OFFICIAL TERRY LEE SITE

Can you please tell me when tickets will be on sale for the May 15th Terry Lee show? 

Thanks,                                                            

Linda Blakey                                                           

Edinburgh,  Scotland  UK 

Words cannot express the deep appreciation I feel for the warm welcome given to me by all the people who were at the Palisades on Saturday, and I especially want to thank State Representative Bill Kortz for the kind words, Allegheny County Council Member Bob Macey for the proclamation, and last but certainly not least, McKeesport Mayor James Brewster for presenting me with the key to the City of Mckeesport. I will cherish this night and the memories you have given to me and my family for the rest of my life.

We would also like to thank some special people at the Palisades who,without them, the Valentine's Day dance would not have been possible:Mike Joyce, Rich & Cheri Antoncic, Chuck & Marge Heidenfelder,Jim Smith, Ed Wojo Wojdyla & Janeen, Jared Panek, Joe Parknavy, and the entire staff at the Palisades. Thank you for your hard work and warm reception. We look forward to seeing all of you again in May!

On behalf of my family and myself, I would like to thank everyone for the wonderful reception that we received at the Palisades Saturday night.As some of you know, we had a film crew there to record the entire 6 1/2hours and it will be edited into a dance show and a documentary.Details to follow. Thanks again, you made my night; hope you join us on May 15 for my next show at the Palisades.

-TL

When I first came to McKeesport in early 1964, the very first dance that I did was at the Palisades. Since I am returning to the Greater Pittsburgh area for the first time in over 22 years, many venues were suggested for my first appearance, but the Palisades has always held sentimental value to me, so that is where I will appear for the first time, on Saturday, February 13 for a special Valentine's Music for Young Lovers Dance. In the early days of 1964, one of the first people that I met when I arrived in McKeesport was Rich Antoncic. As time went by, Rich ended up working for me at some of my dances like Redd's Beach. He has been a good friend through all the years, and I have invited him to be with me on February 13 at the Palisades. In 1966, when I was operating the TL Nite Train, we would take 35mm slides of the audience and the entertainers, and the following week, we would show the slides on the walls. Pack rat that I am, I have saved all the slides, and at the Palisades that night, we are going to recreate the slide shows from the TL Nite Train. I am looking forward to doing this dance, and hope you will join us for a night of music and memories. For ticket information, go to: http://www.mckeesportpalisades.com

New Year's Eve Special: For the second year in a row, Stan Wall at WLSW has asked me to do a New Year's Eve show. Last year's show was two hours long; the show this year will be five hours long, from 7-midnight. Hope you enjoy it.

-TL

After all these years, I have had a conversation with Stan Wall who has been my friend for almost 50 years.  Stan owns WLSW 103.9 FM and is going to start to run my Music for Young Lovers show on Saturday nights from 10 - midnight.  This is the same show that ran in syndication across the country 20 years ago but has never been heard in Pittsburgh.  It will be fun to have the radio show back on the air again in Pittsburgh.  After all these years, I'm thankful there is still an interest in it.  I am also putting my record collection on CDs and will have them available soon.  I am still working on the book and have pulled hundreds of photographs from dances, concerts, TV shows, recording studios, bands, and other events from the 60s and 70s, including a Three Rivers concert that Porky Chedwick and I did together which featured acts like Chuck Berry, the Shirrelles, Skyliners, and others.

Speaking of Porky, sometime in the early 70s, (I can't remember the exact time because the tape is not dated), I had Porky come to the WIXZ studios on a Saturday night, and for 4 hours, he was my guest on the air and we did my show together.  It was one of the best nights I've ever had on the radio, and to this day is one of my fondest memories because, like many Pittsburgh area residents of our generation, I too can remember listening to Porky on WAMO in my car when I was 16 years old.  He was an inspiration to me then, and still is today.

-TL

A few weeks ago, my 66th birthday came and went, and increasing age and decline in health recently has prompted me to share my experiences and events in my career over the decades in Pittsburgh.  It's been over 20 years since I've left the Pittsburgh area to go to Phoenix for the syndication of my show.  Let me first say, I have never in the past 20 years released any CDs, reissued any of my Music For Young Lovers albums or authorized the issue of any material that I produced.  It's stunning how people feel they have a right to use pieces of my life, my name, my work, what I created from my imagination without any regard to how I or my family would feel.  Now that I have that off my chest, for the last several years I have enjoyed going through old radio shows, TV shows, and transferring my record collection to CD.  I want to share the fun that I've had putting these together - of the 60's - when many of us were young and idealistic. Some of the projects I'm working on are transferring my record collection to CD, pulling all the photographs from the 60's and 70's for a book that I am in the process of writing, and editing radio specials that I produced in 1969 on various Pittsburgh groups including the Jaggerz, Vogues, Racket Squad, DeeJays, Swamp Rats, etc.  Also, I'm working on a Skyliner special that I produced at the network studios in Phoenix with Jimmy Beaumont in 1988.

I also want you to know that I have no computer skills whatsoever, and my wife and family are helping me set up and operate this website.  Thanks for all their help 

-TL