I wonder how many times American Bandstand featured Who songs.
09 Jan 1976, Fri The Paducah Sun (Paducah, Kentucky) Newspapers.com
09 Jan 1976, Fri The Paducah Sun (Paducah, Kentucky) Newspapers.com
Everybody's getting excited about Super Bowl X tomorrow (Sunday, Jan. 18, 1976).
17 Jan 1976, Sat Lexington Herald-Leader (Lexington, Kentucky) Newspapers.com
17 Jan 1976, Sat Lexington Herald-Leader (Lexington, Kentucky) Newspapers.com
Of course, the big deal in Lexington today is that Dick Enberg and Billy Packer are in town for a 2 p.m. Eastern UK-Vanderbilt game in Memorial Coliseum.
17 Jan 1976, Sat Lexington Herald-Leader (Lexington, Kentucky) Newspapers.com
We are at peak Captain & Tennille. Five of the first six singles they released became gold records, and this American Bandstand features performances the second and third of those five: “The Way I Want To Touch” and “Lonely Nights (Angel Face),” which both went to No. 1 on the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart. They’ve got two more songs coming in 1976 that are going to do the same: “Shop Around” and “Muskrat Love.” Of course, their biggest hit—“Love Will Keep Us Together,” their first single release, in 1975—went No. 1 pretty much on any chart with a No. 1 around the world.
ReplyDeleteBut, after 1976, other than “Do That to Me One More Time” in 1979, Captain & Tennille will be done topping charts. And in 2014, they will be officially done as a couple, though they apparently had patched things up as friends, at least, by the time of Daryl Dragon’s death in 2019.
Oh, by the way, the only of Captain & Tennille's first six singles to not attain gold-record status was "Por Amor Viviremos," a Spanish version of "Love Will Keep Us Together" that the act released in the summer of 1975. It reached No. 49 on the U.S. Billboard chart.
DeleteVanderbilt was 3-1 in the Southeastern Conference and 7-6 overall going into the Jan. 18 NBC game in Lexington; Kentucky, 1-3 and 7-7 overall.
ReplyDeleteOne of Vanderbilt’s stars was Joe Ford, a guard from Mayfield. He had 25 last week in a 10-point win over Tennessee and was averaging 15.7 points per game. He had recorded a total of one turnover in his last three games.
ReplyDeleteKentucky’s starting five for the game were Mike Phillips at center, Jack Givens and James Lee at forward and Reggie Warford and Larry Johnson at guard. Rick Robey is out with a knee injury.
ReplyDeleteThis is the last season with Memorial Coliseum as UK’s home court. Rupp Arena opens next season. Since Memorial became the basketball team’s court in 1950-51, the Wildcats were 300-38 in home games before this tipoff.
ReplyDelete“Dick Enberg couldn’t have penned a more scintillating script,” D.G. Fitzmaurice wrote in the Sunday Herald-Leader.
ReplyDeleteWith 3:10 to go: 72-72.
ReplyDelete2:40: 74-72, Vanderbilt.
2:25: 75-74, Kentucky.
1:40: 76-76, Vanderbilt.
1:40: 76-75 Vanderbilt. Sorry.
DeleteFitzmaurice:
ReplyDeleteWith only a half-minute remaining in the see-saw contest, (Vanderbilt guard Dicky Keffer) made a deft swipe of a Mike Phillips pass intended for Warford.
Keffer rocketed down the court closely tracked by Warford.
It was a race for survival as UK’s Warford closed in on his 5-foot-11 rival who chose to veer slightly to his right to bank his shot off the glass.
The circuitous route cost Keffer when Warford soared over the Scottsville, Ky., native to deflect the shot by a fingernail.
Johnson rebounded the Vanderbilt miss, raced back to the other end and bottomed a 15-foot jumpshot with 13 seconds to play that Herald-Leader staff photographer E. Martin Jessee captured in its arc toward the goal. The picture anchored the front page of the sports section, with a smaller picture of the scoreboard superimposed on it in a box next to the backboard. Kentucky now led, 77-76.
ReplyDeleteFitzmaurice:
ReplyDeleteBut there was an eternity left as (Roy) Skinner signaled for a time out.
The Commodore coach called for a back-door basket from forward Butch Feher … Givens, who had over-played his adversary the entire afternoon, stayed loose as a Goose and was able to smack the ball out-of-bounds with three seconds to go.
(Jeff) Fosnes’s harried shot from deep in the corner bounced harmlessly off the rim as Kentucky celebrated its seventh triumph in 13 outings.
Mike Phillips had 30 points and 15 rebounds in this game.
DeleteBy the way, the first act to perform in the new Rupp Arena is going to be Lawrence Welk, in October 1976 (with an appearance by former Coach Adolph). If that show is anything like the Jan. 17, 1976, "200 Years of American Music" episode of the The Lawrence Welk, it's going to freaking bring the house down as soon as they got the place open.
ReplyDeleteMatch Game is fun.
ReplyDeleteBob Gilder defeated Roger Maltbie by two strokes to win the Phoenix Open. It was the first of Gilder's six tour wins.
ReplyDeleteTo Tell the Truth is not a good game show; To Tell the Truth is a great game show.
ReplyDeleteOne of the best parts of "Catch Me If You Can" is the part from "To Tell the Truth."
DeleteAlso, Hunter Thompson appeared on "To Tell the Truth."
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