Genya Ravan (b. 1945, Lodz, Poland) is a rock vocalist, producer, and pioneer. Born Genya Zelkowitz, her mother later changed her name to Goldie. The family emigrated to the United States from a Russian refugee camp in 1947. Growing up on New York’s Lower East Side, “R&B is what I was listening to as a […]

July 12, 1979 - The Chicago White Sox were scheduled to the play the Detroit Tigers in a doubleheader. Local DJs Steve Dahl and Gary Meier devised a unique anti-disco promotion: Admission was $0.98 and a disco record. That evening fans were supposed to participate in a mock demolition of the records between games but […]

Hair was rock music’s first foray into Broadway. The self-titled “American Tribal Love-Rock Musical” started off-Broadway in 1967. It then opened on Broadway & productions appeared around the world. Joan Armatrading’s career began in a British production of “Hair.” Writers James Rado & Gerome Ragni captured the themes of the 60s, including the anti-war movement […]

Jerry Lee Lewis didn’t seem to get it; after all, he said, “I plumb married the girl, didn’t I?” Myra, the thirteen-year-old girl in question, was travelling with him, and was his third cousin. Such a marriage was not an unheard-of in the deep South in the 1950s, but in many major cities, […]

January 20, 1968 - Bob Dylan returns after 18 months of seclusion to perform at the Woody Guthrie Memorial Concert in Carnegie Hall. It was his first appearance since July of 1966 when he broke his neck in a motorcycle accident. Also performing at the concert were Pete Seeger, Judy Collins, Arlo Guthrie, Odetta and […]

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What, if anything, have we learned from “nipple-gate” — Janet Jackson’s breast exposure during the televised half-time show at the Super Bowl in 2004? Janet Jackson & Justin Timberlake planned the “wardrobe malfunction” to coincide with the lyrics “I gonna have you naked by the end of this song” — […]

Musical guests have appeared on the program “Saturday Night Live” from the beginning. Janis Ian and Billy Preston performed on the very first broadcast, October 11, 1975. Paul Simon, Art Garfunkel, and Randy Newman appeared on the second show. Simon has made seven appearances on the show and was the first musician who also served […]

How many of these do you remember? Or better yet - did you do?
The 81, The Alligator, The Bartman, The Bump, The Bus Stop, The Cabbage Patch, The Cha-Cha Slide, The Electric Slide, The Fly, The Freddy, The Frug, The Hammer, The Hitch hike, The Hokey Pokey, The Hully Gully, The Humpty Dance, The Hustle, […]

June 30, 2001 - Chet Atkins dies in Nashville at the age of 77.
Chet Atkins: Rock and Roll Hall of Famer
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The ultimate TV experience for teenagers in the 1950s was “American Bandstand”, which started out simply as “Bandstand” on Channel 6 in Philadelphia in 1952 with Bob Horn as its host. Dick Clark took over in 1956, creating the format we remember today, kids dancing to records being spun right at the time. Clark also […]