No Surrender (Springsteen Cover) Casey Redmond

 Here is my cover of Bruce Springsteen's "No Surrender". It's only 3 minutes and 42 seconds for God's sake! Even someone as busy as you has time for that. You can stream it HERE

Have a nice day.

MacDonald's Girl: Songs About Fast Food

MacDonald's Girl:
Songs About Fast Food

 It's cloudy and cold today at the Mighty 88. High of 27. Could see a couple of inches of snow today and tonight. We are coming off an artic blast. Temperatures have been in the single digits since Saturday. Today is actually quite balmy.

A big day in rock n roll history, "I Want To Hold Your Hand" by The Beatles entered the Billboard charts on this day in 1964. A young Bruce Springsteen was so ecstatic the first time he heard it on the radio he ran out into the cold to the nearest phone booth to rave about it to his girlfriend. (The Springsteen's did not own a telephone.) The song would eventually hit #1 their first of seventy-two singles that would chart in the U.S.

Bobby Goldsboro was born on this day in 1941. He recorded a number of very weird pop tunes ("Honey", "Watching Scotty Grow", "Broomstick Cowboy"

 "See The Funny Little Clown") and one great one, "Little Things".  He even had his own TV show. It seems like eveyone had their own TV show in the seventies. Check out the video above and see Bobby lip sync.

Today on The Mighty 88 we will be playing tunes about fast food courtesy of Commander Cody, The Blenders, Wesley Willis, Norman Greenbaum and more. Grab a Big Mac and take a listen HERE.

Have a nice day & stay warm.

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January 18, 2024

CCD Kids by Casey Redmond

 CCD Kids

From the Iaintgotno record label release, 

“The Mad Scientist’s Guide To Love An Happiness”.

Written by Casey Redmond

Casey Redmond: Vocals, guitar, drums & percussion 

Available on Spotify, Amazon, Apple Music etc..,

***Warning: This song contains humor & irony. Serious people beware.

The Zambonis: The world’s only all hockey rock n roll band

 I have never been a hockey fan. I don’t really know why. It has everything someone could want in a sport, it’s fast paced, takes great skill and there is often blood. Maybe it’s because I never played it as a kid. It was not a family thing, I don’t remember anyone in my house ever mentioning it. 

They say you are never too old to change and I may just become a hockey fan yet, thanks to the Zambonis. The ‘Zambonis are a rock n roll band out of Bridgeport, Connecticut that play nothing but tunes about hockey. No love songs, break up songs or car songs, just hockey songs.

Okay, so they put out a couple of songs about hockey, big deal? Right? Try seven albums and counting. They play everything from punk to ska, metal, rockabilly and even country and western.

Mainly a recording act, they do play a few gigs a year  mostly in the northeast.  Last year they played a 2:30pm gig at a library in Roxbury, Connecticut! How rock n roll is that?

They have been sanctioned by the NHL and have been commissioned to write songs for several teams. There music is available on Spotify, Amazon, Apple etc..and you can checkout there videos on YouTube. 

Zambonis Website

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Upcoming Country Star’s Debut Marred By Ugly Post Concert Incident

(New York) A young and upcoming country music star named  Jim Lonesome made his performing debut earlier this week at the Bowery Electric in Lower

Manhattan. It was the 20th annual Hank O Rama Hank Williams Tribute and he rocked the capacity crowd with a rousing rendition of Hank’s “Hey, Good Looking”.

Mr. Lonesome was backed by the world famous Lonesome  Prairie Dogs featuring  the legendary Lenny Kaye on pedal steel. He also wowed the crowd with his own original interpretive country line dance now known by various names including “The Up-Down”, “Something Two Year Olds Do” and “The Lonesome Jim”.

The soon to be country superstar is a native of Parma, Ohio where he spent his youth drinking large quantities of Schafer beer, wearing baseball hats denoting his favorite musical genres, feigning ignorance of various social conventions and scrubbing clams.

Sadly, his spectacular performance was marred by an ugly incident that followed his promising debut.

Upon leaving the stage, he allegedly bumped into a nearby table knocking several patrons drinks to the ground. When questioned by authorities, he simply responded, “How was I supposed to know?” and  staggered out the door.

Mr. Lonesome’s current whereabouts are unknown. The incident is under investigation.

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Casey’s Incredible Mix Tape 1

 Do you have the post-holiday blues? Too much pecan pie? Too many beers? Too much family time? Whatever the reason, here is the cure. It’s Casey’s Incredible Mixtape 1. Surf, Garage, Sixties Pop & Instro. It will cheer you up & give you the power to face 2024. Crank it up & BYOB! Take a listen HERE

PLAYLIST

California Sun. (The Rivieras)

Beach Party. (The Pleasures)

Bubble Gum Music. (Rock N Roll Dubble Bubble Trading Card Company Of Pennsylvania)

Bubble Gum Music.  (Surfin Lungs)

Instrumental 

Seasons In The Sun. (Terry Jacks)

You Took The Words Right Out Of My Mouth (Meatloaf)

Walk Don’t Run. (The Ventures)

For Pete’s Sake.  (The Monkees)

Don’t Worry Baby. (Beach Boys)

Vacation.  (The Go Gos)

Rock N Roll High School.  (The Ramones)

Route 66.  (Rolling Stones)

Boris The Spider. (The Who)

Listen to the show HERE

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Donny & Marie New Year’s Eve TV Special

 Wow, some things from the past are just too weird to believe. Growing up, my oldest sister was a huge Donny Osmond fan. Our suburban household rang with a constant barrage of Osmond classics  like “One Bad Apple” & “Go Away Little Girl”.

My sister outgrew her Donny obsession about the time he started teaming up with his sister Marie. There popularity was at their peak when they made this 1976 New Year’s Eve Special. 

It’s amazing what passed for entertainment back in the seventies. This was the heyday of the variety show and the Osmonds pulled out all of the stops.

Highlights (lowlights?) include:

1. Terribly stupid jokes courtesy of Rip Taylor.

2. Fake out of control laughter by Marie upon hearing Rip Taylor’s terribly stupid jokes.

3. Donny’s over the top synthesizer solo dressed in purple sequined tuxedo & top hat.

4. The Osmond Brothers Band’s weird prog rock/ soul jam dressed in three musketeersesque pastel colored space suits.

5. A music of the 1920s song and dance medley.

6. Insane over the top audience response to all of the above.

These things could only of happened in the 1970s. It is worth checking out. If nothing else. it proves that we have evolved, at least a little, in the past fifty odd years.

Happy New Year.

-Casey Redmond