Category Archives: music

Not Hot LP Covers

January 28, 2015 – 9:44 pm

As a young boy in the 60s LP covers were hot as a Playboy centerfold. Herb Alpert stuck a blow for overt sexuality with the creamy cover of THE TASTE OF HONEY. Not all LPs were the same. Show us that love. Strangely the Gap Band’s DROPPED A BOMB ON ME was not covered on […]

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WINTER IN AMERICA by Gil Scott-Heron

November 24, 2014 – 6:04 pm

Gil Scott-Heron was born three years before me in 1949 The late Chicago-born poet/musician never had a hit, but his line ‘the revolution will not be televised’ survived in my memory and that of Keith Raywood who put WINTER IN AMERICA on his Facebook home page, proving that website is not 100% devoted to old […]

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SEASON OF THE WITCH / Julie Driscoll and Trinity

October 28, 2014 – 8:48 pm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpizS9h-1Xk

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Yesterday’s Children – Hunter’s Moon

October 5, 2014 – 5:16 pm
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TEDDY BEARS’ PICNIC Dave Van Ronk

August 21, 2014 – 8:40 am

Dave Van Ronk was a growling folk singer, who benignly dominated Greenwich Village in the 60s. He mostly played the East Coast due to his refusal to fly. His mode of travel was buses, trains, or a car driven by a young girlfriend. His bearish body hid a gentle heart, which he revealed any time […]

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