Johnny Carson, from when the Tonight Show was still in New York, talking about the forthcoming arrival to the city of the Fabulous Foursome.
Category: Music
Freak-Over-and-Out
With no formal, or even informal, announcement, Drew Carey’s Friday Night Freak-Out is no more. I hoped he was just taking a summer break, but Carey’s show is no longer listed on the SiriusXM schedule and his name doesn’t appear as a host.
Update:
Week #5
MIT Technology Review profiles Tom Scholz.
https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/08/27/1095835/not-just-another-band-from-boston/
This is the breakthrough album that made Scholz’s non-existent band, Boston, an overnight sensation.
I caught some of this BBC podcast today, and I’m sufficiently interested to start listening from the start.
So, how am I doing, on the home stretch of cancer treatments? It’s like he said in a galaxy far, far away.
Checking the Calendar
I’ve completed Day #15 of my treatments, out of 28. The final day will be September 5, the 18th anniversary of this weblog. With the toughest part yet to come in the second half, I’m going to watch a favorite video. The best of Scopitone, presented in a gorgeous, newly remastered HD transfer.
Hogg Warts
The PBS NewsHour profiles Michael Lindsay-Hogg.
Not Fakin’ Mono
Mono vs. Stereo is an endlessly interesting aspect of Sixties Pop music.
The rise of FM radio in the late 60’s was, I would conjecture, a reason why “folded mono” became standard for singles after albums were produced in stereo exclusively.
Mono FM receivers collapse stereo broadcasts into mono. So, if that was what people were already hearing, why bother laboring over dedicated mono mixes for singles played on AM stations?
Barnes Newberry opened this week’s “My Back Pages” on WMVY with selections from Simon & Garfunkel’s Bookends album.
“Fakin’ It” from Bookends is an all-time favorite of mine. There’s so much creativity in the production. I love the “Strawberry Fields Forever” fade-out. All it needs is “I buried Paul (Simon).”
The true mono mix for the 45 provides a striking contrast to the album’s stereo mix. Note the running time.