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As a producer-promoter, Kirshner was instrumental in launching the careers of singers and songwriters, including Bobby Darin, with whom he collaborated on a number of advertising jingles and pop "ditties" - their first was called "Bubblegum Pop". [10]
The following year, Kirshner left “In Concert” to launch his own syndicated weekly rock program, “Don Kirshner’s Rock Concert.” On September 27, 1973, “Don Kirshner’s Rock Concert” premiered featuring The Rolling Stones first American television performance in over four years. Read more…
May 30, 2014 · Don Kirshner hosted the music variety TV show Don Kirshner's Rock Concert from 1973 through 1981. The show featured Black Sabbath, The Rolling Stones, The Eagles, David Bowie, Rush, KISS and many more.
Don Kirshner was a tireless rock-and-roll publisher and all-around impresario. He shaped pop in the days when Tin Pan Alley began to blend with the rhythms of rock. A pioneering musical matchmaker, Don Kirshner discovered the best songwriters and paired them with the top artists to consistently turn out hit after hit.
Episode 1:Ike and Tina TurnerQueenEpisode 2:Linda RonstadtSteve MartinEpisode 3:The O'JaysThe Hues CorporationCommodoresEpisode 4:The Captain and TennilleTav...
Studio Viacom Productions. The now-legendary ‘Don Kirshner’s Rock Concert,’ a show that showed everyone from 60s holdovers like the Byrds and Joan Baez to 70s hitmakers like Abba and Fleetwood Mac.
Don Kirshner's Rock Concert is an American television music variety show that ran during the 1970s and early 1980s, created and produced by Don Kirshner and syndicated to television stations, initially through Viacom Enterprises, and later through Syndicast.
