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00000176-4e34-d3bc-a977-4f7c3a150000On Shasta Serenade, host Barry Hazle mixes up an eclectic brew of Americana, blues, rockabilly, folk, bluegrass and timeless standards from his perch in Oak Run. Shasta Serenade airs Saturdays at 12 p.m.

Rock-A-Barry Weekend

Burt Bacharach

This is a rebroadcast of the Rock-a-Barry Weekend show from June 25, 2016. We play old R&B, country music, rock ‘n roll and pop music from the 1940s into the 70s. In this show we talk of the influence of Arthur ‘Big Boy’ Crudup on rock ‘n roll and specifically Elvis Presley. We talk a little about Big Mabelle and her influence on the music of Jerry Lee Lewis. All this is surrounded by music from Ray Charles, Billy Ward and The Dominos, Jackie Wilson, Billie Holiday and Louis Armstrong and more. In hour two we explore the music of Burt Bacharach and his partners, Hal and Mack David and Bob Hilliard.  

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Rock-A-Barry Weekend Hour 2

Barry was a foundling in an old adobe in Southern California, adopted by nomadic Polish Gypsies, and lived with them until the age of 50. He has had no formal schooling, but learned to play the fiddle by the age of five. Throughout his early years, one could find him fiddling away in the foothills of Northern California tending his Lithuanian goats, making cheese and goat meat Kielbasa. He was renowned for his sheepherder’s bread making. He accidentally baked a rock into a particularly delicious loaf of bread, on which the chief of the gypsy clan broke a bicuspid. The clan seized his shepherd's cane and the Chief broke it in half tossing the parts to the ground. Barry was thus humiliated, and banished for life from the only family he had ever known. (Later, Barry sold the recipe for the Kielbasa to the NHL for a small fortune – they use it in the manufacturing of hockey pucks).