Category: People
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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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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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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…
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Rolf Harris, Vancouver Town 2010
Back in 1960-61, Rolf Harris wrote Vancouver Town, in which he satirized media people such as the late Jack Webster, our sports teams and many other local items. At the PNE he updated the song with new and relative material. He wrote it before the show and was worried that he would forget the new…
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Retirement… Who, Me?
The last few weeks have been wildly busy for me. It started in Maple Ridge with the culmination of the national A&W campaign to fight MS. Last year they raised over $400,000 in their cross-Canada quest. With each Teenburger sold on the designated day $1 went to the cause. Over 700 hot rods, custom cars…
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The PNE is 100!
What a busy day I had at the Pacific National Exhibition! At noon I reflected on the 100th anniversary of the PNE and highlighted the great musical moments of the past which included Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra and the Beatles to name but a handful. Pat Quinn preceded me onstage with a look back at…
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A Day At The Races
Bruce Allen and I were invited to Hastings Park last Sunday to decorate the winning horses at the annual B.C. Day Derby. It was a wonderful day and the track greeted an enormous crowd. At one point former jockey Tommy Wolski asked us to go to the paddock and have our photos taken for posterity.…
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Rolf Harris Returns!
Last week Carole and I flew to London, England. It was a sad trip as our sister-in-law had passed away from a long illness. She contracted MS in 1982 and in the last two years the situation worsened. While we visited her family in London, we made contact with Rolf Harris, who entertained in Vancouver…
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Elvis Remembers Vancouver
[jwplayer height=”500″ width “375” controlbar=”over” file=”https://redrobinson.com/audio/ELVIS_vancouver.mp3″ image=”https://redrobinson.com/archive/red029.jpg”] Elvis Presley came to Vancouver on his first North American tour in August 1957. Vancouver was the biggest success story on the whole tour. I was proud to be part of the success that day as I had tried in vain to get Elvis here for a year…