I just remembered the other dance, there were some others I don't remember though, it was The Hustle: from "Do the Hustle". (also the Bus Stop, the Fruge) My eldest sister used to make me practice dances so when she used to go to The Skyroom she would not look like a spastic girl. The Skyroom was a dance club on Seneca Street in South Buffalo where a lot of big wigs started out. Pat Benatar, Janis Joplin, Jimmy Hendrix (And many others that performed at Woodstock), Mike and the Mechanics, etc... The Skyroom was big in he early 1970's through the early 1980s.



I'm pretty sure Peter Frampton, Richie Havens, Bob Dylan, and Jim Morrison and The Doors, and it was either Simon and Garfunkel and/or Seals and Croft, then: The Who or The Guess Who played at the Skyroom also (My sister was the "In Crowd" at that time and I heard so many famous names). There were many names I heard back then that are now referred to as he old greats! (Also look up "The Wrecking Crew") Alan Parson's Project, Dan Fogelburg, Rick James, George Michael, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Wham, Yes, Loggins and Messina, Seals and Croft...

Then in the late 1980s though 1990s, in downtown Buffalo was the Continental which was transformitive/New Wave/Punk Rock music's place to be. Adam Ant played there(I also heard they had mosh pits and all that).

Before that my mother used to take me to Delaware park's Rose gardens to listen to Joan Baez, Harry Chapin, Peter Paul and Mary (Yes, of Puff the Magic Dragon fame!), Seals and Croft, Harry Chapin...Too many I have seen and heard! All I really remember is a bunch of rose bushes, a shitload of women in white flowery, flowing dresses, wearing fowers - (daisies - in their hair), a ton of little kids like me running around. I guess my mom was the original flower child peace freak generation.

And some like Harry Chapin, Loggins and Messina, Simon and Garfunkel, Seals and Croft survived from Generation to Generation because (I guess) their message serves and there is a bit of flower child in all of us.

But as a young teen my oldest sister used to take me to the Buffalo Philharmonic. I used to love Leonard Bernstein (For an old guy he was VERY energetic, enthusiastic, and got the audience very involved!), I also loved Elmer Bernstein, JaAnne Falletta, Henry Mancini, Marvin Hamlisch. The conductors I saw at the time (early 1980's were guest conductors), I also saw The Phantom of the opera in Toronto numerous times in the mid 90's!

Chicago
Moody Blues
Vangelis (Jon and Vangelis).
Simon and Garfunkel.
Seals and Croft

REO Chuckwagon (sorry, Speedwagon-left over bad humor from college!)
Foreigner
Oakridge Boys
J. Geils and...

Oldies.

best movies of all time...Ghostbusters, Mannequin, Groundhog Day...

Mad About You with Paul Riser and Helen Hunt.
Mad About You, "Up In Smoke" episodes 1 & 2 are great!
Spin City.

Monty Python and the Holy Grail...
Somewhere in Time...
Smokey and the Bandit.
Mad About You with Paul Riser and Helen Hunt.