Category Archives: music

Whitney Houston RIP

February 12, 2012 – 10:02 am

Whitney Houston burst onto the music scene in 1986, scoring # 1 hits with “Saving All My Love for You”, “Thinking About You” and “Greatest Love of All,” and WHITNEY HOUSTON was that year’s top-selling LP. The next year she scored a mega-hit with her single I WANNA LOVE SOMEBOY. Success after success propelled Whitney […]

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VAN RONK / Tom Russell

February 11, 2012 – 2:58 pm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MTnKO_eUc8 Van Ronk was the best of the best. I was blessed to have seen him in Harvard Square many times and Tom Russell’s elegy touches my soul with his elegant reincarnation of one man’s gift to an era and a world. Excuse me, but this old man has dust in his eyes.

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Technicolor Web Of Sound RIP

February 9, 2012 – 6:28 pm

Sadly my favorite internet radio station, Technicolor Web Of Sound has been pulled from the web without an explanation. See this youtube entry Paul is gone. Hopefully he will return from the netherworld to transport us back in time to the era of errors. The Summer of Love. In the meanwhile go to psychedelicjukebox, which […]

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The End Of An Era

February 6, 2012 – 8:18 am

Five Super Bowls appearances resulted in three championships for the New England Patriots during the Belichek-Brady era and both those post-season losses came at the hands of Giants quarterbacked by Eli Manning. Each of those games were decided in the last minute by spectacular passes against a weary secondary and the result in 2012 mirrored […]

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Mais Ou Sont Passees Les Gazelles / Lizzy Mercier Descloux –

February 4, 2012 – 11:46 am

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UarADNLq-FY

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