A Look Back
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(Image: The Pointer Sisters @ SPAC, 6/24/85 – photo by Bruce Squiers for the Saratogian) By Mike Stampalia. 40 years ago: The Pointer Sisters @ Saratoga Performing Arts Center The Pointer Sisters, Ruth, Anita and June told a Saratoga Performing Arts Center of 8,000 they’d been up partying all night with Phil Collins, the […]
(image: Phil Collins entertains 27,000 fans at SPAC, 6/23/85 – photo by the Saratogian) By Mike Stampalia. 40 years ago: Phil Collins @ Saratoga Performing Arts Center Collins’ voice was great all along, especially in “Against All Odds,” the movie soundtrack he wrote that was hacked to death during the Oscars. The singer who performed […]
By Mike Stampalia. 50 years ago: Benny Goodman @ Saratoga Performing Arts Center With his band dressed in burgundy outfits, Goodman marked his appearance on stage dressed in white and immediately drew applause. The warm welcome of the sudience lasted the whole performance through and before Goodman could make his opening remarks one woman in […]
(Featured Image: Dan Fogelberg @ Tanglewood, 6/21/1985 – photo by Mark Mitchell for the Berkshire Eagle) By Mike Stampalia. 50 years ago: Ramsey Lewis @ Saratoga Performing Arts Center 40 years ago: Dan Fogelberg / Chris Hillman Band @ Tanglewood He sings lots of personal love songs and borders on being overly sentimental, but […]
(Featured image: A violent storm shuts down Alive at Five, 6/24/2024 – photo by Timothy Reidy) By Mike Stampalia. 50 years ago: Herbie Mann / Joe Farrell @ Saratoga Performing Arts Center After a standing ovation and the first of two encores, the spectators began piling into the orchestra pit, forming a conga line and […]
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