by KingoftheHits | Aug 22, 2015 | #Posts, 60's, Beatles, British Invasion Era, Oldies, Pop, Rock & Roll, Top 40, UK Artists, Videos
Last month I posted an article in which both the Associated Press and the UK’s British Movietone had obtained over 500,000 digitally restored newsreel footage videos. The massive amount of clips is from all categories of history, dating from 1895 to the present. Well,...
by KingoftheHits | Aug 20, 2015 | #Posts, 60's, Beatles, British Invasion Era, Oldies, Pop, Top 40, UK Artists
For Throw Back Thursday, this story is priceless! 50 years ago this month, an ingenious plot paid off for an aggressive young female journalism intern at the Minneapolis Tribune – now known as the Star-Tribune. Though her surreptitious scheme, Susan Stocking...
by KingoftheHits | Aug 18, 2015 | #Posts, 60's, Beatles, British Invasion Era, Oldies, Pop, Rock & Roll, Top 40, UK Artists
Monday (August 17) marked the 49th anniversary of my having seen The Beatles (The “Beatles” as shown on the concert ticket) live at the then-home arena of Toronto’s storied hockey team – Maple Leaf Gardens. Although I published this almost...
by KingoftheHits | Jul 27, 2015 | #OriginalPresentations, 60's, American Artists, Beatles, Folk, Folk-Rock, Oldies, Pop, Top 40, UK Artists
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by KingoftheHits | Jul 22, 2015 | #Posts, 60's, Beatles, British Invasion Era, Oldies, Pop, Rock & Roll, Top 40, UK Artists
Happen to have one million minutes (16,667 hours, almost 2 years) to spare? Okay, but set aside some quality time for this! Next week, the Associated Press and the UK’s British Movietone will begin uploading over 500,000 digitally restored newsreel footage...
by KingoftheHits | Jul 15, 2015 | #Posts, 60's, Beatles, British Invasion Era, Oldies, Pop, Top 40, UK Artists, Videos
HELP!, The Beatles’ second motion picture (and first in color) reaches the 50th anniversary of its release later this month – an occasion that was marked early by a special screening of the film on Thursday (7-16) at Liverpool’s venerable Woolton...