Big Chuck

Incredible!  Nobody really knows who wrote this song, but more than 500 artists have recorded it....including over 100 in the decade of the 1970s alone!

I got my hands on a 1947 menu from Oneonta's long-gone New Windsor Hotel.  This is funny.  Take a listen here:  

THIS is a fascinating story.  From an advertising campaign to a million selling record!  Hear the story by clicking here:

What a fascinating story I uncovered in my "Joe Campbell Lookback on Today in Sports History."  Take a listen:

I had the privilege of attending the memorial service for the late Gene Bettiol, Sr. yesterday at Foothills Performing Arts Center in Oneonta.  Here are my thoughts:

What a fascinating story about a million seller that was originally written with Spanish lyrics.  Leave it to "Mr. C" to make it his own.  Great story.  Check it out here:    

Blue Velvet is one of the great crooning songs of the baby boomer generation.  Sure, we know it as a classic sock hop hit for Bobby Vinton in 1963.  BUT>>  he was not the first artist who recorded it.  Look who had the first hit with this song in 1951!  Cl...

Last year, Christmas 2016, was not the best one I ever had. Trish's step-father, Mike, died on Christmas Eve at the age of 68.  Shortly after that my own Mom, Kate, went into the hospital for the last time and died a few weeks later at 90...

This morning in this segment we looked at one of the oldest Christmas songs in America.  You won't believe all the interesting trivia I found out about this song that was written 170 years ago!  Take a listen here:  

This morning in our "Seven O'clock Spotlight Song of the Hour" segment we took a look at a song that was a huge hit for Doris Day (in fact it became her signature song).  BUT>>>look what we discovered.  A singer in Australia had the biggest hit of the 1960s in that country.  And, ...