1 PLANNER PROJECT 2016... NEWSPAPER ENTRIES! EDITOR’S NOTE: Listed below are the area reporters, contributors, editors and publications currently found in Planner Project 2016! FOUND IN 98 PHOTO STORIES / CLEVELAND PRESS REPORTERS: Stan Anderson / Bill Barrett / Stuart Bell / Jack Clowser / Winsor French / Nancy Gallagher / Frank Gibbons / Bob Godfrey / Richard L. Maher / Omar Ranney / Peter Rich / Bob Schlesinger / Bill Scholl / Carol Weiss / Bob Yonkers / NEWSPAPER NAMES FOUND IN OVER 1,300 TEXT DATES FROM 1851 TO 2016 / CLEVELAND PLAIN DEALER REPORTERS / EDITORS / CONTRIBUTORS / Brian Albrecht / Emerson Batdorff / Peter Bellamy / George Condon / Tom O’Connell / Patrick Cooley / Dan Coughlin / Joe Dirck / Joseph Eszterhas / James Ewinger / Tom Feran / Joe Frolik / Tony Grossi / Harry Jones / Michael Heaton / W. Ward Marsh / Bill Nichols / Jon Petkovic / Glen C. Pullen / Michael Norman / Terry Pluto / Jane Scott / John Soeder / David Sowd / Harold Sauerbrei / Mary Strassmeyer / Carlo Wolff / Chuck Yarborough / CLEVELAND PRESS EDITORS / REPORTERS / Bruno Bornino / Dick Feagler THE SCENE / Jeff Niesel / Eric Sandy ROCK PHOTOGRAPHER / Janet Macoska ---------------------------------------------- PLAIN DEALER MUSIC-ENTERTAINMENT CRITICS / CONTRIBUTORS JAMES EWINGER / 5/7 “The message of the January-March radio ratings sweep is clear: Youth is being served,” notes the PD’s James Ewinger, as WMMS-FM rules the local airwaves, 1981 JOE FROLIK / 1/12 “WMMS-FM 100.7 cleaned up,” notes the PD’s Joe Frolik, after the FM powerhouse dominates the latest ratings book, especially in the A.M. with Kinzbach & Co., 1986 MICHAEL HEATON / 8/28 “It was quite an affair,” the PD’s Michael Heaton later writes, after nearly 900 friends including Wally Bryson & Hank LoConti, Sr. attend a tribute at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for PD rock reporter Jane Scott, who died July 4th at age 92 (PD Pop Music Critic John Soeder sports an ‘Induct Jane’ T-shirt - ‘Beau Coup’ plays ‘Jane’), 2011 W. WARD MARSH / 7/4 “Here is the hottest band I’ve ever heard,” notes the PD’s W. Ward Marsh, as Duke Ellington & his Cotton Club men debut locally at the RKO Palace with vocalist Ive Anderson, as ‘Mood Indigo’ & ‘Black & Tan Fantasy,’ “swell through the house,” 1931 MICHAEL NORMAN / 3/10 Yesterday at Camelot Music’s Great Lakes Mall store, rocker Michael Stanley autographed ‘Coming Up for Air,’ his first official solo LP since 1972’s ’Friends & Legends’ (the Plain Dealer’s Michael Norman notes, “Longtime MSB fans will love it”), 1996 (semi out) TOM O’CONNELL / 2 5/12 As the debate over rock ‘n roll continues among local jocks, WSRS DJ Bob Forster tells the PD’s Tom O’Connell, “Elvis Presley is a big novelty. When all the fuss is over, Presley will be back yodeling up a canyon, or at barn dances singing his straight material. But I do a request show and if people want to hear it, I’ll play it,” 1956 ANASTASIA PANTSIOS / 8/17 “It was surprising to see what an enormous response they got from the laid-back Loggins & Messina crowd,” writes Anastasia Pantsios for the PD, after the Michael Stanley Band opens for the duo at Blossom ($4-$5) (last time before breakup), 1976 8/27 “The club’s first concert, with the Buckinghams, was back in 1967,” writes Anastasia Pantsios in the PD’s ‘Rock Beat,’ as the Agora celebrates its 10th anniversary, 1976 2/27 While watching ‘Crystal Dawn’ at the Agora, in the lobby you’ll find 80 rock photos by nationally known local photographers Janet Macoska & Anastasia Pantsios, 1981 3/1 Upon the passing yesterday of former Cleveland radio executive Carl Hirsch at age 64, former WMMS-FM program director John Gorman tells Anastasia Pantsios for the PD, “He just said, go out and do something that hasn’t been done before,” 2011 JOHN PETKOVIC / 6/9 Helping the careers of numerous artists including Frankie Yankovic, Meat Loaf and the Black Keys, “Popovich loved outlaws,” notes the PD's John Petkovic, upon the passing of Cleveland International Records founder Steve Popovich at age 68, 2011 GLENN C. PULLEN / 7/10 Playing Kornman’s Front Room on E. 9th St., horn man Jimmy McPartland tells the PD’s Glenn C. Pullen, “This city is jumping with exciting syncopation;” as the Hickory Grille hosts Teddy Wilson; while the Ink Spots headline Herman Pirchner’s Alpine Village, 1961 (master rewrite) JANE SCOTT / 1966 / REVIEW NOTES [Sonny & Cher / Rolling Stones / Outsiders / Choir / Tommy LiPuma] 3/3 “Some 3,000 noisy but orderly persons- most of them teenagers- filled the hall to capacity,” writes the PD’s Jane Scott the next day, after Sonny & Cher play Music Hall w/Lee Rand, Mickey & the Cleancuts, Carl Maduri & the ‘Outsiders’ ($2-$5), 1966 5/5 Edited by Emerson Batdorff, tomorrow’s ‘Go,’ the PD’s first Friday tab, features Jane Scott’s Teen Time section with news on Lumen Cordium High’s first prom, St. Edward High’s 13th Tune Time, & the ‘Delta T’s’ rockin’ Rocky River’s AFS benefit dance, 1966 6/25 “It was wild man,” writes the PD’s Jane Scott the next day, after 6,000 rock to Mick Jagger & the Rolling Stones during a 2:30 matinee show at Cleveland Arena, with the ‘McCoys,’ the ‘Standells,’ the ‘Ronettes’ & WKYC V.I.P.s ($2.50, $3.50, $4.50), 1966 9/9 Cruising home with Jack Armstrong on WIXY to watch ‘Green Hornet’ debut before ‘Time Tunnel’ on TV5, & Ghoulardi, with ‘Waxworks’ & ‘The Closed Cabinet;’ you see Jane Scott notes the Outsiders’ ‘Respectable’ is 15 on Billboard’s Top 100, 1966 9/16 Before rockin’ to the ‘Mods’ at Alpine Valley, the PD’s Jane Scott notes the ‘Mods’ (Klawon, Smalley, Burke, Bryson, Bonfanti), are now the ‘Choir,’ & have their 1st record ‘Goin’ Home/It’s Cold Outside’ on the Canadian-American label; & reports Bill Randall notes the producer of “Guantanamera” is former Cleveland barber Tommy LiPuma, now with the Tijuana Brass. “It’s Tommy’s voice you hear at the end,” 1966 1971 / REVIEWS NOTES [Jackson 5 / Tim Russert / Hot Tuna / Elvis Presley] 4/10 ‘Never Say Goodbye’ is their newest release, as Belkin Productions-WJMO bring the ‘Jackson 5’ (Jackie (21), Tito (17), Jermaine (16), Marion (12) & Michael (11)), “Motown’s youthful ambassadors of bubble gum soul” to Public Hall (Jane Scott notes, “Michael Jackson danced off with 10,000 hearts. Easy as do, re, mi...”- $4-$5-$6), 1971 3 10/1 The PD’s Jane Scott reports, “JCU Student Union President Tim Russert was instrumental is nailing down the group,” as ‘Sha Na Na’ rocks the JCU gym ($3.50), 1971 10/8 As the ‘Glass Bottle’ plays Saints & Sinners; cruising to the show with Denny Sanders now on WMMS in a mandarin orange-black vinyl roof/black interior ‘70 Dodge Super Bee 440 Magnum w/auto ($1,788-Bill Scher), ‘Hot Tuna’ (Jorma Kaukonen, Jack Cassady, Sam Piazza, Papa John Creach - the show’s star) & ‘Pure Prairie League’ play to 900 during a blanket & bleachers concert at CWRU‘s Emerson Gym (Jane Scott notes in the PD, “almost five hours later, they were yelling, “More!”-$4.50), 1971 11/6 Elvis Presley (36), starts the first of two sold-out Public Hall shows with ‘That’s All Right,’ as PD rock reporter Jane Scott writes the next day, “Sixteen songs and 60 minutes later, the man who put the roll into rock, the man who has sold for more records than anyone in the history of recorded sound, is still the king.” ($5, $7.50, $10), 1971 1976 / REVIEW NOTES [Patti Smith / Queen / David Bowie / Joe Cocker / Wild Cherry / The Monkees / Runaways / Elton John / Neil Diamond / Southside Johnny / Boston] 1/26 While downstairs, Jimmy Ley & his Coosa River Band rock the Mistake both nights, making her first trip here, Patti Smith opens the first of two soldout nights with Tom Rapp at the Agora on E. 24th (Jane Scott calls her “the bad girl of rock ‘n’ roll.” Patti tells Jane after the show, “I felt like I was home.”- John Cale plays bass the 27th), 1976 2/14 Cruising to soldout Public Hall, it’s ‘A Night at the Opera’ with Freddie Mercury & ‘Queen’ (Jane Scott calls it, “The most exciting show of the year so far” - $5.50), 1976 2/20 “Cat Stevens proved to be a real tiger last night,” writes Jane Scott, after the bearded Englishman and his backup band play to 16,000 at the Coliseum ($5.50-$7.50), 1976 2/27 After cruising in a silver/black interior ‘73 Camaro Z-28 w/auto, spoiler, factory mags ($3,188), to dine at Diamond Jim’s in the Flats (buy one-get one dinner); next stop is singing ‘Suffragette City’ with David Bowie at Public Hall (Jane Scott writes, “...he was not only better than ever. He was brilliant”- encore ‘Jean Genie’- $6.50-$8.50), 1976 4/23 After cruising tonight in a gold/saddle interior ‘73 Pontiac Firebird w/V-8 ($3,195-Miller Pontiac), to see Jesse Colin Young & ‘Pure Prairie League’ at John Carroll ($5.50); tomorrow, WMMS- FM’s free ‘Woodsmoke’ Appreciation Day attracts over 50,000 who fought wind & rain to rock with Pure Prairie League, Angel, Sammy Hagar (w/Quick, Church, Carmassi), the Michael Stanley Band, & Joe Cocker with Stingray at Edgewater Park (Jane Scott notes Cocker sat drinking beer before his act), 1976 6/6 Cruising to the Agora on a WMMS Monday Night out, the ‘New York Dolls’ rock the house, with ‘Wild Cherry’ (Beitle, Bassett, Wentz, Parissi, Avsec), opening the night (Jane Scott notes, “Wild Cherry got a fine reaction at the Agora Monday night”), 1976 6/12 “Two encores later, the band still didn’t want to leave,” writes the PD’s Jane Scott after Davy Jones, Mickey Dolenz, Bobby Hart & Tommy Boyce bring their ‘Golden Hits of the Monkees Show’ to a packed house at the Cleveland Agora on the 10th, where “for 90 minutes Thursday night at the Agora the old Monkee magic came back,” 1976 7/18 Making Cleveland the first stop on their first major tour, after rocking Cyrus Erie West with Rapscallion (Zendel, Bem, Marquez, Linx), last night (packed to the walls- $3.50); the ‘Runaways’ (Lita Ford, Jackie Fox, Sandy West, Cherie Currie, Joan Jett), & the Don Harrison band play the 19th to over 900 at the Agora with two shows, 13 songs each & 4 encores (Jane Scott writes “They’re pink dynamite”-$3.50-$4.50), 1976 8/3 After Elton John rocks the second of two soldout concerts at the Coliseum last night with Kiki Dee ($8.75); tonight, the Coliseum rocks at 7:30 p.m.