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Hear Skip Prokop on "The Lost 45s." Skip Prokop, co-founder and drummer with the Canadian rock band Lighthouse, has died. He was 74. He was a frequent guest on "The Lost 45s." Band manager Brenda Hoffert, wife of Lighthouse co-founder Paul Hoffert, says Prokop died Wednesday in a St. Thomas, Ont., hospital. She says Prokop had been living with a heart condition and was ill for some time. Prokop had […]
'The absolute transformation of everything that we ever thought about music will take place within 10 years, and nothing is going to be able to stop it. Music itself is going to become like running water or electricity” David Bowie June 2002. This week the music of David Bowie reached a major milestone with the one billionth stream on Spotify from his stellar 50-year career. The #1 streamed song, “Heroes”, […]
Country star Tanya Tucker has written an emotional tribute to her late ex, Glen Campbell, a week after his death. The singer dated the Rhinestone Cowboy star when she was in her 20s, back in the early 1980s, and admits she has always loved him. In the new issue of Closer magazine, Tucker pours out her heart for Glen, who died on August 8th, aged 81, following a seven-year battle […]
Hear Glen Campbell on "The Lost 45s." Glen Campbell, the upbeat guitarist from Delight, Arkansas, whose smooth vocals and down-home manner made him a mainstay of music and television for decades, has died, his family announced on Facebook on Tuesday. He was 81. "It is with the heaviest of hearts that we announce the passing of our beloved husband, father, grandfather, and legendary singer and guitarist, Glen Travis Campbell, following […]
Latin music icon Gloria Estefan is in disbelief to be receiving one of America's "greatest" cultural accolades at the 2017 Kennedy Center Honors. The Miami Sound Machine hit maker is the first Cuban-American to be recognized for her lifelong contributions to the U.S. entertainment industry, and the historic award is more than she could ever have hoped for. Celebrating the news in a post on Twitter, she wrote, "I am […]
Oldies by Calvin Gilbert Finding A 60s, 70s and 80s Niche It's a place where the Bay City Rollers and Rick Springfield still rule alongside the Partridge Family and the Captain & Tennile. And while Barry Scott isn't suggesting that these artists become staples of your programming, he's given the music a home with his syndicated show, The Lost 45s. On the air in Boston since 1981, The Lost 45s […]
Olivia Newton-John has shared that she's "feeling good" as she battles cancer for the second time. The 68-year-old actress was first diagnosed with breast cancer in 1992 and she underwent treatment and a mastectomy to fight the disease. But 25 years later, in May, her spokesperson revealed that she had been diagnosed with it again and that the cancer had "metastasized to the sacrum". Grease star Olivia has kept relatively […]
One of our favorite guests on "The Lost 45s," Michael Johnson, a Minneapolis-based singer-songwriter and guitarist known best for his first Top 40 hit song “Bluer Than Blue” in 1978, died Tuesday, July 25, 2017, in his Minneapolis home, according to a statement posted on his official website. He was 72. The cause of death was not released, but the statement said that he died “after a long illness.” The […]
Quincy Jones has won his lawsuit against the estate of Michael Jackson and Sony Music over the cash haul of money they have received since Jackson’s death. The lawsuit said that MJJ Productions and Sony Music have been making large sums of money off of Jackson’s music, much of which was produced by Jones, while “disguising” the owed royalties. Jones was particularly upset over remixes and edits that were made […]
Monthly Listeners–Catch up on last 4 podcasts: Lost in Christmas 1; Jimmy Cliff/Reggae Tribute; “Time” theme and Petula Clark Co-Host!
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