Today In Oldies 2/20/2012

Golden Hits Radio's Everything Oldies.....Always an Oldies headline ahead......

•  Whitney Houston's Saturday memorial service was missing a Queen
• A star-studded lineup will perform at the White House Tuesday night to celebrate Black History Month......and you can watch it streaming live
• A former Monkee returns to the stage....and discusses the health issues that forced him offstage
• The writer and performer of one of music's most mysterious songs receives a high honor
  

 

MY THREE SONGS

Time for a new game @ Everything Oldies called "My Three Songs".  We'll give you video clips of three songs, and you tell us what they have in common. Take a look and give us your answer in the Comment box below........

 

 

 

 

THURSDAY'S MY THREE SONGS ANSWER - Songs covered by The Beatles

 

Golden Hits Radio's Burning Question of the Day

Which rock and roll guitar hero made his stage debut today in 1960, playing guitar in the basement of Seattle's Temple De Hirsch synagogue and being fired in between sets for "showing off"? 

Come back to Everything Oldies tomorrow to find the answer, and leave a Comment below with your best guess!

Yesterday's Burning Question (and Answer) of the Day

Which legendary group signed music's first million dollar contract Feb. 17th,1960? 

Answer:     The Everly Brothers

 

 

ON THE ROAD - JOHNNY MATHIS

Friday	Mar 2, 2012	West Palm Beach, FL	Kravis Center - Dreyfoos Hall
Sunday	Mar 4, 2012	Daytona Beach, FL	Peabody Auditorium
Saturday	Mar 24, 2012	Coumbus, OH	Ohio Theatre
Thursday	Apr 5, 2012	Clearwater, FL	Ruth Eckerd Hall
Saturday	Apr 7, 2012	Greenville, SC	Peace Center for the Performing Arts
Thursday	April 19, 2012	Easton, PA	State Theatre Center For the Arts
Saturday	Apr 21, 2012	New Brunswick, NJ	State Theatre
Thursday	May 17, 2012	Sewell, NJ	TD Bank Arts Centre
Saturday	May 19, 2012	Lancaster, PA	American Music Theatre
Saturday	June 30, 2012	Pittsburgh, PA	Heinz Hall
Sunday	July 1, 2012	Pittsburgh, PA	Heinz Hall
Friday	July 20, 2012	Vienna, VA	Filene Center at Wolftrap Farm Park
Thrusday	Aug 9, 2012	Westbury, NY	Theatre At Westbury
Saturday	Aug 11, 2012	Ocean Grove, NJ	The Great Auditorium
Thursday	Oct 11, 2012	Albany, NY	Palace Theater
Saturday	Oct 13, 2012	Buffalo, NY	Kleinhans Music Hall
Friday	Nov 16, 2012	Branson, MO	The Mansion Theatre
Saturday	Nov 17, 2012	Branson, MO	The Mansion Theatre
Thursday	Dec 6, 2012	Mount Pleasant, MI	Soaring Eagle Casino & Resort
Saturday	Dec 8, 2012	Rosemont, IL	Rosemont Theatre
Saturday	Dec 22, 2012	Portland, OR	Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall

Today In Oldies 1/17/2012

Golden Hits Radio's Everything Oldies......When Oldies news matters, it matters where you get your Oldies news!

• ***CATFIGHT AT THE GOLDEN GLOBES!!!!***  Which music legend was involved? 
• A recently deceased star's fiance wants a piece of his financial action despite not being in his will
• An R&B/Gospel legend remembers Dr. Martin Luther King
• When The Beach Boys hit the road for that 50th Anniversary tour this summer, they'll have a TV star in the group
• The leaders of a 70's R&B group known for several novelty hits has died

 

What's In A Name?

Many of the folks who made the music heard on Golden Hits Radio over the years did NOT perform under the name on their birth certificate.  This week, let's play another game and see how well you know the real names of your favorite 50's, 60's, and 70's hitmakers.  We'll give you the birth name and you drop us your answer in the Comment box below.  ***HINT: EACH ARTIST WILL PLAY SOMETIME TODAY ON GOLDEN HITS RADIO*** Here we go! 

 

1) Ernest Kador, Jr.            _______________________

2) Thomas John Woodward _______________________

3) Baldemar Garza Huerta   _______________________

 

Check back tomorrow @ Everything Oldies for the answer! 

 

Wednesday's "Works In Progress" Answers

1) The original title of a hit whose subject has been music's buggest mystery for years was originally "Ballad Of A Vain Man"

 

2) A worldwide 70's hit for ABBA had the working title "Billy Boy"

 

3) This Jackson 5 hit was originally titled "I Want To Be Free"

 

Golden Hits Radio's Burning Question of the Day

In a 1971 press conference, which superstar declared, "I don't go along with music advocating drugs and desecration of the flag. I think an entertainer is for entertaining and to make people happy."?

Come back to Everything Oldies tomorrow to find the answer, and leave a Comment below with your best guess!

Wednesday's Burning Question (and Answer) of the Day

Today in 1964, Billboard published its first Country & Western album chart.  Which album was the first to top that chart?

Answer:   Johnny Cash's Ring of Fire

Today In Oldies 12/14/2010

Golden Hits Radio and GHR-2's Everything Oldies......your Oldies news authority!

• British TV personality and America's Got Talent judge Piers Morgan's new show on CNN hasn't even premiered yet......and already a major music superstar has been banned!  
• A superstar has been invited to play in what is currently a political hotbed.  Will he accept?
• Who didn't think much of one of his songs that became a #1 smash?
• Take it for what it's worth, but here's what is reported to be a leak containing the 2011 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees....as always, as notable for who didn't get in as those who did
• Mick Jagger breaks his silence about his feelings toward Keith Richards' autobiography

 Oldies on TV

• Annie Lennox - Regis & Kelly - (syndicated, check local listings)
• Barbra Streisand - Good Morning America and Nightline - ABC
• Bette Midler - Late Night With Jimmy Fallon - NBC (12:35 a.m. Eastern/11:35 Pacific)

A Shot At The Title

All this week, Everything Oldies will play "What if?", as we spotlight songs with their original working titles.  Imagine what a different world we'd live in if the most covered song of all time were The Beatles' classic, "Scrambled Eggs".....which was the original working title of......"Yesterday".  Enjoy the stories behind the titles.....and why they changed.

• The first few copies distributed of this Beatles classic promoted it as being from a movie entitled "Eight Arms To Hold You".  That title, in fact, was supposed to have applied to both the single and the movie!  It was also originally written with a slower tempo by John Lennon, but was sped up to make it more palatable to radio.  The song originally called "Eight Arms To Hold You", with a much slower pace, became...........

• Another staple of American Oldies radio began with a much different title and lyrics.  The original theme of the song surrounded an interracial relationship, a taboo topic at the time of its release.  To make it more acceptable for radio airplay, the racial aspect was downplayed, and the title was changed.  While the line "makin' love in the green grass" was left in and still proved to turn off some radio stations, "Brown Skinned Girl" became better known as.............

• Songwriter Jim Vallance explains that this song's original title was "Best Days Of My Life".  Originally, it had only one reference to what eventually became the song's title.  He says that there were probably subconscious influences from the movie Summer of '42 and Jackson Browne's "Running On Empty", which contains the line "In '69 I was 21".  When it finally hit record stores and radio in 1985, it became a classic for Bryan Adams as...........

Golden Hits Radio & GHR-2's Burning Question of the Day

What was the first #1 song under Billboard's Hot 100 chart format? 

Check back tomorrow @ Everything Oldies for the answer, and leave a comment here with your best guess! 

Which artist pre-taped a 1976 appearance on Saturday Night Live about an hour before the broadcast due to being overcome with stage fright?

Answer: Carly Simon -- who kept it together via the magic of videotape long enough to perform "Half A Chance" and "You're So Vain" while being backed by Chevy Chase playing a cowbell (due to a member of her band being unable to perform)

Today In Oldies 12/13/2010

Golden Hits Radio and GHR-2's Everything Oldies stands for Oldies news! 

• Sir Paul puts a twist on one of his classics on Thursday night's Late Night with Jimmy Fallon
• He was also all over this week's Saturday Night Live!
• The Queen of Soul comes home from the hospital
• American Idol does The Beatles!.....and other changes for the upcoming season
• In other Fab Four related news, a judge drops the hammer on a website not named iTunes for selling digital downloads of Beatles songs
• And finally on the Fab Four front, who broke up The Beatles?  "Not me", says one of their longtime partners
• And the actual auction price of a set of handwritten lyrics by Bob Dylan is...................
• What would you pay for one of Eric Clapton's guitars?
• Carly Simon isn't taking the law into her own hands........she's taking Starbucks to court!
• Roberta Flack talks to AOL Music about a number of topics

Oldies on TV

• Stephen Bishop - Late Night With Jimmy Fallon - NBC (12:35 Eastern/11:35 Pacific)
  

A Shot At The Title

All this week, Everything Oldies will play "What if?", as we spotlight songs with their original working titles.  Imagine what a different world we'd live in if the most covered song of all time were The Beatles' classic, "Scrambled Eggs".....which was the original working title of......"Yesterday".  Enjoy the stories behind the titles.....and why they changed.

• A Motown classic that Berry Gordy helped write came about because Gordy was reminded of Frankie Lymon whenever he heard Michael Jackson.  Being the most expensive single ever recorded for Motown at that time, Gordy had a lot riding on it both personally and financially.  It didn't begin as a love song, but Gordy eventually reshaped it so it would be believable being sung by an 11-year-old.  The Jackson 5 made it a smash, and what began its life as "I Want To Be Free" became...........

• A song being included on the soundtrack to what would become an iconic 70's movie with the Brooklyn disco scene as a backdrop was originally supposed to carry the same title as the movie.  The problem was that same title had been used many times in the past, most notably as the title of a #1 hit just one year earlier.  Wisely, The Bee Gees decided to avoid confusion, and what began as "Saturday Night" turned into.........

• One of the most talked about songs of all time was conceived with a different title.  To this day, no one knows who the subject of the song is, and had the original title been kept, who knows if it would have been the hit it ultimately became?  If you look at the vinyl acetate demo copy of the song written and performed by Carly Simon, it reads "Ballad of a Vain Man".  Whether she's talking about Mick Jagger, Warren Beatty, or someone completely different, it became known, loved, and widely discussed as........

Golden Hits Radio and GHR-2's Burning Question of the Day

Which artist pre-taped a 1976 appearance on Saturday Night Live about an hour before the broadcast due to being overcome with stage fright?

Check back tomorrow @ Everything Oldies for the answer, and leave a comment here with your best guess!

Thursday's Burning Question (and Answer) of the Day

Which late rock guitar legend played on David Bowie's #1 hit "Let's Dance", which led to a solo record deal?

Answer: Stevie Ray Vaughan