A very long time ago in my carefree youth, before returning to Boston from Western Massachusetts I would attend midnight showings of The Rocky Horror Picture Show. They were at this place when it was new, near UMass in Amherst. Today, it’s another dead mall.
Author: DOuG pRATt
The Tricky Treaty of Halloween, 1901
Oh, that Foxy Grandpa! What a scallywag he was. His grandsons didn’t stand a chance against his wily ways.
Console-ation Prize
Who will own the original solid-state mixing console used at Abbey Road to record Abbey Road?
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The Mighty Colbert Art Players
Two of my favorite famous people yucking it up.
The False Prophet
During college, participating in Campus Crusade for Christ, I saw the beginnings of Evangelical Christianity’s conservative political agenda. An agenda that is now operating in full force. Listen to this Southern Pentecostal pastor, quoting the Bible to justify his support of Trump.
A Capitol Idea
More about Stu Phillips. In the Sixties he was behind the Hollyridge Strings series of albums.
I approached Karl Engemann at Capitol [Records] with a far-out idea of recording an album of Beatles songs in an orchestral setting geared toward easy listening. A sort of “Beatles for the older set.”
Phillips wasn’t the only one with that idea in 1964. Beatles producer George Martin produced instrumental versions of Beatles songs, starting with the A Hard Day’s Night soundtrack.
George Martin then released his Off the Beatle Track album. I checked Martin’s memoir, All You Need is Ears, and there’s no mention of the Hollyridge Strings records.
Music from the first Hollyridge album by Phillips is featured on the Capitol album The Beatles Story.