The Music Column: '60s pop icons The Buckinghams find a new career as nostalgia merchants
By John Staton
John.Staton@StarNewsOnline.com
Published: Wednesday, June 17, 2009 at 8:26 a.m.
Last Modified: Wednesday, June 17, 2009 at 8:26 a.m.
It says something about the power of pop music that a band can have a viable career more than 40 years after its salad days have passed. But like many bands from the 1960s who rocketed to fame and just as quickly faded into semi-obscurity, The Buckinghams continue to tour and attract audiences with nostalgic, feel-good songs.
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Want to go?
Who: The Buckinghams
When: 7 p.m. June 20
Where: Odell Williamson Auditorium, 50 College Road N.W. on the campus of Brunswick Community College, just off U.S. 17 between Bolivia and Supply
Tickets: $25 (concert only). $45 includes VIP seating and a Friday, June 19, reception with original Buckinghams Carl Giammarese and Nick Fortuna at Murray Art & Frame in Leland.
Details: 371-3833, www.NBchamberofcommerce.com or www.bccowa.com
A horn- and organ-driven Chicago-based pop act that scored a No. 1 hit in 1967 with the undeniably catchy, ruminative "Kind of a Drag," The Buckinghams will play a concert Saturday at Odell Williamson Auditorium. The show is a fundraiser for the North Brunswick Chamber of Commerce.
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