Woody's Truck Stop

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This day-by-day diary of Woody's Truck Stop's live, studio, broadcasting, and private activities is the result of three decades of research and interview work by Bruno Ceriotti, but without the significant contributions by other kindred spirits this diary would not have been possible. So, I would like to thank all the people who, in one form or another, contributed to this timeline: Leroy Radcliffe (RIP), Todd Rundgren, Alan Miller (RIP), Joe DiCarlo, Bobby Radeloff (RIP), Ron Bogdon (RIP), Tim Moore, Dan Gralick, Kenny Radeloff, Ross Hannan, Corry Arnold, Paul Fishkin, Rudy Reber, Karen Kolbin, Isa, Steven Rea, Mike Shustack, Paul Myers, David Fricke, Dave Brown, Rick Rosen, Jack Rosen, Shindig!, Billboard, Cashbox, Robert Mooney, Rose De Wolf, Gary Settle, John Roberts, Jerry Gaghan, Tom Krawiec, The Daily Pennsylvanian, Philadelphia Daily News, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Evening Journal, Courier Post, The Gettysburg Times, The Evening Sun, Delaware County Daily Times, The Evening Sun, The Broadside, The College News, The Ursinus Weekly, The Morning News.

November 1965
Mostly known for having featured Todd Rundgren in one of their earlier lineups, Woody's Truck Stop were arguably the second best rock band (after the Nazz) emerged from the Philadelphia music scene of the 60's. Described by their manager Paul Fishkin as a "sort of the Grateful Dead of Philadelphia," the original four-piece featured a couple of high school seniors, lead guitarist Alan Tod Miller (b. 1948, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - d. 2012 (?)) from Unionville High School in Kennett Square, and singer and mouth harp player Robert G. 'Bobby' Radeloff (b. 1948, Philadelphia) from Lower Merion High School in Ardmore, plus a couple of college boys, drummer Artie Heller, and bassist Carson Gould Van Osten (b. Monday, September 24, 1945, Cinnaminson Township, Burlington County, New Jersey - d. Tuesday, December 22, 2015, at his home in Thousand Oaks, Ventura County, California, after a brief illness), a former graduate (Class of '63) of Palmyra High School in Palmyra, New Jersey, who at that time was an industrial design major at the Philadelphia College of Art (although he flunked out at the end of his junior year in the spring of '66 to pursue a career in music). "The band that became Woody's Truck Stop was originally me and Alan Miller," recalls Radeloff. "We both had a folk and blues background and I'd been very active in the Philadelphia Folk Festival since the age of 13. As a student at Lower Merion High School, I had a group called The Angle Flake Jug Band who played at The Main Point in Bryn Mawr and I was also a guitar teacher at Medley Music Store in Ardmore." The band, whose name was taken from an upstate New York motorcycle dealership because "it was catchy" said Miller, rehearsed in a rented second-story small dingy room (decorated with mostly empty pictures frames) over a motorcycle shop (owned by a guy named Bob Lochland) on Market Street and North 39th Street by the elevated train tracks in West Philly ("It was hot as hell up there", reflects about the room their future drummer Tim Moore). Their early repertoire consisted primarly of covers of blues songs such as 'Rock Me Baby', recorded by Lil' Son Jackson in 1951 but popularized by B.B. King in 1964, 'I Keep On Drinking (To Drive My Blues Away)' recorded by Bumble Bee Slim in 1935, and 'Born In Chicago' written by Nick 'The Greek' Gravenites and recorded by the Paul Butterfield Blues Band in 1965.

WOODY'S TRUCK STOP #1 (NOVEMBER 1965 - JUNE 1966)
1) Alan Miller lead guitar, vocals
2) Carson Van Osten bass
3) Bob 'Bobby' Radeloff lead vocals, harmonica, rhythm guitar
4) Artie Heller drums

Alan Miller during a rehearsal, Philadelphia, July 1966

Alan Miller, Philadelphia, Spring 1966

Thursday, March 31, 1966
Alan Miller, who at the time was the only senior at Unionville High School to become a National Merit Scholarship finalist, was one of 17 students warned to cut their hair or be suspended. Miller grew shoulder-length curls to conform with the appearance of the other members of his band Woody's Truck Stop. Also due to his long, blonde hair, his friends kiddingly called him 'Samson'.

Tuesday, April 5, 1966
While the other 16 students warned to cut their hair a week earlier complied with the order, some with money supplied by the school from a newspaper fund, Alan Miller refused and so he was suspended today.

Monday, April 25, 1966
After an initiation of court action from Alan Miller's attorney Robert W. Lentz to compel the school to let the youth continued and completed his senior year, Judge John M. Kurtz of the Chester County Court of Common Pleas issued a temporary injunction that afternoon, ordering school officials to allow Miller to return to class. Later that evening, the school board given permission to Miller to continue his education by telephone. Under conditions set down by the board, Miller will participate in classwork by telephone whenever it can ben arranged. So the school removed his suspension but banned him from the classroom and extra-curricular activities. It also said he will have to serve detention and make up other requirements after school ends in June.

Friday, May 6, 1966
Exactly one month after he was suspended from school because he refused to cut his long hair, Alan Miller resumed classes today via a two-way telephone.

May 1966: Artist's Hut, 2006 Walnut Street at 20th Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
On the Saturday, May 7, edition of The Philadelphia Inquirer daily newspaper, it was reported that Alan Miller has signed a contract for his band, to play two jam sessions at the Artist's Hut, a bohemian coffeehouse located in a basement boîte. Since then, the band started to play regularly there for several months. By the way, in the same newspaper was also reported that Miller had received several offers from would-be managers.

May - June 1966: Artist's Hut, 2006 Walnut Street at 20th Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

June 1966
The band fired their drummer Artie Heller and replaced him with Tim Moore, a New Yorker "borrowed" from a rival band called DC and the Senators. "The Truck Stop was rocking up a small club called the Artist's Hut. It was a wild scene. I told them that Artie Heller had no feel," recalls Moore. "I don't know if they asked me to take over or I pushed for it. But I took over. I wasn't a great drummer, but I knew where the backbeat needed to be and I hit it hard." "I was in the Senators through June, July, early August, and I was drumming with Woody's the same time," he adds.

WOODY'S TRUCK STOP #2 (JUNE 1966 - JULY 1966)
1) Alan Miller
2) Carson Van Osten
3) Bobby Radeloff
4) Tim Moore drums

June - July 1966: Artist's Hut, 2006 Walnut Street at 20th Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
"We played there weeknights and weekends. Our big number was Junior Wells' 'Messin' with the Kid'," recalls TIm Moore. One night, "after an Artist's Hut gig, might have been my first or second gig [with them]," he continues, "I was riding in the back of an open pickup truck when they took a curve too hard at Ardmore Avenue and Montgomery Avenue in Ardmore, and it flipped me out of the truck. I was banged up a little. Nothing serious. I kept playing with them for a while after that."

Sunday, June 12, 1966
Alan Miller's senior class at Unionville High School graduated today. The school year ended four days later, on June 16.

Monday, June 20, 1966
Four days after the school ended, Alan Miller began making up the 17 hours of physical education classes he missed, and at the same time he started serving 75 hours of detention to make up for the 15 days of his supension. After those requirements were completed during the week of July 3, he finally take his final examinations and received his diploma.

July ?, 1966
After graduated from high school, Alan Miller accepted a one-year grant to attend the Philadelphia College of Art in September (originally he had planned to attend Rhode Island School of Design), and at the same time he took off for New York City to visit some music spots in Greenwich Village and to arrange an audition for his band at the Night Owl Cafe (although a date hasn't been set at that point).

July 1966
At some point during that month, Bobby's older brother and band's roadie Ken 'Kenny' Radeloff (b. 1945), who played an electric piano (which he called 'George') and was a senior psychology major at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts, was added to the lineup to fill out their sound. Also, shortly thereafter, an Italian-American drummer named Joe DiCarlo (b. 1950, Somerdale, Camden County, New Jersey) and his guitar friend Todd Harry Rundgren (b. Tuesday, June 22, 1948, Philadelphia), attended one of Woody's regular gig at the Artist's Hut. "In between sets Joe starts playing amazing jazz drums," recalls Tim Moore. "We jammed some and I think Todd sat in with us." After the show, they asked Joe and Todd to audition so a day or so later "they came to the practice space and played some with the band," continues Moore. "Todd was playing this incredible slide guitar in the corner of the room. He was into Jeff Beck and wearing a short slide on his pinky. At first Alan didn't want Todd in because he was the lead guitar player but Bobby convinced Alan that it would be cool to have two stereo lead guitar players like Paul Butterfield and then Bobby could just sing and play harp." "I had just graduated from [Upper Darby] High School and I had no salable skill except to play guitar, so I joined this local band - a band that played the blues in a very white manner - it was hip to do so in those days," recalls Todd Rundgren in an interview for British rock music magazine Zig Zag in August 1975. "I became second guitar player in this band - I didn't deserve lead guitar player status yet. That was where I essentially learned how to play guitar." "By then, I was able to play a convincing slide guitar," also recalls Rundgren in another later interview, "which nobody in the band presently did, so they agreed to let me in because it made the line-up of the band an exact duplicate of the Paul Butterfield Blues Band. Over the course of weeks, we became like the hottest thing there." Other than Todd, which had previously played in a band called Money, Woody's also hired Joe as their new drummer so Tim left and returned to DC and the Senators (before forming a new band called the Muffins, and later another one called Gulliver). By the way, just like his new bandmate Alan Miller, Joe DiCarlo was also suspended on December 14, 1965, during his sophomore year at Sterling High School in Somerdale, after he refused to cut his long hair. He then decided to did not returned to school and, in February 1966, had the huge honor to backed up the legendary Bob Dylan at the Academy of Music in Philadelphia, when the regular drummer became ill [note: the drummer was Sandy Konikoff, and the band who backed Dylan on that show were the Hawks]. Anyway, the new six-piece lineup started rehearsing from 11:00am to 8:00pm each day. "[Actually] we used to practice longer but some neighbors complained and the cops threatened to put us in jail if we continued playing after dark," pointed out Joe DiCarlo.

WOODY'S TRUCK STOP #3 (JULY 1966 - SEPTEMBER or OCTOBER 1966)
1) Alan Miller
2) Carson Van Osten
3) Bobby Radeloff
4) Kenny Radeloff electric piano, Hammond organ, vocals
5) Joe DiCarlo drums
6) Todd Rundgren slide guitar, vocals

Woody's Truck Stop #3 during a rehearsal, Philadelphia, July 1966 - from left: Joe DiCarlo, Kenny Radeloff, Carson Van Osten, Todd Rundgren, and Alan Miller

Woody's Truck Stop #3 during a rehearsal, Philadelphia, July 1966 - from left: Joe DiCarlo, Todd Rundgren, Alan Miller, Kenny Radeloff, Carson Van Osten, and Bobby Radeloff

Woody's Truck Stop #3 during a rehearsal, Philadelphia, July 1966 - from left: Joe DiCarlo, Todd Rundgren, and Alan Miller

Joe DiCarlo and Carson Van Osten during a rehearsal, Philadlephia, July 1966

Woody's Truck Stop #3, from left: Alan Miller, Kenny Radeloff, and Todd Rundgren

Joe DiCarlo during a rehearsal, Philadelphia, July 1966

Woody's Truck Stop #3, from left: Alan Miller, Kenny Radeloff, and Todd Rundgren

July - August or September 1966: Artist's Hut, 2006 Walnut Street at 20th Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

August 1966: 'Audition', The Night Owl Cafe, 118 West 3rd Street b/w MacDougal Street and 6th Avenue, Greenwich Village, Manhattan, New York City, New York

Wednesday, September 7 - Monday, September 12, 1966: The 2nd Fret, 1902 Sansom Street, Rittenhouse Square, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
It was while they played here that they met a pharmacy student, Paul E. Fishkin, who took on the role of manager for the group. "He wasn't a manager in the sense that a manager is today because in those days we were all hippies and he just happened to be the one with the money so he paid for our equipment and stuff," reflects Todd Rundgren in an interview for British rock music magazine Zig Zag in August 1975.

September or October 1966
Woody's Truck Stop moved to Boston, Massachusetts, in search of fame and fortune. The idea came up after Kenny Radeloff was going away to college there for the beginning of his senior year at the near Brandeis University. However, Carson Van Osten decided to stay home so, at that point, the band replaced him with a new bass player (he played a standup electric bass as well a standard shoulder bass) named Mike Crowley, aka Creed Walker, whom the band picked up hitchhiking along Interstate 95, near Philadelphia airport, and soon he moved into the basement of the house they were all staying at in Blackberry Alley near 8th and Locust in Philly before relocating to Boston exactly. "He was incoherent musically and downright hostile on stage," recalls Alan Miller about the new guy in the band.

WOODY'S TRUCK STOP #4 (SEPTEMBER or OCTOBER 1966 - JANUARY 1967 (?))
1) Alan Miller
2) Bobby Radeloff
3) Kenny Radeloff
4) Joe DiCarlo
5) Todd Rundgren
6) Mike Crowley (aka Creed Walker) bass

Fall 1966
In Boston, the band got a manager, Roger Echols - who happened to be a total junkie - to look after them while they were there. Even though the group creamed Boston, it was a very hard time for them. They had a junkie for a manager, lived in a very rough part of town and everyone was into speed, meth and acid. This really bummed Todd out because at the time he was not into drugs at all. Todd spent most of this time in Boston writing songs and practicing his guitar, while everyone else partied.

Late November or Early December 1966
Woody's Truck Stop returned to Philly, got Paul Fishkin to return to band management, and then they all moved (with all their gear) into a four story townhouse on Spruce Street, where actually both Alan Miller and their former member Carson Van Osten already lived in the early fall before the band moved to Boston.

November or December 1966: Artist's Hut, 2006 Walnut Street at 20th Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Back home, the band resumed to play regularly at the Artist's Hut. "I knew Joe DiCarlo in the summer of '65 when we were both summering in Ocean City, New Jersey. The next year he invited me to see him playing with a band, Woody's Truck Stop, at the Artist's Hut," recalls Rudy Reber. "When I got there I was surprised to see another guy I knew from around the University of Delaware named Mike Crowley. He was playing an Ampeg stand-up electric bass with Woody's. I called out his name and he went nuts (it was sort of hard to tell the difference between 'going nuts' and his regular state which was pretty nuts anyway) about using his real name. He said he was on the run over a draft avoidance thing and was using the name Creed Walker." "The reason Creed was so upset when I used his name was that the government was chasing him," continues Rudy. "He may have said FBI or just 'the Feds', I can't remember exactly but it was definitely the federal government. I'd met him a couple of months before and it didn't surprise me because he was always a strange guy. [Anyway,] the real revelation for me was seeing Todd [Rundgren] come up to the front of the stage to sing and play lead on The Who's 'My Generation'. He blew the roof off the club and I became a fan on the spot. We hung out at the Spruce Restaurant at 11th and Spruce after the show until about 3 am at which time I spent the night at the band house and went back to Delaware in the morning and never saw them again although I've lately become Facebook friends with Joe." By the way, a cover of Junior Wells' 'Messin' with the Kid' performed by the band during one of their shows at the Artist's Hut in late '66, was recorded and later surfaced on Todd Rundgren's third solo album, 'Something / Anything?' (Bearsville Records 2BX 2066), released in February 1972.

Late 1966: unknown recording studio, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Woody's Truck Stop recorded a demo at a recording studio in a cellar which was run by a friend of Paul Fishkin. The tape consisted of five songs: 'That's Right You're Wrong', a cover of Irma Thomas' 'Times Have Changed', 'She Must Be Blind', a cover of Lil' Son Jackson's 'Rock Me Baby', and 'Why Is It Me', an original written by Todd Rundgren (and which he re-recorded later with the Nazz under the new title of 'Lemming Song'). These five songs remained unreleased at the time (they were having absolutely no luck in getting a record deal) and surfaced only 40 years later on February 9, 2018, when were included on the Nazz's US compilation album, 'Nazz Evolution: From Woody's Truck Stop to Nazz 1966-1968' (RockBeat Records ROC-3406)

January 1967 (?)
At the dawn of the new year, Creed Walker disappeared somewhere from one day to another (Alan Miller remembered getting a call from the FBI looking for Creed after he had left), and also Joe DiCarlo was fired because "he was a jazz drummer and wanted to do a drum solo in every song at any time," recalled Miller. When Joe left he bolted with the band's drum kit thinking it was his, but the set had to be reclaimed by the band in a Keystone Kops-like stakeout in the Northeast. Anyway, at that point Bobby Radeloff switched from rhythm guitar to bass (Miller also started play bass occasionally), Kenny Radeloff started playing ryhthm guitar occasionally, and last but not least, they hired another Italian-American drummer named Robert 'Bobby' Massari, who at the time was a sculptor and student at Tyler School of Art and Architecture in Philly. Bobby came on board as a vocalist too, although everybody pretty much agrees he couldn't sing or play the drums!

WOODY'S TRUCK STOP #5 (JANUARY 1967 (?) - MAY 1967)
1) Alan Miller now also on bass
2) Bobby Radeloff now moved from rhythm guitar to bass
3) Kenny Radeloff now also on rhythm guitar occasionally
4) Todd Rundgren
5) Bobby Massari drums, vocals

Friday, February 17 or Saturday, February 18, 1967: ‘2nd Annual Swarthmore College Rock Festival,’ Clothier Hall, Swarthmore College campus, 500 College Avenue, Swarthmore, Delaware County, Pennsylvania
Also on the bill: Jefferson Airplane (17), Tim Buckley (17), Sidetrack (18), and maybe others on both days. “I had my eyes closed and I was heavily into the music,” recalls Kenny Radeloff about this show where he really sang his heart out, “and I heard all this laughing in the crowd. It turns out the mike wasn't on. I made a complete fool of myself.” Anyway, in a review of the band’s performance it was said that Todd's guitar and Bobby's vocals and harp playing stole the show.

Wednesday, February 22 - Monday, February 27, 1967: The 2nd Fret, 1902 Sansom Street, Rittenhouse Square, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Also on the bill: Camp Films on screen. Two shows a day (9:15 and 11:00pm) on Wednesday, Thursday, Sunday and Monday, and three a day (8:00, 9:30, and 11:00pm) on Friday and Saturday.

Philadelphia Daily News (February 24, 1967)

The Philadelphia Inquirer (February 24, 1967)

The Philadelphia Inquirer (February 26, 1967)

Friday, March 31 - Sunday, April 2, 1967: 'Dance Concert', The Trauma, 2121 Arch Street near Rittenhouse Square, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Also on the bill: Lothar and The Hand People. Lights by Kinetic Light Show.

The Philadelphia Inquirer (March 31, 1967)

Alan Miller, The Trauma, Philadelphia, March or April 1967

Todd Rundgren, The Trauma, Phuladelphia, March or April 1967

Woody's Truck Stop #5, The Trauma, Philadelphia, March or April 1967 - from left: Bobby Radeloff, Bobby Massari, and Alan Miller

Friday, April 28 - Sunday, April 30, 1967: 'A Banana Festival', 2nd of Autumn Coffee House, 2021 Sansom Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Also on the bill: John.

Philadelphia Daily News (April 28, 1967)

Sunday, May 7, 1967: 'Angry Arts Festival - A Blues-Rock Concert', Town Hall, 150 North Broad Street at Race Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Woody's Truck Stop, along with another local band called Ralff (which included their future rhythm guitarist Greg Radcliffe), opened for The Blues Project. The show, which started at 7:30pm, was presented by Batoff & Warfield. The band's performance was infamous because they threw fruit into the audience and at the end threw pies at each other, then the audience threw fruit back at them so by the end they were completely covered in pie and fruit. When The Blues Project came out of their dressing room and saw the band they got scared and thought the Philly crowd wouldn't like them or something! The show was also Todd Rungren's last with the band (he was going to leave to form his own band) and as a sort of "goodbye" he decided to smash his guitar like his idol Pete Townshend of The Who, although the rest of the band wasn't into that sort of thing. Todd had this guitar with all these mirrors on it that he wanted to smash. At the end of the show he smashed his guitar but the band had time to do one more song that they thought would really go over well but couldn't do it since Todd smashed his guitar exactly.

Courier Post (April 28, 1967)

The Philadelphia Inquirer (May 7, 1967)

The Philadelphia Inquirer (May 6, 1967)

May 1967
Todd Rundgren left Woody's and went to form the Nazz with his former bandmate Carson Van Osten. Todd left the band due to conflict of egos between him and bandleader Alan Miller. They both had different tastes of music - Alan had a blues and rhythm 'n' blues background while Todd was more into the pop sound of The Who, The Yardbirds, The Beatles, etc. Also the band was heavily into taking psychedelics while Todd stayed away from all drugs during that time. Todd was very adamant about not using drugs, which would cause arguments between him and Alan, and the latter was relieved when Todd eventually left. "Todd was very obnoxious… nerdy and withdrawn," recalled Alan. "Basically, no one could stand Todd, he was very difficult to deal with. We were all into drugs, [but] Todd wasn't into the acid and pot scene. He was very talented, though very difficult to get along with. He was very infuriating and proud of it. He loved to make people furious and was proud to be obnoxious." "People would come to see me, and I think he [Alan] was also pissed off that I was considered ‘cuter’ in those days," points out Rundgren. "We kind of became the most popular band in town and we had enough gigs to be making some money so that was enough at the time. I mean, we probably thought it would be great to make a record but we were doing mostly cover songs. How were we ever going to get to make a record?" Anyway, Bobby Massari also left the band and, after changed his name to Robert Younger, moved to New York City and got into theater and graphic arts. At that point, Woody's became a four-piece with Bobby Radeloff who moved from bass to drums, and on bass was hired a cellist named Larry Gold (b. 1948), a former Olney High School graduate (Class of '66) who had just dropped out from Curtis Institute of Music, a private conservatory in Philadelphia, with a promise to the administrators never to identify himself with their school. Not that Larry was a poor student, but there was what the school may have considered an "embarrassing" conflict of interest due to his new job as a member of Woody's Truck Stop with whom he didn't played exactly the chamber music bag. "The group tries to express life through hard rock and Bach," explains Gold in an interview that appeared in the Philadephia Daily News dated November 24, 1967. "It all happened almost accidentally. I met a couple of members at a party. They wanted a cello sound on one of their numbers and they asked me to sit in. It was fun. Most people don't realize that rock 'n' roll today is a very complex thing. The Beatles started it - using instruments other than guitars and drums to get a certain sound. Rock 'n' roll is the universal sound because people don't have to study music to appreciate it."

WOODY'S TRUCK STOP #6 (MAY 1967 - NOVEMBER 1967)
1) Alan Miller
2) Bobby Radeloff now on drums, percussion, big tympani
3) Kenny Radeloff
4) Larry Gold bass and cello

Woody's Truck Stop #6, 1967 - from top left clockwise: Bobby Radeloff, Alan Miller, Kenny Radeloff, and Larry Gold

Woody's Truck Stop #6, 1967 - clockwise from bottom left: Larry Gold, Bobby Radeloff, Kenny Radeloff, and Alan Miller (plus an unknown girl at centre)

June - September 1967
The new four-piece lineup of the band spent the summer in DeBruce, a small hamlet located in Sullivan County, New York, composing and arranging a new repertoire, including a new song called 'Anything in This World Can Get You High'. "They lived as a community at the former DeBruce Club Inn with the support of Mr. Walter Kocher, the owner," recalls a friend of the band named Isa. "Without his help they would not have gotten the electricity turned on. The Hotel had used to make its own electricity at a water mill until it closed about 1959. That's where they wrote most of the tracks [that later appeared] on [their debut] album. Alan's wife Marjoire (offical artists of the Philadelphia Eagles) and Kenny's wife were there too. I think Bobby was alone. I sometimes stayed there. Next to Davidson's Country Store. There were about 15 rooms kitchen lobby dining room and it was pretty crowded sometimes. I still have art done by Marjorie. They gave me one of their dogs whom I renamed Harry, who passed away in 1985 and buried as a zen monk (no joke). It was a very intense summer there in DeBruce. No gigs just writing and practice and silence and country. They practiced every day in the Hotel's casino. The main hotel was taken down because of the expense of maintenance was too high. They stayed in what is now Rose Cottage B&B Inn."

September 1967
After returning home from DeBruce, the band went to lived and rehearsed full time for about a year, in a three bedroom brick row house at the corner of Naudain Street and South 24th Street.

Wednesday, September 27 - Saturday, September 30, 1967: The 2nd Fret, 1902 Sansom Street, Rittenhouse Square, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Saturday, October 21, 1967: Theatre of The Living Arts, 334 South Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Two shows, 8:30pm and 10:45pm.

Sunday, October 29, 1967: Town Hall, 150 North Broad Street at Race Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Woody's Truck Stop opened for Spanky and Our Gang. The show, which started at 4:00pm, was produced by Herb Spivak and Shelly Kaplan.

November 1967
To easing up the pressure on Bobby Radeloff, the band hired a new lead singer and songwriter named Mark R. Oberman (b. Saturday, May 11, 1946, New York City, New York - d. Friday, March 31, 2006, at his home in Charlottesville, Albemarle County, Virginia). "Good old Mark, such a nice voice, kinda like the singer in Earth Opera," reflects their future guitarist Greg Radcliffe.

WOODY'S TRUCK STOP #7 (NOVEMBER 1967 - DECEMBER ?, 1967)
1) Alan Miller
2) Bobby Radeloff
3) Kenny Radeloff
4) Larry Gold
5) Mark Oberman acoustic guitar, lead vocals

Woody's Truck Stop #7, November 1967 - from left: Bobby Radeloff, Larry Gold, Alan miller, Mark Oberman, and Kenny Radeloff

Thursday, November 16 - Sunday, 19, 1967: 2nd of Autumn Coffee House, 2021 Sansom Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Also on the bill an unidentified special guest on Friday and Saturday only. By the way, at that time the band was complaining about Kenny Radeloff and how they thinking that they would be better without him and his piano, and with another rhythm guitar player. So, they had announced through a local radio station that they will held some try-out sessions at the 2nd of Autumn in the afternoons, before their evening shows there, to find a new guitarist exactly. Among the candidates there was a Class of '67 graduate from New Jersey's Deptford High School named Greg Radcliffe. "I was the second candidate on the first afternoon and was hired after about an hour of playing various blues and rock jams," recalls Radcliffe. "The remaining three afternoons ended up as rehearsals since the band equipment was already set up for the three evening performances. I did not gig [with the band] until December though Alan [Miller] thought I'd be fine. So Kenny finished out those November gigs [with them]."

Philadelphia Daily News (November 16, 1967)

Wednesday, November 22 - Saturday, November 25 or Sunday, November 26, 1967: The Trauma, 2121 Arch Street near Rittenhouse Square, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Also on the bill: The Paupers, Elizabeth (cancelled). Lights by Kinetic Light Show.

The Philadelphia Inquirer (November 19, 1967)

Philadelphia Daily News (November 22, 1967)

December ?, 1967
The band officially fired Kenny Radeloff (he later retired from the music scene and became a landscape architect), and Greg Radcliffe (b. Leroy Gregory Radcliffe, Monday, December 19, 1949, Port Richmond, Philadelphia - d. Sunday, January 17, 2021, in a hospice in Los Angeles after a long battle with cancer), formerly of Greg and His Minor Notes, and Ralff, joined them on vocals and rhythm guitar.

WOODY'S TRUCK STOP #8 (DECEMBER ?, 1967 - MARCH 1968 (?))
1) Alan Miller
2) Bobby Radeloff
3) Larry Gold
4) Mark Oberman
5) Greg Radcliffe vocals, rhythm guitar

December ?, 1967: 'Benefit', Town Hall, 150 North Broad Street at Race Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Greg Radcliffe's debut gig with Woody's Truck Stop. Also on the bill: Edison Electric Band.

Wednesday, December 20 - Saturday, December 23, 1967: The 2nd Fret, 1902 Sansom Street, Rittenhouse Square, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Friday, January 12 - Saturday, January 13, 1968: The Folkal Point, 13 West Park Avenue, Merchantville, Camden County, New Jersey
Two shows each day, 8:45 pm and 10:30pm.

Courier Post (January 12, 1968)

Wednesday, January 24 - Saturday, 27 and Wednesday, January 31 - Saturday, February 3, 1968: The 2nd Fret, 1902 Sansom Street, Rittenhouse Square, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Tuesday, February 13 - Sunday, February 18, 1968: Electric Factory And Flea Market, 2201 Arch Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Also on the bill: Peanut Butter Conspiracy. One show each day from 8:30pm to 2:00am, plus on Sunday also a matinee show from 2:00pm to 6:00pm. These shows were early advertised from Tuesday to Sunday, but a later ad advertised them only from Friday to Sunday.

Philadelphia Daily News (January 30, 1968)

Wednesday, February 21 - Thursday, February 22, 1968: Electric Factory And Flea Market, 2201 Arch Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (Woody's Truck Stop cancelled)
Woody's Truck Stop were billed on a poster printed for this show, but a couple of later ads didn't listed them so I guess they finally cancelled. Also on the bill: The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Soft Machine. One show each day from 8:30pm to 3:00pm.

Wednesday, March 6, 1968: Peale House, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 1811 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
From 5:00 to 8:00 pm, at a student-decorated discotheque held inside the Peale House, Woody's Truck Stop played background music at the opening of an exhibition of Robert Rauschenberg's paintings.

The Philadelphia Inquirer (March 3, 1968)

Friday, March 8 - Saturday, March 9 or Sunday, March 10, 1968: The 2nd Fret, 1902 Sansom Street, Rittenhouse Square, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Sunday, March 10, 1968: Electric Factory Children's Theater, 2201 Arch Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Also on the bill: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn (books reading), The American Dream. The show, which started at 3:30pm, was presented by Phoenix Productions.

The Philadelphia Inquirer (March 3, 1968)

Sunday, March 10, 1968: 'The Philadelphia Sound', Electric Factory and Flea Market, 2201 Arch Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Also on the bill: Edison Electric Band, American Dream, Elizabeth. One show, from 8:00pm to 2:00am.

Philadephia Daily News (March 8, 1968)

Tuesday, March 12 - Thursday, March 14, 1968: Electric Factory and Flea Market, 2201 Arch Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
One show each day from 8:30pm to 3:00pm.

March 1968 (?)
Larry Gold left Woody's Truck Stop. "I left to get away from the amplification and get into more acoustic music," he said in a late interview for The Philadelphia Inquirer dated November 23, 1969 (He went to form Larry Gold & Friends, and later the Good News). The band replaced him with a new bass player named Ronald 'Ron' Bogdon (b. Saturday, August 17, 1946, Shenandoah, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania - d. Thursday, July 2, 2015, at his home in Levittown, Nassau County, New York). "Ron was a good friend of mine, a great in the pocket bass player, one of the very best," recalls Greg Radcliffe.

WOODY'S TRUCK STOP #9 (MARCH 1968 (?) - SEPTEMBER 1968 (?))
1) Alan Miller now also on vibes, timpani, acoustic guitar, little tympani
2) Bobby Radeloff
3) Greg Radcliffe
4) Mark Oberman
5) Rob Bogdon bass

Woody's Truck Stop #9, pig farm in Mount Holly, New Jersey, circa late August 1968 - from left: Alan Milller, Ron Bogdon, Greg Radcliffe, Mark Oberman, and Bobby Radeloff

Woody's Truck Stop #9, pig farm in Mount Holly, New Jersey, circa late August 1968 - from left: Rob Bogdon, Bobby Radeloff, Mark Oberman, Alan Miller, and Greg Radcliffe

1968 - from left: Greg Radcliffe and Ron Bogdon

Tuesday, March 26 - Sunday, March 31, 1968: Electric Factory and Flea Market, 2201 Arch Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (Woody's Truck Stop cancelled)
Woody's Truck Stop cancelled and were replaced by the American Dream. Also on the bill: Muddy Waters Blues Band. One show each day from 8:30pm to 3:00pm, plus on Sunday also a matinee show from 2:00pm to 6:00pm.

Sunday, March 31, 1968: The Arena, 4530 Market Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Also on the bill: Jimi Hendrix Experience, The Soft Machine, Johnny Deveraux (MC). The show, which started at 8:00pm, was presented by the owners of the Electric Factory, a local discotheque.

The Philadelphia Inquirer (March 10, 1968)

The News Journal (March 20, 1968)

Tuesday, April 2, 1968: 'Wisconsin Watch-In', The Palestra, 235 South 33rd Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Woody's Truck Stop, along with Texas Jack and The Magic City Trio, and Edison Electric Band, played between appearances of the professional campaigners who suggested the youngsters, though too young for the ballot box, could help get out the vote, during a 'Wisconsin Watch-In', a political creature invented by the followers of Sen. Eugene McCarthy for the Minnesotan's campaign, that drew 1500 youngsters to the Palestra to frug and bugaloo as the returns from the Wisconsin primary came in.

The Philadelphia Inquirer (April 3, 1968)

Sunday, April 7 - Thursday, April 11, 1968: Electric Factory and Flea Market, 2201 Arch Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Also on the bill: Butterfield Blues Band. Lights by Fillmore Light Show. One show each day from 8:30pm to 3:00pm, plus on Sunday also a matinee show from 2:00pm to 6:00pm.

The Philadelphia Inquirer (April 7, 1968)

Philadelphia Daily News (April 8, 1968)

Friday, April 12 - Sunday, April 14, 1968: Electric Factory and Flea Market, 2201 Arch Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Apparently the Friday show was cancelled. "I recall playing only two nights," confirms Greg Radcliffe. "Clapton and crew were not very friendly so not much to report on that front." Also on the bill: The Cream. Lights by Fillmore Light Show. One show on Friday from 8:00pm to 4:00am, two shows on Saturday from 3:00pm to 6:00pm and from 8:00pm to 4:00am, and two shows also on Sunday from 2:00am to 7:00pm and from 8:00pm to 2:00am.

The Daily Pennsylvanian (April 10, 1968)

Philadlephia Daily News (April 12, 1968)

Sunday, April 21, 1968: "A Benefit Concert For The Committee Of Responsibility To Aid Vietnamese Children", Annenberg Auditorium, University of Pennsylvania campus, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Two shows, 8:00pm and 10:30pm.

The Daily Pennsylvanian (April 10, 1968)

Tuesday, April 23 - Thursday, April 25, 1968: 'The Philadelphia Sound', Electric Factory and Flea Market, 2201 Arch Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Also on the bill: American Dream, Elizabeth, Edison Electric Band. One show each day from 8:30pm to 3:00pm. These shows were originally advertised from Tuesday to Sunday, April 28.

Friday, April 26 - Sunday, April 28, 1968: The Trauma, 2121 Arch Street near Rittenhouse Square, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Also on the bill: Friends of The Family. Lights by Kinetic Light Show.

Philadelphia Daily News (April 26, 1968)

Friday, May 17 - Saturday, May 18, 1968: The 2nd Fret, 1902 Sansom Street, Rittenhouse Square, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Also on the bill: Friends of the Family.

Wednesday, May 22 - Saturday, May 25, 1968: The 2nd Fret, 1902 Sansom Street, Rittenhouse Square, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Also on the bill: Elizabeth.

Friday, May 24 - Sunday, May 26, 1968: Electric Factory and Flea Market, 2201 Arch Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Also on the bill: Quicksilver Messenger Service. One show each day from 8:30pm to 3:00pm, plus on Sunday also a matinee show from 2:00pm to 6:00pm.

Philadelphia Daily News (May 24, 1968)

Wednesday, May 29, 1968: The Kaleidoscope, Manayunk, Belmont Exit off Expressway, Lower Northwest Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Also on the bill: The Satyrs. One show, started at 8:00pm.

Thursday, May 30, 1968: 'Memorial Day Be-In', The Kaleidoscope, Belmont Exit off Expressway, Manayunk, Lower Northwest Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Also on the bill: Mandrake Memorial, Friends of the Family, Chuck Trois and the Amazing Maze, Sweet Stavin Chavin. One show, from 2:00pm to 2:00am.

The Philadelphia Inquirer (May 30, 1968)

Friday, May 31 - Sunday, June 2, 1968: 'In A Classical Happening', The Kaleidoscope, Belmont Exit off Expressway, Manayunk, Lower Northwest Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Also on the bill: Beacon Street Union, Larry Gold & Friends. One show each day, from 8:00pm to 3:00am on Friday and Saturday, and from 6:00pm to 12 midnight on Sunday.

Philadelphia Daily News (May 31, 1968)

Philadelphia Daily News (June 1, 1968)

Wednesday, June 5, 1968: 'All Night Jam Concert - The Music Will Never Stop!!', Inside The Looking Glass, 713 Bristol Pike, Croydon, Bristol Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania
Also on the bill: Edison Electric, Glad, Friends of the Family, American Dream, Indigo Lace, The Sweet Nothin'.

Saturday, June 8, 1968: 'Summersound', WCAU-TV (Channel 10), Willow Grove Amusement Park, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania
WCAU, an NBC owned-and-operated television station licensed to Philadelphia, premiered today at 5:00pm a new hour-long weekly summer series to featured music and sight gags. Hosted by John Zacherle, who used to be the station's resident spook as 'Roland' of Shock Theater fame, and produced by Al Rose, the show was sponsored by Seven-Up and the Computer Education Institute for the summer. The show featured live performances of national acts as well as local acts, plus air videotapes and films of performers produced by WCAU-TV and Rose's film crew. Woody's Truck Stop, who were regulars, appeared on the tonight episode along with Janis Ian, Jay and The Techniques, and Earth Opera.

Friday, June 14 - Saturday, June 15, 1968: Electric Factory and Flea Market, 2201 Arch Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Woody's Truck Stop replaced the early advertised Lothar and the Hand People. Also on the bill: Steppenwolf. One show each day from 8:30pm to 3:00pm.

Philadelphia Daily News (June 14, 1968)

Saturday, June 15, 1968: 'Summersound', WCAU-TV (Channel 10), Willow Grove Amusement Park, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania
Also appeared: Count Zach, Gene Kaye, Jay and The Techniques, The Magistrates, The Combinations.

Saturday, June 22, 1968: 'Summersound', WCAU-TV (Channel 10), Willow Grove Amusement Park, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania

Saturday, June 29, 1968: 'Summersound', WCAU-TV (Channel 10), Willow Grove Amusement Park, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania

Saturday, July 6, 1968: 'Summersound', WCAU-TV (Channel 10), Willow Grove Amusement Park, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania

Saturday, July 13, 1968: 'Summersound', WCAU-TV (Channel 10), Willow Grove Amusement Park, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania
Also appeared: Gene Kaye, Count Zach.

Wednesday, July 17, 1968: 'Philadelphia Music Festival', John F. Kennedy Stadium, 5 Broad Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Also on the bill: The Rascals, Country Joe and The Fish, Delfonics, The Box Tops. Lights by Joshua Light Show. The festival, which started at 8:00pm, was presented by Schmidt's of Philadelphia, a brewing company.

The Philadelphia Inquirer (June 30, 1968)

The Philadelphia Inquirer (July 14, 1968)

Saturday, July 20, 1968: 'Summersound', WCAU-TV (Channel 10), Willow Grove Amusement Park, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania

Saturday, July 27, 1968: 'Summersound', WCAU-TV (Channel 10), Willow Grove Amusement Park, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania

Late July 1968
The band signed a long-term exclusive recording contract with Mercury Records (although their records will be released under the label's subsidiary Smash Records).

Record World (August 3, 1968)

August 1968: Regent Sound Studios Inc., 25 West 56th Street, Manhattan, New York City, New York
The band recorded and arranged their self-titled debut album under the supervision of Mercury's A&R man Bob Halley, and with Jack Shaw as producer and Bob Liftin as engineer. Their former member Larry Gold played cello as guest on two songs: 'Everything Is Fine' and 'Marble Reflections'. On the song 'People Been Talkin' there was a horns section arranged by Bill Fischer and performed by David Newman on tenor sax, Richard Landry on baritone sax, Joe Newman on trumpet, and Melvin Lastie on trumpet.

Saturday, August 3, 1968: 'Summersound', WCAU-TV (Channel 10), Willow Grove Amusement Park, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania

Saturday, August 10, 1968: 'Summersound', WCAU-TV (Channel 10), Willow Grove Amusement Park, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania

Thursday, August 15, 1968: 'People for McCarthy', Philadelphia Convention Hall, 3400 Civic Center Boulevard, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Woody's Truck Stop, along with Herbie Mann, the Sentries, film star Alan Arkin, and the Arthur Hall Afro-American Dance Ensemble, performed during a parade of live entertainers at a mass 'People for McCarthy' rally which started at 8:00pm at Philadelphia Convention Hall.

Saturday, August 17, 1968: 'Summersound', WCAU-TV (Channel 10), Willow Grove Amusement Park, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania

Saturday, August 24, 1968: 'Summersound', WCAU-TV (Channel 10), Willow Grove Amusement Park, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania

Wednesday, August 28, 1968: Dick Lee's, Route 130, Bellmawr, Camden County, New Jersey
Also on the bill: The Formations, DJ Jim Nettleton, plus many guest stars, and also a bikini contest.

Courier Post (August 23, 1968)

Saturday, August 31, 1968: 'Summersound', WCAU-TV (Channel 10), Willow Grove Amusement Park, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania

Friday, September 6 - Sunday, September 9, 1968: The 2nd Fret, 1902 Sansom Street, Rittenhouse Square, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Also on the bill: Calliope.

Philadelphia Daily News (September 6, 1968)

September 1968 (?)
Shortly after the recording of their debut album, the band fired Mark Oberman (he later become a physician's assistant and also taught mindfulness meditation, as well as playing guitar for the Dance of Universal Peace for 17 years until he passed away) and hired a new female lead singer named Debbie Collins, aka 'Indian Debbie'. "Mark was fired shortly after the last note [on the album] was played (tensions had mounted between Bobby and Mark)," confirms Greg Radcliffe, "and Debbie was hired immediately and we were gigging with her way in advance of the release of the recording - like a slow torture edging toward the cliff of R&R oblivion with a completely unrelated line-up when referenced to the recorded materials." By the way, before the lineup change, the band did a photo shooting for the album back cover (the photographer was their former drummer Bob Massari) in a pig farm in Mount Holly, Burlington County, New Jersey. It was the shooting that probably led the band to acquiring, within a short time-frame (and after replacing Mark with Debbie), a nearby 300-acre farm that "it was rumored to be a Mafia tax write-off with a swimming pool, horse paddock and training corral, working tractor and a strawberry field that was filled in the evenings with fireflies and an old witches tree dead center," recalls Greg Radcliffe. "We acquired an Appaloosa, a Quarter horse, a Palomino and an Arabian. Debbie and Bobby's lover, Helen Hollenbeck, was the equistrian member of the group and trained and bartered the horses. We also conducted large scale mescalin parties attended by various authors and interviewers destined to make their marks upon the hippie cult population but there was never any violence or negative incidents there at all. It was quite the time actually very creative and isolated and intense yet relaxing."

WOODY'S TRUCK STOP #10 (SEPTEMBER 1968 (?) - JUNE 1969 (?))
1) Alan Miller
2) Bobby Radeloff
3) Greg Radcliffe
4) Rob Bogdon
5) Debbie Collins (aka Indian Debbie) lead vocals

Friday, October 4 - Saturday, October 5, 1968: Electric Factory and Flea Market, 2201 Arch Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Also on the bill: Moby Grape, Chrysallis (replaced the early advertised Albert King). Lights by Fillmore Light Show. Two shows each day, 8:00pm and 10:30pm.

Philadelphia Inquirer (October 4, 1968)

Friday, October 25 - Sunday, October 27, 1968: The 2nd Fret, 1902 Sansom Street, Rittenhouse Square, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Also on the bill: Sue Hamlin.

The Daily Pennsylvanian (October 25, 1968)

Friday, November 15 - Saturday, November 16, 1968: Electric Factory and Flea Market, 2201 Arch Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Also on the bill: Sweet Nothin' (15), Steppenwolf (15), Youngbloods (15-16). Lights by Fillmore Light Show. Two shows each night, 8:30pm and 10:45pm.

Philadelphia Daily News (October 31, 1968)

The Philadelphia Inquirer (November 10, 1968)

Philadelphia Daily News (November 6, 1968)

December 1968
Woody's Truck Stop's first and only album, 'Woody's Truck Stop' (Smash Records, SRS 67111; Side A: 'People Been Talkin' (Oberman) / Got My Bride (Oberman) / Everything Is Fine (Miller) / Color Scheme (Radeloff) - Side B: Checkin' On My Baby (Sonny Boy Williamson) / Tryin' So Hard (Oberman) / Just To Be With You (Junior Wells) / I'd Be A Fool (Oberman) / Marble Reflections (Oberman)'), was released only in the US. Sadly, the album sold poorly and, according to Greg Radcliffe, the main reason was that it was recorded with a singer (Mark Oberman, who also wrote most of the songs), and was then promoted with a different one (Indian Debbie). "What a mess that was to have new fans attend our concerts with Debbie fronting the band whose repertoire had shifted toward Aretha Franklin-ish material," reflects Greg Radcliffe. "And no Debbie on stage for 5-6 songs like 'Color Scheme' and most of the album material that was popular." "Plus she would pound the crap out of men," adds Greg, "actually jump off stage into the crowd and cause bodily injury to jaws because of being harassed due to her lesbian nature which was more than apparent. Funny how back then musicians were open hearted but John Q Public still had issues." Footnotes: (1) The front cover design was created by Alan Miller's wife Marjorie (2) The album was reissued on CD format in 2013 by a bootleg label called Kismet Records.

CD reissue back cover

Record World (March 8, 1969)

December 1968
Woody's Truck Stop's first and only single, 'People Been Talkin' / Tryin' So Hard' (Smash Records S-2201), was released only in the US.

Cashbox (January 11, 1969)

Tuesday, December 31, 1968: 'An Electric New Year's Eve!', Electric Factory and Flea Market, 2201 Arch Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Also on the bill: Van Morrison, Pacific Gas & Electric, Sweet Stavin Chain. Visuals by Illumination. One show, from 8:30pm to 3:00am.

The York Disptach (December 27, 1968)

Philadelphia Inquirer (December 31, 1968)

The Morning Call (December 27, 1968)

Friday, January 31 - Saturday, February 1, 1969: Electric Factory and Flea Market, 2201 Arch Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Also on the bill: Sweet Nothin', Fire Eye & The Farm. The Electric Factory celebrated his first year anniversary with weekend shows where the proceeds goes to Teen Aid and Multiple Sclerosis.

The Philadelphia Inquirer (January 31, 1969)

Friday, February 21, 1969: 'First Baltimore Rock Festival', Lyric Theater, 128 West Mount Royal Avenue, Baltimore, Maryland
Two shows, 7:00pm and 10:00pm, presented by Electric Factory and produced by Larry Magid. Also on the bill: Jefferson Airplane. Lights by Electric Factory. Sound by Festival Group.

The Evening Sun (January 6, 1969)

Thursday, February 27 - Saturday, March 1, 1969: Boston Tea Party, 53 Berkeley Street, Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts
Also on the bill: Buddy Guy. Lights by The Road.

Saturday, March 8, 1969: Auditorium, Penncrest High School, 134 Barren Road, Middletown Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania
Penncrest High Shool student council sponsored a George Michael program which started at 8:00pm and featured live music by Woody's Truck Stop, and the Canadian Bunch.

Saturday, March 15, 1969: ‘Hy Lit,’ WKBS TV (Channel 44), WKBS TV Studios, 3301 South 26th Street, South Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (broadcast date)
Also appeared: Spirit, Blinkie. The late local radio personality Hyman Aaron 'Hy' Lit hosted a nationally syndicated television dance show which was aired every Saturday from 5:30pm to 6:30pm.

Friday, March 21 - Saturday, March 22, 1969: Electric Factory and Flea Market, 2201 Arch Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Also on the bill: Thunder & Roses, Fire Eye and The Farm, Black Flag.

The Ursinus Weekly (March 20, 1969)

Philadelphia Daily News (March 21, 1969)

Tuesday, March 25 - Sunday, March 30, 1969: LaMaina's, opposite Garden State Race Track, Cherry Hill, Camden County, New Jersey

Courier Post (March 28, 1969)

Philadelphia Daily News (March 28, 1969)

June 1969 (?)
Woody's Truck Stop disbanded due to personality conflicts. "The internal disputes were an ongoing character flaw of the band itself," reflects Greg Radcliffe. Another reason of their demise was also "the colossal failure of our album monetarily sales-wise," continues Greg, "gee wiz, completely different band by the time the album was released and Mercury would have been nuts to follow through with more money." Anyway, while Indian Debbie went to form his own rhythm 'n' blues band, Ron Bogdon disappeared from the scene for awhile, and Alan Miller retired from the music business to became a restorer of 18th-century American furniture, Bobby Radeloff and Greg Radcliffe decided to stay together and started jamming with people constantly out at the Mount Holly farmhouse. From those jam sessions, a new version of Woody's Truck Stop was soon formed with a new lead guitar player named Wayne and a new bass player named Dan Gralick. "There was also a beautiful woman named Helen, Bobby's girlfriend, who acted as a sort of spiritual advisor and manager to the band," recalls Gralick.

WOODY'S TRUCK STOP #11 (JUNE 1969 (?) - SEPTEMBER 1969 (?))
1) Bobby Radeloff
2) Greg Radcliffe
4) Dan Gralick bass
5) Wayne lead guitar

Friday, June 27 - Satursay, June 28, 1969: 'Dance - Concert', Barn Arts Center, Haines Mill Road and Conrow Road, Delran Township, Burlington County, New Jersey
Also on the bill: 30th St. Station, Two shows, 8:00pm and 10:30pm.

Courier Post (June 27, 1969)

Summer 1969: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2600 Benjamin Franklin Parkway, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Also on the bill: Paul Butterfield Blues Band.

Wednesday, August 27, 1969: 'An Electric Factory Rock Concert', Pennypack Park, Northeast Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Also on the bill: 30th St. Station, Elizabeth, The Flood Band. One show, started at 8:30pm.

The Philadelphia Inquirer (June 8, 1969)

September 1969 (?)
Woody's Truck Stop disbanded again.

Spring 1973
Four years later, a new short-lived version of Woody's Truck Stop was put together by Bobby Radeloff, Greg Radcliffe, and Ron Bogdon in Cambridge, Massachusetts. "Ron, Bobby, and I began hanging in Miami, Florida, and writing music in 1971-72, "recalls Greg Radcliffe. "We worked as sidemen at a recording studio in Hialeah, where we met KC and Little Beaver Hale and after a few years of writing and 'wood shedding' in Miami, there appeared another formation of the band in winter of '72 when Bobby and I moved to Cambridge. Ron joined us in Spring of '73. Ron bass, Bobby drums and me on guitar - R&B trio version. Occasionally we added drummer side-men and I switched to lead, Bobby switched to rhythm with Ron on bass and that was how the band finally ended." After Woody's disbanded for good, Greg Radcliffe went to play with Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers, and Robin Lane and the Chartbusters, Ron Bogdon went to play with Swamp Dogg, Betty Wright, Latimore, Gene Corman, Al Kooper, Sam and Dave, George McCrae, KC and the Sunshine Band, and the Buicks, while Bobby Radeloff went to play with Red Cheek, and Balls of Fire, before he retired from the music scene and started his study of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine. He graduated with a Masters in Oriental Medicine from the Atlantic Institute of Oriental Medicine, and started his practice until 2010 when he decided to get back into music and, as 'Doc Raylove', he sat in with Allen McGarry and Friends, then played in several other bands, and finally started his own The Doc Raylove Ensemble in 2013. Early in 2017 he retired again and, after a long battle with cancer, he passed peacefully at his home in Dennis Port, Massachusetts, on Thursday, September 7.

WOODY'S TRUCK STOP #12 (SPRING 1973)
1) Bobby Radeloff
2) Greg Radcliffe
3) Rob Bogdon