Monday, August 3, 2009

Moonstrucks





Our yahoo group has been very active lately and this has opened the memory book of the fifities and sixties. Classmates like Ricky Nuguid and Cesar de la Fuente, of Minstrels fame ( they were the originals) have posted photos of our early school years up to the time we graduated from College. Once in a while, reference is made by classmates to the Moonstrucks which I managed starting in 64. The combo was founded by my younger Freddie in 62 when he was only 13 years old. The very first group was composed of his classmates from San Beda.






I scanned this story from the souvenir program of the concert "Thirty Years After-The Original Moonstrucks Reunited" which was held at the Westin Philippine Plaza in November 17, 1994. The story was written a the late Oskar "Oskee" Salazar who was our PR person at the time. Oskee died a few months after the untimely death of Eddie around 2001.
The others are still around. Toto and Boyet still do their trade, performing Friday nights at Bistro RJ in Bel Air Makati. Danny is a music entrepreneur. Bert is retired and lives in QC with other retired combo members. Freddie hones up his music as a church choir director at Alabang.


The group became a purely professional group doing the Asian circuit and local clubs sometime in 1969-70. Freddie became a full time student at DLSU, graduating Summa cum Laude in 1971. Danny concentrated on his music biz career as producer, composer etc while Eddie started to manage their family business. Toto, Boyet and Bert added new members and that was the start of the next generation of Moonstrucks, as a purely professional combo. I turned over the reins of the Moonstrucks to Toto sometime after martial law was declared. I decided to call it quits together with my business of sending combos and singers to Japan. I was then Dean of College of Commerce of Western Philippine Colleges in Batangas City, a post I held from 72 to 93.








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