Don Kirshner's Rock Concert
Main article: Don Kirshner's Rock Concert
In the fall of 1972, Kirshner was asked by ABC Television to serve as executive producer and "creative consultant" for their new "In Concert" series, which aired every other week in the 11:30 p.m. slot normally showing The Dick Cavett Show. The following September, Kirshner left "In Concert" to produce and host his own syndicated weekly rock-concert program called Don Kirshner's Rock Concert. With its long-form live performances, as compared to rehearsed, often lip-synced performances that were the staple of earlier television shows like Shindig!, it was a new direction for pop music presentation. The last show aired in 1981, the year that MTV was launched.
The program presented many of the most successful rock bands of the era, but what was consistent week-to-week was Kirshner's deliberately flat delivery as the program host. In its final season Rock Concert was mostly hosted by Kirshner's son and daughter, whose delivery was the same as their father's.
Kirshner's wooden presentation style was later lampooned on Saturday Night Live by Paul Shaffer, most notably in Shaffer's introduction of the Blues Brothers during the duo's television debut. Shaffer and Kirshner worked together on the short-lived situation comedy, A Year at the Top, which Kirshner co-produced with Norman Lear, and in which Shaffer starred.[6]
In the Blue Öyster Cult song "The Marshall Plan", from the album Cultösaurus Erectus, Don Kirshner's voice is sampled to introduce the fictitious Johnny: "This is Don Kirshner. And tonight on Don Kirshner's Rock Concert, a new phenomenon in the music world — with six million albums to his credit in just two short years, my good friend, here's Johnny!"
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This Show Changed My Life~!. umm or it gave me a music concert addiction around 1975. heh heh
A biography of Don Kirshner just came out. The author was in Cleveland (Tremont) bookstore today book signing.
I thought I could just mention it this morning and someone would be game to go down there (like 10 miles) so I could get this book now

but no...no interest...Really!? can you not tell how much I want to read this book Now! It's 12:30 am. I could've read this book by now. I'm sad and disappointed that nobody read my mind, or knows me enough to know that I wanted to go so bad. I know, I should've just went myself, along w/any other person in this area who gives 2 shits about Don Kirshner and his Rock Concert. I Do!
So...maybe I will share how the book was tommorrow, I hope

sorry for the blab but I gotta take it out on somebody heh heh