THE NURSERY

THE NURSERY THE NURSERY was a notorious after-hours club for Musicians in the late 70's and early 80's located in THE VILLAGE in NYC

This page is dedicated to THE NURSERY, a famous 80s NYC night club. It was beloved by rockers who spent many a night partying with fellow musicians. Here's to The Nursery and to Rock 'n Roll

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The 1970s gave us some of the most romantic and memorable slow dance songs ever recorded. From soulful ballads to tender rock classics, these tracks filled gymnasiums and dance floors with magic during prom season. Whether you were swaying under disco balls or simply holding someone close, these tim...

Today is the Birthday of John Bonham (May 31, 1948–September 25, 1980) – English drummer, songwriter for Led Zeppelin –...
05/31/2026

Today is the Birthday of John Bonham (May 31, 1948–September 25, 1980) – English drummer, songwriter for Led Zeppelin – he was named the best drummer of all time by Rolling Stone in 2011. Esteemed for his speed, power, fast bass drumming, distinctive sound and feel for the groove, he is regarded as one of the greatest and most influential rock drummers in history. He took up drums at the age of five, receiving a snare drum at the age of 10 and a full drum set at the age of 15. He made a drum set out of coffee tins and other containers when he was young. He played with multiple local bands both at school and following school, eventually playing in two different bands with future bandmate Robert Plant. Following the demise of the Yardbirds in 1968, Bonham joined Plant, guitarist Jimmy Page and bassist John Paul Jones to form Led Zeppelin. With the band, Bonham mostly showcased a hard-hitting hard rock style but also handled funk and Latin-influenced grooves in later releases. Mostly self-taught, his influences included Max Roach, Gene Krupa and Buddy Rich. He was close with Vanilla Fudge drummer Carmine Appice who introduced him to Ludwig drums. He also worked as a session drummer. He has worked with groups like The Family Dogg and Screaming Lord Sutch. He was posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1995 as a member of Led Zeppelin. In 2016, Rolling Stone ranked him first in its list of the "100 Greatest Drummers of All Time." In October, 1980, an autopsy showed that in 24 hours, Bonham had consumed around 40 shots (1–1.4 litres) of 40% ABV vodka which he vomited and choked on (a condition known as pulmonary aspiration). The finding was accidental death. An autopsy found no other recreational drugs in his body. According to Rolling Stone, Bonham had recently overcome a he**in problem and was taking an unspecified medication for anxiety and depression at the time of his death. He was only 32. Rather than replace Bonham, Led Zeppelin chose to disband out of respect to their deceased bandmate.

John Bonhams mega drum solo (not his longest by far though) in the form of the song Moby Dick

Happy Birthday to Lenny Welch (May 31, 1938–April 8, MOR/pop singer. Born in New York and raised in Asbury Park, New Jer...
05/31/2026

Happy Birthday to Lenny Welch (May 31, 1938–April 8, MOR/pop singer. Born in New York and raised in Asbury Park, New Jersey. His biggest hit, a cover version of the big band standard "Since I Fell for You," selling over 1 million records, reached number 4 on U.S. Billboard Hot 100 in 1963. His other hits included "Ebb Tide" in 1964 which was featured in the film Sweet Bird of Youth. He also recorded the first vocal version of "A Taste of Honey" in 1962. He performed the theme to the 1967 CBS TV series Coronet Blue. He was nineteen when record mogul Archie Blyer (once conductor for the Arthur Godfrey show) signed him to Cadence Records. It was the beginning of a recording career that has made Lenny known throughout the United States, Europe and South America. His other hits include "You Don't Know Me,” "Ebb Tide,” "Breaking Up Is Hard to Do" and "Two Different Worlds." "Breaking Up Is Hard to Do" originally written and recorded by Neil Sedaka as a bubblegum pop song was a song Welch transformed into a slow ballad. Sedaka was so impressed with the cover that he himself recorded it in Welch's style; Welch's version hit the top 40, and Sedaka's reached the top 10. Welch. Following a long illness, he died in Kissimmee, Florida, in 2025, at the age of 86.

Possibly a forgotten oldie for some, but not for others. One of the more moving love ballads of the early 1960s, this one hit the charts in the fall of 1963....

Today is the Birthday of Johnny Paycheck (Donald Eugene Lytle0 May 31, 1938–February 19, 2003) - Country singer and Gran...
05/31/2026

Today is the Birthday of Johnny Paycheck (Donald Eugene Lytle0 May 31, 1938–February 19, 2003) - Country singer and Grand Ole Opry member who sang "Take This Job and Shove It" and "Miracle of Love." He was a member of the Grand Ole Opry. He started playing music in talent shows when he was nine years old and later learned to play steel guitar from George Jones. He was part of country music's "Outlaw Movement.” In December 1985, Paycheck was convicted and sentenced to seven years in jail for shooting a man at the North High Lounge in Hillsboro, Ohio, after he fired a .22 pistol, the bullet grazing a man's head. Paycheck claimed the act was self-defense. After several years spent fighting the sentence, he began serving his sentence in 1989 spending 22 months in prison before being pardoned by Ohio Governor Richard Celeste. The most successful of his later singles, released during his appeal, was "Old Violin" which reached #21 on the country chart in 1986. His last album to chart was "Modern Times" in 1987. He continued to release albums, the last of which, Remembering appeared in 2002. He later was said to have "put his life in order" after his prison stay. He continued to perform and tour until the late 1990s. In 2000, his failing health would allow him only short appearances. He contracted emphysema and asthma and died in 2003.

Provided to YouTube by Epic/LegacyI'm the Only Hell (Mama Ever Raised) · Johnny PaycheckThe Soul & The Edge: The Best Of Johnny Paycheck℗ 1977 Sony Music Ent...

Birthday wishes to Corey Hart - Canadian singer, songwriter – he rose to international success in the mid-80s with his h...
05/31/2026

Birthday wishes to Corey Hart - Canadian singer, songwriter – he rose to international success in the mid-80s with his hits “Sunglasses at Night: and “Never Surrender.” He has sold over 16 million records worldwide by amassing 9 consecutive US Billboard Top 40 Hits while scoring an impressive 32 top 40 singles in his native Canada (Including 12 – Top 10 Hits). He is a Quebec ADISQ award winner. He learned to speak English, Spanish and French as a child. He released his first album, First Offense in 1982. His 1985 album Boy in the Box was certified Platinum. Nominated for the Grammy Award for Best New Artist in 1984, he is an inductee of both Canada's Music Hall of Fame and Canada's Walk of Fame and is also a multiple Juno award nominee and winner, including the Diamond Award for his best-selling album Boy in the Box. He has been honored by the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) and the Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada (SOCAN). He auditioned for the lead role in Back to the Future in 1985, but it was given to Michael J. Fox.

REMASTERED IN HD!Official Music Video for Never Surrender performed by Corey Hart.Follow Corey Hart: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/coreyhartofficialFa...

Happy Birthday Andy Hurley – Wisconsin Drummer who was a member of the rock band, Fall Out Boy, who has also performed w...
05/31/2026

Happy Birthday Andy Hurley – Wisconsin Drummer who was a member of the rock band, Fall Out Boy, who has also performed with metal bands like The Damned Things. He attended the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and was a member of many hardcore punk bands. He is known for being part of the straight edge subculture and is a vegan as well as a comic book connoisseur. His father passed away when he was five and his mother supported their family by working as a nurse. He and Patrick Stump are longtime collaborators as members of Fall Out Boy.

Pete Wentz presents Andy Hurley vs Animal from The Muppets in an epic “drum-off” @ RDMA’s 2016

Birthday greetings to Scotti Hill - Manhasset, New York guitarist – known as one of the guitarists in the heavy metal ba...
05/31/2026

Birthday greetings to Scotti Hill - Manhasset, New York guitarist – known as one of the guitarists in the heavy metal band, Skid Row, formed in 1986 in Toms River, New Jersey. The group achieved commercial success in the late 1980s and early 1990s with its first two albums Skid Row (1989) and Slave to the Grind (1991) certified multi-platinum, the latter of which reached number one on the Billboard 200. The band's third album Subhuman Race (1995) was also critically acclaimed but failed to repeat the success of its predecessors. During this period, the band consisted of Bolan, Sabo, Hill, drummer Rob Afuso, and frontman Sebastian Bach. The band had sold 20 million albums worldwide by the end of 1996. In 1996, after Skid Row's break up, Scotti started a side project with friends called Chrome Daddy. They ended up recording an album the same year that was released in 2014. He was in the band Ozone Monday with singer Shawn McCabe, current Skid Row members guitarist Dave "The Snake" Sabo, bassist Rachel Bolan and former Skid Row drummer Rob Affuso.

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Happy Birthday to Peter Yarrow (May 31, 1938–January 7, 2025) – New York City singer, songwriter - he found fame with th...
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Happy Birthday to Peter Yarrow (May 31, 1938–January 7, 2025) – New York City singer, songwriter - he found fame with the 1960s folk music trio Peter, Paul and Mary. Yarrow co-wrote (with Leonard Lipton) one of the group's greatest hits, "Puff, the Magic Dragon." He graduated second in his class among male students with a physics prize from New York's High School of Music and Art where he had studied painting. He was accepted at Cornell University as a physics major but soon switched majors graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in psychology in 1959. Among his Cornell classmates were Thomas Pynchon and Richard Fariña. Upon graduation he played in folk clubs in New York City, appeared on the CBS television show, Folk Sound USA and the following summer performed at the Newport Folk Festival where he met manager and musical impresario Albert Grossman. One day, the two were at Israel Young's Folklore Center in Greenwich Village discussing Grossman's idea for a new group that would be "an updated version of the Weavers for the baby-boom generation ... with the crossover appeal of the Kingston Trio." Yarrow noticed a picture of Mary Travers on the wall and asked Grossman who she was. "That's Mary Travers," Grossman said. "She'd be good if you could get her to work." The lanky, blonde Kentucky-born Travers was well connected in Greenwich Village folk song circles. She sang in a trio called The Song Swappers, backing up Pete Seeger in the 1955 Folkways LP reissue of the Almanac Singers' The Talking Union and two other albums. To draw her out, Yarrow went to her apartment on MacDougal Street, across from the Gaslight, one of the principal folk clubs. They harmonized on “Miner's Lifeguard” and decided that their voices blended. To fill out the trio, they enlisted Noel Stookey, a friend doing folk music and stand-up comedy at the Gaslight." They rehearsed intensively for six months, touring outside New York before debuting in 1961 as a polished act at The Bitter End nightclub in Greenwich Village. The singers quickly developed a following and signed a contract with Warner Brothers. In 1982, Yarrow was the recipient of the Allard K. Lowenstein Award. Yarrow pursued a solo career in the 1970s, releasing his debut album “Peter” in 1972. He received awards for his continued activism. In 1970, Yarrow was convicted of and served three months in prison for taking "improper liberties" with a 14-year-old girl who went with her 17-year-old sister to Yarrow's hotel room seeking an autograph. He had answered the door naked and made sexual advances that stopped short of in*******se." The 14-year-old resisted his advances but according to reports, did not call for help. Yarrow served three months of a one-to three-year prison sentence. In 1981, Jimmy Carter granted Yarrow a presidential pardon for the crime. In the 2000s, he engaged in anti-bullying efforts in schools,for which helped start Operation Respect. He died at his Upper West Side apartment at the age of 86 of bladder cancer

Peter Yarrow and Noel Paul Stookey of folk trio Peter, Paul and Mar...

Today is the Birthday of Vicki Sue Robinson (May 31, 1954– April 27, 2000) – Philadelphia singer, backup singer, session...
05/31/2026

Today is the Birthday of Vicki Sue Robinson (May 31, 1954– April 27, 2000) – Philadelphia singer, backup singer, session musician, actress – closely associated with the disco era of late 1970s pop music, she is most famous for her 1976 hit, "Turn the Beat Around." Born in Harlem, New York to African American Shakespearean actor Bill Robinson and his European American wife Marianne, a folk singer, she was reared in Philadelphia for most of her early years returning with her family to New York City when she was 10. She gave her first public performance in 1960 at the age of six when she accompanied her mother on stage at the Philadelphia Folk Festival. At 16, while a student at the New Lincoln School, she made her professional performing debut when she joined the Broadway cast of the musical Hair. She remained with Hair for six weeks before moving to a new Broadway production, Soon, whose cast included Peter Allen, Barry Bostwick, Nell Carter and Richard Gere. After the show's short run, she appeared in the Off-Broadway play Long Time Coming, Long Time Gone in which she and Richard Gere played Mimi and Richard Fariña. New York magazine opined that Robinson "sings with gentle power accompanying herself on guitar and dulcimer and moves with astounding confidence." She had bit parts in films Going Home (1971) and To Find A Man (1972). After a tour in Japan, she returned to Broadway in 1973 joining the cast of Jesus Christ Superstar. She made her recording debut as one of several Hair veterans invited to sing background on Todd Rundgren's Something/Anything? album released in 1972. In 1973, she spent time in Japan with Itsuro Shimoda and did session work on his album Love Songs and Lamentations and toured nationally. She died of cancer in 2000. She was 45. In 2011, Gold Legion.com digitally remastered and reissued her four albums for RCA Records on CD along with bonus tracks and liner notes.

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1977 performance of 'Can't Find No Love' on Don Kirshner's Rock Concert. VSR -vocals, Danny Pickering -flute/trumpet, Joey Melotti -keys, Bill Cerulli -drum...

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