Thank you, Jon! I'm flattered to be asked to join Mark on these really wonderful peeks back at hits that might've been, and some that should have! He's got a nifty niche carved out for himself here! Stay tuned, Jon.....we've got more we're tinkering with!
Oh, I get it, Dan! I feel your pain! The day a lad has to choose between thumbtacks and staples! Don't get me started.................😉👍
I was about a decade ahead of you (13 in '68, for example), and 16, Flip, and Tiger Beat mags were my jams, and their pin-ups'n'posters festooned my walls! It was right about that year, or '69, when Dad started bringing home fewer Capitol promos (Beatles, and any other British Invasion acts on the label), and started bringing home more Warner Bros promos, and my 14-year-old sensibilities began being weaned from teenybop to the likes of Captain Beefheart, Zappa, The Fugs, The GTOs, Alice Cooper, Jethro Tull.....talk about a sudden lurch in driving gears!!!
Down came the pin-ups, and almost instantly, I began subscribing to Rolling Stone, Crawdaddy, CREEM, Phonograph Record Magazine, and the rest is (mostly FRONT ROW & BACKSTAGE) history! Fun stuff!
For me it was Tiger Beat, Rona Barrett's Gossip, and Rona Barrett's Hollywood... What I always wanted was Billboard, which at the time was much too expensive for me so I'd but the occasional issue or sneak a look at the charts while in a book store.
Yeah, I can see your love of what the mighty Billboard was offering! I don't recall Dad bringing any home from the radio station, but he did subscribe to Downbeat, so I'd occasionally peruse it to look for the names of the artists I was discovering pawing thru his thousands of jazz LPs and 78s!
That was the start of "matching" names of writers the critics were bandying about with the names (headlining stars as well as session players) I'd see, routinely, on albums! Then, starting in '73, at 18, and at my first college radio station, I'd become a regular reader of Billboard, as the two college stations I worked at would subscribe, as well, of course, as the two pro stations I worked at in Houston and Baton Rouge. When I started working retail records, from '77 to '82, the stores got 'em in, too!
These are right up my street. I love a minor, major hit and this is so well written and researched as ever.
Thank you, Jon! I'm flattered to be asked to join Mark on these really wonderful peeks back at hits that might've been, and some that should have! He's got a nifty niche carved out for himself here! Stay tuned, Jon.....we've got more we're tinkering with!
Glad you enjoyed it Jon! Been having fun writing these.
At one point I had a bunch of Hudson Brothers' photos on my walls. Clearly something was going on there...!
Oh, I get it, Dan! I feel your pain! The day a lad has to choose between thumbtacks and staples! Don't get me started.................😉👍
I was about a decade ahead of you (13 in '68, for example), and 16, Flip, and Tiger Beat mags were my jams, and their pin-ups'n'posters festooned my walls! It was right about that year, or '69, when Dad started bringing home fewer Capitol promos (Beatles, and any other British Invasion acts on the label), and started bringing home more Warner Bros promos, and my 14-year-old sensibilities began being weaned from teenybop to the likes of Captain Beefheart, Zappa, The Fugs, The GTOs, Alice Cooper, Jethro Tull.....talk about a sudden lurch in driving gears!!!
Down came the pin-ups, and almost instantly, I began subscribing to Rolling Stone, Crawdaddy, CREEM, Phonograph Record Magazine, and the rest is (mostly FRONT ROW & BACKSTAGE) history! Fun stuff!
For me it was Tiger Beat, Rona Barrett's Gossip, and Rona Barrett's Hollywood... What I always wanted was Billboard, which at the time was much too expensive for me so I'd but the occasional issue or sneak a look at the charts while in a book store.
I was always buying People which probably by the 90s was the closest thing to Rona Barrett still left.
Yeah, I can see your love of what the mighty Billboard was offering! I don't recall Dad bringing any home from the radio station, but he did subscribe to Downbeat, so I'd occasionally peruse it to look for the names of the artists I was discovering pawing thru his thousands of jazz LPs and 78s!
That was the start of "matching" names of writers the critics were bandying about with the names (headlining stars as well as session players) I'd see, routinely, on albums! Then, starting in '73, at 18, and at my first college radio station, I'd become a regular reader of Billboard, as the two college stations I worked at would subscribe, as well, of course, as the two pro stations I worked at in Houston and Baton Rouge. When I started working retail records, from '77 to '82, the stores got 'em in, too!
And now of course you can get most it for free via their website.