Content tagged '70s'

I don't know why "Dream Weaver" survives and "Love Is Alive" has been forgotten. I knew who Gary Wright was, but I didn't know his music. Because Spooky Tooth got no airplay anywhere I lived, and in the seventies you had to buy an album to hear it, and nobody I knew owned any of the act's work. But then Gary Wright made a deal with Warner Brothers and made "The Dream Weaver" and in the summer of '75, "Love Is Alive" was all over FM radio. It was different from today. There were no iPods, at best you had a tape player, satellite radio was inconceivable, we were addicted to FM, hell, they even m

Every Tuesday and Thursday, former Warner Bros. Records executive and industry insider Stan Cornyn ruminates on the past, present, and future of the music business. In this heartfelt saga, we’re first heading back half a century at WBR. Back to years when employees got a full, ten days off each Christmas season. Back to ... The Late 1950s Since Jack Warner did not start WB Records until 1958, we have only two years that fit this decade. But those two years were treats. The normal work days between Christmas and New Year’s – nine days in all – got designated “ vacation days” for us all. That me

Alvin Lee, lead singer and guitarist from the English blue-rock band Ten Years After, celebrates his birthday today! Here he is "Changing The World" through his music.

Every Tuesday and Thursday, former Warner Bros. Records executive and industry insider Stan Cornyn ruminates on the past, present, and future of the music business. In the late 1960s, a Beehive was a woman’s latest fashion hairstyle: long hair piled up in a cone, something like a traditional hive created by bees. Pile it up, and spray it with Aqua Net. The longer her hair the better her hive. To end any confusion, what’s needed for clarity is to distinguish those B-52s from the America’s bomber airplanes. So look here: These B-52s Gave Us “Party Time” For new wave group B-52s, both girls (Cind

On this day in 1984, Duran Duran appeared on the "Razzmatazz Solid Gold Christmas Special," along with Frankie Goes To Hollywood, Big Country, Ultravox, Paul Young and Wham! Duran Duran had recently announced their 3rd single "The Reflex" from the album, SEVEN AND THE RAGGED TIGER.

Happy birthday to Tony Hicks of The Hollies! “Look Through Any Window” features one of the rare vocal performances by the guitarist:

Happy birthday to former Doobie Brother Jeff Baxter! The man's 'stache is almost as impressive as his guitar playing...

"When your arms are empty, got nowhere to go Come on out and catch a show There'll be saints and sinners You'll see losers and winners All kinds of people you might want to know Once you get it, you can't forget it The W.S. Walcott medicine show" That's the way it used to be. Concerts were not an event, but a show. Sure, you sometimes planned in advance, but other times your phone would ring and you'd hear the question...DO YOU WANNA GO? And scalpers existed, but you could get a ticket. And if you really cared, you could work your way down front. This was long before the era of luxury boxes an

On this day in 1975, CHICAGO IX - CHICAGO's GREATEST HITS started a five-week run at #1 on the US album chart. This made it Chicago's fifth #1 album. Here they are in the 70s performing the album's featured single, "I've Been Searchin' So Long."

Frank Sinatra was born on this day in 1915. We remember The Chairman of the Board with this vintage clip of “I've Got You Under My Skin.”