Oh yeah. Do you a feelage that Chicago and feeling stronger every day?
No, you haven't leave me. Well, we kind of got into Chicago
experience coming your way here with the Bartlesville Community Concert Association and buying Golly,
we have the Crawfords in with this again. How are you doing? I'm
hanging in there. You know. I did nice surprise here because I mean,
first of all, you came in properly attired wearing the Chicago T shirt.
And that looks like that's a vintage. That's a keeper. That's one
of our board members have this. He saw Chicago in Little Rock, Little
Rock, Arkansas, and this is nineteen ninety one. Honestly, nineteen ninety
one. Well, Paula, it looks like it's well preserved, like it'd
only been worn twice. Maybe I asked her if she wanted it back.
She's just you don't have to ask that question it long. She definitely wants
it back. Well, we've got this band that's coming to town on what
the main fourteens. Yes, wow, if you're still looking for a Mother's
Day person, I mean, let's just be it. Who Okay? So
wow, wow, what's the name of this band because it's a it's a
it's your Chicago tribute band. It's a Chicago tribute band. It's called Beginnings
and they were formed in two thousand and two. They're from New York City,
so they don't say anything about Chicago in their name, but they play
just about every song that Chicago does. We've heard some of their uh,
some of their songs. You can't tell the difference or I can't. You're
right because we Joe our fellow, who was putting together the commercial for the
concert, I said, wow, that sounds uh. He said, it's
not as your Kidney said, hey, said's tribute band. It said you
are Josh serving Bean's brother, and he said, no, that's absolutely the
fact that that's how good they are. Yeah, they're really good. And
I got their program here. I mean, they've got all the hits on
there. Make me smile, You're my inspiration question sixty seven and sixty I'm
just kind of going over them. Sure. What I don't see is my
favorite Chicago song, which is kind of obscure. It was called Thunder and
Lightning, and I go to YouTube every down in listening to it, I
was gonna say, you can find it there. You can find it there,
and I was hoping it'd be here. But either way, it's you
know, it's still gonna be a good show. It's still gonna be a
good show, we think, Paul, how do we get tickets for this
week? Well, you can go to our website. It's BCCA music dot
org and the web the link is there to the Community Center. It's Sunday
night at seven thirty at the Community Center. Top off your Mother's Day.
We're gonna keep plugging Mother's Day. Everyone remind it it's Mother's Day. And
tickets for adults are on sale, and with an adult ticket you can get
a student in free. So we want because they spanned the decades, like
we've talked about, there's kids today that no Chicago. They're just yeah,
they're just they think they're brand new. Yeah yeah, So we're going to
get him to go see what he can aspire to. I think we were
just kind of goofing around out in the green room, like we have a
green room, folks, it's not real. I wouldn't know beige. But
back in the day, they were known as CTA Chicago Training the Authority,
and then we just throw their instruments out there. They're amplifiers, the drums
and the horns and everything. And it wasn't like the big production that you
would see them today. They just went out there and they're just a bunch
of college kids from the University of Illinois and they just played until they couldn't
do it anymore. Yeah, And I imagine this band gives everybody that same
essence of that energy when way back when. Yeah, and I'd have to
argue with excuse me, dire Straits when they were talking about no trumpet plane
band ain't what they call rock and rool rock and roll. It is rock
and roll, and it's and they're good. Um. And I'd forgotten all
about the Chicago Transit Authority Moniker until you mentioned it while ago, and I'm
like, yeah, that's what That's what they used to be called back in
the day. And then I started dating it when we got the T shirt
Yesterday's ninety one and that was their twentieth three that. Yeah, we got
to see them open for the Beach Boys in uh the Woodlands in Texas down
north of Houston, and wasn't disappointed a bit? Whatn't disappointed a bit?
Wow? So Paul, we get to the tickets here, how much are
they? They range from I think fifteen they started fifteen dollars to forty six
dollars. Very horrible, they are, Oh yeah, they had. Let
me tell you a little bit about the Bartlefield Community College to do that,
because you guys got a little bit of history. Two we do. We've
been providing concerts since nineteen thirty five, and a lot neither wanting you were
alive then, So don't give you that thank you, thank you, And
they still a lot of people don't know about us and they don't hear about
the concerts and everything we do. Four per season. We start like in
September. I've got the list to talk about in a little bit too.
But and so we have four shows that go into like now until May,
and they're like you just said, they're very affordable. They're family friendly,
like you said, groups that have spanned the decades that kids are you know
now like you said, think they're new, you know with Chicago and things
like that. And so we have really good shows that go across the season,
and those tickets you can buy season tickets. Season tickets are on sale,
will be on sale in August or I think they're out there now maybe,
And those range from this is a season now, this is for four
concerts, from forty dollars for the you know, cheap seats, it's not
call them middle is seventy five and one hundred and forty. So those are
season tickets for four four concerts. And then with those you could still get
your student in free. College students get in with the student ID. The
other younger need to be in with a with an adult and get their free
ticket. Now you're talking one hundred and forty dollars for a season ticket.
I know people who pay twice that for a single ticket show these days.
So you're getting a great value. How much your Taylor's Swift tickets going for
these days? I can't afford that I take a mortgage out on the house.
I'm telling you, I'm telling now. In the venue, it's a
great venue. We we we saw it the first time watching Willie Nelson downtown
when you first moved up here and I was looking around there. There's not
a bad seat in the house if you guys well know, since the cooking
school is always there and you just cannot get a bad seat. Us it's
a great venue. It's if you're in Washington County or even O Sage or
no Water County. It's within five to thirty minutes away from home. So
you know, it's not like you got to pack a lunch to go to
a concert. We go because we're five minutes away from home. Piece of
cake. It's just a little too far to walk. But yeah, I
get it. We live in the same neighborhood. Y'd we'd be kind of
sweating a little bit. Yeah, Well, when we come back, we're
going to talk a little bit more about this show, but also some of
the cool shows that are coming up next season as well. So you stay
right there. We'll be right back after these words. Model morning, he
camp funeral home. Right, you're right, kay, one the one he
trust. I'll never forget this. Call my freshman roommate because mother called one
day and she said, Tim and I can tell by her of course,
something wrong. And I said, what's wrong? She said, can you
get my boy home from California? He's passed away out there. And that
crushed me, but I said, I sure will. I'll take care of
it. I said, I'll figure it out. I will get your son
home. If that's what you do when your loved one dies, doesn't matter
if it's three in the morning, you call your funeral director and say,
tim, my loved one just died. What do I do? And I'll
tell you one of my greatest stories I could tell. Six o'clock one Christmas
morning, a lady calls me. She said, they came over to get
my aunt for Christmas breakfast and found her dad in her home. What do
we do? I said, let me get dressed. I'll be right there,
and we'll just walk through this together. It's to be all right and
take good care of her. Years later, she told him that was the
single most comforting phrase she'd ever heard. It'll be all right. We will
walk through this together. Arnold Moore and the camp you seven ten Dewey,
Bartlesville. We will walk through this together. Don't touch that dial, and
you're on your dancer st you have the post and everything. Boy, that's
good. You're at DJ's DJ You know, well, you know, a
long time ago, into galaxy far far away, when you appreciated crazy people
screaming at the music. We have beginnings, and that is celebrating the music
of Chicago. And that's kind of what you heard right there. That's coming
up on Mother's Day at seven thirty at the Bartlesville Community Center. In a
little bit. I'm gonna give you a chance to win some tickets. Okay.
I told Tammy, I said, I can't do that of a news
man. She goes, Oh you can't. She's in her car right now
going that stake Card' gonna give the tickets away. Jammie's been great Dolly production
here. She's helped us so much. Nadel just loves her. Oh my
gosh. And you know the thing is that I should be nicer to my
co workers, but we do have. We give each other's static. We
got a great to coming up, a line up here for the new season.
Who we have coming? Huh? Well? Actually can we saw?
Yeah? There you're gonna lack this one time? Here you go. This
is the Church of Cash. How do you think that's about? Johnnie Johnny
Cash. We talk about spanning generations and new kids listening to him just like
he's here. The thing is what you're getting now, You're getting a lot
of inner city youth like New York, New Jersey, Philadelphia. In the
eighteen to twenty two year olds who are buying Johnny Cash records and streams like
you wouldn't believe. It's it's crazy that one's going to be on Monday,
September eighteenth, So we'll start in September. Another one for the generations.
Karen Carpenter, Oh, this is uh join O'Brien. That's gonna be Thursday,
November thirtieth at seven thirty. They never did a bad song. That's
one thing I can say. Even the stuff that didn't make it to the
radio, they never created a bad song. We were fortunate enough to see
them in concert Nil Passo, Texas involving in the early seventies. I gotta
fetcher of Paul and I going to wearing black and white because I think that's
what Karen and Richard were wearing most of the time, and so we don't
show that to everybody. My big bell bottoms. We were on top of
the world. We were we were. It was a great ship, it
was a great show. The way we choose these groups is we have an
annual meeting and what we get is a list from a I believe it's a
talent agent, but he has all these choices of groups that we can choose
from So we've got ten of us, I think on the board and we
get in there and have dinner, and then we sit and listen to all
these different snippets and youtubes of all these groups and then we vote and see
how that first round goes, if we get our four, you know,
the top four, and then keep going. So it was fun. It
was our first time to do that this year, being on the board and
listen to them. We've been coding to the concerts you know, the last
few years and just really enjoyed them and stuff. So then after we retired,
we got on the board with them and so that was our first time
to go through that. So that was really a fun process too. And
this group's called the Empire Trio and what they do is music from movies from
the world of film from nineteen thirty to the mid nineties. Well shows songs
from Casablanca, James Bond, Titanic, The Wizard of Oz, and then
they share stories about the great singers who performed them, from Judy Garland and
Frank Sinantras to Leandion and Barber stris In. So this was just a really
different and the variety, you know, what struck us we all pretty much
voted for them. I think first, can you say no to it?
You know? Yeah? Yeah, And that one is on Wednesday, February
seventh at seven thirty. All of these so we've got a Monday at Thursday
and Wednesday. This is Thursday. We were talking about this. Abacadabra or
Abacadabra. You say you got a tribute to Abbot, Yeah, you gotta
have them, Mama Mia, Fernando Sos Waterloo take a chance on me,
and it goes on and on. That's Thursday, a pro eleventh at seven
thirty, twenty twenty four four. Yeah, we're into next year, okay,
Fbruary And because we do this, we start in September and then go
well, there's could be a block of students from BHS, so we'll be
just buying them just a whole. So this is just we think this is
a really good variety with all of these, you know, and pick your
show. Like we talked about with the season tickets, it's cheaper to buy
the season tickets and then maybe give them to a friend if you don't want
to see one of these or something there rather than individual tickets. You know,
it's time, so it's quality looking for it's family entertainment, and it's
affordable entertainment. Not to mention the fact, like I said, it's close
by. Yeah, you don't have to get on in the Superstate to see
something you didn't know. Yeah, I love it. Yeah, we've really
enjoy it's really good. It's really good. You know, this is an
interesting community, and we say that because there's a lot of different things that
happened here. We are able because of the wonderful generosity of this community to
have the Bartlesville Community Center and that beautiful auditorium and to have the Bartlesville Community
Concert Association fill it up four times a year. That's a bonus, man,
that is a big bonus. And the personnel. I don't want to
overlook the personnel at the community events. That's top nine. Jull Sheverton makes
me look like I'm a the technician. I just go, I know their
bills, everything okay, Yeah, everything's fine. And Alison Swift, she
takes care of getting the people in here. She's the event coordinator and she
does a great job. And then they got docns. You can't swing a
dead cat in there during the concert without hitting the doc and they love being
They just love being there. Yea, yeah, they do, they do.
They get to listen to the concerts. The two the name offhand,
Sam Duval and his wife Judy Duval and Sean Braun. And Sean is the
head counter down at the Farmer's Market. And I saw him less past Saturday.
He's not sure he's gonna make Beginnings, but he doesn't want to miss
it. But because he's real familiar with Chicago. Oh yeah, So anyway,
there's a great staff down there, just great people. I don't know,
Sean, good guys, seany. I'll tell you what, folks,
I want to remind everyone. Get you tickets now Center Box Office. Really
easy. Uh, make plans for Mother's Day? Get you tickets to see
Beginnings, celebrating the music of Chicago this weekend. Bank on a good time
at Mecca Music Dot Org. Alrighty, that would be easier too. Yeah,
tell you what I'm gonna do right now. I'm gonna make my friend
Tammy, I'm gonna make your head spin here. I'm gonna give voice of
tickets. You're okay with that? You better? All right? We got
a pair of tickets to give away at four Beginnings celebrating the music of Chicago
caller number three right here at nine eight three three six fourteen hundred, Caller
number three at nine one eight three three six fourteen hundred. The concert tickets
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