RIP... A music icon of 70s late night television - kind of the late night Dick Clark

http://www.gibson.com/en-us/Lifestyle/N ... 0118-2011/

Don Kirshner, the ’60s music publisher behind the music of The Monkees and many others, died on Monday of heart failure. He was 76.

Kirshner discovered Bobby Darin in the ’50s and began Aldon Music with Al Nevins, creating a veritable songwriting factory in the Brill Building in New York City. Kirshner’s writers included Carole King, Neil Sedaka, Howard Greenfield, Cynthia Weil and Barry Mann. He used many of those writers to provide the hit music for the TV show The Monkees. Time magazine called him, “The Man with the Golden Ear.”

When The Monkees became a real group and started writing their own material, Kirshner moved on to a less problematic project, The Archies, a cartoon group who had a worldwide hit with “Sugar, Sugar.” In the ’70s Kirshner developed and hosted his own weekly music show, Don Kirshner’s Rock Concert.

He was inducted into the Songwriter’s Hall of Fame in 2007.

I remember his late night concert series. He was a stiff and had no business in front of the camera. (I think SCTV did a sketch about him) I am grateful for all the great music he repped,though

RIP,Don.

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"Don Kirschner's Rock Concert" used to air on CBS2 in the wee hours late Friday night/early Saturday morning at a very obscure hour (1:45a? 2:10a?), and I thought VH1 also aired it before it became one of those Guthy/Renker-produced infomercials a couple years ago...

I remember watching early AC/DC and members were falling off the stage - but it created a buzz...

Aerosmith was wasted on their once also. Imagine that.

Guy Smiley reminded me of Don Kirshner.

Legendary and influential.

I wish somebody still did something like this on tv for bands. It seems like live bands on tv are becoming a thing of the past. .....yet we have a network called MTV that shows virtually zero live music or concerts, makes sense to me.

R.I.P., Don.

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I totally remember the name of the show, but don't think I ever saw it? May have been in need? 1975?

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