Old habits never die, and I still like to play DJ.
A Peruvian folk song adapted by Paul Simon. I was in the ninth grade when this was a single on the radio. Simon was the creative force, but for singing he had to occasionally bow to Garfunkel’s superior ability.
Seven years later I was a radio DJ and this record was in regular rotation at the station where I worked. For all of the attention that was given to blonde Agnetha, Anni-Frid has always been my favorite.
Separated from Jeff Lynne and ELO, Roy Wood’s solo album Boulders, including some tracks from the Move years. The album should have been called “Gems.”
What hath J.R.R. Tolkien wrought? Forsooth, Prog Rock!
Before Jimmy Page had Robert Plant fronting Led Zeppelin, his former Yardbirds bandmate Jeff Beck had Rod Stewart.
With the passing of Dame Vera Lynn at 103, World War II slips a little bit further away from living memory. Thanks to magnetic tape recording — an invention perfected in Nazi Germany — this 1950’s re-recording of Lynn’s “We’ll Meet Again” sounds as though it could have been made yesterday.
I should see if Vera Lynn ever commented on this use of her signature song.
There sure are plenty more cars on the road than there were in the middle of the lockdown, and today I was driving one of them.
