If being open-minded means being smug, negative and bullyish, then I'll keep laughing at aargh jokes.

Mark H. wrote:

 I would have recognized him and thanked him and tried to get a picture with him.

I was thinking the same thing.  Maybe it was a real young crowd...

I can't remember how to post a video, so I'll just name the artist...

How about Deodato's version?

"Do You Believe In Magic" is a great song.  Such a classic that holds up to time.

A simple question:

After Diana Ross left the Supremes,  do you think the survivors, and any add-ons would have had more success if they would have started afresh with a new name, without suggesting they were ex-Supremes?

While a third grader,  I found an old radio in our attic and started listening to it.  "A Little Bit Of Heaven" was one of the hits at the time.  I loved that song and used to turn the dial to keep finding it.

If I visit, I'll remember to bring a pack of #2 pencils. 

Taz wrote:

Lorne wrote:

   ...                        Back then, the board didn't require registration, ...

Yeah, that turned out to be a problem for me.  My first post, I looked around and it seemed most people were using their first name for their user name so I used mine, “Ron”.  When I found that user name was already in use, and by the moderator of all people, I started using Taz.
 
I don’t know when I first came here.  I was trying to identify a song I thought the name of was “Sea Shell Sherry”, but I wasn’t sure how Sherry was spelled and I didn’t know the artist,  I posted some of the lyrics, which turned out to be only the choruses.  I stumped the board the first couple of times but eventually found out it was by Jerry Keller about the time the CD came out.
 

 

Same here, me starting with a name.  I also used my first name.  I posted for some time until another Karen posted.  Uh oh.  It's funny, but you are owners of your words and don't want others to be confused or wonder why you said such a thing or why does she come off so differently?   So I changed my name to It's me Karen, as in, hey guys, it's me!  Karen!  I eventually dropped the apostrophe because many times when I was typing, my pinkie finger would accidentally reach too far and hit enter.  Then I'd have an unfinished post sent.

As for "Sea Shell Sherry", I absolutely remember that.  I also tried to research, to no success.

Lorne wrote:

I didn't get on the internet myself until 1998, which was also when I first started visiting the board. But it's kind of ironic that back then I felt that the level of expertise that I saw from the regulars was so much greater than mine, that I didn't post for months and wasn't sure how much I ever would. My confidence level has obviously increased a bit since then. 

I remember the same.  Actually, I still have these feelings.  I've always been good for a memory of a song in my life or what my favorite song by an artist is.

Lorne wrote:

Thank you, Karen. The fact that I had done this certainly crossed my mind when Flo suggested that it would be good if I could set up a new board. And even though Ron never posted here, he did register and so at least he saw that a part of what he had created on the old site was continuing. But full credit is also due to all the contributors like yourself who helped keep things going here as well.
It also just occurred to me that we might be coming up for a significant anniversary relating to when the board started, and we are ... according to what's at the bottom of the page that's been archived at https://tinyurl.com/dfd8y68, the 25th anniversary will be on Nov. 2.  

That was a few years before my time.  I believe I started posting in early 2000.   Message boards were new to me then.  Heck, the computer was new to me then!
 

I like the song.  It doesn't have enough of that great harmony that I love in ABBA, but still, it's good and the singing is still good.  

Lorne wrote:

I'm sorry that Ron Smith, who ran the Oldies Music Bulletin Board that was the predecessor to this one, didn't live to see this, as he lived in the Chicago area and worked in Chicago radio for many years. And I think that partly because of what he had to say about Chicago-area artists on the former board, it didn't surprise me that they were able to come up with an impressive list of inductees ... I've become aware of many other possibilities over the yearsas well. So this is great to see.  

I miss Ron.  One thing that I think about from time to time was when he informed us that there was really was no east side of Chicago, as the lyrics in "The Night Chicago Died" implied. 

Wow.  This hurts.

If any song truly made you happy, and ready to dance and celebrate...well Celebration was the perfect song.

RIP Dennis.

I always thought Gilbert O'Sullivan sounded like Paul McCartney and Billy Swan sounded like Ringo.