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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.

Shasta Serenade: Rock-A-Barry Weekend

North State Public Radio | By Barry Hazle
Published January 30, 2016 at 12:00 PM PST
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It’s the last weekend of the month and I transform the Shasta Serenade into The Rock-a-Barry Weekend Show, playing great oldies from the '40s into the '70s. February 3 marks 57 years since the tragic plane crash in an Iowa cornfield took the lives of Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. “The Big Bopper” Richardson. 

In 1971 Don McLean wrote the anthem “American Pie” which dubbed that fateful day “the day the music died.”  I’ll play the full version of American Pie, and The Crickets, the Everly Brothers, Johnny Cash and label mate Carl Perkins, then move to great versions of tunes written in the 30s and made popular with a new and growing audience of teens by groups like Dion and the Belmonts and The Flamingos. Later in the show I play hits from the 60s and 70s. Hope you enjoy the Rock-a-Barry Weekend Show.

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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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