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WFGR Retrovision-Vote For Your Favorite Classic TV Theme Song!

Craig Russell — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 05:53:56 +0000

It’s that time of year…March Madness. And brackets. Like with everything, we are getting bombarded with brackets. Vote for your favorite this, or its the “Battle for that”. Remember when the only brackets there were had to do with Basketball? Well the good folks at Yahoo! have come up with a pretty good bracket contest! [...]

Top 5 All Time Monkees Songs!

Craig Russell — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 14:41:36 +0000

Rest in peace Davy Jones. To remember the Monkees, here's the top 5 Monkees songs of all time! With Videos! Enjoy! amazon 5 Words Words was the Monkees first real Psychedelic sounding song, and the song that started their downfall. Still a cool sounding song! amazon 4 It's A Little Bit Me, [...]

Davy Jones Rememebred By Mike "Wool Hat" Nesmith

Craig Russell — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 07:18:16 +0000

Matt Hendricks broke the news Wednesday Afternoon. Davy Jones from the Monkees dies of a heart attack at 66. I remember being a huge Monkees freak when I was elementary school. I remember running home and watching them on channel 41 in Battle Creek. Then loved 'em all over again in the 80's when they came back. The other Monkees reached out and gave their condolences. Even the Anti-Monkee Mike Nesmith.

Don Is Dead.

Craig Russell — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 19:02:53 +0000

The guy who “created” the sound of the Monkees, the Archies, and the Midnight Special in the 70′s is dead. Don Kirshner was 76. Here is Don’s biggest success. The Monkees (the “pre-fab 4″ ) were created in response to the Beatles in the mid 60′s. Kirshner was legendary for his clashes with the band [...]