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Shasta Serenade
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

North State Public Radio | By Barry Hazle
Published February 27, 2016 at 12:00 PM PST
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It’s the last weekend of February and the Shasta Serenade morphs into the Rock-a-Barry Weekend show. This month I play the 1960 Grammy winner for song of the year by Percy Faith, and the second #1 hit by Connie Francis in that same year. Can you guess Connie’s first hit of 1960?  I’ll tell you during the show. Then I swing back to 1956 with one of the greatest vocalists of the 20th century, (Sassy) Sarah Vaughn, and follow with The Platters ’55 hit, “Only You.” From about 1950 to ‘58 Les Paul & Mary Ford sold more records than Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra combined and I explore their music with “Smoke Rings.”  In hour 2 I’ve gathered a number of Country artists, most of whom crossed over onto the Pop and R&B Charts.

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Barry Hazle
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).
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