Michael Godin Interviewed On CFRA Radio Ottawa

Treasure Island Oldies host Michael Godin was recently interviewed on the Number One radio station in Ottawa, Ontario, 580 CFRA News Talk Radio. Click here to listen to the interview he did with Jim Hurcomb and Al Fleming on their weekly show, Middle Aged Bald Guys (talkin' rock 'n roll). My thanks to Jim and Al for permitting me to post their interview with me on my podcast.

This Week on Treasure Island Oldies

This week on Treasure Island Oldies
February 22nd to 28th 2009

I mentioned in last week's update that I had been invited to be interviewed about the show by Jim Hurcomb and Al Fleming on CFRA Radio in Ottawa, Ontario, the capital city of Canada. I am pleased to be able to make that interview available for you to hear. I hope you enjoy it. Click here to listen.

After months of planning, the Listener Gallery has been launched and available for viewing at the website. Click the Listener Gallery button on the Main page as well as the Listen, Chat and Voice Your Choice pages. And it is definitely not too late to add your photo to the Listener Gallery. We will be constantly updating the page with more photos as they arrive. Show the world you'd a regular listener. Send your name, city and photo to michael@treasureislandoldies.com.

Happy Birthday wishes go out to George Mooth in Edwardsburg, Michigan. If you have a birthday coming up, be sure to let me know. Send your name, birth date and city to birthday@treasureislandoldies.com.

The Treasure Island Oldies Blog spotlights The Everly Brothers in a vintage clip from the Patti Page Show from 50 years ago! They perform two of their hits: Wake Up Little Susie and Should We Tell Him. Enjoy!

Voice Your Choice this week features the King of Rock And Roll, Elvis Presley, with two of his 153 charted hits. This week you get to cast your vote for either Little Sister or Return To Sender. Make your selection at the Voice Your Choice page. Just click the Voice Your Choice button on any page of the website. We'll play the winner in Hour 3 of next week's show.

We are just a few weeks away from our 50 Plus Special on March 22nd. On this special will be songs that appeared on the Billboard chart between Number 50 and 100. You'll hear lots of Lost Treasures that will twig your memory; and I am sure that there will be many songs that will have you scratching your head in wonder as to why they didin't make it higher on the chart. Chances are you'll remember every record.

If you missed the live show, you can enjoy the Archive of February 22, 2009; just click the Listen button on the Menu. Be sure to check out the Playlist and see all the songs we played on the show.

Have a good week.

Michael

Elvis Presley - Voice Your Choice

The King of Rock And Roll is front and centre this week on Treasure Island Oldies, as Elvis Presley is the artist in the spotlight on Voice Your Choice.

Elvis was born Elvis Aron Presley on January 8, 1935 in Tupelo, Mississippi. During his lifetime, which was sadly cut short when he died in Memphis, Tennessee on August 16, 1977, he appeared on the charts an unbelievable 153 times! Not only that, but he had 41 Top Ten hits between 1956 and 2002, including 24 Gold plus 21 Platinum Records. What an astonishing, astounding and outstanding achievement!

This week on Treasure Island Oldies, Voice Your Choice features two great Elvis hits for your votes: Little Sister and Return To Sender. Click Voice Your Choice and cast your vote for the song you'd like to hear. We'll play the winner in the 3rd hour of next week's show.

Everly Brothers - Song of the Week

The Everly Brothers, Don and Phil Everly, were teen sensations and scored many hits in the 1950s and '60s. Here is a clip from the Patti Page Show with her guests The Everly Brothers performing two of their hit songs: Wake Up Little Susie and Should We Tell Him. This vintage clip is great to watch and this medley is our Song of the Week.

Enjoy!
Michael

ELO Member Kelly Grocutt Deat At 63

Kelly Groucutt, former bass guitarist for the 70's progressive rock legends Electric Light Orchestra, died of a heart attack at his home in Birmingham, England, this past Thursday, February 19th. He was 63 years old. Kelly joined ELO in 1975, replacing original bassist Michael DeAlbequercie. He managed to lay down bass lines for such ELO classics as "Evil Woman", "Strange Magic", "Livin' Thing", "Telephone Line", "Turn To Stone", "Sweet Talkin' Woman", "Shine A Little Love", and "Don't Bring Me Down".

Scotty Turner - Songwriter and Producer - Dead At 78

This sad news from Spectropop. Record producer, musician, songwriter, and publisher Scotty Turner (aka Scotty Turnbull) passed away peacefully in New York (with his son Trevor and daughter Adrienne at his bedside) on February 9th 2009.
Born Graham Morrison Turnbull in Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada in 1931, Scotty represented Canada in the long jump at the British Empire Games in 1954. After suffering a serious injury, Scotty turned his attention to music in 1955. He taught himself to play guitar and eventually purchased a Fender Stratocaster before moving to Lubbock, Texas to pursue post grad studies at Texas Tech as well as to teach part time at Lubbock High School. There he befriended a young Buddy Holly.
Scotty and Buddy ultimately wrote 13 songs together. Scotty also recorded at the Norman Petty Studios in Clovis, New Mexico, which Holly made famous.

Scotty went on to have an illustrious career in the music industry spanning over 50 years. It's hard to condense the highlights of Scotty's career into a few paras, but here goes. Scotty was lead guitarist for Tommy Sands's backing group 'The Raiders / aka The Sharks' (which also included the legendary drummer Hal Blaine) for some two years, during which time he toured Australia twice on the Lee Gordon rock'n'roll 'Big Show' tours. Scotty also wrote / co-wrote and played lead guitar on some of Sands's biggest hits including 'The Worryin' Kind' and 'Blue Ribbon Baby'. While in Australia, Scotty struck up a friendship with the legendary Australian rocker Johnny
O'Keefe. This friendship led to Scotty writing / co-writing four songs for O'Keefe, including his first No. 1 hit 'She's My Baby'. Scotty was also instrumental in getting O'Keefe a recording contract with Liberty Records.

Scotty subsequently joined pop vocalist Guy Mitchell as his lead guitarist and musical director and in turn Eddie Fisher in the same roles. While continuing to write, Scotty then turned to record production, initially joining his friend Herb Alpert at A&M Records. He then moved on to Central Songs in Hollywood, before becoming the executive producer for the country division of Liberty / Imperial
Records. This led to a transfer to Nashville where he went on to produce 20 plus albums for Slim Whitman, as well as producing sessions for many country greats including Willie Nelson, Tammy Wynette, Waylon Jennings, Mel Tillis, and Bobby Bare.

Scotty ultimately wrote in excess of 400 songs, collaborating with the likes of Buddy Holly, Audie Murphy (including the classic 'Shutters And Boards'), Herb Alpert, John Marascalco, Doc Pomus, Guy Mitchell, Nilsson, Tommy Sands, Diane Lampert, Cliffie Stone and many others. His songs were recorded by such artists as Dean Martin, Slim Whitman, Gene Vincent, Jerry Wallace, Tennesse Ernie Ford, Herb Alpert, and the list goes on.

In the early 1960s Scotty acquired a special guitar called a "lyric harp" which had been designed by a retired LA cabinetmaker. The guitar had a very unusual shape and the bracing caused the 12 strings to resonate or cut through without the predominant overtones that most 12 string guitars possess. Phil Spector happened to hear Scotty's
"strange" guitar (which Phil later dubbed 'The Animal') ringing in the booth of Gold Star Studios as Scotty worked with Harry Nilsson one evening. Phil duly asked Scotty to play on some sessions. Scotty recalls one particular session. "It's 2 a.m. and my phone rings and Phil asks if I can come down to Gold Star with 'The Animal.' I
arrived at the studio and Phil says `I'll play the cut so you can get the chords,' and full blast at 2:30 a.m. comes 'You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling' by The Righteous Brothers. When it was over I was paralysed! We spent about five hours getting it right. Phil said, 'I guess I owe you for two sessions' (Scotty recalls session fees as being $37.50 in those days). I said, 'No, pay me for one, but I want a test pressing on that record as it's the best one I've ever heard.' Sure enough Phil left one at Gold Star for me and I've still got it. All the money in the world couldn't buy the tricks I learnt from Phil production wise. He had the ultimate ears and proved it every time he went into the studio."

This Week on Treasure Island Oldies

As usual, we had a lot of fun on the show again this week, with requests from listeners from around the world. Even the Chat Room had some new first time visitors, including Bruce from Southern Ontario. He was pleased to find out that there are several record collectors in the Chat Room, including Rick in Madison, Wisconsin, and Rich in Hillside, Illinois. It was great to see how the Nuts in the Hut warmly welcomed Bruce and encouraged him to return again. You too would be made to feel right at home. Just click Chat on the Menu to find out more how to take part in the fun every week in the Chat Room.

I must say that I never cease to be amazed with the worldwide reach the show continues to achieve . Just this week we have had listeners from the USA, Canada, Sweden, Costa Rica, Russia, England, Turkey, Belgium, Australia, Hong Kong, Israel, Greece, Netherlands, Spain, Mexico, France and more! In fact, I also received email from Enrique Ortega in Aracena, Spain, as well as from Javier Flores in Tijuana, Mexico. It is such a treat to hear from listeners in distant countries. It reminds me of when shortwave listeners would get in touch when we were on SWRS in Germany many years ago. I'd love to hear from you; just send an email to michael@treasureislandoldies.com.

I was surprised and pleased to be contacted by Jim Hurcomb at CFRA Radio in Ottawa, Ontario, the capitol of Canada. Jim and Al Fleming host a show every Sunday on CFRA called Middle Aged Bald Guys (talkin' rock 'n roll). They came across the website, heard the show and wanted to do an interview, which we did while I was on my way to the studio. I have sent an email to them requesting permission to post the interview on the website and the Podcast. As soon as I have an answer, the main page of the website will be updated with the appropriate link. It was a fun interview and I am sure you would enjoy hearing it.

Mark you calendar for our next special, coming Sunday, March 22nd. For the first time ever, it's the 50 Plus Special. We'll play songs that appeared between Number 50 to 100 on the Billboard charts. I can promise you that you'll hear some Lost Treasures you haven't heard in many years. Some of which you may even have forgotten. They'll all come back to you for our 50 Plus Special on March 22nd.

This week the Treasure Island Oldies Blog has a special treat for you. In 1989, a live concert took place in Rome, Italy. The Giants Of Rock 'N' Roll featured a major live jam by Little Richard, James Brown, Fats Domino, Ray Charles, BB King, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Bo Diddley. This clip is nearly 9 minutes in length. Enjoy!

This week Voice Your Choice spotlights Tony Orlando in the second phase of his career, having had previous success as a solo performer in the early '60s. Tony Orlando and Dawn had many hits and we feature two of the this week: Candida and Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round The Ole Oak Tree. Cast your vote for the song your prefer. Click the Voice Your Choice button on any page of the website and make your selection. The winning song will be played in the 3rd hour of next week's show.

If you missed the live show, you can enjoy the Archive of February 15, 2009; just click the Listen button on the Menu. And remember, and be sure to check out the Playlist and see the list of all the songs we played on the show.

Have a good week.

Michael

Tony Orlando & Dawn - Voice Your Choice

In the early 1960s, Tony Orlando had an impressive career. Born Michael Anthony Cassavitis on April 3, 1944 in Manhattan, New York, Tony Orlando was discovered at the tender age of 16 by producer Don Kirshner. At 17 he scored three hit songs: Halfway To Paradise, Bless You, and Happy Times. In 1967, he took a step back from the spotlight and entered the other side of the music business as manager of April-Blackwood Music publishing company. Two years later, he sang lead vocals for the New York studio group Wind and had one hit with them called Make Believe.

His career took off in 1970 when he formed Dawn and never looked back. Tony Orlando and Dawn scored twenty-one hits on the Billboard Charts between 1970 and 1979, including six Top Ten hits and five Gold Records.

This week on Treasure Island Oldies, Voice Your Choice spotlights Tony Orlando And Dawn with two of their hits: Candida and Tie A Yellow Ribbon Round The Old Oak Tree. Cast your vote for the song you'd like to hear. Click Voice Your Choice and make your selection. We'll play the winning song in the 3rd hour of next week's show.

The Giants Of Rock 'N' Roll - Video of the Week

Back in 1989 in Rome, Italy, a major concert took place. The Giants Of Rock 'N' Roll featured Little Richard, Fats Domino, BB King, Bo Diddley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Ray Charles and James Brown. From that concert, here is a clip of them in an entertaining jam. I know you will enjoy this nearly 9 minute clip!
Michael

Estelle Bennett of The Ronettes Dead At 67

Last Updated: Friday, February 13, 2009 | 9:54 AM ET
The Associated Press
Estelle Bennett of the Ronettes, the singing trio whose 1963 hit Be My Baby epitomized the famed "wall of sound" technique of hit producer Phil Spector, has died at her home in Englewood, N.J. She was 67.

Bennett's brother-in-law, Jonathan Greenfield, said police found her dead in her apartment on Wednesday after relatives had been unable to contact her. The time and cause of death have not yet been determined. Greenfield is the manager and husband of Bennett's sister, Ronettes lead singer Ronnie Spector.

The Ronettes were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2007; its website hails the group as "the premier act of the girl group era." Among their admirers were the Beatles and the Rolling Stones. The trio's exotic hairstyles and makeup have been aped by Amy Winehouse.

The Ronettes — sisters Veronica (Ronnie) and Estelle Bennett and their cousin Nedra Talley — signed with Spector's Philles Records in 1963.

Their recording of Be My Baby hit No. 2 on Billboard magazine's pop music chart that year. Among their other hits were Walkin' in the Rain and Baby I Love You.

They also did a memorable version of Sleigh Ride that appeared on Spector's A Christmas Gift for You album. Their last Philles single was I Can Hear Music in 1966.

The songs feature Spector's elaborate arrangements that blend many instruments into a smooth, pulsating "wall."

"They could sing all their way right through a wall of sound," Keith Richards of the Stones said as the Ronettes were inducted into the rock hall. "They didn't need anything. They touched my heart right there and then and they touch it still."

But their string of hits had tailed off by the time they split around 1967.

Ronnie Bennett had married Spector in 1968 but they divorced six years later.

Greenfield said Ronnie Spector was devastated over her sister's death.

"Estelle was Ronnie's sidekick in the Ronettes," Greenfield, of Newbury, Conn., said Thursday from New York. "She was very much into fashion and worked with Ronnie on the whole look and style of the Ronettes."

After the group's breakup, Bennett rarely made public appearances.

Court battle over royalties
For nearly 15 years, the women waged a lengthy, and ultimately unsuccessful, court battle with Spector over royalties.

They sued Spector in the late 1980s, saying he had cheated them out of royalties by using their music in ways not authorized by their recording contract. For example, Be My Baby was played in the opening credits of the smash 1987 movie Dirty Dancing.

A trial was held in 1998, and in 2000, the judge ordered Spector to pay $2.6 million in past royalties and interest for the use of Ronettes songs as background music in movies, videocassette recordings and advertising.

But New York State's highest court threw out that ruling on appeal in 2002. The judges noted that the contract did not actually mention secondary rights to the use of music, so-called "synchronization rights," which are a more modern phenomenon in the entertainment industry. But under New York state contract law, the court said, the singers did not control those rights unless their contract specifically said they did.

At the group's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction in 2007, Ronnie Spector did not mention her ex-husband, but he sent a note that was read at the ceremony saying, "I wish them all the happiness and good fortune the world has to offer."

In recent years, Phil Spector has been battling criminal charges in the shooting death of actress Lana Clarkson.

Bennett was born in 1941, her sister in 1943 and Talley in 1945, according to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame website.

According to the book He's a Rebel, a biography of Phil Spector by Mark Ribowsky, the Ronettes first began performing as the Darling Sisters and later worked as dancers at New York's Peppermint Lounge, the epicentre of the early 1960s dance craze, the Twist.

Their first recording contract, with Colpix, went nowhere, but then they were signed by Spector.

In addition to her sister, Bennett is survived by a daughter, Toyin Hunter of Santa Monica, Calif., and three grandsons.

© The Canadian Press, 2009

Paul Evans - A Career Retrospective

I received this video montage from my friend Paul Evans. By the way, Treasure Island Oldies is the very first Internet Radio Station that did an interview with Paul online. He has never forgotten and is often in touch.

The video you are about to watch chronicles Paul's career as a songwriter, singer and performer and is very interesting. I thought you'd like the chance to see it too.

Check it out!
Michael

This Week on Treasure Island Oldies

Happy Valentine's Day! We sure had a four hour "Love Fest" for our Annual Valentine's Day Special! And the Chat Room was hopping like a bunch of rabbits! LOL It is always a treat to greet Listeners coming into the Chat Room for the first time. The Regulars, the Nuts in the Hut, are always so gracious and welcoming. Check it out for yourself next Sunday when we are live. Get all the details on how to log on by clicking Chat on the Menu. I'd also like to say thanks for all your great requests via the Chat Room, email and the Request Line. It was nice to hear from listeners calling in for the first time. And I would also enjoy hearing from you with your requests and comments any time. Click Requests or Call the Request Line 206-203-4678. Please stay in touch.

Happy Birthday wishes go out to Guylaine Côté in Quebec City, Quebec, who is enjoying her special day this week. She used to listen to me many years ago when I worked at CFOM in Quebec City. She was 10 years old back then! If you have a birthday coming up, or someone special to you is having a birthday, let me know. Send the name, city and birth date to birthdays@treasureislandoldies.com. We'll extend our best wishes on the air and play our official birthday theme song, Birthday, by The Beatles.

More congratulations go out, this time to my friends, Matt and Fay, in Langley, British Columbia. They are celebrating their wedding anniversary this week and we wish these Chat Room regulars a very Happy Anniversary! Say, if you have an anniversary coming up, let me know about it. Send an email with the details to michael@treasureislandoldies.com.

Mark you calendar for our next special, coming Sunday, March 22nd. For the first time ever, it's the 50 Plus Special. We'll play songs that appeared between Number 50 to 100 on the Billboard charts. I can promise you that you'll hear some Lost Treasures you haven't heard in many years. Some of which you may even have forgotten. They'll all come back to you for our 50 Plus Special on March 22nd.

The Treasure Island Oldies Blog has Elvis Presley in the spotlight in a performance clip from the Ed Sullivan Show in 1957. Along with The Jordanaires, Elvis performs Too Much, a great song for Valentine's and also our Song of the Week. Enjoy!

Gary Lewis and The Playboys are in the spotlight this week on Voice Your Choice. You can vote for either of these two Top Ten hits: Sure Gonna Miss Her and Save Your Heart For Me. Cast your vote - click Voice Your Choice on any page of the website. We'll play the winner in the 3rd Hour of next week's show.

You've still got time to send in your photo to be included on the Listener Gallery page, coming soon. Send your picture, first name and city to michael@treasureislandoldies.com.

If you missed the live show and our Annual Valentine's Day Special, you can enjoy the Archive of February 8, 2009; just click the Listen button on the Menu. And remember, and be sure to check out the Playlist and see the list of all the songs we played on the show.

Have a good week. Happy Valentine's Day!

Michael

Gary Lewis And The Playboys - Voice Your Choice

Gary Lewis, the son of comedian Jerry Lewis, was born July 31, 1945 in Brooklyn, New York. The Playboys were Al Ramsey and John West on guitars, David Walker on keyboards, and David Costell on bass. If you're wondering who played drums, it was Gary Lewis himself.

In the short time span of four years, from 1965 to 1969, they appeared on the Billboard chart fifteen times, and scored a Number 1 hit, This Diamond Ring, which also went Gold.

This week on Treasure Island Oldies, Voice Your Choice presents Gary Lewis And The Playboys with two of their Top Ten hits: Sure Gonna Miss Her and Save Your Heart For Me.

Cast your vote for the song you would like to hear on the show. Click the Voice Your Choice page and make your selection. The winner will be played in the 3rd Hour of next week's show.

Elvis Presley - Song Of The Week

In keeping with our Valentine's Day theme all this week, here is a clip of Elvis Presley on the Ed Sullivan Show in 1957, and along with The Jordanaires, they perform Too Much, our Song of the Week.

Happy Valentine's Day
Enjoy!
Michael

Buffalo Springfield's Dewey Martin R.I.P.

By Randy Lewis

February 6, 2009

Dewey Martin, drummer for the short-lived but long-resonating rock band Buffalo Springfield whose career after the group split never ignited like those of his former band mates Neil Young and Stephen Stills, has died. He was 68.

He was found dead Sunday by a roommate in his Van Nuys apartment, longtime friend Lisa Lenes said Thursday. The cause of death has not been determined. "We believe it was natural causes," Lenes said, adding that he had suffered health problems in recent years and performed publicly only sporadically.

Martin was one of the founding members, along with Young, Stills, singer-songwriter-guitarist Richie Furay and bassist Bruce Palmer, of Buffalo Springfield, a key progenitor of country-rock music. The group existed for just two years and recorded only three studio albums before disbanding amid rising tensions and musical ambitions of the band's talented but explosive leaders.

In his autobiography "Shakey," Young praised Martin's musical sensitivity. "You get harder, he hits harder. You pull back, he hits back. He can feel the music -- you don't have to tell him."

"It's a great loss," Micky Dolenz, drummer for the Monkees, said Thursday. Dolenz said he became close friends with Martin in the late '60s when both were working in and around Hollywood. "We never worked together, we just hung out a lot. We went to shows together at the Whisky and the Troubadour. He was a great drummer -- it's a well-known fact. And he was a really nice guy."

Martin played on Buffalo Springfield songs including "For What It's Worth," "Mr. Soul," "Rock 'N' Roll Woman" and "Broken Arrow." He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the group in 1997.

"He didn't want to go to the induction," Lenes said. "But I told him, 'You need to be there, you need to be acknowledged.' When I saw him on TV, it was so great."

When Buffalo Springfield broke up, Young launched a solo career that's still going strong 40 years later; Stills moved on to Crosby, Stills & Nash (and sometimes Young) and Furay formed Poco, another early country-rock outfit. Martin's fortunes remained closely tied over the years to his time with Buffalo Springfield.

He first began performing as the New Buffalo Springfield with other musicians. "We have a more powerful sound . . . that's the way I would compare it with the old group," Martin told the Oakland Tribune in 1969. "Before it was east-going country-western. Now we've added some electronic sound devices and Jim Price on amplified trumpet and trombone."

Stills and Young successfully sued to prevent him from using the name without their participation. Nevertheless, in the mid-'80s, he and Palmer toured as Buffalo Springfield Revisited, and for a time in the '90s Martin played shows as Buffalo Springfield Again, mostly in the Southland at venues such as the Taste of Newport in Newport Beach.

Guitarist Rick Corradini backed Martin as part of a pickup band for some of those shows. "He was a great guy and seemed as enthused to play with us bunch of guys as he was to play with those other hotshots," Corradini said Thursday.

Martin was born Walter Milton Dewayne Midkiff on Sept. 30, 1940, in Chesterville, Canada, according to Buffalo Springfield scholar Nick Warburton’s Sixties Rock Archive website.

He moved to the United States looking for work as a musician and played on sessions in Nashville in the early-'60s. Even though Young and Palmer were also Canadians, they didn't meet Martin until all had migrated to Los Angeles to take part in the burgeoning folk-rock scene here that was spearheaded by the Byrds.

Young, Stills and Furay had crossed paths previously, and when they reconnected in L.A. in 1966, they decided to start a new band. Within days of starting rehearsals with Palmer, they brought in Martin to handle drums. Nine days later, they opened an arena show for the Byrds in San Bernardino.

Byrds founding member Chris Hillman recently recalled touting the group to Whisky A Go-Go co-founder Elmer Valentine the first time he heard them, which led to a residency at the club that helped launch Buffalo Springfield's career.

Atlantic Records founder Ahmet Ertegun quickly signed the group to his label at a time when he was trying to expand its roster into rock after years of focusing primarily on R&B, soul and jazz.

The group wasn't a huge popular success at the time -- the highest any of its original three albums charted was No. 42, and "For What It's Worth" -- which includes the line "Stop, hey, what's that sound?" -- was its biggest hit, peaking at No. 7 in 1967. But the group's songs, mostly written by Stills and Young, but also including some of Furay's, have become an enduring part of the classic-rock canon.

Outside of his Buffalo Springfield incarnations, Martin formed several other groups, including Medicine Ball, which released one album that failed to chart. In recent years he'd worked on developing a new type of drum head.

Lenes said Martin would be buried in Canada at his family's request, and that plans for a memorial service in the Los Angeles area were in the works. Information on his survivors was not immediately available.

This Week on Treasure Island Oldies

Week of February 1st to 8th, 2009

Week of February 1st to 8th, 2009

What a packed Chat Room we had again this week and what fun everyone had chatting together. I was particularly pleased to have so many Nuts in the Hut considering the Super Bowl was on at the same time as the show. Come experience the Chat Room for yourself next Sunday. Click Chat on the Menu on any page of the website to Chat and you'll find all the information you need to sign in.

A couple of reminders for you. If you or a friend of yours has a birthday coming up, please let me know by sending an email to birthday@treasureislandoldies.com. Be sure to include your or their first name, birth date and city and we'll extend our very best wishes on the air and play our official birthday song, Birthday by The Beatles. Also, our webmaster, Eddy Fisher, is getting ready to launch the Listener Gallery page and we would like to include your photo too. Send your picture, first name and city to michael@treasureislandoldies.com and show the world you are a proud listener.

Our Annual Valentine's Day Special is just a few days away and if you would like to have a special song played for your Valentine, click or call to let me know the song and to whom you would like it dedicated. Click the Requests button on any page of the website, send an email to requests@treasureislandoldies.com, or call us on our 24/7 Request Line at 206-203-4678. But hurry, time is running out to be included in our live special next Sunday, February 8.

The Treasure Island Oldies Blog this week is featuring Dusty Springfield in a great live performance of her classic hit, Son Of A Preacher Man, our Song of the Week. Enjoy!

Voice Your Choice spotlights The Lettermen just in time for Valentine's Day with two of their beautiful love songs, When I Fall In Love and The Way You Look Tonight. Click over to the Voice Your Choice page and make your selection. We'll play the winner in Hour 3 on our Annual Valentine's Day Special next Sunday, February 8th.

If you missed the live show, you can enjoy the Archive of February 1, 2009; just click the Listen button on the Menu. And remember, and be sure to check out the Playlist and see the list of all the songs we played on the show.

Have a good week.

Michael

The Lettermen - Voice Your Choice

The Lettermen formed in Los Angeles, California in 1958 and consisted of Tony Butala, Jim Pike, and Bob Engemann, and became the Number One Adult Contemporary Vocal Group of the 1960s.

Between 1961 and 1971, they appeared on the Billboard charts a total of twenty times, including two Top Ten singles, coincidentally both peaked at #7.

This week on Treasure Island Oldies, Voice Your Choice spotlights The Lettermen, just in time for Valentine's Day with two of their greatest love songs, When I Fall In Love and The Way You Look Tonight. Click over to the Voice Your Choice page and cast your vote. We'll play the winning song in Hour 3 of our Annual Valentine's Day Special next Sunday, February 8th.

Dusty Springfield - Song Of The Week

Dusty Springfield is delightful in this live performance of one of her biggest hits, Son Of A Preacher Man, amnd it's our Song of the Week.
Enjoy!
Michael