A year or so ago, my friend Kim Maki (www.retrokimmer.com) told me I should be the guy who puts 1960s PITTSBURGH music on the web. Well, I did some…
TARENA TIME!!!
Up Front Rock ‘n Roll…
AND A FEW MORE, but didn’t do it like I know I should, SO how about I start now with a LONG SET of Pittsburgh Love Songs???
Let’s start out with The Starglows ’cause we wanna be a LOT more than just friends…
The Safaris talkin’ about The Image of a Girl…
And from 1959, The fantastic Fascinators talk the talk so we can walk the walk...
And a couple of “newcomers” from The Windy City score LARGE in The Burgh…
Etta James & Harvey Fuqua- If I Can't Have You/ My Heart Cries- Chess(1760)60. This B side was the Pittsburgh Favorite…
Motown hadn’t really made it yet (Gordy was gettin’ close, though!) and money was to be had by leasing out great tunes like this one to the Chess Label out of Chicago and they made it to the airways—Especially in The Burgh…
Of course this “new stuff” out of Detroit, albeit via Chicago, was just part of the mix
—REAL Doo-Wop still ruled the Pittsburgh airwaves (and the back seats of the Pittsburgh hot rod community)…
LYRICS—WHO NEEDS LYRICS!?!
Barry White had some real grindin’ tunes a few years later, but this one--with no lyrics-- by The Viscounts, well, you know…
Close this LONG set out with my #1 FAVORITE tune of all time…
The GREAT Donnie Elbert…
And that’s what it was all about, in The Burgh, in the back seat of (fill in your ride here—mine was a 1958 Oldsmobile) in the 1960s…Ain’t nothin’ changed!
BTW: MORE LOVE SONGS AND ROCKERS TO COME
ON
TROPICAL JON'S
EVOLUTION OF
ROCK 'n ROLL...
BTW: MORE LOVE SONGS AND ROCKERS TO COME
ON
TROPICAL JON'S
EVOLUTION OF
ROCK 'n ROLL...
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