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In this special Long Island Music and Entertainment Hall of Fame Podcast episode, LIMEHOF Vice Chairman Tom Needham welcomes Rolling Stone senior writer and acclaimed author David Browne for an engaging conversation about Browne’s book Talkin’ Greenwich Village: The Heady Rise and Slow Fall of America’s Bohemian Music Capital. Drawing on years of original research and more than a hundred first-hand interviews, Browne recounts the rise of Greenwich Village as a creative epicenter where folk music, politics, culture, and reinvention converged to shape an era.

The discussion explores the Village’s powerful connections to Long Island and the greater New York region, highlighting stories of influential artists—many of them LIMEHOF inductees—whose roots and careers intersected with the folk music movement. Browne and Needham examine how musicians from Long Island and neighboring boroughs helped fuel the Village’s creative energy while contributing to a scene that would influence American music far beyond Manhattan.

Blending historical insight with personal reflection, Browne shares behind-the-scenes perspectives from his extensive interviews with legendary performers and cultural figures, offering a vivid portrait of a community that welcomed outsiders, nurtured innovation, and ultimately faced dramatic change by the early 1990s. This conversation captures the enduring legacy of Greenwich Village’s folk scene and its lasting ties to the artists celebrated by the Long Island Music and Entertainment Hall of Fame.

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On this episode of the Long Island Music & Entertainment Hall of Fame Podcast, host Tom Needham sits down with Brooklyn Bridge inductees Jimmy Rosica and Joe Ruvio for a rare, song-by-song look back at the group’s landmark debut album. Together, they revisit the creation of classics like “Blessed Is the Rain,” “Welcome Me Love,” “Which Way to Nowhere,” “The Worst That Could Happen,” “Piece of My Heart,” and more.

Rosica and Ruvio share vivid memories of working alongside music greats Johnny Maestro and Jimmy Webb, reflecting on the group’s signature blend of harmony vocals and full horn arrangements that brought them national acclaim.

Recorded during a packed live event at the Hall of Fame, the episode captures the energy of a room full of fans who later stayed to meet the band members and take photos. It’s an intimate celebration of a breakthrough album that helped define an era of New York soul-pop.

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The Long Island Music and Entertainment Hall of Fame is located at:

97 Main Street
Stony Brook, NY 11790
Email: info@limusichalloffame.org
Phone: 631-689-5888

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The Long Island Music & Entertainment Hall of Fame presents a special podcast episode hosted by Tom Needham and featuring Emmy-winning producer and talent manager Rory Rosegarten, an Executive Producer of Everybody Loves Raymond and Ray Romano’s manager.

Rosegarten has represented many performers including Robert Klein and Tom Green; produced the Broadway musical Late Night Comic at age 25; co-executive produced the TNT drama Men of a Certain Age; and won two Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Comedy Series for Everybody Loves Raymond. He is also an executive producer of the upcoming Netflix biopic I Slept With Joey Ramone.

This episode also highlights LIMEHOF’s new exhibition, Everybody Loves Raymond: Celebrating 30 Years, opening November 28th in Stony Brook. The immersive exhibit features the original 70-foot-wide set created for the show’s 30th anniversary CBS special—on public display for the first time—along with elements from the Paley Museum’s earlier Raymond exhibition. Designed by Kevin O’Callaghan, the experience brings visitors inside the Barone family home with recreated rooms, iconic props such as the fork and spoon and the Christmas toaster, and multimedia clips including rare behind-the-scenes material. The exhibit reflects Rory Rosegarten’s efforts to bring the sitcom’s history to Long Island, where the fictional Barone family lived and where Ray Romano has deep New York roots.

Buy tickets to visit LIMEHOF at:

https://www.limusichalloffame.org/tickets-and-gift-cards/

The Long Island Music and Entertainment Hall of Fame is located at:

97 Main Street
Stony Brook, NY 11790
Email: info@limusichalloffame.org
Phone: 631-689-5888