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AMERICAN REVOLUTION
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Listen to Mark Lindsay's show in The Underground Garage on Sirius Channel 21 every Saturday at 10am ET,
and enjoy an Encore broadcast on Sunday at 2pm ET. The show will also be available on demand on the Sirius app
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and will drop off two weeks later. The most recent two episodes are always available.

FEBRUARY 3 SHOW

SHOW PLAYLIST

Gotta Travel On - Bobby Vee & The Crickets

Winter Dance Party - 1
- That’ll Be The Day - Buddy Holly
- A Teenager In Love - Dion & The Belmonts
- Crazy Blues - The Big Bopper
- La Bamba - Ritchie Valens
- Kiss and Make Up - Frankie Sardo

Winter Dance Party - 2
- Maybe Baby - Justin Townes Earle
- Who Do You Love - Bo Diddley
- One Fine Day - The Chiffons
- Fairlane Rock - Hayden Thompson
- Out of Work - Gary U.S. Bonds

Winter Dance Party - 3
- Lonely Teardrops - Howard Huntsberry
- Rockin’ Pneumonia and the Boogie Woogie Flu - Johnny Rivers
- Money - The Kingsmen

Winter Dance Party - 4
- A Friend of Mine - Marty Stuart And His Fabulous Superlatives
- A Good Man Is Hard To Find - Brenda Lee
- Travelin’ Man - Gunnar Nelson/Nelson Brothers
- Summertime Blues - Brian Setzer
- Learning The Game - Pat Dininzio

Winter Dance Party - 5
- Peggy Sue - Lou Reed
- Let’s Dance - Chris Montez
- Hard Rockin’ Man - Linda Gail Lewis
- Gypsy Woman - Brian Hyland
- Speed of Sound - Slim Jim Phantom

Winter Dance Party - 6
- Highway 51 Blues - Bob Dylan
- Dance The Mess Around - Chubby Checker
- It Doesn’t Matter Anymore - Linda Ronstadt
- Willy and the Hand Jive - Kenny Vance & The Planotones
- I Fought The Law - The Crickets

Winter Dance Party - 7
- Johnny B. Goode/Whole Lotta Shakin’ - Keith Allison
- I Can’t Understand - Los Lobos
- Let’s Have A Party - Wanda Jackson
- Crying, Waiting, Hoping - Marshall Crenshaw
- The Night Has A Thousand Eyes - Bobby Vee

Winter Dance Party - 8
- She’s The One/Mona/not Fade Away Intro - Bruce Springsteen & The E-Street Band
- Hey Buddy (Tribute To Buddy Holly) - John Mueller

- Brown Eyed Handsome Man - Buddy Holly

This Week's
"DEEP DIVE"

WINTER DANCE PARTY
Today's show features a tribute to the stars of the Winter Dance Party. Touring in today's era in a million $ luxury Prevost bus is still grueling, but in 1959, conditions were brutal. And the exhaustion from no days off, traveling hundreds of miles a day, and just being DONE with unheated buses long overdue for retirement led to the events of Febuary 3, 1959. Add in a well-meaning but unqualified fan/pilot and the results were inevitable. Tune in and hear the story.

The only known poster of the Moorhead, Minnesota show - which, unbelievably, wasn't canceled after the plane crash that killed Buddy Holly, The Big Bopper, and Ritchie Valens earlier that morning - sold in 2022 for a record $447,000.

THE FOUR MUST-SEE MOVIES:

- Go Johnny Go (1959)
- The Buddy Holly Story (1978)
- The Real Buddy Holly Story (1985)
- La Bamba (1987)

Buddy Holly and the Crickets on Ed Sullivan - December 1, 1957
https://youtu.be/9mDGcxbAusg?si=dvXMjqilJgyFjuOM

The Big Bopper with Dick Clark
https://youtu.be/_0DnvC3y64I?si=0fNf_a-E6XbXpQzQ

Ritchie Valens with Chuck Berry
https://youtu.be/ImP7QsuaOCU?si=o_K-GUQ20cdYZhWO

I FOUGHT THE LAW - In 1960, Buddy's old group, The Crickets, released the first version of the song. And here's a photo of Buddy holly before he split from The Crickets, with drummer Jerry Allison, who was the cousin of Raider Keith Allison. Keith was playing with Jerry in The Crickets in Las Vegas when Dick Clark finally found the Paul McCartney lookalike he'd been trying to track down, after fans wanted to know more about the guy who'd been in the audience at a taping of Where The Action Is.

https://youtu.be/4hw846vx_uk?si=_EpCJYRU4AD8z7to

JOHNNY B. GOODE/WHOLE LOTTA SHAKIN' - Mark opened set 7 with Keith Allison.

Keith tells the story behind the medley to Bill Kopp at MUSOSCRIBE - check out the multi-part interview.

It should be called “Shakin’ Johnny.” I told Mark [Lindsay], “ I want to cut two songs together like Mitch Ryder does. I love that stuff, and I want something really rockin’.” So we came up with “Johnny B. Goode” and “Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On” together. So we went and cut it; it was going to be my next single on Columbia. We were on the road; if I’m not mistaken, we were flying from Boston to Chicago. We got on the plane – Freddy [Weller] was sitting next to me – and Mark came and said to Freddy, “Can you change seats with me? I need to talk to Keith.” He had a long look on his face, and I went, “Uh-oh.”
He said, “I’m sorry. I’ve got some bad news. Before I left the hotel, I was talking to Columbia in New York. They’re not going to release your single.” I said, “What!?” I really liked the thing, and I thought it had a shot at the time. But they had just signed this kid from Texas called Johnny Winter, and he recorded “Johnny B. Goode.” And since they had paid $700,000 for him, Clive [Davis] wanted to get some of his money back. So I said, “Sonofabitch!” [laughs]

The CD is out of print, but you can get an MP3 or stream it HERE.

https://youtu.be/e-M9ME6_yMY?si=1Qul1NUa_Y3Ww1QW
https://youtu.be/JQCz6qabzaE?si=YBUvyDrgRZKlSNQv

BOBBY VEE - Fifteen-year-old Bobby Velline and his brother had tickets for the Moorhead show. But they ended up opening the show after a call was put out for "replacement acts" for Buddy, The Big Bopper, and Ritchie.
Three years later, he had a hit with THE NIGHT HAS A THOUSAND EYES, and Mark Lindsay saw him perform it at the D-Street Corral in Portland, Oregon.

https://youtu.be/XSluwC6p_J4?si=WT26T9JtKV33wrBQ

https://youtu.be/KU3iSBLnzds?si=1tp2wuVQCqJDqfFZ

We've just added lots more personally autographed goodies to
Mark Lindsay's Music & Memorabilia Shop,
so be sure to stop by...and check out the special Valentine's Day Collection.

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