The Chicago Loop never outdid their first 45, despite a wild psychedelic single in 1968 that holds up great today.
Tag: Shel Silverstein
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What’s Next going to do next?
Dave Beran talks about the next season for Next—and what the Childhood menu was originally going to be.
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Secret History of Chicago Music: Shel Silverstein
The music career of the famous cartoonist
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“I got to Chicago and I was a complete failure.”
“He looked through a hundred cartoons, the greatest ones ever drawn – at nineteen, I was doing only great cartoons – and he bought none.” Shel Silverstein on trying to make it in NYC, via Sarah Weinman.
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Silverstein celebrated
Bobby Bare, Bobby Bare Jr., and an all-star roster of guests–from Ken Nordine to Will Oldham to Ella Jenkins–fete beloved Chicago writer Shel Silverstein in Millennium Park tonight.
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SHELebration at Millennium Park
Tonight’s Shel Silverstein tribute should be a fine family affair, but check out “The Great Conch Train Robbery” after you put the kids to bed.