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Belgian Oldies Radio IPhone Android APP (For tablet and smartphones).
Posted: 14 Jan 2015 04:44 PM PST
http://musicofsixties.blogspot.com/2015/01/belgian-oldies-radio-iphone-android-app.html
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nobexinc.wls_37162749.rc
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/belgian-oldies-radio/id951462346?mt=8
Belgian Oldies Radio also to be hear on this Russian website...
http://radiovolna.net/2253-belgian-oldies-radio.html
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Donna Loren - Beach Blanket Bingo: The Very Best of Donna Loren
Posted: 14 Jan 2015 03:13 PM PST
http://musicofsixties.blogspot.com/2015/01/donna-loren-beach-blanket-bingo-very.html
Donna Loren enjoyed a brief career as a pop/rock singer, doing girl group
type material during the mid-'60s. Born Donna Zukor in Boston in 1947, she
made her professional singing debut at age seven with a commercial jingle.
From there, she moved on to other commercial work and a guest appearance on
The Mickey Mouse Club. She made recordings intermittently for a variety of
labels over the next eight years, but most of her success was as a vocalist
for commercials, culminating in 1963 when she won a talent contest to
become the official representative of Dr. Pepper. Known as the "Dr. Pepper
Girl," she made regular appearances at record hops, concerts, and on
television variety shows aimed at teenagers -- most notably American
Bandstand -- on behalf of the soft drink.
Broadcast 9-16-64, this performance was Donna's first appearance
on "Shindig !".
This led to her appearance in the first of the Beach Party movies, in what
was supposed to be a little spot plugging the drink (whose makers had
helped finance the movie). Instead, the producers gave Loren a song to do
and she was featured in supporting roles in most of the subsequent films in
the series, the most popular of which, Beach Blanket Bingo (1965), was so
successful that a soundtrack featuring Loren was rushed out.
That LP, which was similar in nature to the work of such contemporary girl
group singers as Diane Renay or Lesley Gore, didn't break any sales
records, but Loren was well enough established to justify another year's
worth of singles. She left the music business in the late '60s, making one
attempt at success in a country music vein in the early '70s. She has also
been a very successful clothes designer based in Hawaii.
http://www.briansdriveintheater.com/donnaloren.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donna_Loren
http://www.donnaloren.net/
True, this 26-song CD doesn't look at all like an authorized release. It's
also true that 17 of the songs are on the official Beach Blanket Bingo: The
Very Best of Donna Loren CD compilation, which has a couple of tracks
("Play Little Music Box Play" and "I Believe") that somehow didn't make it
onto this anthology. Still, it does have nine cuts that aren't on Beach
Blanket Bingo: The Very Best of Donna Loren, and if you hang out at
specialist record stores, you'll probably be just as apt to find this CD as
the other one. You might find it the preferable option, too, as there's
more material and the sound's good (though one suspects it's not mastered
from the original tapes), even if there's nothing in the way of liner notes
except track listings and songwriting credits. As for the music, while
Loren was a far better singer than most women (or men) playing bit parts
in '60s teen beach movies, it's least-common-denominator '60s pop/rock. The
production ambition is there, variously echoing the girl group sound, surf
music, and late-period teen idol pop. What's missing? Really special songs,
and a distinctive attitude on part of either the singer or her composers
and producers. As for the tracks here not on the more high-profile,
authorized Loren best-of, none are exceptional, and some are off-puttingly
trivial ("I'm in Love with the Ticket Taker at the Bijou Movie,""On the
Good Ship Lollipop"). But a few are, relatively speaking, among her better
efforts, including the frivolous surf romp "Muscle Bustle" (co-written by
Brian Wilson), the girl group tune "Johnny's Got Somethin'," and the more
mature cuts "It's Such a Shame" and "As Long as I'm Holding You," which
sound as though they date from later in the '60s than the rest of the
package.
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Belgian Oldies Radio IPhone Android APP (For tablet and smartphones).
Posted: 14 Jan 2015 04:44 PM PST
http://musicofsixties.blogspot.com/2015/01/belgian-oldies-radio-iphone-android-app.html
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nobexinc.wls_37162749.rc
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/belgian-oldies-radio/id951462346?mt=8
Belgian Oldies Radio also to be hear on this Russian website...
http://radiovolna.net/2253-belgian-oldies-radio.html
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Donna Loren - Beach Blanket Bingo: The Very Best of Donna Loren
Posted: 14 Jan 2015 03:13 PM PST
http://musicofsixties.blogspot.com/2015/01/donna-loren-beach-blanket-bingo-very.html
Donna Loren enjoyed a brief career as a pop/rock singer, doing girl group
type material during the mid-'60s. Born Donna Zukor in Boston in 1947, she
made her professional singing debut at age seven with a commercial jingle.
From there, she moved on to other commercial work and a guest appearance on
The Mickey Mouse Club. She made recordings intermittently for a variety of
labels over the next eight years, but most of her success was as a vocalist
for commercials, culminating in 1963 when she won a talent contest to
become the official representative of Dr. Pepper. Known as the "Dr. Pepper
Girl," she made regular appearances at record hops, concerts, and on
television variety shows aimed at teenagers -- most notably American
Bandstand -- on behalf of the soft drink.
Broadcast 9-16-64, this performance was Donna's first appearance
on "Shindig !".
This led to her appearance in the first of the Beach Party movies, in what
was supposed to be a little spot plugging the drink (whose makers had
helped finance the movie). Instead, the producers gave Loren a song to do
and she was featured in supporting roles in most of the subsequent films in
the series, the most popular of which, Beach Blanket Bingo (1965), was so
successful that a soundtrack featuring Loren was rushed out.
That LP, which was similar in nature to the work of such contemporary girl
group singers as Diane Renay or Lesley Gore, didn't break any sales
records, but Loren was well enough established to justify another year's
worth of singles. She left the music business in the late '60s, making one
attempt at success in a country music vein in the early '70s. She has also
been a very successful clothes designer based in Hawaii.
http://www.briansdriveintheater.com/donnaloren.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donna_Loren
http://www.donnaloren.net/
True, this 26-song CD doesn't look at all like an authorized release. It's
also true that 17 of the songs are on the official Beach Blanket Bingo: The
Very Best of Donna Loren CD compilation, which has a couple of tracks
("Play Little Music Box Play" and "I Believe") that somehow didn't make it
onto this anthology. Still, it does have nine cuts that aren't on Beach
Blanket Bingo: The Very Best of Donna Loren, and if you hang out at
specialist record stores, you'll probably be just as apt to find this CD as
the other one. You might find it the preferable option, too, as there's
more material and the sound's good (though one suspects it's not mastered
from the original tapes), even if there's nothing in the way of liner notes
except track listings and songwriting credits. As for the music, while
Loren was a far better singer than most women (or men) playing bit parts
in '60s teen beach movies, it's least-common-denominator '60s pop/rock. The
production ambition is there, variously echoing the girl group sound, surf
music, and late-period teen idol pop. What's missing? Really special songs,
and a distinctive attitude on part of either the singer or her composers
and producers. As for the tracks here not on the more high-profile,
authorized Loren best-of, none are exceptional, and some are off-puttingly
trivial ("I'm in Love with the Ticket Taker at the Bijou Movie,""On the
Good Ship Lollipop"). But a few are, relatively speaking, among her better
efforts, including the frivolous surf romp "Muscle Bustle" (co-written by
Brian Wilson), the girl group tune "Johnny's Got Somethin'," and the more
mature cuts "It's Such a Shame" and "As Long as I'm Holding You," which
sound as though they date from later in the '60s than the rest of the
package.
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