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This mini-film was shown during the Farewell Tour for the boys. The original members had rejoined to do a massive tour around the world in 1996. For all involved, the tour was overwealming, and spawned a second outing for their devotes.
Thee original group continued to play right to the year 2000, this is when old issues arised and two members left.
The New Yorkers influenced many other's since they began in the early days.
Remember?
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Added: 27th February 2009
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The Seekers. This was from their farewell performance in 1968 and I can remember watching it as a mere 7 year old.
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Added: 5th November 2008
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Remember them? I meant to talk about these clean-cut group of boys yesterday, but anyways, here is a 1966 clip that was shown on the farewell of "Hullaballoo", which was televised 4/11/66 on NBC.
The nation-wide program was a direct copy of the teen-attended "Shindig" show.
This sixties telecast had all the cool acts at the time; all who were being popularized by the medium of television.
Singer Paul Anka introduces the group here with the enthusiasm of what was the 1960s.
With their success playing at Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania, the group were about to receive the finest management that was not at all common.
You may not be aware, The Cyrkle was not just another American band from the mid-60s. This group had certain pro's in the business behind them.
This clip of their most famous hit "Red Rubber Ball", became a number two hit on the Billboard chart marker for this unusual reason.
Musicians Don Dannemann on guitar and lead vocals, bassist and backup vocalist Tom Dawes were the two responsible for getting their act together in the "Keystone State" known as Pennsylvania. It was the moment Brian Epstein got involved that things eventually changed, Brian immediately became interested in getting a contract together with the four members.
Brian's business partner Nathan Weiss, had attended a Atlantic City show with the band performing.
At the time, the boys were know as The Rhondells.
He obviously saw the potential in them with their 1965 concert.
He took over entirely with "making them over" to something that would be a record-hit selling group.
Weeks later, musican John Lennon gave some input to Brian's new discovery, Lennon suggested that the new name should be spelt in a different manner.
In 1966, a decision was made for The Cyrkle to join the Beatles for their American tour.
The Dodger Stadium show was an eventful moment for the Cyrkle as it gave them the chance to expose their sound to a great deal of the teen audience. The band owned a great deal of debt for the opportunity that night. The group though was part of a few other acts picked to open the eventful concert.
A favorite from the era, The Cyrkle's 1966 song "Red Rubber Ball," landed on the number two position that year on the vinyl single selling chart.
A cool fact about this was that Paul Simon of Simon and Garfunkel and Bruce Woodley of The Seekers helped in creating this composition for the band. Nothing may of happened if it weren't for Simon. At some point, Paul passed along the song to The Cyrkle when the boys were the opening act for for Simon and Garfunkle.
Their record company, Columbia now had a hit on its hands, this was thanks to the creative output given to the boy group.
The Cyrkle would return to the charts with "Turn-Down Day," as a follow-up in 1966.
The group recorded one more album, and a soundtrack for a risky adult flick called "The Minx", which came out during 1967. It was not well received by critics due to its poor subject matter. The Cyrkle went for a psychedelic sounding soundtrack album filled with harmonies, clearly presented as a departure from The Cyrkle's familiar sound.
Soon after, more 45's came out, but the group felt like breaking-up. Their past success was hard to match, which was just at the end of the year of 1967.
Following-up, members of the group remained in the business by going into television commercial territory.
Two of the guitarists became popular jingle composers.
One of them was for Alka-Seltzer. It was Tom Dawes who had turned out the "plop plop fizz fizz" tune for the company. The other, Danneman as well wrote popular jingles that kept advertisers happy with positive sales.
Danneman wrote for Swanson Foods and the Continental Airlines Corportation commercials.
Both were successful with their television advertising careers.
Also to Danneman's credit was the famous 7Up Uncola tune.
Together, their jingle ability was proven to be second to none in the business of selling products to consumers. Bandmates did do one last benefit show where they had originally formed, that was back in 1986 in Easton, Pennsylvania.
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Added: 2nd December 2009
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Fess Parker, a baby-boomer idol in the 1950s who launched a craze for coonskin caps as television's Davy Crockett, died Thursday of natural causes. He was 85.
Family spokeswoman Sao Anash said Parker, who was also TV's Daniel Boone and later a major California winemaker and developer, died at his Santa Ynez Valley home. His death came on the 84th birthday of his wife of 50 years, Marcella.
"She's a wreck," Anash said, adding Parker was coherent and speaking with family just minutes before his death.
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Added: 18th March 2010
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Tom Cheek was the smooth radio voice of the Toronto Blue Jays from the team's inception in 1977 until 2004. Largely unknown outside of Canada, his most famous call was of Joe Carter's World Series-winning home run in 1993: "Touch 'em all, Joe! You'll never hit a bigger home run in your life!" Remarkably, Cheek never missed a single Jays' broadcast until June 4, 2004 when he had to attend his father's funeral. His absence that night ended his streak of 4,306 consecutive regular-season games at the mike. Sadly, less than two weeks after his father's death, Cheek was diagnosed with a cancerous brain tumor. He left the broadcast booth to undergo treatment. He made only sporadic appearances at Jays' games after that. He did have a Lou Gehrig-type farewell appearance at Toronto's SkyDome in September 2004. The ceremony was sad and poignant. (Ken Singleton, a New York Yankees announcer, was so teary that he had to leave the broadcast booth.) Cheek died in October 2005 at the age of 66. He is honored in the Blue Jays' "Ring of Honor" at the SkyDome (now known as Rogers Centre) alongside the number 4,306.
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Added: 16th January 2012
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This photo issued by Acme Newspictures on September 30, 1934, shows the immortal Babe Ruth exiting Griffith Stadium in Washington, D.C. following the New York Yankees' final game of the 1934 season. Washington won 5-3 in a game that took just 80 minutes to play. Ruth went 0-for-3 at the plate but did score a run before being replaced by Myril Hoag in right field. Detroit won the American League pennant in 1934, so there would be no World Series farewell for Ruth. Ruth was honored at Griffith Stadium earlier that day with gifts and he announced his retirement from baseball before a crowd of about 15,000. (Before the 1935 season Ruth was convinced to return to the game by Boston Braves owner Judge Emil Fuchs. He only played a month before quitting the last-place Braves.) Ruth's departure from the Yankees was bitter and messy. His playing skills were obviously diminishing and Lou Gehrig was now the team's star attraction. After years of unsuccessfully lobbying for the managerial position with Yankees' owner Jacob Ruppert, Ruth had had enough. This photo shows a dejected Ruth, with his head down, making his exit outside the ballpark. A boy is shown trying to chase down the Babe for an autograph, but Ruth (who usually accommodated everyone) was in a foul mood and had no time to pen the lad's baseball. A policeman is gesturing with his hands to the kid with a "not-today-son" motion. Six days earlier, on Monday, September 24, 1934, Ruth made his final Yankee Stadium appearance as a player in New York's 5-0 loss to the Boston Red Sox. He was pulled early in the game from his right feld position. There were no special ceremonies to mark the occasion. Fewer than 2,000 fans attended the game.
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Added: 22nd May 2012
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On March 23, 1973 the memory-based game show Concentration ended its hugely successful run of nearly 15 years as an NBC daytime program. In this clip host Bob Clayton bids a kind farewell to the show's loyal fans. Clayton hosted the show from 1969 to 1973. It had previously been hosted by Hugh Downs from 1958 through 1965. Clayton was the show's announcer when Downs was the host. Jack Barry, Art James, and Bill Mazer all hosted the show in the years between Downs' and Clayton's tenures. A few months into 1969, Ed McMahon replaced Clayton--which proved to be an extremely unpopular decision. When ratings started to tank, Clayton was brought back as host. Clayton died of cardiac arrest in 1979; he was only 57. Interesting bit of trivia: Concentration was the last game show to employ an organist to provide live music.
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Added: 9th October 2012
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