Another Historic Bit Associated With 9/13
September 13, 1983
Huey Lewis and the News release the
Sports album. It went on to have five Top 40 singles: "The Heart of Rock & Roll," "If This Is It," "I Want a New Drug," "Heart and Soul," and "Walking a Thin Line."
I opened for Huey Lewis and the News at The Pit in Cincinnati sometime in the Fall of 1980. Their presence on the scene
caused a local band called "News" to change their name to "Fourth Estate" and rendered their freshly pressed lot of 10,000 singles obsolete.
I could never have imagined that Huey Lewis and the News would've gone on to such big things in a matter of a couple years judging from what I saw in 1980. To us they were just a "thin tie" band, kind of square and a little over the hill. Amazing what a combination of Reagan and MTV ultimately did to music in the '80s.
Uncle Dave To Return to WCBN
That's right folks - Thursday morning September 16, 2004 I will be returning to the airwaves in Ann Arbor on WCBN 88.3 FM from 6am-9am. I won't be doing it every week; rather I am alternating with Mali Sridihan. But if you liked my old show, this will hopefully come as good news. Of course, it's on the web at
www.wcbn.org
Uncle Dave Lewis