Main Ave at Pilgrim Pathway, Ocean Grove. Paul Goldfinger photo. 9/28/19. Click to enlarge.
CAROLE KING describes true love in this wonderful song:
Archive for the ‘Ocean Grove Concert’ Category
OG lifestyles: Cabaret on Main…”Some Kind of Wonderful.”
Posted in Ocean Grove Concert, Ocean Grove events, Ocean Grove lifestyles, Ocean Grove magic moments, tagged Cabaret in Ocean Grove on May 21, 2023| Leave a Comment »
Main Ave at Pilgrim Pathway, Ocean Grove. Paul Goldfinger photo. 9/28/19. Click to enlarge.The music man returns.
Posted in Ocean Grove boardwalk, Ocean Grove Concert, Ocean Grove Musical Event, tagged Music on the boardwalk, Paul Eichlin on Blogfinger on October 8, 2019| Leave a Comment »
Paul Eichlin still making his “carousel music” on the OG side of the North End boards. Some day the area behind him will be filled with stores, condos and a hotel. Paul Goldfinger photo. Oct. 2019. ©
Link to a 2018 post about Paul:
Paul Eichlin Blogfinger post 2018.
WURLITZER CAROUSEL MUSIC:
Doo-Wops attract a large crowd.
Posted in Blogfinger Presents, Ocean Grove Concert, Ocean Grove Great Auditorium, tagged GReat Auditorium Doo Wop concert on September 1, 2019| Leave a Comment »
Many attendees got stuck in line waiting to purchase tickets. Blogfinger photo. 08/31/19 ©
By Paul Goldfinger
The CMA decided to add a Doo-Wop concert to their summer schedule to avoid seeming totally religious in their Saturday night GA programming.
The crowd seemed to enjoy the show, and the mood inside and outside seemed festive, but the sound was too loud and distorted for my taste. And floodlights kept circling and shining into my eyes.
The same backup band that played for all the groups in the show provided a certain sameness to the music.
One group had an 80 year old man singing love songs, and he called a woman to the stage to give him a kiss—-and she did. Gross!
If the CMA plans more Saturday summer secular shows for 2020, they might reconsider the doo wops and follow through with their promise to bring a new audio system into the Great Auditorium. They might learn something from the Count Basie Theater (Red Bank) and the Paramount Theater (Asbury)
But let’s have a round of applause for the CMA who may be going back to more diverse programming in the Grove.
And if you want to hear what a fine Doo Wop era song sounds like, here’s Dion with a classic: