Memories

Before I begin this week’s Blog … I want to wish an old friend a “Happy Heavenly Birthday”… the Original “Blue Moon” Bassman of the Marcels … Mr. Fred Johnson. Fred was a childhood friend, one of the first original Marcels and my first attempt at street corner harmony. My Dad’s best friend, Jim Cox, … Read more

This past Monday, March 2, 2026 was the day the music died in Pittsburgh. That was the day we lost our Dadio of Radio … Porky Chedwick. The man who turned us, so called juvenile delinquents, onto the greatest music ever recorded … Rhythm and Blues. He was described as the “Platter Pushin’ Papa”, “Pork … Read more

This Tuesday past was Jimmy Merchant’s Birthday … founder of the legendary Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers. I did a special show on my weekly radio show … Johnny Angel’s Heavenly Soul Show on jukinoldies.com … and during that show I played an interview I did with Jimmy Merchant years ago. During that interview, Jimmy … Read more

This past Monday, February 2, 2026 , we lost another legend to Rock N’ Roll Heaven … Mr. Chuck Negron, lead singer of Three Dog Night. I have loved this group since the first time I heard them and were basically the soundtrack of the late 60’s thru the early 70’s. I/my bands covered many … Read more

I was sitting here in my studio today playing records and getting some ideas for this week’s show on jukinoldies.com and for some strange reason I dipped into my stash of great 78 RPM records. After spinning a few Ruth Brown records realized that this month was Ruth’s Birtday. I went to my photo archives … Read more

What ever happened to Penny Candy … better yet … what ever happened to Kids Birthday parties at their house? We didn’t have a Chucky Cheese, Dave and Busters or a kid drop off facility to throw a birthday party … we had our house’s and in my case a basement with a large folding … Read more