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[uvmagazine]

Donnie Simpson Retires After 55 Years In Radio

Donnie Simpson, a legendary radio and television host, officially retired after 55 years in the business.

Simpson was an on air radio host of “The Donnie Simpson Show” in Detroit and Washington D.C.

In the 80s and 90s, he was the host of the popular television show “Video Soul” on B.E.T. His charisma and chestnut eyes became a mainstay in homes across America.

Photo Credit: Photograph by Rah Rah of 209 Photography

[phillipcole]

Post-AGT Appearance 1242: The Donnie Simpson Show WDCJ 92.7 fm April 26

I would have returned to the Oregon home Wednesday and learned of the death of Harry Belafonte upon arrival.  With the Colbert Show on vacation I would simply release my response on all websites instantly early that afternoon.  Belafonte would have started at 29yj, peaked at 17th in 2018 and died at 31st.  Almost immediately people in markets where Belafonte is most loved would react.  The first to do so would be Donnie Simpson in the urban contemporary station WDCJ 92.7 in Maryland.  He hosts the show with a man named Tony Perkins.

Simpson: We’re back and we have an announcement.

Perkins: Oh my!

Simpson: Nothing too interesting.  As you all know the great Harry Belafonte passed away yesterday.  Some of you were wondering if maybe he might be the last person who makes Phillip Cole sick.

Perkins: That again!

Simpson: Yes, just that.  Well, it looks like Phil Cole liked Harry Belafonte.  Here’s what he said:

PBC: I join the good people on this planet in mourning the great humanitarian Harry Belafonte.  Though he graciously declined an offer of several thousand dollars to sing the Banana Boat song as a duet adapted to the campaign of my wife’s cousin he certainly should never have been suspected of making Phillip sick.

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Whitney Houston - Full Interview (1991)

[butchjesus]

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[ID: a greyscale sketch drawing of fat tony d'amico from the simpsons. he is shown sitting on a curved couch with his arms on the back of the seat and one foot up on his knee, holding a glass in one hand and a cigar in the other, and staring at the viewer with a bit of a snarl. end ID]

[the-cryptid-finch]

Me trying to explain Bandstand to anyone: A family isn't always your blood. It isn't just a mother and a father. Sometimes a family is a depressed bisexual war veteran, the widow of his best friend, an alcoholic double bass player who likes Shakespeare, a drummer with memory problems, a gay lawyer who likes checkered trousers, a divorced dad of two who has OCD and a trumpet player with anger issues.

Literally anyone else:...what?

[joyfulsoda]

THE EPILOGUE FOR BANDSTAND GOES OVER A SPAN OF AT LEAST FOUR YEARS? HELLO?

The beginning scene takes place a year after the events of the radio contest. We know Act One and the majority of Act Two (everything but the Epilogue) take place in 1945, so that means the Epilogue starts in '46 (see image below).

But we suddenly jump forward FOUR YEARS to not only when The Rainbow Room has opened again, but they've ALREADY PERFORMED THERE?

That's it. That's the post. The band is still together after, like, five+ years. This is fine. This didn't make me almost start crying out of happiness. (<- complete and utter sarcasm.)

The band is so happy together... Oh, they're such a found family...

[the-river-rix]

Johnny Simpson edit

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[ladymiraclewings]

Donnie: Poppa Wheels? What's the point of this story? Poppa Wheels: I like stories.

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[goblingirlgratitude]

30 day song challenge (here)

day 15: a song you like that’s a cover by another artist

[anyashappytobehere]

hello! "૮₍ ˶•⤙•˶ ₎ა

hi everybody! my name is anya :3 my pronouns are she/they. this is my new blog!! i haven't been active in the musical theatre scene since i was like 13 (lmao) but i watched bandstand again recently and dude... i wrote a fic like never before man. jesus. i will start posting that soon bc we can always use more dnb content!!! mostly posting bandstand stuff here in general bc i love that show endlessly :] lmk if you want to be friends!! i am always looking for more folks to talk about the donny nova band with :D

[lovegal]

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✨ P A N S E X U A L Q U E E N H A S R E T U R N ✨

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Me: yes

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Here's a Tunnel Vision song by Melanie Martinez she's the ✨B E S T✨

Also I know Christmas is over but...

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[randofanficrecs]

Today's random fic comes from the Bandstand - Oberacker/Oberacker & TaylorNavigation and Actions fandom, Pulled Me Apart (I'm So Open) by aintweproudriff

Chapters: 3/3 Words: 4,674 Fandom: Bandstand - Oberacker/Oberacker & Taylor Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Johnny Simpson/Davy Zlatic, Nick Radel/Wayne Wright, Donny Novitski/Julia Trojan, past Donny Novitski/Michael Trojan Characters: Davy Zlatic, Johnny Simpson, Donny Novitski, Julia Trojan, Nick Radel, Wayne Wright, Jimmy Campbell Additional Tags: Sharing a Bed, cliches, canon typical nightmares and trauma, canon typical alcoholism, the whole dnb is gay and there's nothing you can do about it Language: English Summary: "They did make their way up to the room, Davy holding out hope the whole way up that Donny had been wrong about his mistake and the two of them were actually getting a room with two beds. Upon opening the door, however, Davy had to let go of that wish. One bed, clear as day." OR I love to write tropes

[joyfulsoda]

Sometimes I think about Jimmy and Donny's dog tags flying out from underneath their shirts when they preform Welcome Home (Finale) in the pro-shot and it hurts every single time I think about it. All of the guys have lost friends, but Jimmy and Donny are the only ones who actively say something about what happened to the people they'd lost during the show, so it means a lot to me that they specifically have this happen. The rest of them are wearing theirs too, but there's just something so unbelievably heart-wrenching about the way that Donny and Jimmy's noticeably fly around.

They were the only ones to make it out of their respective situations, too (the grenade accident and the ship explosion). Their dog tags were ALSO the only ones to make it out.

When the tags fly out, it makes me think of the line "sing because you need to sing". They've all gone through so, so much. And with the Finale, they're finally allowing themselves to let go of *ALL* of the rules because they just *NEED* to.

This leaves them vulnerable, and their tags are emblematic of that. We only see other tags from the guys in the band when they are equally vulnerable (Counterpoint/Pie Jesu, Proud Riff).

Welcome Home (Finale), for Donny and Jimmy, while it makes them feel vulnerable and the dog tags visually represent the people they've lost... They continue to push through and play just because they *NEED* to. They don't *HAVE* to do anything for that competition. They could have walked away. But they went up there and played their hearts out not just for themselves, but for EVERYONE they've lost.

They did it for Michael. They did it for Jimmy's crew. They did it to take care of Julia, like Michael wanted. They did it for the people Davy lost, the people Nick lost, the people that Wayne and Johnny lost. But Jimmy and Donny were the characters whose losses were directly, verbally, specifically established to have directly influenced their waking thoughts, and THEY are the ones whose dog tags fly out.

Because just like they were the only ones to get out alive, their tags are some of the only ones that came back from their respective tragedies (the grenade incident/the ship explosion). And they are letting themselves be vulnerable, they are letting their tags fly out because they *NEED* to play; they *NEED* to tell not only their stories, but the stories of their lost loved ones, whose memory they carry with them with their own tags, since they weren't able to get their fellow servicemen's after their deaths.

God, I know this fandom is super dead, which is unfortunate, but I hope this makes sense.