Dave Gold, founder of the legendary Gold Star Recording Studios in Los Angeles, has died.
Now is a good time to watch, or rewatch, the Wrecking Crew documentary.
Category: Music
200 (or 341) from ’69
Another single from early ’69. Perhaps not as compelling as the previous two I featured, but it’s nice enough. Released on 12/28/68, ‘Things I’d Like to Say’ was the highest charting single for The New Colony Six, peaking at #16.
Here’s lots more from the year of Woodstock to hear. This playlist is supposed to have 341 songs, but when embedded it shows only 200 tunes. A fair trade-off, considering there are no commercials when embedding videos from YouTube.
This link should include all 341 selections, but beware of commercials, unless you have one of the ways of stopping them. I use the Brave browser for that purpose.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P71VGlwsqZM&list=PLMxAGUGGn2xLcDYavRMMNTD64xOCRvXr7
Then is Now
Friend and former colleague Scott Murawski with his band Max Creek. (Thanks to tastewar for pointing it out.)
For further context, after the Kent State shootings on May 4, 1970, there was the Sterling Hall bombing at the University of Wisconsin-Madison on August 24. The event hit close to home, because my eldest sister was starting her sophomore year there and she had classes in Sterling Hall.
https://www.library.wisc.edu/archives/exhibits/sterling-hall-bombing-of-1970/
Gone But Not Forgotten
Tom Hanks has his best yet ‘Songs From the Back of the Station Wagon’ on Boss Radio 66. Here’s when you can hear it (EST).
Wednesday: 4 PM, 11 PM Thursday: 6 AM, 11 AM, 8 PM Friday: 3 AM, 9 AM Saturday: 12 AM, 7 AM, 2 PM, 9 PM
Here’s where you can hear it, on TuneIn.
Good Songs for Bad Times
Two of My Favorite Things
At the NCS conference last August, Colleen Doran and I discussed how, generally, comic book people are more familiar with comic strips than comic strip people are familiar with comic books. Today’s Jumble has an exception to that generality.
Boomer boy that I am, Marvel Comics from the Sixties are one of my favorite things. Another is, of course, the Beatles.
LBJ was notorious for strong-arming legislators into voting his way. What if he had been a flat-out authoritarian president, like Trump? Could he have kept the Beatles out of America?
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/could-president-deploy-wartime-law-203749200.html