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PLANNER PROJECT 2016... THE 70s!

EDITOR’S NOTE: Listed below are the venues, performers, media, events, and specialty items including

automobiles (when possible), highlighting the years 1971 and 1976 in Planner Project 2016!

1971!

1971 / FEATURED AREA MUSIC VENUES FROM 1971 / (58) / [(-) NO. OF TIMES LISTED]

5th International Cleveland Rod & Custom Auto-Rama (at Public Hall) / Adelbert Gym (Blanket &

Beachers concerts) / Admiral Bimbo’s / Cleveland Agora / Allen Theatre (2) / Cleveland Arena /

Ashland College / The Barracks (E. 20th & Chester) / Bay Way / The Basement [opening night –

($1.50 / beer & pizza 40¢ each)] / Blossom Music Center / Cain Park / Carnegie Hall / CWRU’s

Emerson Gym / Chesterland Hullabaloo / Columbus 1700 (formerly D’Poo’s) / Corral / Cyrus Erie

West / Déjà Vu / the Den [(opening debut) - ($2-w/drink ticket)] / Edgewater Park / Eastlake North

High School / The Factory / Fagan’s (2) / Farragher’s / Fat Glenn’s (50¢-free w/CSU ID) / Harbor Inn /

Hire’s Lounge / The Jug / John Carroll (journalism beer mixer) / King Richard’s / the Lantern / Mad

Hatter [opening night] / Maple Hts. High School (Homecoming Dance - appropriate dress required)

/ Mentor Rock Shop / Mrs. Minniver’s Back Room / Musicarnival / Normandy High School / Otto-Sight

/ Padua High School / Painesville Armory (2) / Pickle Bill’s (free popcorn) (2) / Pirate’s Cove (2) / The

Plato (E. 22nd) / Public Hall / The Ramp [opening night -1398 E. 21st] / Saints & Sinners / Shan-Gra-

La (30322 Euclid) / Smiling Dog Saloon, 3447 W. 25th [opening night] / Socrate’s Cave / St. Charles

Monahan (shirt/tie boys, pantsuits girls) / St. Joseph High School / South High School / Surrealistic,

Ink / Theatrical Restaurant / Tom Jones Back Room / Tommy’s / Union Jack / Utopia / Walsh Jesuit

High / The Warehouse / WHK Auditorium (5000 Euclid Ave.)

AKRON / CANTON / KENT AREA VENUES / (5)

The Exit / J.B.’s Niteclub, 244 N. Water St. / Kent Kove [Kove fire] / Kent State Memorial Gym (2) /

Revelation (old Fifth Quarter), 208 S. Depester

NEW YORK / (1)

Billy Graham’s Fillmore East (Glass Harp appearance)

1971 / FEATURED ARTISTS / MUSICAL GROUPS PERFORMING HERE IN 1971 / [(-) NO. OF TIMES LISTED]

FEATURED JAZZ / BLUES ARTISTS PERFORMING HERE IN 1971 / (3)

Jonah Jones / Cozy Cole / Glen Covington and his Orchestra / Al Hirt (2)

FEATURED NORTHEAST OHIO / REGIONAL ARTISTS FROM 1971 / [Individuals: (72) / Grps.: (59)]

15-60-75 (Numbers Band) / After VI / Ambleside (December’s Children) / The American Scene / Audi

Badoo / Bach (2) / Barnaby’s Brush / Alex Bevan / Biggy Rat / Big Orange / Blues Band of Kent /

Bluestone Union (Campbell, Sukalac, Gunn, Kwitowski, O’Neill) / Bones / Bourbon Street Bums /

Brain Child / Brass Ring / the Brethren / Bruno, Whittington, Bruno / Butcher, Baker, Sandwichmaker /

Cargo / Catfish / the Chandlers / Circus (Hrdlicka, Dobeck, Alexander, Salle, Sabol) (3) / Crowd

Pleasers / Cradle / (Damnation) / Damnation of Adam Blessing (Benich, Schwark, Quinn, Kalamasz,

Constable) / Day Break / December’s Children / Dragonwyck / East Wind / Easy Crossing / Eli Radish /

Elysian Fields / Erector Set / Euphrates / Facelift (2) / Featherwood / Flash (formerly Audi-Badoo) /

Flavor (with Joey Porello, Tony Liotta) / Freely Given / Freeport (Raleigh, Holt, Lewis, Stredney,

Stallings) (2) / Fresh Air / Fully Assembled (Bob Sapp, Bill Sapp, Rick Bukac, Greg Grandillo, James

Chellemi, Sammy Samueli, John Virgilli, Roland Solomon) (2) / Funky People Part II / Glass Harp

(Keaggy, Sferra, Pecchio) (2) / Glass Menagerie / Jimmy Glover / Dave Griggs Blues Band / Ed Gross

Band / Ghutts / Hamburgurs / Julie Heimann / Hessler Court / Hot Knife / Impetus (formerly Brass

Ring) (2) / Itchy Brother / James Gang (Joe Walsh, Dale Peters, Jimmy Fox) / Labrynth / Lacewing /

Janie & Dennis / Jessup (Elert, McGill, Pyle, Kendrick) / Jimmy Ley’s Blues Idiom / Buzzy Linhart /

Lost Bob & the Ozone Ramblers / Mad Rabbit / Magic (Farmer, Kazda, Hackett, McCarthy) / the

Measles / Moses (Klawon, Carleton, Kinchy, Alexi) / Mushroom (Bill & Jeff Jeric, Chester Florence,

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Buddy Maver) (3) / the Naturals / New Wave / North River Street Rock Collection / One Yere 2 Sune /

Parson’s Wild West Show / Peacewood Corners / Pentecost / Rick Petroc / Pie Face / Poke Chop / Rain

/ Ralph’s Rock Band / Ramu / Rapid Transit / Rapp Rascal / the Raspberries / Rastus (Magelin, Roman,

Nagy, Smelko, Appleton, Jr., Geraci, Walkuski, Sopuch) / Red Pop / Reign (2) / Rich Reising / the

Rockets / Larry Sanders / Satins / Glenn Schwartz / Screaming Green / Sebastian & Dangerfield /

Shaddows / Shades of Tyme / Sherriff (with Tom Kriss (James Gang), Joe Vitale (Chylds) / Sikela,

Ryan, Mahoney & Morris / Skeezix / Standing Room Only / Sticky Wicket / Stonehenge / Sweetleaf /

Superbs / Swamp / Symbols of Sound / Target / Tiny Alice / Tobin Palm / Trauma / Tyrant / Underdog /

Uranus / Voo Doo / War Horse (Tom Kriss, Joe Vitale, Bruce Rusin, Paul Whitaker) / Whisker Belly

Blues Band / Dick Whittington Adventure / Wild Butter / Windermere Storage / Zephania Cross

FEATURED NATIONAL ARTISTS PERFORMING HERE IN 1971 / [Individuals: (78) / Groups: (81)]

Luther Allison / Eric Andersen / B. B. King / Badfinger (Mike Gibbons, Peter Ham, Tom Evans, Joey

Molland) / Joan Baez / Bar Kays / Beach Boys (sans Dennis & Brian) / Chuck Berry / Black Sabbath /

Jack Blanchard / Blues Image / Booker T. / Brownsville Station / Buoys / The Byrds (Clarence White,

Gene Parsons, Roger McGuinn, Skip Battin) / Cactus / Cat Stevens / Chicago (with Terry Kath) / The

Coasters / Judy Collins / Alice Cooper / David Crosby / Curved Air (2) / Sammy Davis, Jr. / Delaney

(without Bonnie) / Neil Diamond / Deep Purple / Doobie Bros. / Ronnie Dyson / Jonathan Edwards /

Elephant’s Memory / Emerson, Lake & Palmer / Everly Brothers / Fairport Convention / Ella Fitzgerald

(pays tribute to Louis (Satchmo) Armstrong) / Roberta Flack / Flash Cadillac / Frankie Valli & the Four

Seasons / Aretha Franklin / Frijid Pink / Glass Bottle / Glass Hut / Mark Farner and Grand Funk

Railroad / Grass Roots / Grateful Dead / Fanny / Flaming Groovies / Isaac Hayes / Dan Hicks & the Hot

Licks / Head Over Heels / Hello People / Hot Tuna (Jorma Kaukonen, Jack Cassady, Sam Piazza, Papa

John / Humble Pie / Ides of March / Impressions / Luther Ingram / It’s a Beautiful Day / J. Geils Band

(2) / Jackson 5 (Jackie, Tito, Jermaine, Marion, Michael) / Jaggerz (w/Donnie Iris) / Elton John (w/ Dee

Murray & Nigel Olsson [last tour stop]) / Jake Jones / The Tom Jones Show / The Kinks / Al Kooper /

LaBelle / The Lettermen / Gordon Lightfoot / Little Feat / Manhattan Transfer / Bobbi Martin /

Matthews Southern Comfort / John Mayall / Curtis Mayfield / Don McLean / Melanie / Midnighters /

Buddy Miles & his 10-piece band / Steve Miller Band / Mungo Jerry / the Moments / Mother Earth

(w/Tracy Nelson) (2) / Mountain / Graham Nash / Ted Nugent & the Amboy Dukes / Laura Nyro &

Bloodrock / Odetta / Osmond Brothers / Wilson Pickett / Pink Floyd (with light show) / Elvis Presley /

Priscilla / Poco (Young, Schmit, Messina, Grantham, Furay) / Procol Harum / Gary Puckett & the Union

Gap / Elliot Randall / Genya Ravan / Redbone / Billy Joe Royal / Mitch Ryder’s Detroit / Bobby Rydell

/ Santana / Savage Grace / John Sebastian Show / Bob Seger / Sha Na Na (2) / Bobby Sherman / Judee

Sill / Small Faces (Wood, Stewart, McLagan, Lane, Jones) / Soft Machine / Bert Sommer / Sonny &

Cher / Edwin Starr / Steam / Steel River / Stephen Stills and the Memphis Horns / Steppenwolf /

Sweathog / The Supremes / Taj Mahal / Alex Taylor / Hound Dog Taylor / Teagarden & Van Winkle /

Ten Wheel Drive / Three Dog Night / Steve Winwood & Traffic / Jethro Tull / Edgar Winter’s White

Trash / The Who (Daltrey, Entwhistle, Townsend, Moon) / Johnny Winter / Yes / Frank Zappa & the

Mothers of Invention (w/former Turtles Jim Pons, Howard Kaylan, Mark Volman)

FEATURED COUNTRY / COUNTRY ROCK / BLUEGRASS ARTISTS HERE IN 1971 / (5)

Allman Brothers Band / Brewer & Shipley / Country Joe McDonald / New Riders of the Purple Sage /

Pure Prairie League

FEATURED WOMEN OF MUSIC PERFORMING HERE IN 1971 / [(Local: (1) / National: (14)]

LOCAL ARTISTS: Julie Heimann / NATIONAL ARTISTS: Joan Baez / Cher / Judy Collins / Ella

Fitzgerald / Roberta Flack / Aretha Franklin / LaBelle / Melanie / Tracy Nelson / Laura Nyro / Odetta /

Priscilla / Judee Sill / The Supremes

FEATURED ROCK HALL INDUCTEES PERFORMING HERE IN 1971 / (36)

Allman Brothers Band / B. B. King / Joan Baez / Beach Boys / Chuck Berry / Black Sabbath / Booker

T. / The Byrds (Clarence White, Gene Parsons, Roger McGuinn, Skip Battin) / Cat Stevens / Chicago

(with Terry Kath) / The Coasters / Alice Cooper / David Crosby / Neil Diamond / Deep Purple / Everly

Brothers / Frankie Valli & the Four Seasons / Aretha Franklin / Grateful Dead / Isaac Hayes (Shaft) /

Jackson 5 / Elton John / The Kinks / Midnighters / Steve Miller Band / Wilson Pickett / Pink Floyd /

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Elvis Presley / Laura Nyro / Santana / Bob Seger / Small Faces (Wood, Stewart, McLagan, Lane, Jones)

/ The Supremes / Steve Winwood & Traffic / Yes / Frank Zappa & the Mothers of Invention

FEATURED PASSINGS / (1)

Louis (Satchmo) Armstrong (with tribute from Ella Fitzgerald @ Blossom Music Center)

1971 / FEATURED AREA SPECIALTY EVENTS FROM 1971 /

LIVE THEATRE PERFORMANCES / (4)

Jesus Christ Superstar (@ Public Hall) / Tommy’ the Who’s rock musical (@ Music Hall) / ‘Coco’ (@

Music Hall) [with Katharine Hepburn] / ‘Hair’ (@ the Hanna Theatre)

PETER MAX & THE PRIVATE WORLD OF PETER MAX:

Auerbach Gallery at LaPlace hosts ‘The Private World of Peter Max’ with Peter Max in person

3-DAY FLATS FESTIVAL /

With Fagan’s, The Warehouse, The Factory, Pickle Bill’s, Tom Jones Back Room, Pirate’s Cove

(Hot Pants contests / 15 groups including Eli Radish, Barnaby’s Brush, Pentecost, Catfish, Rastus

(Magelin, Roman, Nagy, Smelko, Appleton, Jr., Geraci, Walkuski, Sopuch)

FREE CLINIC / KENT / KENT STATE BENEFITS FROM 1971 / (9)

FREE CLINIC BENEFIT @ THE AGORA:

With Little Feat & Flaming Groovies (99¢)

FREE CLINIC BENEFIT @ CLEVELAND ARENA:

With Mountain, Steel River ($2)

WEEKEND BENEFIT IN THE FLATS FOR FREE CLINIC @ PIRATE’S COVE, PICKLE BILL’S:

With Bob Seger, Teagarden & Van Winkle, ‘Ambleside’ (December’s Children), Circus, Red Pop,

Trauma, Bacha, Reign, New Wave ($2.50)

UNITED FARM WORKERS BENEFIT @ EMERSON GYM CWRU:

With Al Kooper, the Brethern, Glenn Schwartz, WIXY’s Chuck Knapp ($3.50-$4.50-$5)

KENT LEGAL DEFENSE FUND BENEFIT @ THE PLATO:

With Glass Harp, Dave Griggs Blues Band, Tiny Alice ($2 donation)

FESTIVAL OF LIFE @ KENT KOVE FOR COMMUNITY CO-OPS:

10 hours of music & free food with Glass Harp; the Raspberries; Eli Radish; 15-60-75; Julie Heimann;

Lacewing; Butcher, Baker, Sandwichmaker; Parson’s Wild West Show; Hot Knife; Voo Doo (50¢

donation- to Community Co-ops)

KENT LEGAL DEFENSE FUND BENEFIT @ KENT STATE MEMORIAL GYM:

With The Byrds (Clarence White, Gene Parsons, Roger McGuinn, Skip Battin), Mother Earth w/Tracy

Nelson, Pure Prairie League (benefits Kent Legal Defense Fund- $4-$4.50-lost money)

KENT LEGAL DEFENSE FUND / KENT COMMUNITY PROJECT BENEFIT @ KENT KOVE:

Kent Legal Defense Fund & Kent Community Project benefit with Whisker Belly Blues Band, the

Measles, Screaming Green (50¢)

KENT STATE MAY 4TH MEMORIAL CONCERTS IN MEMORIAL GYM:

Lacewing, Shades of Tyme (donations to KSU Medical Fund) / Eric Andersen, Bert Sommer,

Manhattan Transfer, Buzzy Linhart (free with KSU ID - 52 artists contacted-4 replied)

FEATURED AREA EVENT DISTINCTIONS / (2)

CACTUS / MOUNTAIN- BLACK SABBATH:

All 9 members of ‘Cactus’ members arrested at Cleveland Hopkins airport before Musicarnival appearance

/ Mountain, Black Sabbath miss Public Hall concert due to plane trouble

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1971 / FEATURED MEDIA FROM 1971 /

FEATURED AREA NEWSPAPERS (2) / REPORTERS (4)

Cleveland Plain Dealer (Peter Bellamy / Joseph Eszterhas (Jim Morrison’s death) / rock reporter Jane

Scott with review notes on Jackson 5, Tim Russert, Hot Tuna, Elvis Presley) / Cleveland Press

(Bruno Bornino)

RADIO LISTINGS FROM 1971 /

FEATURED AREA RADIO STATIONS / (7)

WGAR-AM / WIXY-AM / WCUY-FM / WELW-FM / WMMS-FM / WNCR-FM / WXEN-FM

FEATURED AREA RADIO PERSONALITIES / (23)

WGAR-AM (Norm N. Nite (Honor Roll of Hits), John Lanigan (debut) / WIXY-AM (Chuck Knapp,

Mike Reineri, Larry Morrow, Chuck Dunaway, Steve Hunter, Chip Hobart, Bobby Knight) / WCUY’s Hal Kerling / WMMS-FM (Denny Sanders, Lou ‘King’ Kirby, Dick ‘The Childe’ Kemp, Ginger, Murray

Saul (Jabberwocky Show with Patti Smith), Billy Bass, Martin Perlich, David Spero) / WNCR-FM (Jeff & Shauna, Billy Bass, Lee Andrews, Lynn Doyle)

FEATURED AREA RADIO DJ APPEARANCES / (4)

WIXY-AM (Larry Morrow @ Mentor Rock Shop, Chuck Knapp @ CWRU’s Emerson Gym, Chuck

Knapp @ Mentor Rock Shop) / WNCR-FM (Billy Bass @ Who concert Public Hall)

FEATURED RADIO MUSIC SURVEYS / (3)

WIXY 1260 Album Survey / WIXY 1260 Record Survey [‘I’m Eighteen’ (No. 6)] / WCUY-FM Top

LPs / WMMS-FM Top 15 LPs [‘Glass Harp’ (2), ‘Rastus’ (11)]

FEATURED WIXY-AM PROMOTIONAL EVENTS:

WIXY Hot Pants contest on Public Square (Shirley Malin Miss Hot Pants ’71) / WIXY-May Co.

Christmas parade w/ James Darren, Glass Harp

WNCR-FM / WNCR-FM 1st BIRTHDAY PARTY @ EDGEWATER PARK: With Savage Grace, Glass Harp, Eli Radish, Hessler Court, Mushroom, Jimmy Glover

WNCR-FM LIVE RADIO BROADCASTS: Grateful Dead- New Riders of the Purple Sage broadcast live by WNCR-FM -1st local concert

aired live

WNCR-FM LIVE REMOTES: Live remote with WNCR’s Billy Bass @ new Hot Pants store in Lakewood

TELEVISION LISTINGS FROM 1971 / (2)

FEATURED AREA TELEVISION STATIONS:

WEWS-TV5 / WJW-TV8

FEATURED AREA TELEVISION PERSONALITIES / (3)

WEWS-TV (Don Webster) / WJW-TV8 (Dick Goddard, Dave Martin, Marty Ross, Big Chuck

Schodowski, Murray Stewart, Bob (Hoolihan) Wells)

FEATURED TELEVISION PROGRAMMING / [Local: (3) / Network: (10)]

LOCAL: Romper Room (Miss Barbara [Plummer]) / City Camera News with Marty Ross, Murray

Stewart, Dave Martin, Dick Goddard / Upbeat / NETWORK: Beverly Hillbillies / Concentration / Phil

Donahue / Mike Douglas / Girlwatch / Green Acres / Hee Haw / Graham Kerr / Man Trap / Rowan &

Martin’s Laugh-In (with Raquel Welch, Johnny Carson, Martha Mitchell & Cleveland-native Bob

Hope)

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FEATURED AREA TELEVISON SHOW DEBUTS / (2)

All in the Family / Soul Train (one of 8 cities)

FEATURED ON WEWS-TV5 FROM 1971 / (2)

SUPER STAR SEARCH ’71 ON WEWS-TV5 / (7)

For $1,000, RCA contract with Jessup, Erector Set, One Yere 2 Sune, Magic, Symbols of Sound,

Bones, Circus, Don Webster (host), Paul Anka (guest star)

UPBEAT SHOW GUESTS / FINAL SHOW ON WEWS-TV5 / (17)

Blues Image / Frijid Pink / Ides of March / the Impressions / Jaggerz’ (w/Donnie Iris) / the Moments

/ Billy Joe Royal / Bobby Sherman / Edwin Starr / Steam /

LAST UPBEAT SHOW (1/30/71) /

Mungo Jerry / Curtis Mayfield / Elephant’s Memory / Bobbi Martin / Don McLean / Jack Blanchard

/ Show Host Don Webster

FEATURED HOOLIHAN & BIG CHUCK FRIDAY NIGHT MOVIES ON WJW-TV8 FROM 1971 / (7)

Die Monsters Die / Journey to the Center of Time / Clayton Moore & Jay Silverheels in ‘Lone Ranger

and Lost City of Gold’ / Yvonne Craig in ‘Mars Needs Women’ / Joan Crawford in ‘Straight Jacket’ /

W. C. Fields in ‘Tillie & Gus’ / War of the Monsters

1971 / FEATURED ENTERTAINERS / AREA ENTERTAINMENT FROM 1971 /

FEATURED COMEDIANS / SPEAKERS / (3)

Dick Gregory / David Steinberg / Rod McKuen

FEATURED HOLLYWOOD ARTISTS HERE IN 1971 / (2)

James Darren / Katharine Hepburn in Coco (@ Music Hall)

FEATURED PROMOTERS / OPERATORS / (9)

A Friend (It’s a Beautiful Day, Soft Machine @ Musicarnival) - (Allman Brothers, Pure Prairie League @

Musicarnival ($4.50-$5) - (Hot Tuna @ Emerson Gym) / Belkin Productions-WMMS / Belkin Productions

- WNCR-FM / Belkin Productions - John Carroll Student Union (Humble Pie, Glass Harp) / Belkin

Productions - WJMO Radio (Jackson 5) / JCU Student Union President Tim Russert (Sha Na Na) / WNCR-

FM / Dan Landanyi (Cyrus Erie West) / M-105 with Baldwin-Wallace Program Board (Harry Chapin) /

WABQ-AM (Wilson Pickett, Coasters @ Music Hall)

FEATURED AREA DEBUTS / (2)

Roberta Flack @ at CWRU’s Emerson Gym ($3.50-$4) / Badfinger (Mike Gibbons, Peter Ham, Tom

Evans, Joey Molland) @ Cyrus Erie West / Denny Sanders on WMMS-FM / John Lanigan on WGAR-AM

FEATURED AREA FUN ‘N GAMES / (2)

Free hot dogs @ Pickle Bill’s / John Carroll U’s journalism beer mixer

FEATURED AREA DISCO DANCING / (1) Disco reigns as the Mad Hatter opens

FEATURED AREA TICKET LOCATIONS / (11)

Bibb’s Record Shop / Burrows / CWRU’s Student Union / Dean’s House of Jazz / Giant Tiger / Hot Pants

stores / Mad Male / Record Revolution on Coventry / Sodja’s Music on E. 185th / Cleveland Tux Shops /

Ward’s Folly / Joan Baez tickets (mail only)

FEATURED RECORDS / ARTISTS DURING 1971 / SINGLES / [Local: (1) / National: (14)]

LOCAL ARTISTS: Back to the River (Damnation of Adam Blessing) / NATIONAL ARTISTS: ‘I’m

Eighteen’ (Alice Cooper) / Behind Blue Eyes / Born to Wander / Family Affair / I’d Like to Teach /

Love the One You’re With / Maggie Mae / Me & Bobby McGee / My Sweet Lord / Never Say Goodbye

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(Jackson 5) / Maggie Mae / Proud Mary / Signs / Bebe Bardon’s hit single ‘Love at First Sight’ with the

101 Strings

ALBUMS / [Local: (7) / National: (19) / Concert tunes: (1)]

LOCAL ARTISTS Big Tree Records LP ‘No Truth to Sell’ (Alex Bevan) / new Damnation LP / ‘Glass

Harp’ (Glass Harp) / ‘Synergy’ (Glass Harp) / James Gang’s ‘Live in Concert’ (James Gang) / ‘Thirds’

(James Gang) / New Rastus 2 LP set / NATIONAL ARTISTS ‘Cry of Love’ (Jimi Hendrix) / ‘Tea for the

Tillerman’ (Cat Stevens) / Emerson, Lake & Palmer / ‘Golden Biscuits’ (3 Dog Night) / Woodstock II /

‘Beyond the Blue Horizon’ (George Benson) / Duke Ellington’s ‘New Orleans Suite’ / ‘Alive’ (Grant

Green) / Carmen McRae / Humble Pie’s ‘Rockin’ the Fillmore’ / ‘Cahoots’ (The Band) / ‘Grateful

Dead’ / ‘Future Games’ Fleetwood Mac / Dick Gregory at Kent State / ‘Hunky Dory’ (David Bowie) /

‘Paranoid’ (Black Sabbath) / ‘Pearl’ (Janis Joplin) / ‘Survival’ (Grand Funk Railroad) /

CONCERT TUNES: That’s All Right (Elvis Presley)

FEATURED AREA RECORD STORES FROM 1971 / (8)

Record Revolution / Higbee’s / Gaylords-Giant Tiger / May Co. / J. P. Snodgrass / Topps / Uncle Bill’s

FEATURED MOVIES / ARTISTS FROM 1971 / (11)

200 Motels / Alice’s Restaurant / Bonnie & Clyde / Bullitt / Joe Cocker’s Mad Dogs & Englishmen / Jack

Nicholson & Karen Black in ‘Five Easy Pieces’ / Kama Sutra / M-A-S-H / Patton / Jennifer O’Neill in

‘Summer of ‘42’ / James Gang in ‘Zachariah’

FEATURED AREA MOVIE HOUSES FROM 1971 / (7)

Berea Theater / LaSalle Theater / Parma Theater / Severance Theater / Variety Theater / Auto Drive-In /

Memphis Drive-In

1971 / FEATURED SPECIALTY ITEMS FROM 1971 /

AUTOMOBILES / (49) [Found in weekly auto ads]

AMERICAN MOTORS / (6)

Bright red/bucket seat ‘68 Javelin AMX w/390 cu. in. 4-bbl. V8, 4-spd. ($1,595-Kent Lincoln-Mercury)

‘71 AMC Hornet SC360 w/360 V8, auto, power, mag wheels ($2,765-Joe Erdelac)

Mediterranean blue-white top/white interior ‘68 Javelin 2-dr. V8 hardtop ($1,488-Eastway)

Lime green ‘69 AMC Javelin 2-dr. hardtop w/390 hp. V8, auto, factory mags ($1,788)

Arctic white-black vinyl top/blue custom interior ‘68 Rambler Rebel SST w/V8, auto, whitewalls

($1,495Toth Buick)

‘69 Rebel SST 2-dr. hardtop w/V8, auto, power steering-brakes vinyl roof ($1,795-Bob Kay)

CHRYSLER MOTORS /

DODGES / (5) Twi-light blue-black top/interior ‘69 Dodge Charger RT ($2,195-Toth Buick)

Orange-BVT ‘71 Dodge Charger SE w/383 ($3,000)

Burgundy mist/black bucket seat ‘69 Dodge Dart GT w/auto ($1,495-Bass Chevrolet)

White/red & blue pin stripe interior ‘74 Dodge Dart ‘Hang 10’ w/auto, spoiler ($2,888-Aurora Ford)

Mandarin orange-black vinyl roof/black interior ‘70 Dodge Super Bee 440 Magnum w/auto ($1,788-Bill

Scher)

OLDMOBILES / (1) Gold mist-BVT/black interior ‘68 Olds Cutlass Supreme 2-dr. hardtop w/V8, AC ($2,095-A. D. Pelunis)

PLYMOUTHS / (6) Yellow-BVT/black bucket seat ‘70 Barracuda w/V8, 4-spd., power steering ($1,895-Parker Reynolds)

All black/bucket seat ‘69 Plymouth GTX w/V8, auto ($1,995-Robert Lee Ford)

Canary yellow-BVT/black bucket seat ‘69 Plymouth Road Runner 2-dr. hardtop ($1,895-Milt Miller)

Sky blue/black bucket seat ‘69 Road Runner w/383, auto, chrome reverses ($1,495-Edgewater Chevy)

Black-BVT ‘70 Plymouth Road Runner w/383 V8, 4-spd. ($1,600)

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Burnt orange-BVT ‘70 Road Runner w/383, 4-spd. ($1,695-Porach)

FORD MOTORS / (6) Candy apple red-black top/interior ‘68 Galaxie 500 V8 Coupe ($1,295)

‘67 Shelby Mustang GT 500 w/427, full race, dual quads, 4-spd. ($2,500)

Forest green/white leather ‘69 Mustang Shelby Cobra ($1,795-Doraty)

‘69 Mustang Mach I w/351, auto, power steering ($2,295-Williams Ford)

Cream/black interior ‘68 Ford Torino 2-dr. fastback w/V8, 4-spd. ($1,195-Kuhlman Olds)

Dark ivy green/black bucket seat ‘69 Ford Torino GT fastback w/351 ($1,888-Wyatt)

MERCURYS / (3) Black/black leather ‘69 Cougar XR7 w/390 V8 ($2,495)

Candy apple red V8 ‘70 Mercury Comet Cyclone (2,295-Williams

‘70 Mercury Cyclone 2-dr. hardtop w/429 Cobra Jet, scooped hood, spoiler ($1,988-Bob Miller)

GENERAL MOTORS / BUICKS / (3) Flame red-white vinyl top/white interior ‘70 Buick Skylark GS 455 w/auto, wire wheels ($3,395-Qua

Buick)

Bittersweet mist-dark brown top ‘71 Buick GS 455 2-dr. Sport Coupe ($3,688-Toth Buick)

Fire red ‘67 Skylark convertible

CHEVROLETS / (7) 68 Chevy Bel Air station wagon w/AC, V8, power steering ($1,788)

Green-BVT ‘69 Camaro Super Sport w/350, 4-speed ($1,988)

All-black ‘67 Chevelle SS 396, w/reworked short block, 4-spd. Hurst, 780 Holley ($1,400)

Dark gray-black vinyl top/interior ‘68 Chevy Chevelle 396 w/4-spd. Hurst ($1,600)

Green-BVT/black bucket seat ‘69 Chevelle Super Sport 396 ($1,795)

Hugger orange/black bucket seat 4-spd. ‘69 Chevelle SS 396

Gold mist-black top/interior ’67 Malibu Sport Coupe w/327

CORVETTES / (2) Sunburst orange/black interior ‘69 Corvette Stingray 427 4-spd. Coupe w/side pipes ($3,488)

Grecian Green ‘71 Corvette Stingray ($4,595)

PONTIACS / (3) New ‘71 Lemans T-37 2-dr. hardtop w/350 V8, auto ($3,299-Feder Pontiac)

‘71 Firebird Formula 400 hardtop Coupe w/4-bbl., auto, push-button radio

Fire engine red/black bucket seat ‘69 Firebird Sports Coupe w/350, auto ($1,995-LaRiche)

GTOS / (4) Matador red/black interior ‘68 GTO

Silver ‘69 Pontiac GTO Judge w/400 V8, mags, 4-spd. ($2,000)

Rosewood ‘71 Pontiac GTO w/extra-wide fiberglass whitewalls, auto, rally wheels, accent stripes

($3,699-Feder Pontiac)

FOREIGN IMPORTS / SPECIALTY AUTOS / (4) BRG/black interior ‘66 Austin Healy ($2,288-Town/Country)

‘67 Maserati Quattro Porte ($5,895)

BRG/black interior ‘69 Lotus Elan Plus 2 w/4-spd. ($3,395)

‘69 Lotus Elan SE Roadster ($3,900)

IHRA FUNNY CAR CHAMPIONSHIP / (1)

Dragway 42 hosts the IHRA Funny Car World Championship with Tom McEwen’s ‘Mongoose,’

& Don Prudhomme’s ‘Snake’

GASOLINE PRICES / TOP VALUE STAMPS / (5)

Gasoline price war along Brookpark Road / (Sohio’s Octron 30.9¢; Gastown regular & Clark low lead

regular 27.9¢; Sunoco grade 190 29.9¢; Uncle Bill’s 26.9¢)

50 extra Top Value stamps with $3 of Clark Super 100 gasoline

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FEATURED AREA FOOD / RESTAURANTS FROM 1971 / (9)

59¢ Longhorn beefburger at Ed & Dick Modzelewski’s new Beef Corral at E. 9th & Euclid

59¢ steakburger at Kenny King’s

Kenny King’s 15-piece Kentucky Fried Chicken take home basket ($3.50)

2 Manner’s Big Boys for 99¢

59¢ Red Barn Barnbuster

$2.99 Red Barn chicken dinner

39¢ burger at Spencer’s

$1.35 Hough Bakeries banana layer cake

Black raspberries at Richardson’s Farms on Schaaf

FEATURED AREA RETAIL SHOPPING FROM 1971 / (11)

$5 jeans at the Hot Pants store in Lakewood

New Carlyle high-rise unit rental ($180 mo.)

$27.77 jumbo bean bag chair at Forest City

$7.88 portable am-fm radio (w/battery) @ Forest City

$2.99 & $3.99 LPs at J. P. Snodgrass

$4.49 tapes at Topps

$5.79 button fly sailor bells at Goldfish Uniform on Prospect

Garrard stereo system w/Koss headphones at Olson Electronics ($290)

Curtis Mathis 25” color TV ($598-Crest TV)

FEATURED AREA RETAIL STORES / RESTAURANTS FROM 1971 / (22)

Auerbach Gallery / Beef Corral / Clark gasoline (Top Value Stamps) / Cleveland Tux shops / Crest TV /

DiFiores Music / Forest City (2) / Gastown / Gaylords/Giant Tiger / Goldfish Uniform / Higbee’s Dept.

store / Hot Pants / Hough Bakeries / Kenny King’s (2) / Dick Lurie Guitar Studio / Record Revolution /

Red Barn (2) /Olson Electronics / J. P. Snodgrass / Tops / Ward’s Folly

MUSICIAL INSTRUMENTS FROM 1971 / (2)

Sunn amps (50% off) @ DiFiores on Lorain

Martin D-35 guitar on sale at Dick Lurie Guitar Studio ($390-$535)

1971 / FEATURED SPORTS PLAYERS / TEAMS / VENUES FROM 1971 / (4)

Jim Plunkett / Stanford University / Ohio State University / Rose Bowl

1971 / FEATURED GENERAL HISTORY FROM 1971 / (2) Hearing news of the Beatles breakup on WIXY / C. Schmidt & Sons buys the Carling Brewing Co.’s

vacated 9400 Quincy Ave. plant

1971 / FEATURED ENTRIES FROM 1971 / (130)

1/1 Hoolihan-Big Chuck fans! After watching Stanford w/Jim Plunkett beat OSU, 27-17, in the Rose Bowl;

dining on a $2.99 Red Barn chicken dinner; hearing news of the Beatles breakup on WIXY; & cruisin’ in a

sky blue/black bucket seat ‘69 Road Runner w/383, auto, chrome reverses ($1,495-Edgewater Chevy), to

see the ‘Raspberries’ & WIXY’s Chuck Knapp at Mentor Rock Shop ($1.75); the flick is ‘War of the

Monsters,’ 1971

1/8 Cruising tomorrow with ‘My Sweet Lord’ on CKLW in a BRG/black interior ‘69 Lotus Elan Plus 2 w/4-

spd. ($3,395); after dining on a 59¢ steakburger at Kenny King’s, the Lantern rocks with ‘Glass

Menagerie;’ ‘Glass Harp’ rocks the Mentor Rock Shop with WIXY’s Chuck Knapp; and on the 14th,

‘Uranus’ rocks Admiral Bimbo’s, 1971

1/9 The ‘Upbeat Show,’ TV-5’s 5 p.m. Saturday rock showcase features Bobby Sherman; ‘Ides of March;’

‘Jaggerz’ (w/Donnie Iris); ‘the Impressions;’ ‘Blues Image;’ Edwin Starr; ‘Steam;’ Billy Joe Royal; the

Moments; ‘Frijid Pink’ & emcee Don Webster, 1971

9 1/12 WJW-TV8’s Tuesday schedule offers ‘Beverly Hillbillies,’ ‘Green Acres,’ ‘Hee Haw’ & “a new comedy

series revolving around middle-class husband father who sees world & everyone in it in terms of his own

prejudices,” called ‘All in the Family’ at 9:30, 1971

1/15 After cruising to buy a $1.35 Hough Bakeries banana layer cake in a white/black bucket seat ‘69 Mustang

Mach I w/351, auto, power steering ($2,295-Williams Ford); next, it’s rocking to ‘Brass Ring’ at Socrate’s

Cave (75¢ members, $1.50), 1971

1/17 Cruising on Sunday in a Matador red/black interior ‘68 GTO, after the Mentor Rock Shop hosts Mitch

Ryder’s Detroit, Moses & WIXY’s Larry Morrow last night ($2.75); tonight, it’s Glenn Schwartz and

‘Moses’ (Klawon, Carleton, Kinchy, Alexi-$1), 1971

1/22 After cruising to Gaylords/Giant Tiger for the new ‘Rastus’ 2 LP set ($2.99-reg. $4.77), with ‘Back to the

River’ on WXEN-FM, Adelbert Gym hosts a ‘Blanket & Bleachers’ concert featuring ‘Ten Wheel Drive’

with Genya Ravan, & Luther Allison ($3.50), 1971

1/22 Tomorrow, it’s the ‘Superbs’ at St. Charles Monahan (shirt/tie boys, pantsuits girls), & ‘Easy Crossing’ at

Cyrus Erie West; Rich Reising at Admiral Bimbo’s Tues.; the Naturals & Mad Rabbit at South High

Weds.; & ‘Eli Radish’ rockin’ the Harbor Inn Thurs., 1971

1/23 Cruising to Public Hall with ‘Love the One You’re With’ on WIXY in a flame red-white vinyl top/white

interior ‘70 Buick Skylark GS 455 w/auto, wire wheels ($3,395-Qua Buick); ‘Three Dog Night’ plays to

10,000 ($5-$6); but one person not happy was actress Katharine Hepburn, starring in ‘Coco’ at Music Hall,

telling patrons to demand their money back after the group’s music bled into their performance, 1971

1/27 A. M. TV offers Mike Douglas & ‘Concentration’ on TV3; ‘Romper Room,’ ‘Man Trap,” ‘Girlwatch,’

Graham Kerr & ‘Beverly Hillbillies’ on TV5; & Phil Donahue on TV8, 1971

1/29 After buying $5 jeans at the Hot Pants store in Lakewood where WNCR’s Billy Bass does a live remote

tomorrow; ‘Big Orange’ & ‘Shaddows’ play the Agora tonight (Glen Schwartz in the Den), ‘Brain Child’

plays the 30th & the ‘Raspberries’ the 31st, 1971

1/30 Beginning in 1964 as the ‘Big 5 Show;’ after 6 1/2 years as the nation’s longest syndicated contemporary

music show, once in over 100 markets, the last ‘Upbeat Show’ airs at noon on WEWS-TV5 featuring

Mungo Jerry; Curtis Mayfield; Bobbi Martin; Elephant’s Memory; Jack Blanchard; Don McLean; &

show host Don Webster, 1971

1/31 Cruising to the Kove in Kent in a bright red/bucket seat ‘68 Javelin AMX w/390 cu. in. 4-bbl. V8, 4-spd.

($1,595-Kent Lincoln-Mercury); it’s the ‘Festival of Life’ featuring 10 hours of music & free food with

‘Glass Harp;’ the ‘Raspberries;’ ‘Eli Radish;’ ‘15-60-75;’ Julie Heimann; ‘Lacewing;’ Butcher, Baker,

Sandwichmaker; Parson’s Wild West Show; ‘Hot Knife’ & ‘Voo Doo’ (50¢ donation-benefits Kent

Community Co-ops), 1971

1/31 Cruising with ‘Born to Wander’ on the stereo, nearby at 244 N. Water St., J.B.’s Niteclub counters with

rockers Alice Cooper, ‘Glass Hut’ and ‘Biggy Rat’ ($3), 1971

2/1 After cruising last night with Norm N. Nite’s ‘Honor Roll of Hits’ show on WGAR in a ‘68 Chevy Bel

Air station wagon w/AC, V8, power steering ($1,788); & hearing Patti Smith on Murray Saul’s

‘Jabberwocky’ show this morning at 8 a.m. on WMMS; Al Kooper, the Brethren & Glenn Schwartz rock

3,000 during an United Farm Workers benefit at CWRU’s Emerson Gym with WIXY’s Chuck Knapp

($3.50-$4.50-$5), 1971

2/11 Cruising to the 5th International Cleveland Rod & Custom Auto-Rama at Public Hall from the 12th to

14th; ‘Wild Butter’ & ‘Day Break’ play tomorrow; it’s ‘Wild Butter’ & ‘Dick Whittington Adventure’ on

Sat., & ‘Wild Butter’ & ‘Rapid Transit’ on Sun., 1971

2/12 Cruising in an all-black/bucket seat ‘69 Plymouth GTX w/V8, auto ($1,995-Robert Lee Ford), to rent a

unit at the new Carlyle high-rise ($180 mo.), before the concert mixer at John Carroll with ‘Ides of

March’ & ‘Freeport’ (Raleigh, Holt, Lewis, Stredney, Stallings-$2.50); tomorrow, ‘Damnation’ features

its new LP at Cyrus Erie West, 1971

10 2/14 The Agora offers a rockin’ Valentine’s Day with the ‘Raspberries’ at 8:30 p.m., 1971

2/18 As the Kove in Kent hosts a Kent Legal Defense Fund & Kent Community Project benefit with the

‘Whisker Belly Blues Band,’ the ‘Measles’ & ‘Screaming Green’ (50¢); ‘War Horse’ (Tom Kriss, Joe

Vitale, Bruce Rusin, Paul Whitaker), rocks J.B.’s, 1971

2/19 After buying a $27.77 jumbo bean bag chair at Forest City, & seeing Jimmy Ley’s Blues Idiom at Admiral

Bimbo’s; the flick after City Camera News with Marty Ross, Murray Stewart, Dave Martin and Dick

Goddard, is ‘Journey to the Center of Time,’ 1971

2/21 After cruising to Manners where 2 Big Boys are 99¢, with Alice Cooper’s ‘I’m Eighteen’ on WIXY-1260

in a ‘71 AMC Hornet SC360 w/360 V8, auto, power, mag wheels ($2,765-Joe Erdelac); next stop is

Ashland College for some rock ‘n’ roll with the ‘Glass Harp’ and the ‘James Gang’ (Joe Walsh, Dale

Peters, Jimmy Fox), 1971

2/25 It’s $3 to see comic David Steinberg with the Allman Brothers Band at CWRU, 1971

2/26 After cruising tonight with ‘Proud Mary’ on WIXY in a silver ‘69 Pontiac GTO Judge w/400 V8, mags,

4-spd. ($2,000), for a 59¢ Red Barn Barnbuster, & catch ‘Peacewood Corners at King Richard’s;’

tomorrow, ‘Labrynth’ rocks the Jug, Walsh Jesuit High hosts ‘Lacewing,’ ‘Swamp’ plays Hire’s Lounge,

& ‘Underdog’ plays King Richard’s, 1971

2/28 WMMS-FM’s Top 15 LPs list rocks with ‘Glass Harp’ at No. 2, & ‘Rastus’ at 11, 1971

3/1 Cruising last night to the Plato on E. 22nd, ‘Glass Harp,’ Dave Griggs Blues Band & ‘Tiny Alice’

headline a benefit for the Kent Legal Defense Fund ($2 donation), 1971

3/5 Cruising with ‘Me & Bobby McGee’ on WELW in a black/black leather ‘69 Cougar XR7 w/390 V8,

$2,495), ‘Rapp Rascal’ rocks Columbus 1700 (formerly D’Poo’s), 1971

3/6 Cruising tonight, the Chandlers & the Satins play the Lantern; Hello People & ‘Moses’ play the

Painesville Armory; and Ralph’s Rock Band rocks Admiral Bimbo’s, 1971

3/7 Janis Joplin’s ‘Pearl’ tops the WIXY-1260 album survey, followed by ‘Cry of Love’ by Jimi Hendrix; Cat

Stevens’ ‘Tea for the Tillerman;’ ‘Emerson, Lake & Palmer;’ ‘Paranoid’ by Black Sabbath; ‘Glass Harp;’

and 3 Dog Night’s ‘Golden Biscuits,’ 1971

3/9 “At its best, “Hair” is filled with animal zeal and joy of living. It uses laughter and irony instead of hatred

to lampoon the ills of society,” writes the Plain Dealer’s Peter Bellamy the next day, after the rock

musical ‘Hair’ opens at the Hanna Theatre, receiving a standing ovation at the end ($3-$8.50)-(Bellamy

also writes, “It’s much pleasanter to see these kids cavorting on stage than to see them as war

casualties.”), 1971

3/12 Cruising with Lou ‘King’ Kirby on WMMS in the A.M. in a BRG/black interior ’66 Austin Healy

($2,288-Town/Country); tonight, ‘East Wind’ rocks Fat Glenn’s (50¢-free w/CSU ID), as ‘December’s

Children’ plays Mrs. Minniver’s Back Room ($2), 1971

3/13 Lost Bob & the Ozone Ramblers play Tommy’s; Deja Vu hosts the Ed Gross Band, 1971

3/19 Cruising to the Mountain, Black Sabbath, Johnny Winter, J. Geils Band concert at soldout Public Hall in a

fire red ‘67 Skylark convertible, only Johnny Winter & the J. Geils Band rock the house after Mountain’s

Lear Jet, with Black Sabbath’s equipment, encounters mechanical trouble ($4.50/$2.50 rebate at Burrows

w/ticket stub), 1971

3/20 As the ‘Raspberries’ bring their power pop to the Chesterland Hullabaloo ($1.75); & the ‘Hello People’

play the ‘Den’ with ‘Sebastian & Dangerfield’ at the opening of the ‘new’ Agora on E. 24th ($2-w/drink

ticket); Cyrus Erie West offers Warner Bros. star Alice Cooper & ‘Rain’ (‘I’m Eighteen’ No. 6 on WIXY

survey-$3), 1971

3/22 After ‘Ramu’ rocks the Plato the 20th; tonight, the Plato rocks with ‘Rastus,’ December’s Children &

‘Mushroom;’ tomorrow, the ‘Raspberries’ rock Eastlake North High ($1.50); & the 24th, the Plato hosts

‘North River Street Rock Collection,’ 1971

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3/24 After cruising tomorrow to buy ‘Woodstock II’ at Record Revolution (LP $4.78); next stop is St. Joseph

High where the ‘Grass Roots’ rock with the ‘Raspberries,’ 1971

3/27 After cruising last night to see ‘Impetus’ (formerly ‘Brass Ring’) at The Ramp’s grand opening at 1398 E.

21st; the first-week lineup includes ‘Windermere Storage’ tonight; ‘Fully Assembled’ (Bob Sapp, Bill

Sapp, Rick Bukac, Greg Grandillo, James Chellemi, Sammy Samueli, John Virgilli, Roland Solomon), &

the ‘Raspberries,’ 1971

3/28 Cruising in your new Rosewood ‘71 Pontiac GTO w/extra-wide fiberglass whitewalls, auto, rally wheels,

accent stripes ($3,699-Feder Pontiac), you’ll find ‘Rastus,’ ‘Funky People Part II,’ ‘Featherwood,’

‘Stonehenge’ & ‘Tobin Palm’ rocking the WHK Auditorium, 5000 Euclid Avenue, with WCUY’s Hal

Kerling ($3.50 at the door), 1971

4/1 Cruising tomorrow, it’s Neil Diamond with Odetta at Public Hall ($4-$6); Roberta Flack (1st time here), at

CWRU’s Emerson Gym ($3.50-$4); & ‘Sherriff’ at Cyrus Erie West with Tom Kriss from the ‘James

Gang,’ and Joe Vitale from the ‘Chylds,’ 1971

4/2 After cruising in a ‘67 Shelby Mustang GT 500 w/427, full race, dual quads, 4-spd. ($2,500), for 50 extra

Top Value stamps with $3 Clark Super 100 gas purchase, & rock with ‘Eli Radish’ at Admiral Bimbo’s; on

Hoolihan & Chuck it’s ‘Die Monsters Die,’ 1971

4/7 Cruising in an Arctic white-black vinyl top/blue custom interior ‘68 Rambler Rebel SST w/V8, auto,

whitewalls ($1,495-Toth Buick); Cyrus Erie West rocks with Apple record stars ‘Badfinger’ (Mike

Gibbons, Peter Ham, Tom Evans, Joey Molland), 1971

4/9 Hoolihan & Big Chuck fans! After groovin’ to the Steve Miller Band, Procol Harum, Cactus & Curved

Air at the Arena (Miller replaces Jethro Tull-laryngitis-$5); the 11:40 flick is Clayton Moore & Jay

Silverheels in ‘Lone Ranger and Lost City of Gold,’ 1971

4/10 ‘Never Say Goodbye’ is their newest release, as Belkin Productions-WJMO bring the ‘Jackson 5’ (Jackie

(21), Tito (17), Jermaine (16), Marion (12) & Michael (11)), “Motown’s youthful ambassadors of bubble

gum soul” to Public Hall (Jane Scott notes, “Michael Jackson danced off with 10,000 hearts. Easy as do,

re, mi...”- $4-$5-$6), 1971

4/10 Fagan’s, The Warehouse, The Factory, Pickle Bill’s, Tom Jones Back Room & Pirate’s Cove team to host

a 3-day Flats Festival with Hot Pants contests & 15 groups including ‘Eli Radish,’ ‘Barnaby’s Brush,’

‘Pentecost,’ ‘Catfish’ & ‘Rastus’ (Magelin, Roman, Nagy, Smelko, Appleton, Jr., Geraci, Walkuski,

Sopuch) ($2.50 at Hot Pants stores), 1971

4/11 Cruising to Kent, after dining on a 39¢ burger at Spencer’s, Revelation (old Fifth Quarter) at 208 S.

Depester rocks with Ted Nugent & the Amboy Dukes ($2.50), 1971

4/20 At the movies, it’s ‘Bullitt’ & ‘Bonnie & Clyde’ at the Parma; Joe Cocker’s ‘Mad Dogs & Englishmen’ at

the Severance; ‘Patton’ & ‘M-A-S-H’ at Memphis Drive-In; ‘Kama Sutra’ at the LaSalle; & Jack

Nicholson & Karen Black in ‘Five Easy Pieces’ at the Variety, 1971

4/21 After cruising to buy the James Gang’s ‘Thirds’ LP at May Co. ($3.67), in a gold mist-BVT/black interior

‘68 Olds Cutlass Supreme 2-dr. hardtop w/V8, AC ($2,095-A. D. Pelunis); next stop is Cyrus Erie West

to rock with ‘Frijid Pink’ & ‘Biggy Rat’ ($3), 1971

4/24 Cruising in a canary yellow-BVT/black bucket seat ‘69 Plymouth Road Runner 2-dr.hardtop ($1,895-Milt

Miller); disco reigns at the Mad Hatter’s grand opening, 1971

4/29 It‘s $3.50 to see Country Joe McDonald & Alex Taylor tonight at John Carroll, 1971

5/3 As Kent State welcomes Dick Gregory who speaks at 3:30 today, and Rod McKuen tomorrow on the 1st

anniversary of the tragic shootings; memorial concerts were held on the 1st with ‘Lacewing’ & ‘Shades of

Tyme’ in the Memorial Gym (donations to KSU Medical Fund); & Eric Andersen, Bert Sommer,

Manhattan Transfer & Buzzy Linhart in the Gym on the 2nd (free with valid KSU ID - 52 artists

contacted-4 replied), 1971

12 5/7 After cruising to WIXY’s noon Hot Pants contest on Public Sq. where 1,500 see Shirley Malin crowned

‘Miss Hot Pants ‘71;’ next, cruisin’ in a gold mist-black top/interior ‘67 Malibu Sport Coupe w/327, the

James Gang star in ‘Zachariah’ at Auto Drive-In, 1971

5/8 Cruising in a sunburst orange/black interior ‘69 Corvette Stingray 427 4-spd. Coupe w/side pipes ($3,488);

tonight, it’s ‘Glass Harp’ (Keaggy, Sferra, Pecchio), & Rain at Cyrus Erie West ($2.50); tomorrow, it’s

‘Damnation of Adam Blessing’ (Benich, Schwark, Quinn, Kalamasz, Constable), & ‘Hessler Court’ rockin’

free at CWRU, 1971

5/11 Cruising tonight with Dick ‘The Childe’ Kemp on WMMS in a fire engine red/black bucket seat ‘69

Firebird Sports Coupe w/350, auto ($1,995-LaRiche), the Agora rocks with Chuck Berry, the

‘Raspberries’ & Brownsville Station at 7 & 10 ($3-$3.50), 1971

5/14 Cruising in a ‘71 Corvette Stingray ($4,595), Music Hall hosts Poco (Young, Schmit, Messina, Grantham,

Furay); John Mayall; Emerson, Lake & Palmer & Elliot Randall ($5), 1971

5/21 After cruising to pick up Kenny King’s 15-piece Kentucky Fried Chicken take home basket for only

$3.50; Belkin offers the Osmond Brothers tonight at Public Hall ($3-$5); and ‘Chicago’ (with Terry

Kath), rocking Public Hall tomorrow ($5.50), 1971

5/27 Cruising tonight in a Mediterranean blue-white top/white interior ‘68 Javelin 2-dr. V8 hardtop ($1,488-

Eastway), Public Hall hosts ‘The Tom Jones Show’ ($5- $12), 1971

5/30 Captivating some 11,000 youth at Public Hall from noon to 11:45 p.m.; a 3-hour WIXY Appreciation Day

concert (& 5-person hot pants contest), kicks off the day with the ‘Buoys,’ Sha Na Na, & Delaney (without

Bonnie); followed by a Belkin-WNCR-FM event at night with Frank Zappa & the Mothers of Invention

(w/former Turtles Jim Pons, Howard Kaylan, Mark Volman), ‘Humble Pie’ & ‘Head Over Heels’ ($4.50),

1971

6/1 After cruising today to Forest City for a $7.88 portable am-fm radio (w/battery), $2.99 & $3.99 LPs at J.

P. Snodgrass, & $4.49 tapes at Topps; WNCR-FM brings ‘Little Feat’ & the ‘Flaming Groovies’ to the

Agora for 99¢, with proceeds to the Free Clinic, 1971

6/4 Cruising with Billy Bass on WNCR-FM in a candy apple red V8 ‘70 Mercury Comet Cyclone (2,295-

Williams Ford); you’ll find ‘Audi Badoo’ rocking Admiral Bimbo’s; Cyrus Erie West offering ‘Cradle’ &

‘Itchy Brother;’ ‘Fully Assembled’ at the Plato; and ‘Flavor,’ featuring Joey Porello & Tony Liotta at

Shan-Gra-La, 30322 Euclid, 1971

6/10 Uncle Bill’s has Grand Funk Railroad’s new ‘Survival’ LP for $3.37 (save $1.20), 1971

6/11 While cruising to the Allen Theatre in a green-BVT ‘69 Camaro Super Sport w/350, 4-speed ($1,988), to

the soldout Cat Stevens show (2nd show added-$5.50); ‘Glass Harp’ plays Billy Graham’s Fillmore

East in New York tonight and tomorrow, 1971

7/14 WCUY/FM92.3’s top LPs include George Benson’s ‘Beyond the Blue Horizon;’ Duke Ellington’s ‘New

Orleans Suite;’ Grant Green’s ‘Alive;’ and ‘Carmen McRae,’ 1971

6/15 Last night, ‘Mountain’ rocks the Arena with ‘Steel River’ (benefits the Free Clinic-$2); Tonight, ‘Cargo’

joins Buddy Miles & his 10-piece band at Cyrus Erie West ($4), 1971

6/18 Cruising in an all-black ‘67 Chevelle SS 396, w/reworked short block, 4-spd. Hurst, 780 Holley ($1,400),

Chesterland Hulaballo hosts Rick Petroc and ‘Pentecost,’ 1971

6/19 Cruising to Public Hall with Ginger on WMMS-FM in a dark gray-black vinyl top/interior ‘68 Chevy

Chevelle 396 w/4-spd. Hurst ($1,600), Saturday night rocks with piano man Elton John, Dee Murray &

Nigel Olsson (last stop on tour- $8), 1971

6/28 After cruising on Monday to buy $5.79 button fly sailor bells at Goldfish Uniform on Prospect, & a Martin

D-35 guitar on sale at Dick Lurie Guitar Studio on Euclid ($390-$535); the ‘Raspberries’ rock the Agora,

as the ‘Rockets’ rock The Ramp, 1971

13 6/29 Cruising with ‘Signs’ on WELW-FM, it’s a double treat at Cyrus Erie West tonight with Alice Cooper and

‘Jessup’ (Elert, McGill, Pyle, Kendrick) ($4-mail only), 1971

7/1 Cruising to Public Hall, Belkin & WNCR-FM team to present a rockin’ triple play, as ‘Black Sabbath’

shares the stage with ‘Brewer & Shipley’ & ‘Sweathog’ ($5-$6), 1971

7/5 Upcoming Blossom acts include the ‘John Sebastian Show’ tomorrow; the Supremes July 11th, Laura

Nyro & ‘Bloodrock’ July 13th; & Judy Collins Aug. 4th ($3-$7), 1971

7/7 Causing a massive traffic jam along the Shoreway, WNCR-FM celebrates its 1st birthday with a free

concert at Edgewater Park for some 25,000 featuring ‘Savage Grace,’ ‘Glass Harp,’ ‘Eli Radish,’ ‘Hessler

Court,’ ‘Mushroom,’ & Jimmy Glover, 1971

7/8 While playing to 4,000 at Blossom, friend Ella Fitzgerald remarks, “God bless & rest in peace,” paying

tribute to Louis (Satchmo) Armstrong upon his death on the 6th, 1971

7/9 Cruising tomorrow in a ‘69 Rebel SST 2-dr. hardtop w/V8, auto, power steering-brakes, vinyl roof

($1,795-Bob Kay); Small Faces (Wood, Stewart, McLagan, Lane, Jones), ‘Deep Purple’ & ‘Matthews

Southern Comfort’ rock Public Hall ($5-$6), 1971

7/11 Tickets are $7.95 to see Sammy Davis, Jr. close a 9-show run at Musicarnival, 1971

7/14 A gasoline price war hits the southwestern suburbs where along Brookpark Road, Sohio’s Octron gas is

30.9¢ a gallon; Gastown regular & Clark low lead regular is 27.9¢ a gallon; Sunoco grade 190 is 29.9¢ a

gallon; & at Uncle Bill’s, it’s 26.9¢ a gallon, 1971

7/15 It’s $2.50-$3 to see Mother Earth & the Doobie Bros. w/WNCR at Emerson Gym, 1971

7/16 “For a month or two, sale of Morrison’s records will soar,” writes Plain Dealer reporter Joseph Eszterhas,

upon the death of Doors lead singer Jim Morrison at age 27, 1971

7/20 After cruising last night in a ‘71 Firebird Formula 400 hardtop Coupe w/4-bbl., auto, push-button radio;

Public Hall hosts Stephen Stills and the Memphis Horns ($5.50); tomorrow, Blossom turns to a night of

dixieland jazz with trumpeter Al Hirt, 1971

7/23 Cruising in a cream/black interior ‘68 Ford Torino 2-dr. fastback w/V8, 4-spd. ($1,195-Kuhlman Olds),

it’s B. B. King at Public Hall with the ‘Mushroom’ ($4), 1971

7/24 ‘A Friend’ brings ‘It’s A Beautiful Day’ & ‘Soft Machine’ to Musicarnival ($4), 1971

7/30 After cruising to see ‘Fully Assembled’ at Cain Park ($1), in a green-BVT/black bucket seat ‘69 Chevelle

Super Sport 396 ($1,795); tomorrow, WIXY & Belkin bring the rock opera ‘Jesus Christ Superstar’ with

a cast of 53 to Public Hall ($4.50-$6.50), 1971

8/6 Backed by the ‘Midnighters,’ WABQ brings Wilson Pickett to Music Hall with the ‘Coasters’ ($4-$6-at

Dean’s House of Jazz, Bibb’s Record Shop, & Giant Tiger), 1971

8/7 Cruising in a new ‘71 Lemans T-37 2-dr. hardtop w/350 V8, auto ($3,299-Feder Pontiac), it’s Three Dog

Night & Don McLean tonight at Public Hall ($4.50-$6.50); $2 to see Joan Baez w/WNCR 99.5 tomorrow

at Public Hall (mail orders only); but only 75¢ to see ‘Elysian Fields’ at the Barracks, E. 20th and Chester,

1971

8/13 Cruising in a dark ivy green/black bucket seat ‘69 Ford Torino GT fastback w/351 ($1,888-Wyatt);

‘LaBelle’ opens for the ‘Who’ (Daltrey, Entwhistle, Townsend, Moon), who rocked soldout Public Hall

last night, emceed by WNCR’s Billy Bass ($6), 1971

8/13 After catching the ‘Who,’ tomorrow, it’s the IHRA Funny Car World Championship at Dragway 42 with

Tom McEwen’s ‘Mongoose,’ & Don Prudhomme’s ‘Snake,’ 1971

8/20 After cruising in a candy apple red-black top/interior ‘68 Galaxie 500 V8 Coupe ($1,295), to see

‘Damnation of Adam Blessing’ at J.B.’s in Kent ($2); tomorrow, Public Hall hosts ‘Steppenwolf,’

‘Redbone,’ ‘Fanny’ & Dan Hicks & the Hot Licks ($3), 1971

14 8/22 Scheduled to play Musicarnival tonight, all 9 members of ‘Cactus’ were arrested at Cleveland Hopkins

yesterday after allegedly smoking marijuana on a Boeing 727, 1971

8/26 After cruising tomorrow to DiFiores on Lorain for a Sunn amp (50% off); TV5 airs ‘Super Star Search

‘71’ at 9 p.m. with Don Webster & Paul Anka, as ‘Jessup;’ ‘Erector Set;’ ‘One Yere 2 Sune;’ ‘Magic;’

‘Symbols of Sound;’ ‘Bones’ & the winner ‘Circus’ (Hrdlicka, Dobeck, Alexander, Salle, Sabol), seek

$1,000 and an RCA contract, 1971

8/27 Tonight, as Gary Puckett & the Union Gap play Saints & Sinners, ‘Ghutts’ plays Utopia ($1.50), & ‘Jynx’

rocks the Corral; tomorrow, Emerson, Lake & Palmer shares the Public Hall stage with Edgar Winter’s

White Trash & Taj Mahal ($4.50-$5.50), 1971

8/29 Cruising in a ‘70 Mercury Cyclone 2-dr. hardtop w/429 Cobra Jet, scooped hood, spoiler ($1,988-Bob

Miller); it’s time for country rockin’ with the Allman Brothers & ‘Pure Prairie League’ at Musicarnival

($4.50-$5-brought to you by ‘A Friend’), 1971

9/1 After buying a Garrard stereo system w/Koss headphones at Olson Electronics ($290); CBS stars Sonny &

Cher play to 9,644 at Blossom with Ronnie Dyson ($2.50-$7), 1971

9/4 After cruising last night to see ‘After VI,’ ‘Bacha’ & Rick Petroc at Pickle Bill’s (w/free hot dogs);

tonight, ‘Freeport’ & ‘Circus’ rock the Chesterland Hullabaloo ($1.75), 1971

9/10 Cruising to Gaylords with ‘Maggie Mae’ on the stereo in a yellow-BVT/black bucket seat ‘70 Barracuda

w/V8, 4-spd., power steering ($1,895-Parker Reynolds), you’ll find Alex Bevan’s new Big Tree Records

LP ‘No Truth to Sell’ on sale for $2.66, 1971

9/13 It’s premiere week as TV3 rocks with ‘Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-in’ at 8 p.m. featuring Raquel Welch,

Johnny Carson, Martha Mitchell & Cleveland-native Bob Hope, 1971

9/17 After hearing ‘East Wind’ tonight at John Carroll’s journalism beer benefit mixer ($1); cruising tomorrow

in a twi-light blue-black top/interior ‘69 Dodge Charger RT ($2,195-Toth Buick), ‘Tommy,’ the Who’s

rock musical, rocks Music Hall ($6), 1971

9/18 WIXY 1260 rocks with Mike Reineri (5:30-10), Larry Morrow (10-2), Chuck Dunaway (2-4), Steve

Hunter (4-8), Chip Hobart (8-12), & Bobby Knight (12-5:30 a.m.), 1971

9/19 Cruising on Sunday in a burgundy mist/black bucket seat ‘69 Dodge Dart GT w/auto ($1,495-Bass

Chevrolet); Eli Radish plays Surrealistic, Ink; Bruno, Whittington, Bruno rocks Utopia; and it’s the

‘Raspberries’ rocking the Agora ($1 members), 1971

9/24 After ‘Poco’ & Jake Jones rock John Carroll last night w/WNCR’s Jeff & Shauna ($3.50); cruising

tomorrow in a burnt orange-BVT ‘70 Road Runner w/383, 4-spd. ($1,695-Porach); David Crosby,

Graham Nash & Judee Sill rock Music Hall ($4.50-$6.50), 1971

9/25 ‘Magic’ (Farmer, Kazda, Hackett, McCarthy), rocked the house last night as The Basement opens in the

bottom of Erieview Plaza ($1.50/beer & pizza 40¢ each), 1971

10/1 The PD’s Jane Scott reports, “JCU Student Union President Tim Russert was instrumental is nailing down

the group,” as ‘Sha Na Na’ rocks the JCU gym ($3.50), 1971

10/1 After dining on a 59¢ Longhorn beefburger at Ed & Dick Modzelewski’s new Beef Corral at E. 9th &

Euclid, next stop is the Smiling Dog Saloon’s grand opening at 3447 W. 25th to see Sikela, Ryan,

Mahoney & Morris, & WNCR’s Lee Andrews, 1971

10/2 Last night, Aretha Franklin played Public Hall ($5-$10), as ‘Standing Room Only’ rocked Fat Glenn’s;

today, after watching the debut of ‘Soul Train’ at 4 p.m. on TV8 (one of 8 cities), Belkin brings

‘Santana,’ ‘Booker T.’ and Priscilla to Public Hall ($5- Ward’s Folly); followed by Gordon Lightfoot

tomorrow at Music Hall ($3-$5), 1971

10/8 As ‘Glass Bottle’ plays Saints & Sinners; cruising to the show with Denny Sanders now on WMMS in a

mandarin orange-black vinyl roof/black interior ‘70 Dodge Super Bee 440 Magnum w/auto ($1,788-Bill

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Scher), ‘Hot Tuna’ (Jorma Kaukonen, Jack Cassady, Sam Piazza, Papa John Creach - the show’s star) &

‘Pure Prairie League’ play to 900 during a blanket & bleachers concert at CWRU‘s Emerson Gym (Jane

Scott notes in the PD, “almost five hours later, they were yelling, “More!”-$4.50), 1971

10/8 Tomorrow at Kent State, ‘The Byrds’ (Clarence White, Gene Parsons, Roger McGuinn, Skip Battin),

‘Mother Earth’ with W. Tracy Nelson, & ‘Pure Prairie’ League rock some 2,500 in KSU’s Memorial gym

(benefits Kent Legal Defense Fund- tickets $4-$4.50 at the KLDF office, Jerry’s Diner, Icarus & Kent

Community Store-lost money), 1971

10/9 Cruising in a hugger orange/black bucket seat 4-spd. ‘69 Chevelle SS 396, Public Hall hosts Steve

Winwood & Traffic, Fairport Convention & Glass Harp ($3.50 mail), 1971

10/15 While it’s $3, $4, & $5 to see Frankie Valli & the ‘Four Seasons’ play Music Hall; it’s only $1.75 to see

‘Freeport’ & ‘Flash Cadillac’ rock the Chesterland Hullabaloo, 1971

10/23 While Auerbach Gallery at LaPlace hosts Peter Max live and ‘The Private World of Peter Max,’ as Glen

Covington and his Orchestra headline the Theatrical; after buying the James Gang’s ‘Live in Concert’ at

Higbee’s ($3.94), Maple Hts. High’s homecoming dance rocks with the ‘Raspberries’ ($1.50-appropriate

dress required), 1971

10/26 WMMS-FM’s hot LPs include: Humble Pie’s ‘Rockin’ the Fillmore;’ ‘Cahoots’ by The Band; the

Grateful Dead’s ‘Grateful Dead;’ & Fleetwood Mac’s ‘Future Games,’ 1971

10/29 Cruising in a forest green/white leather ‘69 Mustang Shelby Cobra ($1,795-Doraty), Public Hall rocks

with the ‘Grateful Dead’ & ‘New Riders of the Purple Sage’ (broadcast by WNCR-FM - emceed by Lynn

Doyle - 1st local concert aired live -$6-$7), 1971

10/29 Two Bob Seger/Teagarden & Van Winkle shows tomorrow rock a weekend Free Clinic benefit as 13

bands including ‘Ambleside’ (December’s Children), ‘Circus,’ ‘Red Pop,’ ‘Trauma,’ ‘Bacha,’ ‘Reign’ &

New Wave play Pirate’s Cove & Pickle Bill’s ($2.50), 1971

10/31 Cruisin’ to Kent, the Exit’s big ‘Halloween Freakout’ rocks with ‘Mushroom’ (Bill & Jeff Jeric, Chester

Florence, Buddy Maver) (beer 15¢ glass/75¢ pitcher 8-9 p.m.), 1971

11/1 After cruising to pick up ‘Dick Gregory at Kent State’ at J. P. Snodgrass (LP-$3.25); Isaac Hayes (Shaft),

plays Public Hall with Luther Ingram & the Bar Kays ($5-$8), 1971

11/5 After cruising to buy Glass Harp’s ‘Synergy’ LP at Gaylords ($2.57), in a lime green ‘69 AMC Javelin 2-

dr. hardtop w/390 hp. V8, auto, factory mags ($1,788); next, it’s rocking to ‘Facelift, as owner Dan

Landanyi reopens Cyrus Erie West ($1.50), 1971

11/6 Cruising to the show in a new ‘67 Maserati Quattro Porte ($5,895), reserved seats are $3.50-$4.50

(available at Record Revolution on Coventry, or CWRU’s Student Union), to see British rockers ‘Pink

Floyd’ (with light show), at CWRU’s Emerson Gym, 1971

11/6 Elvis Presley (36), starts the first of two sold-out Public Hall shows with ‘That’s All Right,’ as PD rock

reporter Jane Scott notes the next day, “Sixteen songs and 60 minutes later, the man who put the roll into

rock, the man who has sold for more records than anyone in the history of recorded sound, is still the king.”

($5, $7.50, $10), 1971

11/7 After postponing their Oct. 30th show due to illness, soldout Public Hall had a rockin’ good time tonight

with Mark Farner and Grand Funk Railroad ($6 by mail / $7), 1971

11/12 While Belkin brings ‘The Lettermen’ to Music Hall ($3.50-$5.50), & Cappelli’s hosts the Crowd Pleasers;

Alex Bevan’s back, & the Cuyahoga Falls star is at Farraghers, 1971

11/12 David Bowie’s ‘Hunky Dory,’ tops the WMMS-FM LP list with Denny Sanders, 1971

11/13 After rockin’ last night to WIXY recording contract winner ‘Circus’ at St. Patrick Hall on S. Rocky River

(casual dress, no jeans-T-shirts ($1.75, $1.25 w/CYO card), and ‘Pie Face’ at Cyrus Erie West ($1.75);

today, after seeing Jennifer O’Neill in ‘Summer of ‘42’ at the Berea, ‘Jethro Tull’ rocks soldout Public

Hall with ‘Curved Air’ ($4.50), 1971

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11/14 After the ‘Bourbon Street Bums’ brought joy to Fagans last night; tomorrow, as Bobby Rydell opens at

Saints & Sinners with ‘The American Scene’ & Norm N. Nite as M. C. ($3); horn man Jonah Jones opens

at the Theatrical with drummer Cozy Cole, 1971

11/19 After cruising to see ‘Tyrant’ at Cyrus Erie West in a bittersweet mist-dark brown top ‘71 Buick GS 455

2-dr. Sport Coupe ($3,688-Toth Buick), with Bass, Perlich & Spero on WMMS; on Hoolihan & Big

Chuck, the flick is W. C. Fields in ‘Tillie & Gus,’ 1971

11/20 After cruising last night to see Melanie with Janie & Dennis at Public Hall ($4-$5); tonight, the soldout

Hall rocks with the Beach Boys (sans Dennis & Brian-$4.50), 1971

11/24 After cruising to see ‘Glass Harp’ at Chanel High ($2), ‘Impetus’ at Normandy High, or ‘Poke Chop’ at

The Plato; tomorrow, ‘Zephania Cross’ rocks King Richard’s as the Chesterland Hullabaloo hosts ‘the

‘Raspberries,’& ‘Bluestone Union’ the 26th, 1971

11/27 After playing Carnegie Hall with the ‘Kinks’ on the 21st, ‘Glass Harp’ ‘rocks’ the big WIXY-May Co.

Christmas parade starring Hollywood heart throb James Darren, 1971

12/3 After buying a Curtis Mathis 25” color TV ($598-Crest TV), to watch Joan Crawford in ‘Straight Jacket’

on Hoolihan & Big Chuck; next, it’s cruisin’ to see ‘Bluestone Union’ (Campbell, Sukalac, Gunn,

Kwitowski, O’Neill), at Union Jack in Cleveland Hts., 1971

12/6 After buying Bebe Bardon’s hit single ‘Love at First Sight,’ with the 101 Strings Orchestra; next, the

Berea Theater rocks with ‘200 Motels’ & ‘Alice’s Restaurant,’ 1971

12/9 Leaving Train Ave. by the spring, C. Schmidt & Sons buys the Carling Brewing Co.’s vacated 9400

Quincy Ave. plant, with 1.5 million barrels of beer expected yearly, 1971

12/10 Cruising tonight with ‘Family Affair’ on the stereo in a black-BVT ‘70 Plymouth Road Runner w/383

V8, 4-spd. ($1,600), it’s the Everly Brothers ‘rocking’ Saints & Sinners; as ‘the ‘Raspberries’ and

‘Euphrates’ rock the Chesterland Hullabaloo ($1.75), 1971

12/13 Cruising last night in a white/red & blue pin stripe interior ‘74 Dodge Dart ‘Hang 10’ w/auto, spoiler

($2,888-Aurora Ford); Belkin Productions & the John Carroll Student Union rocked the John Carroll gym

with ‘Humble Pie’ & ‘Glass Harp’ ($4-$4.50), 1971

12/15 Cruising with ‘Behind Blue Eyes’ on WIXY to the Allen Theatre, it’s a double treat with ‘Yes’ &

Jonathan Edwards ($4-$4.50 at Cleveland Tux Shops/Ward’s Folly), 1971

12/19 After ‘Damnation’ & ‘Facelift’ rocked the Chesterland Hullabaloo Dec. 17th ($2); as ‘Target’ rocked the

house last night with ‘Sticky Wicket’ ($1.75); ‘Fresh Air’ played Utopia last night; Surrealistic Ink hosts

‘Reign’ tonight; ‘Fully Assembled’ plays Padua High the 20th (Bruno Bornino notes, “the group’s sound

is so driving and original people never leave the dance floor”), & ‘Freely Given’ rocks Bay Way Dec.

22nd, 1971

12/25 Cruising tonight, it’s ‘Dragonwyck’ at Otto-Sight, ‘Hamburgurs’ at Cyrus Erie West, & ‘Sweetleaf ’ at

The Plato; tomorrow, it’s ‘Glass Harp’ & ‘Skeezix’ at the Painesville Armory; and on Dec. 28th, ‘Flash’

(formerly ‘Audi-Badoo’) rocks King Richard’s, 1971

12/29 After driving to work with John Lanigan from Ogalala, Neb. replacing Don Imus on WGAR-AM in a ‘69

Lotus Elan SE Roadster ($3,900); cruising with ‘I’d Like to Teach’ on the stereo, Public Hall rocks tonight

with Alice Cooper, J. Geils Band & Sha Na Na ($4.50-$5), as tickets are $2 at Sodja’s Music on E. 185th,

Ward’s Folly & Mad Male to see Larry Sanders & ‘Glass Harp’ tomorrow at St. Joseph High, 1971

1976! 1976 / FEATURED AREA MUSIC VENUES FROM 1976 / (57)

Cleveland Agora (10th Anniversary) / Allen Theatre (3) / Baldwin-Wallace College / Beachcomer in

Grand River / Berea High School / Blossom Music Center / Blue Grass on Northfield (Scotch Mist

room) / Bobby McGee’s (1612 Euclid) [opening weekend] / Bottleworks / CWRU University Ballroom

/ Chanel High / Chester Commons / Chippewa Lake Park (Appreciation Day with ping pong ball

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drops) / the Corral (14th birthday party) / Continental Inn Supper Club / Cyrus Erie West / Deja Vu /

Disco Den at Vine Lanes (opening night) / Faces (Smith & Pearl) [disco debuts] / The Front Row /

Hennessey’s / Jail Lounge / John Carroll University / the Joker / Last Moving Picture Show / Longhorn

in Maple Hts. / Looking Glass / Midpark High School / the Mistake (opening night) / Music Hall / Next

Door / new Palace in Painesville (opening month) / Peabody’s Café / Hank Berger’s Phantasy Nite

Club (opening night) / The Picadilly / Pirate’s Cove / Public Hall / Richfield Coliseum / Round Table /

New Stable / Updowntowner Club’s ‘We Love You Cleveland’ Party-in-the-Park in Terminal Tower /

Valley Forge High School / Variety Theater / Viking Saloon (2005 Chester) [Viking Saloon fire] /

Woodling Gym (Cleveland State) / Zepelin Hall @ Chippewa Lake Park (debut month)

AKRON / CANTON / KENT AREA VENUES / (9) Akron Civic Theatre / The Crypt / Filthy McNasty’s / Kent Kove / Kent State Memorial Gym / Utopia

Light & Power / Water Street Saloon / Kent State Commons / Kent State’s Winter Weekend festivities

NEW YORK: C.B.G.B.’s / (1)

1976 / FEATURED ARTISTS / MUSICAL GROUPS PERFORMING HERE IN 1976 / [(-) NO. OF TIMES LISTED]

FEATURED NORTHEAST OHIO / REGIONAL ARTISTS FROM 1976 /

[Individuals: (116) / Groups: (81)]

1 Yere 2 Sune / 15-60-75 (Numbers Band) / After Dark / Alec & Mary / Alexis / Backseat Romance

(Weiland, Cooper, Steffy, Randolph) / John Bassette / Alex Bevan / Blaze / Bock / Madi Boke /

Borealis / Brennan-Cosma Band / Buckeye Biscuit / the Butcher / Eric Carmen Band / Cock Robin /

Coco / Constable Brothers (Bill & Ken) / Course of the Electric Messenger / Dead Boys (Bators,

Chrome, Zero, Blitz) / Devo (the De-Evolution Band-Mark Mothersbaugh, Bob Mothersbaugh, Gerald

Casale, Alan Myers) / East Wind (2) / Euphoria / Fabulous Brylcreams (3rd anniversary party) /

Fayrewether / Flasher (Weaver, R. Klawon, Peeler, Kelleher) / Freeland / Freeland Band (w/Disco

Dave) / Roger Flick Band / Frankenstein / Freewheelin’ / Peter Laughner’s Friction / W. R. Gas / Sonny

Geraci & Climax / Haji / Lynn Haney / Hello People / H. C. Hooker (Solarz, Clark, Sulak, Kowalski,

Best, Anthony) (2) / I Don’t Care / I Don’t Care (Knapp, Graziano, Boggess, Ortiz, Pellino, new horn

player Roger Hatfield) / Inferno / Inner City (Pam & Bruce Moore, Carleton, Schneider, Grupe) /

Islands / James Gang (Fox, Peters, Webb, Giallombardo) / Jasper / Rick Kennedy Band / Kicks, Inc. /

Kruck Band / Labrynth Reunion (Brian Davies, Chuck Dubber, Tom Evens, Norm Strelka, Don Farmer,

Ron Joseph, Ron Latarewicz, Tommy Ley, Jim McCarthy, Ed Skuza, Carl Wesley, Jerry Zadar) / Peter

Laughner & the Wolves / Left End (2) / Jimmy Ley & his Coosa River Band / Lover’s Lane (Marc

Serio, Al Retay, A. J. Robey, Tom Amato, Neil Giraldo) (2) / Mack / Maxx / Molkie Cole (2) / Mongrel

(Nemec, Christyson, Anabele, Kriss / Jay Morgan Band (Morgan, Woodford, Ron & Bob Carroll, First,

Burke, Allen) / Moses / Nix (Vorbele, Madej, Danny D, Setser, Nichols) / O’Jays (Levert, Williams,

Strain) / Pearl Alley / Pere Ubu (Laughner, Krauss, Wright, Herman, Crocus, Taylor) (2) / Mike O’Neill

Jam Band / Peter Panic (D. Klawon, R. Klawon, Weaver, Thomas) / Radius Hadius / Raintree /

Rapscallion (Zendel, Bem, Marquez, Linx) / Rats / M. F. Rattlesnake / Robby & the Robots / A. J.

Robey & Thriller (Robey, Simmons, Retay, Donaldson, Amato) / Bob Sandham / Satellite / Sideshow /

Skye / Snickers / Michael Spiro / Stairway (2) / Michael Stanley Band (Koslen, Dobeck, Pelander,

Stanley, Pecchio) (3) / Sweetleaf / Stymee / Tin Huey (Harvey Gold, Mark Price, Stewart Bustin,

Michael Aylward, Ralph Carney) / Wild Cherry (Beitle, Bassett, Wentz, Parissi, Avsec) / Wild Horses /

Windfall / Don Young’s Production

FEATURED NATIONAL ARTISTS PERFORMING HERE IN 1976 / [Individuals: (-) / Grps.: (101)]

Aerosmith / America / Eric Andersen /Angel / Artful Dodger (2) / Asleep at the Wheel / Brian Auger &

his Oblivion Express / Average White Band / Bachman-Turner Overdrive / Bad Company / Be-Bop

Deluxe (2) / Jeff Beck / George Benson / Elvin Bishop / Blackfoot / Black Sabbath / Blue Oyster Cult /

Tommy Bolin / Bootsy’s Rubber Band / Boston (2) / David Bowie / Brownsville Station / B. T. Express

/ Karen & Richard Carpenter / Climax Blues Band / Joe Cocker (with Stingray) / Natalie Cole / Lionel

Ritchie & the Commodores / Don Cornelius Soul Train Gang / David Crosby & Graham Nash / The

Cult (local debut) / Stu Daye / Kiki Dee / John Denver / Derringer / Neil Diamond / Diamond Reo /

Dion / Divinyls / Doobie Brothers (w/ Memphis Horns) / Duke & the Drivers / Maurice White & Earth

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Wind & Fire / The Emotions / England Dan & John Ford Coley / L. A. Express / Dr. Feelgood /

Fleetwood Mac / Flying Burrito Brothers / Dan Fogelberg / Foghat / Fool’s Gold / Frankie Valli & the

Four Seasons (Blossom debut) / Peter Frampton / Rory Gallagher / Marvin Gaye / J. Geils Band /

Genesis (Collins, Rutherford, Hackett, Bruford, Banks) / Dizzy Gillespie / Andrew Gold / Golden

Earring / Good Rats / Graham Central Station / Al Green / Arlo Guthrie / Sammy Hagar (w/Quick,

Church, Carmassi) / Hall & Oates (with E. T. Hooley guitarist Todd Sharp) / Jan Hammer Group /

Emmylou Harris / Don Harrison band / Richie Havens / Isaac Hayes / Heart (2) / Billy Holiday /

Jefferson Starship / Elton John / Journey (2) / Kansas / Kiss (All New Bizarre Stage Show) / Al Kooper

/ Al Kooper & Al Kooper’s Tax Loss / Ronnie Laws / Ramsey Lewis / Nils Lofgren / Loggins &

Messina / Lynyrd Skynyrd / Mahogany Rush / Manfred Mann’s Earth Band / Manhatten Transfer / Bob

Marley & the Wailers / Steve Marriott’s All-Stars / Hugh Masekela / Ian Matthews / McKendree Spring

/ Divine Miss M Bette Midler / John Miles / Joni Mitchell / Golden Hits of the Monkees Show (Davy

Jones, Mickey Dolenz, Bobby Hart, Tommy Boyce) / Melba Moore / Moxy / Natural Gas (Jerry Shirley,

Joey Molland, Mark Clarke, Peter Wood) / Nazareth / Tracy Nelson & Mother Earth / New Seekers /

New York Dolls / Nitty Gritty Dirt Band / Ted Nugent (2) / Laura Nyro / the Outlaws (2) / Parliament

Funkadelic / Graham Parker & Rumour / Pure Prairie League (2) / Freddie Mercury & Queen (Night at

the Opera) / Tom Rapp / Little Richard / Lou Reed / Charlie Rich / Linda Ronstadt / Roxy Music

w/Bryan Ferry / Rufus-Chaka Khan / Runaways (Lita Ford, Jackie Fox, Sandy West, Cherie Currie,

Joan Jett) / Rush / Buffy Sainte-Marie / Santana / Boz Scaggs / Seals & Crofts / John Sebastian / Neil

Sedaka / Pete Seeger / Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band / Shakti (w/John McLaughlin) / Sky Hooks /

Slade / Earl Slick Band / Patti Smith (2) / Phoebe Snow / J. D. Souther / Southside Johnny & the Asbury

Jukes / Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band / Stampeders / Candi Staton / Star-Spangled Washboard

Band / Cat Stevens / Al Stewart / Sonny Stitt / Styx / Sweet / Tavares / Livingston Taylor / Television /

Three Image/Cactus / Tiny Alice / Robin Trower / The Tubes / Jetho Tull / UFO / Gino Vannelli / Sarah

Vaughan / Bobby Vinton / Tom Waits / Dionne Warwick / Weather Report / Widowmaker / Wet Willie

/ Paul McCartney & Wings / Johnny Winter / Gary Wright / Yes (2) / Neil Young and Stephen Stills

Band / Youngbloods founder Jesse Colin Young / Frank Zappa / ZZ Top

NEW YORK / (1)

@ C.B.C.G.’s (Dead Boys (Bators, Chrome, Zero, Blitz), Ramones, Television)

CULTURAL ARTISTS / (1)

Cleveland Orchestra / Beverly Sills [Blossom debut]

COUNTRY / COUNTRY ROCK / BLUEGRASS ARTISTS PERFORMING HERE IN 1976 / (10) Cash-Carter Family (with Johnny-June) / Billy ‘Crash’ Craddock / Loretta Lynn / Dolly Parton / Poco /

Kenny Starr / Statler Bros. / Marshall Tucker Band / Outlaw Music Festival (Waylon Jennings, Jessi

Colter, Tompall Glaser & Outlaw Band)

FEATURED WOMEN OF MUSIC PERFORMING HERE IN 1976 / [Local: (3) / National: (22)]

LOCAL ARTISTS: Lynn Haney / Pam Moore / Beverly Sills / NATIONAL ARTISTS: Karen Carpenter /

June Carter / Natalie Cole / Jessi Colter / Kiki Dee / Emmylou Harris / Heart / Billy Holiday / Chaka

Khan / Loretta Lynn / Bette Midler / Joni Mitchell / Melba Moore / Tracy Nelson / Laura Nyro / Dolly

Parton / Linda Ronstadt / Runaways (Lita Ford, Jackie Fox, Sandy West, Cherie Currie, Joan Jett) /

Buffy Sainte-Marie / Grace Slick (Jefferson Starship) / Patti Smith / Phoebe Snow / Candi Staton /

Sarah Vaughan / Dionne Warwick

FEATURED ROCK HALL INDUCTEES PERFORMING HERE IN 1976 / (40)

Aerosmith / Jeff Beck / Black Sabbath / David Bowie / David Crosby & Graham Nash / Neil Diamond /

Dion / Earth Wind & Fire / Fleetwood Mac / Frankie Valli & the Four Seasons / Marvin Gaye / Genesis

/ Al Green / Hall & Oates / Isaac Hayes / Heart / Elton John / Journey / Lynyrd Skynyrd / Bob Marley &

the Wailers / Laura Nyro / O’Jays / Parliament Funkadelic / Freddie Mercury & Queen / Ramones /

Little Richard / Lou Reed / Linda Ronstadt / Rush / Santana / Pete Seeger / Bob Seger & the Silver

Bullet Band / Patti Smith / Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band / Cat Stevens / Paul McCartney / Yes

/ Neil Young and Stephen Stills Band / Frank Zappa / ZZ Top

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FEATURED AREA DEBUTS / (5)

The Runaways (@ Cyrus Erie West, Cleveland Agora) [1st stops on World Tour] / Frankie Valli & the

Four Seasons (Blossom debut) / Patti Smith (@ Agora) / Dr. Feelgood / Sky Hooks / Styx / Beverly

Sills (@ Blossom)

1976 / FEATURED AREA SPECIALTY EVENTS FROM 1976 / (9)

2nd ANNUAL LABYRNTH REUNION: With Brian Davies, Chuck Dubber, Tom Evens, Norm Strelka, Don Farmer, Ron Joseph, Ron Latarewicz,

Tommy Ley, Jim McCarthy, Ed Skuza, Carl Wesley, Jerry Zadar

BENEFIT EVENTS: Free Clinic benefit @ The Agora / Berea High Scholarship Fund benefit (with Molkie Cole, Alexis)

LAKE COUNTY ALL-STAR JAM: With the Mike O’Neill Jam Band; the Butcher; the Jay Morgan Band (Morgan, Woodford, Ron & Bob

Carroll, First, Burke, Allen); Kruck Band; Ichabod; Don Young’s Production; Moses; Inner City (Pam &

Bruce Moore, Carleton, Schneider, Grupe)

CHIPPEWA LAKE APPRECIATION DAY: With Left End, Euphoria, W. R. Gas, Raintree, Madi Boke, Skye (with two helicopter ping pong ball drops)

COVENTRY STREET FAIR: Coventry Street Fair attracts 10,000 with music, food & eclectic vendors

MICHAEL STANLEY BAND STAGE PASS LIVE RECORDING: Michael Stanley Band’s ‘Stage Pass’ LP live recording sessions Friday 8 to 10 p.m.; Saturday 8 to 10 p.m.,

Sunday 2 to 4 p.m.

WILD CHERRY / (5) Wild Cherry autograph party at Record Theatre in North Randall / Wild Cherry plays Chester Commons /

(Play That Funky Music now gold record) / Grammy Awards with live appearance / Mark Avsec joins

group

WORLD SERIES OF ROCK (CANCELLED):

Set to feature Aerosmith, Jeff Beck, Todd Rundgren’s Utopia, Derringer

CLEVELAND AGORA WORLD OF JAZZ: With Dizzy Gillespie, Sonny Stitt

1976 / FEATURED MEDIA FROM 1976 /

FEATURED AREA NEWSPAPERS (2) / REPORTERS / (6) Cleveland Plain Dealer (Peter Bellamy, Dan Coughlin, Joseph Eszterhas (Jim Morrison’s death),

Anastasia Pantsios with ‘Rock Beat’ / rock reporter Jane Scott with review notes on Patti Smith,

Queen, David Bowie, Joe Cocker, Wild Cherry, The Monkees, Runaways, Elton John, Neil

Diamond, Southside Johnny, Boston) / Cleveland Press (Dick Feagler)

RADIO LISTINGS FROM 1976 /

FEATURED AREA RADIO STATIONS / (3) WMMS-FM / WLYT-FM DISCO STEREO / WWWM-FM (M-105)

FEATURED AREA RADIO PERSONALITIES / (4) WMMS-FM (Bill Freeman, Murray Saul [Get Down Salute], Kid Leo [interviews Bruce Springsteen]) /

WWWE / (3WE)-AM (Sportscaster Joe Tait)

FEATURED AREA RECORD SURVEYS / (3) ‘Eric Carmen’ No. 3 on the WMMS (Buzzard in Quad) record survey / WIXY-AM1260 record survey /

NATIONAL: Billboard’s Hot 100 chart ‘All by Myself’ (Eric Carmen) / ‘Eric Carmen’ (2) / Billboard

Top 200 LPs: Wild Cherry No. 28

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THE WWMS-FM BUZZARD CONNECTION FROM 1976 / (4)

WOODSMOKE APPRECIATION DAY @ EDGEWATER PARK: WMMS-FM’s free ‘Woodsmoke’ Appreciation Day attracts over 50,000 who fought wind & rain to

rock with Pure Prairie League, Angel, Sammy Hagar (w/Quick, Church, Carmassi), the Michael Stanley

Band, & Joe Cocker with Stingray at Edgewater Park

WMMS-FM MONDAY NIGHTS OUT @ THE AGORA: Michael Stanley Band on WMMS Monday Night Out / Montrose with Earl Slick Band ($4.50) / New

York Dolls with Wild Cherry / Al Kooper with L. A. Jets / Southside Johnny & the Asbury Jukes with

Ian Matthews / Nitty Gritty Dirt Band / Michael Murphy with Buckacre / Tom Waits with Graham

Parker & Rumour / Three Image/Cactus with Duke & the Drivers / Dion (DeMussi) / Michael Stanley

Band with Moxy / Good Rats with Journey / James Gang with Blaze / Artful Dodger & Widowmaker

WMMS-FM 30 HOURS COMMERCIAL FREE (BEGINS 12/24): Host Betty Korvan / Buzzard Theater of the Air production of Charles Dicken’s ‘A Christmas Carol’

w/Murray Saul / special Coffeebreak Concert with Melanie

WMMS-FM LIVE BROADCASTS: Nazareth concert at the Allen Theatre broadcast live by WMMS-FM

M-105 (WWWM-FM) FROM 1976 /

M-105 LOVER’S NIGHT: With Lover’s Lane (Marc Serio, Al Retay, A. J. Robey, Tom Amato, Neil Giraldo) @ the Agora

(moved from Viking Saloon)

M-105’s ‘DANCE AROUND THE CLOCK @ THE AGORA: With Pere Ubu, A. J. Robey & Thriller, Roger Flick Band, Radius Hadius, Jasper, Stymee, Maxx

TELEVISION LISTINGS FROM 1976 /

FEATURED AREA TELEVISION STATIONS / (3) WEWS-TV5 / WKYC-TV3 / WJW-TV8

FEATURED TELEVISION PROGRAMMING / [Local: (5) / National: (9)]

LOCAL: Eric Carmen on American Bandstand / Grammy Awards with ‘Wild Cherry’ / Midnight

Special w/ Eric Carmen singing All by Myself / Dick Feagler & Mary Strassmeyer on The Dave

Patterson Show / NETWORK: Guy Lombardo & his Royal Canadians on TV8 / Police Woman / Good

Times / M.A.S.H. / Happy Days / Marcus Welby / Hee Haw / Mary Tyler Moore / Bob Newhart

FEATURED AREA TELEVISION PERSONALITIES / (9)

WEWS-TV (Don Webster) / WJW-TV8 (Big Chuck, Hoolihan, City Camera News [Jeff Maynor, Jim

Hale, Dick Goddard, Jim Mueller]) / WKYC-TV3 (Dave Patterson) / NATIONAL: American Bandstand

(Dick Clark)

FEATURED TELEVISION DEBUTS / (3) All in the Family / Laverne & Shirley / Soul Train (one of 8 cities)

FEATURED HOOLIHAN & BIG CHUCK FRIDAY NIGHT MOVIES ON TV8 / (6)

Beyond the Time Barrier / Boris Karloff in ‘The Black Castle’ / Count Dracula / Curse of the Swamp

Creature / The Man Who Reclaimed His Head / Joan Crawford in ‘Straight Jacket’

1976 / FEATURED ENTERTAINERS / AREA ENTERTAINMENT FROM 1976 /

FEATURED AREA MILESTONES / (3)

CLEVELAND AGORA / (2) Celebrates 10 years with ‘Derringer’ (free concert-limited tickets given out by WMMS-FM) / (first

concert @ Agora on E. 24th was the Buckinghams)

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THE CORRAL: The remodeled Corral in Olmsted Twp. marks its 14th birthday with 1 Yere 2 Sune, H. C. Hooker

Backseat Romance, Satellite’

CYRUS ERIE WEST: Grand Closing Party Weekend with Left End, Islands (later reopens in new location)

FEATURED COMEDIANS / (3) Cheech & Chong / Martin Mull

FEATURED AREA PROMOTERS / CLUB OWNERS / (4)

WMMS-FM-Belkin Productions (Rush) - (ZZ Top/Blue Oyster Cult / Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band)

/ Belkin Productions-WJMO Radio (Jackson 5) / Belkin Productions-John Carroll Student Union

(Southside Johnny-Nils Lofgren) / Dick Korn (Viking Saloon)

FEATURED AREA TICKET LOCATIONS / (2)

Bandstand Records / Cleveland Tux Shops

FEATURED LOSS BY FIRE / (2) Dec. 3rd (1975) fire destroys the Kent Kove, Water Street Saloon & Numbers Band equipment / “I’ll open

somewhere,” states Dick Korn, after fire January 7th damages the Viking Saloon at 2005 Chester

FEATURED AREA FUN ‘N GAMES / (2)

Bicentennial Bash @ the Blue Grass with two buffets, and Sonny Geraci & Climax in the Scotch Mist

room / Get Down’ salute by WMMS-FM’s Murray Saul at Updowntowner Club’s ‘We Love You

Cleveland’ Party-in-the-Park in Terminal Tower (music by Stymee) / Coventry Street Fair

FEATURED AREA DISCO DANCING / (5)

Listening to WLYT-FM Disco Stereo / Faces at Smith & Pearl goes disco / The Freeland Band w/Disco

Dave plays Utopia Light & Power ($1.75) / disco dancing at the Last Moving Picture Co. / the Disco Den

opens at Vine Lanes

FEATURED AREA TICKET LOCATIONS / (3) Bandstand Records / Cleveland Tux Shops / May Company

FEATURED AREA PASSINGS / (2)

Record Rendezvous founder & rock ‘n’ roll pioneer Leo M. Mintz at age 65 / last of Cleveland’s

‘Untouchables,’ George D. Mulvanity at age 73

FEATURED RECORDS / ARTISTS FROM 1976 /

SINGLES / [Regional: (3) / National: (7)]

REGIONAL ARTISTS: All by Myself (Eric Carmen) / ‘Street Waves’ (Pere Ubu) / Love Rollercoaster

(Ohio Players) / I Love Music (O’Jays) / NATIONAL ARTISTS: Convoy (C. W. McCall) / You Sexy

Thing (Hot Chocolate) / I Write the Songs (Barry Manilow) / Saturday Night (Bay City Rollers) / Fox

on the Run (Sweet) / Schoolboy Crush (Average White Band) / You Sexy Thing / CONCERT TUNES: ‘Suffragette City’ (David Bowie)

ALBUMS / [Local: (5) / National: (13)]

REGIONAL ARTISTS: ‘I Don’t Care (I Don’t Care) / ‘Eric Carmen’ (Eric Carmen) / ‘Honor Among

Thieves’ (Artful Dodger) / ‘Ladies’ Choice’ (Michael Stanley) / ‘Can’t Argue with a Sick Mind’ (Joe

Walsh) / ‘Barnstorm’ (Joe Walsh)

NATIONAL ARTISTS: ‘Born to Die’ (Grand Funk Railroad) / BTO / Boston / Styx / Wings at the Speed

of Sound in 8-track / ‘Agents of Fortune’ (Blue Oyster Cult) / Ted Nugent’s ‘Free-for-All’ / Chicago X /

‘Spirit’ (Earth, Wind & Fire) / ‘Hotel California’ (Eagles) / ‘The Song Remains the Same’ (Led

Zeppelin) / Fleetwood Mac / ‘Sweet’ (Sweet)

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FEATURED RECORD STORES / (9)

Disc Records / Gaylords / Gold Circle / Music Grotto / Record Rendezvous / Record Revolution / Record

Theatre / Records Unlimited / J. P. Snodgrass / Uncle Bill’s

FEATURED AREA AUTOGRAPH SESSIONS / RECORD STORES / (4)

Boston (at area Record Theatre stores) / Heart (at Peaches Records & Tapes, 5100 Pearl) / Wild Cherry (at

Record Theater) / Michael Stanley ‘Ladies’ Choice’ (Disc Records Westgate)

FEATURED AREA RECORD LABELS / (1) Sweet City

FEATURED AREA GOLD RECORDS / (1) Play That Funky Music (Wild Cherry)

FEATURED MOVIES / ARTISTS / (6) Dog Day Afternoon / One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest / All the President’s Men / Jaws / Resort Girls /

The Cheerleaders

FEATURED AREA MOVIE HOUSES / (4) Berea Theater / Cinema Shoregate II / Canal Road Drive-In / Loew’s Westgate II

1976 / FEATURED SPECIALTY ITEMS FROM 1976 /

AUTOMOBILES / (-) [Found in weekly auto ads]

AMERICAN MOTORS / (5)

Cruising in a rare white-black top ‘71 Cuda convertible w/leather, am-fm stereo, all-power ($2,300)

‘73 Barracuda 2-dr. hardtop w/V8, stripes ($2,195-Bard-Pelunis)

White-BVT ‘74 Javelin w/V8, fm stereo, auto ($2,895-Miller Pontiac)

‘75 AMC Gremlin w/auto, whitewalls, AC, discs ($1,988-Bob Kay),

Yellow/black interior ‘76 6-cyl. AMC Pacer

CHRYSLER CORP. / (12)

DODGES / (3) Plum-black vinyl top ‘70 Dodge Challenger 2-dr. V8 hardtop ($1,688)

‘73 Dodge Charger ($1,795-Bill Doraty)

All-black ‘74 Dodge Charger SE w/am-fm stereo ($2,800)

OLDSMOBILES / (1) Sunkissed orange/black interior-roof ‘72 Cutlass Supreme convertible ($2,895-N. Walker)

PLYMOUTHS / (3)

‘72 Plymouth Cuda, AAR w/340 plus 6, radio w/tape, 3-spd. Slap stick ($8,000-drafted)

Gold-parchment vinyl roof ‘73 Plymouth Satellite Sebring 2-dr. hardtop w/auto, AC, power steering

($2,495-Bard-Pelunis)

‘74 Plymouth Satellite Sebring Plus 2-dr. hardtop w/V8, AC ($2,995-Don Jordan)

FORD MOTORS/ (3)

White/black interior ‘68 Shelby GT 2-dr. hardtop w/428 Cobra engine, AC, 4-spd. ($2,988)

Cruising in a dark green/saddle interior ‘74 Mustang II

‘74 Ford T-Bird w/460 V8, AC ($4,700)

GENERAL MOTORS / (12)

CHEVROLETS / (3)

Silver/black interior ‘73 Camaro Z-28 w/auto, spoiler, factory mags ($3,188)

Dark blue ‘73 El Camino w/V8, auto, vinyl roof ($2,395-Barry Buick)

Yellow/black bucket seat ‘71 Chevelle SS 350 2-dr. hardtop w/ 4-spd. ($2,188-Town & Country)

CORVETTES / (9)

Restored ‘57 Chevy Corvette w/balanced 331, sandblasted frame ($4,400-California car)

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Maroon-white insert ‘58 Chevy Corvette hardtop w/283 V8, 3-spd. ($4,950)

‘63 Corvette Sting Ray 327, 4-spd. convertible ($4,150)

Emerald green/black leather interior ‘66 Corvette Coupe w/427 V8, 4-spd., whitewalls ($1,988-Town &

Country)

Marina blue-black top ‘68 Corvette Roadster w/327 V8 ($3,988-Town-Country)

Yellow/black leather ‘69 Corvette Roadster w/4-spd., 2 tops ($5,688)

Dark brown/custom black leather interior ‘74 Corvette w/454 cu. in., 4-spd., power steering-brakes-

windows (3,800 mi.-$7,500)

Rally red-white top ‘75 Corvette convertible w/am-fm stereo ($7,885-Big ‘O’ Olds)

Dark red/pearl gray leather interior ‘77 Corvette T-Coupe ($9,995-Bill Doraty)

PONTIAC / (6)

Gold/saddle interior ‘73 Pontiac Firebird w/V8 ($3,195-Miller Pontiac)

Midnight blue/tan interior ‘74 Trans Am SD455 w/am-fm stereo tape deck ($4,300)

Buccaneer red/white bucket seat-top ‘75 Firebird w/350 V8, auto, AC ($3,995-Jay Pontiac)

Dark brown metallic/tan interior ‘74 Pontiac LeMans 2-dr. coupe ($2,505-Lou Meliska)

Cypress green ‘74 LeMans Sport Coupe w/V8, auto, AC ($2,996-Earl Olds)

‘76 Grand Prix ($4,899)

FOREIGN IMPORTS / SPECIALTY AUTOS / (8)

Metallic bronze/black interior ‘74 Datsun 260-Z w/4-spd. ($4,788-Town/Country)

‘73 Jaguar XKE convertible w/stick ($9,000)

‘72 Lotus Europa ($7,200)

Lime green/black bucket seat ‘73 Mazda RX-2 w/4-spd., black accent stripe, mag wheels ($1,595-Bill

Doraty)

Black/tan interior ‘73 MGB ($2,500-Town & Country)

Yellow ‘71 Pantera w/Holley 780, radials, am-fm cassette ($8,500)

Dark blue ‘74 DeTomaso Pantera w/351 Cobra Jet engine, am-fm stereo, AC ($17,000+/last allowed in

country)

Sable brown ‘73 Triumph TR-6 ($4,194-MG Motor Sales)

GASOLINE PRICES/ (1) Gasoline (@ 57.9¢ gallon)

FEATURED AREA FOOD / RESTAURANTS / (8)

Manners Big Boy, fries & strawberry shortcake ($1.49)

2 Arby’s roast beef sandwiches ($1.50)

Diamond Jim’s in the Flats (buy one-get one dinner)

$1.38 lb.-loin sliced pork chops @ new Pick-N-Pay super market (30960 Lakeshore)

[$10 purchase gets 100 extra free Eagle stamps]

Pierre’s Wahoo Bars with $1 Indians game coupon (6 for 89¢ @ Heinen’s)

Pork chop milano at re-opening of Tony’s at Kamm’s Corner ($3.95)

$8.95 chicken & lobster clambake at Fagan’s

Checker Bar ice cream

FEATURED AREA RETAIL SHOPPING / (12)

RECORD PURCHASES / (6)

RECORD SALES / (7)

Record Revolution’s Plastic Sale (3 LPs-$12)

Eagles’ ‘Hotel California’ on sale ($3.99 LP, $5.99 8-track @ Records Unlimited)

I Don’t Care’ & Artful Dodger’s ‘Honor Among Thieves’ ($3.99 (LP) @ J. P. Snodgrass)

‘Eric Carmen’ & Grand Funk’s ‘Born to Die’ in 8-track ($4.99 @ Gold Circle)

5-album Joe Walsh-James Gang catalog w/ Barnstorm ($3.99 ea. @ Record Theatre)

Joe Walsh’s Can’t Argue with A Sick Mind & Michael Stanley Band’s Ladies’ Choice ($3.95 (LP)-

$4.95 8-track tape @ Gaylord’s)

UHF/VHF outdoor antenna ($24.88 @ Gold Circle)

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Teac reel-to-reel stereo tape recorder ($425 @ Sound Chamber)

Sherwin-Williams A-100 Latex house paint ($10.97 gal. – save $4)

Selling gold at $136 an oz. for holiday gifts

Audiovox auto FM converter ($19.95 @ Clarkins)

Dial telephone ($19.99 @ Gold Circle)

FEATURED AREA RETAIL STORES / RESTAURANTS / (16)

Arby’s / Bandstand Records / Blue Grass / Disc Records (Westgate Mall) / Gold Circle (3) / Manners / May

Co. / Music Grotto / Peaches Records & Tapes / Pick –N-Pay / Record Rendezvous (2) / Record

Revolution / Record Theatre (2) / J. P. Snodgrass (2) / Uncle Bill’s (2)

1976 / FEATURED SPORTS PLAYERS / COACHES / TEAMS / VENUES / OLYMPIC GAMES FROM 1976 / (22) Cleveland Barons NHL debut / Fred Ahern / Dennis Maruk / Los Angeles Kings / Ohio State / UCLA /

Rose Bowl / 1976 Montreal Olympics Mike Burley

SPECIAL AREA SPORTS EVENT: (1976 CLEVELAND CAVALIERS ‘MIRACLE’ PLAYOFFS) /

Cleveland Cavaliers / Washington Bullets / Boston Celtics / Jim Chones / Jimmy Cleamons / Campy

Russell / Bingo Smith / Dick Snyder / Boston coach Red Auerbach / Cavs coach Bill Fitch / NBA Eastern

Conf. semi-final playoffs / NBA Eastern Conf. playoffs / Richfield Coliseum

1976 / FEATURED ENTRIES FROM 1976/ [(154) / Sports: (10)]

1/1 After rocking to the ‘Eric Carmen Band’ at the Agora on the 30th (with 5 encores); ‘Pere Ubu’ &

‘Frankenstein’ bring in the new year at the Viking Saloon, 2005 Chester, 1976

1/2 After watching UCLA beat OSU in the Rose Bowl yesterday; & cruising tonight with ‘You Sexy Thing’ on

WIXY in a white/black interior ‘68 Shelby GT 2-dr. hardtop w/428 Cobra engine, AC, 4-spd. ($2,988), to

see ‘Molkie Cole’ at the new Palace in Painesville ($1.50); Hoolihan & Chuck’s flick is Boris Karloff in

‘The Black Castle,’ 1976

1/3 Cruising tomorrow night, you’ll find ‘Sweetleaf’ at the Agora; ‘Hello People’ and ‘Fayrewether’ at the

Joker in Elyria; & ‘Stairway’ at Cyrus Erie West (16 & over), 1976

1/5 After cruising in a ‘73 Barracuda 2-dr. hardtop w/V8, stripes ($2,195-Bard-Pelunis), to rock with the

Michael Stanley Band on WMMS Monday Night Out at the Agora on E. 24th; the Corral counters

tomorrow with ‘Brownsville Station’ & ‘1 Yere,’ 1976

1/6 ‘Convoy’ by C. W. McCall tops the WIXY 1260 record survey, followed by Hot Chocolate’s ‘You Sexy

Thing;’ Barry Manilow’s ‘I Write the Songs;’ ‘Love Rollercoaster’ by Ohio Players; ‘Saturday Night’ by

Bay City Rollers; ‘Fox on the Run’ by Sweet; the O’Jay’s hit ‘I Love Music;’ and ‘Schoolboy Crush’ by

the Average White Band, 1976

1/8 After a Dec. 3rd fire destroys the Kent Kove, Water Street Saloon & their equipment, the Numbers Band

rocks JB’s Up last night with new equipment ($8,000 loan), 1976

1/9 After cruising to Clarkins for a $19.95 Audiovox auto FM converter in a red-black landau top/interior ‘75

Monte Carlo Coupe w/V8, AC ($3,995-Bass); tomorrow, ‘Molkie Cole’ and ‘Mongrel’ (Nemec,

Christyson, Anabele, Kriss), rock Cyrus Erie West, 1976

1/10 Cruising on Saturday, ‘East Wind’ is at the Longhorn; ‘Robby & the Robots’ play Deja Vu; ‘After Dark’

is at Midpark High; the Round Table hosts ‘Borealis;’ ‘Freewheelin’’ rocks the Mistake; the Agora hosts

‘Sweetleaf;’ ‘Rats’ plays the Corral; & Valley Forge High rocks with the Fabulous Brylcreams’ third

anniversary party ($1.75-$2), 1976

1/13 While cruising to the Agora last night in a plum-black vinyl top ’70 Dodge Challenger 2-dr. V8 hardtop

($1,688), to see the Roger Flick Band, ‘Pere Ubu’ (Laughner, Krauss, Wright, Herman, Crocus, Taylor),

and ‘Pearl Alley;’ Eric Carmen’s hit LP ‘Eric Carmen’ rests at No. 3 on the WMMS (Buzzard in Quad)

record survey, 1976

1/15 “I’ll open somewhere,” manager Dick Korn tells the Plain Dealer, after fire on January 7th causes $25,000

damage to the Viking Saloon rock house at 2005 Chester, 1976

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1/15 Cruising to Kent State, Roxy Music w/Bryan Ferry rocks Memorial Gym ($5), 1976

1/16 After dining on a Manners Big Boy, fries & strawberry shortcake ($1.49), in a cypress green ‘74 LeMans

Sport Coupe w/V8, auto, AC ($2,996-Earl Olds), & rockin’ to ‘Coco’ & ‘Peter Panic’ (D. Klawon, R.

Klawon, Weaver, Thomas), at the Mistake (18 women, 21 men); tonight’s Hoolihan & Chuck fright flick

is ‘Beyond the Time Barrier,’ 1976

1/19 Cruising tomorrow, Dan Fogelberg plays the Allen with ‘Fool’s Gold’ ($5); as the Agora presents the

‘Star-Spangled Washboard Band’ with ‘McKendree Spring,’ 1976

1/20 After the Viking Saloon fire, M-105’s ‘Lover’s Night’ moves to the Mistake, rockin’ with Lover’s Lane

(Marc Serio, Al Retay, A. J. Robey, Tom Amato, Neil Giraldo), 1976

1/26 While downstairs, Jimmy Ley & his Coosa River Band rock the Mistake both nights, making her first trip

here, Patti Smith opens the first of two soldout nights with Tom Rapp at the Agora on E. 24th (Jane Scott

calls her “the bad girl of rock ‘n’ roll.” Patti tells Jane after the show, “I felt like I was home.”- John Cale

plays bass the 27th), 1976

1/27 Tuesday night TV offers ‘Police Woman,’ ‘Good Times’ & ‘M.A.S.H.,’ as ‘Laverne & Shirley’ debuts

with ‘Happy Days,’ ‘Marcus Welby’ on TV5, 1976

1/28 After Dick Feagler & Mary Strassmeyer review Pres. Reagan’s inauguration on TV3’s ‘Dave Patterson

Show;’ Peter Frampton & Gary Wright play the Coliseum at night, 1976

1/29 Cruising tonight to the Blue Grass on Northfield, it’s their ‘Bicentennial Bash’ featuring two buffets, and

Sonny Geraci & Climax in the Scotch Mist room ($5), 1976

1/30 After cruising with gas at 57.9¢ gallon to shop during Record Revolution’s Plastic Sale (3 LPs-$12), Buffy

Sainte-Marie & Eric Andersen play the Front Row ($6.50), 1976

1/31 At 12:30 today, you’ll find Eric Carmen on Dick Clark’s American Bandstand, 1976

2/5 Cruising tonight in a new VW Beetle (with radio), advertised to cost 5¢ a mile; as ‘Tiny Alice’ rocks

CWRU’s soldout University Ballroom ($1); Al Kooper rocks Kent State’s Winter Weekend festivities

with the ‘New Seekers’ ($2-$4/$1-$3 w/ID), 1976

2/6 Cruising tonight in a metallic bronze/black interior ‘74 Datsun 260-Z w/4-spd. ($4,788-Town/Country),

Divine Miss M Bette Midler rules Music Hall ($6-$10), 1976

2/8 Cruising to the movies in a ‘76 Grand Prix ($4,899); ‘Dog Day Afternoon’ is at Loew’s Westgate II; ‘One

Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest’ is at the Berea; Cinema Shoregate II features ‘Jaws;’ & at the Canal Road

Drive-In it’s ‘Resort Girls’ & ‘The Cheerleaders,’ 1976

2/10 After cruising in an emerald green/black leather interior ’66 Corvette Coupe w/427 V8, 4-spd.,

whitewalls ($1,988-Town & Country), to buy ‘BTO’ & ‘Styx’ at Music Grotto on Euclid (LP $3.99);

Public Hall lets it ride tomorrow with rockers Bachman-Turner Overdrive, Rory Gallagher & ‘Styx,’

making its local debut ($5.50-$6.50), 1976

2/12 Cruising in a ‘70 1/2 Plymouth Cuda, AAR w/340 plus 6, radio w/tape, 3-spd. Slap stick ($8,000-drafted);

‘Peter Panic’ rocks the Longhorn in Maple Hts. ($5.50), 1976

2/13 After catching the infamous 6 p.m. ‘Get Down’ salute by WMMS-FM’s Murray Saul at the

Updowntowner Club’s ‘We Love You Cleveland’ Party-in-the-Park in Terminal Tower (music by

Stymee); L. A. Express joins Joni Mitchell at Public Hall ($5.50), 1976

2/14 Cruising to soldout Public Hall, it’s ‘A Night at the Opera’ with Freddie Mercury & ‘Queen’ (Jane Scott

calls it, “The most exciting show of the year so far” - $5.50), 1976

2/17 Introducing their new groups, ‘M. F. Rattlesnake,’ ‘Sideshow’ and ‘Freeland’ during the show, popular

rockers ‘I Don’t Care’ gather at the Agora for a final concert, 1976

2/20 After cruising in a maroon/white insert ‘58 Chevy Corvette hardtop w/283 V8, 3-spd. ($4,950), to Gold

Circle for ‘Eric Carmen’ & Grand Funk’s ‘Born to Die’ in 8-track ($4.99), as Rufus/Chaka Khan & the

26 Don Cornelius Soul Train Gang play Music Hall ($6.50); it’s ‘Bock’ tonight at the Agora, ‘Mack’

tomorrow, ‘Windfall’ the 22nd, Tracy Nelson & ‘Mother Earth’ the 23rd, and a Free Clinic benefit the

24th ($2), 1976

2/20 “Cat Stevens proved to be a real tiger last night,” writes Jane Scott, after the bearded Englishman and his

backup band play to 16,000 at the Coliseum ($5.50-$7.50), 1976

2/21 Cruising to the Allen Theatre in a dark brown/custom black leather interior ’74 Corvette w/454 cu. in.,

4-spd., power steering-brakes-windows (3,800 mi.-$7,500), it’s a heavy metal shootout tonight with Ted

Nugent & ‘Blackfoot’ ($5.50-$6.50), 1976

2/22 After spending $1.50 on 2 Arby’s roast beef sandwiches, the Marshall Tucker Band, Elvin Bishop, and the

Outlaws rock John Carroll U. ($6 at Cleveland Tux Shops), 1976

2/26 Cruising to Akron after buying the new ‘Sweet’ LP at J. P. Snodgrass ($3.99), with WLYT-FM Disco

Stereo in a Sable brown ‘73 Triumph TR-6 ($4,194-MG Motor Sales); the Akron Civic Theatre rocks

with ‘Sweet’ and the ‘Eric Carmen Band’ ($5.50), 1976

2/27 After cruising in a silver/black interior ‘73 Camaro Z-28 w/auto, spoiler, factory mags ($3,188), to dine at

Diamond Jim’s in the Flats (buy one-get one dinner); next stop is singing ‘Suffragette City’ with David

Bowie at Public Hall (Jane Scott writes, “...he was not only better than ever. He was brilliant”- encore

‘Jean Genie’- $6.50-$8.50), 1976

2/28 Saturday night TV on TV5 offers ‘Hee Haw,’ ‘Mary Tyler Moore,’ ‘Bob Newhart’ and the Grammy

Awards, with ‘Wild Cherry’ performing ‘Play That Funky Music,’ 1976

3/4 After presenting ‘East Wind’ on the 2nd, and two shows last night with ‘Molkie Cole’ & the ‘Freeland

Band’ w/Disco Dave ($1.75); Utopia Light & Power, ‘Akron’s best disco and rock club,’ presents the

Michael Stanley Band in concert ($3-$3.50), 1976

3/5 Hoolihan & Big Chuck fans! After seeing Dionne Warwick with Isaac Hayes at the Front Row ($6.50);

tonight’s horror feature is ‘Curse of the Swamp Creature,’ 1976

3/5 As Eric Carmen’s hit single ‘All By Myself’ rests at No. 2 on Billboard’s Hot 100 chart, cruising to the

Picadilly on Euclid, ‘Cock Robin’ plays tonight; ‘Haji’ tomorrow, 1976

3/6 ‘Inferno’ rocks the Corral; Peter Laughner & the Wolves play the Bottleworks, 1976

3/10 After cruising in a lime green/black bucket seat ‘73 Mazda RX-2 w/4-spd., black accent stripe, mag

wheels ($1,595-Bill Doraty), for loin sliced pork chops (only $1.38 lb. -$10 purchase gets you 100 extra

free Eagle stamps) as a new Pick-N-Pay super market opens at 30960 Lakeshore; ‘Snickers’ rocks the

Last Moving Picture Show, 1976

3/12 After cruising to see ‘Journey,’ ‘Dr. Feelgood’ & ‘Sky Hooks’ (local debuts) at the Allen ($5), in a

restored ‘57 Chevy Corvette w/balanced 331, sandblasted frame ($4,400- California car); on Hoolihan &

Chuck, it’s ‘The Man Who Reclaimed His Head,’ 1976

3/12 The Front Row presents the ‘Outlaw Music Festival’ featuring Waylon Jennings backed by his 6-piece

band, Jessi Colter, & Tompall Glaser with his Outlaw Band ($7.50), 1976

3/16 Tickets are only $6 to see Johnny Winter and Be-Bop Deluxe at the Allen Theatre, 1976

3/23 Cruising last night, the Coliseum offered a wild rock ‘n’ roll triple play as Robin Trower shared the stage

with Little Richard & the ‘Stampeders’ ($5.50-$6.50), 1976

3/26 After cruising in a yellow ‘71 Pantera w/Holley 780, radials, am-fm cassette ($8,500), to the Round Table

to rock with the Wild Horses’ & ‘Brennan-Cosma Band;’ at 1 a.m., ‘Midnight Special’ on TV3 features

Eric Carmen singing his hit ‘All by Myself,’ 1976

4/2 After cruising in a dark blue ‘73 El Camino w/V8, auto, vinyl roof ($2,395-Barry Buick), to see Laura

Nyro at John Carroll ($5.50); tomorrow, the Michael Stanley Band previews new material at Cyrus Erie

West, as the Next Door hosts Michael Spiro, 1976

27 4/5 Cruising to the Agora on WMMS Monday Night Out, ‘Montrose’ rocks with the ‘Earl Slick Band’

($4.50); while ‘Course of the Electric Messenger’ plays the Mistake, 1976

4/6 WMMS Nights Out at the Agora continue with ‘Weather Report’ & ‘Course of the Electric Messenger’

($4-$5); as Pere Ubu’ & ‘Tin Huey’ (Harvey Gold, Mark Price, Stewart Bustin, Michael Aylward, Ralph

Carney) play the Mistake on the 7th, 1976

4/7 After cruising while listening to Kid Leo interview the Boss at 4 p.m. on WMMS-FM yesterday in a

yellow/black bucket seat ‘71 Chevelle SS 350 2-dr. hardtop w/4-spd. ($2,188-Town & Country); Bruce

Springsteen & the E Street Band open a two-night stand tonight at the Allen Theatre, selling out both

shows in under two hours, 1976

4/9 Heinen’s has Pierre’s Wahoo Bars at 6 for 89¢ with a $1 Indians game coupon, 1976

4/9 After buying the 5-album Joe Walsh-James Gang catalog w/‘Barnstorm’ at Record Theatre ($3.99 ea.);

next, it’s cruising in a marina blue-black top ‘68 Corvette Roadster w/327 V8 ($3,988-Town-Country),

to see ‘All the President’s Men’ at the Berea, 1976

4/11 Helping to christen the new Zepelin dance hall at Chippewa Lake Park, the Michael Stanley Band

performs twice yesterday, at 6 p.m. for teens, & 10 p.m. for adults, 1976

4/14 Cruising in a ’75 AMC Gremlin w/auto, whitewalls, AC, discs ($1,988-Bob Kay), ‘Genesis’ (Collins,

Rutherford, Hackett, Bruford, Banks), rocks Music Hall (10:30 show moved to the following night when

Phil Collins suffers a sore throat - $6-$6.50), 1976

4/16 Cruising to Kent, ‘King Cobra’ plays the B.B.C., while ‘Rats’ plays ‘Filthy’s, 1976

4/18 18,000 see ‘Lynyrd Skynyrd,’ ‘Golden Earring’ & ‘Outlaws’ at the Coliseum ($6), 1976

4/19 Tix are $4 at Bandstand Records to see ‘Artful Dodger’ tonight at Chanel High, 1976

4/21 Listening to WWWE on the AM radio after cruising in a dark brown metallic/tan interior ‘74 Pontiac

LeMans 2-dr. coupe ($2,505-Lou Meliska), to see ‘Bad Company’ and ‘Kansas’ at the Coliseum ($7);

you find the host Bullets beat the Cavs, 109-98, 1976

4/23 After cruising tonight in a gold/saddle interior ‘73 Pontiac Firebird w/V8 ($3,195-Miller Pontiac), to see

Jesse Colin Young & ‘Pure Prairie League’ at John Carroll ($5.50); tomorrow, WMMS-FM’s free

‘Woodsmoke’ Appreciation Day attracts over 50,000 at Edgewater Park who fought wind & rain to rock

with Pure Prairie League, Angel, Sammy Hagar (w/Quick, Church, Carmassi), the Michael Stanley Band,

& Joe Cocker Stingray (Jane Scott notes Cocker sat drinking beer before his act), 1976

4/27 After seeing ‘Jimmy Ley & his Coosa River Band’ last night at the Mistake; cruising on Tuesday, you

find Brian Auger & his ‘Oblivion Express’ at the Agora; ‘Lover’s Lane’ at the Mistake; ‘Stairway’ at the

Jail Lounge & disco at the Last Moving Picture Co., 1976

4/27 Tickets are only $5.50 to see ‘Rush’ rock the Allen Theatre with Belkin & WMMS, 1976

4/30 After cruising to Disc Records Westgate to have Michael Stanley sign his ‘Ladies’ Choice’ LP ($3.99);

the Agora hosts M-105’s ‘Dance Around the Clock’ with Pere Ubu, A. J. Robey & Thriller, Roger Flick

Band, Radius Hadius, Jasper, Stymee & Maxx, 1976

5/1 After stopping by Appreciation Day at Chippewa Lake featuring ‘Left End,’ ‘Euphoria,’ ‘W. R. Gas,’

‘Raintree,’ ‘Madi Boke’ & ‘Skye’ (with two helicopter ping pong ball drops- $2); next, John Denver

plays to 38,000 (two shows) at the Coliseum ($5-$10), 1976

5/4 On the 2nd, it was white punks on dope with the Tubes at Kent Memorial Gym ($5); tonight, it’s Boz

Scaggs & ‘Wet Willie’ at the Allen ($5.50); & on the 6th, country rules the Front Row with Loretta Lynn,

Billy ‘Crash’ Craddock & Kenny Starr ($6.50), 1976

5/7 After cruising in a sunkissed orange/black interior-roof ‘72 Cutlass Supreme convertible ($2,895-N.

Walker), to see Bob Marley & the Wailers at Music Hall ($6.50); tomorrow, Karen & Richard Carpenter

play the Coliseum for CWRU’s 150th ($5-$10), 1976

28 5/10 After cruising for ‘Wings at the Speed of Sound’ in 8-track at Uncle Bill’s ($5); winging to town for the

first time since 1966, Paul McCartney & ‘Wings’ satisfy 20,731 fans at the soldout Coliseum with 2 hours

of ‘high enjoyment’ and two encores, 1976

5/14 After Hall & Oates (w/E. T. Hooley guitarist Todd Sharp), rock Woodling Gym tonight ($6); tomorrow,

the J. Geils Band, the Outlaws, Livingston Taylor, Earl Slick Band, Michael Stanley Band, Alex Bevan &

John Bassette play the Kent State Commons, 1976

5/16 Listening to WWWE after seeing ‘Santana,’ ‘Weather Report’ & ‘Shakti’ w/John McLaughlin at the

Coliseum ($5.50); you hear the Cavs, down 2-2, lost Game 5 of the NBA Eastern Conference finals to

coach Red Auerbach’s Celtics, 99-94, in Boston, 1976

5/19 Listening to Joe Tait on 3WE, the Cavaliers end their miracle season, losing Game 6 of the Eastern Conf.

playoffs to the Boston Celtics, 94-87, at the soldout Coliseum, 1976

5/21 Cruising in a white-BVT ‘74 Javelin w/V8, fm stereo, auto ($2,895-Miller Pontiac), the O’Jays (Levert,

Williams, Strain), play the Front Row with Melba Moore ($6.50); while Steve Marriott’s All-Stars rock

the Allen Theatre with ‘Slade’ ($5-$6), 1976

5/22 Cruising in a ‘63 Corvette Sting Ray 327, 4-spd. convertible ($4,150); Bobby McGee’s, 1612 Euclid,

kicks off its Grand Opening with country rockers ‘Buckeye Biscuit,’ 1976

5/28 After cruising last night in a ‘73 Jaguar XKE convertible w/stick ($9,000), while listening to a live

WMMS-FM broadcast at 9 p.m. of the ‘Nazareth’ concert at the Allen Theatre with ‘UFO’ ($5.50);

tonight, Mahogany Rush plays the Joker ($3.50), 1976

5/29 Gaylords has Joe Walsh’s new album ‘Can’t Argue with a Sick Mind,’ & The Michael Stanley Band’s

‘Ladies’ Choice,’ for only $3.95 (LP) and $4.95 (8-track tape), 1976

6/5 While the ‘New York Dolls’ & ‘Jasper’ (Ellis, Stradiot, McGuinn, Penca), rock Cyrus Erie West ($3.50),

as Utopia hosts ‘Windfall;’ ‘Molkie Cole’ & ‘Alexis’ play Berea High (Berea Community Center

sponsored for Berea High Scholarship Fund-$2.50), 1976

6/6 Cruising to the Agora on a WMMS Monday Night out, the ‘New York Dolls’ rock the house, with ‘Wild

Cherry’ (Beitle, Bassett, Wentz, Parissi, Avsec), opening the night (Jane Scott notes, “Wild Cherry got a

fine reaction at the Agora Monday night”), 1976

6/11 After cruising to Sound Chamber for a $425 Teac reel-to-reel stereo tape recorder in a silver mink/black

interior ‘73 Road Runner w/380 magnum, special headers, exhaust ($2,595-U.S. Cars), next, it’s the

grand opening of the Disco Den at Vine Lanes, 1976

6/12 “Two encores later, the band still didn’t want to leave,” writes the PD’s Jane Scott after Davy Jones,

Mickey Dolenz, Bobby Hart & Tommy Boyce bring their ‘Golden Hits of the Monkees Show’ to a

packed house at the Cleveland Agora on the 10th, where “for 90 minutes Thursday night at the Agora the

old Monkee magic came back,” 1976

6/14 Cruising on Monday Night Out, Al Kooper rocks the Agora with the ‘L. A. Jets;’ tomorrow, Ritchie

Blackmore’s Rainbow rocks the Allen with ‘Thin Lizzy’ ($5.50), 1976

6/18 Cruising in a dark blue ‘74 DeTomaso Pantera w/351 Cobra Jet engine, am-fm stereo, AC ($17,000+/last

allowed in country), Deja Vu hosts The Rick Kennedy Band tonight, and the ‘skinny boy’ Alex Bevan

with Bob Sandham tomorrow, 1976

6/23 It’s folk night at Blossom with Jesse Colin Young and Emmylou Harris ($5.50), 1976

6/25 After cruising last night in a rally red-white top ‘75 Corvette convertible w/am-fm stereo ($7,885-Big ‘O’

Olds), to see Elvin Bishop with ‘Heart’ at the Allen ($5.50); tonight, the Johnny Cash Show with Johnny,

June, Rosey Nix, the Carter Sisters and brother Tom plays the Front Row ($8.50), 1976

6/28 Cruising to the Coliseum, WMMS & Belkin Productions rock the house with ZZ Top, ‘Blue Oyster Cult’

& special guest Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band ($5.50- $6.50); while at the Agora, you’ll find the

Michael Stanley Band with ‘Moxy,’ 1976

29 7/2 After cruising to save $4 on Sherwin-Williams A-100 Latex house paint ($10.97 gal.), the Continental Inn

Supper Club offers music master Sonny Geraci & Climax, 1976

7/5 Cruising to the Agora tonight, the ‘Good Rats’ share the stage with ‘Journey,’ 1976

7/9 A. J. Robey & ‘Thriller’ (Robey, Simmons, Retay, Donaldson, Amato), rock some 2,000 as Hank Berger

opens his Phantasy Nite Club on Detroit in Lakewood, 1976

7/11 Going to the World Series of Rock at the Stadium today with ‘Aerosmith,’ Jeff Beck, Todd Rundgren’s

‘Utopia’ & ‘Derringer?’ Forget it. It’s been canceled! ($10-$12), 1976

7/12 After cruising tonight to Blossom as Seals & Crofts & Pure Prairie League open a two-night stand; on the

13th, over 15,000 rock with the ones they’re with, as the Neil Young and Stephen Stills Band shares the

Coliseum stage with ‘Poco’ ($6.50-$7.50), 1976

7/12 Backing up traffic on Northfield Rd., more than 4,000 turn out to meet ‘Wild Cherry’ with ‘Play That

Funky Music’ on the Sweet City label, during an autograph party at Record Theatre in North Randall,

buying 1,000 LPs ($3.99), 100 tapes & 200 45s, 1976

7/16 While ‘Kicks, Inc.’ rocks the Corral tonight; and Faces at Smith & Pearl goes disco; cruising in a rare

white-black top ‘71 Cuda convertible w/leather, am-fm stereo, all-power ($2,300), the Blue Grass on

Northfield presents Sonny Geraci & Climax, 1976

7/18 Making Cleveland the first stop on their first major tour, after rocking Cyrus Erie West with Rapscallion

(Zendel, Bem, Marquez, Linx), last night (packed to the walls-$3.50); the ‘Runaways’ (Lita Ford, Jackie

Fox, Sandy West, Cherie Currie, Joan Jett), & the Don Harrison band play the 19th to over 900 at the

Agora with two shows, 13 songs each & 4 encores (Jane Scott writes “They’re pink dynamite”-$3.50-

$4.50), 1976

7/23 Cruising in a yellow/black leather ‘69 Corvette Roadster w/4-spd., 2 tops ($5,688), tonight, it’s Fleetwood

Mac, J. D. Souther & Nils Lofgren at the Coliseum ($6); tomorrow, the Coventry Street Fair attracts

100,000 with music, food & eclectic vendors, 1976

7/25 After catching ‘the Dead Boys’ (Bators, Chrome, Zero, Blitz), ‘the Ramones’ and ‘Television’ tonight at

C.B.G.B.’s in New York; flying home tomorrow, the Agora rocks with the ‘Flying Burrito Brothers,’

‘Asleep at the Wheel’ & John Bassette, 1976

7/27 Reuniting after a short breakup, ‘I Don’t Care’ (Knapp, Graziano, Boggess, Ortiz, Pellino & new horn

player Roger Hatfield), opens for Ronnie Laws at the Agora, 1976

7/28 Tonight, the Coliseum hosts Aerosmith, Derringer & Stu Daye ($7); tomorrow, it’s Lionel Ritchie & the

Commodores, Graham Central Station and B. T. Express, 1976

8/3 After Elton John plays the second of two soldout concerts at the Coliseum last night with Kiki Dee

($8.75); tonight, the Coliseum rocks at 7:30 p.m. with Jethro Tull & John Miles ($6) (Jane Scott notes,

“You just can’t beat Elton John in living color”), 1976

8/5 Cleveland’s Beverly Sills joins the Cleveland Orchestra at Blossom (1st time-$4), 1976

8/6 After reading Jane Scott’s Wild Cherry update noting its LP is 28th on Billboard’s top 200, & Mark Avsec

has joined the group; at the Coliseum, 18,000 spend the night with Neil Diamond (Scott notes, “Diamond

was back, and better than ever”-$12.50), 1976

8/8 It’s the Constable Brothers, Bill & Ken, at the New Stable in Painesville (21 older), 1976

8/9 Tonight, the long train runs to Blossom, as the Doobie Brothers, backed by the Memphis Horns, rock over

20,000, the biggest house in 2 years, with ‘Heart,’ who opens; tomorrow, the mood moves to folk with

Pete Seeger and Arlo Guthrie, 1976

8/12 Tickets were $5.50-$6.50-$7.50 at May Co. downtown to see Maurice White & ‘Earth Wind & Fire,’ with

Ramsey Lewis and ‘The Emotions’ at Richfield Coliseum, 1976

8/16 Rocking the Agora tonight, Three Image/Cactus opens for Duke & the Drivers, 1976

30 8/17 “It was surprising to see what an enormous response they got from the laid-back Loggins & Messina

crowd,” writes Anastasia Pantsios for the PD, after the Michael Stanley Band opens for the duo at

Blossom ($4-$5) (last time before breakup), 1976

8/22 After cruising to the Coliseum last night where ‘Yes’ shared the stage with ‘Natural Gas’ (Jerry Shirley,

Joey Molland, Mark Clarke, Peter Wood); tonight, the ‘Marrakesh Express’ stops at Blossom with David

Crosby & Graham Nash in concert ($6); while tomorrow, ‘America’ stops at Blossom for two nights with

John Sebastian ($6), 1976

8/24 “Biggest noon concert I’ve ever seen,” says a Checker Bar ice cream vendor, after ‘Wild Cherry’ plays

Chester Commons (‘Play That Funky Music’ now a gold record), 1976

8/27 “The club’s first concert, with the Buckinghams, was back in 1967,” writes Anastasia Pantsios in the PD’s

‘Rock Beat,’ as the Agora celebrates its 10th anniversary, 1976

8/27 After dining on pork chop milano ($3.95) at the re-opening of Tony’s at Kamm’s Corner; ‘Flasher’

(Weaver, R. Klawon, Peeler, Kelleher), rocks the Mistake, while lawn seats are only $4 to see Linda

Ronstadt play Blossom with Andrew Gold, 1976

8/28 Picking up the pieces with a night of funky music, the ‘Average White Band,’ Southside Johnny & the

Asbury Jukes and ‘Wild Cherry’ share the Coliseum stage ($6), 1976

8/29 Marvin Gaye, Natalie Cole & ‘Tavares’ bring some soul to the Coliseum ($8.50), 1976

8/30 Jefferson Starship, Jeff Beck & the Jan Hammer Group rock the Coliseum ($6), 1976

9/3 Cruising to see its “All New Bizarre Stage Show” in a yellow/black interior 6-cyl. ’76 AMC Pacer, ‘Kiss’

rocks the Coliseum with special guest ‘Artful Dodger’ ($6.50), 1976

9/5 After hosting Bobby Vinton the 1st; & Neil Sedaka & England Dan & John Ford Coley the 3rd; last night,

Frankie Valli & the Four Seasons debuted at Blossom (all $6), 1976

9/6 Dion (‘Run Around Sue’), brings a little nostalgia to the Agora on Monday night, 1976

9/10 George Benson & Sarah Vaughan open a 2-night stand at the Front Row ($7.50), 1976

9/13 As J. P. Snodgrass offers ‘I Don’t Care’ & Artful Dodger’s ‘Honor Among Thieves’ for $3.99 (LP); after

Southside Johnny & the Asbury Jukes play tonight’s WMMS Monday Night Out at the Agora with Ian

Matthews (Johnny tells Jane Scott, “I like Cleveland, always have”); next Monday, it’s Artful Dodger

with ‘Widowmaker’ ($3.50 each), 1976

9/17 After cruising to Gold Circle in a ‘73 Dodge Charger ($1,795-Bill Doraty), for a $24.88 UHF/VHF

outdoor antenna, East Wind rocks Akron’s Utopia Light & Power ($2), 1976

9/22 Celebrating 10 years of operation, the Agora on E. 24th hosts its official birthday party, a free event with

‘Derringer’ (limited tickets given out by WMMS-FM), 1976

9/22 The remodeled Corral in Olmsted Twp. marks its 14th birthday on Sept. 26th with a free event starring ‘1

Yere 2 Sune;’ ‘H. C. Hooker’ (Solarz, Clark, Sulak, Kowalski, Best, Anthony); ‘Backseat Romance’

(Weiland, Cooper, Steffy, Randolph), & ‘Satellite,’ 1976

9/22 Weds. TV offers ‘The Muppets,’ ‘Good Times’ & ‘All in the Family’ on TV8; & ‘Baretta,’ ‘Quarterback

Club,’ ‘Bionic Woman’ & the debut of ‘Charlie’s Angels’ on TV5, 1976

9/24 After cruising to rock with ‘Satellite’ at Midpark High in an all-black ‘74 Dodge Charger SE w/am-fm

stereo ($2,800), & catch City Camera News with Jeff Maynor, Jim Hale, Dick Goddard & Jim Mueller;

Hoolihan & Chuck’s flick is ‘Count Dracula,’ 1976

9/25 After cruising last night to see Freewheelin’ at the Looking Glass; tonight, it’s off to the Beachcomer in

Grand River for precious time with Sonny Geraci & Climax ($2), 1976

9/27 Cruising in a gold-parchment vinyl roof ‘73 Plymouth Satellite Sebring 2-dr. hardtop w/auto, AC, power

steering ($2,495-Bard-Pelunis), ‘Boston,’ “a new band with a big future,” headlines the Agora ($3.50);

31 and appears live for autographs tomorrow at area Record Theatre stores (‘Boston’ LP $3.99 - Jane Scott

writes, “the sellout crowd brought them back for two encores and pounded the floor for more”), 1976

10/1 After catching ‘Jasper’ at the Corral, cruising in a dark green/saddle interior ’74 Mustang II, Bill Freeman

rocks the airwaves from 2-6 a.m. on WMMS/FM100.7, 1976

10/2 As WMMS & the John Carroll Student Union celebrate homecoming weekend by bringing Southside

Johnny & the Asbury Jukes to the JCU gym with Nils Lofgren ($5-$6); Charlie Rich shares the Front

Row stage with Billy Holiday ($6.50-$7.50), 1976

10/4 Former James Gang and Deep Purple guitarist Tommy Bolin rocks the Agora, 1976

10/9 After cruising to see Parliament Funkadelic, Hugh Masekela & Bootsy’s Rubber Band last night at the

Coliseum ($5.50-$7.50); before moving to new quarters, Cyrus Erie West holds a ‘Grand Closing’ party,

with ‘Islands’ last night & ‘Left End’ tonight, 1976

10/10 Cruising to Kent, the Michael Stanley Band rocks Filthy McNasty’s w/East Wind, 1976

10/11 It’s Monday Night Out at the Agora with the ‘Nitty Gritty Dirt Band’ ($3.50), 1976

10/14 Dubbed as the last of Cleveland’s ‘Untouchables,’ George D. Mulvanity dies at age 73, after 47 1/2 years

of federal government work including aiding Eliot Ness, 1976

10/15 Cruising in a midnight blue/tan interior ‘74 Trans Am SD455 w/am-fm stereo tape deck ($4,300), Fagan’s

offers a $8.95 chicken & lobster clambake, & Alec & Mary, 1976

10/16 After catching ‘Heart’ at Peaches Records & Tapes, 5100 Pearl, from 1 to 3 p.m., tickets are $5.50 for the

WMMS-FM Sweetest Day concert with ‘Heart’ & the Michael Stanley Band (Koslen, Dobeck, Pelander,

Stanley, Pecchio), at John Carroll U., 1976

10/19 The Agora hosts ‘The New World of Jazz’ with Dizzy Gillespie & Sonny Stitt ($5), 1976

10/21 The Manhatten Transfer play the Front Row with comedian Martin Mull ($7.50), 1976

10/22 After cruising tonight in a ‘72 Lotus Europa ($7,200), to see ‘H. C. Hooker’ at the Agora, while being part

of the Michael Stanley Band’s ‘Stage Pass’ LP live recording session from 8 to 10 p.m.; the sessions

continue from 8 to 10 p.m. tomorrow, with ‘Coco’ on stage ($1); & Sunday from 2 to 4 p.m., with

‘Fayrewether’ on stage ($1), 1976

10/25 After cruising last night to see Lou Reed at the Akron Civic Theatre ($6.50); tonight, it’s a WMMS ‘Night

Out’ at the Agora with Michael Murphy and ‘Buckacre,’ 1976

10/26 It’s a double treat at Pirate’s Cove with Pere Ubu and Peter Laughner’s ‘Friction,’ 1976

10/29 Tickets are $4.50-$5 (resv.) w/ID, as WMMS-FM & Belkin Productions bring Lynyrd Skynyrd &

Manfred Mann’s Earth Band to Kent State’s Memorial Gym Nov. 6th, 1976

11/4 Record Rendezvous founder & rock ‘n’ roll pioneer Leo M. Mintz dies at age 65, 1976

11/12 After cruising tomorrow in a Buccaneer red/white bucket seat-top ‘75 Firebird w/350 V8, auto, AC

($3,995-Jay Pontiac), to see Phoebe Snow & Richie Havens at Music Hall ($6-$7); on the 18th, you’ll

find Alex Bevan at Farraghers, 1940 W. Taylor, 1976

11/19 After cruising tonight in a bright red-vinyl roof ‘74 Plymouth Satellite Sebring Plus 2- dr. hardtop w/V8,

AC ($2,995-Don Jordan), to see Cheech & Chong at the Front Row ($6.75); tomorrow, Frank Zappa

rocks Public Hall with ‘I Don’t Care’ ($5.50), 1976

11/21 The Front Row goes country with the Statler Bros. and Dolly Parton ($6.75), 1976

11/24 Hennessey’s hosts the ‘2nd Annual Labrynth Reunion,’ featuring alumni including Brian Davies, Chuck

Dubber, Tom Evens, Norm Strelka, Don Farmer, Ron Joseph, Ron Latarewicz, Tommy Ley, Jim

McCarthy, Ed Skuza, Carl Wesley & Jerry Zadar, 1976

11/26 Cruising in a dark red/pearl gray leather interior ‘77 Corvette T-Coupe ($9,995-Bill Doraty), ‘Nix’

(Vorbele, Madej, Danny D, Setser, Nichols), rocks the Phantasy, 1976

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11/27 As the Stable in Painesville hosts the Lake County Rock ‘n’ Roll All-Star Jam with the Mike O’Neill Jam

Band, the Butcher, the Jay Morgan Band (Morgan, Woodford, Ron & Bob Carroll, First, Burke, Allen),

Kruck Band, Ichabod, Don Young’s Production; Moses, and Inner City (Pam & Bruce Moore, Carleton,

Schneider, Grupe- $2); Rock Hall inductee Al Green headlines at the Front Row with Candi Station

($6.75), 1976

11/28 Cruising to the soldout Coliseum, Black Sabbath rocks the house with Boston, 1976

12/1 After cruising tomorrow to Uncle Bill’s for ‘Eagles-Their Greatest Hits 1971-1975’ ($3.95 LP); M-105 &

the B-W Program Board present Harry Chapin in concert ($5.50, $7), 1976

12/3 After cruising to see Gino Vannelli tonight at Music Hall ($4-$6); tomorrow, ‘Foghat,’ ‘Climax Blues

Band’ and ‘Be-Bop Deluxe’ rock the Coliseum ($6-$7), 1976

12/6 Cruising Monday night in a black/tan interior ‘73 MGB ($2,500-Town & Country), the Agora rocks with

Al Kooper & Al Kooper’s Tax Loss; as Diamond Reo plays the Mistake, 1976

12/10 After selling gold at $136 an oz. for holiday gifts; cruising in a bright red ‘74 AMC Javelin AMX ($1,995),

it’s Hall & Oates rockin’ Public Hall with Al Stewart ($7), 1976

12/13 Cruising on Monday, after picking up the Eagles’ ‘Hotel California’ on sale at Records Unlimited ($3.99

LP, $5.99 8-track); the soldout Agora presents Tom Waits, sharing the stage with Graham Parker &

Rumour; while Jimmy Ley plays the Mistake, 1976

12/17 After cruising in a ‘74 Ford T-Bird w/460 V8, AC ($4,700), to buy a dial telephone at Gold Circle

($19.99); Ted Nugent & the J. Geils Band rock the Coliseum ($7), 1976

12/17 Before leaving on a 6-month tour, local songwriter Lynn Haney plays Pickle Bill’s, 1976

12/18 Offering live bands performing original material, The Crypt, ‘Akron’s newest rock club,’ presents ‘Pere

Ubu’ (Street Waves), & Akron’s ‘Devo’ (the De-Evolution Band - Mark Mothersbaugh, Bob

Mothersbaugh, Gerald Casale, Alan Myers-$1.25), 1976

12/20 Holiday LPs at Record Rendezvous include Blue Oyster Cult’s ‘Agents of Fortune;’ Ted Nugent’s ‘Free

For All;’ ‘Chicago X;’ ‘Spirit’ by Earth, Wind & Fire; the Eagles’ ‘Hotel California;’ Led Zeppelin’s

‘The Song Remains the Same,’ and ‘Fleetwood Mac,’ 1976

12/24 30 hours of commercial-free airtime starts at 6 p.m. on WMMS-FM with host Betty Korvan, including the

Buzzard Theater of the Air production of Charles Dicken’s ‘A Christmas Carol’ w/Murray Saul, & a

special Coffee Break Concert with Melanie, 1976

12/28 Last night, the ‘James Gang’ (Fox, Peters, Webb, Giallombardo), rocked the Agora with ‘Blaze;’ tonight,

after playing there in January, Patti Smith returns to the Agora, 1976

12/31 While TV8 presents Guy Lombardo & his Royal Canadians at 11:30 p.m.; the Beachcomber in Grand

River presents Sonny Geraci and Climax ($60 couple), 1976

1976 / FEATURED SPORTS-RELATED ENTRIES FROM 1976 / (10)

4/15 Cleveland Cavaliers even the NBA Eastern Conf. semi-final playoffs at 1-1 after beating the host

Washington Bullets, 80-79, on Bingo Smith’s last second shot, 1976

4/17 Beating the Washington Bullets, 88-76, before 21,061 at the Coliseum on solid defense, the Cleveland

Cavaliers lead the NBA Eastern Conference semi-final playoffs, 2-1, 1976

4/22 Jimmy Cleamons’ last second shot hangs on the rim but falls through, giving the miracle Cavs a 92-91 win

over the Washington Bullets before 21,313 at the Coliseum (Cavs up 3-2 in the Eastern Conf. playoffs-

Snyder 26 pts.; Russell 18; Smith 15), 1976

4/26 Coach Bill Fitch’s Cavaliers see the NBA Eastern Conference semi-final playoffs even at 3-3, after losing

Game 6 to the host Washington Bullets in overtime, 102-98, 1976

33 4/29 “They even tore down the goal posts,” writes the PD’s Dan Coughlin, after 21,564 at the Coliseum see

Dick Snyder’s last-second basket give the Cavs a 87-85 win over the Washington Bullets for the Eastern

Conf. semi-final playoff title (Snyder 23 pts.), 1976

5/6 Playing without starting center Jim Chones who was on the bench wearing a foot-to-knee cast protecting

his right foot, broken in practice, the ailing Cavs lose Game 1 of the NBA Eastern Conf. playoff finals to

the Boston Celtics, 111-99, in Boston, 1976

5/16 Listening to WWWE after seeing ‘Santana,’ ‘Weather Report’ & ‘Shakti’ w/John McLaughlin at the

Coliseum ($5.50); you hear the Cavs, down 2-2, lost Game 5 of the NBA Eastern Conference finals to

coach Red Auerbach’s Celtics, 99-94, in Boston, 1976

5/19 Listening to Joe Tait on 3WE, the Cavaliers end their miracle season, losing Game 6 of the Eastern Conf.

playoffs to the Boston Celtics, 94-87, at the soldout Coliseum, 1976

7/22 Finishing 16th individually, former Berea High & Ohio State standout Michael Burley places 2nd in the

4,000 cross-country run in the final day of modern pentathlon competition, as the U. S. squad finishes 5th

at the Montreal Olympic Games, 1976

10/2 8,829 see the Cleveland Barons make their National Hockey League debut, tying the Los Angeles Kings,

2-2, at the Coliseum (goals by Fred Ahern & Dennis Maruk), 1976