makin' extraordinary (grammy winning) album way into his late sixties...supple fresh voice...great acoustic blues git playin' etc....first number one hit in the fifties!!!

HEEDAMAN!!!!!

Hope this is true - HEEDAMAN indeed.

Albums (non-compilation)

1959: Presenting Dion & The Belmonts
1960: Wish Upon a Star With Dion & The Belmonts
1961: Alone With Dion
1961: Runaround Sue #11
1962: Lovers Who Wander #12
1962: Love Came to Me
1963: Dion Sings to Sandy' (and all his other gals)' #115
1963: Ruby Baby #20
1963: Donna the Prima Donna
1967: Dion & The Belmonts - Together Again
1968: Dion #128
1969: Wonder Where I'm Bound
1970: Sit Down Old Friend
1971: You're Not Alone
1971: Sanctuary #200
1972: Suite For Late Summer #197
1973: Dion & The Belmonts - Reunion, Live at Madison Square Garden #144
1975: Born to Be With You
1976: Streetheart
1978: Return of the Wanderer
1980: Inside Job
1981: Only Jesus
1984: I Put Away My Idols CCM #37
1984: Seasons
1985: Kingdom in the Streets
1986: Velvet & Steel
1989: Yo Frankie #130
1990: Fire in the Night (recorded 1979)
1992: Dream on Fire
1993: Rock 'n' Roll Christmas
2000: Déjà Nu
2003: New Masters
2005: Live New York City
2006: Bronx in Blue #2 Blues Lps.
2007: Son of Skip James #4 Blues Lps.
2008: Heroes: Giants of Early Guitar Rock

The Bronx's best!

What is HOF?

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rock and roll hall of fame. the stones were inducted...ronnie, m. taylor, keith, mick were there.,.u can see the speeches and such on youtube. i theenk Dion was among the original honorees...

Thanks Beelyboy, I understand it

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Ooohhhh... THAT Dion. [Whew.] 'Cause the other one took about 10 years off my life!

Evil. Pure evil.

:26-:29 of that Celine video is enough to scrap the entire concept of "video"

Yeap, when I read the title, I was also affraid of THAT Dion (my all time favourite). For me she is like the worst artist ever. Anyway, the interesting thing about the C. Dion video above are the people being "entertained" the way Mick desciribes in the interview in the Hyde Park 68 concert

Uuuurgh! Let's have something else to get that Celine out of our ears...

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Uuuurgh! Let's have something else to get that Celine out of our ears...

Thankyouthankyouthankyouthankyouthankyouthankyouthankyou!

OMG!!!!!
oh no.

jeezum effin crow! get dat celine biyutch outta our DION thread...
puleeeeezzeeeee!
urg urp!!!!!!! just lost my breakfast....dang, on my shoes and everything.


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OMG!!!!! ... urg urp!!!!!!! just lost my breakfast....dang, on my shoes and everything.

Here, Beely, have a tissue.

tissue? i hardly know you.
hawww
xo

Well! Exsqueeze me!

come home SomeTorontoGirl; All is exsqueezed! and exqused...
my shoes smell like like last nights pasta. thnx a lot.













Lou Reed:

It was 1958 and the cold winds of Long Island blew in from the ocean. Their high pitched howl mixing with the dusty musky mellifluous liquid sounds of rock and roll. The sounds of another life, the sounds of freedom. As Alan Freed pounded a telephone book and the honking sax of Big Al Sears seared the air waves with his theme song "Hand Clappin'," I sat staring at an indecipherable book on plane geometry, whose planes and angles would forever escape me. And I wanted to escape it and the world of SAT tests, the college boards - leap immediately and eternally into the world of Shirley and Lee. The Diablos, The Paragons, The Jesters, Lilian Leech and The Mellows -- "Smoke From Your Cigarette," Elica and The Rockaways -- "Why Can't I Be Loved?" -- a question that certainly occupied my teenage time. The lyrics sat in my head like Shakespearian sonnets with all the power of tragedy: "Gloria," "Why Don't You Write Me Darling, Send Me A Letter" -- The Jacks.

And then there was Dion -- that great opening to "I Wonder Why" engraved in my skull forever. Dion, whose voice was unlike any other I had heard before. Dion could do all the turns, stretch those syllables so effortlessly, soar so high he could reach the sky and dance there among the stars forever. What a voice that had absorbed and transmogrified all these influences into his own soul, as the wine turns into blood, a voice that stood on its own, remarkably and unmistakably from New York. Bronx Soul. It was the kind of voice you never forget. Over the years that voice has stayed with me, as it has, I'm Sure, stayed with you. And whenever I hear it I'm flooded with memories of what once was and what could be.

It's been my pleasure to get to know Dion over the years and even, my idea of heaven, sing back-up for him. He doesn't know how long I'd rehearsed those bass line vocals. I was ready to back-up Dion. He had the chops and he practically invented the attitude. "Ruby Baby," "Donna The Prima Donna." 'I'll open my shirt and show her Rosie on my chest' -- "The Wanderer," a line so good that 20-odd years later I couldn't resist doing a variant on it for one of my own albums.

_________________________________________dat from lou

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Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen speak of Dion in the most glowing and respectful and beautiful terms...but i've loved him since he was king of rock and roll radio on laurie records...
actually hung with him quite a bit in late eighties...giant of a Spirit as well as talent.

last i heard even Canadians like him...go figure...



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Ooohhhh... THAT Dion. [Whew.] 'Cause the other one took about 10 years off my life!

Evil. Pure evil.

The really scary thing is,she had another demon seed implanted in her and is going to give birth to another Dion.

"It's just some friends of mine and they're busting down the door"

It BREEDS???!!!!!!
the horror the horror

Saw Dion this past April in Atlantic City. Well worth the $35.00. He's still "got it". His band had 2 guitars, bass, drums, keyboards and sax. The sax player was Arno Hecht (steel wheels tour). Dion's not any "lounge act" although we were lucky enough to see him in a casino showroom. Loads of interesting stuff on You Tube. Also check out his great contribution to the Dave Edmunds Rock 'n Roll Revue tour on Wolfgangs Vault from 1990. Don't be fooled... Dion is the real deal who deserves his spot in R & R history.