The diversity of ERIC CLAPTON never surprised us, and on May 10,1974, he slipped into a reggae vibe, recording “I Shot The Sheriff,” a song which was written and recorded the previous year by Bob Marley. Clapton’s version would be included on his album “461 Ocean Boulevard,” and although popular with his fans, the single…
Paul Mc Cartney once cited THE BEACH BOYS album ‘PET SOUNDS,’ as a masterpiece, and became an inspiration for him in creating Sgt.Pepper. Hard to believe in May 2021, it’s now fifty-five years, since the release of what is acclaimed as Brian Wilson’s highest creative peak. The album not only spawned the mega hit “God…
Remember the days when you could sing along to the hits, understood the lyrics, and sometimes if you didn’t memorize them, you would go to your local news stand, grab a copy of ‘Hit Parader’ ? From it’s humble beginnings in 1942, it was basically a song lyric entity, then by the mid -1960s, it…
This week we rock, roll, reminisce, and turn back the time machine to 1960, with the tunes that were blaring out of transistor radios, as we dial in the ‘swingin’ 60 survey’ of KYA in San Francisco, California.
He was a ‘british invader,’ with THE ANIMALS, and later in 1970, subtly instructed us to “Spill The Wine,” with WAR …. ERIC BURDON celebrates b-day 80 on May 11. Back in 1957, Philadelphia PA., introduced it’s very first ‘teen idol’ named CHARLIE GRACIE, who would have hits “Butterfly,” and “Fabulous,” on Cameo Records, he…
The gentleman who we knew with HERMAN’S HERMITS, donning those Buddy Holly styled glasses, guitarist LEK LEKENBY, would have celebrated birthday #78 on May 14 (died in 1994). In 1986, I met Lek, and asked him about the guitar intro of ‘Mrs.Brown.” as Lek explained, “I wanted to get a banjo type sound, so I…
