I have always, always, ALWAYS held a strong spot in my heart for the vocal group Manhattan Transfer. It was twelve years ago this month that I was blessed to interview them for Goldmine magazine. I’ve remained in contact with the quartet, and a true Christmas holiday isn’t complete unless I get to the Blue…
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The Twelve Greatest “Schoolhouse Rock” clips of ALL TIME!!
Yesterday, I posted a few commercials from ABC’s Saturday morning telecasts – these were commercials featuring “Timer,” a song-and-dance character that extolled the benefits of good nutrition. And then I remembered. What was the most popular part of ABC’s Saturday morning telecasts? Of course. It was Schoolhouse Rock. “Schoolhouse Rock” – also known as “Multiplication…
Read MoreDecember 3, 1982 – the first home game for the Albany Patroons
If you’ve found this blog post, this means that you’ve discovered the art of blog time travel. So hop in the way-back machine with me, to a time when the Washington Avenue Armory was the local basketball hotbed. They could have been called the Albany Senators or Albany Leprechauns, but the fans chose “Patroons” in…
Read MoreTime for “Timer”
For anyone who grew up watching Saturday morning cartoon shows in the 1970’s, I can say that without a doubt the ABC network had some freaky-odd things going on. No, I’m not talking about the TV shows themselves – no, I’m talking about what appear to be 30-second or 60-second commercials starring a rotund, spindle-legged…
Read MoreWeek 12 of the $2,000 2011 Elbo Room Trivia Tournament
When I arrived at Elbo Room for trivia last night, one of the members of Woo Hoo a Go Go contacted me. “Chuck,” he said, “I think you gave us one extra point in the standings that belongs to someone else.” “Fair enough,” I replied, “When I go home tonight after trivia, I’ll double-check.” I…
Read MoreChristmas in Iverhill: The Black Oak Elementary School Sledding Championship
NOTE: To read Chuck Miller’s book “The Robins of Iverhill: A Minor League Fairy Tale,” as well as the short stories in the “Christmas in Iverhill” series, visit this link. Wednesday, December 19, 1973. Iverhill’s public schools seldom, if ever, closed for a snowstorm. If heavy snow was scheduled to arrive, so then were the…
Read More“Attention please… all Pan Am flights have been cancelled.”
And just like that, ABC has quietly pulled the plug on their early 1960’s period drama Pan Am. Like The Playboy Club before it, Pan Am hoped that the addition of a recognized trademark – in this case, the blue globe logo, the light blue stewardess outfits, the dashing martini-sipping swinging 1960’s culture populated by…
Read MoreA “Caption Time” that’s lost in translation from English to English
I photographed this sign last Saturday in Toronto, as I was walking past a construction site. Listen, I realize that obsessive-compulsive collecting and gathering is a major problem and has been the focus of several reality TV shows… but when fire safety is impacted… ha ha ha… Okay, everyone, have at it. Photo by Chuck…
Read MoreReunion in Toronto
As I spent my Thanksgiving weekend in Ontario, I decided to do some touristy things once I had a true day off. I visited the CN Tower – yes, I can see my house from up there, ha ha ha – and I shopped at a store called Canadian Tire, where I gave them my…
Read MoreWant to give the holiday gift of high-quality rock music photographs? Sure you do!
In 1962, a young man named Eddie Kramer took a job as an assistant at London’s Advision Studios. That “foot in the door” allowed Kramer to collaborate with some of the top names in rock and roll music. He engineered and produced albums by such artists as Led Zeppelin, the Rolling Stones, Jimi Hendrix and…
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