Category: People
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Talking about Crohn’s disease
Kellie Robinson’s younger brother Jeff was diagnosed with Crohn’s disease at age 10. In the 23 years that followed, he underwent 26 surgeries and spent countless stints in the hospital. “But he always had the most amazing spirit,” says Kellie. (more from Erin McPhee in the North Shore News)
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600 Memories
Click to hear me in 1955 at CJOR The former CJOR at 600 on the AM dial is going dark and the station is flipping to FM. It is fascinating that it is happening 54 years to the day I began my career there. I had been hanging around CJOR in 1953 with Al Jordan…
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Tribute to a balladeer king
Roy Orbison dropped dead of a heart attack in the last, wintry month of 1988. It was a damn shame. In 52 years of life, Roy Kelton Orbison had transformed himself from a shy, nearsighted kid from Wink, Texas, to a towering founding father of rock and roll, a peerless balladeer of sweeping symphonic odes…
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Northwest Rock Legend Pat O’Day Comes Back Home
He’s been called the “Voice of the Hydros” and the “Founding Father” of Northwest’s ’60s rock renaissance. But before he was a disc jockey, a pioneering concert promoter, a hydroplane-race announcer and now a drug-and-alcohol treatment center owner — before Pat O’Day was any of those things, he was a Tacoma teenager named Paul Berg…
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Norm Pringle enters the Hall in Victoria
It was a gathering of Victoria’s pioneer “garage” and rock and roll bands to salute new entries into the Victoria Rock and Roll Music Hall of Fame. I was there to induct Norm Pringle, the first deejay to play Rock and Roll in Victoria. Norm had a teen show on then new CHEK…
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Where Do You Listen?
I’m running a contest on the Red Rock Diner, asking listeners to tell me where they are while listening to the show. Some of the responses so far: Hi, Red! I usually listen to your program while driving back to Washington after having spent a couple of days in Vancouver with my husband. In its…
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Carol Burnett, Petula Clark
The night of September 18 we took in the Carol Burnett Show, part of the Global ComedyFest going on our town. After the show we had the chance to go backstage and talk with the actress. I told her that I had met Harvey Korman years ago when he came to town to promote a…
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Russell Peters at the “Rock”
Kevin Statham photo This photo with Russell Peters was taken backstage at the River Rock. I was there to get a Global TV interview with the comic. He is an engaging personality and continues to wow audiences throughout North America. I found out that he is the only North American comic to ever do stand-up…
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TVWeek photos, VMI awards
It has been a busy month and a half. Two highlights come to mind. My final column and front page cover of TVWeek magazine was an awesome thing to behold. The photographer took some wonderful photos and the one photo that everyone compliments me on is the silhouette shot taken inside the Red Robinson Show…
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Fabulous in Fort Langley
Remembering the 1950’s until December 21 Langley Centennial Museum 9135 King Street — Fort Langley opens Saturday August 30 10am Info: Kobi 604-888-3922