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(Evanston, IL) The Northwestern Wildcats fought back from a double digit deficit to tie their game with the Buckeyes on a long three-pointer by Alex Marcotullio with seven seconds to go. Unfortunately, just as they had been unable to do all night, they allowed OSU’s all world forward Jared Sullinger to sink a chip shot [...]
Some people, like my friend Les Grobstein, Chicago sports maven, have long turned their noses up at the wide world of tournament poker as a feat of athletic prowess. After outlasting 500 of the 537 entrants into event #5 of the 2012 Chicago Poker Classic, I can debunk that with certainty. I cannot drive a [...]
The song was written by Norman Whitfield and Barrett Strong and originally recorded by The Temptations. This recording was released as a single back in 1969 by Cuban-born Latin Jazz percussionist, Mongo Santamaria and featuring some blazing sax work by Grant Reed. Mongo was most famous for his recording of Herbie Hancock’s “Watermelon Man” and [...]
1972 was also a leap year and a great album by Joni Mitchell was released as well. Let’s take a listen to one of my favorites from it. Click the cover to play. Joni Mitchell, CC (born Roberta Joan Anderson; November 7, 1943) is a Canadian musician, singer songwriter, and painter.[1] Mitchell began singing in [...]
1964, The Yardbirds played at the Rhythm and Blues Festival at The Town Hall, Birmingham, England. 1966, Liverpool’s Cavern Club, made famous by the Beatles’ residency there, closes and is later turned into a subway station. 1968, Frankie Lymon was found dead at his mother’s house in New York of a suspected drug overdose, he [...]
As if it wasn’t enough that last year finally saw the release of the great lost “Smile” album by The Beach Boys, this year we get the original “Bat Chain Puller” by the good Captain Beefheart. The story in a nutshell involves financial finagling back in 1976 by Herb Cohen, the manager of both Frank [...]
It’s not spring yet but we’re getting there. Today’s 1972 cut is one of my favorites from Fleetwood Mac..Title track to Bare Trees. Click the album cover to play. Fleetwood Mac are a British-American rock band formed in 1967 in London. The only original member present in the band is its eponymous drummer, Mick Fleetwood. [...]
1964, The Rolling Stones made their second appearance on BBC TV show Top Of The Pops performing ‘Not Fade Away.’ 1965, The first date of a 21 twice- nightly UK package tour with Del Shannon, Wayne Fontana & the Mindbenders and Herman’s Hermits, at Sheffield’s City Hall, England. 1967, Pink Floyd recorded their first single [...]
This Sunday, March 4th host and creator of Vinyl Schminyl Radio Bob Stern sits down with music legend Billy Corgan to riff on favorite tunes, fellow guitarists, Smashing Pumpkins and growing up “Chicago” in 60 minutes of nonstop conversation and music you won’t want to miss. Find the interview on http://www.vinylschminyl.com (Click on the Vinyl [...]
By 1991, Elvis Costello released “Mighty Like A Rose,” his second album for the Warner Bros. label. It was the follow-up to the critically hailed yet relatively flat album “Spike” and hits big hit song “Veronica” co-written by Paul McCartney. Costello and McCartney had also written a clutch of songs that turned up on Maccas [...]
