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WUOW Featured Artist Suzanne Vega
Each week, SUNY Oneonta-based NPR affiliate WUOW features a worthy musician in its Friday Night Featured Artist radio program from 8 to 9 p.m. at 104.7 FM in One- onta and online at wuow.org. Some know her as the voice of the iconic “Tom’s Diner,” but there is so much more to singer-songwriter Suzanne Vega. Raised in Span-
ish Harlem and the upper West Side,
Vega’s music often speaks of life on the mean streets as evidenced in her indictment of child abuse, “Luka.” This Friday’s
show will explore the career of this veteran of the Greenwich Village scene.
Partial Playlist 1. Luka
2. Marlene on the Wall 3. Widows Walk 4. Songs in Red and Grey 5. Frank and Ava
May 31, 1977. The soundtrack to “Saturday Night Fever” was playing everywhere. People danced to the hits by the Bee Gees, K.C. and the Sunshine Band, Tavares,
Yvonne Elliman and more. The D&H Lounge in Oneonta had company for dance places in the late 1970s, such as Fleetwood on Market Street. Oneonta’s Holiday Inn opened in 1973, after news was confirmed that the planned construction of I-88 would include an interchange leading to Southside. We know that route today as the James F. Lettis Highway. The motel was a pioneer businesses in today’s sprawling business area. It was decided that the motel’s decor and theme would reflect Oneonta’s railroad history, thus the D&H Lounge.
— Mark Simonson
These advertisements once appeared in The Daily Star, Oneonta Star and The Oneonta Herald.
June 9, 2011 O-Town Scene 19
