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Monmouth University's Tuesday Night Record Club Celebrates 100th Album on May 6th

originally published: 04/28/2025

(WEST LONG BRANCH, NJ) -- Monmouth University will celebrate the 100th episode of its popular Tuesday Night Record Club series on May 6, 2025 at 7:30pm with Michael Jackson's classic 1979 album, Off the Wall. Attendees can register today to join this free event either in-person at the University's Great Hall Auditorium on campus, or via Zoom.

Host Kenneth Womack, Professor of English and Popular Music at Monmouth, will be leading the discussion, with renowned Chicago-based writer and music journalist Kit O’Toole in-person at the event to serve as co-host. The discussion will feature a special guest interview with JR Robinson, who played drums on Off the Wall, including the memorable shuffle at the beginning of “Rock with You.”

Created as a result of the University’s affiliation with the Los Angeles-based GRAMMY Museum, Tuesday Night Record Club combines the intellectual atmosphere of a book club with the exciting and evolving world of music. The club brings music lovers together to analyze a new album each month. Participants are encouraged to listen to the album beforehand and invited to explore the selected album’s cultural, political, artistic, and historical impact. Each session lasts approximately 90 minutes.

Register today to join this free evening of fun, discussion, music and more for this milestone celebration for Tuesday Night Record Club. An announcement about the albums selected for next season will also be made at the event.

Great Hall Auditorium is located on the Monmouth University campus at 400 Cedar Avenue, West Long Branch, New Jersey.




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In addition to his duties at the University, Dr. Kenneth Womack is the author of a two-volume biography on Beatles producer Sir George Martin, as well as Solid State: The Story of Abbey Road and the End of the Beatles, John Lennon, 1980: The Last Days in the Life and Living the Beatles Legend: The Untold Story of Mal Evans. He is also the Music Culture columnist for Salon and the host of their Everything Fab Four podcast.

Dr. Kit O’Toole is the author of Songs We Were Singing: Guided Tours Through the Beatles’ Lesser-Known Tracks and Michael Jackson FAQ: All That's Left to Know About the King of Pop. She also co-edited The Act You’ve Known for All These Years: The Beatles and Fandom with Kenneth Womack. She is the cohost of two popular podcasts: Talk More Talk: A Solo Beatles Videocast and Toppermost of the Poppermost. O’Toole has taught several online courses in music history for Monmouth University and holds a doctorate in Instructional Technology.

Womack and O’Toole will also be co-hosting a new Adult Education series via Zoom for the University called “Classic for a Reason,” with the first session (on Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours album) starting June 17, 2025 at 7:30pm. Registration and more information for that can be found here.




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