What band fronted by Jim "Dandy" Mangrum performed at the Thirsty Whale in River Grove, Illinois?
Black Oak Arkansas
The Thirsty Whale
The Thirsty Whale, which opened in 1975, was a rock and roll club at 8800 Grand Avenue, River Grove, Illinois.
 It brought in acts like Blue Öyster Cult, Molly Hatchet, Black Oak Arkansas, Extreme, Foghat, Johnny Winter and Peter Criss.
 Survivor performed here monthly early in their career.
Black Oak Arkansas
Black Oak Arkansas is an American Southern rock band named after the band's hometown of Black Oak, Arkansas.
 The band reached the height of its fame in the 1970s with ten charting albums released in that decade.
 Their style is punctuated by multiple guitar players and the raspy voice and on-stage antics of vocalist Jim "Dandy" Mangrum.
Northern Whale
"Northern Whale" is a song by an unnamed alternative rock band fronted by Damon Albarn, and was released as the third track on their 2007 debut album "The Good, the Bad and the Queen" (see 2007 in British music).
 It initially started out as a song about someone that Albarn loved, but after the events involving a Bottlenose whale that got stuck in the River Thames the song became about that whale. John Poulos
John Poulos (born March 31, 1947) was the original drummer for The Buckinghams.
 He was a founding member of the Chicago area band in 1965.
 His mother Ann and his father John Sr.,were very proud of their youngest child in a family of solid Greek heritage.
 He graduated from Roosevelt High School in the Albany Park neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois in 1965.
 Lead guitar player Carl Giammarese lived only a few blocks away from John Poulos in the Albany Park neighborhood of Chicago.
 His nickname since his late teens was "Jon Jon".
John Poulos was the leader of a high school band in Chicago called "The Pulsations".
 He approached singers George LeGros and  Dennis Tufano who sang harmonies in an acapella group called The Darsals to come join his band,"The Pulsations".
 Local Chicago-area deejay and booking agent @ Willard - Alexander agency Carl Bonafede attests to the fact that Jon Jon personally recruited singers Dennis Tufano and his close friend George Legros at Gordon Tech high school to the band Jon Jon Poulos approached Carl Bonafede head deejay who spun records for Dan Belloc's dances at the Holiday ballroom about becoming the manager of John's high school band "The Pulsations".
 When USA Records released The Buckinghams from their contract, the band had a #1 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 charts with Kind of a Drag.
 The members voted to part ways with personal manager Carl Bonafede.
 Jon Jon Poulos and Dennis Tufano flew out to Los Angeles to meet with James William Guercio to seek management and a new record deal.
 The meeting with Guercio led to The Buckinghams signing a new record contract with Columbia Records.
 John went into the music management side of the music business after the Buckinghams agreed to part ways in 1970.
 John managed his fellow ex-Buckinghams Carl Giammarese and Dennis Tufano when they formed a duo called "Tufano & Giammarese".
 "When The Buckinghams broke up in 1970 and Nick departed for a career in R&B and Marty wanted to go a different direction, Dennis Tufano and Carl decided to form a duo, Dennis and Carl.
 We put together a demo CD, with the help of Peter Shelton and his wife, and John determined to manage us and find us a recording deal.
 Reaching for the stars, he reached a zenith: John brought us to Ode Records, where we signed with Lou Adler, became “Tufano and Giammarese” and spent 7 years of our career together."
 John Poulos managed several other Illinois bands, most notably a band from the Fox River Grove area called Boyzz from Illinois.
 He died of heart failure in his Chicago home just short of his 33rd birthday in 1980.
 Carl Bonafede maintains there never would have been a Buckinghams band if not for the commitment of Jon Jon Poulos.
 His love of music and dedication to the band was unique.
 He often shared discussion of the business side of music with "the Screaming Wildman".
 John had one child, a daughter, Polly who was born in September 1970. Peter N. Silvestri
Peter N. Silvestri is currently a member of the Cook County Board of Commissioners representing the 9th district which includes the Norwood Park and Dunning areas of the City of Chicago as well as the surrounding suburbs of Des Plaines, Elmwood Park, Harwood Heights, Morton Grove, Mount Prospect, Niles, Norridge, Park Ridge, River Forest, River Grove, Rosemont and Schiller Park.
 During part of his tenure as Cook County Commissioner he was also the Village President of Elmwood Park, Illinois serving in that post from 1989 until 2013. Fox River Grove station
Fox River Grove Station is a commuter railroad station along Metra's Union Pacific/Northwest Line in Fox River Grove, Illinois.
 It is located at 4015 North Northwest Highway (US 14) and Lincoln Avenue, and lies 37 mi from the Ogilvie Transportation Center in Chicago.
 In Metra's zone-based fare system, Fox River Grove is in zone H. River Grove station
River Grove is a station on Metra's North Central Service and Milwaukee District/West Line in River Grove, Illinois.
 The station is 11.4 mi away from Union Station, the southern terminus of the line.
 In Metra's zone-based fare system, River Grove is in zone C. 1995 Fox River Grove bus–train collision
The 1995 Fox River Grove bus–train collision was a grade crossing collision that killed seven students riding aboard a school bus in Fox River Grove, Illinois, on the morning of October 25, 1995.
 The school bus, driven by a substitute driver, was stopped at a traffic light with the rearmost portion extending onto a portion of the railroad tracks when it was struck by a Metra Union Pacific / Northwest Line train en route to Chicago. Sugar and Spice (The Cryan' Shames album)
Sugar and Spice is the 1966 debut album by The Cryan' Shames, originally released in mono (CL 2589) and in stereo (CS 9389).
 The cover photography was done by Don Bronstein.
 The album was recorded in two days (August 25 and 26, 1966).
 The liner photography was done by Rich Dienethal of River Grove, Illinois.
 The cover photograph was taken at The Sweet Tooth in Pipers Alley, Old Town, Chicago.
 The album is dedicated to Fred Bohlander.
 The back of the album contains six photos of the band in concert.
 There are only four original songs on this record, all written by lead guitarist, Jim Fairs: "We Could Be Happy", "Ben Franklin's Almanac", "July" and "I Wanna Meet You". Jim &quot;Dandy&quot; Mangrum
James Mangrum (born March 30, 1948), better known as Jim "Dandy" Mangrum, is the lead singer and frontman for the American Southern rock band Black Oak Arkansas.
 He is noted for his raspy voice, long hair, and wild, sexually-explicit stage antics which sometimes included miming sex with a washboard which he often uses to accompany his singing.
 His stage persona is credited as having been a major influence on Van Halen vocalist David Lee Roth.