Year: 2010
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By Request… The Swingin’ Medallions!
Red, I let you wake me up every Sunday morning and this morning I flashed back to my youth and a job I had at the Birch Bay Amusement Park. There was a dance hall nearby called Village West where I remember seeing a group called the Swingin’ Medallions. They had a hit called Double…
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Cars Of Dreams
Since the halcyon days of the Fifties and Sixties, rock and roll and hot rods, custom cars and motorcycles have gone together. It was an age of hope and discovery and invention. Radio had actual personalities on the air and the custom cars and hot rods had individual personality. But, this was also true of…
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50 Years of Memories
Red, I just wanted to express my thanks to you for all you’ve done over the years. I’m sure you remember back in the 50’s and even into the 60’s so many people slammed rock’n’roll. R and R was essentially good time music and it was so full of energy. I grew up in Seattle.…
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B.B. King At The “Red”
Every once in a while you get to meet a genuine icon Such was the situation last weekend at the Red Robinson Show Theatre with B.B. King on stage for two nights. Here is a man who has won 15 Grammy Awards, the U.S. Presidential medal of honor and so many other awards. He is…
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Steven Wright at The “Red”
I have always admired Steven Wright. His humor is aimed at himself and his own foibles, but he presents his stories in an interesting and philosophical manner. The British refer to it as dry humour. It is like a dry martini, refreshing yet with a tiny bite to make it interesting. He came to the…
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C-FUN Goes To The Rock Hall, Dave McCormick out at CISL
This year the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum asked a few deejays to gift them with material from their radio careers. Looking back, the most exciting time for me was working at C-FUN. Those were the great days of Top 40. Dave McCormick created a rock and roll dynamo, but decided in…
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Missing Tops and Applause for Ross
Here I am with three of the Four Tops. The night before their appearance at the Red Robinson Show Theatre all four performed for the CH.I.L.D. Foundation Doorman’s Dinner. However the next night at The Red only three performed, as a band member had to fly home home for a family matter. They have great…
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Bret Michaels at The “Red”
Bret Michaels dropped in to the Red Robinson Show Theatre recently. He is a very engaging guy whose varied career makes him most interesting. He started out as a glam rocker with his own group, Poison. Bret had his own reality TV show for a while, appeared for a few seasons on America’s Got Talent…
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Red Around Town, October 2010
Some shots taken last week in Maui. I love this tropical paradise and when visiting we always head out to D.T. Fleming Beach, rated one of the best beaches in the world. The surf was hitting the beach on the curl of 12 foot waves. It was exciting. This painting of me appears alongside many…
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Canadian pop music may well have outgrown Cancon rules
On a sticky August night at the Air Canada Centre, Michael Bublé is getting ready to wrap it up. After an evening of crooning covers, he turns to one of his own compositions. The band plays the opening notes of Haven’t Met You Yet, and 20,000 fans roar their approval. Soon they are singing the…