In 1983, I was visiting NYC and wandering around Times Square on a daily basis. That's when the movie Flashdance"…
One of the first songs I ever heard on the radio, back in 1966 when I was listening to KPUG,…
It's difficult to find a video of a young Ben E. King singing “Stand by Me.” Most of the videos…
There were the songs I liked, and then there were the jukebox hits that I heard publicly in restaurants, drive-ins…
This one goes back to my early days of listening to the radio. In 1966 this song was on the…
This is a historical artifact I ran across when researching another article. It goes back 55 years. In 1965, Frank…
Dave Dudley's "Six Days On The Road" has a strong identity as a Country song, but in 1963 when I…
One of my favorite tunes from back in the mid-sixties, when I listened to Kirk Wilde, Gary Shannon and Harvey…
Although this is my 2nd "Found Performance" featuring The Bee Gees, let me emphatically state that I am not the…
The late Kathi McDonald was a native of the Pacific Northwest, born in Anacortes, WA in 1948 and raised in…
"Land of 1000 Dances" or "Land Of A Thousand Dances" was written by Chris Kenner in 1962. The first hit…
In listening to old sixties airchecks from Seattle, I noticed that a big hit at KJR in the summer/fall of…
Yesterday "Bette Davis Eyes" became a mega hit for Kim Carnes back in 1981. It was all over the radio…
Anyone who peeks in at these "Found Performance" videos I post has probably caught on that I tend to…
One of the best known versions of "I Put A Spell On You" is by legendary jazz and blues performer…
Editor's note: I have had some fun with "Found Performances." This growing collection consists of rare and/or interesting TV or…
When I started paying attention to radio in spring 1966, "Lightnin' Strikes" by Lou Christie had begun to slip down…
There have been a number of instrumental (or mainly instrumental) Top-40 hits over the years. In the mid-sixties, Herb Alpert…
Here is another addition to my collection of "Found Performance" videos. I'm always on the lookout for rare footage of…