Okay – something different tonight. Four songs by the Hal Herzon Septet, all recorded for the Standard Transcription Company in 1945. There is precious little information on Hal Herzon, aside from an obit that ran in Daily Variety from March 25, 2003 and really nothing else. Certainly no photos (hence
Part of American culture; forever the voyeur. Being the perennial fly on the wall, the eavesdropper, the casual leering bystander. Before the days when Reality TV took over and rendered the Soap Opera somewhat obsolete, it had a long and healthy life – celebrating the chaste and the prurient –
It’s March 2025 – cold, harsh reality. World is crazy. People are nuts. You’d like to be somewhere else. You have this mind, and it wanders. It lands right in the middle of August 1968. Was that your last good year? Maybe. It’s the one you swore you’d remember forever,
Maisie Peters in concert from Hordern Pavilion in Sydney on March 21, 2024 – recorded by the venerable Triple J radio. When I ran a 2023 concert by Maisie Peters in December of that year, I made a prediction she’d become a household name in a very short time. Not
