I am really enjoying this trip back
to 1967.
Henry
We do it every day ... new postings at 6 am
Chicago time ... plus we're already up to 13 Bonus Issues! (#14 will be going
out in a couple of days ... so I'd have to say that quite a few people are
diggin' it!!! lol)
Start your morning with our Forgotten Hit Fifty
Year Flashback ...
Bookmark this site and check it every day!
http://forgottenhits60s.blogspot.com/
http://forgottenhits60s.blogspot.com/
Since someone asked the question
-
"Dimple Donnie" Phillips is
definitely still around - we communicate by phone and email frequently. He and
his wife Doris live in Austin, Texas.
If I remember his story correctly,
after leaving WLS and the East Of Midnight show early in the mid 60s, he
acquired a seat at the Chicago Board of Trade dealing in the commodity market,
something he was always very good at - turning what was a hobby into a new
career. Somewhere along the way, he also built a large sailboat near his home
West of O'Hare - eventually they decided to sell out, pack up the kids, took the
boat to the Mississippi River and spent many months cruising South reaching the
Gulf of Mexico - and then cruising West along the US coast line, eventually
docking at Federal City, Texas - where they bought a house and lived for
years.
He retained his seat at the Chicago
Board of Trade commuting to Chicago periodically. After retiring, they bought a
home on a golf course near Austin, Texas, where they still reside today.
That's the scoop!
As some weirdo on the radio used to say back in the day ... "Time to bug out for the dugout and blow this pop stand / stay outta trees".
As some weirdo on the radio used to say back in the day ... "Time to bug out for the dugout and blow this pop stand / stay outta trees".
Ron Riley - WLS
We're stirring up some GREAT memories ... and
think about it ... 50+ year friendships ... ah, the Power of Music ... there is
nothing else quite like it! (kk)
From 1967, if my spies are
correct, a promo for a Cryan' Shames album, circa 1967. (attached)
Bill
Speaking of The Cryan' Shames,
check out this ad for Dex Card's Wild Goose club up in Waukegan that we just
happened to come across ... The New Colony Six, too ... The Box Tops, The
Troggs, The Classics IV and The 1910 Fruit Gum Company ... you could see each of
these acts for just two bucks almost exactly 49 years ago today (March 1st,
1968)!
Check out Jeff Roteman's WLS Page
to see some of the other incredible names that graced the stages of Dex's clubs
back in the day ...
And look what else we found there
...
A photo of Dex Card, Freddy "Boom Boom" Cannon
and Lou Christie!!!
All three of whom are now regular Forgotten Hits
Readers!
AMAZING!!! (Never in my wildest dreams!!!)
kk
My wife and I were talking just the
other night about coming back to Illinois from Connecticut some time before
summer. We can't make the St. Patrick's date for the Ronnie Rice / Ray Graffia,
Jr. show but hope that our visit can coincide with one of the Cornerstones of
Rock 'n' Roll concerts. It's hard to think of anything I'd enjoy more than to
see and hear live versions of "Sugar and Spice," "I Wanna Meet You," "It Could
Be We're In Love," "I Will Always Think About You," "I Want You To Know,"
"Things I'd Like To Say," "Roll On" and all the other classics by Chicagoland's
greatest groups which replay endlessly in my head and in my heart.
Gary Theroux
The next Cornerstones show is May 20th at The
Genesee Theatre ... which still might be too early ... tickets are moving
briskly for this one so if you think it's a possibility, you may have to book
this fast!
There's talk of a July concert down state in the
ISU area ... which is where our daughter goes to school ...
Not finalized yet but perhaps a possibility
depending on your travel time. (It's about a 2 1/2 hour drive for us ... but an
excuse to visit with her, too, as well as see a great show.)
Unfortunately within the confines of a
Cornerstones show each act is limited to three or four songs and that's about it
...
I know The Shames do "Sugar And Spice" and "It
Could Be We're In Love" ... not 100% certain on the other two but one of them
might be "I Wanna Meet You".
The New Colony Six typically do "I Confess", "I
Will Always Think About You", "Things I'd Like To Say" and usually either "Love
You So Much" or "Can't You See Me Cry". (Two for Ronnie, two for
Ray)
Too bad because both acts are backed by The Ides
Of March (including their incredible horn section) ... it would be AWESOME to
hear them do something like "Roll On" or "I'm Just Waitin', Anticipatin'" with
the horns. (That's why I'm so curious about the
Ronnie and Ray show! I wonder what they've got planned.)
Let me know if/when you'd be heading out this way
... would love to get together again. (kk)
UPDATE: It sounds like the
Ronnie Rice show at The Prairie Center has been cancelled!!! Still waiting for
more details ... but today I got a refund on my tickets out of the blue. (Damn
... and I had FRONT ROW SEATS, dead center!) kk
Kent,
The next edition of my Randy on the
Radio show streams this Wednesday (March 8) at 8 p.m. Eastern on Top Shelf
Oldies (www.topshelfoldies.org). As on all my shows this year, I'll be
featuring two songs the debuted this week in 1967 on the SuperCharts survey. One
of those will be by the Buckinghams and the other by a group from Lansing,
Michigan. (My shows are archived at
– Randy
Price
And the following night,
I'll be a guest on Mark Dawson's "Making Noise With Mark Dawson" radio show on
OurGenerationRadio.com. Each of us have selected five of our all-time favorites
from 1967 ... and we'll be counting them down Thursday Night, starting at 9 pm
Eastern / 8 pm CHICAGO TIME ... this should be a fun night so we're hoping some
of our readers can tune in and listen. (kk)
~
"Making Noise with Mark Dawson" featuring Kent Kotal of Forgotten Hits and
some of his favorites from 1967, Thursday, March 9th, at 9 pm eastern time
on OurGenerationRadio.com ~
(Click the link above to
listen live)
Kinda funny,
but my favorite Paul Revere and Raiders tunes were B sides of hit singles, two
of them from 1967. (flip of 'Good Thing' was 'Undecided Man', which got a lot
of airplay in Texas, and flip of "Him Or Me" was 'Legend Of Paul Revere". The
third was B side of "Hungry" - "There She Goes".
I always looked forwarded to
playing 'new singles' cause you never knew what you might find on the flip
side!!)
Brad
Paul Revere and the Raiders B-sides
did pretty well in our Favorite, Forgotten B-Sides Poll from a few years ago.
"The Legend Of Paul Revere" is probably the quintessential Paul Revere and the
Raiders B-Side ... a true classic. (It even appeared on their "Greatest Hits"
album.) But my personal favorite ... ALSO from 1967 ... is "Upon Your Leaving",
the flipside of "I Had A Dream" ... still to come in our re-enactment of my
all-time favorite year in music. (kk)
Kent,
I probably should wait until December to send this to you -- but I might not remember then!
I probably should wait until December to send this to you -- but I might not remember then!
Here's a list of the Hartford,
Connecticut-area biggest hits for 1967, as compiled by radio station WDRC.
Of course, as usual, the
Hartford-area big sellers differed somewhat from those on the national surveys,
but on this list I can see only two that stood out as being quite different.
The #7 biggest record of 1967 in Hartford was "No Good to Cry" by the Wildweeds, a Hartford-area group who were extremely popular locally but didn't make much of a splash nationally. ("No Good to Cry" spent four weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, peaking at #88.) The lead singer and guitarist of the Wildweeds was Al Anderson, who later found fame with NRBQ and as a songwriter.The other oddity I noticed is Don Grady's "The Children of St. Monica," which came in at #47 in Hartford but didn't even make the Billboard Hot 100 for one week; it peaked nationally at #132. Don Grady, who died five years ago, appeared on My Three Sons for 12 years and later had a successful career as a songwriter. I'm not sure why "The Children of St. Monica" was so hot in Hartford, but it certainly was!
Henry McNultyCheshire, Connecticut
The #7 biggest record of 1967 in Hartford was "No Good to Cry" by the Wildweeds, a Hartford-area group who were extremely popular locally but didn't make much of a splash nationally. ("No Good to Cry" spent four weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, peaking at #88.) The lead singer and guitarist of the Wildweeds was Al Anderson, who later found fame with NRBQ and as a songwriter.The other oddity I noticed is Don Grady's "The Children of St. Monica," which came in at #47 in Hartford but didn't even make the Billboard Hot 100 for one week; it peaked nationally at #132. Don Grady, who died five years ago, appeared on My Three Sons for 12 years and later had a successful career as a songwriter. I'm not sure why "The Children of St. Monica" was so hot in Hartford, but it certainly was!
Henry McNultyCheshire, Connecticut
For our final posting of our 1967
Series (scheduled to run on January 2nd, 2018), we're running our own Top 67 of
'67 Chart based on data accumulated from the weekly Super Charts postings.
We'll have Year-End Charts from WLS and WCFL, too, once we hit
December.
Thanks for sending ... I always I
enjoy looking at these ... and I know other FH Readers do as well.
(kk)
