The Sunday Showcase review this week is of December 12, 1976. Christmas was coming fast and The Nutcracker graces the cover along with the ever delightful Peter Sellers. You would be having a Merry Christmas if you managed to get a video game from Santa Claus or how about a television with the video game built in. I played one of these built in Magnavox Odyssey systems decades later even.
Perhaps you were really cool and underground and your better half had some gift wrapped tickets for the Lou Reed show that was going to happen at the War Memorial Auditorium on December 29. It was going to be his First Nashville Appearance!
BUT NO. It wasn't meant to be. The Lou Reed show would be cancelled. What a bummer. This notice was in the paper a few days before the show. I don't know how many shows Lou ever played in Nashville, but he definitely played the Ryman on May 2, 2008.
Nashville would get no Kicks from Lou in 1976, but other cities did. Enjoy this little taste.
There's some heavyweight musical talent over at a club called Mississippi Whiskers located at 1712 Church Street.
Exit/In had a future hip hop legend and a future chicken restauranteur this week. Tennessean Alexander Harvey's version of "Tulsa Turnaround" has been sampled by several hip-hop artists. He was mostly known as a songwriter. I'm sure you've heard of "Delta Dawn" and "Reuben James." The future chicken king Kenny Rogers had recorded "Reuben James" back when he was with The First Edition along with "Tulsa Turnaround" which he would record yet again as a solo artist in a few years. He was already a music star, but within a year he would become a music superstar before branching out into movies and later into cofounding Kenny Rogers Roasters with the former governor of Kentucky and ex KFC CEO John Y. Brown. Note that comedian Jim Varney opened for both performers. Jim would later gain fame as Ernest P. Worrell.
Anybody in Nashville ever dance the night away at the Runway 22 club located in the Holiday Inn on Murfreesboro Road? I would guess it's by the airport judging by the fantastic ad. Good boogie sounds with a Latin Flavor.....hmmmm I bet the group Casablanca was going for a K.C. and the Sunshine Band vibe.
There's a few dance tunes in the Top 10 Records in Nashville this week. It's a very solid bunch of songs. My faves as a kid would be "More Than A Feeling", "Muskrat Love", "You Make Me Feel Like Dancing", "Hot Line", and most of all "Beth" by Kiss. I became a Kiss fanatic after their appearance on the Paul Lynde Halloween Special that fall. I got Destroyer for my birthday in November that year.
The Greatest New Year's Eve Blast Ever was coming to the Tennessee State Fairgrounds Agricultural Building. If you were into disco this was the place to be.
The biggest musical event in the near future was the Volunteer Jam coming up on January 6, 1977. It's billed as the concert event of the year with tickets going on sale on December 18th. It will definitely sell out. It was the 3rd annual charity concert with special unannounced guests joining the Charlie Daniels Band for a marathon night full of music. So we'll close this post out with trio of tracks from Charlie. I have always loved his music.
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