Post by christine~ on May 3, 2008 15:26:03 GMT -5
Eppylover Says:
Dick Biondi was one of the Swingin' Sixties (pre-FM)
DJ's on a Chicago station that I used to enjoy
(when our GR radio stations signed off for the day
at dusk and reception was clear enough).
From the WZZN website:
From a fashion-centric entry in the May 2, 2008 Chicago Sun-Times STAGE blog,
In this review by Misha Davenport ~ on the new stage musical Shout! ~
... And then there's the music of Cilla Black, a virtual unknown on this side of the pond.
"Her biggest hit was probably 'You're My World,' [featured in Shout![/i]]" says Dick Biondi, who can be heard 8 p.m.-midnight nightly on WZZN-94.7 FM. "I played it a bit in 1964, but it never got to be like Lulu's 'To Sir With Love.'"
Black has the distinction of being the only female artist ever represented by Beatles' manager, Brian Epstein, which Biondi thinks had an adverse affect on her U.S. success.*
"She was close to the Beatles and a lot of teenage girls might have been a little jealous because of that," he says. "Then again, there were so many good female singers back then, so who knows."
*(The eppylover has always thought it had more to do with Cilla being the victim of a
stealth U.S. blacklist I like to call "the Dionne Warwick blockade" ~ but that may be a figment of my imagination.) 
Videos from the ’60s hits that make up 'Shout!'
Everything old is mod again. “Shout! The Mod Musical” features both hits and lesser-known tunes from the Sixties.
{ Clicky } for old vids ~ the biggest hits of The Association, Cilla Black, Mary Hopkin (NOT Hopkins! Drop that S, Misha!), Lulu, Nancy Sinatra, and Dusty Springfield.
Dick Biondi was one of the Swingin' Sixties (pre-FM)
DJ's on a Chicago station that I used to enjoy
(when our GR radio stations signed off for the day
at dusk and reception was clear enough).
From the WZZN website:
In the early 1960s, Biondi was the nation’s #1 disc jockey, averaging a 60 share of the national audience.
You listened to Biondi or else.
In early 1963, Biondi was the first DJ in America to play the Beatles.
From a fashion-centric entry in the May 2, 2008 Chicago Sun-Times STAGE blog,
In this review by Misha Davenport ~ on the new stage musical Shout! ~
... And then there's the music of Cilla Black, a virtual unknown on this side of the pond.
"Her biggest hit was probably 'You're My World,' [featured in Shout![/i]]" says Dick Biondi, who can be heard 8 p.m.-midnight nightly on WZZN-94.7 FM. "I played it a bit in 1964, but it never got to be like Lulu's 'To Sir With Love.'"
Black has the distinction of being the only female artist ever represented by Beatles' manager, Brian Epstein, which Biondi thinks had an adverse affect on her U.S. success.*
"She was close to the Beatles and a lot of teenage girls might have been a little jealous because of that," he says. "Then again, there were so many good female singers back then, so who knows."
*(The eppylover has always thought it had more to do with Cilla being the victim of a
stealth U.S. blacklist I like to call "the Dionne Warwick blockade" ~ but that may be a figment of my imagination.) 
Videos from the ’60s hits that make up 'Shout!'
Everything old is mod again. “Shout! The Mod Musical” features both hits and lesser-known tunes from the Sixties.
{ Clicky } for old vids ~ the biggest hits of The Association, Cilla Black, Mary Hopkin (NOT Hopkins! Drop that S, Misha!), Lulu, Nancy Sinatra, and Dusty Springfield.