Tom Lounges
Host of Midwest BeatTom Lounges has been a radio personality and music journalist since 1979. For the last 43 years, Tom has been reporting on entertainment as a weekly music columnist and feature writer for The Times newspaper.
He was also the owner, publisher and editor of the monthly tri-state entertainment magazine ("Midwest BEAT Magazine") for over two decades, and has written hundreds of celebrity features for numerous national glossy magazines over the decades, including "Scholastic Magazine," "Goldmine," "Relix," "Song Hits," "Word Up!" and others.
Tom wrote "Liner Notes" for over a dozen national albums released via Sony Special Products, including vinyl anthology collections by such iconic artists as Johnny Winter, Fabian, Frankie Avalon, Fevertree, The Dixie Cups, The Shirelles, and The Shangra-las.
Tom has hosted and produced his own shows on various commercial radio stations over the years, but switched to public radio in 2012, after being enticed by the creative freedom the NPR format offers to content providers. He had previously worked in public broadcasting as on-camera host and content creator for the early 1990s PBS-TV program, "In Your Mind's Eye," produced by Lakeshore Public Television (WYIN).
Today, Lounges currently hosts and produces two weekly programs on 89.1FM - LAKESHORE PUBLIC MEDIA. Those are the celebrity interview/music program “Midwest BEAT with Tom Lounges” (Tuesdays 7-8pm) and the all blues music program, “Midwest BEAT Blues” (Fridays 7-9pm). Listeners can contact Tom directly at: beatboss@aol.com
Tom has earned special recognition awards for his work in the entertainment field and has rubbed elbows with a virtual "Who's Who" of major entertainment figures and top stars over his nearly 50 years in the music and media industry.
He is the president and owner of Tom Lounges Entertainment, LLC which produces entertainment events, books musical talent, and does consultation. A veteran record retailer in Chicagoland since the 1970s, Tom currently is the owner of Tom Lounges Record Bin in downtown Hobart.
Tom has been a guest speaker on music, entertainment, and journalism at various schools and colleges in northwest Indiana and the Chicago areas.
Lounges currently sits on the boards of both the Lake County Public Library Foundation and The Spot Studio Music Foundation, along with heading up the fundraising projects for The Humane Society of Northwest Indiana.
More: http://www.tomlounges.com / https://www.facebook.com/tlounges
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For this week's program, host and producer Tom Lounges pulled a wide variety of blues from the deep library he has amassed over the years. Some of the artists heard on this edition of "MIDWEST BEAT BLUES" include — EDDY "The Chief" CLEARWATER, KENNY KINSEY & FUNKY MOJO DADDY, BILLY BRANCH, DON GRIFFIN, JOSEPH "Mojo" MORGANFIEDL & THE MANNISH BOYS, ALBERT COLLINS, PAT TRAVERS RICK DERRINGER, PAUL RODGERS, SAVOY BROWN, KOKO TAYLOR, DURTIS SALGADO, HOWARD & THE WHITE BOYS, DUK TUMATO and a handful of others. -
Midwest Beat Blues host Tom Lounges with a Spooky Spectacular Halloween Special. -
Midwest Beat with host Tom Lounges. -
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The musical guest on this edition of "Midwest BEAT with Tom Lounges" is LEO SAYER, the global pop sensation behind such major radio hits as “You Make Me Feel Like Dancing,” “The Show Must Go On,” “Thunder In My Heart,” “Long Tall Glasses,” “When I Need You,” and “Giving It All Away,” to name but a few. Check out this program and learn some cool things you didn't know about Leo Sayer. -
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Midwest Beat: Stan Skora co-founder Chicago's iconic pop rock/power pop group "In Kind" -
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Midwest Beat host Tom Lounges talks with Joel Ratajack the founder and producer of the charitable annual music festival "ROCKOPELLI," now in its fourteenth year.
