ALLENTOWN, Pa. — It was 1999, still deep in the midst of the boy band craze, and Allentown Fair had one of the Big Three at the time — 98° — headlining.
I was a newspaper editor, directing coverage of hard news, but my then-14-year-old daughter, Courtney, desperately wanted to see them. So, with her in tow, I became a music reviewer for the night.
In the time leading up to the show, the opening act, a teen singer named Britney Spears, was blowing up with her debut album, “…Baby One More Time,” from which she had four platinum hits…