The 1980s were a different animal for Kiss. Their decade began plagued with bad music, in house troubles, and Rock & Roll not returning to what it was before disco.
Peter Criss and Ace Frehley walked away leaving Paul Stanley and Gene Simmons to pick up the pieces and start new.
Paul had an idea and talked Gene into taking a chance. They took off the face paint on MTV, and in a genre filled with very capable new players, Kiss worked to reestablished themselves as a formidable rock band.

Robert Johnson was terrible! People thought so, and he wanted to change that and quickly! So he traveled to northern Mississippi from Hazlehurst where he was told he could make strike a deal from the low-low price of his soul to become the greatest there was at the time. I believe that Elvis Presley did the same thing.
Why?
Because he and Robert Johnson died on the same date.

Lastly, Bob Dylan admitted in an interview with Ed Bradley that he made a deal to get where he is with the Chief Commander of The World, and the one that we cannot see.

Long before Michael, Whitney & Prince there was Sam Cooke, Jackie Wilson and Frankie Lymon. These were the first black entertainers to cross over the color barrier onto the whiter side of the Billboard Pop Charts.

Sadly, each of these men met wrong doing and lost their lives. One is still a mystery. This story has a hooker, a hotel manager and an unarmed naked man who was shot several times, the mysterious part is that no one prosecuted for the obvious murder.

It takes two to make a thing right, and in this episode we talk about the actions that led to the endings of three award-winning couples. Cher wanted to matter, Tammy wanted to love her man, I believe that only wanted more time.

The Music Business & The Mob!
Good or bad, the Mafia has played a significant part in the music business. In this episode we learn about Morris Levy. Mr Morris is said to be The Godfather of the Music Business.

This episode also explain terminology like “payola,” and we also discuss Fred Bonadona, a local business man and the owner of the restaurant “Poor Freddie’s”, and his fight with “the Civella’s,” Kansas City’s organized crime family and how Mr Bonadonna fought to keep boss Nick Civella and his friends out of The River Quay.

I nominated four songwriters as the best there is! One wrote songs for the King! One has song that have been re-recorded by over a thousand students singers. The next gets a bunch of boo’s. And lastly, the number one spot is for the songwriter who wrote the most recognize song in US history.