Missed that one. I was working that summer, didn't see television for two months.
Two years earlier I did see one of Murray the K's rock & roll shows at the Brooklyn Fox downtown. The acts I remember are Little Anthony & the Imperials, The Temptations (loved the choreography!) and "Little" Stevie Wonder, but there were probably about a dozen. Marvin Gaye was almost surely another and possibly Lesley Gore.
Absolutely. This one may have been the first. No, actually, that's not true. It may have been the first concert per se, but somehow I got my mother to take me to see Joey Dee & the Starlighters at Ben Maksik's Town & Country Club on Flatbush Avenue. That must have been 1962. Perhaps it was a belated bar mitzvah gift.
The following February, of course, I saw The Beatles at Carnegie Hall.
Well, I saw Elvis eventually but never the Beatles. I wasn't in an area where the big names appeared when I was growing up. Even the little names didn't appear.
As a kid, I saw local talent like Eddie Seacrist and the Rollin' Rockets (Seacrist actually lived three houses up from ours) but not the big names. That didn't happen until I had kids of my own and took them to see the performers they liked when they were in junior high: Fleetwood Mac (the late-80s lineup minus Nicks and Buckingham), Vanilla Ice, Milli Vanilli, Debbie Gibson, and Young MC. Yes, laugh if you will.
Glad to see that performers in the '60s were into helping kids find jobs. Nowadays it's all about finding bling.
I saw a Murray the K Christmas show at the Brooklyn Fox, probably in 1965. The Moody Blues, Wilson Pickett, The Shangri-Las, Cannibal and the Headhunters, Peter and Gordon (who got booed), and many more. Murray was a NY deejay, but for some reason I never heard him.
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Like far out, dude.
Missed that one. I was working that summer, didn't see television for two months.
Two years earlier I did see one of Murray the K's rock & roll shows at the Brooklyn Fox downtown. The acts I remember are Little Anthony & the Imperials, The Temptations (loved the choreography!) and "Little" Stevie Wonder, but there were probably about a dozen. Marvin Gaye was almost surely another and possibly Lesley Gore.
I miss the old days.
Jeff
You've sure seen some great shows over the years.
Absolutely. This one may have been the first. No, actually, that's not true. It may have been the first concert per se, but somehow I got my mother to take me to see Joey Dee & the Starlighters at Ben Maksik's Town & Country Club on Flatbush Avenue. That must have been 1962. Perhaps it was a belated bar mitzvah gift.
The following February, of course, I saw The Beatles at Carnegie Hall.
Jeff (the geezer)
Whoops - let's try again.
Town & Country.
Well, I saw Elvis eventually but never the Beatles. I wasn't in an area where the big names appeared when I was growing up. Even the little names didn't appear.
But Anna Nicole is from Mexia. They don't get much bigger.
Jeff
As a kid, I saw local talent like Eddie Seacrist and the Rollin' Rockets (Seacrist actually lived three houses up from ours) but not the big names. That didn't happen until I had kids of my own and took them to see the performers they liked when they were in junior high: Fleetwood Mac (the late-80s lineup minus Nicks and Buckingham), Vanilla Ice, Milli Vanilli, Debbie Gibson, and Young MC. Yes, laugh if you will.
Glad to see that performers in the '60s were into helping kids find jobs. Nowadays it's all about finding bling.
I saw a Murray the K Christmas show at the Brooklyn Fox, probably in 1965. The Moody Blues, Wilson Pickett, The Shangri-Las, Cannibal and the Headhunters, Peter and Gordon (who got booed), and many more. Murray was a NY deejay, but for some reason I never heard him.
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