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Category Archives: Oldies
WKHS Disc Jockeys Harken Back to Radio’s Golden Era
By Bill Arrowood (The Chesapeake Spy, March 26, 2014) The community DJ’s donate their time and musical acumen to produce radio like nothing else in the region, and offer their audience something unique and fantastic. Dick Clark, Wolfman Jack, Cousin … Continue reading
Frederick’s Joe Bussard is the King of 78s
On Record Store Day, April 19, 2014, Eilon Paz released “Dust & Grooves: Adventures in Record Collecting,” a 416-page coffee table book profiling over 130 vinyl record collectors and their record collections. One of the collectors profiled was Frederick, MD … Continue reading
Posted in Music, Oldies
Tagged 78s, dust and grooves, frederick, joe bussard, record collecting
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Baltimore’s 1960s “Sunshine Pop” band The Peppermint Rainbow
By Tom Warner (Accelerated Decrepitude, 10/15/2012) Thanks to Johnny Dollar for reminding us of Baltimore’s forgotten 1960s “sunshine pop” band The Peppermint Rainbow (1967-1970). JD scored the group’s lone LP Will You Be Staying After Sunday at a Joppa Road … Continue reading
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On ‘Hairspray’s’ 25th anniversary, ‘Buddy Deane’ Committee looks back
By Jessica Goldstein ( Washington Post, 1/18/2013) If you were a teenager in Baltimore in the late 1950s and early 1960s, you watched “The Buddy Deane Show.” When the final bell rang you sprinted home from school, saddle shoes smacking … Continue reading
Posted in 1960s, 1980s, John Waters, Oldies
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