An Oak Lawn Public Library exhibit will highilght Pumpkin Studios, where the band Styx recorded its most famous albums, the two-decade run of a jazz festival and REO Speedwagon's Kevin Cronin
Oak Lawn native Kevin Cronin, singer of REO Speedwagon, performs at the inaugural Rock & Roll Museum on Route 66 Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony in 2021 in Joliet. He returned in 2022 to induct Gary Loizzo, who operated Pumpkin Studios in Oak Lawn.
The Pumpkin Studios building may have been repurposed, but it still has the same floor plan, “so people can have their physical therapy appointments in what used to be the recording rooms,” said Kaye Jansen, the Oak Lawn Public Library’s archivist and local history librarian.was scoring chart toppers with the band REO Speedwagon. But that hasn’t stoped him from popping in occasionally at the library.
Last month, Nick Malone, the library’s content coordinator, started a public search to uncover more of the village’s musical past. “It blossomed into something jazz bands from far and wide would want to come to,” he said. “They came to compete and to have their performances recorded and pressed to vinyl.”, as judged by college professors and even, in 1972, the publisher and managing editor of Down Beat magazine.searching out recordings from the festival.
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