Category: Music

Bombing Iran

Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld saw regime change in Iraq as unfinished business from George Bush Sr.’s administration. They got Bush Jr. to go along with their plan to depose Saddam Hussein.

In 1980, while American embassy staff in Iran were being held as hostages, Trump was hanging around with his coke-snorting pal Roy Cohn. Donald sees Iran as unfinished business. That’s all there is to it, and nothing more.

Sky News isn’t quite right about 1980’s ‘Bomb Iran’. It was actually a parody of the Beach Boys cover of ‘Barbara Ann’.

Here’s the Doo-Wop original, by the Regents.

Calendar Girl Guy

Neil Sedaka has died. Sedaka had great success as a member of Don Kirshner’s Brill Building stable of songwriters and performers.*

Sedaka’s style of music was knocked off the charts by the British Invasion. Ten years later, he had a big comeback with ‘Laughter in the Rain’. We played this a lot at the radio station where I worked.

Sedaska co-wrote ‘Love Will Keep Us Together’, a #1 hit for The Captain & Tennille.

* The ‘Calendar Girl’ Scopitone video is from 1966, but the song is from 1961.

Welcome, Genny Schorr!

I was listening to this podcast by Mike Stax, publisher of Ugly Things magazine …

… when, by an unbelievable coincidence, a comment appeared for approval from Genny Schorr, the subject of the interview!

It took me a moment to realize the person whose voice I was listening to, had just submitted a comment. Half an hour later, I’m still laughing. As I’m fond of saying in moments like these, what are the odds? Apparently, they’re 100%.

Here’s Genny’s website:

https://gennyschorr.com/

She has a book and record. Denro, you’re getting a copy.

All Roads Lead To Punk – BOOK + 7″ record set by Genny Schorr