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Welcome to Oldies Connection
(This
site created and lovingly maintained by Laura Pinto)
Welcome to Oldies Connection,
your one-stop website to catch up with all your favorite actively touring artists from the '50s, '60s, and '70s.
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Oldies
Connection
covers the light pop music of the '50s, '60s
and '70s -- not the culture, not
the politics, not TV or movies
-- just rock and roll! Oldies Connection is
devoted mainly to rock, pop,
and doo-wop ... and is especially
focused on artists from the '50's
through '70s who are still touring and making
personal appearances, like Andy Kim, Paul McCartney, Mark
Lindsay, Lou Christie, and Neil Sedaka. Check
out the comprehensive Artists & Music section for thousands of links for hundreds
of artists from the Fifties and Sixties
and Seventies!
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First,
a bit of self-promotion: I have two (count 'em, two!) novels published on Amazon Kindle!
(No Kindle? No problem! You
don't need a Kindle device to read a Kindle book; just download a free reading app for your PC, Mac, or smartphone, or use the Kindle Cloud Reader to read the book in your browser!)
If
you're a babyboomer like me who loves the music and culture of the 1950s and 1960s, check out my first novel, THE D.A.'s
FOREVER, and my newest offering, LIFE ROCKS ON. (Clicking on each title will take you to the official website for the book, which has details and links to purchase.)
Members of Kindle Unlimited can read my books at no extra charge; Amazon Prime members can borrow the books, for free, from the Kindle Owners' Lending
Library.
Mature content
advisory: Both novels contain adult language and explicit sexual situations and are intended
for mature audiences. Reader discretion is advised.
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NEW (Sept. 2017): Check out the new Oldies Connection Group on Facebook! If you have a Facebook account, feel free to join and post!
Oldies Connection is on Twitter! Check it out by clicking on the link, or via the widget below.
And
feel free to continue following my personal Twitter page as well ... lots of fun stuff related to the '50s, '60s and '70s!
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♪♫♪PHOTOS♪♫♪
Links to my online photo albums of concert shots
Let's get social—Check out Social Networks & Blogs for links to Laura's Oldies Connection pages on the World Wide Web
(To
help you find your way around)
Oldies Connection on Facebook
- please "like" the page if you like this site! Would love for you to join us.
For links to all my oldies-related websites and communities, please head on over to Laura's Oldies Sites
If
you live in the Tampa Bay area of Florida (or visit frequently) - please join our Oldies Fans of Tampa Bay group on Facebook!
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Fantastic tribute to the late Bob Crewe by Ronnie Allen, who's put together a four-part radio show
exclusively on the Jersey Girls Sing website! Check it out—more than three dozen singers, songwriters, deejays and producers were interviewed
for this awesome labor of love.
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Recent
passings:
David Cassidy passed away
on November 21, 2017, at the age of 67. R.I.P.
Guest book/obituary for David
Cassidy on Legacy.com. David Bruce Cassidy
April 12, 1950 - November 21, 2017
Fats Domino passed away on October
24, 2017, at the age of 89. R.I.P.
Guest book/obituary for Fats Domino on Legacy.com. Antoine Dominique Domino, Jr.
February
26, 1928 - October 24, 2017
Jimmy Beaumont (Skyliners)
passed away on October 7, 2017, at the age of 76. R.I.P.
Guest book/obituary for Jimmy Beaumont on Legacy.com. James Beaumont
October
21, 1940 - October 7, 2017
Tom Petty passed away on
October 2, 2017, at the age of 66. R.I.P.
October
20, 1950 - October 2, 2017
Glen Campbell passed away
on August 8, 2017, at the age of 81. R.I.P.
Guest book/obituary for Glen Campbell on Legacy.com. Glen Travis Campbell
April
22, 1936 - August 8, 2017
Gary DeCarlo (Steam) passed
away on June 28, 2017, at the age of 75. R.I.P.
Guest book/obituary for Gary DeCarlo on Legacy.com. Gary DeCarlo
June
5, 1942 - June 28, 2017
Gregg Allman passed
away on May 27, 2017, at the age of 69. R.I.P.
Guest book/obituary for Gregg Allman on Legacy.com. Gregory LeNoir
Allman
December
8, 1947 - May 27, 2017
Cuba Gooding, Sr. (The
Main Ingredient) passed away on April 20, 2017, at the age of 72. R.I.P.
Guest book/obituary for Cuba Gooding, Sr. on Legacy.com. Cuba Gooding,
Sr.
April
27, 1944 - April 20, 2017
John "J" Geils (J. Geils
Band) passed away on April 11, 2017, at the age of 71. R.I.P.
February
20, 1946 - April 11, 2017
Chuck Berry passed away on
March 18, 2017, at the age of 90. R.I.P.
Guest book/obituary for Chuck Berry on Legacy.com. Charles Edward
Anderson Berry
October
18, 1926 - March 18, 2017
Al Jarreau passed away
on February 12, 2017, at the age of 76. R.I.P.
March
12, 1940 - February 12, 2017
Sonny Geraci of The Outsiders
and Climax passed away on February 5, 2017, at the age of 70. R.I.P.
Guest book/obituary for Sonny Geraci on Legacy.com. Emmett Peter
Geraci
November
22, 1946 - February 5, 2017
Richie Ingui of the Soul
Survivors passed away on January 13, 2017, at the age of 69. R.I.P.
Richie
Ingui
November
15, 1947 - January 13, 2017
Please
visit the In Memoriam section of this site for a comprehensive
list of passings (including links to obits/guestbooks on Legacy.com, where applicable).
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Check
out The Artists of Oldies Connection—a comprehensive section featuring thousands of
links to official sites and social network pages for hundreds of your favorite music artists from
the '50s, '60s and '70s! It's truly the "connection"
part of Oldies Connection; please check it out.
Cool Reads - book recommendations for lovers of oldies music.
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Weekly
blog post - Arrivals & Departures. Birthdays and passings for the week in (1950s, 1960s and 1970s) music history.
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Ronnie
Allen and the Jersey Girls Sing website have launched an exceptional page called Gone But Not Forgotten (a name that's shared with a page on Oldies Connection!), a comprehensive list of musicians and other entertainers
who have passed away since 2008. Gone But Not Forgotten includes links to info pages for each person listed,
and names can be sorted alphabetically as well as chronologically. Do stop by and take a look at it!
Take a look at Ronnie
Allen's Video Pages on the Jersey Girls Sing website! Ronnie has just added a cool new feature that lets you, the viewer,
select YouTube videos from an alphabetized list (or you can allow them to be selected for you randomly), then view all of
them on a single page. For some wonderful performance videos from the '50s and '60s, check out Ronnie's Video Pages! Who knows, you just might find a treasure you didn't know existed.
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Jersey Girls Sing - Denise Ferri (The Delicates) and Bernadette
Carroll ("Party Girl")
Musicradio WABC - Awesome tribute site to 77 WABC (New York City), featuring a wealth of
jingles and airchecks from the stations's Top Forty era (1961-1982)
Oldies deejay Ronnie Allen
has conducted interviews with a bevy of noted 50s and 60s recording artists. All of Ronnie's shows are permanently
archived on the Jersey Girls Sing! website. To check 'em out, please click
on the link for Ronnie's Radio Page. (By the way, if you listen to the debut show from 07
Aug 2007, as well as the Ron Dante interview from 03 Oct 2007, you'll hear a couple of cameo appearances by yours truly!)
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Book
recommendations:
Where Have All the Pop Stars
Gone? -- Volume 1. First in a series, this book by
Marti Smiley Childs and Jeff March catches up with 26 artists from seven 1950s/1960s acts. It's chock full of quotes,
facts, trivia, and lots of surprises! Click on the link above to read more about it. (P.S. Volumes 2 and 3 of the series is now available as well! Details and link are on the Volume 1 page.)
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