... Yeah, there are some great couplets in "Willyam, Willyam": "Are you just a turkey in the straw, boy? Don't you want to have a mother-in-law?" I'm just...
Hi, Anyone know of a Bruce Channel CD they can recommend? Also, whether his name was pronounced as in "TV channel", or as in "Chanel perfume"? Thanks, --Phil...
Before our era, but an interesting profile of the "typical" atypical collector. Hope you enjoy this brief diversion! Country Paul ... Where the music lives ......
No one, in my time with this group, has mentioned The Three Degrees. Wonderful girls group out of Philly and did tons and tons of backgrounds before and after...
How ya' doin'? I used to go out with Dee Dee Sharp in 1964 and I was on her case to try to get her producers to let her record songs with more depth than...
Frank Young on the Coasters' "Down In Mexico", as used ... It is a re recording and I think it is from this collection (1973 re-recordings): 16 GREATEST HITS...
I am trying to wrap up over 30 years of research on the SPAR / HIT / Modern Sound labels of Nashville, Tenn. The company existed on making sound-alikes of...
Martha Reeves, The Dixie Cups and the Crystals are singing in a show/dance here in Canada's Capital (Ottawa, Ontario)Friday night! I just picked up my ticket,...
Such sad news - a true originator has gone. On a related note, he was pre-deceased by his co-guitarist, The Duchess (see obits here). Does anybody know what...
"I opened the door for a lot of people, and they just ran through and left me holding the knob." -Bo Diddley He was one of the first Rock and Roll Stars I ever...
Hola everybody, This week I had a relapse in my obsession with the song "Looking Back". I've always loved this song, but since I heard Ruth Brown's version in...
From last October, a very fun thread at the Guardian's Music Blog: http://tinyurl.com/6xxnng Intro'd by Joseph Ridgwell and subtitled "The Spice Girls reunion...
Hip Hop meets Doo Wop meets Paul Shaffer. What talent this guy wrangles: Will Smith before becoming a superstar (who steals the show); Dion; Ellie Greenwich;...
I bought this album and have been enjoying it very much over the last two weeks. Although 'Last Kiss' and 'Do I Love You' are the most obvious Beach Boys ...
... Keep on hit #12 in teh ULK charts in 1968 but Mr Bus Driver was popular in certain clubs and admired by the ever diminishing bunch of UK mods. Record...
HiYa Spectropoppers, The City of Passaic, New Jersey does it again! Honoring Joey Dee and the Starlighters with naming their school auditorium after the group....
We all knew it had to come sometime, still I am deeply saddened by the death this week of one of my greatest musical heroes, the man who called himself Bo...
... As you may know, there were many Bossmen. One was incorrectly attributed to WI, apparently because of their releases on Lenny LaCour labels. However, those...
How ya' doin'? Thank you for all the e-mails and calls about my tribute to Bo Diddley. I just found a video with an electrifying performance by him that is...
I think I missed a digest somewhere, but I saw a later comment about Bruce Channel's "Keep On". This came during the '68 bubblegum explosion in the UK, when ...
I hate to sound like an ad, but I've have been digging this CD for the past two weeks. The Indie Pop bloggers have been raving about them and I'm surprised...
First things first - things I never knew. Ivan's "Wild Child" was covered by Miley Cyrus! (Guess you have to have kids to know this stuff) and to my ears its a...
... Then what's the difference between the bridge and the middle 8 and/or can you give me an example that I might have heard? There are songs that I consider...
... Hey Country Paul, I got the same impression as you did watching the show, I'm spoiled from sitting in the audience watching The Royal New York Doo-Wop...
One of the last surviving fathers of rocknroll has now died. Bo Diddley died today at age 79, at his home in Florida. Following are a few thoughts ... Murph...
Hola Everybody, ... Maybe it's just Spring, Mick. I don't know in London, but here in Madrid, the Spring comes so violently that the ambient seems to be...
