Spring Fishing is coming!

It's the last day of February... yahoooooooooo!

Today's Forgotten Oldie...

Today a one-hit wonder from Wadsworth Mansion.  The Rhode Island band's only charting single peaked at #7 on the Billboard Hot 100 exactly 43 years ago today on February 27, 1971. Despite a follow-up album and two more singles, the band never charted again and faded into obscurity.  Another top ten hit that we never hear on the radio.

Today's Forgotten Oldie...

Nancy Sinatra took the song "These Boots Are Made For Walking" all the way to #1 exactly 48 years ago today... yep, the song hit number one in the U.S. on February 26, 1966.  A lot of people criticised the song and the singer... Nancy for being Frank Sinatra's daughter and using her looks to sell records, and the song for being too "cutesy".  But it went to the top, people loved it, and happily Nancy proved her great vocal talent a couple years later when she recorded the theme song to the James Bond film "You Only Live Twice".  Ya gotta admit she was good looking too!

R.I.P. Harold Ramis

The head ghostbuster is now a ghost himself... what a sad, strange cartoon!

Please...

20 years ago we had Bob Hope, Johnny Cash and Steve Jobs. Now we have no Hope, no Cash and no Jobs.  PLEASE DON'T LET KEVIN BACON DIE!!!

This never ending winter....

It just seems this winter has everything turned upside down!!

Today's Forgotten Oldie...

Hi De Ho was a top twenty hit for Blood Sweat and Tears in 1970.  Taken from their third album, Blood Sweat and Tears 3, the song was actually a cover of a song recorded earlier by Carole King.  The album  went to number one but was hated by the critics, largely due to the lack of original material.  Lucretia MacEvil was the second single from the album but only reached #29 on the charts.  Still, Hi De Ho is a cool, but forgotten oldie...

Today's Forgotten Oldie...

The Leaves were an American Garage Rock band that scored a top-twenty hit in 1966 with "Hey Joe".  The song became a rock standard, covered by nearly every local band and many big names from Hendrix to the Byrds to the Cryan Shames.  The song is a great example of Garage Rock and the American answer to the British Invasion.

Nice people....

This is too good not to post, where are the nice people like this anymore?

Blast from the past...

Can anyone name all the stores in this 1947 photo of 5th Avenue, downtown La Crosse?  Obviously Sears and Grant's, what else do you know?

Happy Valentine's Day!

My favorite sentiment:

Today's Forgotten Oldie...

Blue Cheer is credited by most sources as the pioneers of Heavy Metal rock.  The San Francisco band took their cover of "Summertime Blues" to #14 in the U.S. and #3 in Canada in 1968 and influenced hundreds of rock bands the world over.  The band reunited several times and toured through 2009.

Today's Forgotten Oldie...

1964's "Don't Throw Your Love Away" was the Searchers follow-up single to their smash hit "Needled and Pins".  Realistically, there were a lot of British songs that were climbing the charts simply because they were English groups and the Beatles had created a monster when they appeared on Ed Sullivan.  But, the Searchers were a notch above the norm, and this top twenty hit was a bonafide goody... that since has disappeared from the airwaves.

Drive-Thru for Eagles...

I think this eagle is shocked to see his breakfast heading up the branch towards him.  Kind of like a fast-food drive-thru!

Bundle Up!

Another trip to the deep freeze for the next 24 hours... but then, we warm up!!

Today's Forgotten Oldie...

Since it's Beatle week and the 50th anniversary of the Fab Four's 1st appearance on Ed Sullivan is this Sunday, here's another Beatle forgotten oldie.  "Matchbox" was a Carl Perkins song and the Beatles were huge Perkins fans.  They started doing the song on stage in Hamburg in 1961, performed it on their BBC radio show, and finally released it as a single in 1964. It climbed to #17 on the hot 100, rather astonishing for a rockabilly song from the 20's!  Ringo handles the vocals, and the song is a classic!

Today's Forgotten Oldie...

In honor of "Beatles Week" and this Sunday's 50th anniversary of the Fab Four's 1st appearance on Ed Sullivan, today's forgotten oldie is a Beatle tune.  "Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)" was never released as a single, but from the time Rubber Soul was released in 1965 the song got a lot of radio play.  In those days, every song of every Beatle album was played on the radio, a phenomenon never seen before or since. Historically, it was the first Beatle song to feature George on Sitar, was ranked #83 of Rolling Stones 500 greatest rock songs, and has been covered by dozens of artists from Waylon Jennings to Count Basie.  A great song.... remember?

Three Dog Night...

Here's the real three dog night... and why I miss having German Shepherds!

What do you get?

When you cross Doctor Suess with Eagle 102.7...