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Monday Morning Blues

Back in 1973 while they were still playing in bars and clubs and 3 years before they signed their International record deal with Atlantic, Frank Zappa tried to sign this mega-group to his record label because he liked their energy and R&B foundation to their songs. Guess away

A great Steely Dan story.

1967 saw AFRTS' Military audience grow by 100,000 to 485,000. During the year they started satellite relay for some sporting events. It still wasn't live but instead of waiting for a week for tape the delay was only a day. Of course the big sports story was Ali refusing to be drafted. You can...

This is a drinkin' song

I admit it. I've got a thing for Wednesday

I like the song but I can't find the girl for WW?

Now see if you can get this one. <== Linky

WW

See, that wasn't so hard. I believe it is a pink 1966 Strat. It is pink and it is a Strat but I might have the year wrong.

Just because nobody wants to play doesn't mean I'm gonna stop. What did Jimi Hendrix contribute to this song?

TFT Bonus

Monday Morning Blues - Labor Day Edition

AFRTS starts 1966 playing to the 180,000 or so US troops stationed in country and end the year with 385,000 captive listeners. They add TV in Saigon showing week old sporting events and 1950's westerns along with some news and weather. There is some evidence that the VC and NVA also listened to...

Break out those Peach blunts! Happy Birthday!

Who?

#2 has a B52's vibe for sure.👍

WW Norma Deloris Egstrom had one of the longest and prolific careers in entertainment, She started singing at age 7, had a radio show at 16, was a singer for Benny Goodman, recorded 1100 songs and wrote or co-wrote 270 of them. Appeared in movies and TV over a 7 decade career. Plus she sang...