With musica fairly empty over the past few days, I thought a little aural diversion might be interesting. In 1967, John Hartford took me on a tour of Music Row...
... Despite the fact that she's been with Little Feat for 15 years, and I'm sure she's a lovely person, but in my opinion, that otherwise excellent band faded...
gallery of classic microphones: http://www.coutant.org/altec639 Like porno for technogeeks; includes a shot of Frankie Laine that reveals him as the epitome of...
... I worked with him briefly in the 70's. He was a composer, artist (solo album for Columbia Records) and record producer. Of course, many know he produced...
... I am about 65% sure he is the same Steve Greenberg as who, under the name Lipps, Inc., created the massive hit "Funkytown" c.1980. That Steve Greenberg...
Hi fellow Spectropoppers, S'pop favorite Jeff Barry has a MAJOR birthday coming up this Thursday, April 3 (I won't say how major), and, in honor of his big...
WHAT: Amoeba Music and Esotouric Present: Where the Action Was WHEN: Saturday 4/5, check in 10:30am, tour 11am-2pm WHERE: Departs from Amoeba Music,...
... As far as I know Warren's recording career started as a wanabee teen heart-throb in '61 for the New York Swirl Records with "Rose - Marie" / "One Girl"...
... I really dig this record a lot, Paul, and probably wouldn't have ever heard it otherwise. But, what's that he's singing about "Egg Roll Man"? --Phil M....
View the *NEW *Video by Mad Mark in the FameCast comedy contest. Click here, or the link below, to show Markie some love and put him up in the winners' circle:...
... Related how, please? ... Will do. And Laura, since you seem to have a special "in" with him, perhaps you could ask him if he knows where I could find a...
... I worked on several of these: Altec 639 (right - great shot of Frankie Laine!), Electrovoice EV 635 (we had several when I was in my band), and RCA 44s and...
I just posted show #50 on my Radio Page and it is with the founding member of one of the most popular vocal trios of all time. The Fleetwoods were one of the...
... P.S. Just wanted to let everyone know that registration on the Jeff Barry message board is not required for replying to existing posts ... so, anyone who...
One of my favorite teenage death pop records is "The Greatest Surfer Couple", a 1963 Capitol release (#5074) by The Four Preps. The more I play it, however,...
Finally getting released on Marh 6! And already getting blogged Too http://indangerousrhythm.blogspot.com/2008/03/jimmy-radcliffe-where-theres-smoke.html ...
... I don't know anything about the Three Graces. I've not heard any of their records either, but I'd like to. Maybe you could upload some to musica for us all...
From Rockin' John. I'm doing a Carole King/Gerry Goffin special on April 26. It's going to run between 6 00 and 8 00 pm cdt. I'll be playing hits and lesser ...
... Thank you, Ronnie. I have always loved the Fleetwoods sound, from the first strains of 'Come Softly To Me', and I have most of their recorded material....
Chris Radcliffe on Jimmy Radcliffe's "Where There's ... I see it's up on Amazon already, but with no track list: http://tinyurl.com/25gevr . Maybe you could do...
In today's (3 April) New York Times, Ben Ratliff reviews "Songs from the Capeman" at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Running through Saturday, it's the first of...
Quite by chance I discovered that someone has uploaded some tracks by the Ravenettes, the Bobbettes, the Blossoms and Ila Vann to musica. To whoever that...
Click on over to Spike Priggen's site and get a load of Motown-era Paul Peterson on "Shebang"; The Marvelettes doing "Don't Mess With Bill"; and an incendiary...
... Sure Thing Mick. Firstly though, the actual release date is May 6 and it looks like this: Long After Tonight (Alt) (Burt Bacharch & Hal David) My Ship Is...
Chris Radcliffe on Jimmy Radcliffe's "Where There's ... Hi, everyone, I had the great pleasure once of working with the great Jimmy Radcliffe. He sang on a...
