Gene Stevens

1 week ago | zoomerradio.ca | Gene Stevens

Every year since 1970, April 22nd has been the one day of the year, we focus on our one and only planet – it’s ‘Earth Day’ 2025 !  I think it’s one of the most important editions of Vintage Favourites; it’s persuasive and poignant, inspiring and packed with superstars’ powerful messages. From country and folk, to pop, rock and soul and all across the decades.  This year’s Earth Day theme: ‘Our Power, Our Planet’. It’s a show like none other, and I hope you’ll tune in.

2 weeks ago | zoomerradio.ca | Gene Stevens

Share on About a year after the deaths of Buddy Holly, Big Bopper and Ritchie Valens, we lost another of rock’n’roll’s early stars. Eddie Cochran died in a car crash near London, England on April 17th, 1960. Next week marks the 65th anniversary of Eddie’s tragic death, and the loss of so much potential. Despite his brief career, Eddie left us some wonderful rock’n’roll music, and a lasting influence on British pop, as well as hard rock and the rockabilly revival.

3 weeks ago | zoomerradio.ca | Gene Stevens

Share on A few weeks ago we featured some of the big hits from 1965 – each marking its 60th anniversary this year. Well, one good spotlight deserves another, so let’s make it ‘the sequel’ this Sunday with the big songs from 1975 – each marking its 50th anniversary.  We’ll enjoy the wide range of music genres so popular in the mid-70s from pop and rock to disco and the early days of ‘outlaw country’.

1 month ago | zoomerradio.ca | Gene Stevens

Share on When we think of the major artists of the 1960s, we usually think of The Beatles and Rolling Stones, Elvis and The Supremes, maybe Frank Sinatra or The Beach Boys. They were all big, indeed. But in 1966 nobody outsold Herb Alpert and The Tijuana Brass. Herb’s band landed eight consecutive albums in the top five of the Billboard album charts in just over three years during the mid-60s. He and the TJB were a sensation – defining the easy listening instrumental sounds of that era.

1 month ago | zoomerradio.ca | Gene Stevens

Share on Late March means spring’s in the air; there’s a spring in our step, and many a young man’s (and young woman’s) fancy turns to thoughts of …. baseball !? Really ?!Well, let’s pretend anyway. It’s a great excuse to play some songs we just don’t get around to playing the rest of the year. Those amazing baseball songs from yester-year celebrating the legends like Willy Mays, Joe DiMaggio and Mickey Mantle, along with more recent songs too.