A Tribute to Lennie Baker

A Tribute to Lennie Baker

It is with a very heavy heart that I dedicate this week’s Classic Nick rocks to our beloved Lennie Baker of Sha Na Na who peacefully passed away on Wednesday, February 24th at South Shore Hospital at the age of 69.

Lennie was the best saxophone player to ever grace a stage but he was funny as well. As you watch these videos you will see his wonderful, and priceless, facial expressions that crack me up every time!

As I’ve said before I have never seen my Sha boys in concert, or have met any of them, they were a part of my childhood and now that I’ve rediscovered them as an adult I love them even more than I did when I was a little girl.

Goodbye our sweet Lennie, we love you and we miss you very much.

Leonard J. "Lennie" Baker, February 24, 2016

http://www.currentobituary.com/ShowObit.aspx?id=190481&member_id=117

Lennie Baker of Sha Na Na dies at 69 http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/music/2016/02/26/lennie-baker-of-sha-na-na-dies-at-69/80998458/

Lennie Baker, Sha Na Na Singer and Saxophone Player, Dies at 69

https://www.thewrap.com/lennie-baker-sha-na-na-singer-and-saxophone-player-dies-at-69/

Lenny Baker Sha Na Na & Jimmy Jay 2013

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsgBSaO5h08

Baby That Is Rock & Roll

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Im9uSLoM9dY

Wild Weekend

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5BognlFcL8

Blue Moon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whltt-_Tejo

Be My Guest

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GirrwWp6RCs

Mr. Fussy Gives Lennie A Scolding

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqtL9QIyUEs

Rip Van Winkle

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HlVdRHn9OA

Whispering Bells

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6c5CGYhhaRU

Baby Baby

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-GY_PcQTQg

Mr. Bass Man

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-izVXxwvtNM

Twilight Time

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uCMQ_AyHDU

Lennie & Jocko At The Diner

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JN5WCpx5EPk

Put Your Head On My Shoulder

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAebpEXmh3Q

Ding-a-Ling-a-Ling-Ding-Dong

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7Gexs7pem0

Great Pretender

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYRt90pUs3E

Lennie Baker and The Spellbinders

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvX-eesVshg

Lennie Wins At Cards

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukjYOtjvzWU

Devil Or Angel

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uodm8a7Ezk8

Lennie Discusses Dieting Tips

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=la88WFQ-CLY

To Chubby To Boogie

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1LCNKYiVY8

Sixteen Candles

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANYuIfLrVoY

Your Precious Love

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRLNIWAZP5I

Mr. Baseman (version 2)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhY6mLz6_vU

What's Your Name?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ka6BwtFDMnM

Personality

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCRgdKimSEI

Lovin’ Feeling

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfjXoBNQwAY

Blueberry Hill

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vTmnZJJ300

Earth Angel

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pap7yK8hCeQ

What Is A Sha Na Na

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3J-R3sPv4U

Daddy's Home

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dbhc9IomcyY

Then You Can Tell Me Goodbye

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64cc-A6BLdk

Blue Moon - Sha Na Na- Flip Wilson

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KBzQ_A5tP0

Heartaches

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tyhuyga_IQc

Lennie Has Stage Fright

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66uvVuPn0mc

Lovers Never Say Goodbye

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sn4-ZdLC0Y

I'm Gonna Be A Wheel Someday

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZd9BZaARsI

The MAGNIFICENT Ethel Merman

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5C8srlyJ4EE

It’s In Her Kiss

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30uePkiPj04

In The Still Of The Night

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6Fklo8fVzA

You Make Me Wanna Shout

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_2JgQBIl74

Classic Nick Rocks

 John Waite – Missing You

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkExjeUSCcQ

Eddie & the Cruisers – On The Dark Side

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYDAF6NbgKc

Belle Stars – Iko Iko

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LDQn9Zw1Vw

Cheech Marin – Born In East LA Song             

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OwPPOu1yk4

Deniece Williams – Let's Hear It for the Boy  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gI7YHZVc7mM

Joan Jett & the Blackhearts – I Love Rock 'n' Roll

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lX061_Fkv8

Special Delivery – Wild Rides

Nickelodeon Takes A Roller-Coaster Ride

Ellensburg Daily Record – March 19, 1982

By Debra Morgenstern Katz

  

Passive viewing is on the way out at Nickelodeon, which wants kids to get involved with television. Their new program “Wild Rides” (March 28) searches for the greatest roller-coaster ride in America – and you are there.

Matt Dillon hosts the half-hour show, which uses a new camera mount to make viewers feel as if they’re in the seat of the ride; the combination of rock music and the noise of the ride itself combine to provide the closest actual experience.

The pilots for “Kids’ Writes,” another show designed to get children actively involved with TV, make encore appearances on March 24 and 26. A troupe of five performers act out the letters, poems, riddles, dreams, songs and compositions that children have sent in, without changing the words or characters. It’s the closest kids can come to writing their own TV show.

Part 1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzkAROxvONA

Part 2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hCCZ8Lm5fo

Part 3 – sorry, no sound on this one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pm7xN45bTII

Article Link

https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=860&dat=19820319&id=OIdUAAAAIBAJ&sjid=PY8DAAAAIBAJ&pg=2766,6332220&hl=en

Classic Nick Rocks

Steve Perry – Oh Sherrie

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-WpsdC2-Cc

  

Val Kilmer – How Silly Can Ya Get

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSM2gMOmheA

 Whitney Houston – I Wanna Dance With Somebody

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eH3giaIzONA

 Lionel Richie – You Are

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4tMPGgvBp4

 Eddie Money w/Ronnie Spector – Take Me Home Tonight

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wZqgP9dsxM

  

Classic Nick Rocks

Pat Benatar – Invincible

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5A4xBp2rizQ

Rod Stewart – Some Guys Have All The Luck

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9e1-X0sYI_U

Greatest American Hero – Believe It Or Not

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4JCehDOy54

Elvis Costello – Veronica

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6Uqf0IKsz4

The Jets – Crush On You

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nm_QilrHkh8

Happy Vinyl Record Day

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Classic Nick Rocks

LaToya Jackson – Heart Don’t Lie

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LkVmzX_QR0

Bon Jovi – Living On A Prayer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDK9QqIzhwk

Eddie Grant – Electric Avenue

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKJLbv5khLg

Toto – Africa

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTQbiNvZqaY

El DeBarge – Who's Johnny

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yA9WhYnsD_4

Special Delivery - Water Babies

Plot

When a 12-year-old chimney sweep is wrongfully blamed for being a thief, he makes a run for it and ends up jumping into a violent river. There he encounters a civilization of anthropomorphic underwater creatures. Before he can return to the surface and clear his name, however, he must help rescue his new friends, the Water Babies, from their nemesis. Featured voices include those of James Mason, Bernard Cribbins and Tommy Pender. The film starts and ends similarly to the book, though in the book Tom actually dies, and is only allowed above the sea on a temporary basis. The movie also adds a whole new subplot, involving a Killer Shark, an Electric Eel and the mythical Kraken, who decides whether or not Tom can return to the surface. There are also several invented characters, which Tom befriends on his quest: Jock, a Scottish lobster, Terence, an effeminate star struck Seahorse, and Claude, a foppish French swordfish.

Water Babies

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2uezcWWBdM

Classic Nick Rocks

Berlin – No More Words

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIb9QUGjdIc

Paul Young – Every Time You Go Away

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfk6sCzRTbM

The Sorels (Dan Hartman) – I Can Dream About You

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=auLyfd49-UE

Belinda Carlisle – Mad About You

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmdtJWmR9zQ

Moody Blues – Your Wildest Dreams

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmmPFrkuPq0

Classic Nick Rocks

Proclaimers, The – I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__tJhI8ZuUc

Bangles, The – Walk Like An Egyptian

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cv6tuzHUuuk

Los Lobos – La Bamba

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=re0mt9AxdWU

Laura Branigan – Gloria

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=355Fk8drgZE

Monkees, The – That Was Then, This Is Now (Version 1)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txO3D_VFWuA

R.I.P. Grizzly Adams, You Will Be Greatly Missed :(

Dan Haggerty - Personal Appearances

Press Release:

Dan Haggerty, a beloved Father and friend, has died at 4:30 this morning at St Joseph Hospital in Burbank, CA surrounded by his family that loved him. He had fought a long hard battle with cancer of the spine that was discovered in August of this year.

Dan was a beloved award winning actor in dozens of films and TV roles, but he will be remembered by millions of fans as the man who made Grizzly Adams famous. All the awards pale in comparison to his huge laugh and wonderful sense of humor that made everyone laugh with him. He would light up any room he entered. He loved life, loved his family, loved his friends and fans. The last words I heard him say were "I love you."

Terry Bomar

There will be private services for the family and public service later to be determined.

Grizzly Adams

Our hearts are deeply saddened by the passing of Dan Haggerty. Dan was an incredible talent with a huge, loving spirit that brought happiness to millions of people. Our condolences go out to his family and management. Dan, you will be missed.

Special Delivery – The Velveteen Rabbit

**Please Note - I do not know if this is the one that aired on Nickelodeon but it is from the '80's and it's full length so this one will have to have to.**

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Velveteen Rabbit (or How Toys Become Real) is a children's book written by Margery Williams (also known as Margery Williams Bianco) and illustrated by William Nicholson. It chronicles the story of a stuffed rabbit and his desire to become real through the love of his owner. The book was first published in 1922 and has been republished many times since.

The Velveteen Rabbit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0MyT4LKoi8

Classic Nick Rocks

Fame – Only Love Will Hold Fast

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CyZamKNXAA

DeBarge – Rhythm Of The Night

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAQSZhazYk8

Culture Club – Karma Chameleon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmcA9LIIXWw

Robert Palmer – Simply Irresistible

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrGw_cOgwa8

Blondie – Heart Of Glass

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGU_4-5RaxU

Show Title Needed

Show Title Needed

This post came from Mattniss Empowered on the Nickelodeon’s Special Delivery Community on Facebook. Can anyone help him out? Anyone know the name of this program or if he would be able to watch it online somewhere?

Thank you in advance,

Peggy Sue

Mattniss Empowered to Nickelodeon’s Special Delivery

I've been trying to locate a movie that I saw back in the 1980's on Special Delivery (I think). It was a Canadian Christmas movie and the plot revolved around an old man telling his grandson about this little lead soldier he got for Christmas one year. It flashed back to when he was a child and the Christmas he got it. There was a drunken uncle, a Christmas play (where the boy had to play Mary), and some other situations. I didn't really appreciate it then, but I think I would now. Any thoughts on what the title was?

Classic Nick Rocks

Baltimora – Tarzan Boy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_r0n9Dv6XnY

Club Nouveau – Lean On Me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwIzcNLOogc

Dolly Parton – 9 to 5

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbxUSsFXYo4

Howard Jones – New Song 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fjg7N_mGaU

Wang Chung – Dance Hall Days

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-xpJRwIA-Q