Professor James Frances Patrick O’Neill
…jockey on a Top 40 station, his job was to play the latest hits. O’Neill didn’t just announce the next record and move on; when the song was over, he…
Continue reading →…jockey on a Top 40 station, his job was to play the latest hits. O’Neill didn’t just announce the next record and move on; when the song was over, he…
Continue reading →…THAT SIGN! The club’s spectacular sign was the largest on West Broadway; provided by an investor who had a sign company, it had 777 lightbulbs. When the club went under…
Continue reading →… 1967 Comedian Danny Klayman was added to the entertainment lineup in January 1967; the Jerry Pearson Quartet was still the house combo. But finally in mid- 1967 the…
Continue reading →A sign that teenagers were coming into their own was an ad introducing the “Hep Shop For High-Schoolers” at Brown’s Bon-Art Clothes at 306-14 Nicollet Ave. The graphic is of…
Continue reading →…at the U of M. With special entertainment: exotic dancer LaLoni! Prizes for the Swingingest Hula Dancer, Brightest Shirt, Brightest Muu Muu. April 30, 1965. The Trashmen were back at…
Continue reading →…Special.” An 18 minute demonstration demo can be heard at www.reelradio.com/bw/index.html, but a paid subscription is required. A “Return to Fantasy Park” was broadcast on U100 on April 2-4, 1976….
Continue reading →…1988 Bobby “Blue” Bland, January 19, 1992 Bobby Womack, March 6, 1994 In about February of 1999, the club began to feature comedians from BET’s Def Comedy Jam on Thursday…
Continue reading →…the $3 entrance fee, “but so many fine women come here I’ve just got to come. They like to get ripped off, so I do too. And anyway that $3…
Continue reading →…Picture Playhouse,” Falcon Peter H. May for “Hey Joe,” Falcon Menten and Steinberg for “World War II in Cincinnati,” Atco BEST COMPOSER Menten, Steinberg, Paulik and Goldberg for “Twenty Years…
Continue reading →…him an eloquent and compelling folk singer. Bachler wrote that “the audience really came alive for the first time during the entire day on “Freedom.” UPSHOT Bachelor wrote that…
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