![]() ![]() 10 show is to feature Ricky Martin, Luther Vandross, Diana Ross, Lil Romeo, Dionne Warwick, 98 Degrees, Al Jarreau, Mary J. 7 lineup includes ‘N Sync, Britney Spears, Shaggy, Ray Charles, Gloria Estefan, Whitney Houston, Billy Gilman and James Ingram, among others. Top ticket prices are - hold on to your hat - $2,500, with others priced at $1,500, $800, $500, $350, $225 and $95.įor the record, Jackson will perform at the shows for the first time in 11 years. for the big pair of concerts called “Michael Jackson: 30th Anniversary Celebration, the Solo years” at Madison Square Garden Sept. at the Connecticut Agricultural Fair Livingston Taylor plays Sunday at 2 and 5 p.m. The fair season starts in earnest this weekend at Goshen Fairgrounds with Eric Heatherly playing Saturday at 5:30 and 8:15 p.m. Trent Summar & New Row Mob play the Montville Fair Aug. John Sebastian plays the City Fest at Danbury Saturday. Saliva, Boy Hits Car, Crash Palace and The Start have also been added to the roster.ĭon’t forget the free Harry Belafonte show with Claudia Acuna on the New Haven Green Saturday night. The Crystal Method, whose new album is out Tuesday, has been added to the 104 Fest with Blink-182 and 23 other bands at the Meadows Music Centre Sept. Also booked for the Big E are country’s Brad Paisley Sept. The Black Crowes rock the Eastern States Exposition in West Springfield Sept. Tickets are on sale for a show by Alison Krauss and Union Station Aug. 10 double bill of Lucinda Williams with Ron Sexsmith. The commitment to concerts at New Haven’s Shubert Theater continues in earnest as tickets go on sale Friday for the Sept. The “Superhits of the ’70s” show Sunday at the Mohegan Sun casino in Uncasville is free it starts at 7 p.m. “The Beatles didn’t tour then either,” he said, before adding, “I’m just kidding.” Kim says he never felt left out that the Archies didn’t tour. “George Plimpton was my neighbor,” he explains. And in his oddest career move, he was editor of the literary magazine The Paris Review for two years in the early ’70s. Kim went on to score his biggest hit, “Rock Me Gently,” in 1974.ĭante went on to produce Barry Manilow’s “Mandy” and Pat Benatar’s “Heartbreaker,” and was the voice on thousands of commercials. “Jingle Jangle” and “Who’s Your Baby?” followed as singles for the Archies, but the group disappeared a year later. Artists as diverse as Tom Jones, Bob Marley and Ike and Tina Turner went on to record the tune. It didn’t get respect musically until Wilson Pickett did his Top 25 soul remake the following year, Kim says. “It was one of those records you could not go anywhere without hearing it.” “Eventually it was on the radio so much that some people got sick of it,” he says. “I thought ‘Bang-Shang-a-Lang’ would be the hit, since there was so much promotion of it,” Dante says.īy the time “Sugar Sugar” came out, Kim says, “some radio stations didn’t want to play it because they didn’t want to play a cartoon.” 22 in September 1968, but the follow-up, “Feelin’ So Good (Scooby-Doo),” didn’t crack the Top 50. The first single, “Bang-Shang-a-Lang,” reached No. He was the sole singer on “Tracy,” credited to a group called The Cuff Links and had headed up The Detergents in their 1965 spoof, “Leader of the Laundromat.” ![]() ![]() 1 “I’m a Believer,” brought in Kim, who had had some success with a remake of “Baby I Love You.”ĭante who won the audition for the Archies, was used to appearing in bogus groups. Jeff Barry, who had produced the Monkees’ No. ![]()
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