Flashback for LOVIN’ SPOONFUL – to days when they were just kids

November 18, 2024

Special from ANN MOSES in Hollywood, New Musical Express, 26 August 1966 JOHN SEBASTIAN Three years to perfect marbles TO BE TRANSPORTED at a young age from the cold haunts of Greenwich Village in New York to a castle on the sunny slopes of Italy could make quite an impression on a young lad. It did on Spoonful leader, […]

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Beach Boys’ Fame Just Grew and Grew!

November 18, 2024

by Ann Moses, New Musical Express, 18 February 1966 THE FIVE Californian Beach Boys – Brian, Carl and Dennis Wilson, Mike Love and Al Jardine – began their music career with little intention of becoming as famous as they have. They merely played in their own homes with not one live appearance to their credit. […]

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Security Chief Reveals What It Was Like Guarding The Osmonds in Their First UK Tour

October 11, 2024

Please enjoy looking back to October 1972: @allosmonds arrived in London to perform in the Royal Variety Show and embark on their first UK tour. This article from Record Mirror tells the behind-the-scenes stories from a member of the security team. How Paddy the Plank helped take care of the Osmonds! Val Mabbs, Record Mirror, 9 December […]

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Andy Williams is no longer publicity shy as he talks to Ann Moses about:

October 3, 2024

Hate letters, frustrated single ‘love’ fans, drugs, his marriage, disc producing Johnny Ray, comparing Bobby Kennedy and Nixon. From the New Musical Express Archives, November 7, 1970 Andy Williams, who arrives in London this weekend for the Royal Variety Show on Monday, sank into the chair in front of his makeup table and breathed a […]

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I NEVER GOT TO MEET MOONDOGGIE!

September 4, 2024

My first idol as a teenager, James Darren, died yesterday at age 88. Who didn’t fall in love with Moondoggie when they watched the movie “Gidget” with Sandra Dee? I sent away for an autographed photo and got back a wallet size, pre-signed black and white photo of Jimmy. Little did I know that years […]

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Davy Jones is Happening Again!

May 19, 2024

From Happening in Hollywood by Groovy Duke Lewis, November 1971 See the lineup of young, good-looking, brown eyed, long-haired dudes being quizzed by a juve jury of visiting Norwegians. The MC says: “Will the real David Thomas Jones please stand up.” Up stands the outstanding TV and record star we know as Davy Jones who […]

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Standby for A New Elvis Movie

May 18, 2024

From Happening in Hollywood by Groovy Duke Lewis, December 1971 Standby for another Elvis movie–his 29th quickie FLICKIE since 1956–to be made at ghostlike MGM studios in cool December. This year’s Christmas album is one of the best he’s ever done, and he recently finished cutting a gospel album in Nashville for spring release. He’d […]

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Welcome to the Osmond Lane! By Ann Moses, 1980

May 7, 2024

For the 15th Anniversary of Tiger Beat, September 1980, Editor Sharon Lee asked me to update readers on my “neighbors” (one hour south of my new home in Sandy, Utah) the Osmonds: October ’68 was the dateline on Tiger Beat in which the Osmonds first appeared. Here’s the latest news on that world-famous family on […]

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Creedence Clearwater Revival: An 80 Buck Bummer Made Us Start Learning

May 6, 2024

Ann Moses, New Musical Express, 21 March 1970 THEY SAY that true love travels on a gravel road… that one cannot understand joy without having felt sorrow… that one does not know sweet until they have tasted bitter… Listen to John Fogerty’s ‘Lodi’ lyric and you know the members of Creedence Clearwater Revival believe in those […]

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The Chili Recipe for the Osmonds

March 6, 2024

In a recent post, a reader asked for the recipes for the chili and cornbread I made for the Osmonds at Donny’s 14th birthday party at my house. *Please note: the bay leaves should be removed before sderving! Here they are:

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