#bob abrahamian

[gottahavesoul]

Ahead Of Our time - It Ain’t Fair (Eccentric Soul: Sitting in the Park; V.A., 2016)

“Chicago radio disc jockey and soul archivist Bob Abrahamian was deeply devoted to celebrating and documenting unknown Chicagoland group harmony music. Upon his untimely passing in 2014, he left behind hundreds of radio programs and a daunting collection of 35,000 carefully-selected 45s. This collection borrows its title from Abrahamian’s long-running and acclaimed WHPK radio show, and it spins a tale that’s cautionary, inspiring, and set to the sounds of the impossible-to-find tracks that made Bob Abrahamian’s on-air playlist and animated the radio programs that were his life’s work.”

[jdunlevy]

The latest soul anthology from the Numero Group is a love letter to DJ, collector, and historian Bob Abrahamian

The newest Eccentric Soul compilation focuses on the Chicago vocal music that soul historian Bob Abrahamian devoted his life to.

[soultogethernessusa]

Bob Abrahamian Remembered

A little over a year ago, Chicago lost a friend and true lover of soul music, Bob Abrahamian. Bob was an historian, collector and radio host dedicated to preserving the memory and efforts made by Chicago musicians in the realm of group harmony and soul. On his radio program, Sitting in the Park, he tracked down and interviewed hundreds of lost and forgotten artists from our cities musical past, bringing their stories and their music to new listeners across the globe.

Bob always took the time to support us by DJing our events, to everyone's delight, and was always there to share his stories with anyone he could.

Since his passing, an effort has been made by his family to archive and preserve the thousands upon thousands of soul, rnb and harmony 45s from his expansive collection through the Bob Abrahamian Charitable Fund, and it is our great honor to be able to contribute 100% of the profits from our weekender towards that cause.

Even if you aren't able to make the event to support, we encourage any who can to make any donations possible via the link below:

https://forms.dwollalabs.com/bob-abrahamian-charitable-fund

Or simply, take some time to listen to the archived episodes of his radio shows and see what kind of impact he had to the lives of the people that he interviewed:

http://sittinginthepark.com/interviews.html

Bob was a friend, and we will all be missing him dearly at STUSA this year.

[gapers]

“He would get all these living members of all these old soul groups from all over Chicago and Gary. He was obsessed into locating background information,” says Ethan Powers of Out of the Past, a West Side used record store. “He was completely into the holistic aspect of it. It wasn’t just the song, it was the history, it was the scene, it was everything.”

Death of soul music collector, preservationist “devastating to Chicago cultural history” | Voices

[soultogethernessusa]

DJ SPOTLIGHT - Bob Abrahamian (Chicago)

Happy Friday Soul People! Today we highlight local collector, Bob Abrahamian for your listening pleasure!

Bob Abrahamian has been collecting soul music since the mid-90s. He began radio DJing soul music in 1996 as one of the DJs of “The Dusties Party” on WHPK 88.5FM on the south side of Chicago. In 2002, he started his own show “Sitting in the Park”, to focus on playing sweet soul 45s. The show drove his aggressive collecting, and his tastes ultimately expanded to group harmony soul of all tempos, from transitional sounds of the early 60s to mid-80s indie harmony records. In 2004, he started interviewing members of Chicago soul groups and by 2013 has done over 120 different radio interviews with hundreds of artists. His music and interview shows are archived online at Sitting in the Park. He is also an author of the soon-to-be-published second volume of “Soul Harmony Singles 1960-1990,” a discography attempting to document all 45s released by soul harmony groups. When DJing live, Bob likes plays mainly 70s music, both earlier crossover tracks as well as later modern soul sounds.

We love seeing Bob behind the decks, which is not often enough, so we are extremely pleased to have him be a part of STUSA 2014.  

Have a listen to his most recent "Sitting in the Park" radio show here!

[soultogethernessusa]

DJ Spotlight - Bob Abrahamian (Sitting in the Park, Chicago)

Another DJ spotlight to start the week off right! Today we are featuring 15 tunes from Chicago's own Bob Abrahamian. Let the countdown to March 30th begin! --

Bob Abrahamian has been collecting soul music since the mid-90s. He started radio DJing soul in 1996 as one of the DJs of “The Dusties Party” on WHPK 88.5FM on the south side of Chicago. In 2002 he started his own show “Sitting in the Park”, to focus on playing sweet soul 45s. The show drove his aggressive collecting, and his tastes ultimately expanded to group harmony soul of all tempos, from transitional sounds of the early 60s to mid-80s indie harmony records. In 2004 he started interviewing members of Chicago soul groups and by 2013 has done over 120 different radio interviews with hundreds of artists. His music and interview shows are archived online at Sitting in the Park. He is also an author of the soon-to-be-published second volume of “Soul Harmony Singles 1960-1990”, a discography attempting to document all 45s released by soul harmony groups. When DJing live, Bob likes plays mainly 70s music, both earlier crossover tracks as well as later modern soul sounds.