New Jersey 101.5 » Yes http://nj1015.com New Jersey News Tue, 21 May 2013 08:06:52 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 This Weekend in Music History http://nj1015.com/this-weekend-in-music-history-19/ http://nj1015.com/this-weekend-in-music-history-19/#comments Sun, 21 Apr 2013 14:45:30 +0000 Big Joe Henry http://nj1015.com/?p=256135 April 19th, 1974 - Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band appear at the State Theatre in New Brunswick. Tickets are only $4.50 and the promoter of the event takes a gamble that word-of-mouth will be enough to fill the 550 seats, however, only 250 attended.

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]]> http://nj1015.com/this-weekend-in-music-history-4/feed/ 0 Top Motown soul pop group Diana Ross and the Supremes, left to right, Mary Wilson, Diana Ross and Cindy Birdsong, 1968. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images) This Day In Music History http://nj1015.com/this-day-in-music-history-96/ http://nj1015.com/this-day-in-music-history-96/#comments Fri, 22 Jun 2012 23:41:27 +0000 Big Joe Henry http://nj1015.com/?p=125061 June 22nd
1963 - Stevie Wonder, at the age of 13, enters the singles charts as Little Stevie Wonder with "Fingertips Part One and Two". The song was the first live, out of studio recording to hit No. 1 on the Billboard singles chart in the US since

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