Musical Appreciation

Ian Whitcomb ► Monday Musical Appreciation

Born on this day in 1941: Ian Whitcomb, still performing to this very day. Ian Timothy Whitcomb was born in Woking, Surrey, England, to a family that already had show biz in its blood. His grandfather Jack founded British Screen Classics, an early entry in the motion picture business, which eventually bankrupt him. Before that, Ian’s father Pat worked there, and even co-starred in the 1929 flick, Mr. Nobody (not to be confused with the 2009 SciFi film), a movie ...

A Tribute to Ethel Waters ► Nostalgia Ain’t What It Used To Be

Dateline October 31, 1896 – The incomparable Ethel Waters is born in Chester, Pennsylvania, the result of a rape of her mother, who was reportedly only 13 years old at ...

Synchronicity Two

The Rolling Stones at Altamont Dateline October 24 – In a weird act of Flying Spaghetti Monster manifested Synchronicity, today is the birthday of both Bill Wyman (1936) and Meredith Hunter ...

Musical Appreciation ► Bob Weir

DATELINE October 16, 1947 – Robert Hall Weir is born in San Fransisco, California and grew up in nearby Atherton, on the other side of the bay, with his adopted ...

Chow Mein and Bolling ► A Musical Interlude

Unretouched photo of Bully Boy Bolling taken off my tee vee screen I get email. Several people have asked me me how I came up with such an odd name for ...

Musical Appreciation ► Thelonious Monk ► A Jazz Great

Dateline October 10, 1917 – Thelonious Sphere Monk is born in Rocky Mount, North Carolina. When he was 4 years old his family would move to the “San Juan Hill” ...

Nostalgia Ain’t What It Used To Be ► Happy Birthday, John Lennon

Dateline October 9, 1940 – John Winston Lennon is born in war time Liverpool. December 8, 1980 John Ono Lennon is assassinated in New York City. There’s nothing left to ...

Musical Appreciation ► The Beatles ► Love Me Do

Dateline October 5, 1962 – The Beatles first single “Love Me Do” is released. The rest, as they say, is history. The Beatles had been signed to EMI Records earlier ...

Musical Appreciation ► Brian Wilson is A.L.i.V.E. ► Rich Aucoin

Before Mike Love stabbed his cousins in the back and fired Brian Wilson and Al Jardine from The Beach Boys, it was gratifying for this long-time fan to know they ...

You Made Me So Very Happy ► My Days With David Clayton-Thomas

David Clayton-Thomas by Carl Lender Dateline September 13, 1941 – A baby is born in war time England, Thames, Surrey, UK, and named David Henry Thomsett. He would later grow up ...

Nostalgia Ain’t What It Used To Be ► The Beatles’ Last Concert

Dateline – August 29, 1966 – Candlestick Park, San Francisco – After an estimated 1,400 live shows and 9 years as a Band on the Run, John, Paul, George and ...

Stan Freberg ► Nostalgia Ain’t What It Used To Be

Dateline August 7, 1926 – Born Stanley Victor Freberg in a manger in a hospital in Pasadena, California, the newborn “Stan” (as his Baptist minister father improbably nicknamed him) waited ...

Big Up, Jamaica!!! Happy 50th!!!

Let’s face facts: Jamaica is probably the closest Christopher Columbus ever came to what was later called the United States of ‘Merka, the country he is alleged to have ‘discovered.’ ...

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