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Welcome to Oldies Connection
Welcome to Oldies Connection,
your one-stop-shopping place 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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NEW -
News and Releases. A "second homepage" for Oldies Connection featuring the latest on (and by) your faves!
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Oldies Connection page on Facebook - please "like" the page if you like this site! Would love for you to join us.
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Web links for almost 1,000 (!) artists
and groups from the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s!
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For links
to all my oldies-related websites and communities, please head on over to Laura's Oldies Sites
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If you
live in the Tampa Bay area of Florida (or visit frequently) - please join our Oldies Fans of Tampa Bay group on Facebook!
NEW
STUFF!!!
It's finally
here! 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.
This site is being expanded; lots
of new content coming soon. Please bookmark www.oldiesconnection.com and check back often!
Weekly blog post - Arrivals & Departures. Birthdays and passings for the week in (1950s, 1960s and 1970s) music history.
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Passings
of note:
Donna Summer passed away in Florida on
May 17, 2012. The "Queen of Disco" was 63 years old. Summer was perhaps best known for her sultry vocals on her 1975 release,
"Love to Love You, Baby."
LaDonna Adrian Gaines
December 31, 1948 – May 17, 2012
Beloved television host and producer Dick
Clark, the longtime host of American Bandstand and other TV programs and long considered the "world's oldest teenager," passed
away on April 18, 2012. R.I.P. Dick, and thank you for the role you played in the careers of so many of our favorite singers
and groups. You were loved, and you will be missed.
Richard Wagstaff "Dick" Clark
November
30, 1929 - April 18, 2012
Levon Helm of The Band passed away on April
19, 2012, after a long battle with throat cancer. As well as a musician, Levon was also an actor, appearing in several films
including Coal Miner's Daughter in which he played the role of Loretta Lynn's father.
Mark Lavon "Levon" Helm
May 26, 1940
- April 19, 2012
Check out Artie Wayne on the Web, an excellent blog you'll want to bookmark and visit often. Artie's a singer, songwriter, producer and publisher who
blogs about other singers, songwriters, producers and publishers he knew and worked with back in the day. Artie's blog entries
are always entertaining and informative!
Remember listening
to Herb Oscar Anderson on 77 WABC during the 1960s? Herb can now be heard every Saturday on WOSN-FM (97.1) in Vero Beach,
FL. The station doesn't stream over the Internet, but Herb's show is posted on the website every Monday. Just visit Herb's page to listen or download!
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.
Cool
new Internet radio website, Oldies Your Way! Features shows by DJ Stu (Weiss), who can be heard on The Pop Shoppe every Friday night and on the Sunday Night Doo-Wop Party. You can interact
with Stu and the other deejays in the chat room during their shows!
Tribute
Pages:
Television
host, disk jockey, emcee, writer, producer, movie star, singer, and author Clay Cole passed away at his North Carolina home
on December 18, 2010. R.I.P. Clay.
Please
scroll down for some info on how YOU can help get Clay inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Although this honor
may now be bestowed posthumously, it is well deserved and we know that Clay will be watching from Rock and Roll Heaven and
smiling. Please sign the petition to get him inducted.
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Please
sign the PETITION to get CLAY COLE inducted into the ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME!
We would like to petition
the induction of legendary TV, stage and film personality
Clay Cole into the Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame in the "Non-Performer" category.
Frankie Valli stated it well when he was quoted on the back cover of Clay's immensely popular new book
"Sh-Boom! The Explosion Of Rock 'N' Roll 1953-1968," which chronicles those memorable years:
"Back
in the day, EVERYBODY in New York watched Clay Cole."
Renowned New York Daily News
journalist David Hinckley put it this way:
"THE CLAY
COLE SHOW was one of television's greatest rock 'n' roll shows. Clay had the whole music industry to draw on, and watch him.
Clay Cole imprinted a powerful image onto the memory of a few million teenagers."...
To read the rest and sign the
petition, please
(To help you find your way around)
SPOTLIGHT SITES:
Jersey Girls Sing - Denise Ferri (The Delicates) and Bernadette Carroll ("Party Girl")
A couple of excellent
sites by my UK counterpart, Rosemarie:
Kris Ife - Singer, composer and producer, one of Mark Wirtz's frequent songwriting partners -
and what a voice!
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!)
Blogs:
Communities:
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.
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