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Celebrating the golden age of rock 'n' roll

At Gold Star Oldies USA, we live and breathe the best eras in music history. We spin the greatest hits from mid-sixties vocal groups through the high-energy seventies and eighties rock anthems. Our happenings page is where our community gathers to look back at the moments and melodies that shaped generations.

Happenings  The Week Of October 23th - 28th 

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October 28, 1958 — Buddy Holly (center) makes his last major television appearance, lip-syncing on ABC's American Bandstand to "It's So Easy" and "Heartbeat" just months before the plane crash that ends his life. It is also his final performance with Crickets Jerry Allison (top) and Joe Mauldin (bottom) before he splits with their producer, Norman Petty, and moves to New York while they stay in Texas. Holly assembles a new group for his ill-fated tour,  but Allison and Mauldin have hopes to get back with Buddy after the tour ends.  






Sources:
Eight Days a Week (Ron Smith)
Eight Days a Week (Kenneth Best)
On This Day in Black Music History (Jay Warner)
Chronology of American Popular Music, 1900-2000 (Frank Hoffman)
calendar.songfacts.com
onthisday.com/music

 

Latest music happenings and tributes Birthdays, Those Lost But Not Forgotten

 

 

Pianist, electric music pioneer Gershon Kingsley (“Popcorn”) in 1922

Jazz vocalist Cleo Laine in 1927

Charlie Daniels (“Devil Went Down to Georgia”) in 1936

Keyboard player Graham Bond (Graham Bond Organisation) in 1937

Curtis Lee (“Pretty Little Angel Eyes”) and Jim Post of Friend & Lover (“Reach Out of the Darkness”) in 1939

Jay Proctor of Jay & Techniques (“Apples, Peaches, Pumpkin Pie”) in 1940

Shadows guitarist Hank Marvin and Motown arranger David Van De Pitt (“What's Going On”) in 1941

Wayne Fontana (“Game of Love”) and Elton Dean of Soft Machine in 1945

Session singer and actress Telma Hopkins of Tony Orlando & Dawn in 1948

Session bassist John Regan (Peter Frampton / Ace Frehley) in 1951

 

People we have lost but not forgotten 

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jazz sax man Earl Bostic in 1965

Orleans drummer Wells Kelley (“Dance with Me”) in 1984

Country great Porter Wagoner in 2007

Michigan singer Jackey Beavers (“Someday We'll Be Together”) in 2008

Icon Jerry Lee Lewis (“Great Balls Of Fire”, “Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On”) in 2022

D. H. Peligro [Darren Henley], punk rock drummer (Dead Kennedys, Red Hot Chili Peppers,1988) dies from head injury after a fall in 2022

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Honoring the musical icons Present and Past 

From sixties harmony groups to the powerhouse rock bands of the seventies and eighties, we pay tribute to the performers who gave us timeless soundtracks. Check out our photo spotlight celebrating classic recording artists.