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Golden Oldies Music

The music of the 50's, 60's and 70's holds a special memory for those of us who grew up with it. It was music you could sing along with, music you could dance to, music you fell in love with. Now, there's a special place for all of us who treasure-- Oldies Music!

 

Harold “Hal” Kalin, one of the Kalin Twins of “When” fame, died August 23 in Waldorf, Mariland. He was 71. Hal and Herb Kalin were identical twins born in Port Jervis, New York in 1934 (Hal was the “oldest”). In the mid-Fifties, they formed a duo to sing hits from the pre-rock'n'roll era, especially Johnnie Ray's, but the crowds went wild when they added some Everly Brothers numbers. The Brill Building songwriter Paul Evans submitted "When" to the Kalin Twins' record producer, Jack Pleis, but he placed it in a pile of reject records. The twins, however, went to his office and they started playing the discarded songs by mistake. The producer was too embarrassed to tell them that he had rejected it. He let them cut it as the flip-side of “Three O’Clock Thrill”. DJs soon soon started playing "When", though, and it became a top ten hit. More Info

 

 

This Day In History

Thursday October 27

The late Floyd Cramer ("Last Date") is born in 1933

Bonnie Lou ("Daddy-O") is 71

Sonny marries Cher (it lasts 12 years), 1964

Johnny Cash is misdiagnosed as having Parkinson's Disease (later, doctors say he had Shy-Drager Syndrome-apparently, he had neither), 1997

Cher is not allowed to build a home in Malibu, California and sues the city as a result, 1992

Bruce Springsteen is featured on the covers of both Time and Newsweek magazines on the same day, 1975

Ben E. King records "Stand By Me" and "Spanish Harlem", 1960