Category: People

  • You Say It’s Your Birthday!

    Happy Birthday Red! Everything to do with music in Vancouver seems to be associated with you… since I was a kid. Thank you for all that you do for this city with music. You are an inspiration! All the best for a fabulous year to come! Cheers, Ruth Payne Red, in your lifetime you have…

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  • Wink Martindale gets back in the game with new show

    Wink Martindale just won’t quit and good on him. Like 92 year-old local bandleader Dal Richards, they are both akin to the Energizer Bunny and why not? Quit having a reason to get up each morning and you are dead within 2 years. Wink produced a game show here in Vancouver years back with affable…

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  • Tammy Weis, Randy Bachman duet

    Vancouver thrush Tammy Weis has a new CD out titled Where I Need To Be. She lives in London, England and performs around the country. Tammy has been asked to perform at many events, one of which included Randy Bachman. She was so excited to be working with him and the British press were taken…

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  • Andy Kim, Canadian Icon

    Some years ago when Bruce Allen and I had offices in Gastown Andy Kim came to visit. I found him to be a most engaging personality. He had written and produced a new song and I thought it had potential and told him so. Born in Montreal, Andy found fame in New York City at…

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  • Jack Cullen – One Of A Kind

    This is my mentor as he looked back in 1974 almost 30 years before his death. Jack always had that “devil may care” attitude and it shows in his eyes.  He was truly one of the great radio communicators.  He was a deejay, never an announcer. His hero was Steve Allen who in his early…

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  • Remembering Roy Orbison

    Roy Orbison has been honoured with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. I first met Roy back in 1962 when Les Vogt and I booked him into Vancouver for some shows. We repeated bringing him to town for years. When we were not the promoters we always found time to get together during…

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  • Fundraiser For A Good Cause — Wildlife

    Critter Care Wildlife Society provides short and long term care to native mammal species of BC, and through rehabilitation and public education, helps prevent suffering of injured and orphaned wildlife. The society’s April fundraiser is Saturday, April 17th at the Fort Langley Community Hall at 7pm. An evening of entertainment, buffet dinner and auction along…

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  • 104.3… A Shore Thing

    Shore 104 FM has  switched frequencies with KAFE in Bellingham. Shore 104 is now at 104.3 and KAFE has moved to 104.1.  The U.S. – Canada agreement culminated in this photo opportunity for both stations at the Peace Arch border crossing.  It took a lot of give and take, but the end result is a…

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  • Jay Leno at “The Rock”

    Jay Leno came to the River Rock Show Theatre for two shows on a Saturday night. The word went out from his manager in Los Angeles that there would be no media event, no questions from the press and no media folks invited. This blackout was due to the continuing story of shifts at NBC.…

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  • Happy Birthday, Elvis!

    January 8 marks Elvis Presley‘s 75th birthday. Did you know that Mike Reno of Loverboy shares the same birthday? It is difficult to imagine Elvis at 75. However people who knew him tell me that his hair was almost snow white when he passed away. That makes perfect sense as his father, Vernon, was white-haired…

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