November 30 + The Annual Concert

Welcome to the last show of November and a "review".

FNST is into it's fourth year! Unreal. The neat thing is, it keeps growing.
We'll keep adding new tunes, doing "in-depth" shows spotlighting various
talent and "diggin' deep" for songs.


Saturday, November 28th, we were in Harrisburg for the annual

"Class Act featuring Rita Salute to The Magnificent Men"

Once again, it was a good show and really unique.
Since last year Class Act has had four personnel changes.
This has resulted in some surprising changes in the music and it works!
It was a terrific show all the way around.

With Dave Bupp's retirement, there were still four of the seven "Mag Men" on stage.
Bob Angelucci (drums), Jim Seville (bass) and Tom Pane (sax & second tenor) play with Class Act and Buddy King (former first tenor) was a special guest.
Buddy's closing remarks, mentioning Bill Richter (organ), Terry Crosure (guitar), and the late Tom Hoover (the original keyboard player for The Mag Men) were especially welcomed.

Closing the show with "Peace of Mind" was just neat.
When you have almost an entire audience standing, singing the chorus with the group, somehow time slips away.

Now, about Rita Angelucci...........there simply are no words to describe the lady's voice. She may well be the best kept secret in soul music.
I've had the opportunity to hear so many talented singers. Everyone from Aretha Franklin and Gladys Knight to Dionne Warwick and Patti Labelle. Rita is right up there. If you can drive, fly, hitch hike, whatever, to get a chance to listen to Class Act I urge you to do it. You will not be disappointed.

There were a couple of special guests in the audience.
Bob's brother, Andy Angelucci, is a tremendous trumpet player. FNST plays a couple of his tunes. Also, Bobby Eli. If the name Bobby Eli doesn't ring a bell you're not paying attention to the writing credits on your 45's.
Check out "Love Won't Let Me Wait" by Major Harris and "Sideshow" by Blue Magic.
Then listen to the guitar work on anything MFSB recorded. Uh huh, that's Bobby Eli.
There'll be more on this very talented man in later shows.

Now, I've rambled, enough. Have a great week and please remember to order your DVD of the 2007 concert.

PD