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Entertaining Tucson: 1950s to 1985
Robert E. Zucker
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How many musicians can you ID? Step back in time with the Tucson, Arizona music and entertainment scene from the 1950s until 1985. This new compilation book from Entertainment Magazine and Newsreal newspaper features nearly 2,000 local musicians and hundreds of bands who performed in Tucson nightclubs and venues.
Read sample pages from entertaintucson.com
Tucson's music history and culture preserved
If you enjoyed listening to local Tucson musicians, or performed in Tucson, anytime between the 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s and 1990s through early 2000s, then you probably will be familiar with many of these people who performed and entertained.
Tucson's entertainment nightlife ranged from country, western, folk, rock and roll, reggae, Swing, Big Band, jazz, blues, new wave, disco, alternative and punk. Popular musicians like Giant Sandworms, Statesboro Blues Band, Nadine & the MoPhonics, Dean Armstrong and over one thousand others.
Tucson is well known for producing such great national artists as Linda Ronstadt, Rex Allen and Garry Shandling who are also featured.
"Entertaining Tucson" is a compilation of the Entertainment Magazine, Newsreal, Tucson Teen and other local tabloids published during the 1980s.
Read sample articles republished covering the years between the 1950s through the end of 1985. This book is in recognition to all of the Tucsonans who kept us entertained over those decades and to those reporters and photographers who contributed their work and time to keep Tucson informed.
"Entertaining Tucson Across the Decades" is a three volume compilation by Entertainment Magazine publisher Robert Zucker.
Linda Ronstadt: Tucson’s “Girl Singer”
www.entertaintucson.com/volumeone/lindaronstadt.html
By Sharon S. Magee
September 1990 – Entertainment Magazine
She recalls with fondness singing Mexican songs with her father and being allowed to stay up late into the night listening to the sweet melodies from the frequent informal family songfests. In fact, as late as 1967 when she was well on her way to rock stardom, her Mexican roots tugged and she proclaimed that she aspired to nothing less than being the world’s greatest Mexican singer.
As she reached her teen years, rock and roll still did not figure in her plans. Determined to be a folk singer in the vein of Joan Baez or Mary Travers, at age 14 she began to sing folk music on Tucson TV with the New Union Ramblers trio comprised of Linda and siblings Pete and Suzi. It wasn’t until she heard the Byrds and realized their harmonies were simply bluegrass put to a “groovy beat” that she decided to try rock and roll.
As she reached her teen years, rock and roll still did not figure in her plans. Determined to be a folk singer in the vein of Joan Baez or Mary Travers, at age 14 she began to sing folk music on Tucson TV with the New Union Ramblers trio comprised of Linda and siblings Pete and Suzi. It wasn’t until she heard the Byrds and realized their harmonies were simply bluegrass put to a “groovy beat” that she decided to try rock and roll.
