Sunday, 15 November 2009 13:42

PortlandSideways.com's own "countryboy" is to be honored by the Kansas Music Hall of Fame as a member of the 1960's era band The Morning Dew.  The Morning Dew is to be one of then acts inducted for the Year 2010 into the Hall of Fame in a ceremony March 6, 2010 at Liberty Hall-Lawrence, Kansas. 

Recording artists The Morning Dew, toured the mid-western states during the mid to late 1960's. They recorded for Roulette and Fairyland labels.
See photos of The Morning Dew here or  1967 video here.
Inteview with Mal Robinson 60sGarageBands.com

View new VIDEOS of the ceremony performance here!

The Dew performed at most of the major universities, colleges and major clubs in the Kansas, Missouri and Nebraska area.  They also toured in Oklahoma and Arkansas.

See the Morning Dew's Kansas Music Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony 2010 and one of their performance songs Young Man performed at Liberty Hall, Lawerence, Kansas March 6, 2010.  The band had not played togther for nearly 40 years.  Performing for the Dew were Mal Robinson, Don "Tommy" Sligar, Don "Andy" Anderson, Blair Honeyman and David Howell. 

On the national stage they performed as the opening act for The Drifters, The Turtles, and Gary Puckett and the Union Gap. 

Their recordings have included:

• 1968 45 RPM Single No More which rose regional to the top ten-Fairyland Records, Recorded in Columbia, MO
• 1969 45 RPM Single Be A Friend-Fairyland Records, Recorded in Columbia, MO
• 1970 LP-At Last-Roulette Records, Recorded in NYC, NY  This LP also featured the song Save Me composed by Malcomb Robinson (Morning Dew) and Kerry Livegren (Kansas) as songwriters. Save Me was Livegren's first published song.
• 1971 CD-Morning Dew "At Last"-re-release Akarma Records
• 1988 LP-Cut the Chatter-CapedCrusader/Fairland Records
• 1994 CD-Morning Dew "The Definitive Collection (1966-1969)-Collectables Records
• 1995 CD-The Morning Dew Second Album (music from 1969-1970)-Collectables Records, Recorded at Audio House, Lawrence, KS
• 2009 CD-Morning Dew "No More" 1966-1969-Cicadelic Records www.cidcadelic.com

Compilations Containg Morning Dew recordings:

• 1984 LP Pebbles Volume 14
• 1994 CD The Cicadelic 60's Volume 5 Unreleased Garage Band Demos, 1966-1968-Collectable Records
• 1998 CD The Thingies Have Arrived-Collectable Records
• 1998 CD Gems from the Garage Band Vaults-Green Crystal Ties Volume Nine-Collectable Records
• 1998 CD The Great Lost Psychedelic Garage Bands-Collectable Records

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