"How Chicago Rocked The 60's" (Documentary about Chicago garage bands of the 60's)
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- "How Chicago Rocked The 60's" was a 2001 documentary, narrated by Bob Sirott, which featured mid-to-late 60's Chicago-area 'garage' bands whose records made Top 40 AM radio and who performed in Chicago-area teen clubs: Chicago, New Colony Six, Buckinghams, Shadows of Knight, Ides of March, Cryan' Shames, and American Breed. Also included are the popular AM radio stations, WLS & WCFL... and The Cellar teen club in Arlington Heights. *Chicago, the BAND is featured at 21:54.*
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🎸Please Note🎵: *THE ACTUAL TITLE OF THIS PBS PROGRAM WAS... "HOW CHICAGO ROCKED THE 60's"* as in Chicago the CITY. Chicago the BAND is featured @21:54. 😉
In fairness, they didn’t change their name to Chicago until around 1970.
@@Seanakin True! But most don't even think about that. I've had quite a few since-deleted comments about how the title was "misleading" or "click bait."
@@60s70sChicagoRock I grew up near Chicago so I could understand why some people could be confused by the title of the program. Now if they only had named it "How the city of Chicago rocked during the 1960s", I believe that would have eliminated the confusion.
@@jaybee5659 Yes, it probably would have! 😄
I lived in Chicago in 1965 and it was wo nderful ....💖 we went to Rush street every weekend...😀
The Shadows of KNIGHT were from my high school, Prospect High. The "knight" in their name was homage to our HS team, the Prospect Knights.
Remember doing the dinner dishes with my older brother listening to WLS on his transistor radio sitting on the kitchen window sill back in the mid 60s.
Thanks for this!!! Larry Lujack...oh yeah! I grew up in Niles, in the 60's. My dad had a side job, collecting quarters from pool tables, and placing new 45's in juke boxes in north Chicago area bars and clubs. So, we had a juke box at home, and all the 45's we wanted!!!! It was so cool being an adolescent, and teen when all this artistic, and progressive music was being aired. Great times and memories!
+Dale Stroker You are welcome.... and were quite lucky to have all that free music back then!
Sorry that I didn't know you,
I grew up in Niles in the 60's as well, over on Shermer Rd.
Lived near Lutheran General hospital and went to Maine East HS. Take good care....we grew up in a cool surburb! Remember Papa Joe's in Park Ridge? It was formerly called The Deep End, when I was an early teem in the late 60's.
Yes, I do remember The Deep End, and The Green Gorilla. Good times, and great music.
A wonderful time, and place in space to grow up in.
The Cellar Club, Arlington Hts!
I grew up in the 60s listening to AM rock on WLS with my little 9V AM transistor radio hidden in my jacket pocket. I had an earphone so that I could listen to it while in class. I used to scrounge the alleys in my neighborhood looking for discarded musical instruments that I could fix and then try to play by ear. Later, in the late 60s, when I was taking basic training in the Army at Ft. Gordon, GA I could pickup the signal from WLS at night.
Wow dude that’s groovy
Ditto on WLS, I could pick them up in Sioux City, Iowa and Omaha, Nebraska at night. Very powerful station!!
Dex Cards Wild Goose Friday, Saturday & Sunday ,and Sunday was at the Armory in Hammond some of the best music ever
In the 70s, someone had a regular thing where they booked local bands into big rooms around Chicago on Friday, Saturday Sunday nights. They played in Evanston (IIRC) on Fridays, Aurora on Saturdays and at the Sherwood Club in Sherrerville on Sundays. Styx were regulars as was Kracker. I was sitting on the floor at the Sherwood Club one Sunday night listening to Styx, and when they did Lady, I got a bit freaked out cause it looked like Dennis was staring at me while he was singing it. After the song ended, the gal sitting next to me elbowed me and said "Don't worry, that's my husband". Chicago rock was like that. I recall many a battle of the bands, and my high school clique had a garage band we called Felicia Sims. Played a few school dances around NW Indiana and fairly regularly at the South Haven Youth Center in Portage.
WLS was a power AM station, like WJR in Detroit. I remember trips down south with my parents in the late 60's, being able to get Tiger baseball games on WJR, and dialing around and picking up another station called WLS and found out it was from Chicago. That was a cool discovery for a youngster back then. 🤓
I posted this then I scrolled down and saw your comment.
I grew up just east of South Bend Indiana. We could get WL in Chicago on the radio. There was nothing else like it in Northern IN.
I always look forward to a clear winter night when I lived in Philadelphia and was able to pick up a strong signal from WLS 😄😄😄😄😄😄
Clear channel designations. Many still operate that way.
Do any of you who actually WERE there at that age and time? Do you remember calling the WLS phone lines and talking to people between the beeps of the busy signal?
RIP Terry Kath
What a phenomenal guitarist and singer/songwriter he was. Indeed R.I.P. Terry Kath!
No mention of the Butterfield Blues Band. One of the most innovative bands of the 60's.
@clarkewi True, there were many influential Chicago area bands in this time period. See the description under the video that explains this program's primary focus, which would not include the Butterfield Blues Band.
I remember listening to these great bands on WLS and WCFL at night down here in the south. Most of the time a got a good signal, but there was interference from a 600,000 watt station in Brazil, and a 150,000 watter in Cuba.
I lived in the Chytown burbs in the 60's and it was great! We thought it would never end.
For a period of time in the 70s, the Ides of March and the Cryan Shames merged and billed themselves as the Ides of Shame. They were booked to play our senior prom in Hobart in 1974, but some dope put the wrong date on the band's contract. Pretty much summed up my high school experience.
Radio has always been there for me. I used to listen to Radio Luxembourg when I was in Sweden--another dynamic and influential radio station. I'm a seventies kid, but I'd have loved to be a part of this radio wave.
Wow!! WLS WCFL?? I haven't thought of those stations in a gazillion years.
When my parents moved to Florida I could pick up those station on a good night, I missed home that much.
I live near Madison WI. There's a show on WORT FM on Saturday night, Rockin' John's I Like It Like That. Tonight he did pretty much everything on here. Great tunes. When he played You Wouldn't Listen by Ides of March, totally blew me away, the same band (somewhat) that released Vehicle in 1970. Mainlined WLS back when I was a little kid in the 60s and 70s.
Stuart Ross - I've heard some of their shows and interviews with 60's Chicago area band members in the past few years.
I once remarked that when our temple band plays one of the prayer settings, it sounds like a New Colony Six ballad. Unfortunately, in spite of the fact our cantor was in Chicago awhile, he didn't know what I was talking about.
If you really love Chicago Transit Authority music you need to listen to this bunch of Russians called Leonid and Friends. They will blow you away.
Love them! From a show I went to: th-cam.com/video/ANbpj0xI7yo/w-d-xo.html
Yes! Great covers, very energetic, great sound.
Yes, I have enjoyed their music. 👍
To bad they're Russian because I refuse to listen to anything from Putins evil empire
@@johnbeardshall2898
You know John, the government of a given country rarely reflects on the lives and beliefs of the common people of said country. There are now riots in the streets of Russia against Putin's self-appointed dictatorship. Thousands of people are risking everything to voice their opinion against him.
9:52 the Buckinghams, my favorite then and now, Don't You Care......
Mercy, Mercy, Mercy was The Buckinghams best music ever. It had the Chicago Blues/Soul influence, and horns, and was done really well vocally.
Some of the others I remember besides Chicago I remember are The Buckinghams and the Ides of March. Also, many of the songs featured in the documentary are available on TH-cam. Great stuff.
Larry Launstein Jr. - I have a number of vids on my channel of The Buckinghams, Ides, New Colony Six, Cryan' Shames, etc.... past and 'present'. I started seeing these groups in the suburban teen clubs when I was 14. What a great time that was!
I've already looked at a couple and subscribed to your feed.
th-cam.com/users/onlythebginningfeatured 😉
How I would have given to be a bit older then. I'm from Michigan, and currently in grad school at Marshall University, Huntington, WV. We Are ... MARSHALL!
When the Beatles hit the states in1964 it spawned thousands of groups here but unfortunately never got airplay and the recognition they deserved. As a collector and seller of obscure us 60s groups it has to be said much of the music produced certainly equalled and in many cases was superior to the Beatles output in 1965 and 1966. Luckily we are able to sample this music available on vinyl and cd.los Angeles produced some great obscurities in 1965. Can be heard on the high in the mid 60s series..Rog. Pacific sunset records.
Went to LTJC with some of the Cryan' Shames back in 65-66, they were then the Travelers (changed name when they got a label), Tom Doody, Gerry Stone (had a class with), Dave Purple. They were almost the junior college house band for Friday night mixers up on the 3rd floor, North Campus in LaGrange. Met Bob Hale. Didn't Howard Miller on WIND play some R&R music in the late 50's before WLS switched from Farm reports?
Michael Long - Thanks for sharing those memories about the Shames from way back. I first saw them at a high school dance venue in late '66 and several dozen times since! Good question about Howard Miller... I vaguely remember the name, but I was only 8 in '60 when we moved to the Chicago area. (The first DJ I listened to was Dick Biondi, lol.) Miller may have played some r&r, but from what I've read, it sounds like he was more of a Pat Boone/anti r&r kinda guy!
Awesome!! Thanks for sharing this 🙄
kathleen farris You're welcome!
Chicago and Blood, Sweat and Tears. Rock and Roll BANDS!
wait Chicago had a blues station!!!!! I grew up on wls Larry Lujack ....i'm 51
There were two R&B/Soul stations, WVON (owned by Chess) and WFYR.
Good old uncle Larry and lil Tommy!!!
Many thanks for some fine memories rekindled.
The City of Chicago gave us the music that rocked the 60,s.The Windy City always had great blues artist that in the 60,s transcended into the talents of varied bands throughout The Loop.The music was incredible and thanks to a ratings war between The Big 89 WLS and Big 10 WCFL as each top 40 powerhouse tried to get local talent started and charted.The sound of Chicago was Incredible with unbelievable talents that started in The Midwest and eventually was heard around the world!!
Mike Mangan Well said! :D
WOW, I just became 12 years old again !!!!
Danny Seraphine of Chicago owned a nightclub/music venue in Schaumburg (or Hoffman Estates) in the mid 70s. Does anyone remember it? What happened to it? I used to go there many Saturdays when I was 21.
@John David The club that he owned was B'Ginnings, in Schaumburg. I went there quite a few times, too. It closed in 1980 when Poplar Creek started booking all the good bands. It then became an Illinois DMV, which is still there today. Good article: www.thefullwiki.org/B%27Ginnings
Terry Kath from Chicago,what a tragedy!The guy that intimidated Hendrix!
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I think the correct word should be "impressed", not "intimidated"....
Now if you listen to the stories and the people that knew them at the time, while they had a mutual respect for each other Hendrix was indeed intimidated by Terry! You can be PC all you want but the fact remains that the two of them felt intimidated by one another, Hendrix moreso than Terry. I don't write the folklore I just read it! Hendrix always was and will always be my first influence and people find it hard to believe that any guitarist would intimidate him and I get that, but there were a few guitarists that were catching up to him at the time and he knew it! Just a couple of nights before Hendrix died he had a jam session at Ronnie Scott's with the guitarist from Eric burdens group War.Legend has it that the guitarist was so good it pissed Hendrix off lol. Look it up if you don't believe me, you can't make that s*** up.... well you probably could but I'm not LOL!
@@Marshall-uy2dv Utter nonsense. Hendrix intimidated Clapton -- plenty of evidence. Zero evidence for your assertion. Stephen Stills was playing with -- and in the same style as -- Hendrix before Jimi knew Kath. LMFAO!!
@@moonrich3492 Yawn.
In the 1950's Chicago was next to Philadelphia, PA the most powerful state for the burgeoning Rock & Roll Industry. As you know it was home to Chess Records whose Artists influenced The Beach Boys, Beatles, Rolling Stones and The Yardbirds.
I did some reading to learn more about Baby Huey and the Baby Sitters. From what little he left behind musically and that he had some soul heavyweights with him and helping him. He probably would have made it big if he hadn't died.
There was something about his work that moves me.
@@larrylaunsteinjr5087
Saw him many times. He was really a talented man.
And here I though these tune's were all done with the Wrecking Crew backing them......
aaaa Bob . . . YOU ~ ROCK ! !
Does anyone remember hearing the Subterranean Circus, I think it was on Sunday night on the other top 40 station?
@J E On WCFL! They played some great album and progressive tracks, pre-FM radio hits.
@@60s70sChicagoRock Thanks for verifying the program was on the air. Really would enjoy hearing some hearing some of those programs again.
Oh hell yes could not wait till Sunday night
too young to be inspired or experienced, it shows, but fun for locals at the moment
Did anyone else think this was about the band "Chicago"?...lol.
Common mistake! That's why I picked a thumbnail that showed another group (The Buckinghams). 😉
@@60s70sChicagoRock yeah I should've picked up on that..lol.
I did!
No. The city had it's own sound...just like Philadelphia had their own sound.
- No.
Great times! I was in one of those "basement" bands they mentioned. Most of our practices were in church halls, but I do remember one practice in my parents basement that didn't go well. A neighbor called the Chicago cops because we were too loud. The cops told us that they couldn't find our location at first, but that the kids dancing in the alley gave us away. The neighbor actually apologized when she realized it was us.
In the 60s, I was a teenager growing up in a suburb of Chicago. I would often listen to WLS or WCFL on a small transistor radio under my pillow at bedtime. My favorite Disc Jockeys were Larry Lujack, Art Roberts, and Dick Biondi.
Once I remember one of those stations reporting a paranormal sighting nearby and even identified the location on the air. I convinced my father to drive me there. Instead of seeing any ghosts, the rock band The McCoys were playing Hang On Sloopy in a clearing of a local forest. Lots of people were also fooled. But we did enjoy the music.
Also, I remember going to my local record store to pick up the WLS Silver Dollar Survey each week.
Great to hear these bands again and their stories until now I thought the Buckingham's were British!
Y'all left out Terry Kath who was the founder of Chicago. He was one of the very best guitarist of all time. Even Jimi Hendrix was in awe of Terry Kath. It's just unfortunate that he shot himself in the head. Cheers from eastern TN
W. Rusty Lane - The program was about bands, and Chicago was one that was featured here. In addition, Terry Kath was not the founder of the Chicago... it was Walt Parazaider. You can read the bio of the band on their website. chicagotheband.com/a-chicago-story/
I remember Larry Lujack and Tommy Edwards on WLS. I remember they did a morning skit called animal stories.
LOVED Animal Stories and had the albums they sold of them to benefit some children's charity. Listened every night on the way home from work in the early 1980s. Great humor and great team - Larry and Tommy.
Snot nosed Tommy!
'Ol uncle Larr.... and there he is, little snot nose Tommy...
Why? Music programs. Music programs in high school. Earth Wind and Fire also started in Chicago.. Great program. I miss Chicago and Bob Sirott!
2024, 23yrs later, Peterik looks more like he's in a rock band now than he did in 2001:^)
My band, “The Field of Content”… opened for both The New Colony Six, and later… Spanky and Our Gang… at The Red Rooster club, in Indiana, PA, back in the 60s.
Both bands were really good. Sounded a lot like their records, live. Couldn’t say that about all the bands we’d open for back then. Ronnie Rice, of The New Colony Six, was a really nice guy.
My cousin was in the group the Mauds. It was great to hear their records on the radio. Hold On and Soul Drippin. They did a version of "Try a little tenderness" that was great. My favorite of those days was The Cryin Shames - they could have been as big as some of the greatest bands in those days, but, there were so many problems holding a band together in the 1960's. I know from my cousin's stories.
The Beatles last ticketed concert was in 1966!
There was a dance club called the Rumpus Room in Belvidere il. A lot of these groups came there. Belvidere qroup was the Esquires. Rockford's group were the Grim Reapers. Aka (Cheap Trick). There was another place to play in Rockford called The Ice Chelat. They were great times. We had a lot of fun.
That vocalist for The Buckinghams had talent. Funny, to have a hit record fifty years ago, you had to know how to SING!
Russ G - And how! Dennis Tufano still tours and he still has the chops! artistecard.com/DennisTufano#!/bio
Yes, Dennis Trufano. I got "Susan" played on BBC-6 back in the summer, but it didn't catch on. BBC-6 is the largest Indie station in Europe - I thought The Buckinghams might strike a chord.
Yup. Overdubs were rare, and processing did not exist. Most records were cut what we'd today call "direct to disk", with a single take and no editing of the tape.
I swear those bands from Chicago are hugely influenced by the diverse scene they grew up with. All of them are amazing
I was a sophomore at Lane Tech when I saw Gary and the Nitelites at the YMCA at Fullerton and Central Park. That was 1963. How would I know they would eventually become the American Breed?
CHICAGO HAD AND STILL HAVE THE BEST HORN SECTION EVER!!! THERE NONE LIKE CHICAGO EVER WILL BE
The music of Chicago is fabulous! You might want to listen to the Russian Tribute Band, "Leonid and Friends". It's amazing! These people are in their 20's, 30's etc. and they are carrying on the legacy of the great music that Chicago played, now that the original band members are in their 70's.
Excellent horns to be sure but please check this out: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Memphis_Horns
Tower of Power from Oakland, CA will give them a real run for their money.
...and longevity.
"Gloria" was a big hit ...... for sure! (and all the garage bands were playin' it at the dances)
WLS and WCFL were known to those in the South. We could hear the both of them after dark, we couldn't wait till dark!
I saw the Buckinghams in Owensboro, Ky as part of the Dick Clark Caravan of Stars. I was well-impressed. By that time, I had a band and was writing songs. I still like the pop sound the Buckinghams did so well.
"GLORIA" was the song that all garage bands of the day, would play!
That and "The House of the Rising Sun" and "Little Black Egg".
I was the drummer in my 1st college band. We played a lot of oldies. The beauty of Gloria is that just about anybody could sing it - and this song plus “Stepping Stone” by The Monkees are the two songs that I would go out front and play the bass and sing lead on.
All three chords of Gloria but I still like playing it.
Gloria was first recorded by Them featuring Van Morison.
@@angelaackerman8934 He wrote it too. Other claim that. They just adjust lyrics for air play.
In the 60's while I was in high school, we had a weekly dance at the American Legion Hall in McDonough, GA, and each weekend usually had a different band. There were 4 or 5 different groups some from other cities. Those were the days. I was in a band for a little while before going into the Marine Corps and off to Vietnam. Cheers from eastern TN
Thank you for your service.
Roger McGuinn is from Chicago
Where he was known by his given name, Jim ...
It's a cryan shame that this documentary omitted the Del-Vetts (later the Pride and Joy). In '66, they release a few monster singles, which included "Last Time Around" and "That's the Way It Is," the latter being the b-side of "I Call My Baby STP" -- both on Dunwich Records.
Being from Mt. Prospect and went to PHS, I sure do miss those days. Class of 70.
Back then. we, out in the rural South, could pick up the AM radio giants WLS and WCFL, after sundown. It was our refuge from mediocrity, and high school brutality.
I had a tinny transistor radio that I hid under my pillow so I could listen to the Art Roberts show on WLS when I was supposed to be sleeping. Some nights I could get a Detroit station playing Motown. Listening to this is a trip down memory lane, but hey baby, the Buckinghams' cover of the Beatles tune "I Should Have Known Better" is SO painful 😬😝😬
@Rock and Roll Woman Did the same thing... mostly when Dick Biondi was on. I agree about the Beatles' cover by the Buckinghams. But that was when they were still babies!
I grew up just east of South Bend Indiana. We could get WLS or WCFL in Chicago on the radio. There was nothing else like it in Northern IN.
Loved LS while attending ND
FYI.....American Woman/No Sugar tonight is by the CANADIAN band the Guess Who, out of WINNIPEG, MANITOBA, CANADA...........you're welcome......:)
@FMHammyJ FYI, the picture was focusing on "Vehicle" by the Ides of March, at #2 on the Billboard Hot 100. You're welcome. 😁
The Guess Who recorded in Chicago.
Oddly enough, the New Colony Six at one time shared digs with Paul Revere and the Raiders. Both groups got a shock when they found out they were wearing almost identical outfits 😀
Larry Lujack -- My favorite DJ of all time.
+Tully Bascombe he was the best
+Tully Bascombe I grew up listening to WLS and Larry Lujack. Great times and memories.
They sure were, Phil
Tully Bascombe , Turn into Peanut butter!
Berwyn, There IS No Berwyn!
I remember meeting Dex Card, one of the WLS DJs, at a Sears store on the North Side(Lawrence Ave) for a promotional appearance in 64 or 65. This was during the height of the British Invasion, such a cool time.
As a former rock ‘n’ roll DJ in Northern California, I truly appreciate the great backstory and interviews. I have some wonderful memories of the greatest music to come out of Chicago!
Im a 73 year old transistor sister and I always listened to WLS but I didn't like Dick Biondi talking through the songs.
I just saw them last Thursday for the 37th time. Bob Lamm Jimmy Pankow and Lee Loughane are still pounding out the hits. Not quite as good as the first time I saw them in 1982 but pretty darn good. Go see them as I'm sure they will be in your city soon and for the next 50 years.....long live Chicago!
Top radio show was Dick Biondi at WLS. I interviewed him at the studio. Also saw Beatles live in ‘64.
WLS in Chicago: will it be hot , cold, rain, snow. I met Dex Card from WLS at a promotion in a Sears store on Lawrence Avenue in 1965.
Jim Nesta I'm so glad somebody mentioned that. Many of their little ditties are stuck in my head. What is the weather for the weekend going to be.... :)
WLS was the station to listen to in the 60’s. Top 3 songs at 10 o’clock every night. Great times
I grew up on WLS and CKLW in the sixties, great time to be alive
WLS’s signal would fade in and out from time to time depending on where you lived. I live in Tennessee
@@billbagwell1105 In the summer of 1969 I was stationed at an Army fort near Augusta Georgia and one night when I was going through the dial of an AM radio I picked up the weak and wavering signal of WLS. I knew for sure because I heard the familiar musical jingle that I mentioned earlier. Being a lower frequency signal, the signal would normally propagate along the ground - ground wave. At night the ionosphere, a weak plasma, could reflect radio waves that would normally pass through - called sporadic E skip. This is the dominant mode of propagation for higher frequency short wave radio. Sometimes a radio wave can skip off the ionosphere and surface of the Earth multiple times.
The buckinghams were a great band but the band Chicago was awesome!
what a great show, i'm glad i tuned in. i never realized all these groups came out of chicago, alot of awesome sweet tunes from my era.
I still love the Cryan shames and shadows of knight - and the Young Rascals (non chicago) were in Florida years ago
I played golf with JC Hook this Spring in Lombard this year. "Sugar &spice and everything nice🎵"
In Mexico the song “Vehicle” of The Ides of March was a big big big hit.
Man those were the days. What happened to music?
I'm 64. There is plenty of great new music by artists from the past as well as new artists. You may not find it on an old fashioned radio, though. 😁
Why isn't The Paul Butterfiled Blues Band here? That's a good Chicago band that even inspired Cream, Hendrix and the Stones. Can't you hear me knocking was very much inspired by "East West" by Paul Butterfield.
Unfortunately, the title of this program is a bit misleading... but I tried to clarify it in my description under the video. It focuses ONLY on those Chicago AM radio/top 40 'garage' bands, which were in a genre all of their own.
And Robbie Krieger of the Doors.
I'm originally from Chicago but left there in the early 80s. Didn't know most of these bands were from Chicago, good program!
At long last, I found the music of The Flock and have added it to my Spotify feed - The best of 60s Chicago-area bands. At the end of the feed!
@Larry Launstein Jr I just started using the 'free' version again after several years and found your profile while looking for Chicago bands music! So now you have another follower. 😉 open.spotify.com/playlist/6CpvF9VqI24w4F6btvlA0M
Best music ever
Great time to be a teenager and living only 100 miles south of Chicago listening to WLS
Dx ed to WLS and CFL any nites in eastern Michigan as a kid and listened to Uncle Larry's animal stories when I worked in Chicago. Good times
Motown. Chicago. Philly. All of Texas. Memphis. New York and L.A. Where does the great music stop? NO WHERE IN THE USA.
Wow! I grew up listening to these bands, and more through the '70's. I lived south of Chicago, in Kankakee county. Didn't even realize that a lot of these groups were actually FROM Chicago! :)
WCFL had the best lineup of DJ’s,Joel Sebastian,Jim Stagg,Ron Britain,Barney Pip and of course Dick Biondi,I might have missed some but sometimes age takes over and can’t remember everything.
And don't forget Chickenman!
I grew up in rural south central Wisconsin and WLS was the only station for me in the 60s. I also had the opportunity to meet Ronnie Rice long ago and created a web page for him back in the day, the only one out there at the time. He was a real gentleman and amazingly talented. I was lucky that he was appearing with the NC6 that day in the northwest suburbs.
Growing up in the 60s I remember most of these groups and songs. Without a doubt, this material were highlights of the era. Music changed a lot after the 60s...but thank goodness for The Buckinghams, Spanky & Our Gang and The New Colony Six! (Great video, thanks for posting this trip down Memory Lane).
@Scott Meli Thanks for watching!
11:16 Now ain't that your typical frustrated silly little man ? Even though Gloria's lyrics had an obvious meaning , the lyrics mentioned he probably only heard in his own dirty mind , because they are not from the original Van Morrison Gloria composition. "Shadows Of Knight" found it necessary to only change the line "And Then She Comes To My Room" into "She Calls Out My name". Oh well..........
it's good though they didn't force Shadows Of Knight to change the title of their first "Back Door Men" release 👍😜 Welcome to Uncle Sam's virtuous family values.
One of my fondest memories is WLS playing a Van Morrison song on AM radio while riding in a convertible with some older teens, guys, and gals on the way to a Michigan lake to go swimming. It was a beautiful sunny, summer day. It was either "Brown-Eyed Girl" or "Moondance."
I’ve always lived on the West Coast, and in the late ‘60s and early ‘70s, I listened to WLS and on a good night, WCFL! The Ides Of March’s “Vehicle” is a killer! The Cryan Shames and The American Breed were great bands. Spanky and Our Gang used to play day gigs in the parking lot of my neighborhood music store in the L.A. suburbs!
lol - Bob Sirott ??? old school Chicago DJ !!! ROSELLE - suburban "LITTLE ITALY" !!
Clark Weber, Art Roberts, Dick Biondi, Larry Lujack, etc.. were all in my rock’n roll hall of fame growing up as a young teen in Dixon.
I use to listen to those DJ's all the way from Texas on my transistor radio.
Here in the East Coast South, many of us could pull in the AM powerhouse stations, as our own stations mercifully signed off at dark. WLS, WCFL WOWO and others were the AM favorites of tens of thousands or high school and college students. This is almost painful nostalgia. Time machine, please?
What a great program this is, no dull moments at all. The Buckinghams released a number of top quality tunes later in their career that didn't get the recognition they deserved. "Back in love again" failed to crack the Top 40 and after that, their subsequent singles got even less airplay. Songs like "Where did you come from" and "It's a beautiful day" had hit written all over them, but went nowhere. What happened?
@Richard Pandolfo "Back in Love Again" was probably my favorite. It did reach #32 here in Chicago, but should've done much better. Less air play may have had something to do with James Guercio leaving to manage The Big Thing/CTA/Chicago in '68. Also a couple band members had changed around that same time. Thanks for watching!
I remember getting in trouble for cutting out a 45 of Gloria by the Shadows of Night from the back of a box of breakfast cerial before it was empty.
Cryan Shames!!
We were SO there!!! Blue Village.... Lied to mom every wkend!!
On Edison Rd, Mishawaka IN had a place called Edison Light that played music for teens. It had movies, pictures and light shows of stuff like pulsing liquid colors on big screens.
This is a fantastic video. I'm from Pittsburgh, where the scene was a lot smaller scene than Chicago. Two killer DJs in our town broke a lot of hits nationally. Porky Chedwick (along with Wolfman Jack) was one of two white DJs nationally to first play R&B music on a "white" radio station. Porky also started playing his 1950s "dusty disks" as "oldies" in the 1960s, a concept that lasted for decades. We also had Terry Lee, who produced The Swamp Rats and owned a couple dance halls in town. Terry Lee will be remembered for his show "Songs For Young Lovers", which was the soundtrack for submarine race watching for over 15 years. All gone from the airwaves now, thanks to corporate policies of uniformity. Thank the Lord for TH-cam's memory hole!
SafeSpace47 - Pittsburgh was the birthplace of Doo-Wop and some great 60's artists like Lou Christie, The Vogues, and Tommy James and the Shondells. Thanks for commenting! :)
Man!! Awesome documentary!!! These songs invoke an imagery and nostalgia for Chicago back then that's gone now!!
I grew up in Lagrange and Hinsdale in the 1970s great times. Never new the crying shame was from Hinsdale. Cool
Loved their album A Scratch in the Sky as a kid. I grew up next to Lagrange. Hinsdale was named for my great granddad
In the early 60s, as a farm boy in SW Mich, I'd be in bed every night with my transistor radio tuned to WLS in Chicago & Dick Biondi. Exciting times in the 60s, you never knew what new band or song was gonna break next.
Life was exciting with the coolest DJ & music.
Great,EC.Wish I was listening then. I would tune in to WLS at night with my transistor radio in the early-mid 70's as a grade school kid from southern MN(and under my pillow after 10PM). I would hear Blues from 50's-60's. An amazing time.
I did the same only it was 10:00 and listened to Art Roberts.
@@kare1972bear Tried to stay awake to catch the next episode of Peter Fugitive.
I’m from the far south side of Chicago, grew up listening to all of these bands, it shocked me finding out some of these bands I grew up with and never knew some were from the Chicago area.
I worked as a brand new airplane mechanic at Howell airport in Crestwood when Gary Loizzo was learning to fly there. I didn't know who he was musically until later and tried to find my old copy of Bend Me Shape Me on 45 to get it autographed but Mom had tossed it years earlier along with the old baseball cards, etc. But he was a great guy and would talk music with me whenever we had a chance. Good times, good times.
John Taylor Great story. RIP Gary 😢