I hated Homecoming because I was in Marching Band and our Homecoming Weekend always fell on our biggest band competition of the year at Giants Stadium. Our Dance was on Friday night and the Football game was Saturday afternoon. The Band Competition was Friday night. So I spent a majority of my high school Homecomings in Giants Stadium versus at a dance. Ok maybe that didn't suck.
Anyway, enough about me.
So New Jersey 101.5 is having a Homecoming Weekend this weekend.
by: Matt Ryan
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It’s a Jersey Homecoming Weekend on New Jersey 101.5, playing the artists and groups who started in (and some who still are) from the great Garden State. Two of the biggest artists to come out of Jersey are Jon Bon Jovi and Bruce Springsteen. If we were to put these two in a “Jersey Music Battle,” who would win?
Let’s take a look at the “Tale Of The Tape.”
BON JOVI (JON BON JOVI)
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Formed in 1983 in Sayerville, NJ.
Have released 11 studio albums, 3 compilation albums and one live album.
Have sold 130 million records worldwide.
Have performed more than 2,300 concerts in 50 countries for more than 34 million fans.
“Slippery When Wet” was the top selling album of 1987 with “Livin’ On A Prayer,” “You Give Love A Bad Name,” and what is considered “The Bon Jovi Nation Anthem,” “Wanted Dead Or Alive.
The band remained relevant producing albums like 2005′s “Have A Nice Day,” “Lost Highway” in 2007 and most recently “The Circle/Greatest Hits” in 2009.
Jon and Richie Sambora were inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2009.
On December 12, 2009, Bon Jovi were ranked #9 on Billboard’s Top 25 touring artists of the decade after grossing $419,481,741 from 249 shows, of which 244 were sellouts
Were nominated for the 2010 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, but did not make it.
A former auto body shop in Red Bank is now a community restaurant, The Jon Bon Jovi Foundation Soul Kitchen Community Restaurant is now open on Monmouth Street.
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN ( & THE E STREET BAND)
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Formed in 1972 in Monmouth County, NJ.
Has sold more than 65 million albums in the U.S. and 120 million worldwide.
Has won 20 Grammy awards.
Rolling Stone has ranked Bruce as the 23rd Greatest Artist of All Time in its Top 100 list.
On October 27th, 1975 Bruce appeared on the covers of ‘Newsweek’ and ‘Time’ simultaneously.
Inducted into the Songwriters and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’s in 1999.
Performed at Super Bowl XLIII.
Has won Golden Globe, Emmy and Academy Awards.
Is set to tour in 2012.
WHO WINS THIS ‘JERSEY MUSIC BATTLE?’
Who wins?
Hmm.
by: Eric Johnson
Happy Thanksgiving Weekend from New Jersey 101.5! This is the biggest “home for the holiday” weekend of the year!
College students have returned home for the weekend to reconnect with family and friends and thousands of young families and young adults are back in towns to feast with parents and grandparents. Many will be hanging out with friends at bars, nightclubs and their local high school football game!
New Jersey 101.5 celebrates this massive return to the nest on a “Jersey Homecoming Weekend”! From Wednesday night at 7pm through the entire Thanksgiving Weekend we'll be featuring hits from Jersey singers, groups and bands…plus a few Jersey Christmas songs! You'll get your fill of tunes from hometown favorites The Four Seasons, Southside Johnny, Kool & The Gang, Bon Jovi, and of course Bruce Springsteen who just gave us a holiday gift announcing a new album and tour coming in 2012!
Top 40 Songs By Jersey Artists
40. Four Seasons – Who Loves You
Newark
39. Steely Dan – Reeling In The Years
Walter Fagen was born in Passaic
38. Frankie Valli – Swearin' To God
Newark
37. Bruce Springsteen – Rosalita
Freehold
36. Blondie – Call Me
Debbie Harry is from Hawthorne
35. Four Seasons – Rag Doll
Newark
34. Gloria Gaynor – Never Can Say Goodbye
Newark
33. Paul Simon – Me & Julio Down By The School Yard
Newark
32. Bruce Springsteen – Dancing In The Dark
Freehold
31. Four Seasons – Let's Hang On
Newark
30. Kool & The Gang – Ladies Night
Jersey City
29. Bon Jovi – I'll Be There For You
Sayreville
28. Bruce Springsteen – Sherry Darling
Freehold
27. Tommy James – Crystal Blue Persuasion
lives in Cedar Grove
26. Paul Simon – 50 Ways To Leave Your Lover
Newark
25. Bruce Springsteen – Merry Christmas Baby
Freehold
24. Gary Wright – Dream Weaver
Cresskill
23. Tommy James – Crimson & Clover
lives in Cedar Grove
22. Blondie – Rapture
Debbie Harry is from Hawthorne
21. Frankie Valli – My Eyes Adored You
Newark
20. Gloria Gaynor – I Will Survive
Newark
19. Bruce Springsteen – Glory Days
Freehold
18. Paul Simon – Kodachrome
Newark
17. Whitney Houston – How Will I Know
East Orange
16. Frankie Valli – Can't Take My Eyes Off You
Newark
15. Bruce Springsteen – Badlands
Freehold
14. Bon Jovi – Who Says You Can't Go Home
Sayreville
13. Four Seasons – December, 1963 (Oh What A Night)
Newark
12. Bruce Springsteen – Thunder Road
Freehold
11. Bon Jovi – You Give Love A Bad Name
Sayreville
10. Southside Johnny & The Asbury Jukes – Having A Party
Neptune
9. Bruce Springsteen – Jungleland
Freehold
8. Looking Glass – Brandy
Formed at Rutgers, rehearsed in Glen Gardner
7. B52s – Love Shack
band member Kate Pierson was born in Weehawken
6. Tommy James – I Think We're Alone Now
lives in Cedar Grove
5. Bruce Springsteen – My Hometown
Freehold
4. Southside Johnny & The Asbury Jukes – I Don't Want To Go Home
Neptune
3. Bruce Springsteen – Jersey Girl
Freehold
2. Bruce Springsteen – Born To Run
Freehold
1. Living On A Prayer – Bon Jovi
Sayreville
Don't know if I agree with some of these. The fact that not a single Four Seasons song is in the top 10 is criminal. Don't even get me started on #14. Where's Always???? < sarcasm> No Skid Row or Trixter or Danger Danger? < / sarcasm> The fact the only Whitney Houston offering is How Will I Know and not her cover of Dolly Parton's I Will Always Love You, is kind of ridiculous. Speaking of Whitney, where's her Cousin, East Orange NJ's Dionne Warwick?
I'm honestly not even sure about #1.
Love Shack? All I have to say about that is TIN ROOF, RUSTED!
2 comments:
Really?? With all Jon Bon Jovi has done for Jersey! Soul Foundation, Soul Kitchen!! He's always giving back! There's no contest to me! It's Jon Bon Jovi all the way!! thanks
Have A Nice Day :)
Um, I didn't think this was a contest on giving back. Just based on music. If it was based on giving back Dorothea would win over Jon then since she runs the Soul Kitchen, he just put his name on it.
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