Category Archives: music

CALL IT STORMY MONDAY T-Bone Walker

June 4, 2012 – 9:46 am

Rain has been falling all this Monday morning and I can’t help but think about T-Bone Walker’s CALL IT STORMY MONDAY. His electric guitar signals a departure from acoustic blues and many artists have covered the song over the decades since its release in 1949 with some crediting the rights to STORMY MONDAY thus depriving […]

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Perfect Day

May 18, 2012 – 12:59 pm

Lou Reed recorded a signature song on his album TRANSFORMER. Actually more than one. VICIOUS and WALK ON THE WILD SIDE was joined by PERFECT DAY, which was later used for a TV commercial. “Oh, such a perfect day. I’m glad I spend it with you. You just keep me hanging on.” Normally hearing a […]

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Donna Summer RIP

May 17, 2012 – 2:28 pm

Music critics have argued over whether the first disco song was the Hues Corporation’s “Rock the Boat”, George McCrae’s “Rock Your Baby” or”Kung Fu Fighting” by Biddu and Carl Douglas, but incontestably the greatest hit of disco was LOVE TO LOVE YOU BABY by Donna Summer. Sadly the Queen of Disco has passed from the […]

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EL TEN ELEVEN by I Like Van Halen

May 16, 2012 – 11:45 am

In 2004 my cousin Sherri called before my planned departure from Bangkok. She was living in LA with her fiance. Michael seemed like a nice man. Anyone was an improvement after her last husband, a speed freak bank robber. “I want you to meet him.” Sherri considered me her closest cousin. We weren’t family, but […]

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AM I BLACK ENOUGH FOR YOU by Billy Paul 1972

May 9, 2012 – 9:20 pm
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