It's always worse somewhere else!

Sure we've had a NASTY winter so far... but what if we had the awful cold AND tons of snow?

Today's Forgotten Oldie...

Three number one records, twenty-one top forty records, 40 million records sold worldwide in five years... yeah, Three Dog Night was big.  So big, that programmers ignore several of their hits just because of the volume.  Here's my favorite, "Liar", which hit #7 on the Hot 100 in 1970.  Yup, another mostly-forgotten top-ten hit.

Today's Forgotten Oldie...

I met Hal Atkinson in August 2012 at Goose Island Campground.  I knew who he was right away, and he was shocked that someone remembered him, and his incredible song.  But I remembered playing "Kathy Believe Me" on the radio back in 1972, and I remembered seeing Hal perform with the Shy Guys about that time as well.  Producer Dale Menten had Hal record the song in Minneapolis, and it became a La Crosse hit record.  One of those marvelous "local" stories.  Anyway, I got to know Hal pretty well, spent a lot of time around the campfire chatting, and even got him to do a couple flute solo's at one of my band's gigs.  Hal was an amazing musician, and a Hollywood actor appearing in The Mighty Ducks, The BabySitter, and Bound and Gagged: A Love Story. He has a very incomplete page on IMDB under the name Hal Fort Atkinson III. He also had a recurring role as Elaine's doctor on Seinfeld.
Yesterday I heard Hal died in California of complications from pneumonia.  So today's forgotten oldie is my friend Hal Atkinson, and Hal's great local hit "Kathy Believe Me."

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Friday!!

One long word to fit everything today... c-c-c-c-c-c-coooolllddd!!  So here's a Friday Funny to pick you up a little today!

Today's Forgotten Oldie...

The Electric Prunes are usually referred to as one-hit wonders because of the hit "I Had Too Much To Dream Last Night", however, their follow-up song "Get Me To The World On Time" was also a top-40 hit.  The band also had an underground success with the album "Mass In F-Minor" which was a psychedelicized Catholic Mass.  A great band, the Electric Prunes were one of my 60's favorites.