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Shasta Serenade: Rock-A-Barry Weekend

Glenn Ford and Van Heflin

This is the last weekend of March 2016 and it’s The Rock-a-Barry Weekend! Old Rock ‘n Roll, R&B, Pop and Country Music from the 40s through the 70s. This weekend we start out in the surf of Southern California, and motate to some of the best R&B the 50s and 60s have to offer. Artists included in this week’s memories: Baby Washington, Sam Cooke, Otis Redding, Jimmy Reed, Wynonie Harris (one of the fathers of Rock ‘n Roll), along with Jackie Wilson, The Supremes and many more. In the second hour we remember movie and TV western themes and review some of the greatest country artists of the 50s.

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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).