"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
Click on the link here for Audio Player: MarcBolan – San Francisco Poet – 1966 Long before T. Rex, and just before John’s Children, Marc Bolan was pounding the musical pavement, hoping for recognition. He was briefly signed by Decca…
Click on the link here for Audio Player: Nashville Teens – Tobacco Road – 1964 Just about every collector of Rock knows this track backwards and forwards and you’ve probably heard it at least a thousand times. But I remember…
Become a Patron! Something vocal this weekend and in honor of her birthday (April 25). The immortal Ella Fitzgerald, accompanied by The Lou Levy Quartet, live at The Concertgebouw in Amsterdam and recorded by Radio Nederland on February 18, 1961.…
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…
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…
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…
Click on the link here for Audio player: The Leading Question – Education Bill -1961 I ran across this Sunday Interview show from September of 1961, part of the CBS Radio series “Leading Question” – it deals with the death…
Click on the link here for Audio Player: 1960 Democratic Convention Preview I keep forgetting that, prior to the past few Presidential elections, nominating conventions were still something of a horse race and that the air at these gatherings was,…
Click on the link here for Audio player: Dionne Warwick – Walk On By I was very sad to learn earlier today that legendary songwriter and partner to the iconic writing team of Bacharach and David had passed away, the…
Click on the link here for audio player: Dana Gillespie – You’ve just Got To Know My Mind – 1967 Back to the 60’s tonight with Dana Gillespie, who began her career at 14 singing folk music and later switched…