• Peter Charles Blecha is an American historian, curator, essayist, author, musician, and director of the Seattle-based Northwest Music Archives. He is primarily...
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    (4). University of Washington: 167–177. JSTOR 40490533. Kit Oldham; Peter Blecha (2011). Rising Tides and Tailwinds: The Story of the Port of Seattle...
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    Other Satisfactions. University of Illinois Press. ISBN 0-252-06915-3. Blecha, Peter (2009). Sonic Boom: The History of Northwest Rock, from "Louie Louie"...
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    History Link - essay 9130 - Rainier Beer - Seattle's Iconic Brewery - by Peter Blecha Guide to the Rainier Brewing Company Advertisements and Other Materials...
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    Charming Towns Where You Can Live on a Houseboat". Retrieved 12 May 2024. Peter Blecha (12 August 2010). "Seattle's Historic Houseboats". HistoryLink.org. Retrieved...
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    husband have a livestream show on his YouTube channel, Billy Mac Songs. Blecha, Peter (December 14, 2015). "Rush, Merrilee (b. 1944)". HistoryLink. Archived...
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    Culture in Seattle has an original Audiovox 736 Bass, found by historian Peter Blecha in the late 1990s. In March 2018 an original Audiovox 736 bass, one of...
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  • influenced later acts such as Nirvana and the White Stripes. According to Peter Blecha, they "were the unholy practitioners of punk rock long before anyone...
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  •  464. "KVI, Seattle: Tribute to Kent Morrill".[permanent dead link] Peter Blecha. "Etiquette Rules! The Northwest's Reigning '60s Garage-Rock Record Company...
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  • Linda Bierds (1969, 1971) – poet and MacArthur Fellowship recipient Peter Blecha (1974, 1988) – historian, author, essayist Matt Briggs (1995) – novelist...
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  • keyboardist, organist, and vocalist based in Seattle, Washington, US. Peter Blecha accounts his Dave Lewis Combo as "Seattle's first significant African...
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    from the original on September 14, 2008. Retrieved August 17, 2008. Peter Blecha, PONCHO holds inaugural fundraising auction, to benefit Seattle Symphony...
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    Minneapolis Tribune, "After Last Night" by Will Jones, April 18, 1950. Peter Blecha (2007) Music in Washington: Seattle and Beyond(Arcadia Publishing. Page...
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  • for Richard Berry, termed it "a cornerstone of rock". Music historian Peter Blecha noted, "Far from shuffling off to a quiet retirement, evidence indicates...
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  • Ann Powers, Jim Emerson, Gillian G. Gaar, Brent Lorang, Grant Alden, Peter Blecha, and Dennis Eichhorn. Matt Groening provided some cover art during this...
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  • Gerry L. Alexander, 1954, Chief Justice, Washington State Supreme Court Peter Blecha, 1974, historian, curator, essayist, author, musician Floyd Brown, 1980...
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    storytelling-in-song. As Caldirola would later tell Northwest music historian Peter Blecha, “This was the first inkling I had that there were serious antique vinyl...
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  • Dellaccio, Jini (b. 1917), Photographer HistoryLink.org Essay 8953 by Peter Blecha "Dellaccio, Jini (1917-2014)". Historylink.org. "A look back at rock...
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    died of an overdose. Keliehor and Lalor worked with Bob Jeniker and Peter Blecha to put together a Daily Flash compilation, I Flash Daily, released by...
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  • recorded rock song in history as documented by music historian Peter Blecha. According to Blecha's records and research, “Louie Louie” celebrated its 50-year...
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    band went through numerous lineups, but has stuck to the aesthetic that Peter Blecha describes as "cross-pollinat[ing] bubblegum sensibilities with punk attitudes...
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  • pp.161-62. Blecha, 2006. Blecha, 2006, citing Linda Allen, Washington Songs and Lore (Spokane: Melior Publications 1988), p. 18. Peter Blecha, "Fanning...
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  • Francisco did not last. Their orchestra became a touring group "performing," Peter Blecha writes, "in upended barns, grange halls, open fields, anywhere and everywhere...
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  • The Quietus. John Doran and Luke Turner. Retrieved December 9, 2012. Peter Blecha (September 20, 2011). "Novoselic, Krist (b. 1965) – HistoryLink.org Essay...
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  • compilation is entitled Kearney Barton: Architect of the Northwest Sound. Peter Blecha, Barton, Kearney: The Man Who Engineered the Northwest Sound. HistoryLink...
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  • Guitar were among those who released records on Morrison. According to Peter Blecha, the label "generally leaned towards the old-fashioned strains preferred...
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    Period Homes Magazine. April 15, 2016. Retrieved November 23, 2017. Peter Blecha (August 12, 2010). "Seattle's Historic Houseboats". HistoryLink.org....
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    2021. Holden, Ron (1940–1997): Seattle's Sweet '60s Teen Balladeer by Peter Blecha, July 24, 2008 - retrieved October 2015 Biography, AllMusic Whitburn...
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    star soon faded. Their orchestra became a touring group "performing," Peter Blecha writes, "in upended barns, grange halls, open fields, anywhere and everywhere...
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  • Peter Gunn theme. Rerecorded versions appeared on The Kingsmen on Campus (1965) and House Party (1980) as "Peter Gunn". Blecha 2009, p. 134. Blecha 2009...
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