Looking forward to the record release party this Saturday at the Mt. Prospect Borders store. The new album features four songs by local Chicago acts: the Flock, New Colony Six, the Family and Rotary Connection.
3. CAN'T YOU SEE ME SMILE-- NEW COLONY SIX-- They'll be out at Oakbrook with us today (for the first record release party). A Top Ten Hit (Chicago), summer 1968. Written by Ray Graffia. (My favorite Chicago 60s band followed closely by the Cryan' Shames.)
4. SUMMERTIME BLUES-- BLUE CHEER-- originally hit the radio back in 1958 by the late great Eddie Cochran. Ten years later it was back in your radio by this trio out of San Francisco. (How to do a Heavy Metal song.)
5. GIMME, GIMME GOOD LOVIN'-- CRAZY ELEPHANT-- Back in the late '60s, Jerry Kastenetz and Jeff Katz who were movers and shakers behind a genre of music known as Bubblegum. They produced hits for the 1910 Fruitgum Company and the Ohio Express amongst many others, including this band who really wasn't. They were really studio musicians. Their one and only hit from 1968. (One of my favorites, but, hey, I really liked that good 'ol Bubblegum Music.)
6. CAN'T YOU SEE (THAT I REALLY LOVE HER-- FLOCK-- Another local band from the '60s that called themselves the Flock. This is one of their most-requested songs on this album and never been on compact disc before, but now it is. The Flock's first local hit from the late '66 early '67 making its CD premier. (I have to admit that I had never heard it.)
Three Days to Mt. Prospect.
Not Finished Yet. --RoadDog
Being an account of some things I'm interested in, what I'm doing, and reflections on my past, especially music.
Listen to this man. Seven years of college, you know. Trying to reason with 2020 and, now, 2022.
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