Year: 2022

  • Lonesome Town, Ricky Nelson

    This week in 1959, The Vancouver Sun columnist Mamie Moloney drew attention to what she called “a welcome new trend”: more slower songs were being played on CKWX! Here’s one of my favorites from that week, Ricky Nelson‘s haunting ballad “Lonesome Town”. Ricky became a singing sensation by closing his parents’ TV show “Ozzie And…

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