The Buckinghams in Concert

From BeingBruce.blogspot.com , Bruce Brown's post of Tuesday, June 16, 2009 What's This? The Buckinghams in concert this Saturday? Wow!! Guess something must be going on. Saw this banner above Murray Art & Frame in Leland today. That site is the scene of the VIP Party Friday night, the night before Saturday's concert by The Buckinghams The concert will be at Odell Williamson Auditorium at Brunswick Community College at 7PM. The VIP party is also going to be a blast! For more info or just to get tickets quick, call (910) 371-3833.

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. ... Read John Staton's full story at http://www.starnewsonline.com/article/20090617/articles/906174000 / 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 Ca

Popular WLS-AM radio DJ, Danny Lake was filling in for Dick Biondi during Memorial Day week, May 27th and interviewed Carl Giammarese in advance of the great Chicago Hitmakers concert weekend. http://images.radcity.net/5150/3708511.mp3 Listen to Danny's Interview with Carl here. It was the anniversary of The Buckinghams' appearance on Dick Clark's American Bandstand. Danny invites you to join him on WLS every weekend: "I invite you to listen to my NEW radio show the Saturday Night Party every Saturday night from 7 PM until midnight. I'll see you around the neighborhood!" If you want to make a request, send it to Danny now at dannylake@947chicago.com . Or you can call him during the show at 312-922-TRUE (8783). Listen online at http://www.947trueoldies.com .

Sheryl, aka Jubilee2 on YouTube, assembled a nice video tribute to The Buckinghams with the background of the 1960s classic, "Hey Baby, They're Playing Our Song". In over a year, the video has had 25,000 views. The Buckinghams were named "The Most Listened to Band in America" in 1967 by Billboard Magazine . These pictures can be found on The Buckinghams' official web site, www.thebuckinghams.com and the original video on YouTube can be found at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKv1nw_5A6Q

From a blog post today, the "Live On Music" site, http://www.liveonmusic.com/news/legacy-recordings-launches-major-digital-reissue-initiative/ we're reminded that Sony/Legacy Recording has included music from The Buckinghams in their current digital reissue project. Three albums from The Buckinghams' time with Columbia Records are now available for digital download. Those who find mp3s on Amazon can go there from this site (click on the Amazon mp3 ad logo); they're also available on iTunes. If you want digital remakes of some of your favorite songs on vinyl by The Buckinghams, it's a great chance to download some or all of them. ...from the "Live On Music" site, the Legacy press release follows: Legacy Recordings Launches Major Digital Reissue Initiative Legacy Recordings, the world’s premier catalog music label, has opened its vaults to create the Legacy Digital Reissue initiative, making an incredible selection of classic albums and deep catalog r

Remember when? Remember when Nehru jackets were cool and the coats with the big Edwardian collars were in? Here's a YouTube segment filmed 2 years ago that shows a coat worn by Carl Giammarese and Nick Fortuna back in the 60s Buckinghams' days. Thanks to smctopia for capturing this on YouTube

It's not every day that an aspiring young musician receives a Roy Smeck ukelele instead of a dreamed-about drum kit and is told that it would be great to learn music on the uke. The uke fell into the 'disdained' category and remained there safely until some 40 years later, a new appreciation for both the ukelele and a musician, Kharmachanic, who has mastered same was discovered on YouTube. In the department of "you just can't make this stuff up," here's "Kind of a Drag," a number one hit for The Buckinghams, on the uke. Enjoy.