Click on the link here for Audio Player: Leo Marjane- Le Refraine De La Pluie – 1941 Something completely different tonight. 40’s French Torch singers. Leo Marjane was hugely popular in France in the 1930’s and 1940’s. Her career came to an abrupt halt in July of 1944 when she
Click on the link here for Audio Player: Tame-Impala-Elephant – 2012 It’s certainly good to hear that, after a seemingly endless wait, Australian Psych Merchants Tame Impala are coming out with a new album in October. Slated for released on October 5th in Australia and October 9th in the U.S.,
Click on the link here for Audio player: News for week ending Sept. 21, 1980 News for this week, ending on September 21, 1980 was primarily consumed with the Presidential Campaign for 1980, culminating in the first debate. With one notable exception; the debate went on without Jimmy Carter. Slated
Click on the link here for Audio Player: Ann Peebles – Walk Away – 1969 Switching gears a bit and heading into Memphis Soul territory. Ann Peebles is probably best known for her 1973 smash hit I Can’t Stand The Rain and a string of hits since. Tonight it’s her
Click on the link here for Audio Player:The Dovers – The Third Eye – 1966 If I stopped posting music by bands that made it, that had hit records, that became household names, and just concentrated on the overlooked, underrated or simply ignored, there would be enough material to sustain
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Part One: La Scala Philharmonic – Live In Concert – Part 1 Click on the link here for Audio PLayer – Part Two: La Scala Philharmonic – Live In Concert – Part 2 Over to Torino again this week, for a
Click on the link here for Audio Player: Lies – Mildred Bailey w:Orch. – Rec. November, 1931 Something completely different tonight. Diving way back in the vaults for a sampling of Hot Jazz from the legendary Mildred Bailey from a session she recorded in Chicago for RCA-Victor with an orchestra
Click on the link here for Audio Player: Toy – In Session – BBC 6 Music 2012 I first heard about Toy last year when their first single was released and they were being touted in most UK music press as “The Band To Watch In 2012”, and I agreed
A few years ago, when I first put this piece up on Newstalgia, a lot of readers expressed happiness over its inclusion, but weren’t too thrilled about the sound of the recording. Truth was, at the time the audio player I was using at my old site wasn’t very good
Click on the link here for Audio Player: KMPC – Dick Whittinghill – June 1968 As strange as this may seem, this was the other radio format that competed with Top-40 in the 1960’s. It was more middle-of-the-road than straight Pop. It was, for all intents and purposes, Mainstream music.
