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

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

September 3, 2012

These are photographs from the second day, April 15, 1972, of the Wisconsin Music Festival, held at the University of Wisconsin Fieldhouse in Madison.

Day 2 was a big day with Linda Ronstadt, Kris Kristofferson, Pattie Santos with It's a Beautiful Day, and Ramblin Jack Elliott and Rosalie Sorrels returned for more fun.

There are a lot of photographs with this blog.  It was a great day and a very memorable show for me.  A lot of beer cans were on the floor of that dressing room!

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Thanks,

Rich Zimmermann