” “Thank You Lord,” and “Stir It Up” are all recorded in the same year.

http://www.classicbands.com/nash.html

“Space Oddity” is a song written and performed by David Bowie and released as a music single in 1969. It is about the launch of Major Tom, a fictional astronaut; its title alludes to the film 2001: A Space Odyssey, released the previous year. Incidentally, the protagonist of the film is called David Bowman. The lyrics have also been seen to lampoon the failed British space programme.^[1] The song appears on the album David Bowie (also known as Space Oddity). The BBC featured the song in its television coverage of the Apollo 11 launch and lunar landing, which took place in the days following the release of the song.

http://www.davidbowie.com/

“Walk on the Wild Side” is a Lou Reed song from his 1972 second solo album Transformer. It was produced by David Bowie. The song received wide radio coverage, despite its touching on taboo topics such as transsexuality, drugs, male prostitutes and oral sex. In the United States, RCA released an edited version of the song as a single which eliminated the song’s reference to oral sex.

The lyrics tell of a series of individuals and their journeys to New York City, and refers to several of the regular “superstars” at Andy Warhol’s New York studio, The Factory, namely Holly Woodlawn, Candy Darling, Joe Dallesandro, Jackie Curtis and Joe Campbell (referred to in the song by his nickname Sugar Plum Fairy). Candy Darling was also the subject of Reed’s earlier song for The Velvet Underground, “Candy Says”.

http://www.loureed.com/split/

“Killing Me Softly with His Song” is a popular song, with music composed by Charles Fox and lyrics written by Norman Gimbel, which was a #1 hit in 1973 for Roberta Flack. The song has been remade by numerous artists, most notably the Fugees whose rendition charted at number two, contributing to their Grammy Award-winning album, The Score.

http://www.robertaflack.com/

“Drift Away” is a song written by Mentor Williams and originally recorded by John Henry Kurtz on his 1972 album Reunion. IIn 1973 the song became Dobie Gray’s biggest hit, peaking at number five on the Billboard Hot 100, though it did not enter the charts in the United Kingdom.

This song is also a famous “goodbye” or ending song for concerts. Its use is often as filler for a last song, usually in preparation for an encore, since it has a catchy beat and a guitar solo can be easily added to the end of the song in order to spice things up before the encore. As such, many live covers have been performed by a multitude of bands and it has become a hit among soft rock fans. Appropriately, it was the final pop hit for Decca Records in the United States.

http://www.dobiegray.com/

“Dead Skunk” is a 1973 novelty song by Loudon Wainwright III.

The song is musically a simple folk song based on acoustic guitar, but accompanied by drums and strings. The lyrics, which literally interpreted describe a dead skunk in the middle of a busy road and the smell it produces for pedestrians, have often been seen as an attack on then-president Richard Nixon. Wainwright himself has never confirmed or denied this claim, but has said the song was an accident written in fifteen minutes.

http://www.lw3.com/home.php

“Neither One of Us (Wants to Be the First to Say Goodbye)” is a song recorded by Gladys Knight & the Pips. Released in 1973 from the album, Neither One of Us, the song spent four weeks at number one on the Soul Singles chart during the spring of that year. The song was also one of their biggest crossover hits, peaking at number 2 on the Billboard Hot 100. It was one of the groups last hits with Motown before leaving for Buddah Records. It also won a Grammy Award for Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal.

http://www.vocalgroup.org/inductees/gladys_knight_pips.html

“Ain’t No Woman (Like the One I’ve Got)” is a 1973 hit single written by Dennis Lambert and Brian Potter, released as a single by the Four Tops on the ABC/Dunhill record label, from the album Keeper of the Castle.

The song was originally recorded by the singing trio of Hamilton, Joe Frank & Reynolds and released on their 1972 album, Hallway Symphony.

The Four Tops’ hit version was led by longtime singer Levi Stubbs, and included special co-lead spots by the other Tops, Lawrence Payton, Renaldo “Obie” Benson and Abdul “Duke” Fakir, in that respective order during the song’s chorus. The song explains the love a man feels for the woman he’s in love with.

http://www.vocalgroup.org/inductees/the_four_tops.html

“The First Cut Is the Deepest” is a 1967 song written by Cat Stevens, originally released by P. P. Arnold in the spring of 1967. Stevens’ own version of the song is technically a cover, and originally appeared on his album New Masters in December 1967.

The song has been widely covered and has become a hit single for four different artists: P. P. Arnold (1967), Keith Hampshire (1973), Rod Stewart (1977) and Sheryl Crow (2003).

http://www.keithhampshire.com/

“Dueling Banjos” is an instrumental composition by Arthur “Guitar Boogie” Smith. The song was composed in 1955 by Smith as a banjo instrumental he called “Feudin’ Banjos”, which contained riffs from “Yankee Doodle”. Smith recorded it playing a four-string plectrum banjo and accompanied by five-string bluegrass banjo player Don Reno. The version by Eric Weissberg and Steve Mandell went to #2 for four weeks on the Hot 100 in 1973, all four weeks behind Roberta Flack’s “Killing Me Softly With His Song”, and topped the adult contemporary chart for two weeks the same year.

http://www.ericweissberg.com/

Skylark was a former Canadian pop/rock band active from 1971–1973 and based in the Pacific Northwest. The band formed from one of Ronnie Hawkins’ backup groups and signed with Capitol Records, releasing a self-titled album in 1972 which spawned three singles. The group, whose alumni include renowned composer/arranger David Foster, disbanded after the lukewarm reception of their second album, 2, and its members achieved mixed success in other projects.

“Wildflower” was on the charts in April 1973.

http://pnwbands.com/skylark.html

The Five Man Electrical Band (originally The Staccatos 1963-9) was a Canadian rock group from Ottawa, best known for their 1971 hit single “Signs.

“Signs” was written by Les Emmerson and reached #3 on the US Billboard Hot 100. It sold over one million copies, and was awarded a gold disc by the R.I.A.A. in August 1971.

“Signs” went to #1 in Australia for nearly 2 months and was huge in other parts of the world including the band’s own country, Canada. A string of hits followed: “Absolutely Right”, “Money Back Guarantee”, “Moonshine (friend of mine)”, “Werewolf”, “I’m A Stranger Here” and a slew of others but the hit that truly places the band on hallowed ground in music history is “Signs”. Tesla scored a huge hit with a cover of the song on their album “Five Man Acoustical Jam” in the ‘90’s and more recently Fat Boy Slim had a hit called “Don’t Let The Man Get You Down” based mostly off the now unforgettable line….“And the sign said long haired freaky people need not apply”.

“I’m A Stranger Here” charted in 1973

http://www.fivemanelectricalband.ca/

“Dancing in the Moonlight” is the title song on the 1973 King Harvest album Dancing in the Moonlight.^[1] The track was released as a single in 1972 and it reached #13 on the Billboard Hot 100. They released other singles but these were never able to match the success of “Dancing in the Moonlight”. The track used a Wurlitzer electric piano throughout.

http://www.myspace.com/kingharvest

“Danny’s Song” is the title of a song written by the American singer-songwriter Kenny Loggins. It was written as a gift for his brother Danny for the birth of his son Colin. It first appeared on the album Sittin’ In, the debut album by Loggins and Messina. The song is well remembered for both the Loggins and Messina original, as well as Anne Murray’s 1973 top-ten charting cover.

http://annemurray.com/

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Issue #8 APRIL 1968 Canada’s Boomers Website and Radio Show

This week its April 1968 this month in history is relived in News Items..Old TV Clips ..Songs from the Chart and of course Big Daddy,Foster D Moos,Gary The History Guy,JC Legend,Sidekick Scotty The Homey Boys Harry The Hippo Bud The Spud On A Stick and the usual cast of characters.Its like reliving a moment in history all over again.

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Gary The History Guys News Events Of The Month

April 4 Martin Luther King, Jr. is shot dead at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. Riots erupt in major American cities, lasting for several days afterwards.

The film 2001: A Space Odyssey premieres in Washington, D.C

Apr 4 ..Apollo Program: Apollo-Saturn mission 502 (Apollo 6) is launched, as the second and last unmanned test-flight of the Saturn V launch vehicle.

April 20 Pierre Trudeau becomes Canada’s 15th Prime Minister.

FOSTER D MOOS & TV’S FAVORITES FROM 1968

The Lucy Show is an American situation comedy that aired on CBS from 1962-68. It was Lucille Ball’s follow-up to I Love Lucy. A significant change in cast and premise for the 1965-66 season divides the program into two distinct eras; aside from Ball, only Gale Gordon, who joined the program for its second season, remained. For the first three seasons, Vivian Vance was the co-star.

Family Affair is an American sitcom that aired on CBS from September 12, 1966 to September 9, 1971. The series explored the trials of well-to-do civil engineer and bachelor Bill Davis (Brian Keith) as he attempted to raise his brother’s orphaned children in his luxury New York City apartment. Davis’ traditional English gentleman’s gentleman, Mr. Giles French (Sebastian Cabot), also had adjustments to make as he became saddled with the responsibility of caring for 15-year-old Cissy (Kathy Garver) and the 6-year-old twins, Jody (Johnny Whitaker) and Buffy (Anissa Jones).

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059982/

Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. is an American situation comedy that originally aired on CBS from September 25, 1964, to May 2, 1969. The series was a spinoff of The Andy Griffith Show, and the pilot was aired as the finale of the fourth season of The Andy Griffith Show on May 19, 1964. The show ran for five seasons and a total of 150 episodes. In 2006, CBS Home Entertainment (distributed by Paramount) began releasing the series on DVD. The final season was released in November 2008.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057752/

The Dean Martin Show is a TV variety-comedy series that ran from 1965 to 1974 for 264 episodes. It was broadcast by NBC and hosted by crooner Dean Martin. The theme song to the series was his 1964 hit “Everybody Loves Somebody.”

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058797/

Ironside is a Universal television series which ran on NBC from September 14, 1967 to January 16, 1975. The show starred Raymond Burr as the wheelchair-using Chief of Detectives, Robert T. Ironside. The character’s debut was in a TV-movie on March 28, 1967. The original title of the show in the United Kingdom was A Man Called Ironside. The show earned Burr six Emmy and two Golden Globe nominations.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061266/

BIG DADDY’S BIG 5 COUNTDOWN!

Top 5 songs from the CHUM Chart (Toronto,Ontario) April 8,1968Join this Facebook Group populated by old CHUM employees and fans and folks that love discussing musical trivia

http://www.garypuckettmusic.com/

“Delilah” is a song recorded by Welsh singer Tom Jones in 1968. It was written by Barry Mason, with music by Les Reed.

It reached No 1 in the charts of several countries including Germany and Switzerland.It reached No 2 in the British charts in March 1968 and was the sixth best selling single of that year. The US Billboard chart records its highest position as 15.

http://www.tomjones.com/

“Young Girl” was a song performed by Gary Puckett & The Union Gap released in 1968. The song reached #2 on the Billboard Hot 100 and it reached #1 on the UK Singles chart and Cash Box. The song is sung from the point of view a man distressed to find out his lover is under an acceptable age.

“Love Is All Around” is a song composed by Reg Presley and performed by The Troggs in D-major. Purportedly inspired by a television transmission of the Joy Strings Salvation Army band’s “Love That’s All Around”,the song was first released as a single in the UK in October 1967. On the UK Singles Chart top 50, the record bowed at #50 on 18 October 1967, peaked at #5 on 22 November 1967, and lasted 15 weekly charts. On the Hot 100, the record bowed at #98 on 24 February 1968, peaked at #7 on 18 May 1968, and lasted 16 weeks. This version features a string quartet and a ‘tick tock’ sound on percussion.

http://www.my-generation.org.uk/Troggs/

“Honey,” also known as “Honey (I Miss You),” is a song written by Bobby Russell. He first produced it with former Kingston Trio member Bob Shane. Then he gave it to American singer Bobby Goldsboro who recorded it for his tenth album Honey.

The song’s narrator mourns his deceased lover, beginning with him looking at a tree in their garden, remembering how “it was just a twig” on the day she planted it (with his disapproval). This single about the loss of a loved one hit #1 the week Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated in Memphis.

http://www.bobbygoldsboro.com/

“Lady Madonna” is a song by The Beatles, primarily written by Paul McCartney (credited to Lennon–McCartney). In March 1968, it was released as a single, backed with “The Inner Light.” The song was recorded on 3 and 6 February 1968 before the Beatles left for India. This single was the last release by the band on Parlophone in the United Kingdom, where it reached #1, and Capitol Records in the United States, where it reached #4. All subsequent releases, starting with “Hey Jude” in August 1968, were released on their own label Apple Records, under EMI distribution, until the late 1970s, when Capitol and Parlophone re-released old material.

http://thebeatles.com/

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Sidekick Scotty’s Sports Headlines of April 1968!

The 1968 Stanley Cup Final was a best-of-seven series between the Montreal Canadiens and the St. Louis Blues and it would be played in a few weeks time. The Canadiens would sweep the series in four-straight games, in the first Stanley Cup series after the NHL expansion to 12 teams.

The 1968 NBA World Championship Series pitted the Boston Celtics from the East, against the Los Angeles Lakers from the West, for the sixth time in ten years. The Celtics won their tenth NBA Championship in twelve seasons, by defeating the Lakers in six games. Significantly, Game Six of the 1968 NBA Finals marked the first time that any NBA competition had taken place during the month of May.

The 1968 FA Cup Final was contested by West Bromwich Albion and Everton at Wembley. West Brom won by a single goal, scored by Jeff Astle three minutes into extra time. The goal meant that Astle had scored in every round of that season’s competition

The 1968 Masters Tournament was contested from April 11 to April 14 at Augusta National Golf Club. It was the 32nd Masters Tournament. 74 players entered the tournament and 52 of them made the cut at five-over-par (149).

Bob Goalby birdied the 13th and 14th and eagled the 15th to record a final round of 66. At first it appeared that he and Roberto DeVicenzo would play in a playoff, but DeVicenzo returned an incorrect scorecard showing a 4 on the 17th instead of a birdie 3. Tommy Aaron incorrectly marked the 4 and DeVicenzo failed to catch the mistake and signed the scorecard. PGA of America rules stated that the higher written score signed by a golfer on his card must stand. As such, the error gave Goalby the championship

Bud The Spud On A Stick’s Favorite Flicks in April 1968!

Planet of the Apes is a 1968 American science fiction film directed by Franklin J. Schaffner, based on the 1963 French novel La Planète des singes by Pierre Boulle. The film stars Charlton Heston, Roddy McDowall, Kim Hunter, Maurice Evans, James Whitmore, James Daly and Linda Harrison. It was the first in a series of five films made between 1968 and 1973, all produced by Arthur P. Jacobs and released by 20th Century Fox.The series was followed by a remake in 2001 and a reboot in 2011.

2001: A Space Odyssey is a 1968 science fiction film produced and directed by Stanley Kubrick. It was co-written by Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke, partially inspired by Clarke’s short story “The Sentinel”, and Clarke later adapted the script into an eponymous novel. The story deals with a series of encounters between humans and mysterious black monoliths that are apparently affecting human evolution, and a space voyage to Jupiter tracing a signal emitted by one such monolith found on the moon. Keir Dullea and Gary Lockwood star as the two astronauts on this voyage, with Douglas Rain as the voice of the sentient computer HAL 9000 who has full control over their spaceship. The film is frequently described as an “epic film”, both for its length and scope, and for its affinity with classical epics

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062622/

Blackbeard’s Ghost is a 1968 live-action fantasy comedy Disney film starring Peter Ustinov, Dean Jones, and Suzanne Pleshette, directed by Robert Stevenson. It is based upon the novel of the same name by Ben Stahl and was shot in Walt Disney Studios. The Disney Channel aired this film until the late 1990s. This film is remade in India as Chamatkar starring Shahrukh Khan and Urmila Matondkar.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062737/

Speedway is a 1968 action film musical film starring Elvis Presley as a racecar driver and Nancy Sinatra as his love interest.

Scenes were shot at the Lowe’s Motor Speedway in Concord, North Carolina. The film features guest appearances by several of the top stock-car—better known now as NASCAR — drivers of the day.

This would be the final “formula” musical film of Presley’s career. His later films would be less musical and more adult in tone.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063634/

JC Legends Cars ..1968!

AMC Javelin..Buick Riviera..Buick Skylark..Chevy El Camino..Chevy Impala..Dodge Charger..Corvette

MORE SIGHTS AND SOUNDS OF 1968

“Valleri” is a song written by Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart for The Monkees, who had a #3 on Billboard Hot 100 and #1 on Cash Box with it in early 1968. The song also rose to #12 in the UK.

Responding to Screen Gems president and music supervisor Don Kirshner’s early-morning request for a “girl’s-name song” to be used in the Monkees’s television series, Boyce and Hart improvised “Valleri” on their way to Kirshner’s office, after pretending over the telephone that the song was already finished. Nonetheless, Kirshner was pleased with their work, and “Valleri” took its place on the Monkees recording schedule, with Boyce and Hart producing the original sessions in August 1966.

http://www.monkees.com/

The Tremeloes are an English beat group founded in 1958 in Dagenham, Essex, and still active today.”suddenly You Love Me” charted in 1968.

http://www.tremeloes.oldiemusic.de/

Red Red Wine” is the title of a song written and originally recorded by American artist Neil Diamond. It has been covered by Tony Tribe, Jimmy James & the Vagabonds, and more famously by British reggae group UB40, whose version topped the U.S. and UK singles charts. Diamond’s version reached number sixty-two on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1968. The single version of his recording includes a backing choir not found in any other version. Diamond later performed a UB40-inspired version of the song on tour. In it, Diamond makes a slight complaint about UB40 misunderstanding the lyrics because of the happy tone to their version. This version was released on Diamond’s The Greatest Hits (1966-1992).

http://www.neildiamond.com/

“Jennifer Juniper” is a song and single by Donovan, released in 1968. It charted in the UK and USA. It was written about Jenny Boyd, sister of Pattie Boyd, while they were all with The Beatles in Rishikesh. She married Mick Fleetwood and was, at one time, the sister-in-law of George Harrison and, later, Eric Clapton. The song features a wind section with Oboe, Flute, and Bassoon. The last verse of the song is sung in French.

http://www.donovan.ie/

“The Legend of Xanadu” is a single by Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich that reached number one in the UK Singles Chart in 1968, and was the group’s biggest hit. As with many of their singles, it was written by songwriters Ken Howard and Alan Blaikley, and like many of the group’s recordings, it features a novelty element — in this case a trumpet section, and the distinctive sound of a whip cracking in the chorus. The musical accompaniment was directed by John Gregory.

http://www.dddbmt.com/

The Who are an English rock band formed in 1964 by Roger Daltrey (lead vocals, harmonica and guitar), Pete Townshend (guitar, keyboards and vocals), John Entwistle (bass guitar, brass and vocals) and Keith Moon (drums and percussion). They became known for energetic live performances which often included instrument destruction. The Who have sold about 100 million records, and have charted 27 top forty singles in the United Kingdom and United States, as well as 17 top ten albums, with 18 Gold, 12 Platinum and 5 Multi-Platinum album awards in the United States alone.

“Call Me Lightning”charted in 1968.

http://www.thewho.com/

Percy Sledge (born November 25, 1941, Leighton, Alabama) is an American R&B and soul performer who recorded the hit “When a Man Loves a Woman” in 1966.”Take Time To Know Her” charted in 1968.

http://psledge.com/

Gene and Debbe were a pseudo-pop/country duo hailing from Nashville, Tennessee.

They had some brief successes on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart. Gene Thomas (born 28 December 1938, Palestine, Texas) and had some minor success in the early 1960s with the songs “Sometimes” and “Baby’s Gone”. After the latter he dabbled in writing music for a few years before running into aspiring crooner, Debbe Neville, (or Nevills as some sources say). In an Everly Brothers style of harmonizing, they launched a career at Acuff-Rose music, singing romantic country style pop melodies.

They were signed to a recording contract with the subsidiary of Hickory Records (Sue Thompson, Don Gibson, The Newbeats etc.), TRX, where they recorded their two biggest hits, “Go With Me” and “Playboy”. The latter had an eventual combined sales figure of one million discs being awarded a gold record in June 1968.After hitting the charts with “Playboy” at #18, they both faded into obscurity.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_%26_Debbe

“Quinn the Eskimo (Mighty Quinn)” is a folk-rock song written by Bob Dylan and first recorded during The Basement Tapes sessions in 1967. The song was first released in January 1968 as “Mighty Quinn” by the British band Manfred Mann and became a great success. It has been recorded by a number of performers, often under the “Mighty Quinn” title.

http://www.manfredmann.co.uk/

The Box Tops were a Memphis rock group of the second half of the 1960s. They are best known for the hits “The Letter”, “Cry Like A Baby”, and “Soul Deep” and are considered a major blue-eyed soul group of the period. They performed a mixture of current soul music songs by artists such as James and Bobby Purify and Clifford Curry, pop tunes such as “A Whiter Shade of Pale” by Keith Reid, Gary Brooker and Matthew Fisher of Procol Harum, and songs written by their producers, Dan Penn, Spooner Oldham, and Chips Moman. Vocalist Alex Chilton went on to front the powerpop band Big Star and to launch a career as a solo artist, during which he occasionally performed songs he had sung with the Box Tops.

“Cry Like A Baby” charted in 1968.

http://www.boxtops.com/

“Kiss Me Goodbye” is a Les Reed/Barry Mason composition recorded in 1968 by Petula Clark.

http://www.petulaclark.net/

The Sweet Inspirations were founded by Emily “Cissy” Houston (née Drinkard), mother of Whitney Houston, and sister of Lee Warrick (herself the mother of well-known sisters Dee Dee and Dionne Warwick). Emily and Lee were members of The Drinkard Singers, a family group that had the distinction of recording the first Gospel album to appear on a major label: A live recording from The Newport Jazz Festival in 1959. The line-up included Judy Guions (who later became Judy Clay), Marie Epps, Larry Drinkard, Nicholas Drinkard, Ann Moss, Lee and Emily.”Sweet Inspiration” charted in 1968

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweet_Inspirations

Raymond Lefèvre (November 20, 1929 – June 27, 2008) was a French easy listening orchestra leader, arranger and composer.”Soul Coaxing” charted in 1968.

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0498899/

O.C. Smith (June 21, 1932 – November 23, 2001) was an American musician. His recording of “Little Green Apples”, went to number 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1968, and sold over one million records.”Hickory Hollers Tramp” charted in 1968

http://www.allmusic.com/artist/oc-smith-p26984

The Unicorn is the second album by Irish folk music group The Irish Rovers, released in 1967.

The title track The Unicorn, a recording of Shel Silverstein’s poem, reached #7 in the U.S. Despite having virtually nothing to do with Ireland or Irish culture, the song remains popular in Irish pubs to this day.The song charted in 1968.

http://irishroversmusic.com/

Gordon Meredith Lightfoot, Jr. CC OOnt (born November 17, 1938) is a Canadian singer-songwriter who achieved international success in folk, folk-rock, and country music, and has been credited for helping define the folk-pop sound of the 1960s and 1970s. He has been referred to as Canada’s greatest songwriter and internationally as a folk-rock legend.

“Black Day In July” charted in 1968.

http://www.lightfoot.ca/

Andrew Youakim, performing as Andy Kim, is a Lebanese Canadian pop rock singer and songwriter. He grew up in Montreal, Quebec in Canada. Kim is known for a number of hit singles that he released in the late 1960s and early 1970s such as “Rock Me Gently”, which topped the US singles charts. In 1968, he co-wrote “Sugar, Sugar” for The Archies. The song was No. 1 for four weeks and in 1969 was certified “Record of the Year” by the RIAA

“How’d We Ever Get This Way” charted in 1968

http://www.andykimmusic.com/

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Issue # 7 APRIL 1962 -Canada’s Boomers Website and Radio Show

This week its April 1962 this month in history is relived in News Items..Old TV Clips ..Songs from the Chart and of course Big Daddy,Foster D Moos,Gary The History Guy,JC Legend,Sidekick Scotty The Homey Boys Harry The Hippo Bud The Spud On A Stick and the usual cast of characters.Its like reliving a moment in history all over again.

THE TOP 40 TIMELINE

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TOP 40 TIMELINE HOSTS …Gary The History Guy..JC Legend and Big Daddy at the D-Moos Radio Productions studios inside the world famous McGibbon Hotel in Georgetown,Ontario Canada.

Gary The History Guys News Events Of The Month

April 3 – Jawaharlal Nehru is elected de facto Prime Minister of India.

April 4 – James Hanratty is hanged in Bedford Gaol for the A6 murder; many believe he is innocent.

April 9 – The 34th Academy Awards ceremony is held; West Side Story wins Best Picture.

April 14 – A Cuban military tribunal convicts 1,179 Bay of Pigs attackers.

April 21 – The Century 21 Exposition World’s Fair opens in Seattle, Washington.

FOSTER D MOOS AND HIS FAVORITE TV SHOWS FROM 1962!

Perry Mason is an American legal drama produced by Paisano Productions that ran from September 1957 to May 1966 on CBS. The title character, portrayed by Raymond Burr, is a fictional Los Angeles defense attorney who originally appeared in detective fiction by Erle Stanley Gardner. Many episodes are based on actual stories written by Gardner, others are based on characters created by him. At one time, the show was “television’s most successful and longest-running lawyer series.”Another series starring Monte Markham as Mason ran from 1973 to 1974, and thirty made-for-TV movies aired from 1985 to 1995, with Burr returning as Mason in twenty-six of them.

The Andy Griffith Show is an American sitcom first televised by CBS between October 3, 1960, and April 1, 1968. Andy Griffith portrays a widowed sheriff in the fictional small community of Mayberry, North Carolina. His life is complicated by an inept but well-meaning deputy, Barney Fife (Don Knotts), a spinster aunt and housekeeper, Aunt Bee (Frances Bavier), and a young son, Opie (Ron Howard, billed as Ronny). Local ne’er-do-wells, bumbling pals, and temperamental girlfriends further complicate his life.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053479/

The Flintstones is an animated, prime-time American television sitcom that screened from September 30, 1960 to April 1, 1966, on ABC. Produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions, The Flintstones was about a working class Stone Age man’s life with his family and his next-door neighbor and best friend.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053502/

The Joey Bishop Show is an American sitcom that aired on NBC for its first three seasons, premiering on September 20, 1961. The series then moved to CBS for its last season. It was a spin-off from a 1961 episode of The Danny Thomas Show (“Everything Happens To Me”), which introduced the character of “Joey Barnes”.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054552/

The Bugs Bunny Show is an American television anthology series hosted by Bugs Bunny, that was mainly composed of Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoons released by Warner Bros. between August 1, 1948 and the end of 1969. The show originally debuted as a primetime half-hour program on ABC in 1960, featuring three theatrical Warner Bros. Cartoons with new linking sequences produced by the Warner Bros. Cartoons staff.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053488/

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Top 5 songs from the CHUM Chart (Toronto,Ontario) April 9,1962Join this Facebook Group populated by old CHUM employees and fans and folks that love discussing musical trivia

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Johnny Maddox (born August 4, 1927 in Gallatin, Tennessee) is a ragtime pianist and collector of ragtime memorabilia.

His interest in the era of ragtime and blues was fueled by his Aunt Zula Cothron. She played ragtime piano at the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis, and taught Johnny to play. Johnny played his first public concert when he was only five and began his professional career at the age of twelve.”Glad Rag Foll” charted in 1972.

“Young World” is a song performed by Ricky Nelson and released as a single in 1962. It reached number five on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart.

Eric Hilliard Nelson (May 8, 1940 – December 31, 1985), better known as Ricky Nelson or Rick Nelson, was an American singer-songwriter, instrumentalist, and actor. He placed 53 songs on the Billboard Hot 100 between 1957 and 1973 including “Poor Little Fool”, which holds the distinction of being the first #1 song on Billboard magazine’s then newly created Hot 100 chart. He recorded nineteen additional top-ten hits, and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on January 21, 1987

http://www.rickynelson.com/

“Johnny Angel” is the debut pop single by Shelley Fabares released in 1962 on the Colpix label. It was the first single taken from her debut solo album Shelley! which was produced and arranged by Stu Phillips. “Johnny Angel” was written by Lyn Duddy and Lee Pockriss. The single premiered on an episode of Fabares’ sitcom, The Donna Reed Show during the fourth season. The single also has a sequel song entitled “Johnny Loves Me” (which tells the story of how the girl won Johnny’s heart). The song had previously been recorded by Georgia Lee on the Decca label.

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001193/

Good Luck Charm” is a song recorded by Elvis Presley and published by Gladys Music, Elvis Presley’s publishing company, that reached number 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 list in the week ending April 21, 1962. It remained at the top of the list for two weeks. The song was written by Aaron Schroeder and Wally Gold and recorded by Elvis in 1961. Good Luck Charm was covered by Travis & Shook on Cape Cod Covers, Vol. 1 “The King”. Alvin and the Chipmunks covered the song for “Luck O’ The Chipmunks”, a 1988 episode of Alvin and the Chipmunks.

http://m.elvis.com/

Ernest “Ernie” Maresca (born August 21, 1939, The Bronx, New York) is an American singer-songwriter and record company executive, best known for writing or co-writing some of Dion’s biggest hits.

He began singing and writing in a doo-wop group, The Regents, who later had a hit with “Barbara Ann”. His song “No-One Knows” came to the attention of Dion DiMucci, who recorded it successfully with The Belmonts on Laurie Records, the record reaching #19 on the Billboard Hot 100 record chart in 1958. Maresca then began songwriting full time, writing “Runaround Sue” with Dion, and then “The Wanderer” – his biggest success, although his run of hits with Dion continued with “Lovers Who Wander” and “Donna the Prima Donna”.

In 1961, he was offered a recording contract with Seville, a small New York label. His protestations that he was not much of a singer were brushed aside, and he wrote a hit for himself, “Shout! Shout! (Knock Yourself Out)”, which reached #6 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in early 1962. He continued to record, with less success, for the remainder of the 1960s, but also continued as a writer with hits including “Whenever a Teenager Cries” for Reparata and the Delrons, and “Party Girl” for Bernadette Carroll. He also wrote, along with Jimmy Curtiss, the Jimmie F. Rodgers’ 1967 comeback (and last) hit, “Child of Clay”. By the 1970s he was head of Laurie Records’ publicity department, and continued as a record company executive.

http://www.spectropop.com/ErnieMaresca/index.htm

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The 1962 Stanley Cup Final would be contested by the defending champion Chicago Black Hawks and the Toronto Maple Leafs who had last appeared in the Final in 1960. The Maple Leafs would win the best-of-seven series four games to two to win the Stanley Cup, their first since 1951.

The 1962 NBA Finals was the championship series of the 1961-62 season, and was the conclusion of the 1962 NBA Playoffs. The best-of-seven series was played between the Western Conference champion Los Angeles Lakers and the Eastern Conference champion Boston Celtics. This was the Celtics’ 6th straight trip to the Finals, and they won the best-of-seven series in Game 7, 110-107 in overtime. It was the second (and last) time in NBA history that Game 7 of an NBA Finals had gone into overtime (the only other one being in 1957).

The 1962 FA Cup Final would take place on 5 May 1962 at Wembley Stadium and was won by Tottenham Hotspur over Burnley, by a 3–1 scoreline. Due to the lack of passion and excitement, replaced by patience and cautious play, the final was dubbed “The Chessboard Final”. Tottenham took to the field as holders, having won the League and FA Cup Double in 1961. They had finished the 1962 league campaign in third position. Burnley finished runners-up in the league that season, behind Ipswich Town.

Bud The Spud On A Stick’s Favorite Flicks in April 1962!

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance is a 1962 American Western film directed by John Ford and starring James Stewart and John Wayne. The black-and-white film was released by Paramount Pictures. The screenplay by James Warner Bellah and Willis Goldbeck was adapted from a short story written by Dorothy M. Johnson.

In 2007 the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant”.

The Premature Burial (1962) is an American International Pictures horror film, directed by Roger Corman and starring Ray Milland, screenplay by Charles Beaumont and Ray Russell based upon the story of the same name by Edgar Allan Poe. It was the third in the series of eight Poe-based pictures directed by Corman for American International. (The Corman movie The Haunted Palace, ostensibly based on Poe, is a ring-in, since it was actually based on H. P. Lovecraft’s The Case of Charles Dexter Ward).

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056368/

State Fair is a 1962 film directed by José Ferrer. The film is a remake of the 1933 and 1945 films of the same name.

It was considered to be a financially and critically unsuccessful film. It starred Pat Boone, Bobby Darin, Ann-Margret, Tom Ewell, Pamela Tiffin and Alice Faye.

Richard Rodgers wrote additional songs, both music and lyrics, for this version. His partner Oscar Hammerstein had died in 1960.

While the stage musical, 1933 and 1945 movie were set at the Iowa State Fair, this 1962 version was filmed in Dallas, Texas, where the State Fair of Texas takes place every year in Fair Park. The Tilt-A-Whirl that was used in the movie is currently at a small theme park in Golden, Colorado

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056526/

El Cid (1961-62) is a historical epic film, a romanticized story of the life of the Christian Castilian knight Don Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar, called “El Cid” who in the 11th century fought the North African Almoravides and ultimately contributed to the unification of Spain.

Made by Samuel Bronston Productions in association with Dear Film Production and released in the United States by Allied Artists, the film was directed by Anthony Mann and produced by Samuel Bronston with Jaime Prades and Michal Waszynski as associate producers. The screenplay was by Philip Yordan, Ben Barzman and Fredric M. Frank from a story by Frank. The music score was by Miklós Rózsa, the cinematography by Robert Krasker and the editing by Robert Lawrence.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054847/

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“The Young Ones” is a single by Cliff Richard and The Shadows. The song, written by Sid Tepper and Roy C. Bennett, is the title song to the 1961 film The Young Ones and its soundtrack album. It sold one million in the UK and 2.6m worldwide.

The track was included on Cliff Richard and the Shadows #1 EP Hits from the Young Ones

http://www.cliffrichard.org/

Stranger on the Shore” is a piece for clarinet written by Acker Bilk for his young daughter and originally named “Jenny” after her. It was subsequently used as the theme tune of a BBC TV drama serial for young people that was also called Stranger on the Shore

On May 26, 1962, “Stranger on the Shore” became the first British recording to reach number one on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 where it was issued by Atlantic Records on the Atco label, but it was quickly followed, on December 22, by The Tornados’ “Telstar”, another instrumental. In the pre-rock era, Vera Lynn’s “Auf Wiederseh’n Sweetheart” had reached #1 in 1952, on the shorter “Best Sellers In Stores” survey. After “Telstar”, the next British performers to top the U.S. charts were The Beatles, with their first Capitol Records single “I Want to Hold Your Hand”. “Stranger on the Shore” was Billboard’s #1 single of 1962, and it spent seven weeks atop the “Easy Listening” chart, which later became known as the Adult Contemporary chart. The tune became the second of three “one-hit wonders” named “pop single of the year” by Billboard (the others being 1958′s “Volare (Nel Blu Di Pinto Di Blu)” by Domenico Modugno and 2006′s “Bad Day” by Daniel Powter.

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Robert Thomas Velline (born April 30, 1943), to Sydney Ronald Velline and Saima Cecilia Tapanila, known as Bobby Vee, is an American pop music singer. According to Billboard magazine, Vee has had 38 Hot 100 chart hits, 10 of which hit the Top 20. Through his mother Saima Tapanila he is half Finnish.”Please Don’t Ask About Barbara” charted in 1962.

http://www.bobbyvee.net/

John Gale “Johnny” Horton (April 30, 1925–November 5, 1960) was an American country music and rockabilly singer most famous for his semi-folk, so-called “saga songs” which began the “historical ballad” craze of the late 1950s and early 1960s. With them, he had several major successes, most notably during 1959 with the song “The Battle of New Orleans” (written by Jimmy Driftwood) which was awarded the 1960 Grammy Award for Best Country & Western Recording. The song was awarded the Grammy Hall of Fame Award, and during 2001 ranked No. 333 of the Recording Industry Association of America’s “Songs of the Century”.

During 1960, Horton had two other successes with “North to Alaska” for John Wayne’s movie, North to Alaska, and “Sink the Bismarck.” Horton is a member of the Rockabilly Hall of Fame.”Honky Tonk Man” charted in 1962.

http://www.rockabillyhall.com/JohnnyHorton1.html

The Sensations were an American doo wop group from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

The group formed in 1954 under the name the Cavaliers, soon after changing to the Sensations. The group scored two hits on the US R&B chart in 1956 with the Atco Records singles “Yes Sir That’s My Baby” (#15) and “Please Mr. Disc Jockey” (#13).By 1957 they were managed by Kae Williams. The group disbanded soon afterwards, and lead singer Yvonne Mills married and started a family.

In 1961, bass singer Alphonso Howell persuaded Yvonne Mills Baker that the group should re-form, and they won a contract with Chess Records subsidiary label Argo. They soon had a hit with a version of “Music, Music, Music”, which reached #12 on the R&B chart and #54 on the Billboard Hot 100.A few months later, they released the tune “Let Me In”.It was their biggest success, peaking at #2 R&B and #4 on the Hot 100. However, later releases were less successful and the group broke up.

Yvonne Baker later started a solo career, recording a number of tracks that achieved cult status among Northern Soul fans, most notably “You Didn’t Say a Word” on Parkway Records in 1966

http://supersoulsisters.blogspot.ca/2009/03/yvonne-baker-and-sensations-let-me-in.html

The Mar-Keys, formed in 1958, were an American studio session band for the Stax label from Memphis, Tennessee, in the 1960s. As the first house band for the label, their backing music formed the foundation for the early 1960s Stax sound.”Pop-Eye Stroll” charted in 1962!

http://www.history-of-rock.com/markeys.htm

Lawrence Welk (March 11, 1903 – May 17, 1992) was an American musician, accordionist, bandleader, and television impresario, who hosted The Lawrence Welk Show from 1955 to 1982. His style came to be known to his large number of radio, television, and live-performance fans (and critics) as “champagne music”.

In 1996, Welk was ranked #43 on TV Guide’s 50 Greatest TV Stars of All Time.In 1962 he covered “Runaway” the Del Shannon hit.

http://www.welkmusicalfamily.com/

The Wilburn Brothers were a popular American country music duo from the 1950s to the 1970s consisting of brothers Doyle Wilburn (July 7, 1930 – October 16, 1982) and Teddy Wilburn (November 30, 1931 – November 24, 2003).”Troubles Back In Town” charted in 1962

http://www.allmusic.com/artist/p1871/biography

“Dream Baby (How Long Must I Dream)” is the title of a song written by Cindy Walker which was first recorded and released by Roy Orbison as a single in 1962. It was a big international hit for Orbison, where it reached #2 in both the Australian and the U.K. singles charts and #4 in the U.S. Billboard. It was also a top ten hit in Canada and Norway. In style, the song follows a traditional 12 bar blues style.

It has been covered many times, including by American country music artist Glen Campbell who released it in March 1971 as the lead single from his album The Last Time I Saw Her. The song peaked at number 7 on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles chart.^[1] It also reached number 4 on the RPM Country Tracks chart in Canada. It was covered by Jerry Lee Lewis in 1967 and also by Waylon Jennings.

http://www.royorbison.com/us/home

“She Can’t Find Her Keys” by Paul Peterson

This was written by Roy Alfred and Wally Gold. Gold also co-wrote the hit “It’s My Party” recorded by Lesley Gore.

The song tells the tale of a young woman out on a date who pulls everything except the kitchen sink out of her purse while searching frantically for her keys, which, of course, she can’t find. Some of objects she extracts from her purse include an autograph of Fabian (a singer and teen idol), tangerines, Presley records, hair spray and jelly beans, potato chips and portable batteries, frozen custard, piano bench, pretzels and a monkey wrench, tennis racket, army cots, pumpkin seeds and coffee pots, watermelons, goal post, fire hydrant, TV set, etc., etc.Paul Peterson charted the song in 1962.Paul was on the Donna Reed Show.

http://www.paulpetersen.com/

Harlan Perry Howard (September 8, 1927–March 3, 2002) was a prolific American songwriter, principally in country music. In a career spanning six decades, Howard wrote a large number of popular and enduring songs, recorded by a variety of different artists. Howard was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1997.

“She Called Me Baby” charted in 1962!

http://countrymusichalloffame.org/full-list-of-inductees/view/harlan-howard

Linda Scott (born Linda Joy Sampson, June 1, 1945, Queens, New York) is a former pop singer who was active in the early to mid 1960s. Her biggest hit was the 1961 million-selling single, “I’ve Told Every Little Star”.She went on to place twelve songs on the charts over the next four years, the last being “Who’s Been Sleeping In My Bed,” which was one of the first collaborations between the songwriting team of Hal David and Burt Bacharach.”Yessiree” came from 1962!

http://www.ericrecords.com/linda_scott.html

“Cinderella” by Jack Ross charted in 1962.It was a novelty comedy record.

Chubby Checker (born Ernest Evans, October 3, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter. He is widely known for popularizing the twist dance style, with his 1960 hit cover of Hank Ballard’s R&B hit “The Twist”. In September 2008 “The Twist” topped Billboard’s list of the most popular singles to have appeared in the Hot 100 since its debut in 1958Dee Dee Sharp (born Dione LaRue, September 9, 1945, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States) is an American R&B singer, who began her career recording as a backing vocalist in 1961.Together they recorded “Slow Twisting” in 1962.

http://chubbychecker.com/

http://www.deedeesharp.com/

Robert Allen “Bobby” Curtola, CM (born April 17, 1943 in Port Arthur, Ontario ) is an early Canadian rock and roll singer and teen idol.”Fortune Teller” charted in 1962.

http://bobbycurtola.com/en/

Paul Albert Anka, OC (born July 30, 1941 Ottawa) is a Canadian singer, songwriter, and actor.

Anka first became famous as a teen idol in the late 1950s and 1960s with hit songs like “Diana”, “Lonely Boy”, and “Put Your Head on My Shoulder”. He went on to write such well-known music as the theme for The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson and one of Tom Jones’s biggest hits, “She’s a Lady”, and the English lyrics for Frank Sinatra’s signature song, “My Way” (originally French song “Comme d’habitude”).

In 1983, he co-wrote with Michael Jackson the song “I Never Heard”, which was retitled and released in 2009 under the name “This Is It”.An additional song that Jackson co-wrote with Anka from this 1983 session, “Love Never Felt So Good”, has since been discovered, and will be released in the near future.The song was also released by Johnny Mathis in 1984.

Anka became a naturalized US citizen in 1990/”Love Me Warm and Tender” charted in 1962.

http://paulanka.com/

“Soldier Boy” is the name of a song written by Luther Dixon and Florence Green. The song was released as a single by The Shirelles in 1962 and met with great success, topping the US Billboard Hot 100. The song’s lyrics are a profession of the singer’s love for the titular soldier boy in which she promises to remain true to him while he’s away.

http://www.theshirelles.com/

Max Edward Dinning (August 17, 1933 — March 22, 1986) was an American pop music singer. In February 1960, the song “Teen Angel”, written by his sister Jean (Eugenia)(March 29, 1924 — February 22, 2011) and her husband (Mark’s brother-in-law) Red Surrey, reached No. 1 on the Billboard Charts. Jean and two of her sisters, Virginia and Lucille, comprised the “The Dinning Sisters” , a popular singing trio in the 1940s. Following the February 2011 death of Jean Dinning, only two (Virginia, aka “Ginger”, and Dolores, aka “Tootsie”) of the nine siblings are still alive.”All Of This For Sally”charted in 1962.

http://www.rockabilly.nl/references/messages/mark_dinning.htm

Pierino Ronald “Perry” Como (May 18, 1912 – May 12, 2001) was an American singer and television personality. During a career spanning more than half a century he recorded exclusively for the RCA Victor label after signing with them in 1943.^[1] “Mr. C.”, as he was nicknamed, sold millions of records for Radio Corporation of America (RCA) and pioneered a weekly musical variety television show, which set the standards for the genre and proved to be one of the most successful in television history. Como was seen weekly on television from 1949 to 1963, then continued hosting the Kraft Music Hall variety program on a monthly basis until 1967 .He had numerous hit songs including “Caterina” in 1962!

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Issue # 6 MARCH -1994 -Canada’s Boomers Website and Radio Show

This week its March 1994 this month in history is relived in News Items..Old TV Clips ..Songs from the Chart and of course Big Daddy,Foster D Moos,Gary The History Guy,JC Legend,Sidekick Scotty The Homey Boys Harry The Hippo Bud The Spud On A Stick and the usual cast of characters.Its like reliving a moment in history all over again.

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Gary The History Guys News Events Of The Month

March 16 – In Portland, Oregon, Tonya Harding pleads guilty to conspiracy to hinder prosecution for trying to cover-up an attack on figure skating rival Nancy Kerrigan. She is fined $100,000 and banned from the sport.

March 21 – The 66th Academy Awards, hosted by Whoopi Goldberg, are held at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles, California. Steven Spielberg’s Holocaust drama, Schindler’s List, wins 7 Oscars including Best Picture and Best Director (Spielberg).

March 23 – Green Ramp disaster: Two military aircraft collide over Pope Air Force Base, North Carolina causing 24 fatalities.

The biggest tornado outbreak in 1994 occurs in the southeastern United States; 1 tornado hits a Goshen United Methodist Church in Piedmont, Alabama, killing 22 people.

FOSTER D MOOS AND HIS FAVORITE TV SHOWS FROM 1994!

Coach is an American television sitcom that aired for nine seasons on ABC from 1989 to 1997. The series stars Craig T. Nelson as Hayden Fox, head coach of the fictional Division I-A college football team, the Minnesota State University Screaming Eagles. The program also starred Jerry Van Dyke as Luther Van Dam and Bill Fagerbakke as Michael “Dauber” Dybinski, assistant coaches under Fox. The role of Hayden’s girlfriend (and later, wife) Christine Armstrong, a television news anchor, was played by Shelley Fabares.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096560/

Frasier is an American sitcom that was broadcast on NBC for eleven seasons, from September 16, 1993, to May 13, 2004. The program was created and produced by David Angell, Peter Casey, and David Lee (as Grub Street Productions) in association with Grammnet (2004) and Paramount Network Television.

A spin-off of Cheers, Frasier stars Kelsey Grammer, David Hyde Pierce, John Mahoney, Jane Leeves and Peri Gilpin. Frasier ran for 11 seasons, becoming one of the most successful spin-off series in television history, as well as one of the most critically acclaimed comedy series of all time.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106004/

Home Improvement is an American television sitcom starring Tim Allen, that aired from September 17, 1991 to May 25, 1999. The show was created by Matt Williams, Carmen Finestra and David McFadzean. In the 1990s, it was one of the most watched sitcoms in the American market, winning many awards. The series launched Tim Allen’s acting career and also was the start of the television career of Pamela Anderson, who was part of the cast for the first two seasons. The show’s title is a pun: it refers to physical improvement of houses, as well as to improving life with family, friends, work, and school.

http://bventertainment.go.com/tv/touchstone/homeimprovement/

Roseanne is an American sitcom that was broadcast on ABC from October 18, 1988 to May 20, 1997. Starring Roseanne Barr, the show revolved around the Conners, an Illinois working class family. The series reached #1 in the Nielsen ratings becoming the most watched television show in the United States from 1989 to 1990, and remained in the top four for six of its nine seasons, and in the top twenty for eight.

http://www.roseanneworld.com/blog/home.php

In 1997, the episode “A Stash from the Past” was ranked #21 on TV Guide’s 100 Greatest Episodes of All Time.In 2002, Roseanne was ranked #35 on TV Guide’s 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time

Seinfeld is an American television sitcom that originally aired on NBC from July 5, 1989, to May 14, 1998, lasting nine seasons, and is now in syndication. It was created by Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld, the latter starring as a fictionalized version of himself. Set predominantly in an apartment block on Manhattan’s Upper West Side (but shot in Los Angeles), the show features a host of Jerry’s friends and acquaintances, in particular best friend George Costanza, former girlfriend Elaine Benes, and neighbor across the hall, Cosmo Kramer.

http://www.sonypictures.com/tv/shows/seinfeld/

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Top 5 songs from March 1994 from the RPM AC Chart (National Canadian Chart Bible)

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Patrick Norman (born September 10, 1946) is a Canadian country musician.

His song, “Let’s Try Once More”, was nominated for a 1978 Juno Award in the Juno Award for Single of the Year category. He was nominated for Juno Award for Country Recording of the Year at the 1989 Juno Award.

In 1994 “Whispering Shadows” was a Canadian Hit.

“Queen of the Night” is a song co-written and performed by American pop/R&B singer Whitney Houston. It was the fifth and final single released from her multi-platinum soundtrack The Bodyguard. The song received a nomination at the Golden Raspberry Awards for Worst Original Song.

“Queen of the Night” is an uptempo pop rock/dance number, with Houston expressing how she “rules the club scene”, proclaiming herself “queen of the night”. It was not released as a single in America, but it received such substantial radio play that it rose to number 36 on the Hot 100 Airplay. However, because of Billboard magazine rules at the time (which have since been modified), a song with no commercial single available could not chart on the main Billboard Hot 100. The song reached number 1 on the Billboard Hot Dance Club Play chart, becoming Houston’s fifth number 1 dance single. It was released in several other countries, peaking at number 14 in the UK.

http://remembering.whitneyhouston.com/

“Everyday” is a ballad pop song by Phil Collins released as the second single of his fifth studio album, Both Sides. It’s also been released as the seventh track on the first CD of the 2004 compilation album, Love Songs: A Compilation… Old and New.

http://www.philcollins.co.uk

“Breathe Again” is a song by American R&B singer Toni Braxton from her self-titled debut album, Toni Braxton (1993). Written by Babyface and produced by L. A. Reid, Babyface, and Daryl Simmons, the ballad was released as the album’s second single, garnering heavy airplay during late 1993 and early 1994, which resulted in it being the most successful single released from the album. The single peaked at number three on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 and number four on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs and Adult Contemporary charts. The song reached number two on the UK charts in January 1994.

http://www.tonibraxton.com/

“Now and Forever” is the title of a 1994 song (see 1994 in music) written, produced and performed by the American singer-songwriter Richard Marx. The song was also used in 1994 film The Getaway starring Kim Basinger and Alec Baldwin and directed by Roger Donaldson.

http://www.richardmarx.com/

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Sidekick Scotty’s Sports Headlines of March 1994

The 1994 Stanley Cup Final was a best-of-seven playoff series contested between the Eastern Conference champion New York Rangers and Western Conference champion Vancouver Canucks of the National Hockey League. The Canucks were making the club’s second Final appearance, their first coming during their Cinderella run of 1982, and the Rangers were making their tenth appearance, their first since 1979. The Rangers ended their record 54-year championship drought with a victory in Game Seven to claim the long-awaited Stanley Cup in just a few weeks. It was the fourth championship in franchise history. The CBC broadcast of the deciding Game Seven attracted an average Canadian audience of 4.957 million viewers, making it the most watched CBC Sports program in history to that time.

The 1994 NBA Finals was the championship round of the 1993–94 National Basketball Association season, featuring the Western Conference’s Houston Rockets defeating the Eastern Conference’s New York Knicks.

This matchup was Hakeem Olajuwon’s second NBA Finals series appearance, his other being in 1986, where Larry Bird and the Boston Celtics defeated the Houston Rockets four games to two. The series was Patrick Ewing’s first NBA Finals appearance. The Rockets came in with strong determination to win not only the franchise’s first NBA championship, but the city’s first championship in a league that still existed, all while the Knicks were looking to add a third NBA championship trophy, as the Knicks’ last trophy came from the 1973 NBA Finals. The Knicks also hoped to impress their new owners Viacom, who had just bought Paramount Communications (formerly Gulf+Western), their longtime owners (after the series however, Viacom sold the Knicks and the rest of the Madison Square Garden properties).

The 1994 NCAA Men’s Division I Basketball Tournament involved 64 schools playing in single-elimination play to determine the national champion of men’s NCAA Division I college basketball. It began on March 17, 1994, and ended with the championship game on April 4 in Charlotte, North Carolina. A total of 63 games were played.

Arkansas, coached by Nolan Richardson, won the national title with a 76–72 victory in the final game over Duke, coached by Mike Krzyzewski. Corliss Williamson of Arkansas was named the tournament’s Most Outstanding Player.

Bill Clinton, President of the United States and former governor of Arkansas, was in attendance for the Final Four, as well as the regionals that were held in Dallas the previous week. (Clinton was already scheduled to be in Dallas for the wedding of his brother Roger and added the basketball games to his plans.)

The 1994 FA Cup Final was the 49th FA Cup final to be held since the Second World War and was contested between Manchester United and Chelsea. United went into the final as Premier League champions, having won the title by eight points over Blackburn Rovers. They were bidding to become only the fourth team of the 20th century to complete “the Double” and the first in their own history. Chelsea, on the other hand, were playing in their first FA Cup Final since 1970 and first major final since the 1972 Football League Cup Final; they also finished 14th in the Premier League.

Bud The Spud On A Stick’s Favorite Flicks in March 1994

D2: The Mighty Ducks (also known as The Mighty Ducks 2) is the second film in The Mighty Ducks trilogy and the first theatrical sequel to The Mighty Ducks. It was produced by Avnet–Kerner Productions and distributed by Walt Disney Pictures, and it was originally released on March 25, 1994. In the UK and Australia, the film was titled The Mighty Ducks.

Four Weddings and a Funeral is a 1994 British comedy film directed by Mike Newell. It was the first of several films by screenwriter Richard Curtis to feature Hugh Grant. The film was an unexpected success, becoming the highest-grossing British film in cinema history at the time, with worldwide box office in excess of $245.7 million, and receiving an Academy Award nomination for Best Picture.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109831/

Guarding Tess is a 1994 film starring Shirley MacLaine and Nicolas Cage, directed by Hugh Wilson.

MacLaine plays the part of a fictional former First Lady protected by an entourage of Secret Service bodyguards led by a reluctant Doug Chesnic (Cage).

The movie was filmed in Parkton, Maryland,and nominated for a Golden Globe award in 1995 (Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture – Comedy/Musical: Shirley MacLaine).

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109951/

Major League II is a 1994 sequel to the 1989 film Major League. Major League II stars most of the same cast from the original, including Charlie Sheen, Tom Berenger, and Corbin Bernsen. Absent from this film is Wesley Snipes, who played Willie Mays Hayes in the first film and who by 1994 had become a film star in his own right. Omar Epps took over his role.

Major League II also welcomes some new faces to the team. David Keith plays Jack Parkman, a selfish superstar catcher who is looking to replace the aging Jake Taylor (Tom Berenger) as the starter. Takaaki Ishibashi of Japanese comedic duo Tunnels is a new outfielder, Isuro “Kamikazi” Tanaka, who helps excite the team. Eric Bruskotter is the rookie catcher Rube Baker who is getting used to the MLB life.

Randy Quaid makes a cameo appearance in the film as a fair weather fan.

Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult is a 1994 comedy film, the third and final film in the Naked Gun series, which was based on the Police Squad! television series.

It was marketed with the tagline: “Mostly All New Jokes.” The “33⅓” of the title is a reference to the speed at which long playing (LP) phonograph records (gramophone records) play. The film was originally going to be titled Naked Gun 33⅓: Just for the Record, but was changed after the studio felt not many understood the joke It was also going to be called “The Naked Gun III: The Final Insult”, according to some Christmas 1993 video previews.

Leslie Nielsen returns as Lieutenant Frank Drebin (his original character from Police Squad!), along with Priscilla Presley as Jane Spencer Drebin, O. J. Simpson (in his last role before being tried for murder) as Officer Nordberg and George Kennedy as Captain Ed Hocken. Newcomers to the series Fred Ward, Anna Nicole Smith, and Kathleen Freeman co-star as a gang of bombers set to blow up the Academy Awards ceremony.

Raye Birk reprises his role as the villainous “Pahpshmir” from the first film.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110622/

JC Legends Cars ..1994

1.Chevy Monte Carlo 2.Mustang GT convertible 3. Ford F-150
p/u 4.Lincoln Mark VIII 5.Bentley Continental R coupe 6. Lotus Esprit 7.
Acura NSX

MORE SIGHTS & SOUNDS OF 1994!

“Linger” is a song composed by Irish musicians Dolores O’Riordan and Noel Hogan of the rock band The Cranberries. The song, which has an acoustic arrangement featuring a string section, became the band’s first major hit, peaking at #3 in the Republic of Ireland, #8in the United States and #14 in the UK.

In the documentary ’99 Love Life & Rock ‘n’ Roll, O’Riordan says that the song is about her first serious kiss.

“Linger” was listed as #86 on VH1′s 100 Greatest Songs of the 90s.

http://www.cranberries.com/

Daniel Grafton “Dan” Hill IV(born 3 June 1954) is a Canadian pop singer and songwriter. He had two major hits with his songs, “Sometimes When We Touch” and “Can’t We Try,” a duet with Vonda Shepard.In 1994 he teamed up with Rique Franks with “In Your Eyes”

http://www.danhill.com/

“The Power of Love” is a song co-written and originally recorded by Jennifer Rush. It has been covered by several artists, most notably by Laura Branigan, Air Supply, and 1994′s version Céline Dion, and translated into several languages, becoming a pop standard.

http://www.celinedion.com/

Joseph Armand Roch Voisine, OC better known as Roch Voisine, (born 26 March 1963 in Edmundston, New Brunswick) is a Canadian Acadian singer-songwriter, actor, and radio and television host who lives in Montreal, Quebec and Paris, France. He writes and performs material in both English and French. He won the Juno Award for Male Vocalist of the Year in 1994. In 1997 he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada.”Theres No Easy Way” charted in 1994.

http://www.rochvoisine.com/

The Sign” is a 1993 dance-pop song by the Swedish band Ace of Base. The song was an international hit, reaching Number two in the United Kingdom and spending six non-consecutive weeks as number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in the United States. It appeared on the band’s album Happy Nation (entitled The Sign in North America.)

The song was the #1 song of 1994 according to Billboard magazine’s year-end charts. The song was ranked at #51 on The Billboard Hot 100 All-Time Top Songs for the first 50 years of the Hot 100 chart.

http://www.aceofbase-music.de/

The Crash Test Dummies are a Canadian folk rock/alternative rock band from Winnipeg, Manitoba, widely known for their 1993 single “Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm”.

The band is most identifiable through Brad Roberts (vocals, guitar) and his distinctive bass-baritone voice. During its heyday, the band consisted of Roberts, Ellen Reid (co-vocals, keyboards), Brad’s brother Dan Roberts (bass guitar, backing vocals), Benjamin Darvill (harmonica, mandolin), and Mitch Dorge (drums, percussion). Today, only Brad Roberts and Ellen Reid have appeared on every album with the other members being busy pursuing their own projects. However, the full band (minus Ben Darvill) reunited for a show in October 2010.Brad Roberts, Ellen Reid and Stuart Cameron have continued to tour throughout 2010/2011.”Swimming In Your Ocean” charted in 1994

http://www.crashtestdummies.com/#/home

Melbourne, Australia native Carol Medina has been a singer and actress since the age of 12. After relocating to Canada in the early ’80′s with her family, she landed a steady seasonal gig at a theatre revue in Paramount Canada’s Wonderland north of Toronto. From there she was recruited for a U.S.O. tour in Southeast Asia where she met actor/songwriter James Collins during the making of a commercial. A songwriting partnership developed as a result and the duo landed the 1994 tune “And The Song Goes…” (co-written with Vince Degiorgio) on Canadian singles charts which garnered the tune a Juno nomination for ‘Best R&B/Soul Recording’. She also won the Montreal Dance Music Awards as ’1994′s Top Vocalist’. In 1995 two more singles – “Tell Me You Love Me” and “You Don’t Know (Where My Lips Have Been)” also charted. With the songs confirmed in the Top-40, Medina proceeded to record and release 1996′s ‘Secret Fantasy’ album.

http://jam.canoe.ca/Music/Pop_Encyclopedia/M/Medina_Carol.html

Born in Edmonton Alberta Canada, Richard Samuels began playing music at the tender age of three. His parents, realizing that he had a “musical gift”, enrolled him in the Suzuki string program and had a tiny violin made for him. After two years of the Suzuki method, Richard began private violin lessons and continued until the age of 13, when he decided that the piano was his instrument of choice. He spent two years taking formal piano lessons, and then discovered the guitar at 16.”Missing You” charted in 1994.

http://www.richardsamuels.com/index.html

“Rock and Roll Dreams Come Through” is a song composed and written by Jim Steinman. It first featured on Steinman’s 1981 solo album Bad for Good, with lead vocals by an uncredited Rory Dodd (though the song is credited to Steinman). It was later recorded by Meat Loaf, and released in 1993 as the third single from the album Bat out of Hell II: Back into Hell.

Both the Steinman original and the Meat Loaf remake were Top 40 hits. Steinman’s version hit #32 on the Billboard Hot 100 and #14 on the Mainstream Rock Tracks charts. The Meat Loaf version reached #11 in the UK and #13 on the Hot 100.The song charted in 1994.

http://meatloaf.net/

“Lullabye (Goodnight, My Angel)” is the seventh track and third single from Billy Joel’s 1993 album River of Dreams. It was inspired by Alexa Ray Joel, his daughter by Christie Brinkley. The song is in the key of G major.

The song was originally written as a prelude to the song “The River of Dreams” in the style of a monophonic Gregorian chant. Joel had written English words in the chant describing a man who had lost his faith, and had then had the words translated into Latin. He changed his mind upon hearing the recording, and incorporated it into the song River of Dreams. He later removed the interlude from the final studio version of “River of Dreams”, and instead wrote lyrics to the melody that reflected his sentiment toward Alexa Ray, who was a young child at the time of writing. The version of “River of Dreams” incorporating Lullabye appeared as an alternate version on the box set My Lives, and on An Evening of Questions and Answers…And A Little Music.

http://www.billyjoel.com/

“For Whom the Bell Tolls” is a song by the Bee Gees, released as their second single from their album Size Isn’t Everything in 1993. It peaked at #4 on the UK charts. There is also a music video for this song.

http://www.beegees.com/

Hemingway Corner was a Canadian-American folk pop group, active in the 1990s.

The group was formed in 1992 by two established singer-songwriters, David Martin and Johnny Douglas. Martin, from Atlanta, Georgia, was a musician and songwriter who lived in Nashville before moving to Los Angeles. Douglas, from Toronto, was working as a session songwriter in Nashville. The two met while writing songs for Sony Music and released their self-titled debut album in 1993. They had hits on the Canadian pop charts with “Man on a Mission” and “Love, Love, Love”, and received a Juno Award nomination for “Best New Group” in 1996. Choosing to return to his independent songwriting work, Douglas left the band the following year and would start another band called Beat Prophets.”Love,Love Love” charted in 1994.

http://hemingwaycorner.com/

“The Ones You Love” is a pop song performed by English singer Rick Astley and written by Dave West and him-self. It was produced by Gary Stevenson and Rick. The song was recorded for Astley’s fourth album, Body & Soul. The single peaked at number 48 in UK charts.

http://www.rickastley.co.uk/

Lawrence Gowan (born November 22, 1956) is a Scottish-born Canadian musician. Gowan has been both a solo artist and the current lead vocalist and keyboardist of the band Styx, since May 1999. His musical style is usually classified in the category of progressive rock.”Dancing On My Own Ground” charted in 1994.

http://gowan.org/

Cowboy Junkies are a Canadian alternative country/blues/folk rock band. The group was formed in Toronto in 1985 by Margo Timmins (vocalist), Michael Timmins (songwriter, guitarist), Peter Timmins (drummer) and Alan Anton (bassist).

The Junkies first performed publicly at the Beverley Tavern and other clubs in Toronto’s Queen Street West, including The Rivoli. Their 1986 debut album, produced by Canadian producer Peter Moore, was the blues-inspired Whites Off Earth Now!!, recorded using an ambisonic microphone in the family garage

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Issue #5 – March 1984-Canada’s Boomer Website and Radio Show!

This week its March 1984 this month in history is relived in News Items..Old TV Clips ..Songs from the Chart and of course Big Daddy,Foster D Moos,Gary The History Guy,JC Legend,Sidekick Scotty The Homey Boys Harry The Hippo Bud The Spud On A Stick and the usual cast of characters.Its like reliving a moment in history all over again.

THE TOP 40 TIMELINE

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TOP 40 TIMELINE HOSTS …Gary The History Guy..JC Legend and Big Daddy at the D-Moos Radio Productions studios inside the world famous McGibbon Hotel in Georgetown,Ontario Canada.

Gary The History Guys News Events Of The Month

February 29 – Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau announces his retirement.

March 5 – Iran accuses Iraq of using chemical weapons; the United Nations condemns their use on March 30.

March 14 – Sinn Féin’s Gerry Adams and 3 others are seriously injured in a gun attack by the UVF.

March 22 – Teachers at the McMartin Preschool in Manhattan Beach, California are charged with Satanic ritual abuse of the schoolchildren (the charges are later dropped as completely unfounded).

FOSTER D MOOS AND HIS FAVORITE TV SHOWS FROM 1984!

Dallas is an American soap opera that revolves around the Ewings, a wealthy Texas family in the oil and cattle-ranching industries. The series won four Emmy Awards, including a 1980 Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series win for Barbara Bel Geddes.

Throughout the series, Larry Hagman stars as greedy, scheming oil baron J. R. Ewing. The show also starred stage/screen actress Barbara Bel Geddes as family matriarch Miss Ellie, and movie Western actor Jim Davis in his last role as Ewing patriarch Jock Ewing before his death in 1981.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077000/

Dynasty is an American prime time television soap opera that aired on ABC from January 12, 1981 to October 22, 1991. The series, created by Richard & Esther Shapiro and produced by Aaron Spelling, revolved around the Carringtons, a wealthy oil family living in Denver, Colorado. Starring John Forsythe and Linda Evans as oil magnate Blake Carrington and his new wife Krystle, Dynasty was ABC’s competitor to CBS’s prime time series Dallas

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081856/

Cheers is an American situation comedy television series that ran for 11 seasons from 1982 to 1993. It was produced by Charles/Burrows/Charles Productions, in association with Paramount Network Television for NBC, and was created by the team of James Burrows, Glen Charles, and Les Charles. The show is set in the Cheers bar (named for the toast “Cheers”) in Boston, Massachusetts, where a group of locals meet to drink, relax, chat and have fun. The show’s theme song, written and performed by Gary Portnoy, and co-written with Judy Hart Angelo, lent its famous refrain, “Where Everybody Knows Your Name”, as the show’s tagline

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083399/

Magnum, P.I. is an American television series starring Tom Selleck as Thomas Magnum, a private investigator living on Oahu, Hawaii. The series ran from 1980 to 1988 in first-run broadcast on the American CBS television network.

According to the Nielsen ratings, Magnum, P.I. consistently ranked in the top twenty U.S. television programs during the first five years that the series was originally telecast in the United States. Originally appearing in a prime time American network timeslot of 8 p.m. Eastern on Thursdays, Magnum, P.I. was one of the highest-rated shows on U.S. television.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080240/

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BIG DADDY’S BIG 5 COUNTDOWN!

Top 5 songs from March 10,1984 from the CHUM Chart (Toronto,Ontario,Canada)

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The Chart

“Rebel Yell” is the first song on the Billy Idol album of the same name. When first released in 1983, it charted outside the UK Top 40, but a re-issue in 1985 reached #6. It did not fare as well in the US, only reaching #46. The song was named the 79th best hard rock song of all time by VH1

http://billyidol.net/

“New Moon on Monday” is a song by Duran Duran, released as the band’s tenth single in January 1984.

The second single to be lifted from the band’s 1983 album Seven and the Ragged Tiger, the song was another success, reaching the Top 10 on both the British and American music charts. On 11 February 1984, the single reached #9 on the UK Singles Chart and on 17 March, it reached #10 on the Billboard Hot 100.

http://www.duranduran.com/

“99 Luftballons” (German for “99 balloons”) is a protest song by the German pop-rock band Nena from their 1983 self-titled album. Originally sung in German, it was later re-recorded in English as “99 Red Balloons” for their album 99 Luftballons in 1984. Later Nena (without band) recorded a new version of the song.

http://www.nena.de/ (GERMAN)

“Jump” is a song by the American rock group Van Halen. It is the only single the group released in their career to reach number one on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100.It was released in 1984 as the second track on the album 1984. The song breaks the mold of earlier Van Halen songs, mainly in its rolling synth line (played on an Oberheim OB-Xa), although the song contains the standard Eddie Van Halen guitar solo, which Eddie claims as his favorite solo he never wrote. This refers to the fact that the producer spliced parts of two different takes to create the one heard in the song

http://www.van-halen.com/

“Thriller” is a song recorded by American recording artist Michael Jackson, composed by Rod Temperton, and produced by Quincy Jones. It is the seventh and final single from his sixth studio album of the same name. It was released on January 23, 1984 by Epic Records. The song has appeared on multiple greatest hits compilation albums from Jackson, including HIStory (1995), Number Ones (2003), The Essential Michael Jackson (2005), and Michael Jackson’s This Is It (2009) and it was remixed to the Immortal album in 2011. The song, which has a voice-over from actor Vincent Price, had originally been titled “Starlight

http://www.michaeljackson.com/ca/home

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