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/
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.
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
I first used ‘Hello, Mellow’ six years ago. It had fewer than 200 views on YouTube. Now, it has more than 500. Progress!
And here’s the white version of Mellow, which is actually yellow.
Looking at the charts Denro provided in the previous post, I see ‘Nothing But a Heartache’ by the Flirtations. A powerful, catchy record that deserved to do better, it peaked at #34, even lower than ‘Will You Be Staying After Sunday’.
How did a 1968 Psychedelic UK record that didn’t chart in America (was it even released here?) …
… get reworked into the Soul Pop sound of ‘Nothing But a Heartache’?
Here’s the explanation. Its history starts with a former Beatle.
Five years later came this Sugar Pop classic.
