March 14, 2016

This week's blog takes us back to one of my favorite groups at one of the best music festivals I've ever photographed!

It's A Beautiful Day is the band at the Wisconsin Music Festival in Madison, Wisconsin in April of 1972. It was a three day festival of music and fun.

My blog number 203, is about It's A Beautiful Day when they played with the Siegal Schwall band. One of you fine folks asked if I had any other photos of It's A Beautiful Day, and here you are!

As a 17 year old kid photographing and listening to Pattie Santos sing the main vocals, I think I may have fallen in love with her a little bit!  She was a very pretty lady and that voice, wow!

Linda Ronstadt played the same weekend so I was having a great time!

Enjoy a look back at the band and at Pattie Santos who is no longer with us due to a car crash long ago in California. Miss her.

Thanks,

Rich Zimmermann

It's A Beautiful Day, at the Wisconsin Music Festival in Madison, Wisconsin in 1972.

February 15, 2016

I hope everyone had a wonderful Valentines Day! It was a cold weekend here but we had fun.

This week we continue looking at the Siegal Schwall Band. At this show they opened for the band It's A Beautiful Day, at the UW Whitewater gymnasium on October 19, 1972.

It's A Beautiful Day, in 1972, was a very popular band with signature vocals from Patti Santos. Her vocals along with David LaFlamme's vocals and violin playing, propelled the band to a few great hits. "White Bird" and "Hot Summer Day" were the most notable hits of their career. I remember telling David LaFlamme after the show backstage what a great show they did and he said, "Of course it was great"!

In the early days of the band, they could have become even more famous had a flip of a coin gone their way. Bill Graham and Michael Lang needed one band to open Woodstock, and it was either Santana or It's A Beautiful Day on that coin flip. Santana won and opened up the show at Woodstock! As they say, the rest is history, and Santana played a legendary performance (supposedly on LSD)!

This was a great show for a little college gymnasium on a cold October night in Whitewater, Wisconsin.

Have a great week and I think I have one more Siegal Schwall show from 1973 for next week!

Thanks,

Rich Zimmermann

It's A Beautiful Day, playing at the UW Whitewater Gymnasium on October 19, 1972. The opening act, also shown here, was the Siegal Schwall Band.