REFIRED UP WITH A NEW URL: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL LOOK AT GROWING UP BOTH NORTHERN & SOUTHERN CALIFORNIAN IN THE 1960'S &'70S The End is Near: Happy Election Eve Critical Thinkers An Unequaled Music Legend Passes: Quincy Jones Dead at 91

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[November 4, 2024 (19:15 PST)]

LA circa 1970: Photo Courtesy djqlxix2112 from YouTube, "Beach Baby" 

Not to be repetitive, the story of my companion blog from the 3-semester music show which streamed on SFSU's KSFS, is updated in a sentence or two when you select that link; as they say, "The Rest is History."

Here at my post taking-in the last minute push to election 2024,

The mudslinging, apparent threats, and insults sums-up an election such as we have never seen in our lifetimes.

This evening, I do not have a lot to say and am keeping-my-powder dry for several long sessions of weigh-ins within the blog, tomorrow.

Here is a fun song which shows-up towards the end of my ST&Place playlist.

Reminds me of the end of a radio job interview in early 1980 with 1240 KROY Sacramento, Program Director, The Wonder Rabbit.

Sugar Loaf: "Don't Call Us We'll Call You" [3:40m]

LA Times: Quincy Jones Legendary Composer Who Shaped Michael Jackson's Solo Career has Died

Speaking of Radio and Mr. Jones, I was playing "Rock With You" in the Fall of 1979 as it was rising in the Top 40--eventually--to #1 while working 8PM-Midnight Weekends at 1470 KXOA Sacramento. In 1982, Thriller was released.

I was walking-down the hall of my 4th floor barracks in Gelnhausen, Germany when I heard music coming from a couple of soldier's room. The music was so amazing, I was invited to sit-down and listen to it with my brothers.

Rock With You

Michael Jackson

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"Rock with You" is a song by American singer Michael Jackson, written by Rod Temperton and produced by Quincy Jones. It was first offered to Karen Carpenter, while she was working on her first solo album, but she turned it down. It was released in October 1979, by Epic Records as the second single from Jackson's fifth solo studio album Off the Wall (1979). It was also the third number-one hit of the 1980s, a decade in which the pop singles chart would quickly be dominated by Jackson.

Chart

Peak

#1 1980/01/19

Debut

#76 1979/11/03

Weeks Of Chart

24

Weeks Of #1

4

Weeks Of Top10

9

Weeks Of Top20

13

Weeks Of Top40

19

. . .both Private First Class Miller & Spec 4 what's his name were from Shytown--the Windy City. Private Overton, my roommate, was a quite man from deep-south poverty--yet a super soldier who I would imagine became a patriotic Lifer. I pictured Overton staying-in for twenty or thirty years.

For me, it was a moment etched in time.

RIP Quincy Jones 

See you tomorrow,

93 KHJ: The Real Don Steele Radio Aircheck May 25th 1968

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