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Category: Music
Connie calls it quits
Where is Elizabeth “Connie” Converse? Before Joan Baez and Joni Mitchell there was Connie Converse, the Emily Dickinson of singer-songwriters. Thanks to animator Gene Deitch, who was responsible for some of the TV cartoons I watched as a kid, Connie’s voice and songs were recorded for posterity.
Connie disappeared over 40 years ago, like D.B. Cooper, and she was never heard from again. Converse was born five days before Deitch, who is 90 and still living.
Birthday Girl
Happy Birthday, Prue!
Rock me, Amadeus
The Boston Symphony Orchestra, a few weeks ago, performing the final three Mozart Symphonies.
A Magical Mystery Tour through Abbey Road
Welcome to Abbey Road Studios. Thanks to Google UK, we don’t have to come in through the bathroom window.
Ringo-a-go-go
Ringo won’t be doing an outdoor All-Starr Band show in Boston this summer, but we will see him at an indoor concert in six months. He has a great new single called “Postcards From Paradise”. Count all of the Beatles lyrics!
“Breakfast With the Beatles” is a Sunday morning radio show on WZLX in Boston. Host Cha-Chi Loprete interviews Ringo.